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Poetry Written by Brandy Seymour
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- A Chosen Path :: I’m lost Mr. Frost
I’m scared Mr. Baird
Show me the way Blue Jay
Take my fears Steven Sears
I’m afraid of the Jade
But its my task and thats a fact
I sa...
- A Companion :: As I’m sitting on the couch
I flip on the tube,
The graceful one appears.
He floats up onto my lap,
And you hear his silent roars,
Blue eyes, and all he is...
- A Forgiving Plea :: My friend,
I have made,
My mistake.
A sensitive person,
I know you to be.
In need I hindered,
Afterwards I,
Let the trap,
Snap,
Upon old wounds,
Not...
- A Quiet Afternoon In June :: A quiet afternoon in June,
Flowers stand in the kitchen.
Softly their colors flutter.
They fling life all around,
Yet not one sound made.
The only sound is...
- All In A Dahok's Work :: Sweet and bitter
Bitter the sweet
dark as white
black as light
bitter blood of child
sweet vengance in denial
hatred did most defile
close friendship b...
- As They Followed :: One bright November day in Dallas,
A rather young man steps off a plane,
With his charming lovely wife as they stride,
Toward a loving crowd.
They shake h...
- Betty :: Her famous signature,
is BT.
It stands for,
Betty Tarr.
But in reality,
it means...
Be Tuff,
and stick it out.
That is how she is.
Betty is a Tuff ...
- Bitter and Sweet :: Sweet and bitter,
Bitter the sweet.
Dark as white,
Black as light.
Bitter blood of child,
Sweet vengeance in denial,
Hatred did most defile,
Close frie...
- Black Tuesday :: It was a crisp, clear morning.
September was without warning.
Lady Liberty stood tall and proud,
Unaware of the rising dark cloud.
Her mighty twin sons were...
- Blues at the Crossroads :: As I approach the crossroads
of the Sunset and Larabee
I travel to the agency
With only poor money
I climb the steep incline
So out of shape I have become
...
- Chat Among Best Friends :: Hey, remember the day we met...
all I wanted was to be like you.
Remember when Ares framed me...
You were there in my defense.
How could I forget the time...
- Cocaine’s Obsession :: His generosity is like an explosion,
As never ending as the ocean.
So sensitive with emotion,
A love seemingly endless with devotion.
The boy has seen so mu...
- Compassion :: Compassion is,
The most powerful feeling,
The most wonderful feeling,
Quite full-filling,
To thy heart, and thy soul.
Compassion has the power
To make our...
- Contemplating :: In the summertime
The winter winds may blow through,
Is it possible?...
- Dance, Listen, and Learn :: This post card said
"the friend is here
to dance Saturday"
But we are not.
At the store
What did one say to me
"Listen to the music"
but I am.
The w...
- Dancing At Bobbie’s :: Our first year, I remember,
We were all Baby Blue birds,
And I even remember that first night.
That first night upon the stage,
With my fellow Baby Blue Bir...
- Dansez, Ecoutez, et Apprenez :: Cette carte postale a dit
“l’amitie est comme
Danser Samedi”
Mais nous sommes.
A la boutique
Quelqu’un m’a dit
“Ecoutez la musique”
mai je suis.
L’e...
- Daughter, Don’t Sit in my Parlor :: There is a sadness in knowing,
That you will never be going,
To that wonderful place,
where your dreams should be chased,
and you can see your own childhood...
- Dave’s :: A restaurant ace,
Is Dave’s place.
Nothing will waste,
Because of the taste.
The cooks are awesome,
And they don’t serve possum.
A stop in Clovis,
As y...
- Death’s Shroud :: Mother,
Where has,
the artist,
gone?
I miss her,
everyday.
Dear mother,
Where may,
we find her?
this world is,
missing her,
every hour.
She seem...
- Deeds of the Vaccuum :: The vacuum is here
It sucks me into
The black hole
Which quickly, surrounds me.
I am a small star
But my nieve youth
Is fading fast
Into the darkness, ...
- Dying In The Hammock :: On a summer’s day
Around early July
My body rested
Inside of the swaying hammock.
This body of mine
Had ben through the times
But now it was limp
And a...
- Fifty Minus One :: Texas toast
there is no need to boast
for it does not roast
yet toast is the most
Eastern New Mexico
what a woe
for it is my foe
I must go I know
Ne...
- Following The Light :: Strength and will,
That’s what you are.
Strength and will,
They shall carry you far.
Take down the shield,
Leave on the armor.
Step out onto the field,
...
- Freedom :: Freedom can not
Be found on earth,
It can only be found
In the depths
of the soul.
As motals
We try,
To accomplish
True freedom,
Without succession, ...
- Furry Friends :: Cat
Fur
Stripes
Shirt
Sweater
Winter
Snow
White
Bunny
Cotton tail
Ball
Moon
Halloween
Witch
Broom
Handle
Tail
Cat....
- Gabrielle :: Gabrielle have no fear
For I am always near
And will always be here
Gabrielle you are a gem
so beautiful without sin
so perfect you are a ten
Gabrielle yo...
- Ghosts in the Theater :: All is silent
The actors have all gone home
Costumes are neatly put away
No one occupies
The seats in the audience.
Everything is boxed up, put away
The f...
- Hang The High Horse :: Been rejected,
Harshly disconnected,
wishing connected,
very affected,
needs elected,
Yes you’ve wrecked it!
Not expected,
but reflected,
flutter unpr...
- How Do I Forget? :: I wish I could forget you,
Even though I still love you.
I wish I could forget you,
If only my memory,
Could forget about you too.
But no matter how much I...
- I Am, Momentarily :: The day before
Yesterday,
I was
New born.
And yesterday,
I was,
Just, and only,
A little girl.
But today,
Presently, in short,
I am, momentarily,
...
- In Listening :: Upon the porch I sit
Overlooking the ocean before me.
The time is expiring
Yes, the hour is getting late.
Staring out into the darkness
My ocean calls,
It...
- In Search Of :: Life in century
Twenty
There are many
And plenty
All are confused
But fused
Feeling used, and abused
And oozed
In a search never ending
Pending
L...
- In This House :: In this house,
Locked tightly,
And arranged neatly,
Are many, many days,
and many, many memories.
In the blink of an eye,
It and they,
Will all be left b...
- Invitation Poem :: Good morning,
Good afternoon,
Good evening,
Hello,
Hi,
Salut,
Bonjour!
Those are just,
Some of the ways,
You can brighten,
Your morning,
Or invite ...
- It Flies :: With the years
Came the tears,
Time is cruel
So don’t be fooled.
It thrusts forward
Never backward,
Always driving ahead,
And so they said...
Don’t ...
- It’s in the cards :: You and I
we are no match,
All we do
is bite and scratch.
A pair of black kings
to my couple of red queens,
The colors are all wrong
as I sing this so...
- Kevin’s Undying Spirit :: I know that you will get through
You have faith, and you always do
For his soul is beautiful, as are you.
Stunningly handsome on the outside
But more magnif...
- L.A. Freeway :: Somehow I don’t understand
How the past meet the future
It seems so grand
Though its like a large suture
Daily I ask of them
And nightly they remind me
Ye...
- Life After Birth :: Why must we hurt,
It starts at birth,
A baby becomes a child
But then we just run wild.
At birth we are all pure,
As adults unsure,
Act as you were,
Bu...
- Lost :: Looking around recognizing nothing,
Out of touch with all that surrounds you,
Suffering from uncertainty and stress,
Too much to handle too little to earn....
- Manufacturing Death :: War is an ugly passion
Such a brutal bloody fashion
No matter facist
Or fatter capitalist
They are all the same
In it for the political gain
So there is n...
- My Desk :: My desk
Is covered, with an array
Of thoughts
Carelessly strewn about.
And the walls
Above
My desk
Are covered,
With my own accomplishments.
Memori...
- My Other Side :: Hey you there!
Said you are where?
All my life,
has been a strife,
needing you as my wife.
I have turned so many leaves,
disappointed only of thieves.
...
- My Real Daddy :: The other day I realized,
upon a lonely ride,
who is my only real pride.
It was you who were there,
The one who always would care,
Even when I was in you...
- Never Really Lost :: Faintly through your silence,
I still hear through my sub-conscience,
Though in life, you are long gone.
Yet somehow I see the dawn,
Though not here it stil...
- Night of Fright :: What a silly game this trick or treat,
With a scare I will make it complete.
Oh my flashlight in hand,
Their faces shall be grand
Then they’ll run right bac...
- Nightly Tales :: Last night was an array,
In dreams too much a stay,
Something trying to show the way.
First it was the death of a celebrity,
Then the images of a childhoo...
- Patience and Virtue :: Three sixty-five,
Let’s take a dive,
It’s only a year,
Sit and pass the beer....
- Plea for a Pardon :: Let me go, or let me grow
Set me free, or let me be
Who I am, and all that I stand
My will must be me, yet only a thrill to thee
I am your glee, if only you...
- Poem :: I feel your pain
though you are not real,
A charcter created in the mind
and portrayed by an actor.
Yet the actor understood you
and made you real for me...
- Pouring :: Thy heart pours out for you
my love,
but you are gone.
Not by will
not by wish
but by force.
The first is not of our hands.
It lurks between,
but most...
- Purple Wildflowers :: The grass is a healthy green,
Dancing in the glaring sun.
Each ray carefully teasing,
Each little blade of grass.
A little girl walks in its soft touch,
An...
- Realize and Understand :: So many love you,
So many care.
So many hope you,
Will be there.
Life isn’t cake,
Cause so many take.
Please don’t leave us,
Because,
You are a beautifu...
- Revelations From LL and ROC :: One night I had a dream,
That my spirit guides came to me,
And in that silly dream,
My reality they revealed to me.
Introducing themselves naunchelauntly,...
- Salvation :: Tonight,
I have been saved.
Tonight, my soul
Has accepted.
I sit here
With peace and tranquility,
With the crisp new pages
Of a special, yet old story....
- Saved :: One night in June,
There was a full moon,
He knew, it would be too soon.
Three times she hit,
He was there to sit,
And take care, through all of it.
H...
- Shellie :: Shellie is loved by everybody,
Everybody loves Shellie.
Shellie is neat, sweet,
But not petite.
Shellie is jolly,
And by golly,
I must say,
We all do l...
- Shoes in the Dryer :: Screeeeeeetch, boom, boom,
Slam, with an echo.
Click, click, click
Snap Vroooooom!
Swoosh, Swoosh,
Swoosh, swoosh.
Vroooooom, a humming,
Continuous sound...
- Silent Reminders :: Just when I try to forget you,
You remind me you are still there.
Just when I try to forget you,
You remind me that I still care.
Just when I try to forge...
- Sorrow And Loss, Glimmer And Hope :: I want to cry, but I have no tears...
You’re a living lie, embracing all of your fears.
All the days went by, have turned to years...
I see you with my eyes,...
- Sunset and Dusk :: You’re sitting on the beach
Alone, in the vast nothingness.
The waves are calm
As they inch closely
To your feet.
Finally, it reaches your heel
You feel a...
- Take Me Back :: I miss the days,
when we used to trace.
I miss the days,
we traveled place to place.
Those warm summer nights,
all of that soft air,
blowing in face and...
- Tears of Love :: Destruction,
and then one by one,
they fall.
Love is crying,
hate has triumphed.
Forgiveness and faith,
do not exist.
They have long,
since been forgo...
- That Journey Across The Bridge :: Life is full of gaps,
which contain bridges,
in between.
Shaky ones that look,
dangerously treacherous.
One stands before the,
bridge,
and gazes at it’s
...
- The Dead and the Red :: I am the poet and the writer,
I am the actor and the dancer,
My accomplishments are,
My medals, my trophies, and plaques,
Hanging proudly over the mantle,
...
- The Labyrinth :: Somebody I love
once told me
life is a picnic
you canmake it
what you want it to be.
Then they changed
and said
I lied
you can’t
you won’t.
Inste...
- The Meeting :: One day I met a child,
She was young and wild.
Yet this little one was sweet,
Not like the sugar we eat.
She spoke of fear,
And to me it was quite clear.
...
- The Psychotic Witch :: The Psychotic Witch,
You never know,
When she’ll strike.
I could be day,
Or it could be night.
You just never know,
When she’ll bite.
She’s up at all hou...
- The Smuggle :: You gave yourself to me
Oh beautiful young rose,
But someone said to me
You can’t have that wonderful rose.
For a time you’ve waited
As those who’ve hate...
- The Standard Letter :: Today I saw you for the first time.
It was the first time in a while.
You looked at me for a moment,
swiftly you ignored my presence,
you then looked away.
...
- The Table of Life :: Life is a puzzle,
with too many pieces,
to put together.
My puzzle has too many pieces,
missing,
I fear I’ll never be able to complete,
life’s puzzle.
...
- The Universe Is In The Mind :: A poet’s mind is like space
Scattered all around are ideas
The ideas in his mind are
Pieces of scattered matter about
His universe.
In his universe he ha...
- The Way of Friends :: Hey, remember the day we met...
All I wanted was to be like you.
Remember when Ares framed me...
You were there in my defense.
How could I forget the time...
- Third Party :: My soul weeps alone,
You have made me lone.
I have you trust,
She gave you lust.
You said I was good,
There you left, I have stood.
She swept,
I have wep...
- Through the Wringer :: An experience,
Without kindness,
Through the wringer,
I have been.
Above underneath,
Through and around,
Over and under,
Inside and out.
Excruciatin...
- To Act, or To Be :: Some are there
Only to be upon the stage,
Others are there, to express,
To portray that soul,
For which is the reason
They have come.
It would not be so s...
- Walking to the Podium :: Oh happy poets,
how prideful you are,
for today is your day,
to share who you are.
Every soul filled with glee,
for we all feel so free,
it is the first...
- We Mourned With Her, and Now For Her :: A Lady with elegance,
A Lady with style.
A Lady with courage,
A Lady with strength,
And finally, a Lady with grace.
Sure you know her,
Our Jackie, that’...
- Who Is Real? :: We are who we are,
maybe not the brightest star,
look near not far,
stop fighting such a war.
Guilty most are,
that inner child is the star,
we of the w...
- Why We Cry :: Brewster died last Monday
He left silently while mom cried
She was crying for his suffering of ill health
But Alice came by
An old echo from the past
To gu...
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