Michael-B• Show poetry

Hi my names Mike and after 3 months of being on the site I've finally decided it's about time to turn my page into my page. So anyway about me, I'm a university student studying a boring subject, I play for a couple of local sports teams and I have a small select group of friends that I can rely on.

Last summer was the first time I started writing poetry, and to begin with I didn't know exactly why, only that I could put my feelings down on paper but couldn't articulate them by voice. The only reason I carried it on is becasue a friend of mine while pointing out my faults, said one of them was my complete lack of emotional expression. Basically that my feelings were so locked up that no one ever knew what I was thinking or feeling.

She was pretty much right, but then she found one of my earliest pieces of poetry and couldnt believe the amount of emotion and the depth of which I went into my feelings on a page of A4. So with her pushing I continued to write and eventually found this site.

I continue to write here because it does help me put some focus and to understand myself, and also it gives a central area for my friends to read my poetry and to catch up on how im feeling.

A lot of my poetry is depressive, generally this is because I tend to write it at 4am when I'm at my lowest, but the odd piece in my collection is hopeful, funny and on occasions just plain wierd. So I hope you find something you like.

As I've said the poems are my feelings on paper, but I am also interested in improving my poetry (I dont rate to highly what I write, well a few pieces I'm happy with) so any and all comments are welcome, constructive critisism is good.

I'm always on the look out for new friends and so if you only want to say hi and have a chat im more than likely going to be around.

And with that I'd like to say thank you to the welcome I've had from AP and from the people on here, especially though to the following who I consider my AP friends, and very talented poets who everyone should check out;

Crescencia
JT Sammer

Hope you enjoy my poems.

By the way the pic is just one I like and fits well with my motto. (Normally I'm a hopeless romantic optimist, hence the depressive poems!)

Also irony is a fantastic tool and if anyone can use or has used it in a poem please let me know. (example of irony for those who don't know "Making a kid cry by hitting them with a bottle of childrens no more tears shampoo!" lol.