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whats on your mind
whats on your mind
what do you want to be.
what do you see.
what do you really think of me.
whats running through your mind what words to you have held that youve never said.
what are you thinking about.
is that smile real or are you about to break down.
there are feelings that you dont show,
but you can tell me everything because i want to know.
i want to know how you feel to day.
i want to know about the pain that doesnt go away.
tell me why you left it all behind .
tell me everything one more time.
what do you want to be.
what do you see.
what do you really think of me.
whats running through your mind what words to you have held that youve never said.
what are you thinking about.
is that smile real or are you about to break down.
there are feelings that you dont show,
but you can tell me everything because i want to know.
i want to know how you feel to day.
i want to know about the pain that doesnt go away.
tell me why you left it all behind .
tell me everything one more time.
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Posted: Sep 2009
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For The Name Of A Simple Poet
For The Name Of A Simple Poet
If my simple poetry is to be accepted by my peers
it must be soon, for surely my life's extinction nears.
It is not from melancholy or self sorrow that I speak,
more simply though that time and death's truth will peak.
Making me breathless once too often in my nightly sleep,
when the restless reaper reminds us our fate cannot keep.
As well they knew, those who have written in the past
writing in their genius writings, earth life must be cast.
But what of me? I cannot see past the quickening hour,
I pray, for I fear my thoughts, that I am not sickly sour.
I spoke of fate before, perhaps that is the answer sought
that we cannot alter that in which we are fatally caught.
Is death the ultimate consciousness for our ultimate sin
of discovering thought, sidestepping natural evolution?
Should I meekly, without resolve, accept the deafness
to my thoughts, of which my uneducated words express?
Am I to be discovered, cleverly, in a hundred years or so
when the cycle turns and my poetry takes on a stylish glow?
I of the great Celtic races of the north cannot lay me down
without a fight, yet I ask not to be given poetry's top crown.
In my exasperation I ask my peers to simply accept that
time I fear runs out for me to be named simply, a poet!
sonofadam
If my simple poetry is to be accepted by my peers
it must be soon, for surely my life's extinction nears.
It is not from melancholy or self sorrow that I speak,
more simply though that time and death's truth will peak.
Making me breathless once too often in my nightly sleep,
when the restless reaper reminds us our fate cannot keep.
As well they knew, those who have written in the past
writing in their genius writings, earth life must be cast.
But what of me? I cannot see past the quickening hour,
I pray, for I fear my thoughts, that I am not sickly sour.
I spoke of fate before, perhaps that is the answer sought
that we cannot alter that in which we are fatally caught.
Is death the ultimate consciousness for our ultimate sin
of discovering thought, sidestepping natural evolution?
Should I meekly, without resolve, accept the deafness
to my thoughts, of which my uneducated words express?
Am I to be discovered, cleverly, in a hundred years or so
when the cycle turns and my poetry takes on a stylish glow?
I of the great Celtic races of the north cannot lay me down
without a fight, yet I ask not to be given poetry's top crown.
In my exasperation I ask my peers to simply accept that
time I fear runs out for me to be named simply, a poet!
sonofadam
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Posted: Sep 2009
About this poem:
This is my last posting!on the other side.
on the other side.
as high as you can climb as far as you can go.
the strength you seem to hide the weakness you seem to show.
all the fight that you have left in you.
young and crazy and nothing to lose.
the climb up the mountain is worth it when you reach the top.
stop and look down to realize what you have got.
on the other side of that mountain is the perseverance that got you there.
as high as you can climb as far as you can go.
the strength you seem to hide the weakness you seem to show.
all the fight that you have left in you.
young and crazy and nothing to lose.
the climb up the mountain is worth it when you reach the top.
stop and look down to realize what you have got.
on the other side of that mountain is the perseverance that got you there.
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Posted: Oct 2009
Post Commenta long time ago
a long time ago
a child that you broke in to pieces but in only made stronger in the end.
is this what you didnt want.
I feel your pain.
hurtful works that have made me hate my self right down tothe very core of my soul.
digging deep down inside or me trying to find the that that little kid once had.
im scared for everything to be ok.
all the love that i have tryed to give you you have turned away.
never there to be proud of me.
a piece of me is who i am because of you but i dont blame you because.......
im better then that.
a child that you broke in to pieces but in only made stronger in the end.
is this what you didnt want.
I feel your pain.
hurtful works that have made me hate my self right down tothe very core of my soul.
digging deep down inside or me trying to find the that that little kid once had.
im scared for everything to be ok.
all the love that i have tryed to give you you have turned away.
never there to be proud of me.
a piece of me is who i am because of you but i dont blame you because.......
im better then that.
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Posted: Oct 2009
Post Commenthealing
healing
broken and scared lonely and blended with al of my sorrow.
running from the past and trying ot hide the pain.
trying to forget about all the hatred that I have built with in side of me.
trying to hear from the broken words and lost promises along the way.
shadows of the discougrageness that has taken over me.
my heart can not take it anymore.
I may never heal.
broken and scared lonely and blended with al of my sorrow.
running from the past and trying ot hide the pain.
trying to forget about all the hatred that I have built with in side of me.
trying to hear from the broken words and lost promises along the way.
shadows of the discougrageness that has taken over me.
my heart can not take it anymore.
I may never heal.
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Posted: Oct 2009
Post CommentI lay here wondering
I Lay here wondering while I wait. Just waiting for a message to determine my fate.
To reinforce what love means to me. Just Laying here wondering if this is my destiny.
Wondering if i'm going to stay alone. All I want is to hear her voice on the phone.
So sad here without her to the point where I cry. Laying here I shed a tear from my eye.
I feel the tear roll down my cheek. I wonder, does this make me weak?
Caused by the heartbreaks that i've been through. I lay here wondering if Id do things differently if I only knew.
No, I don’t regret these things, id leave it all the same. Its nobodies fault, no one to blame.
Being in Love has always been strange. I know I love her and there is no reason for that to change.
I once asked God to send me an Angel from the heavens above. I now have my Angel and she is the one I love.
I Lay here wondering no longer feeling blue. I wonder if you know Angel, That I love you.
To reinforce what love means to me. Just Laying here wondering if this is my destiny.
Wondering if i'm going to stay alone. All I want is to hear her voice on the phone.
So sad here without her to the point where I cry. Laying here I shed a tear from my eye.
I feel the tear roll down my cheek. I wonder, does this make me weak?
Caused by the heartbreaks that i've been through. I lay here wondering if Id do things differently if I only knew.
No, I don’t regret these things, id leave it all the same. Its nobodies fault, no one to blame.
Being in Love has always been strange. I know I love her and there is no reason for that to change.
I once asked God to send me an Angel from the heavens above. I now have my Angel and she is the one I love.
I Lay here wondering no longer feeling blue. I wonder if you know Angel, That I love you.
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Posted: Jun 2009
Post CommentSmiling
A smile can light a thousand ships.
A smie can light the darkest rooms.
Although u cannot see,but my heart is always smiling.
I smile on the inside and on the outside too.
Heres a little smile now especially for u :)
We dont seem to smile quite enough!!
Its just a simple little thing that can turn a life around.
Dont spend all ur life with your smile upside down.....
:) :) :)
A smie can light the darkest rooms.
Although u cannot see,but my heart is always smiling.
I smile on the inside and on the outside too.
Heres a little smile now especially for u :)
We dont seem to smile quite enough!!
Its just a simple little thing that can turn a life around.
Dont spend all ur life with your smile upside down.....
:) :) :)
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Posted: Oct 2009
Post CommentDreams
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams slip away
Life becomes work not play.
Hold fast to dreams,
For when dreams are left in the dark
Life becomes a burden and a treacherous
Journey, which we must embark.
Dreams are your sails
And life is your boat
Secure them tightly
And stay afloat.
For if dreams slip away
Life becomes work not play.
Hold fast to dreams,
For when dreams are left in the dark
Life becomes a burden and a treacherous
Journey, which we must embark.
Dreams are your sails
And life is your boat
Secure them tightly
And stay afloat.
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Posted: Jun 2009
Post CommentLife
A winter wind walks briskly passed
My open eyes and cold, lonely hands
Bringing with it these frozen tears
Of the angels
And these silenced years
Many times have come to pass
Growing up has gone by so fast
And these eyes have seen horrors and joy
Love and honesty in their greatest glory
Friends come and go
But family is forever
And all the seas and shallow waters
Can't keep me forever
My heart burns for the comfort of home
And the girl I call my friend
Her eyes hold my heart
In the palm of their hand
The snow comes now
Freezing time in all it's wonder
And i stand speechless on the sidewalk
And realize just like the snow
Life is beautiful
And is falling all around me
My open eyes and cold, lonely hands
Bringing with it these frozen tears
Of the angels
And these silenced years
Many times have come to pass
Growing up has gone by so fast
And these eyes have seen horrors and joy
Love and honesty in their greatest glory
Friends come and go
But family is forever
And all the seas and shallow waters
Can't keep me forever
My heart burns for the comfort of home
And the girl I call my friend
Her eyes hold my heart
In the palm of their hand
The snow comes now
Freezing time in all it's wonder
And i stand speechless on the sidewalk
And realize just like the snow
Life is beautiful
And is falling all around me
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Posted: Oct 2009
Post CommentAs I resume the silent walk
As I resume the silent walk,
alone I listen to the talk,
of the wheels in my mind.
Gear on gear, they slowly grind.
Ever turning, ever spinning,
on and on, endless filling
my thought with brackish bile.
Tower after tower, pile after pile.
Darker, blacker, on they run
clouding out all hope of Sun.
Poison growing deeper,
Poison growing stronger,
Can I bear the pain much longer?
When I wonder will it end,
is salvation 'round some distant bend?
Beyond some corner not yet seen,
Waiting for some hidden dream?
alone I listen to the talk,
of the wheels in my mind.
Gear on gear, they slowly grind.
Ever turning, ever spinning,
on and on, endless filling
my thought with brackish bile.
Tower after tower, pile after pile.
Darker, blacker, on they run
clouding out all hope of Sun.
Poison growing deeper,
Poison growing stronger,
Can I bear the pain much longer?
When I wonder will it end,
is salvation 'round some distant bend?
Beyond some corner not yet seen,
Waiting for some hidden dream?
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Posted: Oct 2009
About this poem:
I wrote this while I was pacing around a courtyard at uni. I was feeling very isolated and lonely and my thought were all depressing. It was like something had taken a-hold of my thoughts and turned then into stagnant, black bile. Not surprisingly once I'd written this it was almost like I'd banished something. I tend to use poetry like that. The act of writing and focusing on my thoughts and words seems to create a level of reality to them. Taking them beyond myself and to a place I can look at them as if they're not mine.Does anyone else also get the "itch" for poetry? I always feel like lightening is shooting up my spine and ants are crawling under my skin until I get the words on paper. The worst part is when you've wanted to say something and suddenly the inspiration is gone and you feel hollow.
I once heard it described as like seeing a storm on the horizon and having to sprint to get some paper and write it all down before the storm passes.
Love to hear you comments either on the poem or my questions here. I have some other poems if anyone is interested in hearing them?
Ralph
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