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Poetry

Making connections

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It’s the way we were made

And sometimes, it can be wonderful to laugh and talk with people who relate to you.

To have an unexpected connection is excellent as you get to know someone you didn’t think you would end up bonding with.

The feeling of being happy to see them

And knowing that feeling is mutual

And connecting and still not agreeing on the same things but still coming back and talking some more.

Sometimes, heads are butted, and we feel unheard or dismissed, but sometimes, we get in our feelings because it’s harder to trust and keep friends at some point in life.

So authentic connections sometimes are rare, and when you find one, you want to hold on for dear life for you get to the point where you see through the people who are nice to you to know your business and then toss you to the side when they feel better comes along.

We still crave connection, but we become more guarded sometimes; we throw it all to the wind and let fate and destiny take the wheel as we risk putting ourselves out there. Sometimes, it pays off, and your fairytale friendship is born.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2023 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Patience

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Everyday my patience is tested and right now I can honesty say someone days I know that I lose and they win.

But, more than likely they lose and the temper comes out and the nasty words come flying out their mouth.

And they try to hit you well you’re not looking for they want to break you and they want you to give them what they want.

But, the truth is you have had a enough and now as the words come pouring out of their mouth you just ignore it until it goes away.

And as  their empty threats are thrown at you, you just want to tell them you just don’t care and they can go stuff all their negative shit where the sun don’t shine.

But, in the end you just stay quiet and you let them walk away and you just move on to the next person who is just waiting to get what they need next.

The cycle repeats its self almost daily and you just have to have patience during the long period of times when you feel like you are being hit from all sides with no end.

You want to crumble and let it just smash you into non-existent but, you realize that you too deserve better and you too are human and just work for the man.

The frustration shouldn’t be pointed at you but, you are present and so you become the victim and the target for whoever wants you to be right now.

So patience is all you can have because in the end, it doesn’t matter how many ways you explain something someone who wants to be right all the time is not going to hear you.

So be the bigger person and act quick because if you don’t end it now it will go on and on until you get sucked up in the mix of crazy.

And trust me this crazy is not the crazy you want a point of now or ever.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Patience

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Provoke

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He tried to provoke the storm of anger brewing inside of me.

And I so wanted to just let it out for I was tired and just not in the mood to deal with all these people.

But, I stood my ground and let you go on your way without letting my storm not just destroy any mean bone you had in your body but I  mine as well.

I don’t want to regret snapping at you but, I know I can’t let you get to me.

Like you get to everyone else in your life, I won’t be your victim.

You provoke me to do better and put up a better shield that doesn’t let the things from simple-minded people get to me.

You can’t touch me with your sad words for I know and see you for who you are.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Provoke

Poetry

Like

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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

In this

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moment I stand alone but not truly alone for my god is always by my side.

Even when I think I shouldn’t be standing anymore because the world wants to knock me down and step all over me like trash that has been forgotten.

The hate and anger are so strong but, yet I stand in a bubble full of love and laughter and even on the hardest days somehow I get through it with minor scratches.

I know what’s protecting me and yet the evil in this world keeps flying at me and even with the greatest protection out there some get in but what hits me.

Just makes me stronger and even when I just truly want to give up and let them win something always pushes back and shows me giving up isn’t what I need to do.

The storm hits and I hit back and though it all there is always a way out that brings me into the light and darkness goes away for a while to fight back another day or week.

And in that moment I am at peace and I feel safe and the things that eat me up inside just disappear and the joy is all around.

The nasty words fall faster than they can be heard and the music is blasting at high volume until the noise is all blocked out and the mind is clear of the doubt and stress.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Caught up

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in the moment with you feels like a lifetime ago.

Now I’m caught up in everything going on around me and I start to wonder why do I even care about the things that don’t concern me.

But, the attitude that you give before I even open my mouth makes me feel like what has the world come to that you just be rude for no reason.

You come storming in with you attitude for who knows why but, the truth is I don’t care for well I’m just trying to do my job and my patience well it’s limited.

But, when it runs out the things that I want to say I keep it to myself because being mean and rude just well it’s not appreciated or appropriate.

I don’t need or want to get caught up in your nastiness for well life is just too short for all that attitude you got going on over there.

I just ain’t got time for the attitude the anger and anything else you want to throw at me for well I just don’t care enough to be caught up in a fight that is not worth fighting at the end of the day.

Like yesterday I can’t remember who pissed off who but if I saw your face I would remember who you are and I will let yesterday go but, I hope today you’re in a better mood.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

 

Poetry

There

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was nothing I could do that day as the words came out my mouth

but, for the first time in a long time I didn’t feel mad at myself and neither did I care.

I just never liked the feeling when someone brings me down even when I’ve done nothing wrong.

Maybe they think they are above me because of my flaws but I know the only way to kill their negativity is with kindness.

Because maybe they won’t feel bad that they treated someone who is human like a child or beneath them.

Because life has a way of showing you that you can’t keep treating people bad and think you will get away with it.

So as I calm down and put a smile on my face, I realize I am okay and that I’m great and no one can take that feeling away.

When I know I’m equal to everyone no matter where they are in their life.

Our situations will always be different but at the end of the day were all human trying to survive on the borrowed time.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Tired

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Eyes you look at me

but not for long for as I speak.

Your eyes start to fall and once closed

you won’t want to wake up again.

For it’s late and you want to sleep in the land of softness.

where everything seems to feel just right, where sleep last for a good eight to nine hours.

You want this as night becomes morning and,soon the softness will be replaced with the some times harsh reality.

People will come at you and you’re not quite ready for them as your brain tries to truly wake up.

You can’t seem to understand why anyone would want to be up this early.

I mean yea its 11am but sometimes sleeping in is nice.

So the day goes on and you don’t seem to be awake at all and once home your still tired but dragging on.

Until you and sleep meet again then you smile and the lights go out again.

And I whisper good night in hope, your dreams will bring you some peace reality couldn’t.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

 

Poetry

And that’s

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Just who you are my shining star

You light up the sky when it’s so dark.

They say you’re not like the others for you

shine so bright that even in the daylight your light

stays on.

People are in awe of you and want to know why you’re so different and,

some call you a freak and want nothing to do with you.

They say what your able to do is impossible and that you shouldn’t be

allowed to be so great at everything.

You love to do backflips and jump and when it’s night-time you like take long walks for

you’re not afraid of the dark.

The night is your best friend and you feel at home when all the lights are out and you shine and shine and no one can take their eyes off of you for your best thing around.

No storm can make me scared when you’re around for the light in you will not go out and so the darkness will not ever be around.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Fake

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I thought I knew you

someone who wanted to better their self.

But in reality, you just wanted attention

and if you received it great but if someone

just didn’t give it.

That was so not acceptable

you were fake down to everything that

made you who you are and were.

Sometimes it’s hard to see the fake people

for who they truly are.

For they put a smile on their face when they see

you, but inside they dislike you for your different.

You stay true to yourself even when they try to

push you down the path of faking it until you make it.

But you see you for who you are, and you rather not end

up feeling lost.

You found your path and you rather not be dragged down

something that is fake and will end up causing you more

pain in the end.

Because when fake walks away with a smile on their face, knowing

that they ruined something that never needed to be fixed in the first place.

They have gained something that is yours, your worth and knowing

being different is better than fitting into the box of fake or normal.

Be yourself, never let the fake win in the end, for your worth is too important

to put into someone else’s hand.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

The daily post Daily Prompt: Fake

Photo101, Poetry

Seeing Double!

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Seeing double dalmations

seeing double while taing a picture

seeing double gray cars!

Seeing double wherever I go like I can’t seem to get away

from the two’s.

You can see two of me if I had a twin

but I am not so two of me is not out there

walking around, joking around.

There is just one of me but if there were two of me

how could the world handle that.

Two voices that would be powerful, stubborn and full of life.

But for now only one voice will have to do, but I do enjoy seeing double

every now and then.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Moment & Motion

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Like the fire you move me

And I wish I could say more.

As the night ends

Will I ever get another chance?

At a moment like this.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Bonfire