The poetry corner - post your poems in here

[Chris_B]

Hi everyone,

This is a thread for sharing your creative works. 

Please bear in mind our community rules before submitting your work.  

This thread is located in the BB Social Zone, so the primary purpose here is entertainment.

We will not publish poems containing dark or disturbing content, including themes of suicide, self-harm, death, dying, abuse or other forms of trauma.

Thanks for your understanding. 

[SourceShield]

Day4

PoetrySlam.

 

NOTE:

My poetry writing style has changed.

I used to be a very 'formal' poetry writer...following all the 'rules'.

But, In the last couple of years I have really gotten in to Hip Hop.

Always loved soul and r'n'b, but not so much the rap.

Now, I cant get enough of it, and now when I write I hear a beat in my head...that the poem is 'read' to!.

I love poetry, and now with mixing it with a beat as well...has just opened up more of this beautiful world for me.

PeaceOut.

"The drum of the realization of the promise is beating,

we are sweeping the road to the sky.

Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night,

Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color!

For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.

Oh! joy for this soul and this heart who have escaped

the earth of water and clay,

Although this water and this clay contain the hearth of the

philosophical stone".

--- Rumi.

<--->

"Dear ma, I'm in the cell, lonely as hell.

Writin this scribe, thinkin bout how you must feel inside.

You tried to teach me better, but I refused to grow.

God damn I ain't the young man that you used to know.

You said the street claim lives, but I wanted things like

bling bling ice.

I was wrong in hindsight".

---Jay Z from "Soon Youll Understand.

[SourceShield]

---When The Penny Drops.

If it ever does.

Will you be able to say that you lived authentically?

With simplicity?

How much time is wasted on trivial pursuits?

I never wanted you to be a teacher, nor preacher.

Why the rush?

Life turns to dust, where to from here?.

Diversity is clear.

Its okay to go your way, and I'll go mine.

Thats fine.

We dont need another hero, sang Tina Turner.

Im a quick learner.

I see you now.

MuchClarity.

Kaitoa

[SourceShield]

PoetrySlam

Day5

---I ate the whole bag.

When I opened it, I knew what I was doing.

I saw the bag, just lying there.

It was time to do some chewing.

Listening to Beethoven,

yeh thats my jam.

PoetrySlam,

I write the words.

To confess my crime,

I ate the whole bag.

In one sitting.

Im not even kidding.

Sweet and soft,

they are so good.

I will eat them in the dark,

wearing my hood.

I will eat the whole bag,

then confess my guilt.

Wait.

No.

I just found two more,

that had fallen,

onto the floor.

Wipe those babies off.

Still good.

For sure.

I just ate the whole bag,

in one sitting.

MuchGluttony

Kaitoa.

[SourceShield]

PoetrySlam

Day6

---Oh What To Write.

When its late at night

And Ive got the nerve to write.

Got dem money cheese.

Oh Please.

Some 'moke that blend.

Burn it dry.

Kite flies high.

Crackers for dem money cheese.

You got dem beautiful ways, my sweet.

You got beautiful ways.

Done noth'n but wait for you.

Some 'moke that blend.

Right 'til the end.

I been wait'n for you, my sweetness.

For your caress.

Yes.

Yes.

Oh what can I write for you tonight...

To Be Continued...

MuchInfatuation.

Kaitoa

[CompulsiveLiar]

Hey Source.

I found you again. That sounds kinda creepy. Sorry. Im not stalking you. Although I have just read all your posts. After you reached out to me this morning, I felt a huge rush of relief. I saw your name here for the poetry corner, as you now know Im doing StoryTelling therapy, would it be okay if I join you here as well, as well as the OTT thread? I think it would be good for me to post some of my stories, and poems here too. As you mentioned above, it is therapeutic. I think so. I hope you dont mind. Im just excited by the fact that I already feel alittle bit better, and that was just because you reached out to me. Thanks again

[girl_interrupted]

Emmy I love this poem! Thank you for sharing 🙂

[SourceShield]

Hey CL,

Yes of course, you can join us.

You dont need to ask permission for that,my friend.

Is that how it has been for you?

Always like you have to ask permission to live, and exist?

I get a bit like that too.

---

I had this OTT that I was never safe.

Like I was always going to be punished for just being me.

Can you relate to that, CL?

You can tell it to me in story-form if you like.

Youve mentioned the story-telling therapy in a couple of your posts now.

Write, my friend.

Join me.

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I write when it feels right to write!.

Im not an editor so quite often my writing is full of typos etc.

Im over trying to attain perfectionism.

Enjoying the journey is a lot more important for me now.

I'm sure that you and I could swap a few stories.

---

PoetrySlam

Day7

---Learning.

Learning courageousness, takes a sincere willingness to be courageous.

Learning acceptance, takes a sincere willingness to accept.

Learning peacefulness, takes a sincere willingness to be peaceful.

Thats where I am heading.

I aint there yet.

Still make a sqwabillion mistakes, everyday.

But, I also bank up heaps of goodness throughout my day as well.

Welcome To Earth.

Chaos and Order.

Rough waves with the smooth seas.

MuchUps&Downs.

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For you, now that youre learning to be truthful, honest, sincere and genuine, thats gonna take a load of courageousness, acceptance, and peacefulness.

I dont know what youve done.

I do believe that if we do the crime, we must serve the time.

If youre a 'free man', as in not in prison, then you have a lot to be grateful for.

We all do.

So, if youre not in prison, its only the OTT holding you back from being completely free,my friend.

Write.

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'Write' - A Poem.

Write to your hearts delight.

Write when it feels right to write.

Write the words that feel right.

Write as if there is no tomorrow.

Release all the sorrow.

Write.

Write as if your life depended upon it.

Write and know judgement will not be wrought upon it.

Write and be blessed.

Write and know this -

When you write, you must write from your soul.

Emptying words, like fruit into a bowl.

Write and set yourself free.

Write and let your thoughts fly free.

Write and let it all be.

Write and know that you are not alone.

Write and I will read your words.

Write and I will honor what is heard.

Write and I will feel, what you have felt.

Write.

Write.

MuchWordliness.

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Thats my poetry slam for the day - YEEEAAH BOI!

Peace

[james1]

I only have an idea and the start, but hey it's something:

There is a land afar, a world I know,

A place of princes and princesses of snow

Where animals talk and fish can walk

and the hero always defeats his foe.

[SourceShield]

Hey James.

When I read your post the first time, I thought that was the whole poem - And I thought it was great.

Mysterious.

But then I read it again, and realised that this part of your post -

"I only have an idea and the start, but hey it's something:" - was not part of the poem!.

D'oh!

I liked what you'd written because it's like there are two voices, the voice of the author, and the voice of the character.

But, then when you read it without the first line, of course there is just the one 'voice'.

Aside from that...

Your poem feels like it could be an epic poem, in the making, literally.

Go with the magic ->>> animals talk...fish can walk...give us more of this...

Go with the courage ->>> hero always defeats their foe...give us more of this...

Tell me more of the princes and princesses...

Thats just my humble opinion.

Curious, ever curious.

Keep going with it, J1!.

Good work.

MuchLove&Creativity

[james1]

Ahaha, I can see how that could be mistaken. But I actually have been experimenting with multiple voices in poems which is fun, because you can get word play between the two characters.

But yes, thanks for the pointers 🙂 I've blasted a bunch of lines, but I'm a serial editor so I keep cutting and changing haha. This was just the bit I wrote down as the start of an idea. I'll post the actual poem when it's done.

Looking forward to seeing yours for the day 🙂

James