WVPoetrygirl

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"Broken Home"

by WVPoetrygirl

Rather than leave you and get on with my life Where I could find someone better for me, I die a million slow deaths daily with you waiting for your attention, but you just never see. It’s like I enjoy the pain, being cut to the core...

1 Like | 3 comments | 38 views | Poetry | September 17, 2018

"Time"

by WVPoetrygirl

Minute by minute, hour by hour the days keep marching on. Day by day, week by week, another year has gone. Year by year the clock hands...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 55 views | Poetry | September 4, 2018

"Vietnam Vet"

by WVPoetrygirl

Young and idealistic, off to save the world donned in uniform, an American hero born. Strong beyond his years, exuberant to fight, no one told the soldier this battle was not right. Returning home unwelcome, his hero medals tossed, tw...

1 Like | 4 comments | 118 views | Poetry | August 27, 2018

"Mirrors"

by WVPoetrygirl

Tales of someone’s woe, escaped your lips in tell. Attempts to make headway with another’s tattered sail. A foot upon the chest of the downtrodden prone, hands across your breast on your judgmental throne. Mirrors don’t exist i...

1 Like | 2 comments | 65 views | Poetry | August 15, 2018

"She Said"

by WVPoetrygirl

You can't wear that, she said. You're much too fat. I sighed. Put the dress back on the rack. Well, at least I tried. Might as well stay home, she said. After all, you're used to being alone. I groaned. You said I should go. You lie...

4 Likes | 8 comments | 90 views | Poetry | August 10, 2018

"Agitation"

by WVPoetrygirl

Agitation I hate when people ask, “How is your day?” when they don’t really care to know anyway. They’re already poised with something else to say So I respond with the usual answer “it’s ok”. Empty conversations, polite plat...

2 Likes | 3 comments | 162 views | Poetry | July 26, 2018

"Change"

by WVPoetrygirl

Real change is never easy, especially in the middle. That’s when you’re likely to change your mind run back to the starting line....

0 Likes | 0 comment | 98 views | General | July 18, 2018

"Smoke Free"

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0 Likes | 3 comments | 179 views | Poetry | July 9, 2018

"Night Watch"

by WVPoetrygirl

For all Corrections Officers who keep us safe, we salute you! - Anita Elam

You haven’t seen what I’ve seen heard what I’ve heard, done what I’ve done, On the Night Watch. While you are sleeping, far away and dreaming I listen for the sound of inmates scheming. The rattle of my keys, the clank of the b...

1 Like | 2 comments | 244 views | Poetry | May 4, 2018

"Baggage Claim"

by WVPoetrygirl

There are no 'Do Overs' in life, can't undo what you've done. I guess that's not really something you think about when you're young. When you're young you bring your baggage, the other person does too. Unconsciously, both of you are th...

1 Like | 1 comment | 249 views | Poetry | May 2, 2018

"Love and Hate"

by WVPoetrygirl

It’s best to be cautious with whom you mate for there’s a very thin line between love and hate. Scientist have shown when in emotional states there truly is a thin line between love and hate. The brain’s sub-cortex with its insul...

0 Likes | 2 comments | 315 views | Poetry | April 25, 2018

"Marriage Misconception"

by WVPoetrygirl

I used to dream about my knight in shining armor he would be so tall and handsome and oh, quite the charmer. His blue eyes would shine with love whenever he saw my face, he would hold me close at heart with his warm and strong embrace....

0 Likes | 0 comment | 215 views | Poetry | April 24, 2018

"Instead of Being a Tree"

by WVPoetrygirl

Instead of being a tree rooted in one place watching life as it passes by at an ever increasing pace, I'd rather be a butterfly drifting on the wind, lightly touching down upon a flower now and then. Instead of being a tree whose roots are...

0 Likes | 2 comments | 255 views | Poetry | April 23, 2018

"Visualized Thoughts"

by WVPoetrygirl

I visualize thoughts as a constant flow of knowing, yet not knowing the things that i know. a harmonic train of connected words flowing past my brain hoping to be heard. As if I could just reach Into the air and pull those words to me...

1 Like | 2 comments | 245 views | Poetry | April 20, 2018

"Monarch"

by WVPoetrygirl

You, who think you are ugly, unlovable, having no gift to give to this world. Do not fret my girl, for you are a butterfly in the making. Make no mistake, we are all caterpillars in need of metamorphosis. There is no more proof of th...

1 Like | 2 comments | 302 views | Poetry | April 19, 2018

"Entitled Child"

by WVPoetrygirl

Designer clothes that you never had. Cellphones, Video games, the latest fad. You justify giving them their every whim. They didn’t work for it, or appreciate them. They grow up, move out on their own and only call when they need som...

0 Likes | 2 comments | 275 views | Poetry | April 12, 2018

"One of those Mondays"

by WVPoetrygirl

Start my car early to melt of another April snow. Pour my coffee down the sink and in a minute out the door I go. Grab my lunch, check the lights Lock the door, close it tight and I’m wishing my life away ‘Cause it’s just another...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 261 views | Poetry | April 10, 2018

"Greed"

by WVPoetrygirl

People have you running here and there trying to tell you how to achieve. They have you trying this and that, soon you don't know what to believe. "Look at my 100,000 followers, You can have them too!" "Just buy my book of secret tips...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 385 views | Poetry | April 5, 2018

"Values"

by WVPoetrygirl

I grew up in a rural, small town where we played outside until the sun went down. There was no internet and no video games, and every neighbor knew every other neighbor’s name. We played in the river, built forts in the woods, we rod...

1 Like | 0 comment | 302 views | Poetry | April 4, 2018

"Money Won’t Buy You Happiness"

by WVPoetrygirl

If suddenly I had money, much more than I could use, would I hoard it like a miser? What with it would I do? Would I be a different person, having gained this sudden win? Unable to remember how poor I was back then? Would my closest fr...

0 Likes | 2 comments | 235 views | Poetry | April 3, 2018

"Veterans"

by WVPoetrygirl

No one asked them to go. No one required them to serve. No one doubted...

2 Likes | 2 comments | 289 views | Poetry | April 2, 2018

"Where do we go from here?"

by WVPoetrygirl

I miss the days when people could actually engage with each other,...

2 Likes | 2 comments | 283 views | Poetry | April 2, 2018

"Always A Critic"

by WVPoetrygirl

The older you get you’ll realize that some folks are just out to criticize....

1 Like | 0 comment | 298 views | Poetry | April 2, 2018