Poetry thread anyone?
Hi Ladies,
I read apple's poem and it certainly says it all! Thank you, It was a joy to read. PT63 suggested a poetry thread and I thought, why not? I didn't write poetry until a series of strokes left me having to learn to speak and read comprehensively again. So I began and this is a little of what came out. Please join with me. Whether it's funny or sad or just thought provoking. We all have so much to say and some of us need simply need a vehicle to express ourselves. I dedicate these to all of you brave ladies.
Lunacy
Moonlight shinning on my windowsill
You keep me moving, I can not be still
I pace silently all through the night
I meet no strangers in your shards of light
Oh, how I wander when I want to sleep
Memories stirring now from echoes deep
Within my soul a yearning to escape this shell
Peeling off the layers that I hide so well
I can pull the shades down tightly
Blocking out the light
But darkness can't fool morning
When it is no longer night
Is this emerging alter ego whom I really am?
Who slips so deftly in and out again
Is it because I'm Pisces that you tug at me so well?
As with tides which have no eyesight but still know when to swell
Take one of me with you
But leave this one behind
So that in the daylight
There is someone left to find
Nancy S.
Comments
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oh my goooooooooooooosh! so so clever. what an awesome poem.. very well done!
i just love it. Seriously, that is an excellent poem.
The neat thing about poetry is that there are so many types.. there is such freedom in wordplay. I will definitely help keep this thread going. Sometimes one needs to write a poem to capture an intense emotion that cannot be conveyed with normal speech. I have written poetry all my life. i love playing with words.
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Thank you apple, the comments are very much appreciated, coming from you. I have to admit that one was a little dreary this one is more uplifting.
I Send You Love
You've brought me laughter to stay my tears
You've given me courage through the years
I see your strength and it makes me smile
You refuse to quit, it's not your style
You've shown hope to me through dark despair
You cradled my faith when I didn't care
For all of these things you have given me
I send you love that will always be
Nancy S.
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lovely!
here's a little one about losing hair.........
growing bald is very sad
we miss the hairs that once we had
we wake and it's another day
a hundred hairs have slipped away.
what we wish we could control
reveals a window to our soul.
we smile and say that it doesn't matter
inside we cry and we are sadder.
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Oh apple, that is so touching and it is certainly touching me at the moment. You remind me of Erma Bombeck. She would be proud of you. One of the ladies mentioned on another thread about a chunk of her hair flying out of the window while she was driving. I had to laugh! Can you imagine someone finding it and thinking there must be a mad scalper about?
Nancy
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i know there are many poets among us.
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I got one!.....
Roses are red.....
Violets are blue.....
Cancer sucks.....
And drains do too!........
Could not resist that one!.....
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the drains were almost the most horrific .............
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i think the worst was the constipation
after my modified radical mastectomy
i really wanted to make a donation
into the toilet bowl next to me.
i think i had to wait a week
totally stopped up, so to speak
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Well, I have been in a blue funk all day thinking of chemo tomorrow. I tuned here for solace and ended up busting a gut! Keep them coming ladies!
Nancy
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chemo for me tomorrow too..
sigh
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Love the thread. I am sure I will be adding something soon. Thanks I really like the one about the hair. I havent started chemo yet, and I am having fun with my hair while I still have it, but the truth is that each day I shower and the few hairs that everyone loses everyday sends me into tears because I know what is coming.
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What a great idea, and what great poems! Thanks especially for the laugh, apple! I have my third A/C Wednesday and am not looking forward to it; today is my last "energy" and "normal" day for 10 or 12 days, so I'm determined to make it a day of joy... your poem started it out on just the right note!
I'll have to put on my thinking cap and see if I can come up with anything!
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Bedtime
I think it must be time for bed
There's music playing in my head
It might be Brahms's lullaby
Or sleep my baby, don't you cry.
I don't know.
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May I Sleep?
May I sleep a while longer
And not face the day?
There is peace in my slumber.
The pain's held at bay.
I may be still in the blackness.
Or roused in some dream.
My worries can't haunt me,
I'm adrift on a stream.
Please wait to wake me.
My pleasures are few.
Let me gain strength
To face life anew.
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Morning
Morning is the time of day
when God wakes up and starts to play
"Sunny, windy, will they pray
or as usual, go astray?" -
WOW! Love this thread & was just wondering if there was one like this on the boards----gotta spread the word & actually WORK on some! THANX..will be back!
Be well & stay strong
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not a BC poem
Osama's mama
Osama has a mama
he is her only son
she made him a pajama
she doesn't care what he has done
She loves his dark and soulful eyes
she thinks about his youth
she responded to his plaintive cries
she kept his first lost tooth
She dreams he'll someday settle down
and take a little wife
sire a son in a nearby town
and life a normal life.
He sends a little token
for every life he's taken
and every heart he's broken
so she'll never be mistaken
that he wants her to feel smarter
and wants her to be proud
for he's the famous martyr
who soon will wear the shroud
of infamy and history
of Islamy and mystery
His name will be bestowed
on those who live perchance to die
on those who'd give a cherished eye
to journey on the fated road
of Osama -
From my cancer I never can hide,
it makes me a different woman.
I carry the beast like a child inside
does that mean he's become a companion?
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THE BEAST WITHIN
Like a dark angel he haunts me
ever present, always threatening.
He lurks in shadows casting mists & smoke
to weave a veil between me & the Light.
He does not know he has taught me of the Light.
I am imbued with it as no other could be due to the contrast he created!
His intention is clear: to devour me!
But I will not be defeated.
He will grow darker & cease.
I will grow brighter & shoot to the heavens.
No victory for him, I will not loose.
For he can not exist in my absence!
I feel shy about this endeavor, but this has been interesting -- I didn't realize that in a dark way I have sort of made some peace with my "co-existence"........gonna try for something a bit less macabre next time........
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i love it.
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There is so much inside that cannot come out
It tries so hard to show its face
Age is all that spares my victim
Age and fear that is
Tomorrow is another day
Will it be the day?
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Oh, to be a word-smith! That would be grand.To have all the verbiage obey my command!To remember each lesson, a secret, a rule,If only I knew how to use every tool!I could write for the heart-sick & make that heart soar.Then something macabre; make it crash to the floor!It all seems so easy in the dark, in my bedWhen the words are are swirling around in my head.But they won't obey me; no cadence or meterThey won't come to together to appeal to reader!No matter my patience, no matter my timeThe meter abandons; leaves an "aa" type rhymeThey want an adventure, not to be fixed to paper!To go off on their own for a fun little caper.Oh to be a word-smith, I'd need a chair & a whipCuz the words won't obey me & fall into a quip! Sleepless on steroids.....galloping along...howling at the moon! Will I come back & delete these once I regain some sanity??? LOLOL
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I love this thread -- so many wonderful poems. Love the ones that make me laugh, love the ones that speak to my heart... you all are wonderful!
saint, please don't delete your poems. I love them, and can definitely relate to the steroid-induced mental energized writing! You should see the emails I get done on steroid days!
I'm not sure others appreciate receiving them, but boy, do I get a lot said!But somehow, what really got to me during this thread was reading everyone's dx at the bottom of your posts... not sure why my eyes went to them all this time; I read some of them sometimes, but this time I was reading all of them, and they just brought tears to my eyes. Adn the quotes included made me smile...
You are amazing, each and every one of you.
I meant to write a funny poem, but this is what came out instead. Maybe funny next time.
This isn't a traditional rhyming poem, but if ee cummings and others can take flight with form, so can I! (yeah, like I'm an ee cummings!). Well, bear with me, it's full of cliches and all, but it's sincere.
To All Women, Those With Cancer, Those Without, and to All Those Who Support Uscourage
heart
love
strength
tears
fight
survival
weakness
energy
hope
courage
love
one day at at time
one step at a timesometimes, one second at a time
we dig our way out of the trenches
stick our heads up
dodge the bullets
feel a hand reaching out to pull us up
run with us through the barrageand help us to a better place.
on the darkest days
when I can't remember that "this, too, shall pass"
and I start to lose hopeyou remind me
and hold hope for me
and your holding hope
helps me through.one day at a time
one step at a timesometimes, one second at a time.
courage
hope
love
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NatureGrrl,
You are incredible! Am also loving every poem, everyone's thoughts. I agree, please don't delete, saint, you are making a record of your experience and may want to go back and see how you managed it.
Carefully Watch me
As the tide rolls in
Swirling eddies that recede again
Check me to see
If I am whole
If nothing has left me
If I still have my soul
Oh how I've taken
The bitter with the sweet
Of mistakes I have made
And those I repeat
When the water washes over
And deposits the sand
Then goes rushing back
Leaving naught in my hand
I don't want to be empty
I want to be filled
A purpose, a longing
Till my heartbeat is stilled
If I touch your life
Leave something behind
A memory, a whisper
A caress of some kind
Don't leave me stranded
Don't toss me away
For I'll see the night
But you'll see the day
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a site that helps with finding rhyming words and synonyms
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This is my new GO TO FIRST site! Like a frustrated old artist I keep tapping on these keys & take such pleasure in what you all are sharing here. I have always been an "artist" but shy to share my personal stuff...this is where I will work on that. My dh has a few degrees-one in English. We have written little ditties together to sing at parties & silly poems for the animals & kids, but after over 30 years this is the first time I have ever saved & shared something like this with him. He really liked my first & third ones (so did my son)
OK--steroid induced lunacy (it is by the dark of the moon yet AGAIN) Maybe posting this will allow me to return to sleep (why do they come full blown/unbidden at 2 AM & elude me when the light comes on??)
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POSSE
My man calls them "posse" I call them "team"They pass on their strength when I run out of steam.A sister or girlfriend, prayer pal or other.They step in as drivers, a helper or mother.
They are the big guns who come in as women,but the ones I now speak of are not even human.They are my sweet boys: a cat & a dogWith their adventures they could start their own blog!They are always employed in monitoring meI haven't a moment from them to be free.They sense every feeling; happy or sadAre with me whenever good things turn to bad.They sleep with me nightly-one on each sidefrom the dark or a nightmare I don't need to hide.When I find my heart breaking they come cover mewith a hand on each head I know how it will be.They each have a job & work well in tandemto correct all my flaws. Their luck isn't random.They know what they do in a deep earth-trust-wayThey're a gift from on high & I pray they will stay.My Alfie & Jonsey- about 10 pounds each;The color of snow & the sand on the beach.You can pick out a pet -it will go live with you.But when the pet picks out you, there is nothing to do!It's a mystical, magical, powerful love!It assures me that someone is watching above. I must have done something terribly rightTo deserve special creatures with eyes full of lightIt's beyond understanding, but I wanted to sayI believe in their magic-earthbound I'll stay.
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got a pic?
"I must have done something terribly right To deserve special creatures with eyes full of light"
That was a really a nice poem.
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My intention on waking was to post these pix from the other day when they joined me on the couch while I was resting...no "eye-light" since they were OUT!
Alf is the papillon, Jones the cat:
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Without intending to take over this thread I MUST add that it seems as tho writing is having a positive affect on my life! Like a gratefulness journal I have kept for 8 years, it is affecting my subconscious! I have found that after posting & going back to sleep, poems enter my dreams & words join to make dreams with struggles come out resolved. It is very hard to explain, but it is very literary & I wish I could remember them when I wake! I am left with a deep sense of well-being & peace! I feel more self-awareness seeping into the night.......or it's just neurotic, steroid se's!!!! Either way I just LOVE this thread! HUGS
Be well & stay strong
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Saint!!!! Just wanted to tell you that I LOVED your poem about your animals!!! Being an animal lover myself, it really touched my heart!! You're very gifted!!!
All of you are!! I don't write it, but I sure do love reading:) Thanks!!
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