#rules poems on Hello Poetry

M Aug 2019

The great unbreakable and unscalable walls of yore are not broken.

They just ceased to be walls.
Now just a slightly dumbfounding mist.

You pass through them like a bad smell
because they were never really there.
And those that built them
With ignorance and shame
Are long dead.

They are only an obscure memory of pain, oppression or struggle.

#judgement #traditions #rules #society #shame #discrimination

Cole Aug 2019

Happy

"Do better"
You have to be better if you want to win.
"Be smarter"
You have to be smarter if you want to change.
"Grow taller"
You have to be taller if you want some friends.
"Be pretty"
You have to be pretty if you want to fit in.
But I just want to live.
I just want to live.
"Laugh harder"
You have to laugh harder if you want to smile.
But I don't want to pretend.
And I just wanna be happy.
But you never taught me that.
I just want to live my life and smile.
I just want to smile for real.
I just want to run away
Cause you won't ever let me.
It's not your fault that I'm failing.
"It's been fun"
It never has.
But I have to say, thank you.
I don't really know why.
You always hurt me so much.
You never showed me how to live my life my way.
I just don't understand.
I'm your child.
Let me smile. Myself.
For the first time.
"Be happy"
I want to be happy
So I can live my life.

-3nwlry

Don't worry about what they tell you. Do what you want to do.

#expectations #rules

Keiri Aug 2019

What is a Haiku? (Tanka)

What is a Haiku?
Guess how many syllables.
Five, seven then five.

So how to make a Tanka?
You add it two more seven.

I realised many on this site have issues with Haiku. Since they randomly call poems 'Haiku', however Haiku is one of the few poetry forms that actually has rules. So I made a Haiku, on how to make a Haiku ;)

#haiku #what #is #*** #syllables #tokka #rules

Charlie Jupp May 2019

Interstate 77

Last night I
Covered myself in dirt and rocks
Snuggled in to the ditch I dug myself into
Pulled up my covers of grass
Laid my head on a pillow made of gravel

i dressed in cement this morning
Crawled out of the ditch
put on my helmet and nothing could hit me
Indestructible
Cars can run me over and not break my bones
Designed to go over me unnoticed

Am I a speedbump
or a lost tire from an eighteen wheeler
That tried to bypass the rules
And ran off the road
And got covered in dirt and rocks

#highway #speedbump #cement #rules #road #heart

nick armbrister May 2019

Family Rules

I always needed something to rebel against
From my school peers who I ******* hated
To my overly dominant mother who was the boss

And the neighbours who were stuffy ******
The controlling school rules I loathed so much

I was always had to rebel against something
It was me against the world and still is?
What amazes me is I made it thru

Physically in one piece but inside...
There was a little bit of chop along the way

But I escaped the crap of life
That ensnared many of my fellow teens
Was this because certain family rules ruled me?

#life #rules #me

Juno May 2019

Bound by Society

I’ve been tied to a stereotype
With a rope I can’t break.
They think I’m the girl
That will never take a break.

But that’s not me
I don’t fit that list
But they tell me I do
Do I like it? They wish.

#stereotype #society #rules #pressure

Juno May 2019

Rules

Society has many rules
And poems have them, too.
“It has to rhyme”, they say.
“It must have a rhythm, too.”

But I intend to end those rules
I intend to break free
So maybe my poems aren’t the best,
But at least I’m being me.

#rules