Hello, you need to enable JavaScript to use this network.

Please check your browser settings or contact your system administrator.

Write No Cliches ... Pull No Punches ... And Keep Going All Night

For Future Rainy Days

For Future Rainy Days

You can’t touch me push me

punch me sing me a lullaby.

Don’t even try to please me.

Don’t ever fathom me.

I’m not the understood kind

your mom would want to meet.

Some would claim I’m easy

but they don’t know me,

don’t want to show me

another way to be above the fray,

to leave the drama far below;

besides I ain’t ready to leave it go.

My angry days ain’t left behind.

I seethe, bake and broil,

my thoughts a tasty turmoil

morning, evening, I’m grieving,

fighting feelings, not concealing

my ocean of emotions.

Emotions are my smoke screen,

my soft sides unseen, unheard

unless you listen closely.

Behind the door of drama

there’s some growing going on,

some whispered hints of song.

Just don’t ask me to confirm it,

deny it with my last howling breath,

refuse to concede the warmth underneath.

My caring’s not for you.

Some things have got to be saved

for some future’s rainy days.

©2009 David P. Eckert

2 Comments

At 7:35pm on February 22nd, 2009, Josh Baker said…: I'm not always easily sold on rhyming poetry, as I think it's easy to sound trite, but this is nicely done. I like the idea and the sound of the line "my soft sides unseen". There is a power in that withheld caring...

At 9:31pm on February 22nd, 2009, David P. Eckert said…: Thanks for the kind words. I don't even think of that style of poetry as rhyme, though clearly it has many rhymes in it. It's meant to have a strong rhythm, especially if spoken aloud. In this instance most rhymes were at the end of lines, but often I may put them at various points, an end of word line with one in the middle of the next line for example.

Add a Comment

You need to be a contender on Writers Prize Fighters And Caffeine Inspired All Nighters to add comments!

Join this network

About This Post

Posted February 17th, 2009 12:24am by:

David P. Eckert

Comments: 2
Who can view this post? Everyone

Recent Posts

Monthly Archives

2009

February (5)
January (6)

2008

Sign Up

About Writers Prize Fighters And Caffeine Inspired All Nighters

Paul Grimsley created this social network on Ning.

Create your own social network on Ning for free!

Contenders

View All

Writers Prize Fighters And Caffeine Inspired All Nighters Badge

Join the fight. Get your own Writers Prize Fighters And Caffeine Inspired All Nighters badge for your website or MySpace page. (Get Code)

Get More Badges

Writers Prize Fighters And Caffeine Inspired All Nighters brought to you by Paul Grimsley © 2009 Report an Issue | Feedback | Privacy | Terms of Service

Spread the word. Get your own Writers Prize Fighters And Caffeine Inspired All Nighters badge