I Forgive You, Dad

I wrote this poem after a friend of mine suggested that instead of moaning about all the injustices of my father, I should write a letter to him, forgiving him, maybe not even sending it. I write poems about strong feelings so I decided to do that instead. Whilst writing it I didn't really believe my words and she wouldn't last 5 minutes in a room with him, but, years later it has made me realise that his life is completely separate from mine, that his world is his and I am not responsible for it. To those people who this poem speaks to, we know each other well and it is dedicated to you. By the way, poetry takes longer to digest, it's like Stephen Fry says, you should savour the words like you would savour the taste and texture of individual pieces of chocolate.

I forgive you, Dad

This fault finding eye I inherited,
it must be gouged.
These instructions from friends,
they must be followed.
That picture where I'm separate from you,
it must be painted,
and the illusion believed.
This clued-up comment that my task is hard,
must be defied.
That 'you' I keep referring to
must conveniently be forgotten.
My image of a Daddy,
it must be deformed.
My delicacies that you made your business
must be reclaimed;-

emasculated stamens.
These crimes of which you are culpable
must be reduced to mistakes.
These hands around my anger's neck
they must be loosened,
so it can simply fall.

Your demons and your fears,
my friends these long years,
arrive and follow you away.
I wave a hanky at their fuzzy tails.

This speech of parents and the past
it must be muted.
Those words of normalcy,
oh those words of normalcy,
they will be spoken after all -
my smile the brightening of a field.....

....... a field.........

I forgive you Dad,
I forgive you Baba,
for being unhappy.

Yasemin
http://www.brevityroux.wordpress.com

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You and Me

I think of you.
I dream of you.
I need you.
I want you.
I feel you.
I see you.
I smell you.
I hear you.
And now that you're not here,
I've realized I don't like you.
I love you.
I can feel your breath on my skin.
I can hear your voice in my head.
I can see your eyes gazing at me.
I can smell the scent of your skin.
I can imagine your heart,
beating in synche with mine,
I wish it was just you and me,
how it used to be.

Emily Straka

I Heard a Worm Cry Today

I heard a Worm cry today

I don't know

Beneath my solid window sane

In undulating moans of pain

With no possible benefit of gain

I don't know

'They' say worms don't cry

I don't know

I wonder why

IF worms don't cry

How I heard the wail

Riding on the winded gale


I don't know

I could have been mistaken

I don't know

I suppose I could be faking

I don't know

My mind has been more blurred

Stranger things have occurred

I don't know

A clear sad pitch of such disturbing shrill

I don't know

Did he die or did he kill

I don't know

An unmistakable sound of resolve

Who else did the little one involve

Caught up in his unrequited dissolve

I don't know

In all the world was it he

I don't know

Who made a sound I could not see

I don't know

Had I been blind

I would know

More words to say of how it feels

Groping in a world of spinning wheels

A valiant attempt to conceal

I don't know

How sacred is their plight

I don't know

In the middle of the night

I don't know

When all others close their eyes

As a means to disguise

The futile need to be wise

I don't know

I heard a worm cry today

The earth shook below the ground

For all the reasons that won't be found

He moved the universe round and round

I don't know

I heard a worm cry today

I have a BS in Communication with a MA in Art Education. I am an Executive Cosmic Therapist, artist, entertainer, singer/songwriter, musician, composer, playwright, perfumer, professional astrologer, tarot consultant, Numerologist, author, teacher, speaker, poet and self-taught chef.

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Writing Poetry - Use Poetry To Get Started With Other Genres of Writing

If you are struggling with getting your writing career going try writing some poetry first. Poetry can be an easy entry point into the world of writing no matter which genre you intend to write. Try writing a pair of lines whenever an idea strikes you. By writing down your thoughts into couplets you will have the basis of a longer work to be completed later on.

Poetry is also a good place for children to begin writing. There are no hard and fast rules so there is less apprehension. Capital letters, punctuation, and even spelling rules are suspended so that a child’s imagination can run wild. Children enjoy writing silly sentences and fantasy phrases, with alliteration having a mesmerizing effect.

Now, try to be child-like in your writing as you compose some short poems. Don’t think too much as you let your thoughts take form on the paper. Just let your thoughts flow. Put your poem away for a few days and then see if you can expand upon the ideas that you have written down.

Psychologists have long used poetry to get people to write about what is really bothering them. Use your poetry to see what you really want to write about for others to read and enjoy. Poetry can give you a feeling of freedom in your writing that no other form can possibly duplicate.
Think about a serious subject that you are planning to write an article or short story about.

Write it as a light-hearted poem and then come back to it at a later time. You will most likely see that you have written some profound thought in a simple form because you were more relaxed when you wrote in a sing song manner.
Give poetry a try and see how your other writing improves over time.

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Poem: All I Need

All I need is

Just a word from you.

Just your sight

And I will have hope.



All I need is

Just a stare

And not a scare.

So I wont fear.

I wont despair

If you are near.

I will be strong.

This poem "All I Need" was written by me Poetess nk. I hope you enjoy it.

Read 126 quotes and quotations about Poet Quotes

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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.- By A. E. Housman

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.- By Adrienne Rich
525 BC- By Aeschylus

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.- By Alexander Pope

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.- By Alexander Smith

A day may sink or save a realm.- By Alfred Lord Tennyson

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.- By Allen Ginsberg

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.- By Allen Tate

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.- By Alphonse de Lamartine

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.- By Antonio Porchia

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.- By Archibald MacLeish
448 BC- By Aristophanes

Art is not living. It is the use of living.- By Audre Lorde

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.- By Ben Jonson

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.- By Ben Okri

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.- By Bertolt Brecht

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.- By Bryant H. McGill

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.- By Carl Sandburg

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.- By Cesare Pavese

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a
multitude of counselors.- By Charles Baudelaire

Atlantis will rise again.- By Charles Olson

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.- By Dante Alighieri

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.- By David Antin

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.- By David Lehman

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.- By Don Marquis

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.- By Dylan Thomas

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.- By Edgar Allan Poe

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.- By Edward Fitzgerald

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.- By Emily Dickinson 480 BC- By Euripides

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.- By Ezra Pound

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.- By Francis Quarles

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.- By Franz Grillparzer

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.- By Franz Kafka

And she was fair as is the rose in May.- By Geoffrey Chaucer

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.- By George Chapman

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.- By George Herbert

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.- By Heinrich Heine

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.- By Helen Dunmore

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.- By Henrik Ibsen

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.- By Henry Van Dyke

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.- By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.- By Herbert Read

And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.- By Herman Gorter
800 BC- By Hesiod

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.- By Hilaire Belloc

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.- By Homer
65 BC- By Horace

A chronicle is very different from history proper.- By Howard Nemerov

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.- By Ian Hamilton Finlay

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.- By Jack Prelutsky

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.- By James Laughlin

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.- By James Russell Lowell
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.- By James Weldon Johnson

A hungry stomach cannot hear.- By Jean de La Fontaine

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.- By Jean Ingelow

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.- By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.- By John Barton

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.- By John Donne

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.- By John Drinkwater

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.- By John Dryden

And he that will this health deny, down among the dead men let him lie.- By John Dyer

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such
a contempt for roguery as you imagine.- By John Gay

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.- By John Jay Chapman

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.- By John Keats

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.- By John Milton

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.- By John Pomfret

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.- By Jorge Luis Borges

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.- By Juan Goytisolo

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.- By Jupiter Hammon

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?- By Kahlil Gibran

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.- By Kenneth Koch

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.- By Lascelles Abercrombie

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.- By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
94 BC- By Lucretius

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.- By Marie de France

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.- By Marilyn Hacker

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.- By Mary Oliver

And we forget because we must and not because we will.- By Matthew Arnold

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.- By Matthew Prior

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.- By May Sarton

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.- By Maya Angelou

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.- By Muhammad Iqbal

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.- By Muhammed Iqbal

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.- By Nikki Giovanni

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.- By Norman MacCaig

A character is a completely fashioned will.- By Novalis

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.- By Octavio Paz

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.- By Ogden Nash

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.- By Oliver Goldsmith

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.- By Ovid

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.- By Percy Bysshe Shelley

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.- By Petrarch
15 BC- By Phaedrus

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.- By Philip Levine
552 BC- By Pindar

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.- By Rabindranath Tagore

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.- By Rainer Maria Rilke

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.- By Ralph Waldo Emerson

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.- By Raymond Queneau

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.- By Richard Armour

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.- By Richard Le Gallienne

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.- By Rita Dove

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.- By Robert Frost

A promise made is a debt unpaid.- By Robert Service

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.- By Robert W. Service

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.- By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
50 BC- By Sextus Propertius

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.- By Sharon Olds

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.- By Silius Italicus

A wise man's question contains half the answer.- By Solomon Ibn Gabirol
496 BC- By Sophocles

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.- By Stanislaw Lec

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.- By Sylvia Plath

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.- By T. S. Eliot

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.- By Tahar Ben Jelloun

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.- By Theophile Gautier

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.- By Thom Gunn

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.- By Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond to-day.- By Thomas Gray
254 BC- By Titus Maccius Plautus

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.- By W. H. Auden

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.- By Walter Savage Landor

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.- By William Congreve

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.- By William Falconer

A fool and his words are soon parted.- By William Shenstone

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Oh! What a Silent Night

Sometimes in the winter,
Somewhere where I sat,
In the dark silent sorrowful night,
Tears rolled down dropping,
Helpless, hopeless and discouraged.

Somewhere in the winter,
In the cold lonely weather,
Future seems very badly blinking,
Failure seems everywhere,
Nobody understands the helpless.

Sometimes in the winter,
In the hopelessness of the night,
Without one near to say sorry,
I wept out all my strength.
Wept, till strength failed weeping.

Yet in the winter,
When delusion overwhelm the heart,
Lifting up the eyes to see,
Thinking deep to know,
If the future holds something sweet.

In the same winter,
Where home seems to be unhelping,
When schooling seems to be chase of wind,
Friends seems to be unfriendly,
Careful thought of loneliness covers everywhere.

Somewhere in the winter,
Look up into the sky,
Wanting to see if one is there watching,
Likewise in the stars, moon and heaven lies,
If one is seeing and could understand.

Then in the winter,
As if He has been waiting for me,
Waiting for out-pouring of a heavy heart,
Stretching hands, smiling softly
Here I am, here to change.

Change in the winter,
The beginning from the end,
The dawn of smiling times,
Times of fortune coming ahead,
The turning of hopelessness and dejection.

There is yet joy ahead,
The memories of black winter,
Fade away as the joy of the new season,
Flooded the heart of the new reason,
The real reason why I live.

Now the story of a scholar,
The works of a poet,
The voice of a speaker and preacher,
The impact of the one in the winter-time,
Saying hope to the hopeless and dejected.

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