Pad challenge Day 6 Patricia

Poetry
Monday Poetry
Bohemian 

I've been a thousand places
I don't know where I'm going
It's hard to find a place to call home
Every demon, every ghost from your pastAnd every memory you've held backFollows you home

Oh, home, let me come home
Home is wherever I'm with you
I'll go wherever you will go

And it don't look like
I'll ever stop my wandering
I've been down every road
Felt the sun, I've felt the cold


This is a cut poem for the volume Lyrical Recycling,
a cut poetry volume.

Bohemian Songs :
battle born by five finger death punch, nobody drinks alone by Keith Urban, Home by Edward Sharpe and the magnetic zeros, wandering by James Taylor, Home is You by Rozes, wherever you will go by the calling

The next volume

Doing the poetry marathon has me at the point where I’m needing to pick the next volume. I usually ask here and on Facebook for opinions as to what I should do next.

which one do you like best ?

It is time again

It is time again

I actually waited longer than I usually do. Lost Notes is completely written and scheduled for release. I usually ask 5 or 6 poems from being done. Help me to choose the next volume?

Monday Poetry

Monday Poetry
Poetry

Identity

by Patricia Harris


Who am I, Really? 
Hiding behind labels,
Lost in pretending
I understand who
I am supposed to be.

There was a time
When I was sure
Of who I wanted to be,
No labels, no questions,
just me and who I wanted to be...

Age has changed me
adding fear, adding wear and tear...
adding the questions
and the lost identity
that I find the need to chase.

Monday Poetry

Poetry

Perhaps forgetting is better

by Patricia Harris

Lost memories seem
to weave the idea of grief
into daily life,
speeding the thoughts
through the loom making
the blanket of heaviness
to weigh on the mind.

Perhaps forgetting is better,
a feather instead of stone...
the moment left alone
when the weight is less
on the shoulders than
Atlas knows.

Monday Poetry

Monday Poetry
Poetry

Caustic

by Patricia Harris

The words that drip from your tongue 
burn deeply into the soul,
Caustic like the acid,
Perhaps I am lost in a fog
of the brain melted by what you had to say...

I stand here broken,
wondering if I have made
many the wrong choice,
Walking through the acid rain...
for someone who will never see
the damage inflicted.
For the one who will always
cause me pain.

Monday Poetry

Poetry

Brainless

by Patricia Harris

somehow I have lost
my brain in my travels,
I feel like a zombie
wandering loose lost.

Every one seems to think
I am brainless
because I don’t follow
the notes of society’s song.

Monday Poetry

Monday Poetry
Poetry

Lost Time

by Patricia Harris

I have spent so much time 
giving away parts of me
with no concerns of
what I was tearing from myself...

Thinking that it was
what was expected
from me...

In reality all I was doing
was pouring time
into others,
openly ignoring
the holes I was creating
inside of me.

Monday Poetry

Monday Poetry
Poetry

Lost In The Void

by Patricia Harris

perhaps the world would be better
if we were to get lost in the void,
not really holding ourselves to the plan
that society says we should.

instead I think we could wander
freely in the openness of the possibility,
letting ourselves learn how to exist
in the world just being happy.

Monday Poetry

Monday Poetry
Poetry

What am I supposed to do

by Patricia Harris

my dream was so clear
in the younger days,
I understood that I
was able to do anything.

Age has stolen
clarity and the ideas
that I often clung
deeply to…
leaving me without
any clue what I am
supposed to do.