Hey PCApexers It's Jess and she's not back with a new mod. Sorry guys!

But I just wanted to share a bit of poetry that I wrote tonight. For some reason it just came to mind easily at the beginning yet while I kept on writing the end seemed to just come to a block.

This is the only forum in which I'm comfortable sharing stuff like this so I'd like everyone's opinion, comments or any other thoughts.

Also would appreciate anyone that has constructive criticism. That way I can learn how to write better poetry.




*Callous Affinity*


I have shown to you the sides of me
Too many of which you have never seen
Now I wonder if I must let go
Leave you alone and never know
I cannot keep going on like this
Losing trust, constantly a hit and miss


I do not know what to think
Yet it seems my heart can't help but sink
When I see what I have, and felt what I feel
In so many ways I can't even deal


These thoughts so painful to discuss
I have said there can be nothing of us
I apologize for this is something I must confess
All of this is just causing so much inner stress


Now is when I realize, perhaps I've hurt you
In telling you this...
But know this was something I never meant to do


This is the only way I know how to react to things
Retreat to my hiding place for the peace it brings
Yet, in essence I really am alone
Pushing everyone away to be on my own


Once again I apologize for everything
Please just tell me what we had was nothing


- JA452



Thank's for reading this! I might make this a permanent poetry topic for myself or others.

There are two kinds of poetry, free form and everything else. Everything else includes all the stuff you learn about in school with the rhyming and couplets and syllable counts and all that. With that type of poetry there is a right and wrong based upon the format. With free form, well, it's free form. There is no format, no right and wrong.

As for the content or message, poetry is all about the author. If you like it, if it means something to you, helps you cope with something, or just gets some feelings out... then it is good poetry. If someone else connects with the emotion of your poetry and gets something from it, than it is very good poetry. If lots of people can relate, then either you wrote a greeting card, #1 smash pop song, and/or great poetry.

So since you decided to share this one, it obviously falls into the category of "good poetry", since it does something for you. I like it too, a bit sad, but then a lot of poetry is.

Ya got me all misty eyed.

Thank you very much Dick_Nervous. I never thought about it that way. I mean I did fairly well in literature when it came to writing poems. But, thought that the real world may not see it the same. Thank you for clearing it up for me

Lokies_mom I'm glad you enjoyed it. It is a bit sad, but for some reason sadness brings the best out of me. As weird as that may seem!

I have one more poem for today. This was not written in relation to the poem above, since it's an older one


*Realizing*

There are times when I've felt so lost
Finding that love never comes without cost


Even though time has come and gone
I couldn't forget all along
Thoughts drifting in and out
My heart still yearns for you without a doubt


Unable to block them from entering
So many of these memories never ending
When I wake it becomes my first thought
Before rest it consumes my subconscious and once again I'm caught


Becoming dreams of how things could be
Why must these memories constantly haunt me?
So many times I've wanted to forget
That I could move on and never regret


Yet, if my memory were to disappear
I feel that my heart would still continue to hold you near


Not wanting to believe that what we had
Once such a complicated and played out lie
Was the reason I shut you out and said goodbye


Know that there are still feelings for you
Now I'm just finding out what I once believed wasn't really true


-JA452