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POEM STARTER
Door shut tightly, might the monsters come.
Write a poem which ends with this line. You may wish to interpret the 'monsters’ metaphorically rather than literally.
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I can never seem to sleep.
When I'm alone, there's nothing to silence the hurricane of thoughts in my head.
**You'll never be enough.**
_Why am I not enough?_
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**Nobody loves you.**__
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_Why does nobody love me?_
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I'm sitting up til sunrise, letting the circles under my eyes darken.
The monster isn't under my bed, but it rests upon it.
It doesn't think it's enough.
It doesn't thin...
Overthinking is my specialty
At night
When the world falls asleep
I sit and think
About everything that went wrong
About the things I said
Or didn’t say
Or the things I did
Or didn’t do
The problems that have no solution
And the differences things would make
If I could just build up enough confidence
To talk to him
I know I can’t do anything about it now
It’s too late
There’s no going bac...
You keep the quilt pressed close to a sweating forehead,
The golden light on to scare the dark
Yet you jump at the sound of the mechanical lark.
Your wild eyes are forced open
In a terrified trance you cannot deny
You pray that no wolf will jump for sheep over a fence so high.
The lark screeches like an owl in the night
Twelve chimes it shrieks
And your heart leaps twelve times.
The creak and ...
right on the edge of my head
that i am stuck inside
a cloudy haze of swirling red
emotions taking flight
i cannot open myself up
i cannot let them in
it’s better to stay tightly shut
or else they’ll surely win
they’re monsters, nothing else
because they never go away
i’m convinced they came from hell
because they want to stay
with me, inside my brain
where it’s dark and freezing cold
they t...
Door shuts behind me
Might the monsters
Crawl out
Under the bed
With screaming
Words
Instead my head
And under my bed
They stand in front of me
Sharping their nails
Like knifes
Pointing at me
Till
“Baby I’m here”
She says
I she hopes the door
The monsters disappear
As she crawls into bed
And kisses my forehead
“Good night”...
Chasing the dragon, an agonizing fight,
Living in sin, a world without light.
I walked through the world, a ghost among men,
Convinced that I’d never taste freedom again.
Life felt like echoes in an empty hall,
A puzzle missing pieces, a 10 story fall.
Colors around me, muted and dark,
Until I met the girl with the gypsy heart.
Blind to the world, yet still, she could see,
Beyond all my flaws...
I’m drenched in sweat and darkness as I lie in bed alone,
I know they’re watching me, I can fill it in my bones.
I hide beneath the blanket, as if it is my shield,
Waiting for my bitter fate to finally be revealed.
I knew it couldn’t last, it was too good to be true,
I should have listened when he told me, “I’m gonna get you. “
I should have known they’d come, it was only a matter of time,
W...
In the quiet of my room, when darkness steals the day,
Daddy would come, to chase the monsters away.
With a smile and a kiss, he'd tuck me in tight,
"Sleep well, my darling, no monsters tonight."
The closet was checked, under the bed too,
Daddy always knew just what to do.
But now, the room's cold, the night's filled with gloom,
For Daddy's gone silent, beyond the silver Moon.
Mommy tries with...
The day the monsters came
They flung open all the doors
Started screeching insulting names
Stained boots pounding on the floors
The sound of the alarm
Piercing the heavy air
Loud bangs indicated harm
Hiding places were hard to share
Alone, scared and terrified
Looking for some sweet solace
But if by chance you were eyed
The floor was far from flawless
So, although you must keep having fun
Keep ...
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