Weekly Dose of Poetry

I have been writing poems since I was about 11 years old or so. I will be kind enough not to regale you with those adolescent poems, (you're welcome) but I thought it might be fun to share some of them on here.

Hope you enjoy!

Raindrops

Raindrops

The tears I cry

For you now

For me alone

Slipping down my face

Leaving rivers of ache

Thunder

The sound of silence

You’re not talking

And I can’t hear

Crashing in my heart

While we are apart

Lightning

This pain in my soul

You feel nothing

And I’m dying inside

Reality, I’m losing touch

I need you so much

This storm

The miles between us

You set the distance

I count the inches

Without you I’m lost

In this hurricane I’m tossed

This poem is the result of a game called ‘Poetry Tag’ that I used to play in AOL chat rooms. It was SO much fun! People would tag someone – give them a topic – and they were to (almost) immediately start writing. You couldn’t really wait more than a minute or so to begin or the natives would become restless.. ha!

Anyone else out there every try it?