Poetry Life Quotes

Jess C. Scott

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

On Paper
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some call it poetry
but it is just pain
on paper
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rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015
"The Poetic Assassin

Scott Hastie

In this life at least,
Our fate is rarely epic.
Maybe just as well,
Impervious heroes we are not…

Atarah L. Poling

I don't feel strong anymore
I feel like falling to my knees.
Things aren't the way they were before,
They're not the way they're supposed to be.

Atarah L. Poling

I yearn to make these scars disappear
And to forget about the past.
To throw away all of my fears
And to be happy at last.

Atarah L. Poling

This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to blame.

Michael Jones

I love being able to see an un-written future.

Atarah L. Poling

What am I to do?
What is my destiny?
I have no idea, not a clue
Feeling lost and empty.
What is my dream?
What is my future?
I beg thee to listen to me,
I beg thee to answer.

Michael Jones

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.

Jessica Kristie

Through windows,
in wishing wells,
whispering in the wind...
that's where I find you.

Jessica Kristie

I was just an option.
Blown easily to pieces
and offered to the sky
by the sweet laced pain
upon your lips.

Jessica Kristie

I balance you
on the end of my pen.
Teetering between love
and letting go.

Jessica Kristie

I can't love anymore.
Except for you...
I love you so much it hurts to breathe.

Jessica Kristie

In that wounded place,
buried between
my ribs and letting go,
I miss you.

Jessica Kristie

I bleed to un-break you,
un-mending me.
I fall to save you...
now who will save me.

Jessica Kristie

Bridge burned from end to end,
and I don't miss you anymore.
You delivered silence
I've birthed freedom.

Jessica Kristie

I need to work on me.
The me
without you.

Jessica Kristie

You are the poem
that sticks in my throat
teaching me to whisper
with the voice of my heart.

Jessica Kristie

Careful.
The fall is quick,
steep,
and permanent.

Jessica Kristie

Birthing hope from the madness
that perches on the fence
of our once perfect
dreams.

Terry A O'Neal

Yes, it is true that beauty is only skin deep, and internal loveliness resonates to the outside; but deep down inside every woman secretly longs to possess the allure of a royal queen.

Takina Cupp

We must daily speak positivity into our life's surrounding ourselves with God fearing people along our journey, helping to lead us towards prosperity & the Promise Land.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art

Richard Siken

History repeats itself. Someone says this.
History throws its shadow over beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden letters.
history is the little man in a brown suit trying to define a room he is outside of,
I know history. There are many names in history... but none of them are ours.

Eeva Lancaster

Don't be afraid of Pain. Pain only comes down to a certain point... beyond that, it can't reach you and the love you have inside.

Ankita Singhal

You exalt me Bati,
This is the message to the society,
Brightest day demands
struggling, suffering and sacrifice,
heroic labor would suffice.

Paul Ruffin

Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

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