Month: February 2018

Poetry

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time I feel like I’m running out of the energy that keeps me going and I know my limit is coming near.

But, who are I to say something when there is no way out of this for I am forever stuck until I walk away completely.

My sanity will most likely not be still attached when I walk away and somehow I have to accept that because well were all a little crazy at times. 

The way I see people have well already changed and sometimes my reaction is negative when it should be positive.

I don’t want to become what they are rude and impatience, I want to continue showering the world with love and respect with a little bit of my guard up.

For you can’t always trust the people you show your kindness too but you can hope that you changed them just a little bit with a visit from you.  

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Conversant

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The material I was familiar with but, yet it just couldn’t come to my mind as I tried to remember where I saw that information.

I pulled back the layers of storage in my mind trying to find where I had seen that fact and no matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t find the right word.

I skipped over the question and went to the next one in hope that I would get it all done in time to come back.

I thought I knew it all but, as quickly as it was on my mind the quicker it seemed to disappear.

I knew I needed to pass this test this time so I took my time and when done went over everything to the best of my abilities.

The results were just a push of the button and well I didn’t know if it would all work out but, I hit submit as I prayed it would all work out.

I closed my eyes and then I looked and to my surprise the score was good and all the stress and worry washed right out of me.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Conversant

Quotes

Quote of the day

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Way too often we fool ourselves when we think we have to wait in order to take action on somethings. The truth is most of the time, the “perfect” time is RIGHT NOW!. Time isn’t in your favor. The sooner you get started the sooner you can start learning from your mistakes, developing your skills, spending time with that person, etc… be mindful because the clock will never stop ticking just to wait for you.
Poetry

Daily Prompt: Assay

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I stood there in front of a crowd of people and in that moment it felt like they were judging me of how much I was worth. 

Was I worth their time 

to listen to the words that were about to come out my mouth. 

Or was I just a waste of time and they wish they hadn’t showed up at all. 

My worth wasn’t based on my talent or what I had to offer them that night for all they looked at or commented on was what I wore and how pretty some thought I was. 

Well others didn’t really say anything nice at all for I felt I was worth the risk and that well amounted to something but,  I didn’t feel like much as their hateful words ate at me until the only thing I could do was cry my tears. 

I grew thicker skin after that moment but,  it still haunts me every time I get on that stage and I begin to wonder what are they thinking and I hope they enjoy this for I need to make it so bad. 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Assay

Poetry

Yellow

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Three Line Tales, Week 108

photo by Daniel Garcia via Unsplash

 

Like the color yellow you always brighten my day, you always find the right words that need to be said. 

I depend on you for so much that if you went away the great wall that holds me up would crumble down and I would be no more. 

You smile my way and I can’t help but, smile back at you and the inside jokes that can only be shared with you keep me laughing all the times and I realize now how lucky I am to call you mine. 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Yellow

Poetry

There

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100 Word Wednesday: Week 59

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There I am left behind like bike, leaning on just a wall for the support I thought I had all along. 

But, I was forgotten as more interesting things started taking my place as the days went by and the text messages become fewer and then none at all. 

I knew I had finally made it there to the space were forgotten friends are, at first I thought I was the only one but soon enough more people came around and the people who were left behind became the friends I thought I already had. 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

There

 

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Encrusted

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The pain that you poured on me that day has yet to become encrusted and heal like before.

I wait for the moment when things will slow down and become better and the hole that was left behind would finally close up.

I tried so many ways to move on but, some how you always ended up on my mind. 

It was like living through a nightmare that didn’t end when I woke up.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Encrusted

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Constant

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This feeling of unknown is flowing through me continually and no matter how I try to shake it off. 

It just keeps coming back and each time the pain is more intense and as I knee on the ground trying to catch my breath. 

The flashes of my life keep coming forward and I realize that there are so many things that I have done. 

But, not as nearly as much as I have left to do and will I ever get it all done in the end. 

Then I catch my breath and move through life-like nothing was ever wrong.

But, time after time that thought comes back to me and I then look back at what I’ve done and I ask myself is it enough or can I do more. 

Can I be more or am I stuck in this moment with no hope of continuous growth in the things I love or in new things to come. 

 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Constant

Poetry

Am I

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enough to hold your attention right now. 

Am I enough of a friend for you to reach out to me today or tomorrow. 

Am I the reason things just don’t seem to workout in the end. 

Am I capable of bringing happiness to someone else when I don’t seem to care if I am happy myself. 

Am I ever going to see or hear the truth from you. 

Am I ever going to forget the people who are from my past but, pop up in my dreams. 

Am I doing what I love and yet, I am doing what I dislike just to get by in this lifetime. 

Will I become one of those people who are bitter about everything and just be rude because well I can be. 

Am I settling when I should be pushing on and knocking down so many more walls, instead of hiding behind them. 

Am I worrying about the right things or am I stuck in the same mindset that everyone else is and so now I’m lost. 

That bright person who I knew as me seems a million miles away as this dull person walks around with her head down hoping no one sees her for who she is becoming.

For even she doesn’t like who she is now, so angry and sad with no answer to how she can get out of this mess. 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Compromise

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I want to come to an agreement with you so that this situation is a good one for you and I.

In the end only we will see if this all works out but, it will take both of us to get through this.

The words that were said are now apart of an agreement and we will see how long it will last in the end.

Will it be a week or maybe two weeks or a month or year, only time will tell if this agreement become more than a small thing and become something that bonded two people for a lifetime.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Compromise

Poetry

Shadows

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creeping up on me sometimes feels scary and unknown. 

But, sometimes the shadows that are behind you are not as scary when they are your own. 

The shadow of us pulls away as we stand outside your door talking about what a great night we had. 

Not wanting to go inside yet, for that would mean the night was over and we both never wanted it to end. 

So much had happen and now we just couldn’t accept that it could end this way. 

But, eventually we said goodbye and I hoped to see you again soon and even though you asked and I said yes nothing in this life is guaranteed. 

For once something good is happening to me and I’m looking forward to the unknown that is coming my way. 

 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes