Submissions by RavenofSorrow
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
My name is joseph I discovered I was a poet in 09 and ive been writing ever since. I plan to get my poems published once I feel ive writen enough. I welcome comments and constructive criticism. Hope you enjoy!
The Things That We Regret
Something's heavy on my soul
My heart it weighs a ton
Consequences take their toll
For a night of harmless fun
Ill be the one to face the truth
When all is said and done
For when your conscience comes for you
There's nowhere left to run
We don't know why we do the things
We wish we wouldn't do
We never stop to think about
The mess it turns into
All the answers that we seek
We haven't found them yet
They must be buried deep beneath
The things that we regret.
My heart it weighs a ton
Consequences take their toll
For a night of harmless fun
Ill be the one to face the truth
When all is said and done
For when your conscience comes for you
There's nowhere left to run
We don't know why we do the things
We wish we wouldn't do
We never stop to think about
The mess it turns into
All the answers that we seek
We haven't found them yet
They must be buried deep beneath
The things that we regret.
86 reads
4 Comments
Love Spell
May the forces of nature be combined
Within this spell to make her mine
May our two hearts become entwined
And culminate a love divine
May my hopes and dreams manifest for me
Bound by the strings of destiny
To bring my Lover next to me
To be enjoined in ecstasy
Fire of passion
Winds of change
May love no longer be restrained
Water with care, this fertile soil
To bring forth the fruits of all my toil
Ever to blossom never to spoil
Sweet as the smell of scented oil
And cause...
Within this spell to make her mine
May our two hearts become entwined
And culminate a love divine
May my hopes and dreams manifest for me
Bound by the strings of destiny
To bring my Lover next to me
To be enjoined in ecstasy
Fire of passion
Winds of change
May love no longer be restrained
Water with care, this fertile soil
To bring forth the fruits of all my toil
Ever to blossom never to spoil
Sweet as the smell of scented oil
And cause...
185 reads
17 Comments
A Fancy For A Wayside Fire
Kamadeva on colorful parrot wings
With flowers picked for him by Spring
Swoops down fast from up above
And casts on men a spell of love
As Kamadeva's arrows fly
In vain the mortals try to hide
The pain eternally resides
In those who cling to foolish pride
His bows are made of sugar cane
With a string of honey bees
When pierced it sets the heart aflame
And brings once proud men to their knees
Barbed with longing, winged with pain
Desire forms it's shaft
His arrows are sure to strike...
With flowers picked for him by Spring
Swoops down fast from up above
And casts on men a spell of love
As Kamadeva's arrows fly
In vain the mortals try to hide
The pain eternally resides
In those who cling to foolish pride
His bows are made of sugar cane
With a string of honey bees
When pierced it sets the heart aflame
And brings once proud men to their knees
Barbed with longing, winged with pain
Desire forms it's shaft
His arrows are sure to strike...
78 reads
2 Comments
the itch
Sometimes life is such a bitch
that death comes along to scratch the itch
the one who from earthly life is unhitched
finds heaven in a six foot ditch
that death comes along to scratch the itch
the one who from earthly life is unhitched
finds heaven in a six foot ditch
91 reads
7 Comments
How many more times?
Maybe im wrong to love you
But do i want to be right?
Could it be that im a fool
To cling to you so tight?
How many more times must he hurt you?
Before you can give me a chance?
How many times must you give me the boot
Before you can give me your hand?
How many more time must i cry
As friends and family me watch me die?
By you, my earnest love denied
How many more times must i try?
Maybe i'm just being selfish
Wanting your total submission
But my dear i cant help it
My desire has clouded my vision
I guess i cant...
But do i want to be right?
Could it be that im a fool
To cling to you so tight?
How many more times must he hurt you?
Before you can give me a chance?
How many times must you give me the boot
Before you can give me your hand?
How many more time must i cry
As friends and family me watch me die?
By you, my earnest love denied
How many more times must i try?
Maybe i'm just being selfish
Wanting your total submission
But my dear i cant help it
My desire has clouded my vision
I guess i cant...
127 reads
8 Comments
The free will of destiny..
i was thinking about destiny and free will.. free will means that anything can happen... you can go right or left.. and destiny means that something is bound to happen and there's nothing you can do about it and you were meant to go left all along.. but that's a paradox really.. I mean.. if we have free will then nothing is predetermined.. but that would mean that everything that has happened or will happen is a complete accident that reality as we know it is completely meaningless. we shouldn't even exist.. But we have this inner sense of destiny.. we know this because the word destiny...
67 reads
4 Comments
Deserted Heart
What apparition is this, that appeareth to me
In this swelteringly hot desolation?
It appears that her face is a shining oasis
A poor lonely travelers' salvation
But do I risk becoming bones
Amongst these dry foreboding stones
For something that may not actually be
But product of insanity?
Or do I keep on heading east
Through the paths of ravenous beasts
Who's gaping mouths and sharpened jaws
Lie waiting for my slightest pause?
Or do I make my journey west
In my...
In this swelteringly hot desolation?
It appears that her face is a shining oasis
A poor lonely travelers' salvation
But do I risk becoming bones
Amongst these dry foreboding stones
For something that may not actually be
But product of insanity?
Or do I keep on heading east
Through the paths of ravenous beasts
Who's gaping mouths and sharpened jaws
Lie waiting for my slightest pause?
Or do I make my journey west
In my...
125 reads
3 Comments
I'm tragically in love with you
I torture myself with thoughts of you
With longing for you I'm afflicted
I'm cutting myself with the shards of my past
Somehow I've become masochistic
Wondering if one day you'll learn to accept me
Maybe it's too unrealistic
But my heart writhes and twists
For the sting of your kiss
Necrotic and sweetly sadistic
How I cry out for you in the depths of my soul
As my joy is reduced to a cinder
See how I mourn
So sad and forlorn
How I begged you to please reconsider
No one will love you the way that I do
No...
With longing for you I'm afflicted
I'm cutting myself with the shards of my past
Somehow I've become masochistic
Wondering if one day you'll learn to accept me
Maybe it's too unrealistic
But my heart writhes and twists
For the sting of your kiss
Necrotic and sweetly sadistic
How I cry out for you in the depths of my soul
As my joy is reduced to a cinder
See how I mourn
So sad and forlorn
How I begged you to please reconsider
No one will love you the way that I do
No...
384 reads
15 Comments
Hollow Love
Its hard for me to forget you
Maybe i just don't know how to
Just leave me in this sweet suffering
Its better than suffering without you
Lets pretend that we are strangers
Well after all its true
I wont keep watering with my tears
The love that never grew
This hollow love you give me
Always leaves me needing more
But every time we start again
Its far worse than before
I can touch but never reach you
You're close and yet so far
Now i will just have to accept
That you are who you are
I know that its...
Maybe i just don't know how to
Just leave me in this sweet suffering
Its better than suffering without you
Lets pretend that we are strangers
Well after all its true
I wont keep watering with my tears
The love that never grew
This hollow love you give me
Always leaves me needing more
But every time we start again
Its far worse than before
I can touch but never reach you
You're close and yet so far
Now i will just have to accept
That you are who you are
I know that its...
161 reads
10 Comments
The Landscape of Our love
Meet me at the foothills of your fantasy
Across the merry meadows of your mind
through the valleys of your vision
Where our worlds become entwined
We'll paddle down your stream of thought
To the shores of your serenity
I'll be a mirror to your soul
Reflecting your divinity
I'll sit and watch your every action
And lose myself beside you for a while
I want to catch the rays of your reactions
So i can feel the sunlight of your smile
We can escape together
Well fly off like a dove
To a place that is much better ...
Across the merry meadows of your mind
through the valleys of your vision
Where our worlds become entwined
We'll paddle down your stream of thought
To the shores of your serenity
I'll be a mirror to your soul
Reflecting your divinity
I'll sit and watch your every action
And lose myself beside you for a while
I want to catch the rays of your reactions
So i can feel the sunlight of your smile
We can escape together
Well fly off like a dove
To a place that is much better ...
145 reads
3 Comments
Introspection
I’m looking through myself
To the other side of me
The side that holds all of the things
I tried hard not to see
I see the many patterns
All programmed to repeat
Created by lies
Forming ties
To spell out my defeat
I’ll have to make a change
If one step at a time
The only thing I think is strange
Is I thought I was fine
But now I understand
And I see a little clearer
Maybe now ill see a better man
When looking in the mirror
Objective introspection
I delve a little deeper
Till I can look at my reflection
And say...
To the other side of me
The side that holds all of the things
I tried hard not to see
I see the many patterns
All programmed to repeat
Created by lies
Forming ties
To spell out my defeat
I’ll have to make a change
If one step at a time
The only thing I think is strange
Is I thought I was fine
But now I understand
And I see a little clearer
Maybe now ill see a better man
When looking in the mirror
Objective introspection
I delve a little deeper
Till I can look at my reflection
And say...
193 reads
6 Comments
As it Passes
If I could say that for one second you were mine
Then it would all be worth it
If I could say that for one moment we were one
Then that would be just perfect
But I really have no clue
If I were anything to you
Other than a petty passing fancy
It took the heartache to remind me
That I was just walking blindly
Reaching out for something that I can’t see
But ignorance is bliss
When you seal it with a kiss
Seeing the world through rosy colored glasses
You only liked me for a...
Then it would all be worth it
If I could say that for one moment we were one
Then that would be just perfect
But I really have no clue
If I were anything to you
Other than a petty passing fancy
It took the heartache to remind me
That I was just walking blindly
Reaching out for something that I can’t see
But ignorance is bliss
When you seal it with a kiss
Seeing the world through rosy colored glasses
You only liked me for a...
161 reads
3 Comments
DU Poetry : Submissions by RavenofSorrow