Backyard Poetry

Day One to Day Three Hundred and Sixty Five. Poems about moving on and letting go.

[traumasurvivors]

Just an important message for my fellow trauma survivors:

What happened to you wasn’t fair. Don’t downplay it, or tell yourself that other people have it worse. The bottom line is that it should NEVER have happened. What you feel about it is real and valid. It might not be okay right now, but one day it will be. Thank you for surviving. I’m so glad you’re here. 

[dcbackyardpoet-blog]

I am so sick of you and your lies

You have told me so many stories

Spinning a web to trap me 

Convincing me that you are the hero

And I am the villain

You wonder why nobody wants you

Its because you are a child

And your manipulation gets old

[dcbackyardpoet-blog]

About Art

I have not been on here for a while as I have been working on a lot and honestly got very distracted but I want to take a moment to talk about artists. 

I am only really able to express my art through writing. I create stories and characters and write poems and that is it. Let me tell you guys, there are few things as frustrating as creating a person, seeing them perfectly in your mind, then trying to draw them and having it just be absolute shit. 

Like HOLY COW GUYS there are people who can just DRAW?? And it looks INCREDIBLE!!! Like the amount of time and work and skill that goes into that?? Oh my gosh??? Its amazing and I appreciate all of you artists out there creating such incredible things. Y’all amaze me. Thats it. Rant over. 

[dcbackyardpoet-blog]

emotions are exhausting

[milamai]

Windy coffee break 🗻 (by Milamai)

[landscape-pics]

[dcbackyardpoet-blog]

12:20

I don’t love you like I used to

My heart doesn’t long for your voice

My arms don’t long for your embrace

My eyes don’t miss your smile

I don’t wish to see you when I walk a crowded street

I am fine now

I’m lying

[igmakeup]

[thepersonalquotes]

[latibulelove]

not to be dramatic but people with chronic health conditions are literally 10000% stronger than you give them credit for

[youngchronicpain]

my brain is shit right now so I read this as “not to be dramatic but chronic health conditions are literally 10000% stronger than you give them credit for” and I was nodding my head thinking ‘fuck, yeah they are’

[dcbackyardpoet-blog]

Move on

I want to be free of the memory of you

To be able to listen to our songs without tears

And drive at night without thinking of you

I want to watch our shows again

To lose the need to tell our story

And finally allow myself to move on

[dcbackyardpoet-blog]

i give up

i have spent far too many hours

wasting emotion on you

never sure if you really cared for me

wondering if you wondered about me

but suddenly and without warning

i came to a very new understanding

that i am worth more than this

and i have not been compensated for my time

[dcbackyardpoet-blog]

its cute

I think it is cute that you believe I care for you

The many unanswered letters should have shown you

I have long since let go of you

The gifts that you promised which I never wanted

Were never delivered.

I let go of you a long time ago.

It is funny that you think I could ever keep a man

Who manipulated and controlled me as you so love to do

No no my dear I let go of you a long time ago

Do us both a favor my friend and let me go

I do not want you to keep hanging on

And real life is not a romance novel

[dcbackyardpoet-blog]

This one isn’t a poem

Hi, wonderful people who follow this blog, I am sorry I have not posted in such a long time. Life has been pretty crazy, I moved, I got promoted at work which is great it just cuts into my writing time, and overall I should have been better! So sorry about that!

SO I just wanted to say, I am the worst judge of my own writing. All of my favorite poems that I have written y’all don’t care about. All of my least favorites, you guys seem to love! So I just wanted to ask you guys

What kind of poems do you want me to write?

Do you have any requests?

Do you have any suggestions? 

I would love to hear from you guys so please let me know!! Thank you and I am sorry again!

[dcbackyardpoet-blog]

Change

You changed me so much

In so many ways

But I can’t hate you for it

I am in love with the temporary

[dcbackyardpoet-blog]

2:21

Who are you to enter my life like this

To turn everything upside down

And shatter my world

Who are you to make me stronger

Than I knew was even possible

And leave me behind Missing you

[dcbackyardpoet-blog]

Away

I could float here forever

Slowly being dragged out to sea

While the hidden monsters

Wait to tear me apart

The bright sun above

And the world's problems far behind

What a pleasant way to go away