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Poetry

The gaping

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Holes in my life just seem to becoming bigger and bigger until there is no safe place for me to stand.

For one wrong step will send you down a hole and what is inside is an answer I don’t even know.

So much light is around but the path to getting out is not even more than a line.

To cross will not be easy but I know I can’t stay on this side anymore.

Because if I do the only thing full of darkness won’t be just the holes around me.

For I won’t be myself and everything everyone sees in me will not matter or be true anymore.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

On this

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Day I should feel so alone as I walk down this somewhat dark path.

The leafs blowing all around and yet I feel at home as the fall weather feels right to me.

Like this is my season for great things to happen as long as I believe and take the chance that needs to be taken.

For I know the next season is not granted and this may be my only chance to get things right.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Move with

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Me as I let go of these things that are holding me back.

It’s time to have fun to walk into the unknown with a smile on my face.

For I know it is a safer place for me then the ones I know of.

Today will be great for I’m ready for the joy that is waiting for me on the other side of this fountain.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

 

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So not

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ready for the pounding to begin it starts out slow then

becomes so intense the ability to think is just not possible.

But, I have to keep going and sometimes it goes away quickly

and I put my headphones on and block it all out with the beat of such a great song.

I just don’t want another headache from the things in life that just get too loud when all you want is the quiet and the unscented air for too many fragrance brings the headaches too.

The day slowly goes by and soon night has arrived and you know you time is truly limited now as lights slowly go out and it is nothing but darkness all around and you go to close your eyes and you just know.

Something isn’t going to end right as the night is all around you and you can’t fight the sleep anymore and soon you are knocked out and the pounding is no more.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

In this

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 Moment I feel great

And alive.

The sun is shining brightly down on me

The day is heading in such a great pace.

The birds are out and singing their song and I am enjoying this moment as everything is so quiet.

The peace I feel inside is so great and amazing that no amount of words can truly capture how I feel.

It feels like everything around me has become clear and the light I desperately sighted is out shining on everything.

So I can see what is truly going on around me today.

 Nothing is left in the dark and I am not alone today and I will continue to smile and enjoy this time I have if only it last for today.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Weekend writing prompt

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#124 -Barter

This weekend the challenge is to write a poem or a piece of prose in exactly 11 words.

I traded my dreams for I knew I would regret it.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

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Word wordle Sunday challenge

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Sunday word wordle 422

You pressed your tiny little hands on my wrist and felt my bone with a smile on your face.

And I melted again from how adorable you can be at times.

Until I noticed the orange paint and in that moment I saw just a little bit of evil and you denied it was intentional and I read it as you telling the truth and not just another one of your lies.

I felt like you collude me into that project that was just a grift and you knew you would trump out on top because you knew you had it better off in the end with no time for your crime.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

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Poetry

You make

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me see that there is more out there for me and not just in this moment or day.

But in my life and as long as I try and put the work out there, there really isn’t anything that can hold me back.

Seeing you shine made me realize there really isn’t a better time then now to jump and hope my wings will carry through it all.

My voice is powerful if I would just use it because at the end of the day I want to be able to handle everything that comes my way.

I appreciate that you appreciate all that I do but now it’s time for me to do more for me than you.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I know

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it’s not cold enough yet to sit by a fire but how I wish it was for the days are so hot but the mornings are nice and cold and it just feels like fall is coming.

And right now that is what I want to be able to cuddle up in a blanket and read by the fire.

And just have life feel like it slowed down for a moment and for me to gain a little balance again because right now life  is going by fast but the moments of joy are few.

If only it took for a day of staying inside with no worries about all that is going on outside to calm my stressful mind and just let me  be who I truly am just for once without anyone questioning me.

Now that would be nice but, the truth is it never truly lasts.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

 

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Like a

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blur everything in life is going by so fast that even when you do enjoy the finer moments in life.

It’s over in a blink of an eye, three hours of fun and laughter ends with you going back to the way things were and always will be.

You know what you want and right now everything is just fine the way it is until someone else points things out for you and you realize maybe I do need this now or why don’t I have that too.

But, back in my safe place I’m content  with what I have and happy where I am going and everything else I know will fall in place for my story will not be the same as everyone else and I’m okay with it for now.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

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On the edge

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holding on to what is the question.

am I holding on to the present or am

I holding on to what could be the future.

Or am I letting go of the past and finally accepting the now?

I guess maybe all of the above but what decision needs to be made

and in how much time for I’m standing on the edge and wind is starting to pick up.

And I don’t know weather I should toss somethings from the box or all it so there is nothing holding me back in the end as I go forward and leave nothing behind for the past is in the past and the present and future are the only ones that are going to be good.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

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Nothing is

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what is what it seems today

and maybe tomorrow too.

Because I know the stress will be up

and relaxing for even an moment will seem impossible.

But, I know nothing will seem what it is when the day begins and especially when it ends.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

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I can’t

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believe I am so far away from home but 

yet so close to being home again. 

I walk and I run to get through the fields and be 

in the safety of my home again. 

The one place that always wraps me up in warmth 

the feeling of belonging is what I feel every time that I am near.

It makes it hard to leave but I know no matter where I go home will always be waiting for me to come back again. 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

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It takes too

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 Long to cook these burgers

There so thick and puffy

And my patiences is running thin

As I wait for them to get done on the grill.

I know I have to wait a little bit longer or

When you bit into them now they will bleed

out and ruin your appetite all together for no one likes a burger that is too raw.

 

 

 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

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I couldn’t

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Imagine you coming back again

at if so not to talk to me.

I know that we had a past and now we

each of our own futures to look forward too.

And I’m happy living in this present even with the more downs then ups

but isn’t that the way life is the struggle is on and to learn you have to get through

and even when you want to give up and walk away.

You don’t because if you did would there be actors or movies or songs being written

for I’m sure everyone has had that moment of feeling not good enough and were tired of submitting work and no one liking it at all.

It’s time to just get up and get it done because if no one sees what you have done how will they know it’s worth trying or reading or doing.

It’s time to stop saying I’ll do it tomorrow

as if you are even promised tomorrow.

We human think that we have a schedule ahead of us so there is no way I’m not going to be apart of the plan in front of me.

That I will live another day or week or month or even year.

There is no clear plan of what is going to happen or what is not going to happen.

But, we can live to our best moments and time and just hope that we keep waking up each day with hope and faith to complete something new.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes