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sparkle_or_fade New Member
since 1999-09-04
Posts 3Bundaberg, QLD, Australia |
I am pretty new to posting my poems as they are a cross between poems and songs. A friend of mine sometimes uses them as song lyrics for her band. Anyway email and tell me what you think okay. I wrote this orginally as a poem but it is more in a song format now, I wrote it when my grandfather died, as I was extremely close to him. Thankyou For Being There By Kerryn Hall The flowers arrived The bluebirds left Nothings the same or ever will be You touched my life With heartfelt compassion The love you shared With me in those days Never forgotten You were always there Even for the littlest thing And I say Thankyou for being there Its nice to know you can rely on someone Even if its just for a while When you left The world stood still Out of respect for you Now that you're gone You will always live on In my heart Thankyou for being there The day dawned gloomy A sign of things to come You looked at me One last time With a smile on your lips as the light left your eyes The room spun around And I was a mess You had been called to meet your maker You had been living on borrowed time The polished wood The white roses And a big deep hole Where was the reality The tears overflowing Tracks down my cheeks Nothing seemed the same That was then and this is now How will I ever cope A part of me has been lost Lost in deep despair I reach for our helping hand Only to remember its not there anymore And I have to learn to live without you But its easier said than done. Thats basically it, we changed it into this format to sing at the funeral, and it really touched everyone. The words might be simple but the meaning behind them is more complex. This next poem was also turned into a song which explains the way it flows, it was written when I was in Yr 9 about a secret crush I had, and how he never even noticed, like many unrequited crushes. High Hopes by Kerryn Hall Today is just like any other day High hopes dashed once more When will you free me of my shackles And give me the chance I deserve I feel like I've been waiting all my life for you And you alone I feel that you're my ray of light I yearn for you, the mysterious person who invades my dreams You would be my everything and more If you just took a chance But you'll never know if you don't Why do you judge me on the outside Can't you see past the exterior to see me for who I really am If you just talked to me Maybe you'd see what you were missing What did I do to create this illusion Trying to reach you never works I could be invisible as far as you're concerned Even presenting you with many opportunities You can't even seem to grasp Emerging from my dreamworld I'm confronted by reality With the truth as my enemy Thats it I guess, I love the last three lines the best, they mean a lot to me, like coming out of your dreams is hard, but when something happens and you have to give them up and face the reality that he is never going to go out with you is pretty hard. So thats why the truth was my enemy, I didnt want to know that he was going out with someone else, in my dreams, he was mine and mine alone. This next poem/song I wrote when I split up with a boyfriend with whom I was very close to, despite the distance apart. It was a painful experience, but love is about both happiness and sadness and growing because of it. How can I live without you by Kerryn Hall My letters return one by one My hear slowly breaking As I sit by a phone that never rings Tears are blurring my vision Because once again I am nothing The person you knew is no more And all of this over you Everything has come to a standstill The conversation no longer flows Where did I go wrong by you What did I do to hurt you To make you no longer love me Cause I still love you And I feel you do too Deep down inside somewhere You're so far away It doesn't seem to matter That I'm here without you You don't even seem to care Life seems empty now I know I should move on But I'm still clinging by a thread The words won't form anymore How easily they used to slip off my tongue In time my pain will fade And I'm waiting for that day to come When you no longer control my dreams And possess my thoughts. Its sorta weird to explain, but at the time I was very confused, split between wanting him back and never wanting to see him again. But its similar to how a lot of people feel when they break up, according to some of my close friends, both irl and on the net. Well thats it for today, email me I guess and tell me your thoughts. Thanks if you took the time to read this. Kerryn |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
I liked them all, but especially the one written for your grandfather...what a moving tribute. Because these were written as songs, they do not flow quite as smoothly as typical poems usually do and it makes them a bit harder to read...but I felt they were all well written. welcome to the page! ------------------ "Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald |
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