melissaahowells

      Poet's Home             All Poetry       Sign Up!  Login
© 2000-2022 Individual Authors of the Poetry. All rights reserved by authors.   520985 Poems Read.

Search for Poetry

   


Read Poetry
The Petty Player Who Rarely Sleeps

I'd Like A Taste (The Wolf Said)

The Crow Is A Black Bird

When I Start to Bloom

I'd Like To Be Your Shirt (when you wake up in the morning)



All Beings Considered

Words Between Edward And Jane

Nothing's Sadder Than A Rose

The Great Tsunami Of Our Growing Grief written 3/2.2021--retitled 3/14/2021

After Wide Sargasso Sea ( For Those of You Readers Who Have Empathy For the First Mrs. Rochester.)

WAITING ON THE WORLD (March/February 2021 poetry)

Wild and Unraveling

What Must Be

These Hands Exist July 4 2023 rei-edited 7/12/2023

I Am The Color Of Black

The Tide of Your Lies (2019-2023)

How I Wanted Your Pearls 6/24/2023 WRITTEN DIRECTLY TO THE PAGE

Love Wants What Love Wants re-edited 5/31/023

Winter's Been Too Long.... 4/18/2023 (LONGING)

The Dreaming Life ( A Series Of Dream Vignettes)

Like A Small Street Dog Lured In By The Promise Of Meat

This Is What Mermaids Dream Of

At Night, As I Dream of Vampires Who Have No Bad Intentions

And You Will Be Called Ashes As You Leave ( from a dream)

Certainly No Bread 3/16/2022

Someone Send Out A Search Party

THE FAN , AT NIGHT, GIVES GOOD ADVICE completely re-edited, an entirely different poem

What Is The Price For Your Touch? re-editied 5/31/2023

Where Is My Bed With The Pleasing Tree -Lined View(NOW REEDITED)

Oh What Fine Physics (Before Me ,Lies) re-edtited @4/17/2023

If Prejudice Were Dumb And Could Not Speak

THE COMPANY THAT WE KEEP WITH THE ONE WITHIN

More Poetry >>

 
Features

  Sign Guestbook

Read Guestbook

 
   

Coming Off Small


one cheap sentence
one terse four-letter word:

cute
nice
neat
good

will never sum up me
lacks thoughts complete
or finesse
a fragment or measly morsel
nor the best
not even a mouthful
or a thoughtful
or a brain-filled
and oh very painful to read
how is it
that all its missing
is me

how indicative
of what's between
the ears
and behind the eyes
I'd much rather be pleasantly
surprised
at some kindness that could be
contained within
they don't know where I've been
but guess and game

yet those who'd
be heaped with praise
are often ungenerous
grinding down others
into meager
miserly
over-simplified
words
SPIT infinitives

advice:
if you can't say
anything
constructive
pithy
wise
nice
that shakes the foundations of the western world
don't say anything at all

otherwise
(I'm Not Sorry)
but, you come off small
self-involved
dis-ingenuine
tight
not tall in the big wide world of ours

why did you bother
in the first place
to spray
when you had nothing
worthwhile
to say
(or write)
at all

stinky poison-pen
or terse
one word feedbacks
please remove
and remove
all

Its my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
So many invested in sizing up others
and invested in being right when
they could otherwise be helpful or
effective. Being small is just
scoring off someone at their expense
which ultimately ends up being at your
own expense. I don't have to get
political to illustrate this point.

legal copyright for this poem/work
and also for this author Melissa A Howells
and also for this legally copyrighted site title:
Meloo Straight From Her Tilt-a-World






Vote for this poem