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Poetry

Colors

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Three Line Tales, Week 119

photo by Oneisha Lee via Unsplash

 

You’ll find full guidelines on the TLT page – here’s the tl;dr:

  • Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt (& give them a title if possible).
  • Link back to this post (& check the link shows up under the weekly post).
  • Tag your post with 3LineTales (so everyone can find you in the Reader).
  • Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.
  • Have fun.

 

Lost in the colors and how tall the rocks are that everything in life that has been black and white just don’t compare to these bright colors that make me happy and at peace. 

This trip was something I needed so badly, to be out in the middle of nowhere and just stare at the simple things in life and not stressing over the things that seem to be out of my control no matter what.

I know that this trip will be the last bit of relaxation for me for a while and I’m grateful that I could make this trip with you  for who knows where time will push us next. 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Colors!

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Observe

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I observe you from afar and what I’ve learned is you are a person who has to put up a shield and hide certain things just to get through the day.

You are kind and sweet but certain things in your life has left you bitter and angry and as much as you want to fight the battle feels like a losing one.

The misery you feel just keeps growing day by day and you no longer smile like you used to.

You are broken and I so want to help you but, like everyone else, I am on the other side of the wall you put up to protect yourself.

The pain I see it flick every now and then through your sad and blank brown eyes, I want to so bad to erase that pain you feel for once and for all.

Maybe one day you will let me in and then things will be different between us and you will smile again and the wall will be down at least for me.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Observe

Poetry

Watching you!

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Welcome to Week 118 of Three Line Tales.

photo by David Clode via Unsplash

 

You’ll find full guidelines on the TLT page – here’s the tl;dr:

  • Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt (& give them a title if possible).
  • Link back to this post (& check the link shows up under the weekly post).
  • Tag your post with 3LineTales (so everyone can find you in the Reader).
  • Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.

 

Watching you as you try to sneak up on me late one night and all I want to do is get away from you but, you start to move faster towards me. 

And before I know it you’re upon me and all I want to do is get out of this situation which all started with a little eye contact here and there. 

I wasn’t and still not interested in what you have to offer and at the last-minute, the door opens and automatic closes behind me and all I see before the doors close are your eyes still watching me. 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Watching you!

Poetry

Goodbye

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Those were the last words I heard from you 

and how much you would not forget me. 

The memories of the past are gone and I realize I don’t think of you anymore but

that day when you said those words I was so mad and hurt at the same time. 

Nothing could have prepared me for the day you walked out of my life.

I guess I never thought this day would come but when it did it shocked me to my core and I didn’t know if I would recover. 

But, now years later that memory only pops up now and then and well I’m not mad or sad anymore and I don’t think of you at all. 

Life now seems so different from before and I’m so thankful you let me go because I’ve grown so much. 

So thanks for the goodbye and closing of a door I didn’t need open anymore, I don’t look or hope that door opens up again. 

I’m glad to have gotten that goodbye and the closure I needed to let go and for that, I don’t fear goodbyes anymore. 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Parallel

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It seems that we will never be on the same page in our life

no matter how much we try the end results are always the same.

I’m wanting to do things that you would not want to do even thou I would try anything for you.

I know opposites attract but this time being so unlike is just creating a tension that can not be improved at this point.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Parallel

Poetry

Once in a lifetime!

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Three Line Tales, Week 116

photo by NASA (yes, THAT NASA – which is why you want to click through to the full-size picture for the full effect) via Unsplash

You’ll find full guidelines on the TLT page – here’s the tl;dr:

  • Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt (& give them a title if possible).
  • Link back to this post (& check the link shows up under the weekly post).
  • Tag your post with 3LineTales (so everyone can find you in the Reader).
  • Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.

 

I didn’t think this day would come and the nerves that are running through me seem to be too much.

I am trying to be calm about this situation for this is something I’ve been dreaming about but, didn’t think it would ever be possible.

But, today is the day all my dreams come true and I’m excited to see how it all works out.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Once in a lifetime!

Poetry

LOVE

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Three Line Tales, Week 115

photo by Ronaldo Santos via Unsplash

 

You’ll find full guidelines on the TLT page – here’s the tl;dr:

  • Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt (& give them a title if possible).
  • Link back to this post (& check the link shows up under the weekly post).
  • Tag your post with 3LineTales (so everyone can find you in the Reader).
  • Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.

 

I told you that I would go high and low to be with you my love and at the end of the day, my goal is to see a smile on your face.

I know that you didn’t expect to see me today but, I just couldn’t leave you alone today and so here I am at your window watching your face light up like seeing me just made your day.

I was pretty pleased with myself that day and that you still talk about that day to everyone that you know and who will listen.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Love

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Disrupt

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I just needed some peace and quiet just for a little while and then you came along and disrupted my moment of peace.

A moment that I treasure and only can last for many five seconds to a minute of two.

But,  I guess by now I should be used to the fact that nothing in this place last long so I should accept and expect that nothing good last for long and when it ends that there is always a mess to clean up.

And frankly I’m tired of cleaning them up and feeling the stress more than I really want to feel it right now.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Disrupt

 

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Frigid

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The water was freezing cold that day and anyone who would go in would be a fool.

It had been a bitter winter and the coldness just didn’t seem to be going away fast enough.

Spring had arrived and still it was too cold to say it was spring

how much longer will the cold stick around and how much longer did we want to deal with bundling up and trying to not get sick.

The cold air was putting us all in no mood to be out and about when it was so much warmer in your own home.

If you didn’t need to go out then you just didn’t go out that day, the cold air had us all ready to take a trip away from here for the mess was far from cleaned up and the cold air wasn’t the only thing cold around this place.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Frigid

Poetry

I want

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to say that words are enough and well it just isn’t this time and no matter how many I write I know the way I feel just won’t go away. 

If I just get it all out maybe then things will seem so much lighter and maybe just maybe they will leave me alone. 

Will my questions ever be answered and will there be somewhere new to go to when this is all over. 

Will the path that I am on just go away once I move on to the right one for me to cross and travel on next. 

Will I look back on this day and realize that maybe all the answers were always around me but, I choose to ignore them for I just wasn’t ready to let it all go. 

For I can’t move on with the same stuff from before, everything new and everything old just can’t mix and match in this new place of peace and understanding for life is way too short not to have some tricks on one’s sleeves. 

 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Sometimes

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I wonder if I let these things happen to me because I feel I’m not worthy of being treated better.

I feel like this will not ever end for they own me now and the way out is just not something I am blessed with.

Some come and go and yet I am still here through it all.

The pain will not end and so I feel it all everyday like it’s something brand new is happening to me.

But, it’s not new and it does not decrease but it increases until I can’t remember when it ends for by then I would have already passed out.

Sometimes I  think what if and why me and then I’m usually blessed with not knowing and I guess now I’m okay with the answers to these thoughts are not answered.

For eventually I forget about those things and move on to other things in hope that things will get better in the end.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I can’t

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keep going on like this

hiding the pain behind it all.

The tears that fall

are not for a show or attention.

Because, well I rather be left alone

but no matter what they keep pushing their way into my safe place.

The place that keeps me whole when everything else in this world is falling to crap and the outcome is not looking very good.

I know I’m supposed to be stronger but I’ve always been the weak one and everything well is all an act to just keep the real me locked away.

For she is really fragile and I’m not ready to let her out for this world would crush her and I really can’t let that happen.

So those that I’ve let in I’m sorry for my walls are so about to go back up for it’s not safe to let anyone in right now.

I’ve seen the truth and well it’s not pretty and well I just don’t want to be out in the open anymore.

So goodbye I will miss you but, I know its saver on my own and I now know that I’ve made the best decision.

For I’m free and everyday I wake up and walk on the beach and the sun beats down on me and I’m at peace.

No more stress or pressure now I’m free and in a place that makes me feel free and at the end of the day I smile instead of crying myself to sleep.

The ending for me is happiness  and not what it could have been complete misery with no light to guide me out of that hell.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Look at me

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Three Line Tales, Week 112

photo by Sam Carter via Unsplash

  • Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt (& give them a title if possible).
  • Link back to this post (& check the link shows up under the weekly post).
  • Tag your post with 3LineTales (so everyone can find you in the Reader).
  • Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.

 

 

Look at me do you see the difference in me from all the others or do I seem the same as them.

I don’t want to be the same for I want to stand out and I want you to see me for me and I want you to acknowledge that I am not the same for I have so much more to offer. 

I stand here staring at you for you have no option but to look at me and accept that I am here and that I am not someone you can just walk on and then pretend like you did nothing wrong in the end. 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Look at me!

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Talisman

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The stories that I was told as a young child about this amulet and how powerful it was.

Everyone had different stories to tell about how and what the amulet did for them and their family for years.

I wanted to find it out what it could do and where it would be.

Maybe it was still with one of the many families that still lived in this area but, no one wanted to tell me.

Or they just didn’t know for the piece of treasure was lost and the pictures do no justice to.

But, it’s been years and no amount of luck is coming to me to find this amulet right now but I hope one day I will be able to find it.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Talisman

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