Poems for and About Best Friends by Top Critiquers
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Poems for and about best friends by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
Am I Heard (here in the silence)
maybe
someday
love will find me
imstead of
fluttering
over my head
isn't my heart
good enough
too
or am i
on a different
frequency
its unique
capacity
to feel
becomes a
scary place
without a safety net
a solitary beat
is so much louder
in the silence
but still
not heard
when it matters
someday
love will find me
imstead of
fluttering
over my head
isn't my heart
good enough
too
or am i
on a different
frequency
its unique
capacity
to feel
becomes a
scary place
without a safety net
a solitary beat
is so much louder
in the silence
but still
not heard
when it matters
#BestFriend
#friendship
#UnrequitedLove
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Cipher)))O(((rehpiC
Were you voted most likely to succeed?
… Most likely to breed?
… Most likely to sing?
… Most likely to do nothing?
… Most likely to do anything?..
… Most likely to say:
Fuck all yall and everything?..
… We were on the topic of fuck.
or… In this case
Fuck you.
That is… Fuck the system
This got me to thinking
or… Reminiscing.
I thought of an old year book…
Hidden in a dusty nook.
A friend did a drawing of me
clad in characteristic garb...
An over extended arm ...
… Most likely to breed?
… Most likely to sing?
… Most likely to do nothing?
… Most likely to do anything?..
… Most likely to say:
Fuck all yall and everything?..
… We were on the topic of fuck.
or… In this case
Fuck you.
That is… Fuck the system
This got me to thinking
or… Reminiscing.
I thought of an old year book…
Hidden in a dusty nook.
A friend did a drawing of me
clad in characteristic garb...
An over extended arm ...
#BestFriend
#marijuana
#LifeAsAWriter
#aliens
#magic
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2 Comments
just brings it all home
office party wasn't particularly good last christmas I ever spend with zoom capturing me naked
in the wardrobe with my wife ..
in the wardrobe with my wife ..
#BestFriend
#friendship
#lover
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awkward girl
i'm awkward with women
I have no female friends
I've spent years pushing them away
not allowing any of them in
don't trust no lady
were rules to live by
now later in my life
I miss the flavor
only a woman can offer
i'm not talking about sex
just someone to talk to
woman to woman
about things that really matter
but I'm so awkward
I push people away
trying too hard to pull them in
I don't seem to fit anywhere
not with the straight laced
or...
I have no female friends
I've spent years pushing them away
not allowing any of them in
don't trust no lady
were rules to live by
now later in my life
I miss the flavor
only a woman can offer
i'm not talking about sex
just someone to talk to
woman to woman
about things that really matter
but I'm so awkward
I push people away
trying too hard to pull them in
I don't seem to fit anywhere
not with the straight laced
or...
#friendship
#BestFriend
#beauty #lover
#beauty #lover
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13 Comments
The Safe List
Haltingly, fearfully,
she takes her time
watching and waiting
on the periphery.
Some think she's confident;
others think she's aloof,
but she's wondering how to behave.
It's not that she can't read the room
she reads it all too clearly—
too many competing thoughts
and needs
paralyse her ability to act.
And so, it is easier to remain
on the edges.
Unexpectedly,
like a flaming arrow
to her fragile armour,
your voice reaches her.
Genuine interest,
listening ears,
shared empathy ...
she takes her time
watching and waiting
on the periphery.
Some think she's confident;
others think she's aloof,
but she's wondering how to behave.
It's not that she can't read the room
she reads it all too clearly—
too many competing thoughts
and needs
paralyse her ability to act.
And so, it is easier to remain
on the edges.
Unexpectedly,
like a flaming arrow
to her fragile armour,
your voice reaches her.
Genuine interest,
listening ears,
shared empathy ...
#BestFriend
#friendship
#identity
#SelfReflection
#NaPoWriMo2023
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Witness
I can’t do it for you
but I can sit with you whilst you weep
I can’t do it for you
but go ahead and sing
and as the truth of what you feel
is now expressed in what is real
I’ll hold my witnessing to keep
acknowledge what you’re offering
I won’t be embarrassed
so don’t you be either, I must say
I won’t be harassed
this time is set for you
so now I hope you can receive
expressing free what you believe
until you’re done I’m fine to stay
and witness to a moment true
Then when it’s all over ...
but I can sit with you whilst you weep
I can’t do it for you
but go ahead and sing
and as the truth of what you feel
is now expressed in what is real
I’ll hold my witnessing to keep
acknowledge what you’re offering
I won’t be embarrassed
so don’t you be either, I must say
I won’t be harassed
this time is set for you
so now I hope you can receive
expressing free what you believe
until you’re done I’m fine to stay
and witness to a moment true
Then when it’s all over ...
#BestFriend
#relationships
#friendship #support
#friendship #support
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3 Comments
BENEATH THE DEEPNESS
BENEATH the deepness of your mind and heart and soul. ✍️ WHAT are you feeling when you decide to think with your heart and not with your mind. For do you open up your heart and close your eyes and mind, as you wear it on your selves 🤔 for do you truly believe the words that comes from out of their mouth 🤔 To express their love for you, without no real communications and commitment and no real consistency, with honest truth and genuine trust. I'm just going through this out in the wind of self consciousness of what you need and want in the world of REAL reality...
#BestFriend
#relationships
#friendship
#lover
#support
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More Than Feelings
It's more than just feelings
that float between the two of us.
It's a shared tongue
sifting thru the darkness
soaking up the sun
gifting of an ear
when words are only words
but each other's company
is worth more than their weight in gold.
It's not just the way we long to embrace
or how I love the simple smile upon your face.
You know I think you beautiful
and you set my heart aglow
the beats go on forever
but not for the reasons you may know.
You're the shadow holding on to...
that float between the two of us.
It's a shared tongue
sifting thru the darkness
soaking up the sun
gifting of an ear
when words are only words
but each other's company
is worth more than their weight in gold.
It's not just the way we long to embrace
or how I love the simple smile upon your face.
You know I think you beautiful
and you set my heart aglow
the beats go on forever
but not for the reasons you may know.
You're the shadow holding on to...
#love
#BestFriend
#admiration #NaPoWriMo2019
#admiration #NaPoWriMo2019
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24 Comments
Salvation's Dulcet Strains (a Villanelle)
When lonely, confused, disquieted, music speaks to me.
Plants melodies in my head that flourish, calming dread.
Happy am I by virtue of its comforting constancy.
It was song that held my hand passing through griefs, dark, deep valley.
Making heavy heart light, will to leave depression’s bed.
When lonely, confused, disquieted, music speaks to me.
My vast brain discography suits my mood-color panoply.
Carole King, Beatles tunes, first in my mind to embed.
Happy am I by virtue of its comforting constancy.
Grieg’s “Peer Gynt Suite,”...
Plants melodies in my head that flourish, calming dread.
Happy am I by virtue of its comforting constancy.
It was song that held my hand passing through griefs, dark, deep valley.
Making heavy heart light, will to leave depression’s bed.
When lonely, confused, disquieted, music speaks to me.
My vast brain discography suits my mood-color panoply.
Carole King, Beatles tunes, first in my mind to embed.
Happy am I by virtue of its comforting constancy.
Grieg’s “Peer Gynt Suite,”...
#happiness
#sadness
#BestFriend #music
#BestFriend #music
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11 Comments
When I Met BreAnna
You made me smile and laugh through
My hazy tears during our freshman
Year of college. With you it was a new
Day, sharing our hopes, future plans,
Fears and dreams. It was the best day.
When I would meet you, becoming fast
Friends. You were always a strong ray
Of sunshine when I could not get past
My homesickness. You were the rose
To my thorn. In the vast and deep sea
You are the anchor. When life slows
You never doubted or gave up on me,
Always being there for the long ride.
Even in all our silliest and serious
Moments...
My hazy tears during our freshman
Year of college. With you it was a new
Day, sharing our hopes, future plans,
Fears and dreams. It was the best day.
When I would meet you, becoming fast
Friends. You were always a strong ray
Of sunshine when I could not get past
My homesickness. You were the rose
To my thorn. In the vast and deep sea
You are the anchor. When life slows
You never doubted or gave up on me,
Always being there for the long ride.
Even in all our silliest and serious
Moments...
#BestFriend
#friendship
#memories
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6 Comments
Pinky Swear
Two iridescent ghosts
Looking for new hosts
Underground closer to hell
Leaving our red shells
Feels exhilarating
Spirits lifting
Since we agreed
We’d go together
Forget good God
Forget evil Devil
Somewhere different
Balanced enlightenment
We’ll spin the dead moon
Comets gracefully speeding by
Swivel the silver stars
Towards our golden start
Tunneling inside infinity
Pinky clasping pinky...
Looking for new hosts
Underground closer to hell
Leaving our red shells
Feels exhilarating
Spirits lifting
Since we agreed
We’d go together
Forget good God
Forget evil Devil
Somewhere different
Balanced enlightenment
We’ll spin the dead moon
Comets gracefully speeding by
Swivel the silver stars
Towards our golden start
Tunneling inside infinity
Pinky clasping pinky...
#BestFriend
#friendship
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In This Place
In this place I am one.
I know this fair strand.
For countless times have I walked it.
And numberless are the sands.
Familiar to me as the salt air breezes,
Known and unknown,
We are one.
Each made for the other…
Two limestone stacks stand offshore
Some say there stand two brothers; others, there two sisters bathe.
To my mind come the words of a simple phrase:
We are one together, yet separate and single.
I have watched them all my days
...
I know this fair strand.
For countless times have I walked it.
And numberless are the sands.
Familiar to me as the salt air breezes,
Known and unknown,
We are one.
Each made for the other…
Two limestone stacks stand offshore
Some say there stand two brothers; others, there two sisters bathe.
To my mind come the words of a simple phrase:
We are one together, yet separate and single.
I have watched them all my days
...
#love
#BestFriend
#relationships
#friendship
#support
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4 Comments
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