Writing Prompt
POEM STARTER
Submitted by bianca
It wasn’t yours to take, but nevertheless you ripped it from my grasp
Write an insta-poem using this as the opening line. An insta-poem uses short, direct lines that would suit a small screen.
Writings
Memories
I know I’m making memories,
But they flash bye so fast.
I can’t keep up with
This world anymore.
I’m falling down and being passed by,
everyone else speeding up.
Why can’t I just keep up.
I really can’t do anything
With the feeling of pain and suffering
in my mind and in my chest.
Almost everything I touch will be
ruined and turned into dust.
I’ll cry on the race track of my life
And sit on the pa...
 Gasoline
It wasn’t yours to take,
But nevertheless,
You ripped it from my grasp.
It wasn’t your choice to make,
But like always,
I’ll have the last laugh.
I’m the little girl lost,
But I’ll pay the cost.
It’s not your battle to win or lose.
But you love trying,
Always prying,
Leave it up to me to choose.
I’ve wasted time,
Waiting in line,
But it’s all over now.
When it said and done,
I’ll be t...
I’m Not Sorry
(Not the prompt)
I’m not sorry I met you.
I don’t regret being with you.
I’m not ashamed that I loved you.
Because I did.
Please don’t think otherwise.
I did love you,
It wasn’t fake.
You were my world,
My light,
My color.
You were everything to me,
And I’m not sorry.
Just as I’m not sorry I ended it.
We were failing,
We were breaking apart.
You were hurting,
I was hurting.
I was hurting you.
We...
photographic memories
it wasn’t yours to take,
but nevertheless
you ripped it
from my grasp
i’m left alone
with never ending
never merciful
moral crises
i am so
so
lost.
you couldn’t reach me
physically
but my lord,
my personal hell,
did you squeeze
your way
into my pretty
little
brain.
so little.
you probably don’t
even
think about me.
i was probably just
a joke
in your young adult mind.
but i
i have not
forgot...
Catharsis #2
I hated this but I need it gone.
How someone I held dear to me ruined our relationship.
….
You held me up and put me on a pedestal,
Thinking this was love.
You thought me somehow celestial.
You put me above your needs,
Why the fuck would you call this love.
Whatever I did was on something you would feed.
You saw me fall,
you were responsible for this twist in the arrow.
I tried to be free bu...
I Once Had A Heart
I once had a heart.
It was broken
And torn
And worn by many
But it was mine.
You once asked if I could love you.
I said I could
And maybe I would
But you misunderstood.
There once was a time, when I bared you my heart.
And you tore it
And wore it
Like a mask for your fears.
I now ask for my heart back.
But you lock it away
As I beg and I gasp
It’s not yours to take
But nevertheless you rip it...
What We Made
It wasn’t yours to take, but nevertheless you ripped it from my grasp.
And you held on to it like a precious metal.
Your voice coarse like a rasp.
The cost of what you took now fatal.
What you held,
In the end was beyond even my right.
What we made,
Would have been worth the fight.
But in the end,
It wasn’t ours to keep.
Even if we did bend.
It wasn’t ours to reap....