"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

-- Robert Frost

A peaceful slumber never finds me.

The sandman mustn’t have me on his list.

Tossing, turning my only desire is to close my eyes.

It’s all just too much pain to deal with.

Pills do nothing but make me high, so no sleep tonight.

Though I’m awake the nightmares still appear.

Seeing

Feeling

Hearing

The hellish visions seize me!

Making it too scary to close my eyes.

My soul has never been so afraid.

Have you ever looked into the eyes of the decayed?

Prayed it was all just an illusion to the eye?

It’s all just so wrong; I’ve been awake too long.

Exhausted

Inert

Lonely

The whole world is asleep.

My thoughts faster than a heartbeat.

I dream of the dreams that I cannot dream.

Night after night is always the same.

I watch shadows dance down the hall as

I listen to the silence of nightfall.

Moonrise

Stars

Sky

I wish there weren’t so many hours in the night.

Insomnia has its claws in me,

It won’t give up without a fight.

I wish dawn didn’t come so early.

How much longer till the sandman finds me?

I only desire eight hours of eternity.

© 2010 Jennifer L. Brooks

Writing Prompts
This is a link to a page on my blog where I have 10 writing prompts to motivate your mind. I will change them often so keep checking back but I will re-post the link every time I change them. Get INSPIRED! 

Creativity
is not enough for artists
alone, they need faith.

Only tomorrow
Death is but a breath away
No more yesterdays

© 2010 Jennifer L. Brooks

The ocean cannot hold my tears.

God himself cannot calm my fears!

Satan can’t control my rage.

Hell itself cannot contain my pain!

My heart can’t hold the emotions.

Though, my body holds the devotion…

My mind the addiction to be insane!

The universe cannot grasp my thoughts.

The world is too small for my dreams!

My soul too old for my body…

My compassion too great to go unseen!

My love too passionate not to be felt…

My persona too complex too believe.

Sin boils through my veins.

As saints visit me in my dreams.

All of me bursting at the seams…

All of me craving some kind of sanctity…

All of me, all of me! Dying to be redeemed.

© 2010 Jennifer L. Brooks

Bro/ken 

              Slipping away

Problems past

Robbed of youth

Bro/ken

              Searching

Finding nothing

I’m nowhere

Bro/ken

              Seeing

I’m blind

Running out of time

Bro/ken

             Sinking

Inside of me

I’m lost.

            

© 2010 Jennifer L. Brooks

Couldn’t say goodbye

You’re not here but still with me

God holds you for me

© 2011 Jennifer L. Brooks

Thought prayers would help.

Learned you can’t barter with God.

Still, I must ask why?

© 2011 Jennifer L. Brooks

Under blue skies
she’s lost in his
blue eyes.

They worship each
other under the
warm sun.

Day turns to night
lust to love. Under
starry skies,

they became one.

Her fingers twirl his
rusty hair as his eyes
discover her soul.

Loneliness escapes them,
Passion invades them,
 they can finally let go.

Essence to essence,
heart to heart, magic
bloomed beneath skies.

Soul mates found never to part.

© 2008 Jennifer L. Brooks

D-aring

R-emarkable

E-nduring

A-rtistic

M-using

E-nlightened

R-adical

© 2011 Jennifer L. Brooks

Listen to the breath of my heart.

The beat of my soul.

It’s all for you,

You’ve turned me gold.

My soul no longer echoes.

Eyes no longer rain.

Cause of you I’ve stepped

Out of the shade.

My mind no longer hates

My lips no longer curse.

All because of you,

All because of you!

Life no longer hurts.

© 2010 Jennifer L. Brooks

I wrote this for my husband, so it may not be my best work but all of the words and emotions are true. Love doesn’t have to be bold and it doesn’t have to boast to be true love. It just has to be, you just have to feel, you both only need to trust and fall.

The sun beats down on her freckled face
as she swings back and forth…
she’s taken to another place.

It’s five years ago and her future is bright
there is only hope in her heart, no fright…
swinging more she’s taken back.

It’s ten years ago her knees are scraped
but no heartache, only bones to break…
swinging more she’s taken back.

It’s twenty years ago, so innocent and young
only if she could stay this way…
but the sun fades.

Back to reality, back to broken dreams
heartache and a wretched soul…
at twenty five she has no where to go.  

© 2010 Jennifer L. Brooks

I’m suffocating…

Panic! Pressure! Pain! Living!

Help me breathe again?

© 2011 Jennifer L. Brooks

A vacant heart beats.

In there love use to reside.

Now in there, lies, LIES!

© 2011 Jennifer L. Brooks

Fall asleep in lust.

Wake up to what you disgust.

Time to sober up!

© 2011 Jennifer L. Brooks

Stare to stare we watch
Elated concentration
Soul to soul we touch

© 2010 Jennifer L. Brooks

Like a dying rose

I’ve wilted too long

My petals have fallen

To the earth, I just can’t

Go on.

The blue skies bypass me

I’m drowning in rain,

Though my thorns still

Sharp enough to cause

You pain.

My roots still connected

But I’m covered with

Weeds. Ugly and alone,

In a place too dark for the

Sun to see.

© 2008 Jennifer L. Brooks

A girl with an attitude

A girl who lives a life of solitude

A broken soul with a working heart

An unconscious brain that’s smart

A girl who loves through hate

A girl who’s not afraid to break

A writer with an ink-less pen

Am not ashamed to pray after sin.

A girl who hates to love her life

A girl that’s seen her share of strife

A shameless heart breaker

An incredible love maker

A girl that’s full of ambition

A girl that hasn’t been conditioned

A mess, I admit it all!
But at least this girl isn’t afraid to fall…

© 2010 Jennifer L. Brooks