Author: Jo The Dragon

Be My Harmony

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(This is the text to a spoken word poem. Spoken word poems are better seen than read, but I am camera shy)

When we first met
I’ve gotta confess
I wasn’t crazy about you
But that you already knew

This isn’t a love at first sight song
It’s more of a slow fall
Think like an unexpected snow fall
That proved the weather man way wrong

Because first impressions aren’t everything
And you got me to sing
Hell, you got me to dance
A feat deserving of a medal

You got me high on laughter
Unable to breathe from pure happiness
A smile on my face nothing can remove
Not even the abuse I’ve been through

For once my past doesn’t matter
The pain I feel no longer leaves me shattered
My smile is real
And it has everything to do with how I feel

I am not in love
Just majorly crushing
With the hope of one day loving
Of being brave enough to ask

Would you be the harmony
To the melody my heart is singing
Take my hand and teach me to dance
Because I just wanna dance with you

Stay out until the sky turns pink
Eat burritos and watch Disney movies
Sing along to every song
Do it all except…except play baseball

You’re the man I’d introduce to my gaming group
That I would let read my unfinished stories
That I let see the real me
No mask, no filter, just me

And as much as I’d like you to make the first move
Although I know it would make things awkward
My heart is singing to loud to keep hiding it
And I wish I was brave enough to ask

If you would be the harmony
To the melody my heart is singing
If you would take my hand and teach me to dance
Because I just wanna dance with you

Come With Me

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Take me to the mountains
The ones I’ve yet to see
All purple mountains majesty

Show me the ocean
How it crashes into the shore
A place I’ve never been before

Walk with me through a forest
Surrounded by green and peace
Where it’s as quiet as a heartbeat

Come with me
No destination
No itinerary

Come with me
No promise to return
No promise of anything more

Away from work and responsibilities
Away from school and past mistakes
Away from dark thoughts
Away from pills and knives

Drive for one mile or thousands
Disappear for 5 minutes or a whole week
Time and distance won’t matter
As long as you come with me

Take me to the mountains
Show me the ocean
Walk with me through a forest

Anywhere
Just come with me
Please

 

Unseen, Unheard

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Unseen, unheard
A ghost to the world
Friends, family, passerbys
All those eyes
Just sliding by

Voice forever interrupted
By those who claim
This is what love is
This is what love is
An unnoticed existence

Not living, not dying
Just barely existing
Tossed into the deep end
When I don’t know how to swim
So tread water they say

Take a deep breath
It’ll be okay
But a deep breath
From the bottom of the ocean
Only works to let the water in

What if I died today
Alone and afraid
Unseen, unheard
A ghost to the world
With my last breath still in my chest

 

Beautiful

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Spoken Word Poem from the Let the Dice Choose poetry challenge prompt of Beauty.

You.
Yes you.
You are the definition of beauty.

And stop!
Before you give me the
“I hate my body”
“I hate my face”
etc.
EXCUSES

Remember
Beauty is NOT skin deep.
It’s in the way…
You smile at a stranger
The way you excitedly point out every dog while driving
It’s in the way you help others
You and your perfect flaws
You are beautiful
Don’t you see?
Here
Borrow my glasses
Look through my eyes
You are the definition of beautiful

YOU

ARE

BEAUTIFUL

Don’t you dare forget it

Let the Dice Choose

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This is a poetry prompts challenge that covers 120 days. For it you will need a d6 (6 sided die) and a d20 (20 sided die) plus your preferred writing tools.

The 120 prompts are broken down into 6 lists of 20 prompts each. Every day, you roll the d6 to choose which of the 6 lists your prompt will come from. Then you roll the d20 to choose which of those 20 prompts will be your prompts for the day. If you roll a prompt you’ve already done, simply re-roll until you get a new one.

List 1
1. Your Inspriation
2. Pink
3. Beauty
4. Strength
5. Feelings
6. Dreams
7. Childhood
8. A Job
9. Food
10. Stars
11. Last
12. Tradition
13. First Night
14. Annual Goal
15. Best Day
16. Black & White
17. Underneath
18. Did it!
19. Memoir
20. Wrapped

List 2
1. First
2. About Me
3. Sonnet
4. Being Alone
5. Blue
6. A Process
7. Inspired By…
8. Life
9. A Story
10. Summer
11. Night
12. Change
13. I Wish I Could
14. Something Beginning with T
15. Love
16. Confidence
17. A Friend
18. Music
19. Family
20. Nature

List 3
1. “Impressed” (title)
2. Elements
3. Retell a Story in Poem Form
4. Items That Are Always Close By
5. “Guilt” (title)
6. “Forgiveness” (title)
7. “Spirit Animal” (title)
8. “Last Time” (title)
9. Weather
10. Weakness
11. “Arrival” (title)
12. “Last Call” (title)
13. A Surprise You Experienced
14. “Choices” (title)
15. “Promises” (title)
16. “Breathe” (title)
17. “Pain” (title)
18. “Luck”(title)
19. “Abstract” (title)
20. A Feeling That’s Hard to Describe

List 4
1. Everybody
2. Things People Say
3. Wrong Way
4. Too Many
5. Remember
6. Song
7. Impatience
8. If
9. 100 Years
10. What I Wrote
11. Person Who Changed Your Life
12. “Hope” (title)
13. Guilty Pleasures
14. “My Skin” (title)
15. “Home” (title)
16. “Clarity” (title)
17. A Rivalry
18. “Fears” (title)
19. A Significant Memory
20. “Things I’ve Lost” (title)

List 5
1. Things We Carry
2. An Open Door
3. Faces in the Street
4. Mirror
5. This Road
6. Aftermath
7. Very Loud
8. Shoes
9. Nothing
10. Anywhere in the World
11. Out of Control
12. Forgotten
13. Witness
14. Small Things
15. Early Morning
16. Warning
17. Walk Away
18. Super Market
19. Failures
20. Victories

List 6 (this list has some holiday specific prompts, these can be substituted for prompts more appropriate for the time of year)
1. Years Past
2. Caroling
3. Mistletoe
4. Snowy Flight
5. Christmas Romance
6. Grandma’s Recipe
7. Please, Santa
8. Nostalgia
9. Peace
10. Cookie-Gram
11. Pinnacle
12. The Visitor
13. Boxing Day
14. Bygones
15. Past Glory
16. New Plans
17. Blank Page
18. First Step
19. First Snow
20. Parcels

I started this challenge, because I personally struggle with the Day 1, do this prompt type challenges. I prefer not knowing what the next prompt will actually be, this allows me more creative freedom. Feel free to share this with anyone, use it for your classes or personal poetry writing, or tag me in any poems that come as a result of this challenge.