The Gothic Poets Society discussion
Everyone's poems and/or works
They call it puppy love… puppies have the advantage of being cute, and strays are easily lovable; my eyes stray, dreams, thoughts, hands, every part of me and no girl , no angel wants any part of that. A Strayed Love… let’s get lost or leftA Strayed Love
And it’s far too HARD to look away
Why, is your beauty need to know?
Only when an angel lands
Or when you fly so low
What a man thinks he can
Do and what God must he betray
When he comes to understand
He is a dreamer of the day
Yet only a moment ago
There was only just a man
No black or white, perhaps some Grey
Not even I would let that go
Just someday
Though how it can be so
I Want To Hold Your Hand
But the words though
A kiss was not the plan
Oh won’t you stay?
My own personal brand
Of heroin till I see Fifty Shades
With a million colors also
Let love lead us astray
To heaven above or Hell below
Even if tomorrow is damned
With you, at least I’m not a stray
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Rinoa Heartilly… Final Fantasy VIII, T. E. Lawrence, “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E. L. James, The Beatles "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (T.V. Carpio), “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer, and "Iced" by Karen Marie Moning
I told a girl once I do not bow before unseen gods but that I stood in awe of her, and who she was everything about her was like some unwritten love story, just not my love story. Aw Cupid… love stories make me go Aww but my own is only Aw.Aw Cupid
"Because this is what I choose”
A dream that won’t allow me to slumber
How did an angel find me so…
With every sin and every flaw
I stand in awe
“All I Want Is You”
“Just you and no other”
Only who am I to show
Your magic ta-da
I’m yours, aha
“So Love me Like You Do”
But I have never had a lover
Wherever shall we go?
“To the stars” is that all
Aww
And beautiful words, however true
Are lost when I discover
Underneath Your Clothes
For lovers often speak blah
Before ah
Tell me you feel it too
Even now I lie Undiscovered
Wondering “does she know”
We could have had it all… nah
Cupid goes Aw
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Rinoa Heartilly… Final Fantasy VIII, Michael Franti & Spearhead "All I Want Is You", Barry Louis Polisar "All I Want Is You", Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Titanic (1997), Shakira “Underneath Your Clothes", and James Morrison "Undiscovered"
I’ve said I want to be in love before making love… yeah that’s the reason but anyway I’ve been thinking about how people fall in love. “Bed Breaking for Building Love”… is it a kiss, is it wanting to share yourself with someone, trust, etc.Bed Breaking for Building Love
And lips part for secrets I can’t keep
How I long to say them
Only I’m not him
So keep kissing me
Yet I wonder why you can’t see
The lover I have never been
You break my skin
And I would give it to you maybe
Between The Sheets
Am I Sleeping With A Friend
Maybe I’m a villain
But piece by piece
Could you love All Of Me
Don’t save me from my sin
Tell me “Where have you been?”
“Waiting”
A Thousand Years or more
For love is just insanity
An action repeated ceaselessly
Would you be mine as I am yours?
Rebuild my heart, the way you choose
“Love Me Like You Do”
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Rinoa Heartilly… Final Fantasy VIII, " The Isley Brothers "Between The Sheets", Neon Trees “"Sleeping With A Friend", John Legend "All Of Me", “Fifty Shades of Grey” (2015), Christina Perri "A Thousand Years", The Gargoyle" by Andrew Davidson, and Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack
Will wrote: "Purpose… pimping photos, petite playmates, prose, pen, pencil, paper, perhaps. Prolific Pantsing… I was looking for my life’s goal, my purpose; as long as I have power and profit, don’t much care w..."I'm pretty sure you used every single "P" word in the dictionary for this poem lol. Very different and unique for sure.
Prelude to the DeathWords,
Are not heard
Just music in the back/ground
Faint is the sound
Too soft to tell
But seems right for hell
Six feet under
Enjoy the deep slumber
The symphony’s sweet
Deaf/th is the beat
Conductor?
That is but a wonder
Just notes
Har/Demonic quotes
The ears are now but sour..
This is death at its fin-est/al hour
Silence,The death,
It lurks around
Looking for any soul
Until it consumes a victim
Nothing can prevent it’s dark destiny
All shall perish upon it’s simple manifestation
It’s creation was that of unfortunate, mysterious events
A plague that searches and stretches causing total devastation
Feeding off the living until they are unbearable and unidentifiable
This is it’s goal, manipulation, seizing power, taking over
So that no human can live nevermind withstand
Nothing can prevent what’s meant to be
And it certainly cannot be avoided
It drains everything it can
No surviving just dying
This is universal
The death,
Silence.
Justin wrote: "Prelude to the DeathWords,
Are not heard
Just music in the back/ground
Faint is the sound
Too soft to tell
But seems right for hell
Six feet under
Enjoy the deep slumber
The symphony’s sweet
Dea..."
Quite the tune
Justin wrote: "Silence,The death,
It lurks around
Looking for any soul
Until it consumes a victim
Nothing can prevent it’s dark destiny
All shall perish upon it’s simple manifestation
It’s creation was that of u..."
And yet we run only heading further into the dark
Hi, all. New here, so I thought I'd bring my shadows with me to visit.Here is a dark poem from my latest release The Scent of His Feathers: A Collection of Dark Verses. Hope you enjoy.
Fleet-Winged Fate (villanelle)
In showers of flame the dragons will rise,
wielding claws and teeth and armor-like squame.
Beware and prepare; they bring our demise.
Within an old book the grim prophecy lies—
future predestined by man’s wicked fame:
in showers of flame, the dragons will rise.
The last storm approaches. We’ll look to the skies,
dreading the dragons that no man can tame.
Beware and prepare; they bring our demise.
Too late we shall wail with repenting cries.
If we hide or fight, our fate is the same.
In showers of flame, the dragons will rise.
Judgment shall summon the gods in disguise
and our sins will feed them—they feast upon shame.
Beware and prepare; they bring our demise.
Liquid infernos, the blast purifies
and, like tinder, we spark and we sear as we're slain.
In showers of flame, the dragons will rise.
Beware and prepare; they bring our demise.
Ash wrote: "Hi, all. New here, so I thought I'd bring my shadows with me to visit.Here is a dark poem from my latest release The Scent of His Feathers: A Collection of Dark Verses. Hope you e..."
Hot ;)
Some things that keep me warm; blankets, hot cocoa, living in the south, being mad at people, and thoughts of pretty girls. Love brings its own brand of Hell and I can’t even get a Hello out of my mouth. Awkward Hell… O.Awkward Hell… O
And when will I learn
Speaking of three little words
When just one hasn’t been conquered
“Hello”
“Good Morning”, “How Are You” seems stranger
Only How Do You Talk To An Angel
Am I too good a sinner or that bad a savior?
I imagine if I was just a little bit braver
Maybe a lot hotter
My bed wouldn’t be thirty below
Yet I spend the nights burning
Tossing and turning
Waiting for the night
I See The Light
Dead In The Water
But for once I’m not alone
Beneath sheets and pillows
We could be Heroes
Or villains in the dark
Wherever we are
For I am not a coward
It’s Only Love you know
Yours I have desired
A “Girl On Fire”
As I watch the sun, get a little bit higher
Will we burn a little less brighter?
God, don’t let it be awkward
Just don’t let me go
Because you’re hot as Hell
Why can’t I just tell?
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Serah Farron… Final Fantasy XIII, The Heights “How Do You Talk To An Angel", Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi "I See The Light" (Tangled 2010), Ellie Goulding "Dead In The Water", Alesso "Heroes"(we could be), Heather Nova "It's Only Love", and “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
Will wrote: "Some things that keep me warm; blankets, hot cocoa, living in the south, being mad at people, and thoughts of pretty girls. Love brings its own brand of Hell and I can’t even get a Hello out of my ..."Very nice poem
Justin wrote: "Will wrote: "Some things that keep me warm; blankets, hot cocoa, living in the south, being mad at people, and thoughts of pretty girls. Love brings its own brand of Hell and I can’t even get a Hel..."Thank you ever so much for reading Justin
Someday Window Shopping LoversWatching the couples buying bed sheets or the girlfriends looking at lingerie, I’ve never seen the guys waiting when their women are looking at the sexy undies. “Someday Window Shopping Lovers”… someday I want to be that guy buying stuff for a lover.
Love lies in an IKEA store
Broken headboard is evident
Or a princess who was less than elegant
The thought of us makes me smile
Sigh
Didn’t know you could get so wild
When our clothing hit the floor
Now you’re looking for new undies
I think they’re worth the money
But you’re not wearing them today
Wonder why
We could lie here all day
Thinking does Amazon have anymore?
Love stories to be read
Listen to the radio instead
Only I rather listen to you
As time passed by
You can “Love Me Like You Do”
If we get the day off
There’s no day off for Heroes
Not that villains love their pillows
Just… I love us
Let the rest of the world surmise
I’m with the one I love
I’ll go on to ignore
Those wishing wells that once were oceans
Four leaf clovers I need to mow over
Rabbits and bunnies, free to go to town
Angel do you have to fly
Stay here with me Humpin' Around
Dare I ask the stars for more?
Lights that die but I want to see
You here with me
Or someday soon
Someday lies
Between Honey and The Moon
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Serah Farron… Final Fantasy XIII, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Alesso "Heroes"(we could be), Bobby Brown “Humpin' Around”, and Joseph Arthur "Honey And The Moon"
Last night I told a story about this good Christian girl I knew once; an incredible faith with a good boyfriend but I still thought about her. I don’t bow to gods but I stood in awe of her once upon a time. “Prayer to the Lovely Lady Listening”.Prayer to the Lovely Lady Listening
And if you would make me a nighttime prayer
See me and God aren’t friendly
But I have no reason for envy
For even love has a reason
Maybe
You’re just so deliciously tempting
Do you have a moment to spare?
“What were you saying”… “I don’t care”
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
You’ve only just begun
So tell me what please is
As we wait out the sun
“Am I the only one?”
“Nothing compares to you… I swear”
Catch your breath get some air
Because Heaven is something I never knew
Until the moment I met you
The space in-between us
“I’m falling” “me too”
Now “Love Me Like You Do”
If you dare
Even when life’s not fair
Or when we don’t understand
How God has his plans
In this Mad Season
Being just a man
I Think I Can, I think I can
Love you, but I’m scared
One day we won’t make it upstairs
With a love like ours
Yet I’ll knock a little louder
They say “He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus”
A lion looking to devour
No just a man each and every hour
Wondering what you pray for there
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Serah Farron… Final Fantasy XIII, Alesso "Heroes"(we could be), "Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Glee Cast Version)", Sinéad O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U”, Building 429 "The Space In Between Us", Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Matchbox Twenty “Mad Season”, The Pillows "I Think I Can", and The Killers "When You Were Young"
Customer satisfaction… I Can't Get No Satisfaction… but when it comes to love I want to be more than satisfied; not sure what that is…‘Happy’. Actually in a hotel once I called a “service” but my heart wouldn’t allow it. “Customer Care by Cupid”Customer Care by Cupid
Love’s not in my wallet
Or wadded in your purse
Do I think myself a prophet?
Would you like to just rehearse?
We could be so perverse?
On a sunny afternoon
You whisper “yes sir”
Where is Cupid with our room?
Will he trade his wings for rockets?
Did he take off in reverse?
Is he looking for a profit?
When I have my naughty nurse
Can be so much the worse
While your clothes are off and strewn
But waiting is the curse
Where is Cupid with our room?
I want love to be honest
Though I’m shy and terse
Not looking for the closet
Since I got the girl
Yet where shall we traverse
Love by lecherous loons
It’s time we should disperse
Where is Cupid with our room?
Cause I’m about to burst
With this Honey and the Moon
In my heart… I’m sure
Where is Cupid with our room?
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Serah Farron… Final Fantasy XIII, and Joseph Arthur "Honey And The Moon"
If I liked you… no girl has ever taken that news well. George Orwell through “Winston Smith” said “Do it to Julia” ah do I really think love could be so cruel; the idea of a girl wanting love as badly as I have; the joy of BDSM… Cupid Is Watching Me.Cupid Is Watching Me
Cupid is watching me
While every night I dream of you
“Love Me Like You Do”
'Cause, girl, you're perfect
Think you heard it
Swell…
To Room 101 I fell
But I can never love another
Will I ever have a lover?
Cupid is watching me
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Serah Farron… Final Fantasy XIII, "1984" by Geroge Orwell, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do and The Weeknd “Earned It” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack
It’s a lot easier carrying the pieces of my broken heart than having to show a beautiful girl… “That’s it, that’s all of me”. So I keep quiet or I only show ugliness because whatever might be good about me I can’t afford to lose. Baring PromisesBaring Promises
As though I’m daring lips not to be kissed
By a girl so pretty
Keeping quiet when I mean
Dirty, filthy, and things obscene
And I would make your beauty my litany
Wearing my heart on my sleeve but never looking at my wrist
When you’re so high above me
But we’re not going anywhere
Though there’s time to spare
Tell me not to look at you lovely
Wishing I was talking to you Miss... But I’m longing for what I have missed
Whether you’re my sun, my moon, my starlit sky
In any darkness I dream of
I Believe In A Thing Called Love
Or for you I would try
To share this man that doesn’t exist
Just… you’re the beauty to my beast
My queen, if I could imagine
A slave to my passion
Only Atlas lies deceased
These hands cannot do this
Yes I would try honest
“Let Me Love You”
“Love Me Like You Do”
How can either of us bare such a promise?
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Serah Farron… Final Fantasy XIII, Tal Bachman “She's so High”, Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle “A Whole New World” (Aladdin 1992), [ ellie x riley ] -- Let Her Go ♥ “Ellie Williams” (YouTube), Willow (1988) The Darkness “I Believe In A Thing Called Love”, Beauty and The Beast (1991), "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself) (Glee Cast Version)" and Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack
They Without MoralsWho dares disturb those who sleep in deep slumber?
Deriving us from our caskets and tombs
Whoever you are it is but a wonder
And onto you I curse and cast doom
You have ruined our peace and tainted our dirt
Do you have not any shame?
For this I summon onto you the deadliest hurt
And inflict blasphemy to scorn your name
Now let’s see you get into heaven
Knowing you’ve angered those already there
I plague you with the deadly sins of seven
Until your distraught and can no longer bare
A cemetery is a confined place for the dead
You did not come to pay your respects
For every step in which your feet have tread
You shall feel the mortifying effects
From the book, The Macabre Masterpiece: Poems of Horror and Gore
Copyright 2010,2014 by Justin Bienvenue
GargoylesCrouching in position posing in perfect posture
On the rooftop of a gothic cathedral sits a monster
He overlooks the city with an amazing aerial view
Contemplating on exactly what to do
With the sky now at twilight he slowly begins to move
Sneaky, sly and ever so smooth
He spreads his wings and lets out a fierce growl
As his eyes light up more alerting then an owl
Jumps off the building and into the air he soars
Viewing the nightlife and victims as he explores
He lurks around and preys on the unexpected
Despite his stature and size he remains undetected
After he’s done feasting and adventuring about
He heads back to the church so no one figures him out
Back into his spot as a statue so his image does not spoil
Now just a stone figurine sits the gargoyle
From the book The Macabre Masterpiece: Poems of Horror and Gore
Copyright 2010,2014 by Justin Bienvenue
The Portrait of Dorian GrayHere we see a well-mannered handsome man
Who to keep his good looks will do whatever he can
So he agrees for an artist to paint his portrait
Where he shall remain as is but the picture morbid
From then on in his beauty will not fade
His appearance in reality a hidden masquerade
Soon he commits to debauchery and sin
Thinking that against time he will always win
He shuns away his love with arrogance and rejection
As she poisons herself he makes lust his selection
He looks over his portrait which is now grotesque
Mad with rage he stabs the artist to death
He blames him for all his hideous acts
But his soul blackened no longer in tact
He then takes the knife and stabs his painting
To get away from his life he tries escaping
His servants hear a scream and to the room they swarm
they find an aged, withered, horrid man
Beside him the portrait back to it’s original form
From the book The Macabre Masterpiece
Copyright 2010,2014 by Justin Bienvenue
Justin wrote: "They Without MoralsWho dares disturb those who sleep in deep slumber?
Deriving us from our caskets and tombs
Whoever you are it is but a wonder
And onto you I curse and cast doom
You have ruined ..."
If zombies had a sort of divine edict I think
Justin wrote: "GargoylesCrouching in position posing in perfect posture
On the rooftop of a gothic cathedral sits a monster
He overlooks the city with an amazing aerial view
Contemplating on exactly what to do
..."
Brought back memories of that cartoon "Gargoyles" just darker
Justin wrote: "The Portrait of Dorian GrayHere we see a well-mannered handsome man
Who to keep his good looks will do whatever he can
So he agrees for an artist to paint his portrait
Where he shall remain as is..."
A portrait, a mirror, or the eyes of others, scary that I care what others see
Will wrote: "Justin wrote: "The Portrait of Dorian GrayHere we see a well-mannered handsome man
Who to keep his good looks will do whatever he can
So he agrees for an artist to paint his portrait
Where he sha..."
I was always interested in the tale so I thought I'd tell it in a poetic form.
Will wrote: "Justin wrote: "GargoylesCrouching in position posing in perfect posture
On the rooftop of a gothic cathedral sits a monster
He overlooks the city with an amazing aerial view
Contemplating on exac..."
Haha, I used to watch that too! Ah, memories.
I honestly wish I knew how it was done… I know it’s more than the bedroom but there is just some secret that I don’t know and when you’ve never held hands, kissed, or any of that other stuff as the song goes Close Your Eyes and Wander. Secret Love UhSecret Love Uh
Why would I tell you later?
When the secret’s in our kiss
I write it down on paper
Hoping it’s more than this
Lovers and their whys
And Infinite Playlist
Who I am inside
I’m afraid to just admit
My secret
What has me smiling in the dark?
Those creaks beneath floorboards
Yet my broken heart
Is not so broken any more
Held by Love’s Divine
You walk right through the door
Can’t believe you’re mine
Whisper “I am yours”
Do you mean it?
Looking at you, looking at me
So we stay awhile
Or there’s a Possibility
In your smile
Only I don’t know how to listen
Have my eyes on the tile
Someday I’ll make the distance
Five hundred a thousand even more miles
For you miss
Are a secret worth telling
Just I’m not done knowing
Love can be… overwhelming
Like hand holding
Yet here we are
Where should we be going?
“To the stars”
From a pile of strewn clothing
I Want to Know What Love is
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Serah Farron… Final Fantasy XIII, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008), Seal "Love's Divine", Lykke Li "Possibility", Sugar Ray "Someday", Michael Bolton "I Will Go The Distance", The Proclaimers "500 Miles", Vanessa Carlton "A Thousand Miles", Titanic (1997), and Foreigner "I Want To Know What Love Is"
Want, Trust, Need, and Love but forever and a day it’s been Boom, Boom, because the heart speaks volumes and what I long to say. If I could speak and a girl made it real *sigh* might be the end of me. What if she said them… Beating the Boom with LoveBeating the Boom with Love
Maybe it’s a beautiful tune
A verb and a noun
Clothes hitting the ground
And bedsheets strewn
Between you honey, and the moon
But no matter how loud
There’s still the sound
Boom, Boom
I love you
Only the world didn’t end
Say Something angel but don’t pretend
“Love Me Like You Do”
Here lies my love-struck heart
No longer beating, alone in the dark
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Rikku... Final Fantasy X and X-2, Joseph Arthur "Honey and the Moon", Evan and Jaron "Crazy for This Girl", A Great Big World Ft. Christina Aguilera "Say Something", and Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack
No one has ever accused me of talking too much but is it I don’ know what to say, I’m too shy to say it, or I just don’t care to? Love is some of all three, yet another reason I became a writer, and remain a virgin. Breathtaking BabbleBreathtaking Babble
And God played make-believe
With his dollies Adam and Eve
The Tower of Babel, now what a disaster
Why wasn’t love happily ever after?
I don’t want to lie
Don’t think I could ever choose
To say what I need to say
How I want to live brave
Even if I look half as stupid
Cover your ears Cupid
See even now I can’t even try
Because if you only knew
Everything I would try to be but I’m not
The man I want to be or the monster I can’t stop
Lovers I have read
But it’s you I can’t forget
Why
Can’t I be the man for you?
Where would my sins end?
Or I couldn’t bear to watch you descend
Like saying hi to the devil
I’m not that special
“Hi”
Now if only I could say it back too
Could I use the tree of knowledge?
Rather than what’s in my wallet
Love… is not just a word
If I could hear you pretty girl
*sigh*
“Love Me Like You Do”
I believe you
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Rikku... Final Fantasy X and X-2, John Mayer "Say", Eli Stone 01x11 “Patience”, Capital One Commercial, and Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack
I’m burning up and out to be honest, it’s almost the first day of summer, I’m angry at work, rising with the sun, shameful amounts of porn etc. Manners of Burning… plenty of things get me hot and bothered but so far looking at herManners of Burning
The daylight is coming faster
Can’t I stay under the covers?
I shudder
But you say “Hey Lover”
“What’s the matter?”
Do I really have to answer?
That you’re already mine
To an entire world standing in line
“I’m fine”
Would be my standard
Doesn’t a gentleman have manners?
Love… I’m sick
Never Tired of You but what if
Why “Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”
Not when he’s dreaming of happily ever after
Even after the stars have scattered
All of our wishes
Daydreaming about your kisses
And what I’m really trying to say is
Words I have yet to master
So as I put on my lanyard
Would you “Love Me Like You Do”
I Love You
You’re So Damn Hot but to tell you the truth
You my dear are a fire hazard
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Rikku... Final Fantasy X and X-2, LL Cool J ft. Boyz II Men "Hey Lover", Foo Fighters "Tired of You", Marquis de Sade, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, and Ok Go "You're So Damn Hot"
Will,are these poems you post from a book of yours? If not have you ever considered putting them into a book? They are quite good.
Justin wrote: "Will,are these poems you post from a book of yours? If not have you ever considered putting them into a book? They are quite good."
Hey Justin,
I don't have a book as of yet but yes that is something to consider; thank you ever so much for reading
“Schwing”… Wayne’s World, look it up; I’m not obsessed with sex but with what comes after, just like I’m not as obsessed with love as being love but I want to be. Schwing… Attention Obsession is not telling a girl she’s pretty but hell I know she is.Schwing… Attention Obsession
What’s it like to be obsessed with air
When I just really wanted to breathe
Was not ready to believe
Or it was just wrong too
And yet almost on a dare
I have laid eyes on perfection
The moment I first saw you
But I’m obsessed with the dark
Because I would wish on every single star
Yes I might reach a little too far
Is it so wrong to dream?
Maybe it’s too late to start
A lifetime full of questions
Only I see you and it seems
I’m obsessed that you’re pretty
… Okay maybe
Yet what I truly wish to see
Why do I even try?
Yeah I’m “supposedly” filthy
Are my feelings not confessions
Suppose I could lie
It’s true I’m not obsessed with every beat of my heart
No I worry it will be broken apart
Oh and sweetheart
This time I might not find all the pieces
So I would give All of Me and not just a part
Just let my heart be my possession
Because I’m not a thing like Jesus
Obsessed with Just Another
Beauty and her anatomy
Still you would never love me
That’s the truth I know and sometimes
Maybe I look under the covers?
To see my erection… which some call an obsession?
Could you “Love Me Like You Do” nuh uh no I’m not the guy
Copyright © 2015 Second Circle Creations, Will A. Bradford Jr. All rights reserved.
Inspired by: Rikku... Final Fantasy X and X-2, John Legend "All of Me", The Killers "When You Were Young", Pete Yorn "Just Another", and Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack
When you’re not out buying pretty baubles, flowers, chocolates, fancy dinners, or anything else a guy tends to save money. What about the guy I really am inside, my face doesn’t do me any favors and my heart is more dust than actual gold. Midas LoveMidas Love
Silence is golden
Spent in my own reflection
But if this is the price of affection
Why has it not been spoken?
I would leave my heart open
Only there is no need for my confession
Let me remain silent in my rejection
For love has never chosen
Such a thief as I would have you to be
And if you would but “Love Me Like You Do”
Steal my heart… I would gladly give it to you
Yet I can only be me
In such a love I would not have you fall
You’d drop with the Weight of It All
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Inspired by: Rikku... Final Fantasy X and X-2, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack and Handsome Ghost “Weight of It All”
“Cause all Jocks ever think about is sports, all we ever think about is sex.” Revenge of the Nerds – Wish I was a nerd beats being a virgin but I think about sex a lot the actual act hmm… Would you say love is a bit longer Illumination of a One Track MindIllumination of a One Track Mind
So the Sun tells me, the Moon expired
“He’ll get away with this”
He always does… I find
That my reflection is not required
Only I might still see you miss
And what was my dream this time
Here I am longing to be desired
Yet it’s you I can’t forget
Just I Can’t Seem To Make You Mine
“Oh Rock Hard Mr. Jeweler”, I inquire
What trinket, what bauble is the perfect gift
And whoever said love was blind
Must have long ago expired
Shooting the Moon… they missed
Seeing how This Year’s Love, might be defined
So I continue to lie here
As my digital clock blips, I’m not dreaming of love… promise
Though a tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme
I gain the stars ire
With yet another wish, yes I persist
Until I am confined
To dream of my “Girl on Fire”
Because I’m not tired
Of never being kissed
Wondering why my fictional heroine, couldn’t exist
If silence is golden, I own a goldmine
Why not trade it all for One Thing and that’s you on my mind
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Inspired by: Rikku... Final Fantasy X and X-2, The Seeds "Can't Seem To Make You Mine", “Rock Hard Mr. Jeweler” by Will A. Bradford Jr, OK Go "Shooting The Moon", David Gray "This Year's Love", Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson "Beauty and the Beast", The Hunger Games but several series including but not limited to (Divergent, Article 5, Fever Series, A Stranded Novel, Beyond Series, The Bachelor Battles, The Girl in 6E, Abhorsen, Veronika Decides To Die and many other fictional heroines), and Finger Eleven “One Thing”
I’m undeserving for many a reason; the straight and narrow path… if you’re talking about a part of my anatomy that has a bit of a curve (long story). “Sometimes Deserving Curves”… because sometimes you have to go around what you know or I like curvesSometimes Deserving Curves
Love’s a gift I don’t deserve
Think the people have been polled
And you asked me “Are you sure”
For What Is Love… not just a word
Yet Here I Am, no one to hold
Love’s a gift I don’t deserve
Or maybe I have never heard
Had the courage, been so bold
And you asked me “Are you sure”
As I chase angels and fictional girls
Dream of lovers new and old
Love’s a gift I don’t deserve
“That’s The Way Love Goes” I’ve learned
Bu here I kiss a centerfold
And you asked me “Are you sure”
Straight and narrow… feminine curves
The rest is gold but I’m still told
Love’s a gift I don’t deserve
But you asked me “Are you sure”
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Inspired by: Rikku... Final Fantasy X and X-2, Haddaway "What Is Love", Bryan Adams “Here I Am”, and Janet Jackson "That's the Way Love Goes"
When does love occur… can’t say I ever loved God, I’ve been in love with the concept of love forever, been accused of it and it goes on and on. Hardly Heisted… a girl stealing my heart, or me throwing it away but the words I Love You I don’t take lightly.Hardly Heisted
And when he chose to love her
Won’t hurt to take notes oh Fairy Godmother
There was Cupid, God, A detective, even mother
After the heist of the century
Okay so maybe it was just a dream
Or a nightmare depending on who you are
They all ask the question, where is his heart
All lying stupefied and duped
Three little words “I love you”
The real question… when he chose to love her
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Inspired by: Sawa... Kite
Let’s wake up the neighbors or this could just be my exhibitionist fetish speaking and on that note I like dirty talk and other assorted noises. “Lots of Loud Loving…” I don’t remember the last time someone said the words “I Love You” to meLots of Loud Loving
The neighbors think someone should save her
And if I were one I just might
Only here I am with you
And maybe God forgave what he heard
Or he’s fuming “It’s not fair”
So he’ll get up so enough
Like everybody else, turn the lights on
Yet you dare to be braver
As you lie here with me
She waves sure
Neighbors, thanking God that’s she’s alright
Now if they only had a clue
Their men think “babe” drawn by your allure
Should I be worried, envious, scared
Not a word to shut them up
With a kiss it dawns
An angel that doesn’t know how to behave… you were
Playing with the beast they see
Just aiming to misbehave… he’s a pervert
They haven’t seen anything, for tonight
In a whisper “Love Me Like You Do”
Still we crave three little words
Like the things they never say in the fairytales
After happily ever after… what is love
“Your Favorite Song”
That the neighbors find absurd
We tend to get a little loud maybe…
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Inspired by: Sawa... Kite, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Haddaway "What Is Love", and Kaiser Cartel "Favorite Song"
Hello, I'm fairly new with Goodreads, so bear with me. I'm a New Orleans native, an author, photographer and tadophile, a lover of cemeteries. I'm a very poetic writer and love all things gothic. I wanted to share an excerpt from my book, and if possible a photo. If that's okay?
Hello Deborah! Of course, go ahead. I would love to see it :)
Nice, Deborah - I particularly like the rhythm of your poem. The words are wonderful too, but it sounds like a song to me. A.
Am I really that bad… lying is bad, people give up so much to be together and in the end you only have pieces; I more of an All Of Me, type of person. “Bedroom Soapbox”… is a bit of speech that I have never given especially in bedBedroom Soapbox
And so there are secrets
For who falls in love overnight
Okay so I just might
As I pick up the pieces
Of my broken heart you see
But I’ll let you sleep
Dreaming of sins you have yet to confess
Do I dare to be different?
While I lie with a vision
That is my regret
Even now I can’t even be me
Because Beauty would fear the Beast
My shame reflected in so many sequins
It was once a beautiful gown
Was it worth the way I feel about you now
Or was it only weakness
A dream of us maybe
Yet watching you baby
Love lies speechless
Can’t I let it for a little bit?
Why do I still fear it?
Because even love has limits
Your beautiful dauntless bravery
So for now I’ll choose to believe
You’re smiling for reasons
Too good to be true
Like you… “Love Me Like You Do”
Is my pondering needless?
What else can it be?
Do you love me?
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Inspired by: Sawa... Kite, Beauty and the Beast, Ryan Adams “Wonderwall”, “Divergent” by Veronica Roth, Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, and The Contours "Do You Love Me"
Yesterday I was reading about the “The Bachelorette” and her “casual sex” and maybe because I’m a virgin I’ve always looked at sex as being well… special. “Casual Fairytale”… yeah I’m for sex, all the time everybody but still my first time. Casual Fairytale
I would have the princess with disheveled hair
Against my pillow but I’m no hero
Or so I have to confess
Don’t tell the damsel in distress
If it’s not… well you know
It doesn’t mean you fail
My grandma, I just won’t tell
Maybe I’m not going
But nevertheless
Would you just say yes?
For lovers have no way of knowing
And if it isn’t, oh well
Sometimes the heart doesn’t need details
Every girl doesn’t want a prince
Just a beast that will possess
Beauty would you regret
That your heart was not convinced
We Found Love… there
Not a ballroom or in some lair
Perhaps not even in my bedroom
Could be, I just like your dress
So would I care where we undress?
Save Room
Only there is plenty in Hell
Yet to my Red Room it pales
Should I leave love to the maker?
Someday might I be blessed?
Tonight might only be a guess
Are you a heartbreaker?
I’ll get a new heart from the elves
As your many suitors assail
Will you be mine tonight
Let the others protest
While we become a Pretty Mess
Miss Right or Miss White
Your prince might be somewhere
Love will prevail
What is this we claim?
Why should we lie repressed?
When we could caress
You don't even have to remember my name!
Still, this wish fell
A Wish… like a magic spell
One day… and this is the truth
You’ll want to be my princess
Queen, Goddess, and yes
“Love Me Like You Do”
More than a Casual Fairytale
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Inspired by: Sawa... Kite, Tangled (2010), Red Riding Hood (2011), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Cinderella (1950), The Elves and the Shoemaker, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938), Rumpelstiltskin, Aladdin (1992), Rihanna Ft. Calvin Harris “We Found Love”, Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud”, John Legend "Save Room", “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E. L. James, Vanity "Pretty Mess", 17 Again (2009), and Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack
Some men don’t know what a tongue is for… or lips, and as the song goes “I think I used to have a voice, and now I never make a sound” honestly never been kissed or done “other” things. “Foreign Tongue”… shy, “SAD” or is she just that beautiful? Foreign Tongue
And when you can’t even say hi
It becomes easier to say goodbye
But the way we were
Someday
No it won’t come true
The air fills my lungs
Oh God, what have I done?
Because I can’t be that guy
Don’t know why I try
Only now it’s your turn
Thinking what will she Say?
So When The Stars Go Blue
I have a song that needs to be sung
Cupid’s trap is sprung
Just I never ask why
Close Your Eyes
For somethings we are never meant to learn
Yet they happen anyway
Like how to kiss you
I’m still much too young
To fall among
The lovers and the liars
Or for these wants and desires
If you were Just Another girl
That read Fifty Shades of Grey
In lieu
Of my feelings that lie unsung
From my lips they’ve hung
Waiting *sigh*
Knowing I can never reply
Love is a language I’ve never heard
Even if you may
“Love Me Like You Do”
Three little words… I can’t even say one
Shyness is a Foreign Tongue
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Inspired by: Sawa... Kite, Sugar Ray "Someday", The Corrs Ft. Bono "When The Stars Go Blue", Young Love "Close Your Eyes", Pete Yorn "Just Another", “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E. L. James, and Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack
Maybe I decided to throw myself a bit of a pity party… saw this pretty girl today, she’s always so friendly and she smiles at me but the idea of asking her out for say a cup of coffee. I don’t drink coffee or cry often but here this is Overflow HelloOverflow Hello
I take a cold shower
Demons ask “how’re ya”
Who I was before
Might as well be a stalker
For her… I’m not praying at some altar
Yeah I put her on that pedestal and love in that tower
To have it all… I don’t have the power
Somewhere this very hour
She should smile instead of glower
Or I think she oughta
It would be my honor
But I have nothing to offer
Do girls still like flowers?
The whole world I would scour
Only I am a coward
Maybe I’ll say that louder
Yes she deserves a man not a monster
Someone who won’t falter
A man that would love her harder
Just call me Cupid’s doubter
Because my love won’t be ours
Forget about her
Couldn’t tell some man’s daughter
I want her… “I want you” … to Close Your Eyes and Wander
Shyness overpowers
I’m Dead In The Water
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Inspired by: Sawa... Kite, Ariana Grande ft. The Weeknd "Love Me Harder", Ernie Halter "Close Your Eyes And Wander" Ellie Goulding "Dead In The Water"
“I just want you to recognize the difference between what you feel and what's real.” ATL - not to sound like Morpheus but how do you define real… cold bed, tired, but what I feel and it might not be love but there is hope, “Happily Heaven Feels”Happily Heaven Feels
Don’t make this happily ever after
For I can’t be the prince
I can only be Will
And you answer
“Since when did I need to be convinced?”
When what I feel
Is… is all that matters
Only what is it…
Well, she’s got skills
Didn’t need to wait for the Rapture
To know, this must be how heaven feels
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Inspired by: Sawa... Kite, All-4-One “She's Got Skillz”, Junior Caldera ft. Natalia Kills and Far East Movement “Lights Out (Go Crazy)”
Love is a very big deal… it’s no secret that I want to lock it up, restraint it, can you say bondage; at the exact same time I want it to be so big that it surrounds me. Love crushed me figuratively, then I thought… literally. “Saving Room for Cupid”Saving Room for Cupid
My heart beats just a little bit louder
That when Cupid calls me a liar
For a bit longer, I’m a sound sleeper
Until the thought of you becomes so much brighter
If they still call me a dreamer
Well I’ll say, “My dream girl… I found her”
Yeah they call me The Seeker
But don’t know if I have the power
Because for you I do aspire
Only ever hour
Heaven seems to get a little bit higher
I feel stronger and weaker
So I fall, for great is my desire
Yet I’m A Believer
In this love, I’m not a doubter
Even if the climb is a little steeper
I’ve broken my heart so many times
Just to Save Room
And I couldn’t be prouder
Or uninspired
Love lies bigger
Can I call you mine?
Perhaps I am doomed
Is love blind?
Figures…
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Inspired by: Tifa Lockhart… Final Fantasy VII, The Who “The Seeker”, Spider-Man (2002), The Monkees Ft. Smash Mouth and Eddie Murphy "I'm A Believer", John Legend “Save Room”
I could tell her she’s beautiful, where would that leave me… I make promises I couldn’t keep or offer all that I have to get her into my bed but at the beginning of the day, would I have… satisfaction? That Cupid Teaches love... am I not a statistic?That Cupid Teaches
And by far love has made no man a genius
But has made me wise
For only a fool would deny
There for I am rendered speechless
They say he doesn’t look a thing like Jesus
Yet would you “Love Me Like You Do”
How dare I ask that of you?
Yeah when Hell freezes
So I have my reasons
As I play quiet
Do I picture you pious?
Mistaken your sweetness
Imagine you Venus
Maybe Just Another girl
That I would promise the world
Yes I would say whatever pleases
To the stars or whatever reaches
Only my ignorance is bliss
Because I Want To Know What Love Is
Love is an act made ceaseless
By more than words, ingenious
Is it not
Still would I tell you “You’re So Damn Hot”
You are and I mean it
Just before I let you in on that… secret
Or utter those three little words
I’m trying not to be The Most Interesting Man in the World
Let us not be a lesson, That Cupid Teaches
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Inspired by: Tifa Lockhart… Final Fantasy VII, Inuyasha Episode 07x02 “Miroku's Past Mistake”, The Killers "When You Were Young", Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack, Tony Toni Tone "That's All I Ask of You", Pete Yorn "Just Another", Titanic (1997), Foreigner "I Want To Know What Love Is", “The Gargoyle” by Andrew Davidson, OK Go "You're So Damn Hot", and The Most Interesting Man in the World
Blessed is he who asks the question, but you don’t ask for a kiss do you, you don’t ask for the moment, and do you ask the pretty girl if she loves you? You do have to ask her out though and I never get that far… “Know Answers in Love”Know Answers in Love
Casting my treasures beneath the sea
Nobody Knows
She could be wishing for me
Or I would like to believe
From my head down to my toes
A dream… maybe
Of somewhere only we know
So that we never have to leave
But I suppose
Tonight
I wear my heart on my sleeve
As she whispers “Underneath Your Clothes”
What does my love see?
Loving is easy with eyes closed
Yet the sheets scramble and fight
Who am I in her sight?
If I could be… whoever she wants me to be
Only like a kiss from a rose
This is something I can never foresee
A song I could never compose
An invite
That Cupid would never write
Still... there’s the possibility
There She Goes
Wish I still believed in Santa
Say something, but the words, especially those three
All of me, would say so
Valuable words, but they’re not right
And if I told her… alright
Needing her to hear such things
Now it would be a bit on the nose
Awaiting her answer
Hiding my heart… so I won’t understand her
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Inspired by: Tifa Lockhart… Final Fantasy VII, The Tony Rich Project "Nobody Knows", Keane "Somewhere Only We Know", Shakira “Underneath Your Clothes", Seal "Kiss From A Rose", Lykke Li "Possibility", Sixpence None The Richer "There She Goes", A Great Big World Ft. Christina Aguilera "Say Something", and John Legend "All of Me"
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Rock Hard Mr. Jeweler
These sapphire skies lie tired
Yet a day without your beauty
Would be a waste truly
A day when this bard
Could have no reason to desire
If only a kiss from your ruby lips
This language I’ve never spoken
Only this would be no mere token
As how many miles have led to your smiles, yet the longest yard
Are how many inches of bliss?
Still with envious emerald eyes, I watch the boys wait
Staring with their questions
Even I have a confession
How I’ve never come so far
To make the bed springs shake
So I look to those Diamonds in the sky
Wishing I could get you one
“But, won’t that spoil our fun”
Well… in that regard
Should I be the boss, be the man, I just want to be the guy
That lies beside you tonight
Maybe, someday, could be, never
Just your heart would be my treasure
And I’m Rock Hard
For you… morning, noon, and night
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Inspired by: Rinoa Heartilly… Final Fantasy VIII, Rihanna "Diamonds" (In The Sky)