by amy r.

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Poems....for Today! Let Me Know What You Think! :)

October 26, 2009 08:46 PM EDT

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Oh yes, guys and dolls more mushy teen angst. I found my giant book of high school poetry. Its all quite miserable and hormonal. I was in love with a string of bad boys. These are pretty much all about the same one, well, two...

The sun is gold

as is your hair,

my heart.

Slowly it comes,

poisoning my system

swallowing me up in its toxic belly.

It pulled me in like a vacuum disposing of me.

I am suspended indefinitely.

I have been eaten alive by a thing called time.

I'm a satellite in the vigilant sky awaiting your every gesture.

You are a cloud floating along blissfully as light as the dawn.

I'll await your return to earth,

maybe forever.

Softly you linger, your scent gently lingering in the thick August air.

I feel your warmth against my cold and clammy skin.

I am dead within.

The fire that once burned within my soul has turned to pale ash

on the bottom of my dirty sneakers.

Still your resonant laugh drifts about on a summer breeze, in my ears

that have since fallen deaf.

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RobbinLynn B. Oct 26, 2009, 8:51pm EDT

Amy,Hi! I found your Poems insightful.
And it sounds like you were in-love or finding love for the first time.

Thank-You for Sharing.

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 8:56pm EDT

Thank you, I sure was :)

RobbinLynn B. Oct 26, 2009, 9:03pm EDT

:) Memories, No-One can ever take them away.

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 10:35pm EDT

Some of them, I wish could be striken from my memory, but not all of them.

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Dawn (a kitty-kin on the wall) Oct 26, 2009, 8:55pm EDT

love the time one. I can feel that.

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 8:59pm EDT

Me too :)

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Dawn (a kitty-kin on the wall) Oct 26, 2009, 8:55pm EDT

well done

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 8:58pm EDT

Thank you!

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Dawn (a kitty-kin on the wall) Oct 26, 2009, 8:56pm EDT

last one, very sad. I felt that once...for a long time. not anymore.

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 8:58pm EDT

Thank you. It was a very sad time.

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d d. Oct 26, 2009, 9:02pm EDT

amy, I got caught up... I felt the twist and turns....

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 10:34pm EDT

Thanks for reading. Its sort of like a window back into that time.

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Barbara H. Oct 26, 2009, 9:10pm EDT

You mention your pale and cold clammy skin and the fact that your beaus are the sunshine. I think that was the drama of youthful exploring and wanting to be loved. Your young womanhood and the poet in you was coming alive simultaneously. Remember the story written about Romeo and Juliette, somebody must have thought young love was real having written a play about it. Shakespeare and you hd something in common.

Dianna Doles-Petry Oct 26, 2009, 9:35pm EDT

I totally agree with Barbara! I remember the days of my youth very well and the need to feel accepted and desired by young men caused emotions unlike any other. I enjoyed reading these very much!

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 10:31pm EDT

I am glad you liked them. Thanks for reading them:) Its very true, teenagehood is a crazy time, quite possibly the craziest time in our lives. Everything is new, all experiences, really.

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 10:37pm EDT

You are both correct, I think that young love is the most real kind. Its vivid, it has its own pulse, you are experiencing it for the first time with this raw, pure passion that you have never experienced. I think we all can relate to seeing that one person who cannot be erased from memory for the first time and what your heart and gut felt like, how bad you wanted them to see you and feel the same way. I constantly wrote then. It was my outlet when I couldn't stand it anymore and was too shy to open my mouth and move in!

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Shaunee C. Oct 26, 2009, 9:14pm EDT

You write great poems.

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 10:31pm EDT

Thank you!

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Terry M. Oct 26, 2009, 9:26pm EDT

Thanks for sharing!

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 10:31pm EDT

Your welcome, thank for reading :)

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Elaine A. Oct 26, 2009, 9:28pm EDT

very good amy ;-)

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 10:30pm EDT

Thank you.

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Kushal Poddar Oct 26, 2009, 9:58pm EDT

They are good. and warm with feelings.
soliloquy and sunset

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 10:30pm EDT

Thanks.

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Risa G. Oct 26, 2009, 10:25pm EDT

I find them filled with teenage angst.

amy r. Oct 26, 2009, 10:32pm EDT

I was an angsty gal back in the fabulous nineties lol!

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Ruthi C. Oct 26, 2009, 10:41pm EDT

These are sweltering in the summer heat of young love Amy! I particularly enJOYed your pondering of time!

amy r. Oct 27, 2009, 7:43am EDT

Thanks for reading, I am glad you enjoyed them!

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Janell R. Oct 26, 2009, 11:33pm EDT

I enjoyed these, Amy. Well done.

amy r. Oct 27, 2009, 7:43am EDT

Thanks!

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Andrew W. Oct 26, 2009, 11:44pm EDT

I liked that last one. Good stuff, good stuff!

amy r. Oct 27, 2009, 7:43am EDT

Thanks for reading!

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sunil m. Oct 27, 2009, 1:01am EDT

Great that you got out your old book of memories....and showed it to us...well written Amy....
Memories are a beautiful gift of God..What would we do without them ???/

amy r. Oct 27, 2009, 7:42am EDT

Thank you for reading. It is nice to know that we all overcame teenagehood lol! You are right, memories are important and we learn from them, that's why God gives us them :)

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Jan S. Oct 27, 2009, 2:52am EDT

These are really good, Amy. I read them thinking of my own teen years.

amy r. Oct 27, 2009, 7:42am EDT

Thank you. It really is a nutty time of life when you are a teen sort of trapped between childhood and adulthood experiencing all kinds of new feeling for the first time. I have so much that I had written during that time. You feel so deeply as a teen :)

Jan S. Oct 27, 2009, 9:20pm EDT

I think you benefitted from writing about your feelings, Amy. Whether we journal or write more creatively, writing is a wonderful way to think things through and get our priorities straight.

amy r. Oct 29, 2009, 8:50pm EDT

I couldn't agree with you more. Get it out on paper, talk about it, just get it out and it doesn't weigh so heavy on your heart.

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Candice(Candy) E. Oct 27, 2009, 3:34am EDT

Amy, I Felt Everyone of These Poems, 1st True Love & Then the Pain, then Laying Across the Bed & Not Wanting to Face Another Day. I loved Your Memories & Thank You for Sharing More of You. Very Well Written !! Really Like your New Icon !!

amy r. Oct 27, 2009, 7:41am EDT

Thanks much! I am glad you enjoyed. My icon is super festive. I love Halloween lol!

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Johnice R. Oct 27, 2009, 12:20pm EDT

Amy, you are so talented, please continue to share these gems with!

amy r. Oct 27, 2009, 2:08pm EDT

Thank you, Johnice.

Johnice R. Oct 27, 2009, 3:01pm EDT

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David W. Oct 27, 2009, 1:30pm EDT

A great deal of feeling in these, though I wish you had titled each one. They are very penetrating and could only be enhanced by leading words. I really enjoyed reading yur selections.

amy r. Oct 27, 2009, 2:09pm EDT

I am glad you dug them!

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Love from Darlene! Oct 27, 2009, 1:35pm EDT

I enjoyed reading your poems.
Be encouraged to create a book of poetry for your teenage years.
Get some expert advise from the many authored poets on gather.
I know other high school students today will love them.