Poetry

Daily Prompt: Noise

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All around me I hear noises and all I want is for the noise to stop.

Just one moment of silence is all I’m begging for.

Even when the moment comes the phone rings or someone is in my face asking so many questions.

I feel like I will break before I get a break from it all.

I try my best to do and be my best but, my mind and body are somewhere else.

I know I will crash soon but right now I just got to keep going.

My time to rest is only a day away and yet it seems like a week away.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Noise

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Uncompromising

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He was determined to get his way and yet I wasn’t having that 

I stood there as he spoke his lies and sounded all type of crazy. 

Not reacting to the haste and untruthful words he wanted to say because he felt he has the right to try to belittle me. 

I stood there doing what needed to be done and stared into his eyes as he continued to go on and on. 

No react from me for I Just don’t have time for those who are stubborn in their ways and choose not to listen or decide today at this very moment is the time to act a fool. 

To be haste does not get you anywhere and I’ve learned trying to talk these people off a cliff never seems to work for all you do is fuel them up. 

So they can attack again and again until in their mind and eyes they have broken you and no one is about to break my spirit because, they choose to be ignorant. 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Uncompromising

Poetry

Green

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Three Line Tales, Week 110

photo by Jerry Kiesewetter 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.
Have fun.

Green everywhere and all I think about is happiness and joy and how bright everything is.

It makes me realize that I needed a little joy in my life and this little reminder made me feel like even in the darkness the light will shine through. 

I just have to look deeper and through all the mess and maybe the next couple of days will be brighter and happier because, life always needs something small or big to change it from bad to good. 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Green

 

 

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Restart

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I sit here trying to find something good to say and all I seem to be doing is restarting everything I write out. 

No that makes no sense and soon it’s erased and shared with no one and if I kept it up for long there would be no words or post out there from me. 

So I pop in my headphones and I listen to something that restarts the writer block in my head and then the words just flow and everything I’ve felt or yet to feel come pouring out on the paper. 

I begin to wonder will this always be the way my writing go and would I ever change it to be more organized. 

Probably not for well why change something that works and keeps drawing from me the emotions I need in that moment of doubt or tiredness. 

The moment when no matter how many words you want to say just can’t get out of you for your energy is all gone. 

But, you just have to write something no for anyone just to get all the stress and joy out of you for tomorrow everything restarts all over again. 

Tomorrow may just be the same old stuff happening or it could be something so incredible that you just can’t believe this is happening to you. 

The one person who seems to be always stepping into puddles and not having a coat when it’s pouring down rain out. 

You hope this restart is the one that will make border in your life more aside and let you through for you have so much more offer than the little taste you have let out into the world. 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Restart

Poetry

Focus

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Three Line Tales, Week 109

photo by Jeremy Bishop 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’m riding the wave of a lifetime, I’m so peaceful and happy right now as I focus on making sure I make it out of this tunnel. 

I never thought I’d make it this far and my talent be more than a hobby to me and to have all the people I love watching me and supporting me too. 

The sun shines down on me and I feel free for the first time im my life and that’s why I love being out in the water for I feel like nothing but, doing what I love in this moment matters to me. 

 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Focus

 

Poetry

HOW

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can I feel like saying goodbye when I don’t want to say anything at all.

The words that you deserve to hear are all locked up inside of me and no matter how hard I fight to say the things you need to hear.

The words just won’t come and maybe there is something wrong with me but, I seem to have lost my voice.

And so I sit here writing it all out and well I don’t want you to feel like I  taking the coward way out.

But, every time I try to talk to you the words just get stuck in my mouth that I just nod and move on.

Every step I take to give you this letter feels like I’m walking through concrete and soon I will get stuck with no way out.

The solution seems so simple but now it has become so complicated that there just really isn’t enough time to stop and walk away from the mess I’ve made.

So here I go leaving it on your desk as I walk away and I don’t look back but, I hear you tearing it apart and I speed up my steps and then I walk so fast out there door.

I’m running down the stairs as I head to my car trying to get out of this place as fast as I got in it.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

 

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

Daily Prompt: Costume

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You wear your uniform like a costume

hiding behind it the real you for you want to fit in.

You are afraid to be your true self because what if you come cross too weird or normal

You want to stand out but only if it’s in a  good way.

You want to be someone everyone likes and if they don’t like you than you feel like you failed.

The mistake was hiding who you truly are is wrong for you are amazing even if they all dislike you, there will be someone out there that chooses to like you for you and not because everyone else says your horrible.

Take off the costume and just be you for you only live once and at the end of the day those people who hate you won’t always be around and who really cares about what they think.

While they are full of hate and you are full of light and love and you shine that on them every time at the end the results will look good for you and well you can’t save them all.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Where do I

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go from here

I feel like I’m stuck and yet at the same time 

I’m working so hard to move forward and enjoy the moments that I get to enjoy. 

Even though lately these moments feel so little and barely complete moments of silent. 

My mind seems to always be racing as everything around me is speeding up and no time to slow down when so many people are demanding attention. 

The feeling of wanting to hide away is so strong that I just don’t know what to do because right now the gas that is running through me slowly feels like it is about to run out. 

And being on empty is not a good thing and will end up with things turning out worst than it already is. 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Profuse

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I felt like you had an abundant amount of apologies for everything you thought you did wrong as if for everything said you had the solution.

You wanted to fit in but, yet you turned on the very person that introduced you to everyone.

And at first they felt sorry for you for you just didn’t want to be alone and soon lots of people were around you.

You didn’t realize that the person who you kicked out first would be the only person around you in the end.

No one was true to you for you didn’t show them who you truly were at first and by the time they saw who you were they didn’t know how to handle the situation.

Leaving you back where you started with no one by your side until that hand reached out to you and showed you the way out from the place you thought you needed all along .

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Profuse

Poetry

Curious

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Three Line Tales, Week 105

photo by Jacco Rienks 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.
  • Have fun.

I’m always curious about things in life that I don’t understand for the unknown just makes me want to know more and, until I fulfil that desire inside of me it will bug me until I do. 

To feel like I have some answer is better than just standing here day-to-day and not stopping to looking around and see what’s really going on around me.

 To reach out a hand or two and help ease the pain of others or just spread some happiness and kindness their way so their day ends on a higher note than it was before they walked  through those doors. 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Curious

 

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Trill

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The movement of your phone woke me up this morning as your alarm kept going off, it moved around so much I was sure it would fall of the nightstand.

But, it didn’t and then silence again welcomed me back to my sleep and I didn’t question where you were when all this was going on for the only thing on my mind was going back to sleep.

Soon the sun was waking me up again and the phone that had woken me up hours ago was still siting there all alone and that was strange for you go nowhere without that phone.

As I  reached over to get my phone and call you at work, I realize my phone is gone and so I guess my phone is with you instead.

I knew this day was going to be rough but, I had hoped that it would at least start off on good and then fall miserably.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Trill

Poetry

The city

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Photo by Roman Logov

The city life is so busy and yet there is some people who don’t let that bring them down and they choose to slow down and enjoy the little things.

You don’t have to live in a big city to feel the busy life and get lost in things that you may later regret.

Sometimes the little town life is kind of peaceful but, the options to do so many things is something you could look forward to when you have some time off.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

The big city!

 

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Shock

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I’m more shocked that the same stuff still surprises me when it comes to you because the same stuff is still happening.

So when it happens again why do I act like it’s the first time you done  dumb shit like this before.

The look on your face when I just shake my head and walk away doesn’t surprise me anymore and well next thing you know I’m not there to react anymore.

I’ve been shocked enough lately not to be surprised anymore that this is something you have not grown up from yet.

But, it won’t shock me if I get that same old text next week and well I hope you won’t be shocked when I don’t replied and block you well I am at it.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Shock