poem a day

**Xiz** · 05-30-2013, 11:43 AM

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I immediately put this into song when reading.
+1 want to see more please.

**moches** · 05-30-2013, 04:24 PM

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with luck, you'll see more every day!

**gnr61** · 05-30-2013, 08:56 PM

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Nice poeming man! Makes me wanna get motivated to write too, used to do a ton of poetry but I'm too insecure to do it regularly or without a ton of planning. Gl bro hi five

**moches** · 05-31-2013, 12:38 AM

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aww, thanks : ))) I think that's the hardest part for me, too...just letting go and writing. without worrying what people will think or what even I will think of my own work. what's important is that it's getting written.

**moches** · 05-31-2013, 06:57 AM

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today's poem:

may 31, 2013 - wants

wants

Notes: A little bit of reflection to wrap up the end of May.

when i was five,
all i wanted
was a never-ending hug from my mother
and an ice cream cone
draped in neon green and fiery oranges
towering in the sunlight

when i was eight,
all i wanted
was a smiley-face sticker on my nose
and somebody to play four square with me
even if my eyes were smaller
and i couldn�t curl my tongue like the rest of them

when i was ten,
all i wanted
was an A and a �good work!� on my science test
and not to be the last one picked on the kickball team
alone on one side
a mess of foreign faces on the other

when i was thirteen,
all i wanted
was for school to end at twelve-thirty
so i could log on
and escape into a world
where nobody could see the pimples on my face
and i had as many do-overs as i wanted

now i am eighteen
and all i want
is somebody to hear these clumsy words of mine
and the hope that
someday
they will be something beautiful
something to be loved

**TheSaxRunner05** · 05-31-2013, 09:19 AM

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This makes me want to write again

**moches** · 05-31-2013, 10:02 PM

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you should go for it, man! I'd love to have new stuff to read : ))

**TheSaxRunner05** · 05-31-2013, 11:34 PM

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To burn with the fire of a thousand stars
To ebb and flow like the ocean tides
To erupt like a volcanic inferno
To freeze over a thousand ice ages
To ignite a red giant supernova
To collapse into a black hole
To split the Earth with a great quake
To build mountains to the heavens
To devastating planetary collisions
To coalescing of a young star
To the last breath of man
To the birth of a daughter
Another observer of it all

**moches** · 06-1-2013, 12:20 AM

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awesome! loving the imagery and you have really powerful word choice : )

just so everybody knows, I'd love to see other peeps sharing their poetic power in here

**moches** · 06-2-2013, 10:05 AM

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shit shit shit I missed both Saturday and Sunday shit shit shit

edit: LET'S PRETEND THESE ARE ON TIME

beauty

Notes: Forgive me, for I have sinned and spent the weekend devouring Hannibal instead of writing. A little try at stream-of-consciousness.

beauty is not always the laughter of children in a park the grass the color of sunshine
beauty is sometimes maybe the reflection of an LED screen you face your eyes burnt out your mind running on gassy fumes and yesterday�s stale coffee
beauty is the silence in the snores that fill the air around you
beauty is the crisp wind of the fan swiveling back and forth in the mugginess of a June night, lining up ever-so-perfectly once a few seconds once a few minutes only so many split seconds in a lifetime

beauty reflected in the mirrors you find in the dark

toenail

Notes: It�s a weekend procrastination two-for-one special! Inspired by real-life clumsiness.

if you can�t find the bottom, you need to dig a little deeper
one cut at a time
with each bite of the apple you take
the red gets a little brighter
the pain gets a little louder
but soon enough you can almost see the roots
of something overgrown something buried

the question is
do you take the time to trim it
with all the care it needs
or do you just kick the damn thing in as hard as you can
and see what�s left when you peel off the ruins?

**gnr61** · 06-3-2013, 01:30 PM

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forgivable, hannibal rules face (nice pun btw)

imo "beauty" would be much stronger if you could find a way to say what you're saying without ever using the phrase "beauty is" or "beauty is not". i know i'm biased against certain types of poetry, but it strikes me as a kind of hand-holding to ever come right out and say what kind of abstraction you're trying to express (outside maybe the title, which can be a useful place for keys/hints). even just saying "it is" instead i think would be neat

**moches** · 06-5-2013, 02:12 AM

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thanks for the feedback. I too think it sounds a lot better with a bit more ambiguity, I'll keep that in mind in the future.

too lazy to repost all of my stuff here, but the site will continue to stay updated!

**moches** · 06-5-2013, 11:00 AM

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today's poem started out as a journal entry but went weird places. it's really unrefined but w/e putting it up anyway

ONWARD WE FORGE

**gnr61** · 06-6-2013, 01:49 AM

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gj prayer one is the best (of these) so far. the fifth stanza is a nice touch that makes me think some slight structural renovation to the whole thing could make it all really sing but i'm too drunk right now to think mathematipoetically

keep going man this is such an inspirational thread haha. any day now i'll start working dutifully again on the dusty old series of poems i've had tucked away on my hard drive for like 6 months

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