A poetry meme!

[caramelsilver]

Taken from sgrio

Give me a prompt and I'll try to write a poem using your prompt, or whatever your prompt triggers me to write=) (No promises on quality.)

Comments

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

I LIKE THIS MEME A LOT

I think I might steal it.

prompt: "individuals without an anchor, without horizon, colourless, stateless, rootless - a race of angels." - Frantz Fanon

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

I KNEW YOU WOULD!

Steal away.

And that is an awesome prompt. Give me a day and I'm sure I'll have something!

Watching You Fly

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

You lent me your wings
when I told you I wanted fly.
I didn't know then that I was afraid of heights.

In your presence I feel weightless
and I envy you when you take flight.
I see you high above me, and I jump to try and reach
your toes and feet, but you soar
higher
away from me.

I didn't know how to fly so I started to run,
I ran until I ran out of road
out of dirt and concrete, until
my body screamed for air
and I forgot how to breathe.
You followed me easily and I hated you
for that.

When I grow up I want to be like you
I told you that, and you laughed it off
but sadly, it is true.
I hate you a little for being everything I want to be,
but I love you for loving me.

I'm not running any more, instead
we are walking together on a road
in a forest.
It reminds us of our childhood and the
fairy tales that crowded our dreams.
We walk, you and I, and I hold your hand
to make sure that you don't fly away again.
Away from me.
The horizon greets me and I'm not afraid
because your hand is safe in mine.

**
Thank you Z. for such an awesome prompt. I'm not one of those writers that revises her poems, I write them in one sitting and there's absolutely no structure at all. I just started writing this and halfway through I realised that it's about my best-friend! I'm real pleased with this, so thank you for the lovely prompt.

Re: Watching You Fly

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

Awww this poem is so sweet and lovely! your best friend sounds like a really special best friend :) :)

[lizzie-marie-23.livejournal.com]

We search for answers wherever we can find them, even if no one else understands what we're saying.

when I'm with you I see

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

When I am with you, I see our whole future in your eyes.

I see hour-long talks and two glasses of wine
one full and one empty
I only drink when I'm with you.

I see your laundry mingled with mine and me
making you do the washing.
I see one bookcase filled with both of our books.
I'll be the only one who buys new ones.

I see your football boots, caked with mud, again
dirtying my front hall. I make you take them out
in the yard and hose them down. You laugh, but do as you're told.

I see two children. One boy and one girl.
They'll have your curls and my eyes.
You'll teach them how to play ball and
I'll teach them how to read.

I see all of this when I look into your eyes.
You don't, yet.
And that's okay, I've always been the one to notice things first.
Soon you'll know that my touches says I love you and my kisses says forever.
Soon you'll realize that you want normal with me.