but a dream

the tale of a love that not even a woman full of mistakes could destroy.

ruinous

❝Hello, how are you?❞ a little thought. [the art on the cover does not belong to me. credit to the artist.]

the man who can't be moved

"cause if one day you wake up and find that your missing me. and your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be. thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet. and you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street."

Why (and other poems)

✽You wonder If you were just Too oblivious, Or too naive.✽ A collection of poems I write on occasion ~

white walls

i got diagnosed with depression and anxiety last friday. tw for topics mentioned.

thoughts.

I wish I had a choice To figure out what I want Sadly, life wasn't that kind It landed me in my thoughts In which a girl writes about her thoughts on society and pain.

This

There is hope, always.

The Breakfast Club

Smudged Ink

Xavier doesn't speak; he writes.

Rose

The sweet and humble life of Rose.

recycled poetry

❝i wish i was writing something special, but these words have been used before and there's no originality to it at all. i'm just reusing phrases until they're worn out, like musty library books or hand-me-down clothes.❞ from ❛hand-me-down poetry❜ in this very book, the inspiration for the title ✱✱✱trigger warnings a...

Methought

"Ever drifting down the stream — Lingering in the golden gleam — Life, what is it but a dream?" - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

lost;

there should be stars for great wars like ours. there ought to be awards and plenty of champagne for the survivors. [ poetry #1 18/12/14 ]

Life in Color

"The colors of knowledge splash onto the blank canvas of my mind," -ddiaz80 These poems are based on most colors of the color spectrum and will be laced with my emotions. Enjoy :) {Criticism would be very much appreciated}. I DO NOT OWN THE ARTWORK FOR THE COVER

Journey Home

Journey Home c.2013, Olan L. Smith Journey Home is a collection of poems that is a personal search for my spiritual home. I go about this search with the tools of poetry using the English language as my map. Love, peace and freedom, Olan L. Smith

anthology

"human beings are works in progress who mistakenly think they're finished" © taekth 2016

Again

short poems/ short stories for here and there

A Collection Of Poems

“wordѕ тнaт over тιмe, нave вυιlт тнeιr ѕelveѕ ιnтo ѕтorιeѕ тнaт evιdenтly мean мore тнan тнey ѕнoυld"

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written in 2011

velvet

my feelings are made of velvet. © slvtherin

carmina [a poetry challenge]

[carmina - lat. - poetry] [open indefinitely]

Winter Trails

Winter Trails is an album of my poems, journeying through late fall when the wire of the trees begins to dominate, till the end of January. After promoting it and it soaring to three quarter million reads, Wattpad unceremoniously dumped it. Here it still is though.