By Karen Krangel at http://www.netlabs.net/hp/karenk/
By Karen Krangel at http://www.netlabs.net/hp/karenk/
Here's some of my poems, enjoy: (laugh and you're dead buddy! :)
Two Sides Of A Rose | This Is Who I Am | Take A CloserLook
Love On The Inside | All That Remains | Because You Were There
Oceans' Call | Take A Closer Look Part 2 | On The Outside
Here he comes,
Walking tall and proud,
Standing high above,
A head in the clouds.
So straightforward,
So hardheaded,
Hides nothing on his face,
Take a closer look,
That's not the case.
Such a puzzling man.
Too many gaps,
Between the grains of sand.
Look at that smile,
A hard cruel smile.
One that has no feeling,
One that feels too much.
Eyes on the ceiling,
Eyes staring up.
Catch the light of day,
Hide the darkness of night.
The hands of a lover,
The fists ready to fight.
Thinks of everything,
Yet speaks out nothing.
In the eyes of all,
full of Enigma
and so much more.
There she goes
Waving goodbye
Swaying side to side
Her head held high.
So opinionated
So celestrial.
A beautiful face,
Look again,
Behind that grace.
Not a butterfly
But like an eagle
In the night sky.
Look at those eyes,
Those dark daunting eyes.
One for her glory,
One for her pain.
Where the sun shines bright.
Where the light fades from sight.
A curtain of hair
to hide behind.
The curve of her lips,
The purse in between.
Silence in a whisper,
Terror in a scream.
Easy to read?
Hard to define.
An Angel from heaven,
One of a kind.
As I stand here out in the open sky,
Watching the stars as they pass by,
I lower my head and see the dark sea,
Commanding me to bow down onto my knees.
The moving waves, crash gently up close,
Pounding the sharp rock edges lying on the coast.
The sight is frightening if I should fall,
But then again, maybe that's not so bad at all.
The ocean seems loud but calm,
And welcomes me with open arms.
Was I to jump then and there?
And leave all sorrows without a care.
This is the easy road...where I stand.
There'll be no worries when I land.
I bite my lips and get ready to jump,
And in the distance no one can hear,
A body hitting the rocks with a thump.
If love was a rose
I'd water it everyday.
Never let the petals wilt
In perfect health they'll stay.
But a rose is just a rose,
Eventually it will die.
Can never live forever,
This fact I can't deny.
And love is just love,
It is nothing else.
An emotion from the heart
That can be painfully felt.
So many times
I'd like to deny,
How love has always
made me cry.
And all those times
My heart has ached
Always on the verge
Of wanting to break.
But it always recovered
Because you were there
Someone who has always
Shown that they cared.
I heard your voice
Among the pain.
It murmured softly
In sweet refrain.
They were comforting words
From where, I did not know.
They floated through my head
Their meaning, they did not show.
So in the end
I opened my eyes.
And there I saw
You..by my side.
Tell me when the seasons change,
Where the snow substitutes as rain.
The soft flakes so white yet clear,
Covers the grass and makes it disappear.
Tell me when the winter dies,
And flowers flourish before my eyes.
Where birds would fly by and sing
Their songs loud and seem to ring.
Tell me when summer comes,
And brings smiles to those so glum,
Where the heat is almost unbaring,
But there's the beach with the waves blaring.
Tell me when Autumn arrives,
Where flowers wilt up and die.
Not to mention those big brown trees,
Who seem to shed their old dry leaves.
Yes, please tell me about the seasons,
Why they change, their little reasons.
They give us variety and good cheer,
The same four seasons come each year.
Lightly at first and then hard,
The heavy rain drops down.
Draping the girl's head and hair,
And soaking her white gown.
Her dress clings tightly up close,
Her body standing cold and wet.
She stands there unmoving and still,
Almost dead but not quite yet.
As the girl slowly looks up
At the cloudy and dark sky above,
The rain beats hard on her face,
Every drop tearing away the love.
That special love that gave her birth,
The love that kept her alive,
It slowly but surely drains away,
As the girl loses her will to survive.
Nine days and nine nights she waited
When her mother went away.
Her mother said she'd be back
When the girl begged her to stay.
But now the tenth day is here,
And still the girl waits outside.
Her beating heart slows down
And the girl falls down and dies.
The rose is but a lovely thing,
Light colour spreads out to dark.
It's smooth petals seem to sing,
And fragrance livens up the spark.
But like the love that a rose represents,
It's bottom half is not so good.
The sharp thorns provide a fence,
Detering all the hands they could.
But with it's beauty it can not deter,
The tempting sensation for one to pick.
And if not careful a slight pain can accur,
When ones' finger is deeply pricked.
So think twice before taking a rose,
It's beauty compensates its' pain.
But the petals are surely love's clothes,
And love keeps all humans sane.
There was a time...
When vultures circled the sky,
In search of dying flesh,
And giving out loud hungry cries.
Waiting for an opportunity to feed,
And take advantage of those who bleed.
That was a time when I was such a fool who believed,
That I'd ever succeed with people walking all over me.
Let not those who stand in my path,
Choose for me what is mine.
Or surrender into every demand,
And lose all my beliefs of what I think is grand.
Now I walk with my head held high,
Daring to look people in the eye,
I whisper the words I know are true,
No longer am I the person you knew.
This is me now,
Standing tall and proud,
Refusing to worship and bow.
I am my own keeper,
And right inside of me I feel,
A feeling of happiness and joy,
Because I now know who I am,
And the realisation makes me smile.
There are all kinds of love we feel inside,
All of them make our lips smile so wide.
Our family we should love so dear,
It is something that is deep and sincere.
Another love is the one as friends,
That stick together 'til the bitter end.
They should always be there for each other,
Like a child caring for her sick mother.
But the love I feel for you is not of that,
It is more than friendship, more than fact.
It is a love that is so hard to explain,
And sometimes it can drive me insane.
For no amount of words could express what I feel,
It's all contained in my heart and is forever sealed.
But just believe me because it's true,
That nothing could ever change my love for you.
The ocean shimmers as the sun glistens,
A complaint is made but nobody listens.
The gentle hands of a mother so caring,
Leaves the boy, wanting to cry but not daring.
His school is covered with many peers,
His innocence fades and disappears.
The boy doesn't want to be who he is,
A lonely soul amongst the other kids.
And so he surrenders to people's demands,
As he lets himself be swept away,
The tide recedes and all that remains,
Just yellow wet sand with an extra grain.
Being on the outside
He doesn't know
How much I'm hurting.
Has no idea of the pain.
Being on the outside
He'll never see
The invisible tears
Flowing within.
Being on the outside
He'll always think
I'm okay.
Just a quick glance
From a distance.
Being on the outside
He'll never see
The real me.