Tag: poetry life

Love is

what is Love for you ?

Pad challenge Day 26

Poetry

I am Human

by Patricia Harris

The best idea of who I am
is found in the mirror,
flaws showing,
Dreams weaving into a form
resembling something divine.

I am human,
with all that it might mean.
I am human,
with the whole world laid
out in front of my feet.

Ars Poetica Day 26

Splash the ink
so carelessly,
give poetry freely.

for the world deserves
the best of verse,
with no thoughts
to the what ifs and such.

poetry is another art
meant to ease the disturbed,
and so I say it should be
written with abandon
to make the world better.

Pad challenge Day 24

To the Max

By Patricia Harris

Humanity has been trying
To find the best way
To maximize
Our own way to
Survive…

So often we have
Forgotten about
The idea that
We need to do more
Than just survive.

So we should live
Life to the max,
Always ready to
Ignore the same
Bull that life throws
At us.

* This is the first poem in Human Shaped Verse. The newest volume.

Ars Poetica Day 23

Why are all the poets tortured,
The artists starved,
And that somehow makes
The world go around?

Poetry seems to heal
The tortured souls,
And so I am inclined
      to think that those who
Need it most create.

Pad challenge Day 18

When Hope Ends

By Patricia Harris

The beginning of all things
Is when we decide that hope ends.
Because Hope is the thing
That keeps alive the what ifs.

Realism means that you look
at what life offers
and don’t look away
when hope ends and the world
shows you the darkness
in sway.

Ars Poetica Day 12

So much of poetry
Is a subjective thing…
Words, emotions,
Metaphors, and swing…

Sometimes catharsis comes
Just from the attempt
To find poetry in the way
Words come out on paper.

Ars Poetica Day 11

How many ways
Can I write about
Poetry?

Holding my heart
Out on my sleeve,
My pen has more
Poetry to bleed.

Pad challenge Day 10

Create Better

By Patricia Harris

When you find
The whole world
Is at a downward spiral,
Create Better,
Make it a place
Where hope can thrive,
Make it a place
That feels alive!

And when you feel naught
Except for doubt,
And your mind is
Full of darkness and clouds,
Create Better,
Teaching yourself
To believe that you have
All that you could ever need.

Pad challenge Day 6

Minimum

By Patricia Harris

When is the minimum done,
Not enough to be acknowledged,
Not too much to be a overachievement,
Just a small start to what will be.

And somehow it is all the world
expects of me?
That feels so wrong,
Like I am just skating along.

If I cannot exceed
Even my own expectations
Then what is the reason
Why I should even begin?