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As of February 15, 2019, this site is retired. Please visit my instagram for new poems: @thecheerlesscheek Poem updates below, with the most recent additions first: September 24, 2015 - I Dreamt of Living in the Snow Again, In a Sea of Farewell, Nature is Your Master March 24, 2015 - Sea, Come Swallow Me March 15, 2015 - I Look For Reasons Not To. Have also made edits to a few previously posted poems, and some are still a work in progress.  August 16, 2014 - The Death of Desiderium, Upon Stumbling Into Kairos (or vice versa), An Index of First Lines, A Stab, In the Solitude of My Youth. I am pleased with these - as of right now, anyways. May 2, 2014 - New: The Even Tempered Girls November 14, 2013 : New Poems Added Season, There Are No Words, Irony of the Agenda, I Cease to Exist, Amid All the Excuses, The Wrong Person, I Saw You Standing Near The Sea, The Scent of Sorrow Sometime In 2013: With Heedlessness to Bitter Ends, Love-Peace Peddler, The Truly Passionless & The Passionately True, The New Obsession, Ridiculous Ideas, I Went Still For Two Years Straight, Hallucinations, The Song Will Save Your Life, I'd Like My Pencil Back Now, Kill It Now!, I Was Living My Life Man, Headaches, Above It All, Let Us Pretend, Like A Man In Love December 13, 2012 - Available Ive Always Been a Car Wreck I Am Ugly on the Inside (and Love is a Hideous Thing) This is so Boring and Stupid Something That Wants Nothing More - I wrote this many years ago....dont know why I didnt put it up before. The Consequence of Such Sometime Inbetween - If You Thought My Heart Cold Why Am I Always Punching My Own Face But More Than That I Wanted You New Crowd Puddle October 28, 2012 - Added a lot: Death and Destruction (and something like obsession), How Beauty Hurts the Heart, I Used to Have Dreams but Dreams Wouldnt Have Me, God Doesnt Believe in Me, Today I Hate My DNA, Such a Chore, Plane of Anonymity, No Island, and The Air Between Us. October 21, 2012 - The Day I Stopped Caring, Why Must Mediocrity Always Win, and I Did Win Once October 20, 2012 - Added A Thing of Beauty" and You're Not So Special sometime recently. Added today: I may have missed the memo, but...   Also note - this stupid site does not publish quotation marks, apostraphes or and symbols correctly (shows the HTML instead) on my news page and about author page. Thinking aboutt moving my site again...very lazy though, very lazy. July 23, 2012 - I have added many new poems. I thought I had not written much over the past year or so, but then I went through my notebooks and found quite a few decent bits here and there. These are the decent bits, some less so than others, but then we keep our standards low here at My Bad Poetry. If it might impress a 10th grade English teacher or pass for whiny song lyrics, then its good enough for us. And by we and us, I mean me, my cat, and you, dear reader. Here are the titles of this new batch: Forgiving and Forgetting Millions and Millions of Worlds Nothing to Lose Youre a Myth Going Out On Top Sometimes a Street is Just a Street Reverberations You've Moved House Inside Dear Tragic Loneliness   July 6, 2012 - NEW: I Didn't Even Get One Good Poem Out of You July 1, 2012 - NEW: With a Seam (written long ago and rediscovered in an old notebook), Compost Heap, and The Brevity of Glorious Days October 7, 2011 - NEW: The Future August 30, 2011 - NEW: Everything I Know About Life I Read in a Book September 9, 2010 - NEW: A Hat With A Drop September 1, 2010 - NEW: They All Kill You in the Long Run, There Is No Doubting, and Skipping Stones August 2010 - NEW: The Indescribable Melancholy, Stow Away, and Suffocation. Listening to Crystal Castles. Stole the title Suffocation from one of their songs.Reading a lot of Haruki Murakami. Revisiting Neruda - again (or did I ever leave?). 5/20/10 - NEW: Passion is Practical and Throw-Away Lines 1/22/10 - NEW: Form to Feeling and One Day Mother 8/28/09 - NEW: The End Does Not Matter....blaaaaaah Spring 2009 - NEW: Charm and Tease, I Knew This Was The World, Your Head Has Fallen Off 3/10/09 - NEW: I dont know if I love you song and i imagine night Im reading a lot of Neruda again. 1/10/09 - NEW: Words For the Last Time 11/24/08 - NEW: Pull 10/31/08 - NEW: The Sound of It, I Can Rack My Little Brain, and To the Other Side 8/27/08 - NEW poems.....I cant even remember writing these. I suspect little elves crept into my apartment in the middle of the night and left these on my computer for me...but I cant be sure. If so, they have a frighteningly accurate ability to read my thoughts.Added: Your Room, Life Is Passing You By, A Plague, and Splintered Off 5/6/08 New: Strange Like A Foreigner 4/18/08 I have begun archiving my poetry here, as it is a much cleaner space than this cluttered site. Lies! 4/1/08 April Fools day, how appropriate. A slew of new...now tell me Im a fool ;) First poems up of 08: Bicycle Lane Just a Band Nobody Actually Likes Love I Only Wanted to be Brilliant No Claims 12/8/07 This Paper Has Shadows 12/7/07 New Poem: I Dont Feel Sorry For You Anymore 11/28/07 New Poem: Im Impressed that Youre Obsessed. I started with a title called Youre Impressed that Im Depressed, but it wasnt going anywhere. 10/29/07 New Poem: Can You Tell?.Im sort of writing about feelings of inadequacy and jealousy whether they have foundations or not.That idea of sabotaging yourself and your relationships. Sort of inspired by Anna Karenina; the concept of being so obsessed with someone and allowing the paranoia to take over and ruin exactly what you want to preserve is interesting... 10/24/07 New Poem: I Took a Chance 9/22/07 New Poem: Discovered. A deep pain took hold of her, and she knew she must love him. And she had discovered him, discovered in him a rare potentiality, discovered his loneliness. Quivering as at some `annunciation, she went slowly forward. 9/8/07 New Poem: Mixed Tape 9/4/07 New Poem: Im Ill! Im Ill! Im Ill!. More Morrissey-esque writing...I would like to find my own voice, but I never feel capable of much more than a good imitation. This goes for anything in my life; the way I draw, the way I dress. It may sometimes seem original to others, but its only cuz they dont know....What is better: Having excellent taste and mimicking that which you admire, or having poor taste, but being wholly original? Or is there such a thing as wholly original? And who am I even speaking to right now? :sigh: 8/13/07 2 New Poems: Every Woman in the World and Is It Too Much To Ask? 7/30/07 4 New Poems: To Renounce, No Contest, Profile, and Unrequited 6/12/07 Im writing again! For better or worse...a new poem is up: Flirtation 6/11//07 New Poem: You Silly Little Girl.This was written as someone speaking to herself, chastising herself for feelings and thoughts that seem ridiculous in light of new circumstances. 6/7/07 New Poem: Happiness Is No Friend 5/27/07 After a long absence, a new poem: Still Dont Believe a Word. 10/7/06 New: Things Did Not Turn Out Exactly As Planned 8/11/06 New: These Highs Are Beginning To Feel Like Lows 6/01/06 New: The Almighty is Tired of My Whining 5/21/06 New: Somebody! - written in response to a movie I saw. 5/18/06 New: I Have Broken My Own Heart 5/13/06 Another new poem: This is the Last Time.... 5/12/06 Well it has been over a year since I have added a new poem. Much has happened, graduating from college, looking for a job, finally finding a job, but not much writing. Still, here is a new poem: This Desire. I was listening to Interpol a lot during this time. This was written in the beginning of 2005. I didnt give up on design and I wont stop writing bad poetry either! I am forever the idealist... 3/30/05 Poem added: No One Even Knows You Anymore 3/29/05 Well, I have graduated from college w/my BA in graphic design. This isnt about my poetry, but its big news for me! Now I have to get a real job (scary!). Hopefully it will be something I enjoy... 3/01/05 New poem added: Dont Walk Away In Silence 1/29/05 Poem Order is all jumbled up now...not in order of when published here as it once was, because the new option of arranging poems tempted me to move a few, but then I saw that they were all mixed up anyway....oh well! 1/12/05 Poems added:Definition - just a silly little thingBroken Trees - this is inspired by a part of the novel Sense and Sensibility in which Mr. Ferrars admits he sees no appeal in twisted trees, but prefers strong ones, and Marianne, always romantic, cant believe how boring he is.Little Girls WorryI Didnt Mean To Depress You - I must have been feeling mean that day! 1/3/05 New poems up:Loves First Kiss The Softest, The Sweetest Early Morning Songs Social Butterfly A Certain Breed City Boy Strange, This Skin 1/2/05 - Well, after a bit of a poetry hiatus I am back and plan to put up some new poems soon. Cuz we all know how much the world needs more bad poetry! On another topic, my favorite album of the past year was Interpols Antics (but, but, I still love The Cure and Morrissey!). Best show was Curiousa of course! 4/27/04 - Its been awhile since Ive been here, been very busy with school, and my home comp is down to make things worse! So I dont know when a new poem will be up (if anyone reads this, ha ha).On another topic, I saw MORRISSEY last Friday, it was awesome! Didnt give me goosebumps like The Cure, but I still LOVE the Moz, and god knows I rip him off enough! 2/27/04 - New poems up, all written around the same period. Ive been listening to a band called The Organ a lot, kinda of depressing stuff, but very Smiths-like, even lyrically a little. I admit I try to emulate that style sometimes, but Morrissey is such a GREAT lyricist, IMO. So heres their titles: I Refuse To Be That Girl The Mall Paper Cut 2/21/04 New poem added: I Just Might Die - depressing, but funny (well, in a morbid way) since its kinda overly dramatic. 2/20/04 - Well, I acquired an acoustic guitar recently (as a gift, much thanks to the person who gave it to me) and had my first lesson today; learned some major chords (tried to learn notes and already gave that up....ha ha!). My fingers arent happy and Im not so sure I have much aptitude for it, but I will stick with it for awhile and see if I can make any real progress. 2/1/04 - First poems of the new year added: One More Breath Sunday Is Ruined By Monday 12/13/03 - More poems: Lets Just Stay Like This Forever This Is My LifeTemporary Bliss 12/12/03 - New additions: The Loveliest Of The Lovely Pity For The Pretty Youd Be Such A Pretty Girl If Youd Only Smile MoreI Never Really Liked You Anyway 11/11/03 - More poems! Lots of I in here, but I am working on being less self-absorbed! Most of these are old. Late Song - inspired by The Cure (who else?), I actually shared this with my 9th grade English class (the only poem I have ever shared with people I know in person). The teacher was quite freaked out, all the other students had written about rainbows and puppies and sailboats (no joke!). Pure, Obsessive Unreason - Read the title! Thats what its about, an obsessive teenage infatuation that may be perceived as love by the one experiencing it. It is inspired by Garbages #1 Crush and the play Romeo and Juliet. I Was Just Kidding - influenced by The Smiths Big Mouth Strikes Again. Dreams - cheesey, cliche title, but I like the third verse... I Want To Want - for my former best friend I Lost My Head Again - yeah, thats me...just a little scribble, somewhat recent Picking Petals - a short little nothing, written more recently too Dont Believe In Anything - see above Like A Brother - never had this exact conversation, but Ive been on the verge of it. 10/14/03 - Okay, I finally got time enough to add two more poems: I Wish You An Unhappy Birthday - inspired by The Smiths Unhappy Birthday for the title, but more by Pulps Common People and Mis-shapes for the content. Feel Free To Interrupt - Inspired by The Smiths song Stop Me If You Think Youve Heard This One Before 9/29/03 - I saw The Cure on Saturday, September 20th (!), I wrote a little thing about it, not a poem though, not sure what to call it. I finally got around to putting it up here. I thought it was appropriate since so much of my poetry is influenced by them. 9/5/03 - 8 more poems added: Im Sick Of Myself Happy As Ourselves - inspired by The Cures Out Of This World S.A.D. - kinda awkward, but Im proud of it for some reason Torn You Are Your Situation This Song - kinda cheesey, but I couldnt resist... Sweet Face - a Smashing Pumpkins song inspired this, called Sweet Sweet, and I borrowed the line they all want you to change from it. A Sad Place - written when I was in high school 8/11/03 - 3 more poems up: Abysmal Rut Everything Will Stay The Same Shyness 8/02/03 - Some more poems added: The Dreaded Realization Of Alone Poor Me Who Wouldve Thought (A Boy Like You) - (inspired by a Bjork song, off of Vespertine) Grieving What Could Have Been Drowning - (wrote many years ago, sounds like cheesey song lyrics to me now, but whatever...) 7/25/03 - Added Petrified and Paranoid 7/17/03 - Fresh off my brain! A new poem called Pretty Shell. 6/29/03 - More poems up! Boyish Charm Tongue-tied and Useless A Secret My Room Reunion *Note: If you like Reunion, please check out the song Last Dance by The Cure; very much inspired there!* 6/20/03 - A whole slew of poems added! In Your Presence was added a week or so ago, but I forgot to update this page... New, as of today: Delicious Infatuation Misery Loves Company Stressed, Depressed, and a Mess Crackling An Agonizing Pause Of Moments How Happy Feels 6/7/03 - Another poem added (I Wont Be Happy Until She Gets Run Over By A Truck); not serious, but funny, to me anyway.. 6/6/03 - Okay, 3 more poems added: Dreamers, Im Home, and Unholy When You Hold Me. I was kind of unsure about these, so any and all comments are welcome!I wont forget to credit Portishead for the first line in Unholy When You Hold Me, although they probably werent the first to use it either, I think its a bit of a cliche, but the whole poem was inspired by Dummy in a way, so whatever! 6/5/03 - Long time, no update, he he. Well, one new poem has been added! Its entitled The Opaquest Black. Dont be shy, tell me what you think! 3/28/03 - Lots of new poems added: Open All I Wish To Be Its Always The Same The Last Day Of Summer So Young, So Sad Little Star Strange Girl I Had A Dream I Was Falling Through A Hole In The Ozone Layer....enjoy (or cringe)! 3/14/03 - Second poem is up! Its entitled A Thousand Things (Cure fans might recognize a line or two ;) )...enjoy (or cringe)! 3/4/03 - First poem is up! Its called Bloodflowers, and yes, it is inspired by The Cures album/song title, but the content of the poem is all original. Check back here for some more, soon!


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Edit: As of February 15, 2019 this site is retired. Please visit my instagram for new poems: @thecheerlesscheek I have been writing poetry since my childhood. I've been posting my bad poetry on this site since 2003, although many of the poems are much older than that. I read poetry; I especially love Tennyson, Neruda, Rilke, and Plath. I am mostly inspired by music though. Some of my favorite bands are The Smiths, The Cure, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Cocteau Twins & Pulp. My favorite authors are Tolstoy and Proust. I am drawn to sad things, which I cannot really explain, but possibly attempt to through what I write. I currently live with some cats in California, and I make a living doing design. Well, I am really not that interesting, so I'll end this now.... Don't forget to read my poetry, and I DEMAND feedback! ;)

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