Poetry Thread

[isshinryu5toforever]

I don't know how many on this forum write poetry. We have a literature topic now, so why not have a poetry one as well. If you want to post your own poetry or discuss some feel free to put it up. If am asking other to bear their soul through their writing I may as well begin as not to be hypocritical.

 

You're All Alone

 

Look at the people on the street.

 

They've all got somewhere to go,

 

Someone special to meet,

 

And I sit here all alone.

 

You see no lines in my face,

 

But my age in my eyes,

 

they stare off into space,

 

As my throat lets out soft sighs.

 

I slowly sip my drink,

 

I look into the bottom of the glass.

 

I feel my heart slowly sink.

 

Lonliness makes another pass.

 

I let my mind start to roam,

 

To thoughts that there's no place like home.

 

All Too Lucid

 

How did you fall in love with me?

 

I can see you're the one,

 

I feel your warmth beside my body.

 

I see your beautiful silhouette created by the setting of the sun,

 

I can feel the soft tenderness of your lips,

 

They caress my cheek as I awake.

 

I see the graceful curve of your hips,

 

And the soft lines in the sheets they make.

 

You have beautifully long flowing hair,

 

It shimmers in the sun,

 

Your love is around me everywhere,

 

From you I will never need to run.

 

But isn't this an evil twist,

 

For you my dear do not exist.

[Cmon]

Ill have only written one:

 

When the Light Fails.

 

When the light fails,

 

The journey across,

 

The bridge passing,

 

From old to new.

 

Darkness falls,

 

And all hope flees.

 

Vengefulness influences

 

The mind to condemn.

 

The old left scorned

 

And bitter.

 

The new occupied,

 

With the uncertainty,

 

Of living in,

 

Forgiveness, love,

 

And harmony.

 

Or existing with hatred,

 

Hostility and pain

 

Left with no purpose

 

But to pursue revenge.

 

Yet love remains,

 

Withstanding the,

 

Resentment the,

 

Journey bestows.

 

Love, the guiding Light

 

Assures the journey,

 

Is a Success.

[greenbelt_girl15]

Those were great poems isshinryu5

 

Here's one of mine.

 

Gently shines the sun

 

On this day bright and warm

 

Watching friends play

 

Everything seems norm

 

Yet far,far away

 

In a land harsh and dry

 

Our brave courageous soldiers

 

Do battle,fight and die.

 

Not only for our country

 

Do they do this thing

 

But for each Iraqi's freedom

 

And so the people may sing

 

Of liberty and justice

 

That brought down their dictator king.

 

Three cheers for coalition troops

 

Saddam is now in jail

 

He'll never,ever rule again

 

His riegn as tyrant's failed.

 

And though the war's not over

 

We can rest a bit at ease

 

Cuz we know we fight

 

For what is right;

 

Freedom and liberty.

 

Not one of our soldiers

 

Died in vain they made Iraqs

 

Dream come true

 

But we must remember that

 

Freedom of this world will fade

 

Away with death, 'tis very true.

 

For Freedom of this world

 

Offers nothing in Gods 'ternal land

 

So now Iraqi's need

 

Grace from Christs hand.

 

This freedom from the Lord

 

Bests all freedom on the world

 

Releasing us from sins death grip

 

Making us children of the Lord.

[The_One]

Two tubby Angels with big fat wings; they cant see so they run into things.

 

It is kind of short, but I like it.

[Shorin Ryuu]

Nice poem and message, greenbeltgirl_15.

 

And now for some Japanese flavoring...

 

The winter wind blows,

 

Birds announce the new morning,

 

Time to train again.

 

For the sake of future growth,

 

the sacrifice of my time.

[Kicks]

World's shortest poem; called Fleas:

 

Adam

 

had'em

[isshinryu5toforever]

The rain comes in spring,

 

With it the cherries blossom,

 

This brings my heart joy.

 

Questions

 

Every couple stares at me sardonically

 

Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one alone.

 

They run after moments of fleeting sophomorically,

 

While I seek for love I can own.

 

I miss being able to look into your eyes.

 

They seem to smile softly when you look up at me.

 

I don't want to say our goodbyes,

 

Unless youhear my departing plea.

 

I'll wait for you as long as it takes,

 

Even if you make me wait for months,

 

I'll follow my foolish heart to mistakes.

 

Let's just go out again once.

 

Why do you make me lose my mind?

 

And why is love so unkind?

 

If you haven't noticed I like to write in sonnet form a lot. Just the rhyme scheme though, I don't stick to any beat rules like iambic pantameter.

[Gandhi]

The beautiful ones hurt you every time.

[HumanTyphoon]

Life's End

 

As we sit looking into the sky,

 

With the swift river flowing,

 

Ready to say our last good-byes,

 

Knowing it's time for us to be going,

 

Life's End....

 

It gives off a grasping fragrance,

 

Leaving behind memories of reminsence,

 

The hands of time are already bent forward,

 

And these chimes are set upon the chord,

 

Life's End....

 

A journey that we must all take,

 

We can only endure for so long,

 

Yet waiting for something we cannot unmake,

 

To go home to where we belong,

 

Life's End....

 

To where we become free,

 

And where joy spreads further than the sea,

 

A land under the golden sunshine,

 

To our final destination called paradise.

 

Life's end.

[ShotokanKid]

World's shortest poem; called Fleas:

 

Adam

 

had'em