Paperweight Poetry

Courage is like writing, black and isolated on white, you have to put the first word, Down and singly forlorn, standing naked on the page before the rest can come, To tell the abstruse and unsaid reality, you must fight things you haven't yet heard, And wait alone for the other words to rise black and strong to the beat of truth's drum. -anna sluder

i f the words ever went dry i know i'd fall to the floor and die for the moment i lose the well in my soul i will never again be whole.               -anna sluder  

If it rains tonight, I wonder if you will give me your umbrella, Because if you were wet and claimed you were fine, Simply trying to be that chivalrous nice fella, Even as the girl, I'd give you mine. -anna sluder

You laid down leisurely with me, our legs entangled, in the grass of my heart,   So madly in love, we make out cloud shapes in each other's eyes, those white flicks,   Instead of simply looking at the sky, but then we realize the sky is truly grey as rain starts,   But together, finding the whole world in your eyes, it seems a perfect day for a picnic.             -anna sluder 

You told me you would whittle me beautiful out of a piece of wood, But now I fear with you for I never know what to expect, The first figurine of me, small hands, and locks, you carved so good, But the next day you hand me sawdust and say nothing's left.             -anna sluder     

Wouldn't you be ashamed to realize, That all your ego and conceit, Was nothing but empty lies, When the earth falls at the universe's feet, And we see that the earth was only, A bluish green raindrop falling through, The universe, to splatter and break you and me, No wonder the earth has less green than blue, It is simply a watery globe in a downpour, There are billions of other planets just like us, With people thinking they are everything and more, Believing them and their egos are worth all the fuss, But when they are broken and riddled down on the floor, In the glimmering atoms of a puddled universe, They will epiphanize their lives as nothing more, Than all the else, whether homeless, single mom, or a nurse, We have a chance to love for a blunt while, Because though we are surely insignificant, Love's impact gushes and streams on for miles, Like the shower of the planets and stars raining on the cosmos cement, We are called not to try to rule our wa

What would you do If a star called you by name? Would you blush and admit it is you, Or would you be able to call it out the same?       -anna sluder 

the sky is cold when it is without the sun whoever knew we would be left not whole? if the sun ever decided to break out into a run.             -anna sluder

I want too badly to laugh out loud, hard and deep, But my voice breaks and catches, and still not a peep, I can hear it all, I am chortling inwardly, but my voice is numb, Just because I don't laugh doesn't mean I'm deaf, I am solely dumb. -anna sluder

Why do we search for four leaf clovers, only the ones with four? When they always say that the third time's the charm? And everything good is in threes, no one asks the trinity for one more, I simply pity the clovers with three, for having three never did any harm.       -anna sluder 

I swear nobody understands simply What it means to live a simple life Simply Just simply listen and you will simply see That to live simply Is for you to simply be you and for me to simply be me.       -anna sluder 

When they cut open my chest, to fix the inner workings of my heart,     The surgeons, the bellow and cackle, chortling at what they see,     For there are feathers, thin and long in each chambered part,     One out of tune line and they say my bird has been let out of a cage to fly free.         -anna sluder 

Across the rock bedded stream there is something waiting, Waiting there for me, infallibly bright and glorious it seems, Burning a fiery kaleidoscope of a billion colors of spring, It calls out to me in a song, and introduces itself as my dream.     -anna sluder 

the floor cracks beneath me I didn't make it of rock like He told me to I thought sand would make it more free but I wish I'd listened, then I wouldn't be drowning in what I know is true.       -anna sluder 

Why when someone says humans all we look for is the vile? as if God didn't have a plan when he gave us a will we could defile why do they always say I'm only human when being human isn't an excuse? when God formed us and life began he knew a will also offers love and truce what if we instead brought to mind the image of men pulling other out of fires as the definition of humankind fireflies, sun on your skin, smiles, and church choirs I would rather thing we are rolling waves instead of the hurricanes we could be there is so much beauty in the blue to save for we are compassionate yet relentlessly free we are everything and nothing wrapped up into one we are a speck of dust floating oblivious in the universe we are snow banks, red kites, and cradling your grandson forever we are the greatest blessing and the curse we may be very small but sometimes the smallest things are most precious we may hate and we may brawl but even roses have thorns on their b

I scream and I break, I fall to the floor, At three small words, I cave into my soul, Choking, I tear my hair till I chip to my core, For when you said I love you, my heart is what you stole.       -anna sluder 

shh I'm here, shhhh I won't leave, I won't let them near, I won't let them thieve.           -anna sluder

the girl, at the party, she introduced herself as a saleswoman,   when people asked her when she didn't want to known,   as the girl who sells between her legs and those full body scans,   just for an instant, she didn't want to be seen as only skin and bones.        -anna sluder

today the sky is laminated with the sadness of your soul   it is gray and thick in a stew of opaque gloom   will the sky ever look like anything but an enormous hole?   for even with all the vast pit of sadness, there isn't any room.     -anna sluder 

 Don't be afraid, I promise I'll hold your hand through,   But you pull back, with a lump in your throat,   I had never thought that it is the touch that scared you,   When all men ever do is search under your shirt and coat.     -anna sluder

I am in love with you, And I know you love me too, I'm here too, your head's not up in the clouds, So don't be afraid to say it out loud.     -anna sluder 

I wish you would love me Not for how funny the stories are that I tell I wish you wouldn't measure my worth by my beauty I wish you'd love me Even when I fail by thinking of myself If only I didn't have to struggle and work for your love My life would seem  much more whole When you decide not to love me by the surface of my soul Instead of the depth I truly own And the love I hold for all Just for once love me for something that isn't The skin of this society The shell of my body The crust of this life The husk of only what pleases you The crown of nothing The sheath of my heart The bark of this world ... For all those things are shallow and don't lie deep down, Those things will fleetingly break, But when all put together they can make a person drown.     -anna sluder 

I desperately crave to know If red is actually hot and blue truly cold When you touch the colors of a rainbow Will green smell like grass and in yellow are there chinks of gold? Maybe orange will taste like the fruit and Violet will be a person Will the colors be alive or only ghosts from the sun and rain? I want to slide down the colors, into a pool of sun And ride the rainbow like jumping on the tail-end of a train I want to swim in the stripes of seven to a million colors And meet Mr. ROY G BIV face to face See if indigo is more blue than Violet who with purple is more fuller And dance in the rainbow's white strip of lace Rainbows are the castles of color up in the sky That you can visit when you need untainted safety They are the colorful strings for the things you can't tie And a comfort for those who realize life isn't all sunshine and daisies. -anna sluder