Tuesday, October 2, 2012

End Word Poem


Write a poem of twenty original lines that contains end words that when extracted from the rest of the poem, stand as another poem.  Here's an example:

He carries unbalanced parcels of sorrow

As his silent shoes move among masses like empty measures

No one hears the echoes, the throbbing cadence of memories

Now relegated to the faceless insignificance of amplified light, blown out

A loud white storm, no one else knows what it sounds like

This is the point when reason and knowledge become cruel

The empty, un-reflected truth rains down like beatings,

The poison of logic is administered

To the servants he left his soul to

Intelligence, sentience, introspection, those

agents that render the mind helpless

When the hunched beast of emotion descends on men

in times most trying

When there is no one to talk to

Finally, he falls down on the cold ground, a slave to the process

The machinations of his own mind, in the onslaught of grief

40 comments:

  1. There is always failure in one’s life
    But one must learn to overcome the challenges
    They must live with who they are
    And work with their burdens
    What happened to them is just that
    Their past is theirs to have
    There is no point on dwelling on what could have been
    Their problems are just collecting
    The adversities will never be over
    But they will be accept them in time
    And they will become one
    That is just one of the human needs
    With it there is a new understanding one will go to
    There are few challenges in life one can overcome
    The best most can hope for is to be one with them
    This is the understanding they must get to
    In time all will get better
    This life is just the ones
    Only theirs to own
    It is their job to live their own life

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  2. Late at night when we went on our first date, I know you remember
    I would never give up on you at all
    Remember those pictures hiding in your closet? We took those
    We always went out on weekends to the movies and diners. I miss those good times
    What ever happened to us? It is now I
    “I’ll never leave you.” That’s what you swore
    It’s now me, myself, and I
    Love, respect, and honesty is all I needed
    I just wonder if you ever think of me anymore, do you?
    I heard you’re doing very well
    When she leaves you don’t call me just think of me as dead, which you can consider
    I had everything you couldn’t find in them
    You just filled me up with lies
    You left me because
    I can find better, just trust me baby
    My heart is closed I don’t know why you want to come back here
    I’d rather be alone than with wrong company, it’s just I
    You think I’m sad which I kind of am
    I’m sad for you, who knows who you’re going to end up with
    Well I’m going to sign out
    I just wanted to say my last good-byes and good luck to you :)

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  3. i dont know how you feel
    especially when everythings turned on
    i remember when we hanged out with those
    poeple that didnt mean nothing who
    the ones that left
    that girl hanging it was you
    they turned there back left you behind
    everything they feel is guilt now
    how did they
    do some kind of thing how would they feel
    if someone did something bad
    to them and because
    she was only 16 years old the
    reason is now she prosper
    to thank people like you
    now she owns everything that you have

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  4. something that they
    should have done to the will
    and to never
    forget about having the guilt to get

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  5. Laying by The
    Fire is the Cat
    Sleeping and purring she Is
    A pillow for me, nice and Fluffy
    I put my head on the cats body And
    Slowly began stroking it’s
    Head, listening to the soft breath
    Coming closer to the cat’s mouth the smells
    Of the cat food smelling like
    The main course at a fancy
    Party where the guests are waiting to feast
    I could smell all of the
    Gross smells like the Sour taste of the cat’s turkey
    As if cooking had gone wrong if it were my own dinner
    Focusing back on the cat and its kind
    Nature I was feeling at home with my head on the body but
    She was not as comfortable as I
    She scurried away indicating that she did not Enjoy
    My face in hers, Smelling
    The morning breath as I was breathing on it

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  6. A boy got killed after
    His mom was shot and her life
    Was taking away, now the boy is
    A child who is out on the street, the
    Father is nowhere to be found when he is the most
    Thing that is wanted, the boy faces the scariest
    Felling in his life, the thing
    He went through without his mother, that
    Life scares
    The little boy because he got no people
    To take care of him and take him in
    Their houses, this
    Boy is living in this world
    Without anyone, it
    Is touching to see a boy shakes
    His with fear when his hand is in
    Another man hand, their
    Hands filled with love, the boy find his old house
    He ran to the house and he hugged the house saying “forever hold”

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  7. Look over there
    And see who you are
    Maybe you see some
    Weird people
    And didn’t know who
    They were
    Or when they were born
    But just want to
    Find something to do
    To find something great
    Maybe accomplish some things
    And then come in
    And look at your life
    Because giving up and
    Following others
    Based on who
    They are and the ones who allow
    You to enjoy life
    And catch you when you slip
    And just fly away

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  8. She looks at the door, and goes in
    She’s trying to run away from her sorrow
    Because no one was ever filled with more sorrow than she
    And though she tries to get away from it all, she can’t
    She seeks help
    She seeks distance from the one she can’t help loving
    But every time she turns around she sees him

    But no one was colder than he
    And she tried to find what about him it was
    That livened her
    That gave her life a purpose

    She can’t help loving him though
    Because no one made her life more meaningful than he
    He was her one and only, she knew he was
    But he did not love her
    And he refused to give her a reason
    His lack of love destroyed everything she worked for
    He was her reason for being
    And she couldn’t stop loving him so deeply
    And since he’s left her, she can’t stop feeling irrevocably depressed

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  9. Unexpected actions result from unexpected things.
    People don’t ask to be heroes; it just happens that way sometimes.
    Heroes don’t ask what they have to do.
    Some say they are not
    Normal humans but say this is always
    The way that they were meant to go.
    These warriors, heroes, soldiers have the
    Instinct to act for someone in a way
    Which represents only that.
    Not only do we
    Respect those who do not return, but those who return first.
    We respect them in a way that is expected.
    So many of these heroes would do anything to come home and
    We don’t forget what they had to do to earn it.
    They would not forget their comrades still there, they would never.
    But eventually this praise ends.
    They stop looking back and they start to look up.
    They see that they have done their part as
    Best or better than could we.
    They did their job but, not in the way that they planned.

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  10. Many type of People
    Too bad that they all Change
    Everything that I had with each one of them is now Over
    I sometimes wish I can go back in Time
    They just think about I
    They don’t care about anyone else which makes me want to Cry
    They say that there is only me, myself, and I
    I can say that I can Remember
    I want to say The End but all I can say is The
    I wish life was like a fairytales that everything would turn out okay, but these are different Times
    Those times where it was just us and all we said was We
    I miss those times that we Shared
    All of those times are different Now
    All I can say is that I want You
    But now you are gone and you have changed, we Are
    Separated and there isn’t no more us I Just
    Want to say that it is A
    Pity that you changed but I’ll try to keep the little bit of the Memory
    All I can wish is That
    Your happiness Is
    Turns out the way you want it to turn out, that’s all I want but it is Slowly
    and quietly Fading
    don’t ever come back and just go Away

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  11. You glance up at something
    It is as
    If the answer was simple
    And as
    You look at a
    Young child with a smile
    That appeared from
    A person across the room, someone
    That seemed to be very special
    To that young child and someone to
    The smile reached from one ear to another
    It seemed like that thing can
    Bring a smile to anyone and make
    The day better if one’s
    Day is a bad day
    That simple thing is a
    Thing that expresses happiness to a lot
    Of people and can better
    Their day and then
    They will be happier than before

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  12. It’s always important to make good use of life
    For it only lasts as long as it can
    if you do, more enjoyable it will be
    If you believe that life has no worth
    you may greve so
    that you won’t experience much
    and you will lay on your death bed thinking what if
    or what could I have done to better it
    The first thing to do is take life as it is
    and not how it could have been lived
    Spend every day thinking posatively
    Find people you can relate with
    which is how you find friends
    Spend time with family
    and always follow your dreams
    If your dreams don’t come true quickly enough for you
    keep doing the best you can
    never give up when you have dreams to follow
    even though it won’t work out always

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    1. Very uplifting poem; I like the way it celebrates our potential.
      Change posative to positive.

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  13. Fluttering in the wind to its own beat let this beat make me open
    Let it open me to the light it carries for my and your
    Heart…keep this light as your own
    Shine this light this pure joy throughout you so that everyone can see it with their own eyes
    When this little bundle of hope and love lands on you accept its light to
    Your mind and let this light give you better understanding so that we all can see
    Not just see with our eyes but also with our hearts the
    Cover or shield that blocked us will be gone forever and we will be exposed to reality
    And this was all because a little light landed on us and we’ll probably think of
    Ways to try and keep this joy with us but we must remember this
    That the joy that we once held in our hands must be released back to the world
    It must be let loose so that others can feel the happiness it brought to us and we
    Have to be grateful for it, but remember once you let it free you can’t just bring it back with a call
    For it to maintain its happiness, joy, love, and hope for others it must be free and able to return to its own home

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    1. A very lovely quote! It's hard to find splendid quotes like these on the internet. Is this your own quote?

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    2. Beautiful poem. It captures the eessence of what is important.

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  14. As the sky turns dark and grey
    The clouds start to become emotional
    With water inside the Clouds.
    I’m standing outside and starting to get
    Cold and wet full
    Of water, I’m out with
    My brother who feels the sadness
    Of the weather then
    We hear a clap of thunder when clouds began
    To build up their “emotions” and start crying
    My brother and I are standing out
    In the rain, feeling the fresh
    Water that feels like tears
    Falling down from the sky, upon
    Our faces when drops hit the
    Cars around us as well as the ground.
    Puddles are swarming all
    Around our feet, wet and Muddy.
    We both enjoy this weather and
    Like it when the outside is damp

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    1. Cool. Very good demonstration of the form.

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  15. When born you only get one
    She’s loyal and trustworthy, my mother
    My world, my best friend, my heart, only
    She’s there whenever needed, no matter what happens
    I sometimes don’t appreciate her and have hurt her feelings more than once
    The older I get, the closer we become, I usually tell her everything but,
    Sometimes we don’t see eye to eye on things that we should,
    I admit I don’t always listen, we do argue and I’m not always where I should be
    My generation usually takes things for granted, that really need to be cherished
    In order to show her my appreciation, I can do a lot more
    When I was younger I told her I loved her all the time, now I don’t do that so often
    She means everything to me and if I lost her, I wouldn’t know what to do because,
    Somebody once told me that I’ll never know what I had until it is gone and you,
    Should show the womb that bore you, the most respect and never,
    Turn your back on her, she taught me all that I know
    It’s her job to be on my back and in my business because when,
    I need her, she’s only a phone call away, I pray to God,
    That he doesn’t take her away from me anytime soon and I will,
    Do my best to be there for her and treat her how she deserves, and never take,
    Her for granted anymore, she’s my rock, and I love her

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    1. Beautiful job. Make sure you show this to her!

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  16. The question still remains: What
    What would people think of men
    If they were animals watching the human’s want
    Their want is destroying everything that is here and in
    Until everything that is left is this
    Their own world that is small
    So that they will live in that world
    Not caring for anyone else but themselves. But the reason is?
    No one can answer that question. What is the quote, to be or not to?
    They just want to be
    They don’t care how they achieve it, it’s all on what they heard
    What they were told to be but,
    That’s not life. I want to be someone to
    But they never realize what life is about, never
    They just want to take
    Rather than give, they don’t take responsibility
    They think the world revolves around them, but they have no idea that is only the beginning of,
    Their troubles, but they don’t get it
    Why should they when they just look at
    Everyone else live life when they don’t live it at all.

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  17. I love you JON.
    He is who he IS.
    In school, all I see Jon with is an A.
    He is just so BEAUTIFUL.
    He is a real MAN.
    He has a beautiful EYE.
    He has the perfect LOOK.
    When I look at him I look UP.
    I wish one day it’ll just be me and him, just us TWO.
    I LOVE YOU.
    I think you have a nice BUTT.
    Chapman looks like CHRIS.
    Now this guy doesn’t have the LOOK.
    He is one person I don’t LIKE.
    Every time I look at him I say OH MY.
    He’s told me he likes the study of CHEMISTRY.
    Just like my TEACHER.
    Me and Jon DON’T.
    Chapman, how does it feel that Chris looks like YOU?.
    Everything I say is true, don’t you AGREE

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  18. There’s a man in my class named Felix
    Beautiful he Is
    I ripped my pants so I could So
    My pants looked Beautiful
    Looked at Felix did I
    Him and I are in Love
    I love to look at Him
    1 plus 1 equals Too
    He can lift very Much
    He plays video games with the We
    Pirates say Are
    Money he is Getting
    My sister got Married
    I once hung out with Chris
    Felix has good Looks
    Candy is what he would Like
    When some ones ugly I say oh My
    I hate Chemistry
    Haily wants to be a Teacher
    Thief’s are bad Right?

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  19. Life will always be full If
    People can understand you
    You just need to make them realize
    You are a very bright person that
    Will always treat them and you
    Fair and be willing to have
    Love enough,
    For them and you
    Many people are
    Very nice and truly
    Healthy and rich

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  20. All humans search for love,
    In every way they can
    For nothing compares to heart break
    It seems to be the loss of all
    In the quest for this love, one may find boundaries.
    Or see their dreamed future in the extreme distance
    Many even question what love is
    Others have fallen to the belief that it is nonexistent
    Thousands of things can come between
    Finding love, or maybe only one or two
    But nothing stops the thriving in our hearts
    Pulling us to the one that
    Will fulfill the empty holes and let us thrive
    Love can bring the world together
    Bring smiles to those in
    Need of much more joy
    It is the great search for harmony
    On the road of peace
    Reaching the final destination of bliss and
    Love.

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  21. Humans need friendship
    It gives meaning to what is
    Though it is unnecessary
    Life is worth living because of it
    Many hardships, it has
    However, if asked to rid myself of it I say no
    Friendship brings meaning to a human’s survival
    It brings immeasurable value
    Many people say it is pointless, rather
    Friendship is cherished and it
    Brings us happiness and is
    Something that connects us by one
    Bond to the rest of
    Humanity and to all of those
    Who hold friendship dearer than things
    Friendship is so powerful that
    It causes people to even give
    Their lives because they value
    You for being a friend to
    Them and giving meaning to their survival

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    1. Please ignore the excessive use of the word "and". The others words I know don't seem to fit in as well as "and" does.

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    2. I don't think that you used the word "and" too much. But i really like the poem even if you did. :D I think it describes our friendship perfectly:D

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  22. You are not better than I.
    I’m an example of everything you can’t
    do, so there’s no time to sit and wait.
    Let me know once you come to.
    So I can look you in the eyes and say
    “It’s whatever.”
    I can’t wait to get on with life and
    Be whoever I
    Wanted to be, can’t
    You see that that I didn’t intend to wait
    To be able to
    Show you that I can shed
    More than just some
    Of the lack of light
    You’ve left on
    Simply every
    Part of me, not just a little
    But every little thing.
    The devil was an angel once, so you’ve
    Left everything broken.

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  23. They didn’t think she could say never
    No matter what she thought
    She began to forget the important things
    More than she ever believed she could
    She never surrendered to the end
    No matter how high up
    The sky seemed to be like
    Her hands tried to reach this
    She wasn’t tall enough yet
    She wore a bright smile always
    Although she wasn’t always happy
    She only knew despite everything that
    Things would change, unlike what they
    Told her at first, so she turned
    Discovering a new world, never coming out
    She changed her direction without knowing how
    She planned a path and made a way
    Despite whatever they
    Might say for she say things as they were, as they are
    Living not for the past, but for now

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  24. A murder tale (celebrating the month of October with spooky tales.)

    The haunting feeling of him is what makes me feel all warm

    When he’s here everything I see is in different colors

    Knowing that he was a monster was unthought-of

    I’ve known him for such a long time, I would have never of guessed the,

    things he did were true. I heard he put them on the trees

    But wait, what’s that sound? It’s the sound only terror would bring

    I smell something familiar, probably too familiar. It smells sickly sweet

    His scent sadly brings the sweetest of memories

    He walks forth and touches me gently; What does he want to do with me? But I can’t look back

    His face is frightening, which is unusual. The only thing he’s saying is ‘no’

    I didn’t utter a single word; I was terrified of this blood covered monster. But I wonder,

    why he would try and hurt me. I was confused and kept asking myself ‘why’

    He confesses to me that he has killed people

    My knees grew weak and I fall

    He looked at me and without hesitation stuck his knife in

    How did I ever come to love,

    such a monster. I was such a fool to begin with

    I release his grasp from my gentle hand. I look into his blue eyes while mine begin to fall.

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    1. Cool. It makes me want to carve a pumpkin.

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  25. The universe is made up of so many different things
    Our only common ground is the world we exist in
    We each get to experience the different aspects of life
    But the one thing we all share is the ability to change
    The only thing we can rely on always
    The only ability we all have
    The one thing that occurs always
    The one thing that ever will
    We all know that it’s coming, the
    Single question is when only
    Touches every person, place and thing
    Our instinct is to fight change and we
    Convince ourselves we can
    But the truth is, there are few things we can do
    Understand what the change is about
    Not matter how you feel about it
    Whether it’s not for the best or whether it is
    You can’t fight change
    You can’t fight the strings that come with
    All you can do, is make the most of them

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  26. We crave for attention to be a star but look into space there alone and yet I don’t understand why
    Humans cry and cry to get what they want they use emotions to tell you what to Do
    You try to stand alone and to have no one around you but get that there is no “I” in We
    Humans argue and split when things fall apart we want what’s right but that’s how we start a Fight
    We leave the past and make new memories fast the question is if you want to
    How are we allow to step on ants but consider homicide bad we don’t care about anything but to Live
    You lose the argument but will always use the word “But”
    They left us to be alone and kill our communication with god and so did we
    Why die when we can all Live
    I care but its not fair I guess you can do whatever you want To
    Just as fast as life started it all end in a flash 7 minutes to see life till you Die
    We want peace but yet ask for war there will never be peace as time fly’s and that I don’t get Why
    You sit here and think and you start to cry why don’t you stand up and begin to Try
    Life of fame and money and full of people the know me ask for records but I don’t want To
    Blindness is the new See
    When can I move on, when can I leave the past and go on ..When
    There’s
    There is Nothing
    Going In
    There is nothing in Sight


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  27. INDEPENDENT STUDY ASSINGMENT
    The inhabitants of this land must enjoy light, because it was a bright world in which Dracon had found himself. They had been walking for twenty minutes, and a strange twenty minutes they had been.
    The ground was one of the most perplexing things he had witnessed in this world. When he and Cynoss had exited the house, they had walked down steps made of wood, but ended on a strange surface. Dracon had knelt down to examine it- it was grey and bumpy, akin to stone but different somehow, as if someone had melted down grey rock and then allowed it to harden. The grey path moved out of the house, and connected with a much longer path of the same surface. The paths seemed to all surround small fields that were all identically trimmed and growing a uniform type of green grass. Every few meters another house stood, each of them connected to the pathway. In front of Dracon and Cynoss, however, was a very strange sight. The pathway seemed to be divided in half. Next to the pathway was another field with the same type of grass, and after that there was a grey strip. Beyond that grey strip was a very large black ground with white lines painted on it. On the other side of the black ground, there was another set of pathways and houses similar to the one that Dracon found themselves on.
    That black pathway was the one they were walking on now, and they saw, to either side of them, very strange machines that, while all built with the same mechanisms, all looked extraordinarily different. Some large, some small, some long, some thin, and they seemed to come in every color of the rainbow.

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  28. Why do people hurt it?

    Why does it cry out and say it hurts?

    It is me but why do they call me an it when

    I am a human being and part of the people

    I cry and cry but people don’t

    Look at me and understand

    That when you

    Hurt me it fills me with hate and when

    You stare at me I look at you and think that they

    Are cruel people and everyone in this world that will look

    At me will hate me and will curse at

    Me because of you

    Because of your talk and rumors and

    Because you hate me you make everyone else see

    A monster when they look at me a

    Hateful monster

    When they stare it hurts and

    The don’t understand that you’re

    Hurting all

    That I have and by those stares, am telling me that I will always be alone

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  29. There wont always be love
    nor will there always be hate
    most of the time happy
    at least once in a persons life they are depressed
    there are so many emotions
    to many for people
    they do what they can to live
    do what they need to get through
    no matter how hard
    going through tough times
    always hoping
    not having doubts about everything
    never having the will
    to speak up and be
    who i am and having things be okay
    just want to be able to live
    just being able to live without
    any regrets nor having any fear
    every human being
    deserves to be happy

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