Spark Your Creativity # 16 (This is Me Poem) - Page 2

Checkmate · #10 10-03-2007, 12:33 AM

I am poet
Read my word
Soul on paper
Voice unheard
Until you open
Up your mind
As eyes see
In rhymes find
Where I am
In my head
Riddled passage
Thoughts unsaid
Searching trips
Wanting more
Path spelled out
To the door
Only written
In this book
Feel my heart
Take a look

nomadicrhymer · #11 10-03-2007, 03:01 AM

These are all so wonderfully written!

I think I took the wrong route, but where the pen goes, I follow. Or is that where the muse goes? Haven't seen her/it around lately. Must be off to Europe with Ms. J's.

Displaced Soul Sitting on a Happy Cloud

Me?! I’m here,
not there
deal with me
on my own terms
saved…
child of Jesus
honesty, loyalty and truth
as old-fashioned as they be
they make up me
deal with me, not
with noxious smells
of decaying trust
but in five dimensional
time travel to
worlds unknown
as my imagination grows
friendship is worth pain
love is worth death
children are worth it all
glimpses of future and past lives
reminds my soul
of wasted opportunities
deal with me now
in this century
not after I am dead
an effigy held up
as an example to future
generations
deal with me…how?
Gently, but gently
my psyche’s delicate
sensitivity bruises
easily, although
tough shells have
erected themselves
as protective knights.

I feel, I hurt…I sob
for my children’s future
in a world of woe
though I see the beauty
all around….underlying
evil…pervasive evil…awaits
ready to snap its jaws
around their innocence
deal with me…mother…
sister…friend…
advisor…in need
of advice…in need
of love…in need
of a parent
in need.

This is who I am
whom I seek
when I look to me
for answers.
When I look at me
the other me
who looks back laughing
while I cry
whose derisive criticism
straightens my backbone
who seeks to crush
the tenderness within
will she win?

This is who I choose to be
because honor prevails
because life’s trails
all lead to God
and death is but
the beginning
of life.

©nomadicrhymer

JolieH · #12 10-03-2007, 10:43 PM

Just want to say, I'm really enjoying these poems.'
Art with your shining heart reflecting love, I've seen it in so many of your poems, such a warm person with a lot of emotion just begging for release.
Kit, Looks like that audience has you netted and they're dragging you on stage. You have too many wonderful stories to tell to keep them to yourself, and you’re a super cool ghost – almost cool as Casper.
Comika, you are a passion driven, strong lady and like me in so many ways. We all regret choices we made. Sometimes our regrets are also our strengths.
Nomad, your vibrant spirit is uplifting. I admire your energy and enthusiasm. You’re always around with something nice to say - love those kind replies.

PaintedDiary · #13 10-04-2007, 02:00 AM

I love love love these replies everyone...please keep them coming!!!!!! So inspiring, uplifting and simply beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!

JUST

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PD

Mysty · #14 10-05-2007, 12:18 AM

In the Mirror

Don't look because
you won't see
all of me
there is to be.

I am pleasant
looking on the outside
if you can look past
the size of my waist.

Don't think because
I am fat... that I
eat everything
and snack uncontrollably.

My family tells me
I eat like a bird,
peckish appetite
and a fussy eater.

I prefer nights
to days even alone
because they are
the softer time.

I am always
in the mood
to have some
loving touches.

I rarely get
what I want
because it is
never the right time.

I wish to do
it all over again
so I could change
what I did wrong.

I wish I could
have found me
and learned to like me
earlier than I did.

I wish I had learned
not to listen to everyone
before listening
to my own heart.

But most of all
I wish the emptiness
that continually invades
my soul would be filled.

This is me but
not all of me
because don't you see
I am am complexity,
a story in the making,
a life ever evolving
to be the best me
I can strive to be.

and GOD DAMN Jacquii.......... that jiggling ass while I am trying to write and post is

too...... waaaaaaaaaaaaay too distracting .... especially to a woman who gets none. I kept
getting the urge to poke it. lol.

missc · #15 10-05-2007, 09:39 AM

Mysty, Hey girl! This was a great tap into you. I would have never guessed that about you. In your writing you seem so self-assured. But, I am new to the Jpic so I've only read a couple of them. I love that that being a part of this community is like a mirror to me. I see so much of myself in many of the postings and other writers see some of themselves in me. My best friend is a big girl and she is absolutely beautiful. I am not just saying that. Like when we go out, (I am like 115 with a bubble butt) she always get more attention from nice looking men than me. I could have my belly out, and they walk right pass me to her. I be like "you go girl !" ! Men absolutely love her. She go on more dates than me every week. Guess what? This chick knows that she's the shit! She exudes it in her walk, her speech, her entire demeanor. She knows that a man is a lucky or blessed man if he wins her heart. The fact that she knows influence everyone else's perception of her. Confidence is the best make over any one can ever get. I say this because people probably do see beauty beyond your waiste. The question is, do you? The way you feel about your weight, I use to feel about my skin. I would say if people could just look past the darkness of my skin tone, they would see that I am not that ugly. Then I realized that it was me pertraying what I thought of myself in the inside on the outside. Most people didn't not think I was ugly. I just assumed they did. Some did, still do, and it's always those that got to let you know. But, now I see myslef as not just beautiful, but a regal beauty. And girl, guess what? So do most peple. They feed off me. Try it!

nomadicrhymer · #16 10-05-2007, 12:28 PM

Mysty, it's amazing how much we kick ourselves now, wishing that we had the foresight a long time ago...these words that you have written apply to everyone...well, the women...I have no idea if men second guess themselves like this later on in life. Great write!! ...and the size of your waist is the same size as your heart.

I wish I could
have found me
and learned to like me
earlier than I did.

I wish I had learned
not to listen to everyone
before listening
to my own heart.

nomadicrhymer · #17 10-05-2007, 03:18 PM

JOLIE - I love this new person I discovered within myself.
I cannot live inside of the shell you pasted around me.
I’ve chisel in hand. I’m on my way out. The shell is thin and cracking.

MISSC - The person most people know, she’s fake
My mistakes haunts my soul and
Bad decisions torment my spirit

It's funny that we (well, the women anyway) all seem to be about discovery of self and progression through life to the realization that we were good enough to begin with!

Nomad

nomadicrhymer · #18 10-05-2007, 07:29 PM

We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we life after that. ”
- Bernard Malamud

KayaOtah · #19 10-06-2007, 12:24 AM

What coincidence, I did this a few days ago...
Can't use comp on weekdays due to the exams..
But anyway...

Striving Boy

Happiness is my mission
Laughter is my target
Smiles is my dream,
Thanks is my salary.

I like what you don’t like,
I live what you hate to live,
I want what you throw,
I treasure what you took for granted

You left me alone, abandoned me
You thought I was smiling, I was frowning
You reckoned that you could cheat me easily
You are wrong, I saw your black heart smiling

I don’t need gold bars,
I don’t need toys,
I need friends and happiness,
I hate quarrels and fights
I’m happy just sitting somewhere everyone smiles,

I’m me, me am I
I look at the mirror, I see me,
Me look at the mirror, me see I
No one tells me I’m not me,
I can tell me that me am I...