Bars — Hello Poetry

Your poems love my poems by ephemera of riverfront bars— / tipsy, telling secrets, / spilling out into the sweet-smelling / night, / libertines / more in love / than they were before.

A Fence by Carl Sandburg The palings are made of iron bars with steel points that / can stab the life out of any man who falls on them. / As a fence, it is a masterpiece, and will shut ...

I never hear the word “escape” by Emily Dickinson But I tug childish at my bars / Only to fail again!

Go Saints, Go Saints by Diverseman2020 Cheers springout the bars / While tapping on black tar / that was then / And this is now / I'm proud to say the word "Wow" / Go Saints, Go Saint / To a ...

Mamie by Carl Sandburg Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana / town and dreamed of romance and big things off / somewhere the way the railroad trains all ran. / She could see the ...

How soft this Prison is by Emily Dickinson How sweet these sullen bars / No Despot but the King of Down / Invented this repose / Of Fate if this is All / Has he no added Realm / A Dungeon but a ...

Here, Sailor by Walt Whitman Or, coming in, to avoid the bars, and follow the channel, a perfect pilot needs? / Here, sailor! Here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot, / Whom, in a little boat, putting off, and ...

Go not too near a House of Rose— by Emily Dickinson Nor climb the Bars of Ecstasy, / In insecurity to lie / Is Joy’s insuring quality.

The Great Escape by Butterfly the bars i sit in / do you finally agree? / no longer will i / have to back down / getting away from you / has made me sound

Five Towns on the B. & O. by Carl Sandburg By night ... all lit up ... fire-gold bars, fire-gold flues ... and the shanties shaking in clumsy shadows ... almost the hills shaking ... all crooning: By God, we're going to find out or ...

Let down the Bars, Oh Death— by Emily Dickinson Let down the Bars, Oh Death— / The tired Flocks come in / Whose bleating ceases to repeat / Whose wandering is done— / Thine is the stillest night / Thine the securest Fold / ...

Silhouette (edited for a chorus) by Shane Bruter Engisch of stars and scars and bars that hold me down / take it off I swear I'm willing to tear it to the ground / because of all the cost of curiosity / spellbinder find ...

Butterfly fly free by Patti Masterman-Heterodynemind Bruising your wings on the bars: / Butterfly, just stand back / Until you can see how far / How thin the distance, / Between you and there; / The freedom you seek, / Past ...

Dear Kaitlyn by Kelly Zhang and I don’t have fudge bars, your favorite / and I killed your fish because I forgot to change its water; / it was almost dead when you gave him to me anyway / but ...

Swans by Sara Teasdale The lake bears up their reflection in broken bars / That seem too heavy for tremulous water to hold. / We watch the swans that sleep in a shadowy place, / And now and again ...

Shadow of a ghost by Zyborg Have written a million wordsstill there is want for morehave wandered a thousand milesstill no destiny in sighteach day pegs a new hopesome of it denialsome of it pure hopestruggle to keep my sanityfails me ...

such a perfect by patrick wakefield aching bars of dark / (?

The Pub/ The Bars Empty by John Patrick Robbins Aka Gonzo

My heart has been captured by Patti Masterman-Heterodynemind Against the bars of your presence- / And refusing to sing. / The nearness of you / Stops all singing, all breath; / It just wants to breathe you- / Live in you, till death. ...

My Cage by Mariah R D Simpson I shake the bars / I try to beat back the monster / as I learn that I could die here / and you would never stop / with you I lose my voice / ...

The pleasures of this world by Jamie Townend and head for the bars / to start again.

The End by Pink Taylor through the bars in my cage / and be free / I can't argue / Can't speak / Can't write / For the life of me

in the bars by Daniel Holden in the bars / the dark and quiet bars / i can sit there drinking in the soft glow / of sixty watt bulbs / screwed into ancient fixtures / and the bartenders will at ...

Escape by Kelly Selvester Through the open bars of my cell. / Darkness could not smother the thickening sounds / Of silence, still and deadly / A moving shadow dared to oppress me of my / Breath, my last ...

Untitled by Lauren Ashley still behind the bars / it cannot undo the lock / leading to creation

do not feed by William Delaney Behind steel bars it sits and / waits for gratification from / admiring fools, as we provide / seed and fruit, the dried kind, / from a vacuum-sealed package / that we bought at the ...

Terrible Reception by M Green 5 bars means / I've come to accept / that you're not here with me / but perhaps most importantly / it is that I'm bothering to answer / your incessant and remedial whining / ...

Cage by Gabrielle Hamberger Bars to torture / Me but / If I said I / Hated this / Cage I'd be / Lying / The alcohol / Holds me hostage / It has a / Beautiful face / ...

In your eyes by Breathing Ice Stars behind bars / Coffee stains and red grass / I see / Ice cream melting on the vanilla blue mountain / Smiling secret candies / Flirting with my torture / I see / Cigarettes ...

To Be Seen by PrttyBrd a heart that's behind bars / the spirit forever broken / and to you, I am beautiful / I am what you need to make you smile / I believe in the best parts of ...

Brazilian vistas. by Connor Sean McMurrick Krough The hands that strike the bars are skilled, / and bring out emotions long hidden. / I see tears come unwanted to dry eyes.

A Game of Chess by Andrew Castillo Even behind cold metal bars / Love is meaningless / Rise up against the monarchy my fellow pieces / And we shall overthrow / For we are your foes

My Body by Benjamin Adams These bars are made of bone, / wrapped in pleasure, / flesh. / Bound in nerves, / veins. / My prison is pulsing, / beating. / I know it's a trap, / a misconception, / ...

Jim Morrison made us deaf last night by Wells Brand Drunk to bars. / You’re stuck in the tars / Of that damn Spanish. / We’re good to go / You repeat “No.” / What a great show / bare-breasted ENCORE! / Have fun retiring ...

Pussy by Brett Jones And to think sometimes I’m afraid of crowded bars on weekends.

A Number - Haiku by Sara Nummenpää He likes to count the bars and / Does not think it strange.

stacks by Bailey Sullivan between bars / that keep out / the vicious / and / keep me in / yet a light, somehow, / shines on blank pages / (empty for ages) / that whisper / come closer ...

Merry Christmas by Erica Statham behind bars, crying. / Only Mum visits, everyone knows. / The Child / Safe, soundly sleeping. / Sweetpea visable, until it first snows.

Innocence by Ameerah M Holliday bars I long to be set free. / / Longing for sweet thoughts / and deaths cool embrace. / / Longing for your sweet smile, / guiding me with arms open, eyes / wide. / ...

Ravenous by deanena tierney Pry my teeth like iron bars, / A little bit is all I need. / Offer me just a little taste, / Then leave and let me feed.

Prisoner of silence by mark jarrad It's bars are made of silence / Only you can set me free / I sit tongue tied and lonely / Help my sentence now to cease / If you want me .. you must ...

c-h-o-c-o-l-a-t-e by J Li ogle my perfectly shaped bars; / lick my wrapping. / are you dying yet? / tear me apart, take in my implausibly deep flavor; / eat me, eat me, eat me like you’ve never tasted ...

now or when tell me by jeffrey robin the bars and adjacent bedrooms / toward hills / - / past the college frat parties / toward wisdom / past the drunken revelries / that bred / miserable love poems disguised as life / ...

Trapped by Nastasja Jennifer Hawkshaw Bars on the windows / Trapped inside / No escape / No way to relieve your pain / Locked inside your own thoughts and fears / Uncontrollable sadness / Many people around you / Yet ...

Marimba Melodies. by Connor Sean McMurrick Krough bars. / The process takes me to infinity and back. / I can command the mind to think of your childhood, / or of a lover. / I can bring tears, and shake souls. / ...

SWINGS by Jeremy Ducane Through the black bars / About four feet from you / Sloping down. / Leaves / And rain / A dark green world / But even through these tragic rimmed tunnels / That were eyes ...

stuck in a struggle by Emma Arata im putting up bars that dont let / in any light im losing sight / cant tell left from right / or wrong / wish i could sing it in a song / but i ...

ouchy by andy fardell need to watch myself some more ,no parties ..wakes or fiesty bars / water ...soda that will do.. no beer for me nor vodka blue

A great day, by john oconnell by Mars bars; / out on a lake, / in a small boat, / fishing for all / we were worth. / Later, / retiring to a pub / we spoke about / the big-one ...

52 days in captivity by Jessie behind the cold bars. / I look out the window, / and I count the stars. / I'll give them all names, / in their own unique way, / so I won't feel so alone ...

holding air by Jean Park and incarcerate it behind the bars of bone; / but it always finds a crevice / between your clean, filthy fingers / and escapes

The cradle is truly submerged by john oconnell in a haze of prison-like bars, / painted faintly blue - / mother and child sharing intimately / darkening dusks / as shadowy phantoms dance / and flit on the ceiling and walls / around ...

View from Inside by Emily Brien Blinds become bars in the smallness of this room / When out the window wait greens and blooms / And all this drab decoration disguises my tomb. / But when the blinds conceal a greyish ...

Level One by Scott A Grant Bars become predatory lending / She's classy but confused in love / The thrill is better than that

Parallel Bars by John F McCullagh I hoisted myself on the parallel bars / (in itself a remarkable feat) / Determined this day / I would go all the way. / As if I was some student athlete. / My gym ...

Strange attractor by Perig3e gathering in the streets and bars and honky tonks, / spun together by an invisible attractor they're calling / "Happy New Year."

Escape by Thanwa Atinan The demons behind bars / And we will know / That eternity.. / Is all / But ours.

Bandit's Behind Bars. by Oh High Bandit Bandit's behind bars, / But as soon as / my / third-time / is / a charm, / Luck. / starts to put / magic-moves / on the / love-life / dice. / I'll / ...

Cage Fever by Genevive Louise Sweeney Into the walls, bars, boxes, and bowls. / Heart beating, pounding, racing, trapped. / There is no where to dig, no where to climb. / I am a weak and feeble creature, / Bred to ...

Free Me From the Zoo by Jennifer Goodness Behind imaginary bars / All by myself / As life goes on / I'm stuck here / Repeating patterns / And longing to be free / But slowly and surely / I am breaking free ...

made by Keith Ren I've been stretched over bars, / and chiseled away, / an assemblage / so grateful for glue. / I've been made, / so I've created. / I've expressed, as I felt. / I've been inspired, ...

Lost Property by G Rhydian Morgan I wandered through streets of bars and faces / I did not know my name. / People smiled with pity as I stumbled by / I did not know my place / I was lost ...

Pantheists by Gary Gibbens Then with nine iron bars / We broke those jars / And kissed the gleaming / Crystal knives left behind / / Later we spead / Their essences on pumpernickel bread / We were glad ...

Mr. Ephemeral by Carly A Dark bars and motor oil stained fingers. / Varicolored skin and scarred knuckles. / Your 5 o'clock shadow scratches my chin. / My lipstick wears off, / I look out the window to see the ...

These scars by Jack Piatt Are my bars / My brains / are chains / My heart / broken

Aleschwa by GreenTea She makes lemon bars / and plays cribbage too / We play the ukulele / and dance to Datas song / who said that teenagers / can't get along?

Dope Man by Kasaundra Watta green bars, / cause im the dope man / my mama said what the hell / i said mama me the dope man / in my hood / we got three or four dope mans ...

Bars of Scars by Derek Vinson Clifton as they put me behind bars / when i look around my cell / theres nothing keeping me in / nothing but Scars

the diamond at the gates of hell. by Ian MacMenamin killing time in backward bars / with bent over girls / who laugh / more / than she / ever / could / cry.

Funeral Stars by BK Barnes Random friends in random bars / Prowling bibliophiles / Nature of caskets in the wild / Can you feel the shaman’s rage? / Advice from the poor man’s sage / The summer sun and the ...

Bandaid Bars by Nikolette Marneris Those steel bars / have kept you so far / You’re almost foreign / But you’re a scab / You stay there on / My heart / My soul / My skin / My everything. ...

Entrapment by Lauren Chasteen Bars on the window / of my soul and mind. / Cannot break the shackles / of being left behind. / Devotion, care / In others' eyes. / Pain, destruction / lie in mine. / ...

Soapbox by Serean never even saw the bars till now / cold iron bars / I find my dusty soapbox / it's stained with blood and tears / with shaky knees I stand / the view is different ...

The Walk Home by Nadezhda Ice cream bars / Tucked deep in her coat-pocket / They won’t melt. / She trudges on in the icy whiteness. / / Crinch, crunch, crinch, crunch / Sound of snow / Being stomped on ...

Trapped Version Two by KristenD the bars burn red hot, burning my hands as I try to escape / As her voice grows colder, the walls close in / pressing against the red hot bars my own screaming the only ...

In My Mind. by Hayley Neininger With glorious bars / Too small for his fingers / He releases his singers / Plucking chords made of nerves / Swelling with each note served / Undefined voices will swirl / With planetic like ...

Bars and Bones by Rowan Carrick Behind those bars that are my bones / And I’d hope they were strong enough to keep you from leaving.

Hallways by Anora Anakaya Bars are between us. / Whatever happened to no secrets kept? / Look at the distance that has grown, / between me and you. / These bars took years to build, / and I never ...

The Outset by Sinead Murphy bars there flows cider and flattery and / Anything can happen.

Out. by Nikolette Marneris Those bars / That kept you so far / Stay back / You fool. / I’m happy / You’re gone / Stay away. You made / Me. / You left / Me. / I hate ...

And She Wore Red, White, and Blue by Cary Erin Fosback Junior Trapped between two stainless steel bars? / I think I know the feeling. / Waiting patiently on the street-side corner / With a crone's misery on your face / To be picked up in the ...

Snake Behind Bars by Lucy Tonic A snake was put behind bars / And now I see it everywhere / Plastered on everyone / Even on that which can't be grasped / We find value in being robbed / As we're ...

Teddy Bear by Macaila Pescud These eyes stare out through bars of reality / longing for freedom / to do / to be / to live.

Wanting by Beatrice Z Hart bars of its unrest, / hoping to feel / the sunlight / on its wings / just once / before its pain / becomes nothing / but a footnote / in someone / else’s memory

Untitled by Mara Siegel The iron bars on your / windows.

My Caged Heart by sarah sleigher Lonely behind bars

scratches by Jessica Mann bars me from pleasantness / and scratches at my / skin / until only shame and sorrow / remain

Passion by Jennifer Mack Cold bars, contain. / I wait. / Yearning, hoping. / Foolish. / Perhaps corruption. / Deterioration. / Break out. / Break free.

Its Me by Azlynn Jane Andrews I can see you through the bars you have put me in / Making me the object of your ridicule / I cling to the iron bars / I will not cry / I will ...

This alien by Wells Brand head dizzy from bars / This alien's homesick for Mars.

Out. by Nikolette Marneris Those bars / That kept you so far / Stay back / You fool. / I’m happy / You’re gone / Stay away. You made / Me. / You left / Me. / I hate ...

Dismiss. by Raine Jones it's nothing, i just missed a few bars. / your neck! / it's nothing, just a few measley scars. / your heart! / it's nothing, just bad luck with wishing wells. / your brain! / ...

My Heart by David Ian Baker Swollen is the heart that melts behind bars / Heavy with the weight of guilt / Heavy with the weight of hopeless optimism / Dripping the sweet drops of innocence until it is / Dried ...

poems by Marine Andreson the bars / within the boredom / the monotony

Velvet Bars by Dylan D

Dark Scars by Matt Jursin

Where am I getting lost. by Astha Sharma Behind bars of visions. Of dreams. / In the shadows behind a door. / In an old note about love. / In a distant friend. / In a yawn. / A camouflage. / In a ...

Beauty from Above (The Astronaut’s Thoughts) by Caleb Pendleton Bars are nothing but specks / On a much larger entity / Who now, does not seem so big, / So haughty, as to be threatening / As it used to be / It is ...

Shadow bars by Sam Kerklaan Now only shadow bars / Crossing over / Back and shoulders / As I move forward / Out into the light / Of freedom / Hard won / After I lost / Just one fight

cocaine by Allison Ferrini and it's beautiful when the bars show / Slice down my sternum / Separate my ribs / and let me out