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POEM STARTER
Submitted by Maranda Quinn
'Closed mouths don’t get fed.'
Write a poem or short story using this phrase as your central theme. What scenarios does this bring to mind?
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If you don’t devour your plate
You will not get to play
Swallow the last remaining bit of grease
And feel filthy as it bubbles in your stomach
Do not regurgitate
The meal I gave you
You didn’t oppose me before now
So why fuss over your silly ideals
Dead men don’t eat
And neither will you
If you cannot speak...
Timmy was this furry little scrap of a thing who ran around all the time, shouting that nobody ever listened to him. Even though he spent most of his time ignoring us, sleeping on the sofa or licking his paws. But as soon as we made it clear that we had our own lives? He was jumping up off that sofa after us, screaming bloody murder. That mouth of his was louder than any other mouth, wider than an...
Closed mouths don’t get fed
You can’t get good sleep if your not in bed
Please listen when I say
The clouds will be there any day
If they weren’t so common
Would you sit and say
What beautiful God sent creatures!
With soft and powdery, puffy features
You can’t see with your soul closed
Open the door, don’t be so opposed
Would you like your heart to be full?
With memories and wonders
And love and ...
Didn’t one of your loved ones tell you, beggars cannot be choosers?
As I sit here, hidden between the school kids, it really just reminds me of the carefree days I had in school.
Around my feet there is sparrows crawling, busking for crumbs. There’s a lady on a saxophone, she’s busking to make a living. Her CDs are $15.00. The kids and teenagers are care free, they only have to worry about the b...
I was told that water drips from you
Through your care, through your effort
You establish a ravish need
To take the salt out from the sea
To feed the seams you’ve seen
So they may continue
Continue to flow
Your sweat is the blood you know
The type you eat to make it yours
Injest to rejoice
But the water will flow out again
That is not your choice
So you stammer out your voice
And you ope...
Talking used to be my forte,
I used to chatter on and on again.
But to my very much dismay,
the summer had to begin.
-/\- -/\-
Nobody understands,
the voice that faded away.
Or the face that hides behind strands
of hair because she hates to be on display.
Her eyes hate to meet another pair;
her voice is broken and faint.
She’s hidden behind blonde hair,
while her heart is a fallen saint.
She a...
closed mouths don’t get fed
so i should open my mouth more
i feel all my feeling have been stuck
stuck inside with no way of escape
my opinions i keep to myself
so that people dont assume something of me
that isn’t true
if only i was confident
confident enough to speak up
to tell people how i feel
closed mouths don’t get fed.
so i’ll wait here
with my mouth closed
silently starving
yearning f...
TW: Religious themes
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My mother used to say,
_Closed mouths don’t get fed._
But I was too young
and too hungry,
my stomach screamed over
my heart and I couldn’t say,
_Why don’t you care about me? _
I forgot how I hated this.
_Closed mouths don’t get fed. _
I was not a bird in the nest.
You should have saw the hunger
in my eyes,
in my heavy eyes,
in my need for love.
What mother, when...
I knew something was wrong yet I kept my mouth concealed shut as if there was glue to my lips.
But the thought lingered in my mind.
My heart and brain were in a conflicting bind.
The secret weighed down on me yet I wasn’t dare to have spoke.
Because if I spoke, itd be against the person ive loved the most.
A love that was a whirl wind of things,
From being attached to each others hip and almost a ...
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