Jean's Poems

By Jean Calvin

This is the collection of all my poems and things of a poetic nature. Most of my poems are based on my mood. In any case, this is the section I would like to get the most feedback from.

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Yesterday

By Jean Calvin on Tue, 17 Jul 2007

Based on 'The Beatles' song of the same title and re-adjusted.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Birds

By Jean Calvin on Sun, 25 Mar 2007

Majestically soar Float on the wind Fly through the sky.
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Birthday

By Jean Calvin on Tue, 17 Jul 2007

Blow out the candles And you’re another year older. You might not feel like anything has changed, But even as those sparkles from extinguished candles fade away It's happened.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Bleed

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 05 May 2007

Hidden among the crowds are those who aren’t truly whole lacking the essence to make them similar to everyone else. Entirety of life for life in them has been altered
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Bombs

By Jean Calvin on Sun, 25 Mar 2007

Bombs falling, dropping— One by one— On what we built What was once Beautiful, happy, good. Now, instead. Is the barren, blazen Field of death. A child lays isolated, Torn and beaten
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Breathe

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 05 May 2007

Let go The rope snaps And the world pulls me down To the blue depths Grinning below. Splash! It engulfs And attempts to swallow and chew. I push up, But the water only pushes down.
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Butterflies

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 05 May 2007

Planted inside It grows. A cocoon Of hope, Of what may be-- And probaly won't be. Eventually that cocoon Will burst. Spreading it's wings Wide.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Care

By Jean Calvin on Sun, 25 Mar 2007

Feeling bad deep inside I feel that all I can do Is cry. But crying alone, Is something I can’t do. I look for those who brought me, And find them, Only interested in caring
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Clouds of Summer

By Jean Calvin on Wed, 04 Jul 2007

This one is for summer. Of a time when the Sun Drives out the sky and only blue prevails. Don’t you fret though, They manage still to stick themselves back. Crossed and checkered,
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Window Seat Dreary

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 27 Jan 2007

I sit, weary in my dreary. Alone in my seat- at the window. I roll, twist, stretch- but not one can I cure my dreary. The engine screaming- throosh throsh! THROOSH! Moaning on for eternity.
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Sneeze

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 27 Jan 2007

I knew it was coming. It was coming, the same way it always comes. Slithering and Sneaking, Moving however it pleased. But yet, I could still tell it was coming, Elusive as ever. Upon its arrival,
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Smile

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 27 Jan 2007

So pale, Glooming in the corner. Ignoring the world, With your frown. Now stop Your gloom and doom And turn around. Smile. For all that is good. Smile because it feels good. Because the world is good.
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Walking

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 27 Jan 2007

Don't look back, Down that musty, molding road. Don't turn back, Gazing back at what's Happened won't do no good. Could've Would've Should've You say? Well too bad” What is done
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Jenseit von Gut und Bose

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 27 Jan 2007

"I am alone! He screams. Donations, charity, goodwill. Admirable to the cause, The human cause. To be righteous, To be admired, To be treasured, To be virtuous, To be good. Overbearing
Other Fiction
Certificate U

Murphy's Law

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 27 Jan 2007

Late buzzer, Or rather No buzzer at all. Waken by the gentle Clanking and clacking Of morning feet. And it seems, Murphy doesn't want me to wake up to-day. The handle Is rusted, cracked
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Disappear

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 27 Jan 2007

Disappear, For the world has become a shell. Empty of thoughts, Emotions, And those that used to Know how to love. Disappear, For life is a shell. Filled with empty, Hopes and dreams, And of those that used to exist
Other Fiction
Certificate U

Putting Together Bjork

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 27 Jan 2007

I am why That a dream can come true You cross your heart and hope to die As a remembrance of you A simple excuse And I roar back You blow a fuse Clatter, crash, clack! There is yet another one
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Words

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 27 Jan 2007

Words flying above soaring majestically so close but unreachable. Organize a freedom unattained, by those who search for them so desperately. Rejected by what was believed to keep me
Opinion
Poem
Certificate U

Reaching Out

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 27 Jan 2007

I reach out To that tree The very nature in Life. For that is what I need. I reach out my hand, To take the breath from the tree. To touch the essence of Life. But all I grab is a leaf.
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

To, Secretly Admired:

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 27 Jan 2007

Dear..., How I remember the first time we met How we didn't say much And when you had your back to me You turned around gave me that smile That everlasting smile. How you would re-appear in my life
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Wish

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 03 Feb 2007

Throw your hand towards the sky. To the darkened scene above, Littered with glowing specks. Point there And think of everything— What you hope to be, What you love, What makes you you, Your wish. Cherish it, Hold it deep in your heart And never forget it. If you keep it close Your hopes, Your love, Your wish, Will come true.
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Rain

By Jean Calvin on Sun, 11 Feb 2007

Clear droplets Of water. Falling from the Darkened sky above— Cleaning all below. Washing away All that is done To make us Ashamed, guilty, depressed, Resentful, bitter, hateful.
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Lacrimosa

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 24 Mar 2007

We fail at things in life Just the same at you did. We fall to mistakes Just as you had done When you still lived. Let our prayers Help your soul on its journey. Cleanse your soul
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Don Juan

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 24 Mar 2007

Women after women, Plundering in the name of love and lust. He found you, And he didn’t know if it was love or lust. But yet he pursued And you were deflowered By the hand of Don Juan.
Other Fiction
Certificate PG

Luck

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 24 Mar 2007

Break the window, A four leaf clover, A black cat crossing, Rabbit’s foot, Going under the ladder, Horseshoe. Luck Determines your fate, The game of chance of life. Can never be broken.
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Free

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 24 Mar 2007

Don’t chain me, Don’t block my future and the Path in front of me. Excuses, tricks, lies, confessions, truths All hold me back For good or ill intent. And I remain
Other Fiction
Certificate U

Snow

By Jean Calvin on Sun, 25 Mar 2007

Frozen, drifting from the sky above Twilight of grey clouds Streaming gently through the sky A flurry of frozen tears.
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Regret

By Jean Calvin on Sun, 25 Mar 2007

Wrong words. The wrong phrase The wrong action The wrong smile, Changes everything. Twists and alters What was there. All I can think of now Is what I did wrong
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Letting Go

By Jean Calvin on Sun, 25 Mar 2007

Fate brought me to you, A few slip of words And it began to happen. Your words helped comfort me When all I heard was bad. You helped me speak up When I thought my mouth had been glued shut.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Dreams

By Jean Calvin on Sun, 25 Mar 2007

Imaginative worlds, Filled with things impossible, unrealistic Only coming When all else is blind. Escape from the world. The real world, Filled with what-ifs, could bes’, should bes’
Other Fiction
Certificate U

Differnt

By Jean Calvin on Sun, 25 Mar 2007

I don’t belong To the normal stream Of life. What I do in life, How I do it, Why I do it Belong to me. Who I am, Why I am, Are me And is what changes me— From being you.
Other Fiction
Certificate U

Riddles

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 05 May 2007

Questions; The simplest form of trickery. The most common words matched together Can make the most rare and complicated Responses and frustrations. All because A man is dead
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Words of the Soul

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 05 May 2007

Words of the soul Rise from the soul Into the physical manifestation Of the wonders of the soul. Let the words Of the soul Mean what they shall be. But since it comes from the soul
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Lost and Found

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 05 May 2007

Feelings of hope, joy Of love. Lost in it's way Scattered abroad. In a cold abyss Of what cannot be. But hands of light can pierce the abyss And light shall return.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Wind

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 05 May 2007

My Thoughts blow me away From the structure and guiding of reality Stretched across what I don’t and do Want to believe. Thrown for what I knew, What I cherished and believed,
Other Fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Glad You Don't Care

By Jean Calvin on Sun, 10 Jun 2007

Take it And wrap it around your finger, As you always tend to do. The simple recipe for disaster, Snapping it when things come too tight. Fluttering to the ground, You walk away
Other Fiction
Certificate U

Fear

By Jean Calvin on Sat, 16 Jun 2007

All that feds, Festering inside Becoming your weakness. Carving its own way into the soul, Rotting the wood That makes your house. Creations of the mind.
Other Fiction
Certificate U

Same Moon

By Jean Calvin on Thu, 28 Jun 2007

There’s a thing in the sky It’s called the moon. Out of reach (even by my hand’s reach) But yet, I can reach you from it No matter how far we’re apart.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Frankly, Mr. Shankly

By Jean Calvin on Wed, 04 Jul 2007

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, Everyday is like Sunday. Certain people I know Sing your life. Alma matters Lost. I know it’s going to happen someday— Hairdresser on fire,
Humour
Certificate U

The Wedding (Not) Remembered

By Jean Calvin on Wed, 04 Jul 2007

A day of Festivities, A day to remember for the ages Locked away in photos, videos, and memories Not remembered. Two for the altar, But only one is known to me.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Nobody Cries for the Serial Killer

By Jean Calvin on Tue, 17 Jul 2007

For the madman Sentenced to the Death Row Over fourteen chopped-drowned-beaten bodies. The man who used to have his own home, The man with the stable job rising in the office,
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Ireland

By Jean Calvin on Tue, 17 Jul 2007

I think about it all the time, The grassy plains And the homely feel that each individual Building gave to the heart. The place I used to call home. The wooden house on the top of the hill,
Miscellaneous
Certificate U