| Poetry Marathon Archive Seven |
301-350
3 uh ho 1
I cannot say...
what I truely mean.
It just never works
it's like beating my head on a poast
over
and
over.
I just cannot say what I mean.
I cannot say...
what it is like to
love someone so so much
it makes your tears burn and sting.
It makes your heart swell, sore, and shatter
just by being with them.
I just cannot say what it's like to love someone this much.
I cannot say...
what its like to live in a
lala
land.
Where children /don't/ cry,
people /aren't/ raped,
old people /don't/ die,
and pritty girls /aren't/ starveing.
For I know all too well
that this land
is just a
lala
land
and it isn't real.

ThreeOhTwo
I cannot say what it's like
to love someone this much
I'm sick of love
and I don't know who I am
my calander is trying to remind me
and it isn't working.
Tomorrow is another day
another day to pretend I'm not jealous
another day to try and keep up
she told me long ago to walk instead of run
but I run anyway
she told me to dry my tears and stand
up straight
so I did.
FrannyIsRad
- Oooooo!

ThreeOhThree
Tomorrow is another day.
So what if today was wasted.
So what if it was a horrible day.
Go to sleep,
when you wake up it will be tomorrow.
and tomorrow is another day.
You can do what ever you like with it.
Go out on an adventure.
Let the wind blow your hair around.
dance in the rain,
laugh at the thunder.
sing loudly while skipping down the sidewalks.
It's a whole new day.

Three04
Don't cry honey don't cry.
You know you're alone, 'tis true.
But don't cry, honey, don't cry
I am here in spirit with you.
Laugh at the thunder, please babe
If you don't I'll cry too.
And men can't cry for they are made of brass
And the brass would tarnish
From the tears
Take my golden canary
You can do whatever you like with it
You are Papa's only little bird.
~thunderr~
ThreeOhFive
I am here in spirit with you.
Though we may be separated
by a thousand miles or more.
Your face,
your smile,
the way your voice sounds when you sing.
all are still clear in my memory.
like you were still here with me.
but you're not.
you left long ago.
and you took a part of me with you.

Three06
The way your voice sounds when you sing...
Flashback
I remember
A day
Too long ago
We sat in the damp field singing while the dancers danced
We the singers sang
It was living beautifull, wasn't it
You and I
And I remember
The way your voice sounds when you sing.
ThreeOhSeven
I remember
A beautiful starry night.
we went out dancing,
looking more beautiful than ever.
We danced and danced until we were too hot and tired to dance any longer.
Then we went out,
and sat on the grass.
silent at first,
then quietly singing.
singing beautifully to the stars.

Three08
The maiden sang to the stars beautifully,
Singing beautifully to the stars
Sing a song of grieving
For my love is dead
Sing a song of passion
For he died a passionate death
Once my lover went to sea
Sojourning down to the deep
For the great sea-giant to fight
For all was not well in the sea
He sang a song of farewell
Promising soon to return
Never again shall I trust warrior's promises
He lives in the house of the gods.
While I, near the sea, nearly burn.
Alas the sea-god was too strong
For my gallant friend and ere-long
The news of his valiant death
Travelled up o'er the waves to my ears.
I weep for him.
The mermaid was silent.
~thunderr~
three OoooooHhh nine
I can't beleve
it
I let myself love you so deeply and for
what?
For my love is dead
now.
Nouthing is
left.
You killed what I
had
And for
what?
For what did you kill it
for?
You killed it for me I
guess.
We both neaded
out.
But now I shall never
love
again

ThreeOhTen
We both needed out
of this fire
it's burning my heart
how about yours?
I know that all I need to do is run
but you're holding my hand
and you can't keep up
I shold just leave you by the road
but I'm scared.
Damn it! I'm always scared
scared of love fire
it hurts
it keeps me warm
I'm always scared of being invisable
scared to love
scared to not
I'm scared of you
kiss me?
FrannyIsRad
Three11
Damn it.
I'm always scared.
Scared of what, though?
You have been through pain, and you always come out headfirst.
You have been through sorrow, and afterwards you always weep and dance with joy.
I guess you're scared of the fools who will laugh.
Darling they'll laugh anyway.
They will laugh anyway.
~thunderr~
ThreeTwelve
Are we really made of brass?
Not me.
Nothing quite so solid as that.
More like wood.
Unvarnished, unpainted, hard to bend.
And when the tears come
(They /do/ come, by the way, though not terribly often)
I shrink and shrivel
And think I'm about to break.
But the water just makes me more flexible
Breaks down my long-developed stiffness and shows me how to let it all go.
I'm always scared.
Every time I'm drenched by the water
I think this time it really will break me.
But it doesn't.
When I'm dry again
I look back at the layer of my thick skin I've just shed
And sigh in relief.
Siiiiiigh.

Three13
When the going gets tough
When the tough get going
When the sun also rises
When the caged bird sings
When the fairytale ends
When the sea boils hot
When the diamond ring turns brass
When she does her own taxes
When the rain never ends
When the coward is brave
When the sea salt is tasted on your lips
When you kiss the one you don't know
Then I'll do it.
When the tears come.
thunderr.
___
ThreeFourteen
When the caged bird sings
I'll know what music means
I'll understand my fear
but I'll still be scared
when I think
"deja vou"
and see your eyes sparkling
you really are there
watching me cry.
FrannyIsRad
Three Fifteen
You have no shame in
watching me cry
You almost like it too
You almost enjoy watching
The tears trickle off my face
And I almost enjoy it when you join me
When we cry together
Under the stars
Nouthing else matters
Our faces are sad together
But that's good
I don't mind being sad when I'm with you
It stings when I hafto do it without anyone
Just sit and cry is never too much fun
It's always more fun
When we sit under the stars
And just ...
Cry...

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316
When we sit under the stars
I hear your heart beat
I hear your breath quicken
I hear your soft whispers
I feel your touch
So gentle and sweet
I feel your lips against mine
I feel your hands exploring me
I feel your kisses on my neck
I sense you wanting me
I feel your needing me
But I say No,
Not now,
You have to br patient
I'm not ready
I love you dearly,
and if you truly love me
You will wait...
---
it's so quiet here
now
time
passes by but I
still
feel like I'm
waiting
for
you
if
when
you return
I won't know what to say
so this is mine
and I
just won't miss you
no
oh
I just won't need you
dead again
and neither will we
with our running
in circles
our billows
pull us back
in the wind
rhythm
the rhyme
sing it over and
over and
over and
over again
you're missing...
you're missing...
you're missing...
one day we'll be gone...
hey
we never said
goodbye

Three Eighteen
I just won't need you.
Yes.
This is the answer. To never love, never live, never leave, never need
Ever
Again.
I can be my own strong wall I don't have to dream at all
Ever
Again.
Hidden in my lilac patch of thinking and wait.
~thunderr~
three 18 's not comeing back.
I wont nead you ...
I just won't need you.
These are my only words that will feel nice.
I won't nead you.
But what if,
But what if I do?
I just won't need you I tell myself again.
Your gone and I can't get you back ...
So I don't nead you
Right?
I don't nead your hugs
Or your soft words,
Your beatings
Or tickles ...
I don't nead your songs at midnight when I can't sleep
I just won't need you.
I'm a stronger person without it all
Right?
I just won't need you.
I just won't need you.
I just won't need you.
(Oh god)
(I nead you)

ThreeTwenty
You're gone and I can't get you back.
You've gotten yourself in so deep,
and I don't know how to bring you back.
I want to help,
to reach in and pull you out,
wrap you in my arms and protect you.
keep you safe and warm.
but I'm afraid to follow you.
afraid to go in after you,
and pull you out.
because if I do,
I might fall in too.
but what is life without risks?
and if anything is worth taking a risk,
you certainly are.
So I reach out to you.
and if I fall in trying to get you out,
at least we'll be together.

321, a haiku
keep you safe and warm
I don't know if I know how
To do otherwise

Rest now, child
Fret no longer
Harm will not befall you
You obeyed my orders
As from my hands you fled the
Potential pain of knowledge
Far away where I can not touch you
Keep you safe and warm
To do otherwise would be wrong
Secrets must be carefully protected as
Insanity spreads
That evil can dwell among those with
The most innocent eyes
Into the most
Innocent minds
My eyes are old
But still I know
The mind percieves the world as full of fear
Which twists reality into
A thousand
Thousand stars
And there is enough
To satisfy the cravings
That the response of silence creates
Fear is very beautiful when
Reflecting from your eyes
Onto me
I don't know if I know how
To alter my future actions
I will try
Doumo sumimasen
Hikari no ken

323
Thousand stars
light up my eyes
thousands of stars
just from you
just to me
thousand stars rideing up my back
into my eyes
into my hands
into my soul
then off to you
thousand stars
from heaven alone
lost on there stary way
to your heart
but they will find there place
i know they shall
for they are my stars
sent from heaven alone
to you

ThreeTwentyFour
Just Us (for a girl none of you know)
Light up my eyes
like you used to
you used to light up my heart
but now you look out your window of the car
and I look out mine
we are both singing along to the radio
and we are both thinking of smoething
I can tell
but neither of us asks what
let it be just us again
finding love in each other
and catching fireflys in our hands
light up my heart again
I know you can
break through what socioty thinks
and hug me
ignore what people say
and dance with me on the sidewalk
light up my life like you used to
I still love you.
FrannyIsRad
325
We are both singing along to the radio,
And I can tell without looking that we're happy.
Summertime-happy.
The kind of happy where you're driving along
With a cherry sucker in your mouth,
Singing at the top of your lungs to the Beatles,
Or anything else you know the words to for that matter,
And raising your eyebrow
Seductively
At the boys whizzing by in cars you'll never see again.
Baked-black asphault, sandals sticking and flopping.
Bare shoulders slick, hair frizzing and flying.
Tanktop low, shorts short along your thighs.
"Where are all the hotties anyway?" you say, and laugh.
I laugh too and yell "There's a depletage of hotties here!"
And then we both snicker for awhile and keep our eyes open.
And even if I never see that
One
Boy
Even if no one stands out in a crowd
Or catches my eye,
I'm Summertime happy.
Sister happy.
And I'm gonna fly.
~Becky~
326
I want to fly into your arms forever
I know I will
Someway somehow
She showed me my wings
All I hafto do it use them now
I'm gunna be ok
And I'm gunna fly.

(who dreams of flying)
ThreeTwentySeven
Who dreams of flying?
A girl.
A fluttering inside the ribcage
A readying of long-forgotten feathers
A Rising sound in the throat
Feet like the ground
(wind likes the leaves)
..But for an instant
ground/grass/air!/feet
too soon:
ground/grass/feet
Your family the stars is calling you...
So far away

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328
Your family the stars is calling you...
did you not notice the sound?
We are here, so far away
and scattered all around
Hearts afire, across an open sea,
How can it take so long?
But across the lonely distance
You can hear our song

ThreeTwoNine
We are here, so far away
separated and yet so
together
Forgive us if we
look at the screen for one more second before
turning to discuss tomorrows plans
It is just that the
keyboard and desk and chair seem
unreal, even compared to
a couch, a keg of magic juice
that exists in a hundred individual minds
So real that we must
stay with it and keep it together
with all our seperate hearts
So real, more real than
the furrow between your eyebrows
when you struggle to realize you don't
understand your own child.

330
Forgive us if we
scair you a bit
its not our fault
we don't mean too
Forgive us if we
bite you a little too hard
or if we make out
Forgive us if we
step on your feet
and make you wake up
(someone needs to right?)
forgive us if we
make you sad from the truth
or make you laugh at pain
or hate love
Forgive us if we
make you Cringe
Forgive us if we make you
Uncomfortable
forgive us
for we are just two girls in love one

ThreeThirtyOne
it's not our fault
we came so close
but i swear it
i swear it's not our fault
if i could take on all the blame
if i could make you believe me
i'm the one to hate
if i could take down the heavens
& you could believe it was me
i would
to save you from the pain of
knowing
that's just the way the world goes
i wish i could stop this
i wish i could know it was my fault
it would be so much easier
to believe it
but i don't hold the world in my
small fragile fist
so here we are
without a clue
i loved you
but love
like pain
sticks fast far too long
& disappears without a trace
far too quickly.
kat
ThreeThreeTwo
That's just the way the world goes.
Flowers grow in the cracks in the
sidewalk. Sometimes they stink
but they're there, big and purple.
I just wanted you to know that.

333
I just wanted you to know that
you mean a lot to me
and it's just a fact
like the flowers in the sidewalk
and the gunk between your toes
but much nicer than that.

threethreefour
I just wanted you to know that
you are no longer on my agenda
of people to care about today
I just wanted you to know that
you are no longer on my agenda
of people to think about today
I forgive, I forget, I move on
but will you?
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-335-
you mean a lot to me
like the stars and the sky
the flowers and the dirt
the bees and the honey
we go together like puzzle pieces
I would run up the phone bill
just to hear you laugh
Although we are not in spitting distance
I still love you girl
-jekissa
three hundred thirty-six
We go together like puzzle pieces
assuming you're using pieces from
a million different puzzles
It's like an impatient child took us
and smashed us together and
forced us to fit... even though we don't
I guess it's like putting a square peg
into a round hole - you can push and push
but in the end, all you get are two pieces
that are stuck to each other.. and maybe even fit
but they never look quite right

ThreeThirtySeven
all you got were two pieces
stuck to each other
not fitting, but
impossible to get apart
i can only assume that's not
what you were trying to make
but don't complain about
squished toes
melt your outlines and conform a bit
comprimise
i'll even do most of the work
and the day we finally fit
is the day we can break apart

338
I look at her...
face made up
body barely covered
in the latest trends
giggling, talking about boys
and the upcoming school dance
and she's happy
surrouded by all her friends
I wonder why she even
bothers to talk to me anymore
I know I don't fit in
and I know I'm not trendy
and she looks at me and tells me
"maybe if you just...
melted your outlines and conformed a bit
you might be happy"
What she doesn't understand
Is that I AM happy...
I'm content to lead my own life
and do the things I love
So I smile and nod
and I walk away

NumberThreeThreeNine
so i smile
why do i find
that smiles on people who have had longer to be sad
are the most beautiful
but
tear drops on teenagers
are poetry
unto themselves?
when i die
i'm going to be one
of the beautiful people
i'll walk around
santa barbara
and throw sparks at you
make you smile
make your eyes glow.
i'll be the one
to make the pavement
glitter.
RoyaBoya
340
I wish I knew how to
make you smile
these days, it seems
like the impossible task
you sit there and
talk about death
and how good it would be
if you could just get away
from this life of yours
you say that no one
cares about you
and I practically die
if you only knew
how much I care about you
I try to find the words
to let you know the love
I feel for you
but all that comes out
is a sigh
and with it, the feeling
that I'm losing you

three forty one
I wish I knew how to
let you go
let you become your own being without me
i wish
i wish
i wish
i wish i knew what you where thinking that night
when you dumped me off your love
(i wish i knew how to
love again)
when words fail my own to lips
i knew love had stoped inbetween you and i
then why
why
why
why
did we still try?
why did you still try?
did you think we had a chance?
did i think i loved you?
did i still try?
no
i didn't think so
sometimes
words fail my own lips
mouth
grace
and kindness
then i just nead to walk away ...
... walk away
forever
Heathe
ThreeFortyTwo
I just need to walk away
but I can't
I'm stuck to you
like bread dough baking
in the heat of embaressment
at what we have lost
FrannyIsRad
Three Four Three
I'm stuck to you
all I see is you
I dream about you
I can see you
out of the corner of my eyes
but I turn to look at you
and you're gone.
-jekissa
ThreeFourFour
I dream about you.
You're here,
or I'm there,
but it never really matters where we are.
We're together again,
that's all that's really important.
We hug, we dance, we sing,
and i wake up,
a little less lonely.
--Kathleen
------
ThreeFourFive
You're here
I can't believe it!
You're here!
Such rejoicing
hugs and kisses
laughter
then silence
oh, the silence
the novelty has worn off
we sit on the couch
and we watch tv
no need to talk
we're satisfied with
just the presence
of eachother
and I know it's love
-*jekissa*
ThreeFourSix?
I never write poetry
Never had the want
Couldn't think of a reason to
Do I need a reason to?
I don't know
that the reason matters
should I write about love?
I don't have
much love right now
should I write about hate?
I don't have
much hate right now
should I write about friends?
I don't have
many friends right now.
should I write about peace?
then silence
that I have right now
Nick
347
I don't know that the reason matters
why should it?
you'll forget anyway.
I can't even remember why anymore
why
why
why
you ask, I give the normal "who cares"
and we move on
-jekissa
ThreeFourEight
You'll forget anyway.
You already have.
But that's ok,
because I remember.
I remember quite clearly.
It was the last night.
We stayed up until 3:30am dancing.
I think we could've danced all night,
but everyone else was sick of listening to the swing music.
So we stopped.
And you forgot.
But that's ok,
because I remember.
It's still one of my favorite memories.

ThreeFourNine
It was the last night
but also the first inkling of things to come
when you'd take your shiny new self home
and see how it would fare against the life it no longer fit
like a circle forever trying to fall
into the triangle that was
but could no longer be
unless you pounded and forced and bound your circle
into triangleness again which would royally suck
can you stay so free flowing
changing everyday
for the better more than not?
we shall see
- Jausserande
- wow. that's... that's it. exactly. *hugs*

Three-Fifty!
changing everyday
that's me
I can't describe it exactly
I don't notice it
but it's happening.
my feelings torwards you
have changed today
it's a bad day
but they've changed for the better
you've brightened my day
I want to say I love you for it
but I can't
you'll take it the wrong way.
-jekissa
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