by Chamonique Knowles |
Categories:
life, love
if you took the time
to look into a girls heart
you'd find friends and family
nestled permanently in every corner
you'd find secrets and lies
locked in cages and hidden deep within
you'd drown in the love
and suffocate in the pain
you'd see the poor stitching
holding together the wounds
and watch the memorable moments
playing on repeat
you'd see all the tear stains
etched into its core
you'd witness everything she had to withstand
and how much strength it took to pull through
who was always there to lend a hand
or a shoulder
you'd realize what made her who she is
and what made her strong
especially when things went wrong
by Iolanda Scripca |
Categories:
life, nostalgia, sad, social
where the seagull dies
stringless origami cries
loneliness of soul
koi fish suffocate
colors fade in Bonsai trees
island in distress
words not understood
shadows grin tricks on rice walls
tsunamis in eyes
geisha of the world
love is lost in illusions
freedom is her dream
men with cold fingers
whither blossom of her spring
harakiri end
in the seagull's grave
origami secrets kept
chicks learn how to fly
www.scripca.com
by Russell Sivey |
Categories:
life, passion, beautiful, beautiful, body,
The soul of a gorgeous woman
Portrayed by the sublime
Facets of her beautiful eyes
Perfect body does climb
Her body overheats in a flash
Colors express their own
Delight opens her exposure
Displays every light shown
She has lost her figure to lust
Eyes scope out her being
A form of love is before me
No stitch of want leaving
From behind there is much grandeur
Leaking beautiful thoughts
Colors bleed from her every pore
Nothing that is store bought
She exudes this scene of passion
Heat enveloped around
I suffocate within her form
She has surely been found
Russell Sivey
A form of Poulter’s Measure
by Sandra Adams |
Categories:
i miss you, lost love,
there's an ardent desire
burnt upon the umbrage
of my mind's deepest thoughts
on fields of green
i sit lost in the strokes
of time's hands
yearning to feel you
like a whisper of wind
as it twirls my hair
in its gentle breath
i long to strip
layers of life
that bind my heart
in the torment
that moans
through the valley
in heavy sighs
i want to gambol
like fragrant petals
in summer's warm caress
not suffocate on smokey breaths
in winter's colorless drab
i suspire beneath mist of dusk
laden upon my skin
and suffice in the bitterness
of your absence
through the traces
etched upon my face
as the years pass by
without you
August 13, 2019
by Anne-Lise Andresen |
Categories:
emotions, forgiveness,
The badger entering the underground labyrinth
it is impossible to discover the stars at night
In the drowsy dark caves of the mind
trying to maintain the truth safe in the memory
Clouds, slowly suffocate my courage
While sipping the liqueur of bitterness
Unspoken words die on the tongue, as seasons come and pass
Ghosts in dirty rags
Wounded feelings, in the shadow of the evening
Forgive me, with the scent of lilies to sweeten the path of life
The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams
Field of forgiveness gives love renovated splendor
From darkness, to flower - in the embrace of harmony
by Larry Belt |
Categories:
sad
The air I breathe is poison
Filled, with toxic love
With each breath I take, I suffocate
For it's you, I'm thinking of
I'm dying from the inside out
A little more each day
An infection, of your rejection
And it will not go away
A fatal disease, without a cure
My heart will turn to stone
It won't be long, before I'm gone
I feel so all alone
My soul cries out in agony
The pain, too much to bear
Growing fast, this cancerous past
A coma, of despair
I die a slow and painful death
Drowning in my tears
A broken heart, that's torn apart
Withers. and disappears
by Anna-Marie Docherty |
Categories:
hope, life, lost love, recovery from..., sad, socialme, me,
Don’t
hate me, despise me
Don’t
cut me off, hide me
Don’t
put me in a corner to punish me
Don’t
mentally torture me
Don’t
yell, shout or scream at me
Don’t
tear share or scare me
Don’t
hurt me, nor squeeze me
Don’t
taunt, tease and thump me
Don’t
shove, crush, or bruise me
Don’t
push, pull or pummel me
Don’t
break me or blind me
Don’t
abuse me, or bleed me
Don’t
rape me, suffocate me
Don’t
murder me, lose me
DON’T
by Brian Strand |
Categories:
life, lost love, love
A
lasting
jealousy
will suffocate
love
by Morgan Tate |
Categories:
conflict, confusion, courage, cry, dark, depression, feelings, grief, growth, hate, heartbroken, how i feel, identity, introspection, loneliness, lost love, me, miss you, missing, missing you, sad, sad love, write, writing,
velvet tears slip down my cheek.
a gentle cry.
and the wet drops seep in the corners of my mouth
until
my lungs are full of my own salty, crystalline tears,
bringing buoyancy to boats that sail inside my veins.
as a rule, I try not to cry.
if a single tear is shed, who is to say that another will not follow?
compelling the rest to join
until I’ve immersed myself in the sea I’ve incepted,
and soon
all I see are the opalescent peaks of water colliding with my skin.
by Phillip Garcia |
Categories:
loneliness, lost,
In scratchy swales emitting Clorox gas,
Matador houseflies cross paralyzed eyes;
A kaleidoscope scene where jagged glass
Cracks beneath footsteps of love’s promised lies;
Forgotten by choice through hell-flickered sight,
Confusion screams at a dead mobile phone,
Gripping slick sanity ever so tight,
Un-stabled by speaking to Nothing’s tone.
Tormentors nearby prepare their escape,
Entrusting blindness to suffocate truth;
Black swans are they, drinkin’ ‘shine to undrape
Wounds nearly healed from a vi’lated youth –
A normal day in an abnormal cave,
Where hatred rules whipping peace claimed its slave.
by Dawruin Petrel |
Categories:
addiction, anger, anxiety, crazy, hate, heart,
My heart throbs
my heart throbs
through my chest
yells, yells, yells
Why does it throbs?
Love, why does it?
It's scary
Tomb tomb tomb,
vehement, frenetic, agitated,
Tomb tomb tomb,
beats piercing my chest.
Stabs, stabs, stabs
impudent strumpet stab me
I'm eager for being stabbed.
Reaches my neck
hammers my ears
chokes my throat
turn it off, turn it off, turn it off
Suffocate, drown it, strangle it
make it bleed, bleed out
Turn it to marble, dry marble.
by Nasilele Mubyana |
Categories:
girlfriend-boyfriend, lovelove, me,
I’m not blind
I just don’t want to see the world outside your heart’s barriers
I’m not afraid
I just don’t want to have to face life’s harsh full ups and downs
I’m not crazy
Im just in love wit a man hu knws how to love me ryt
Im not running
Im just movin into a better place; into ur heart
Im not weird
They just don’t understand me like you do
In all my years of life
Ive never met a man to express himself the way you do
And now you’ve got my hearts equation
Tuned into ur diraction
Surrendered to ur objection
Im loving u lyk I love my oxygen
So dnt cut the chord on us or I’ll suffocate
by Jodie Williams |
Categories:
goodbye, lost love, heart, heart,
I buried my heart today
I stood beside the mound of earth
I'd tirelessly dug away
I don't think I dug deep enough
So I dig a deeper grave
So there my heart will lie
Motionless, consumed with hurt
Loaded with the tears I'd cried
Now suppressed with fresh-dug dirt
Not even worth a last goodbye
How deep it lays, can't be measured
Compacted into Earth's tenebrous core
To suffocate beneath the pressure
Perhaps becoming useful once more
Coals will be diamonds, my heart will be precious
4th March 2013
by Augusto Munoz |
Categories:
love,
I went to the BIG
bookstore and read
poetry by every author
that has been published.
Now, I can imitate them.
I can write you poetry.
I can give you a page of
thrift shop words—words
that belonged to someone else.
Please take them.
Hold on to them.
Hold on to me.
Soon, I will suffocate
you with my own words.
by Charlotte Jordan |
Categories:
confusion, depression, devotion, forgiveness, lost love, love, nostalgia
My head is spinning fast,
as I am tumbling down.
Troubles are coming fast,
as I try to choke them down.
Suffocate on the distortion.
In my mind's eye, misery abides.
In my charred, beatless heart,
your words emphasize lost hope.
My fear and your faith...
undeniable friendship...
my solitaire release.
by Daniel Dixon |
Categories:
lost love, love, metaphor, me,
Murderer of my dreams,
how you suffocate them
like newborn babies,
claiming they were born wrong:
an inbuilt cancer,
an innate illness.
I can't help but sit beside
their little graves
and peek into
their open coffins,
entranced by their empty insides;
Marry me or bury me with them.
by Frederic Parker |
Categories:
abuse, conflict, fear, loneliness, power,
A frightened heart will tremble when unsealed
And eyes of fear corrupt by need's desires
To suffocate a heart, to never yield
A pause, if tendered gift not one of fire
This judgment caused by one that's insecure
To fill a darkened void by lover's light
And bask in glow from radiance still pure
Now kept in dungeon chained by heart's delight
To free this gift to soar without restraint
And flee the bonds of Earth on freedom's wings
And feel the tender breath not love's constraint
Release the fear that frightened hearts can bring
How long will lovers live with binding chains?
And trapped by tethered fear love disdains
by Michael Campbell |
Categories:
loveme,
who are you?
that you should
come into my heart
to kill me
to suffocate me
to burn me up.
Who are you?
that you should
break up my fallow ground
penetrate my darkness
stir up my emotions.
Who are you?
that you should
fill me
burst me
surround me
with love,
lover?
by Deb Wilson |
Categories:
happiness, on work and workingheart, heart,
As I sit with this person I understand
It makes me want to grasp their hand
For I have been where they are now
So sad and angry,not knowing how
To start all over with a better view
A glimmer of hope,a heart that's new
"Just don't give up" I often say
"And don't let sadness get in your way"
These thoughts they have I've had them too
Goes way beyond just feeling blue
The darkest vapor to suffocate
Your soul and fill you with self-hate
This job I love is to help them see
It's not the way it has to be
As a peer counselor I help them find
A heart that's healed and a good sound mind
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Sponsored by Caroline Devonshire
by Lynn Dolly |
Categories:
heartbreak,
Some moments I can't breath
Love is so strong
Makes the rest of me weak
Can't see you
Can't smell you
Can't hear you,
Can't hug you
But do I really want to?
Seconds I miss you consume me
Logic enters and pain is ceased
I remember why it is the way it is
I'd rather suffer heartache
Than allow you to suffocate me.
by Melissa Gregg |
Categories:
confusion, life, loss, lost love, love, sad,
I am made of glass
See through to my soul
Through to the cold
Where life took it’s toll
They stood here before me
Casting their stones
Scratching my surface
Please, suffocate the moans
Silently screaming
I beg for your aid
But there you stood watching
All my abilities fade
I want to blame you forever
For my spirit unsaved
Your condition of love
Was all that I craved
by Travis Bonnell |
Categories:
anxiety, depression, feelings, heartbreak, lost love, love hurts, sorrow,
Everyday I die a little more inside,
But my heart is on my sleeve,
So tears that pour from it drip,
Until I’m gasping for air, I’m drowning
As life moves forward
Im left searching through memories
Self analyzing, criticizing, profiling
Demoralized by how I got here.
Who was I? Who did I let ruin my life?
Anxiety and depression I had never met
Yet somehow they became all I knew.
I’ve awaken but to what reality?
Nightmares have became real
Happiness is all but a dream.
When I shut my eyes all I see is you.
But when they open the emptiness of the world around me closes in, I can’t breathe.
by Melissa Gregg |
Categories:
angst, confusion, devotion, life, lost love, love, sad,
I am made of glass
See through to my soul
Through to the cold
Where life took it’s toll
They stood here before me
Casting their stones
Scratching my surface
Please, suffocate the moans
Silently screaming
I beg for your aid
But there you stood watching
All my abilities fade
I want to blame you forever
For my spirit unsaved
Your condition of love
Was all that I craved
by Adedayo Michael |
Categories:
love, love,
When you said you love me
I believed in you.
When you embrace my body
I felt unequaled love.
This day my bleeds for you
My body search for your love
Which is a fountain of love.
My heart skips when you are away
I suffocate and remained breathless
Just because I need your love.
Your love is my faith
Your voice the music I need to hear
Your touch all my life need
I really need it
Because it will heal my wound.
by Courtney Dyer |
Categories:
love
Caught in your web of deceit once again
No wiser than before
My heart knows
Your betrayal
Yet, another lie you utter
Like cascading dominos
Falling over one by one
Leaving scars
That never heal
Shattering the core
Of what we have together
Though we drift further apart each day
You choose to wallow in your
Never ending journey for vengeance
Playing God
In your twisted brand of justice
Your sins locked away
While I am chained at the town square
For all to see
Though we suffocate in this
Blackened abyss of misery
You choose to remain
Because that's all you know