Young Writers Society

Wohoo! Let’s DO THIS!!!

April 1- Achy-Breaky Bones

April 3- Silence

April 6- Silence of Noise

April 8- Live

April 10-Four Seasons

April 12-Man in the Moon

April 30-Drunken Mistakes

Achy-Breaky Bones

Every winter
When it rains and snows,
The thick wet cold
Seeps into my bones

A pale pastel
Of aching pain spreads
Tendrils of blues
Of greens and of reds

Start from my ankles
And work their way up
From my knees to my hips
And a couple new checkups

Low on the scale
From one to ten
Almost always around
To leave now and then

Now there’s the sharp pain
It comes and it goes
But what followed the pain
Are muscles that froze

Every winter
It rains and it snows,
The thick wet cold
Seeps into my bones

Silence

Silent whispers whirl
Echoing louder each breath
Breathe in, out; silence

Silence of Noise

Voices circling
Twanging and hissing
Echoing off one another
Into a single, deafening noise

Everybody’s talking big
But not much is being said
Mindless chatter
Bland opinions

No one willing to break the peace
No one willing to speak their mind
Mindless noise
From your mouth and mine
No one willing to break the silence
No one willing to cause a ruckus
No one willing to start and argument
At the expense of the silence of noise

Live

One day
there will come a darkness
One day
there will be a fall
But until then
I’ll laugh and I’ll cry
I’ll live a full life
And I’ll love
and I’ll morn
Above all

Four Seasons

The wind whistle through
The trees as they sleep
Silent leaves falling
Only to weep

The world lies still
With bated breath
Bones of trees reaching
Dark as a silhouette

Out of the cold
New life is born
Flowers into crowns
That are promptly adorned

And then comes the heat
Where old coats are shed
The cold traded in
For warmth instead

And this cycle
Shall go round and round
Through death and through life
It’ll always be around

It's a song too, if anyone wants to listen to that version as well:
https://voca.ro/1nQB7fTced9C

The Man in the Moon

The man in the moon
Is always a smile'n,
Through the clouds
And the rain,
Through the good times
And pain,

Do you think it gets lonely
Up there in the sky?
Do you think the smile'n face
Wants to break down and cry?

Do you think when he goes away
Is when he finally grieves?
Or do you think when his face is dark
Is when he's finally free?

WAIT A SECOND HOW DID I MISS THAT SONG VERSION!!

I love that you posted the sung version and I think the emotiveness especially of that last stanza / verse very much comes through in your singing - you've got a great voice and I really enjoyed how you delivered this; it seemed very heart-felt I'd say. Great job so far Lizzy, and good luck in the final NaPo Week! I hope to hear or read more of your work - and you posting your song makes me really want to post a song for NaPo now as well <.< I may have a few in the works.

Thank you again for sharing! All the best!

TW: themes of death, manslaughter, and suicide. Viewer discretion advised.

Drunken Mistakes

Stop lights
Street signs,
a dark haze,
headlight glaze,
And stupid mistakes.

Screeching tires,
Yelling of the metal,
And a young girls cry,
Silenced by the shadows
Of a dead drunk driver

A crimson sun
Rises O’r the wreckage
And one prone child
Lies in an eternal sleep
Waiting for the dreams to come

Three recked soles
Two with broken pain
And one with
Endless guilt
Who will wast his life away
At the bottom of a bottle

Till he hangs a rope
High above the rafters
And he’ll meet her and fall
Down upon his knees
And he’ll beg her to
Forgive his sins
Like her parents never could

And she’ll place her hand
Down upon his head
And she’ll whisper
Words that’ll never be forgotten

I
Forgive
You

Happy NaPo Lizzy! WOW your poems were all super, super powerful this year -- great job! I particularly liked Achy-Breaky Bones, especially with your repetition in the first and last stanzas. Your imagery was *chef's kiss* and really made me feel the weight of the "thick wet cold" vibes of snow.

Also, your last poem is really, really good. I got literal shivers from it (and I do definitely appreciate the tw, so thank you for that <3). All-in-all, fantastic work! You absolutely crushed NaPo!!