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Miss concept of thoughts Your mind is running miles Conceiving ones through your smile Your eyes learned to file The characteristics of a man But make-up couldn’t mend What therapy can’t comprehend You speak but somehow they never understand That this cycle seems to never wanna end Longing for some friends But their known to […]

The Future Promise Letter by Stevens Cadet

Since when did the field become a place for release? Who made it popular for these hoes to become the police? And what makes these girls mistake me for their hero? They find out I’m human & all of a sudden their love dissolves when they find out I’m real. Can’t wait for the moment […]

Sometimes….Life’s A Beach by Stevens Cadet

Mark these quotes I ask all that you hold it. Scriptures I have written has labeled me as a Poet. I grow in, these words, that has kept me from Abyss. I grow in, these words, that has kept me from Abyss. With syllables so beautiful, the lips granted Venus her first kiss! Planted a […]

Passion Of My Heart by Stevens Cadet

My passion is not reading this, or writing this poem, that’s not the care! Looking in the eyes of the listeners is the dare! Being here while our life’s intermingle, that is my one in a lifetime. While looking at those ladies that are fine. Have you ever been in love & let your feelings […]

Nobody Told Me Of These Nights (A Poem For Melanie) by Stevens Cadet

Lights low, Moon glow Nobody told me this the things that the nights show Beauty in the dark helped me to know When those…..Guitar strings Can start to spring, Melodies became her part thing Dancing in my mind was the career choice! Modeling the idea that others ain’t the one to act on She feeling […]

A Night With Passion! by Stevens Cadet

Your body, soaking wet. The sweat dripping so near & clear. A feeling you’ll soon regret you let enter your most passionate pour. Intimidated because you wish to console it but your body rejects! Because it’s past it’s peak, and your body begins to leak an unforgettable weep. For the withdrawal is beyond skin deep; your heart can no longer […]

Lyfe by Stevens Cadet

Life has it’s up’s, Life has it’s downs. Sometimes there is happiness, sometimes there is frowns…. You think you know life like the back of your hand, but sometimes it doesn’t really go as planned. Because life is really not like one big plot. What goes around comes around like it or not…. You think […]

Cupid’s Reign Of Terror (March 2012) by Stevens Cadet

Speak…I wonder how your speech engulfed me? Flames through your eyes, so much passion when you talk to me! ! The Devil made a deal but the contract had him lost between, The new Queen Of Darkness cause somehow while you fought between, The trials and the errors of life that tried to measure, The […]

The Captain by Stevens Cadet

Young teen, feeling alone, no friends of his own. Seen disaster, he was missing a father. Needing brothers to console the problems that came along. You know who he is? The man now grown. the one your son puts on the fridge. The hero of your kids, that’s LeBron I depict. Or young Michael Oher, […]

Better Days by Stevens Cadet

I used to be a used tooBut never got used tooLetting the things that attract some be the only route I used tooReach the goals to help my MotherAnd allow my little sister to see the values of a women.Dark days brought me stardom.Father died but never did I mourn in, All the responsibilities that quickly […]

A Poem For Ashleigh (July) by Stevens Cadet

She asked if I’m really this cleverShe seems to really wanna know, might let herWon’t regret itBut tonight might dine! ! Flash images getting mixed with nights where I repentedAnd projected, mentally, her heart is apprehended…Let me spin with these lyrics that you help me find…Fingertips curress you slowly until chills run down your spine….Although this […]

A Pen Wrote The Funeral by Stevens Cadet

Am I becoming someone your stranger too? Making you wonder, has it brought a better you? From new understandings, that time has handed.Fall in line, God has too have planned this? Hoping you manage, but yet some go….Guess you first have to be a fan of your own.Until own every stable thought you been up on.Causing your glow […]

A Morning Letter by Stevens Cadet

Good Morning girl, did I interrupt? The dreams from the late thoughts, can I bring reality from what your imagination thought up? I got that deep love. That from young, I was preparing for the day I meet the….. Woman who my last name shall feature. Featuring the caress while you stress I gave with […]

The Pleasures Of Friendship by Stevie Smith

The Pleasures Of Friendship by Stevie Smith The pleasures of friendship are exquisite, How pleasant to go to a friend on a visit! I go to my friend, we walk on the grass, And the hours and moments like minutes pass. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems […]

The Jungle Husband by Stevie Smith

The Jungle Husband by Stevie Smith Dearest Evelyn, I often think of you Out with the guns in the jungle stew Yesterday I hittapotamus I put the measurements down for you but they got lost in the fuss It’s not a good thing to drink out here You know, I’ve practically given it up dear. […]

Tenuous And Precarious by Stevie Smith

Tenuous And Precarious by Stevie Smith Tenuous and Precarious Were my guardians, Precarious and Tenuous, Two Romans. My father was Hazardous, Hazardous Dear old man, Three Romans. There was my brother Spurious, Spurious Posthumous, Spurious was Spurious, Was four Romans. My husband was Perfidious, He was Perfidious Five Romans. Surreptitious, our son, Was Surreptitious, He […]

Sunt Leones by Stevie Smith

Sunt Leones by Stevie Smith The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the arena By indulging native appetites played was now been seen a Not entirely negligible part In consolidating at the very start The position of the Early Christian Church. Initiatory rights are always bloody In the lions, it appears From […]

Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith

Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith I always remember your beautiful flowers And the beautiful kimono you wore When you sat on the couch With that tigerish crouch And told me you loved me no more. What I cannot remember is how I felt when you were unkind All I know is, if you were unkind […]

Our Bog Is Dood by Stevie Smith

Our Bog Is Dood by Stevie Smith Our Bog is dood, our Bog is dood, They lisped in accents mild, But when I asked them to explain They grew a little wild. How do you know your Bog is dood My darling little child? We know because we wish it so That is enough, they […]

Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith

Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he’s dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. […]

Nor We Of Her To Him by Stevie Smith

Nor We Of Her To Him by Stevie Smith He said no word of her to us Nor we of her to him, But oh it saddened us to see How wan he grew and thin. We said: she eats him day and night And draws the blood from him, We did not know but […]

Never Again by Stevie Smith

Never Again by Stevie Smith Never again will I weep And wring my hands And beat my head against the wall Because Me nolentem fata trahunt But When I have had enough I will arise And go unto my Father And I will say to Him: Father, I have had enough. ————— The End And […]

My Heart Was Full by Stevie Smith

My Heart Was Full by Stevie Smith My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. […]

My Heart Goes Out by Stevie Smith

My Heart Goes Out by Stevie Smith My heart goes out to my Creator in love Who gave me Death, as end and remedy. All living creatures come to quiet Death For him to eat up their activity And give them nothing, which is what they want although When they are living they do not […]

Mother, Among The Dustbins by Stevie Smith

Mother, Among The Dustbins by Stevie Smith Mother, among the dustbins and the manure I feel the measure of my humanity, an allure As of the presence of God, I am sure In the dustbins, in the manure, in the cat at play, Is the presence of God, in a sure way He moves there. […]

Infelice by Stevie Smith

Infelice by Stevie Smith Walking swiftly with a dreadful duchess, He smiled too briefly, his face was pale as sand, He jumped into a taxi when he saw me coming, Leaving my alone with a private meaning, He loves me so much, my heart is singing. Later at the Club when I rang him in […]

In The Night by Stevie Smith

In The Night by Stevie Smith I longed for companionship rather, But my companions I always wished farther. And now in the desolate night I think only of the people i should like to bite. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster […]

I Remember by Stevie Smith

I Remember by Stevie Smith It was my bridal night I remember, An old man of seventy-three I lay with my young bride in my arms, A girl with t.b. It was wartime, and overhead The Germans were making a particularly heavy raid on Hampstead. What rendered the confusion worse, perversely Our bombers had chosen […]

I Do Not Speak by Stevie Smith

I Do Not Speak by Stevie Smith I do not ask for mercy for understanding for peace And in these heavy days I do not ask for release I do not ask that suffering shall cease. I do not pray to God to let me die To give an ear attentive to my cry To […]

Happiness by Stevie Smith

Happiness by Stevie Smith Happiness is silent, or speaks equivocally for friends, Grief is explicit and her song never ends, Happiness is like England, and will not state a case, Grief, like Guilt, rushes in and talks apace. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and […]

Freddy by Stevie Smith

Freddy by Stevie Smith Nobody knows what I feel about Freddy I cannot make anyone understand I love him sub specie aet ernitaties I love him out of hand. I don’t love him so much in the restaurants that’s a fact To get him hobnob with my old pub chums needs too much tact He […]

Exeat by Stevie Smith

Exeat by Stevie Smith I remember the Roman Emperor, one of the cruellest of them, Who used to visit for pleasure his poor prisoners cramped in dungeons, So then they would beg him for death, and then he would say: Oh no, oh no, we are not yet friends enough. He meant they were not […]

Edmonton, thy cemetery by Stevie Smith

Edmonton, thy cemetery by Stevie Smith Edmonton, thy cemetery In which I love to tread Has roused in me a dreary thought For all the countless dead, Ah me, the countless dead. Yet I believe that one is one And shall for ever be, And while I hold to this belief I walk, oh cemetery, […]

Drugs Made Pauline Vague by Stevie Smith

Drugs Made Pauline Vague by Stevie Smith Drugs made Pauline vague. She sat one day at the breakfast table Fingering in a baffled way The fronds of the maidenhair plant. Was it the salt you were looking for dear? said Dulcie, exchanging a glance with the Brigadier. Chuff chuff Pauline what’s the matter? Said the […]

Deeply Morbid by Stevie Smith

Deeply Morbid by Stevie Smith Deeply morbid deeply morbid was the girl who typed the letters Always out of office hours running with her social betters But when daylight and the darkness of the office closed about her Not for this ah not for this her office colleagues came to doubt her It was that […]

Conviction (iv) by Stevie Smith

Conviction (iv) by Stevie Smith I like to get off with people, I like to lie in their arms I like to be held and lightly kissed, Safe from all alarms. I like to laugh and be happy With a beautiful kiss, I tell you, in all the world There is no bliss like this. […]

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