All Series (poems) – Deb Hawken

All the Thoughts You Cannot Think

All the thoughts you cannot thinkPile into your mindWithout courtesyEndlessly it seemDraining your life forceOne tear at a timeThe bad thoughtsRejected because they hurtYet somehow demanding your attentionThe good thoughtsRejected because it never worksOr you’re undeservingAll those hurtsMaintainedAll those dreamsLet GoAll those frownsFew smilesYou can move back to the pastRecreating the hurtsThat you can’t remember clearlyButContinueContinue reading “All the Thoughts You Cannot Think”

All the Things You Cannot Feel

Close down they say Don’t feel the world It is too muddled Too angry Too painful Be afraid Be very afraid I love you they say Then they go away So you do not ever feel love In the same way again I’m your friend they say Then they’re gone Like mist on an autumnContinueContinue reading “All the Things You Cannot Feel”

All the Joy You Cannot Know

Who told you that I created a world of misery? I the universal spark I the divine I the magical I the mystical Created this world in my image Yet you prefer to trust each other You absorb world viewsThat have no place in my creation Your disbelief in joy Your lack of optimism IsContinueContinue reading “All the Joy You Cannot Know”

All the Hope You Cannot Feel

You are without hope Lost in a cavern of emotion Seeking to escape your own fate Created in your own heart By you? By others? Does it matter? You are without joy Overwhelmed by what shouldn’t be Shouldn’t have happened Or been said Or done But it was said And it was done And itContinueContinue reading “All the Hope You Cannot Feel”

All the Beginnings that End

You think us cruelYou had something and it went awaySomething you treasuredYou lovedYou lost yourself inHear usNothing you lose yourself in is rightNothing that takes you from yourself is healthyNothing that you constantly strive for is workingNo permanent struggle equals happinessNoneNo job should subdue the selfNo career should steal your lifeNo friendship should diminish youNoContinueContinue reading “All the Beginnings that End”

All the Hope You Cannot Feel

Keep Reaching You are without hope Lost in a cavern of emotion Seeking to escape Your own fate Created in your own heart By you? By others? Does it matter? You are without joy Overwhelmed by what shouldn’t be Shouldn’t have happened Or been said Or done But it was said And it was doneContinueContinue reading “All the Hope You Cannot Feel”

All

What is everything to you?Photo by Vlada Karpovich on Pexels.com This is the anchor poem of the ‘All’ series. AllIs everythingIt is the beginning and the endThe Alpha and the OmegaThe I wishI hopeI wonderAnd I amIf you want everythingYou must be allAnd if you want to be allYou must be everythingYou must not feelContinueContinue reading “All”

All the Dreams We Cannot Have

And don’t aim to dance among the stars – aim for the whole shebang! You dreamed and you forgotOr someone told you You couldn’t have itSo you didn’tYou came to this worldInnocent and full of hopeWhich you lostBecause someone else Had already lost their hopePeople talk life downThis and that and all the other can’tContinueContinue reading “All the Dreams We Cannot Have”

All the Love We Cannot Be

A single rose for a single love – of yourself All the love I’ve ever had Has turned bad From the cradle until one single moment Until that moment Rather than a flame to attract I wasn’t even a spark of light Not even a candle extinguished by the wind Where was my right toContinueContinue reading “All the Love We Cannot Be”

All the Light We Cannot See

You are your light Some years ago I suddenly found myself penning a poem called ‘All the Stars We Cannot See’. My true writing is like this, it just appears in my mind and demands my attention until I sit down with a pen and translate that feeling onto paper. A lot of writers workContinueContinue reading “All the Light We Cannot See”