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Poetry Marathon Archive Seven

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           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.

--Heather


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! --Carrie

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.

--Kathleen


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.

--Kathleen


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.

--Kathleen


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 

--Heather


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.

--Mitchell


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...

--Heather

--- 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

--Fuzzhead


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)

--Heather


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.

--Kathleen


321, a haiku

 keep you safe and warm
 I don't know if I know how
 To do otherwise

--Aredridel


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

--Fuzzhead


               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

--Heather


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.

--Heather

 (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

--Carrie

  

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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

--Aredridel


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.

--marina


          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

--Heather


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.

--marina


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.

--Aredridel


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? 

------ -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

--Fiona


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

--marina


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 

--Fiona


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

--Fiona


 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.

--Kathleen

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* --marina

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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