Flowering Buds

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By Writer Rider

I thought I knew life.

Full of stabbing pain from knives,

Slicing down my back, anxiety attacks,

But I never found love there.

Happiness, just a bud forever in bloom,

But never flowering, until one day,

I learned to accept the back slashes,

Without feeling the pain.

The buds started flowering,

Covering my landscape,

Till my pain was outnumbered by flowers,

And what I searched for in the rain,

Came to be in the sunshine.

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sixtyorso says:
6 months ago

Painful and beautiful. Lovely poem. Full of feeling

Writer Rider says:
6 months ago

Thanks sixtyorso, but I don't know how it's painful...that wasn't my objective. I mean, yes, people backstab but the main purpose of the poem was how ignoring it and shrugging it off brings more positivity and good karma into my life.

VioletSun says:
6 months ago

Beautiful poem, the words gave me touching visuals.

Thumbs up!

Writer Rider says:
6 months ago

Thanks Violetsun!

UK Wordsmith says:
6 months ago

The last two lines are brilliant!

They would make a great song lyric........... now where's my guitar?

Keep it coming Writer Rider.

sixtyorso says:
6 months ago

I guess i just interpreted the backstabbing as a painful issue which was papered over by the myriad of blossoms..

Writer Rider says:
6 months ago

Thanks UK Wordsmith! It's always been a passing fancy to write lyrics for musicians though I'm more of a poet. Contrary to popular belief, lyrical poetry is poetry.

Sixty, no. I do a lot of papering over but this poem is particularily straightforward.

Writer Rider says:
6 months ago

I mean as far as metaphors go.

sixtyorso says:
6 months ago

None the less i enjoyed your poetry. Please keep writing and BTW I think it is particularly silly for hubpages to consider a poem as a sub standard hub if it does not have the required number of lines. Poems should be treated dfferently from text hubs but I guess it is all computer algorithm driven and a human being does not get to judge.

Am I dead, yet? says:
6 months ago

wicked! I love the aspect of pain and tolerance in this piece. Nice work.

@sixtyorso I agree. your comment hit the nail on the head.

mike says:
6 months ago

i enjoy when i read

http://hubpages.com/hub/World-Fashoin-PIc

Writer Rider says:
6 months ago

Yes, Sixty, poetry shouldn't be judged according to amount of words. Maybe hubpages will pay attention to this and change that rule (hopefully). Thanks for the comment. I'll do more later, I'm literally swamped so I haven't been writing many hubs.

Thanks for AmInotdeadyet (hope you don't mind the abbreviations). It's amazing the amount of pain there is in life. We might as well learn to ignore them.

Thanks Mike.

TheMoneyGuy says:
6 months ago

I liked it, Thank you.

TMG

Writer Rider says:
6 months ago

Thanks TMG.

Additional Text So My Hub Isn't Flagged for Being Substandard

I mean, who cares how much text is in a hub? Sometimes a little text is better writing than neverending jargon. But I guess I have to fill the empty space between this word and the end of this capsule. I could do it with another poem but, hey, I don't really want to. So here I am dumbing myself down by writing lyricless poetry to appease the masses...don't really care because this is just blogging and not as important as a project I'm working, not by far. So I hope that this wisp of a poem is enough standard for the standard. And I hope I fill the standard length of this capsule by the time I finish writing this but, hell, I really don't think I will. Yeah, and unless I'm earning more than a few pennies on a blog site, I'll feel free to delete any trollish comments. I mean why bother writing them? It only exposes who you really are and what your ugly, insecure objective is.