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2.5k · May 2017
Nocturnal Healer
Pepper Dove May 2017
Abused
by the torturous Suns heat
That beats
and burns
my fragile bare feet
Short distance, now miles to come
with dried up lungs
from unforgiving Sun
Twinkles of first starlight,
a warning to hide
for cowerdly Sun,
the Moon is to arise
Wrapping its blanket of energy
gently around what yearns
for the nocturnal healer
to soothe Earth from it's burns
1.4k · May 2017
Wanderer
Pepper Dove May 2017
I'm not here
to stay
I'm just passing through
Like the wind
on a stormy day
turning leaves as it may do
1.3k · Dec 2022
Lost Somewhere in the Noise
Pepper Dove Dec 2022
Finally
I catch a break
from the clattering chatter
of complaints
To melt into this cozy chair
and rediscover my own thoughts,
myself,
who I have lost
somewhere in the noise

Finally
I catch my breath
and slowing its pace, I embrace
the silence
This temporary peace I seldom
catch hold of these days

And just as I finally start to see
myself...

It's taken

Shattered and scattered
like a cars side mirror
side-swiped
by the haphazardly cluelessness
of another

My reflection

My inner self

Gone

Once more
1.3k · May 2022
Glum
Pepper Dove May 2022
There really wasn't much to the day
A bit of sun
A bit of grey

Leaving me with room to think
A sip to numb
A heart to sink
1.3k · Feb 2018
Portal Eyes (extended)
Pepper Dove Feb 2018
Through crowds of chaos
the room becomes still
as you pull me through
to your world
not having to be near
your eyes
like portals
guiding me to serenity
taking in what you breath
inconceivably
deceiving me
like clay, you play
by ripping me apart
from the start I knew
you had me
it's in your art
of shape shifting
to please my senses,
bits and pieces
there is
not enough glue
to keep us whole so
we fall
we fall apart
nothing can keep us there
we try
but change like clouds
until
we fade away.
Added on to a previous poem I shared a while ago, and now is part of a new song :)
1.1k · Jun 2017
Wind Dance
Pepper Dove Jun 2017
Hypnotized
  by the
    graceful
       sway
         of
           a
    broken
  web
dancing
along  
side
   its  
    shadow
      to the  
        winds
     whispering
        songs
most people see a spiderweb dangling in disgust..
but I saw beauty in the way it elegantly danced around;
it’s shadow accompanying it in perfect rhythmic synchronicity
to the gentle breeze blowing through my window

It made me see that even though something like the wind can break you, it is also the wind that keeps you moving.. going.. dancing
922 · Mar 2021
Biting Truth
Pepper Dove Mar 2021
You ever bite your tongue,
to not hurt someone with the truth?

You bite down even harder,
knowing it's only hurting you.
892 · May 2018
Hopeful Love
Pepper Dove May 2018
Hop
      Skip
and  a
                         jump

my heart skips
to the rhythm of hop scotch

Tickles and giggles
as we roll around in the grass

then pause

to gaze into the wispy zoo of white
lost
in your sky blue eyes

Sweeping my thumb
across your bottom lip

coy dimples
you show

third eye
you kiss

Fleeting glances
into one another's soul

I surrender

letting my emotions go

Waves push me over
And swept me away
into your sea

I am bound up in this affection

this

Love

You want to give to me

Wrapped up in the warmth
of your arms

your kisses
are seldom few

It's a new day

a fresh peak into

the eyesome future

of you.
827 · Feb 2020
Soul Manicure
Pepper Dove Feb 2020
I can always tell when my life is beginning to fall apart by the mere glimpse of my ******, torn and gnawed to the bone fingertips. A reflection of my internal chaos, now exposed. Revealing my lack of will power to resist the urge when life’s mundane patterns and stress-induced anxiety take over. There’s something to be said when your toenails become longer than your fingernails. I’d say it says that it's time for a manicure of the soul. ****, a pedi wouldn’t hurt either.
A pattern I've noticed when I'm not at my "A-Game" in life. I think I'll use it as a red-flag to pick myself back up again. It's time to nourish my soul.
778 · Oct 2021
Stirred Up
Pepper Dove Oct 2021
The wind stirs
jerking the trees
Shaking away
all the pain
- I mean, rain
from my leaves
640 · Jun 2017
Drapetomania
Pepper Dove Jun 2017
Days turn to eternities
with hindering urgencies
buried inside of me, a
labyrinth of reasoning
alone in the midst, I
refuse
refuse to quit
sawing at the chains anchored
to ankles tied
to this abyss,
caught in a paradox
caught
in a **** whirlwind
gotta break free, 'cuz
drapetomania’s got the best of me.
An overwhelming urge to run away; escape.... came across this word a while ago and was inspired to write this.
609 · Nov 2017
Castles in Air
Pepper Dove Nov 2017
Nestled closely to my dreams
  I build castles in air
Dancing on tops of clouds
  with my tiny feet bare
I carry on in a way of grace
  singing songs with rapture
Hands twirling in the sky
  rose petals I swiftly capture
I kiss each one
  blowing them back to the wind
My soul is too selfless
  to have harbored all of them
In the distance his eyes met mine
  with a gentle smile
My cheeks turning to a cranberry wine
  as he took my hand a while
Floating deep into the rising sun
  warm colors melt our souls
Poured into the open sea
  spiraling round and round on carousel
Until washed upon twinkling sands
  of greens and yellows
I awaken with empty hands
  and a heart that bellows.
This was the very first poem I shared on Hello Poetry back in 2015. It is still my favorite poem I've ever written, so I wanted to share with you all again :)
592 · Feb 2015
Look Inside
Pepper Dove Feb 2015
Your biofeedback's
telling me to look
inside
your eyes
visualize
a timeline of lies
silhouettes of wings
dance across your face
from frantic moths
swarming
tree twitching limbs
creatures pouncing from each end
distracting
from all the pretend.
563 · Apr 2017
Dreary Silence
Pepper Dove Apr 2017
Temperatures escalate,
not too much more I can take
the way you fill my heart
with rage,
  reveals an empty page.
Emotions hang woefully,
  so lonely,
  suffocating me
Trapped inside my spinning head
I teeter with thoughts in red.
My heart bellows, and it howls
for moments of connection through,
your dreary, heavy, silent moods
   My words
        fall to
           the ground.
541 · Jun 2017
Fill the Soul
Pepper Dove Jun 2017
Awake
again
and the music is still playin'
from the kitchen
where you still sit
Alone
inside your head
Smoke swirls
around your hand
I can hear your puckered lips
**** the life out' that stick
exhaling mumbled words
to Simply Red
reaching for your cup
filled with gold
-to fill the soul-
I sit
at the end of my bed
mesmerized
by you.
As a child I would awake in the middle of the night to soft music playing from the kitchen where my mother would be drinking, chain smoking and singing along to old classics. I would lay there for hours watching her, in wonder of what she was thinking. I could tell she was sad and lonely, though she never showed it during the day. I never interrupted her, because I knew this was her way of meditation, her way to cleanse and fill her soul.
539 · Feb 2015
Unruly Umbra
Pepper Dove Feb 2015
Black smeared speckles
peppered on tops of trees
Still
and silent
Gawking at me
Squinting eyes uncover
the unruly umbra
I too...
have been deceived.
534 · Feb 2015
Sprayed on the Walls
Pepper Dove Feb 2015
I want to dig deep
into my rib cage
rip out my soul
and THROW it
onto this page
Can't find the words
to disperse
without
expressing the rage
that I keep
bottled up
CAP GLUED SHUT
but you keep shaking me up
to the point
explosion
all emotions
turned to potion
sprayed on the walls
for everyone to soak in.
532 · Jun 2017
Webs of Solitude
Pepper Dove Jun 2017
Darkness is here
beneath the canopy
where tiny insects inject
venom with apathy
Swiftly spinning
webs
of solitude
watching you
taunting you
wanting you to intrude
Lingering notions
of spraying potions;
hypnosis
You're helpless
and hopeless
Unconscious
and motionless
Can't you hear the cries?
From the spirits
fallen victim to
all of it's lies,
gripping you with eyes
grinning
at it's winning
of your steady
slow
demise.
Metephorical for all those sneaky spiders in your life, always trying to manipulate you to fall into their webs of deception so they can use you to their benefit and consume your whole being.
450 · Jun 2017
Portal Eyes
Pepper Dove Jun 2017
Glistening
through crowds of chaos
the room became still
as you pulled me through
into your universe
close
without having to be near
your eyes like portals
guiding me to serenity.
448 · Feb 2015
Castles in Air
Pepper Dove Feb 2015
Nestled closely to my dreams
  I build castles in air
Dancing on tops of clouds
  with my tiny feet bare
I carry on in a way of grace
  singing songs with rapture
Hands twirling in the sky
  rose petals I swiftly capture
I kiss each one
  blowing them back to the wind
My soul is too selfless
  to have harbored all of them
In the distance his eyes met mine
  with a gentle smile
My cheeks turning to a cranberry wine
  as he took my hand a while
Floating deep into the rising sun
  warm colors melt our souls
Poured into the open sea
  spiraling round and round on carousel
Until washed upon twinkling sands
  of greens and yellows
I awaken with empty hands
  and a heart that bellows.
421 · Jun 2017
The Texture of Hope
Pepper Dove Jun 2017
I always believed
that if you want it
then you can have it,
only
by reaching for it
you can feel it.
The moon is too far
to reach, yet
the gravel below,
dust on it’s surface,
rock just beneath
my feet.
Firm to the core, I
cannot fall through.
But I can float
elegantly
across it’s surface,
like petals in the wind.
It will not go anywhere,
it is isolated in the dark,
but only through the darkness
can it shine
the brightest.
420 · Nov 2017
A Window for My Shine
Pepper Dove Nov 2017
I have lost myself. At some point I’ve forgotten who I was becoming, letting my Self slip through my finger tips where my essence once did reside. My childlike curiosity seems to have faded away with the castle-like clouds… it has changed its shape, again and again. Morphing from one creature to another, unconsciously, without my permission. This has been me for some time - a chameleon; changing with the backdrops strolling across this stage we call life. Folding my slices of thoughts into clichés of paper mache … fly away little crane, fly away… I have been the bystander of myself. All along, standing beside my Self. I am there though, just blind.. maybe even deaf and mute sometimes, but I am there.. I am here.. I simply just am. Though, as complex as I may make it, it is simple: to just be. This is what I have forgotten. This is what most of us have forgotten. I am realizing this more, as more Suns rise and more Moons fall, that nothing else really matters. These shadows casted upon us all, they do not exist. They cannot exist. Dark cannot exist when there is light.. and light is what we are. Unless there is a brick wall blocking our light, forcing its shadowing umbrella onto our hopes and dreams. But light is what I am, and dim I will no longer be. So today I start by opening a window for my shine, so tomorrow I can open the door, letting more of my light to leak. So soon I can walk through that doorway, one step at a time, further and further away from this dark shadowy wall until it disappears behind the horizon forever. Until finally, I am my true Self shinning vibrantly as the Sun does, becoming who we’re all meant to be - found and free.
A little journaling from my innards haha.. really just writing honestly and vulnerably without looking back.
413 · Apr 2020
Resilience
Pepper Dove Apr 2020
Left out in the cold,
you leave me here to freeze
shut out from your warmth

I am forced to trudge on
leaving footprints in the snow
I walk towards the sun

drawing me
to serenity

it directs my uncertainty
ensuring that everything will be fine,
if I continue on

my feet will reach the sands
which I will bury
deeply,
grounding my spirit

stilling me

instilling in me

r e s i l i e n c e
Lyrics to a recent song in the making
412 · Jul 2017
Pain in the Beauty of Rain
Pepper Dove Jul 2017
It was one of those
gentle
rainy days
with rain clouds
so thin,
revealing
baby blue
hiding behind.
The roads became
mirrors
for the streetlights
peering down,
smiling bright
at the young girl
seated on the curb
below;

solemn
and
alone.
410 · Jun 2017
Not Enough
Pepper Dove Jun 2017
My hand becomes paralyzed
at the thought of
writing out my thoughts
true
but blue is the color
that shades me
hiding me in its hue

I want to express
how my heart aches
it craves
to connect

known for my patience
so a lesson
you must be
then

teaching me

to not waste
anymore time
oh how little time
we truly do have

so I toss and turn
in the moonlights beam
like a coin flipped into the air
what side shall I be?

caught in the middle
between waiting
and going
I cling to this meaning
of my middle name
hoping
for it all to fall into place
hoping
for you to just understand
me

All i want
is for you
to look at me
as though
I will not be
here
tomorrow

I teeter with this meaning
of love
when the word
routinely
leaves your lips
so mundane

what does love actually mean
to you,
******!?

Is it having
someone around
to deal with
your piles of clothes
scattered on the floor
like
my thoughts
indisposed?

is it knowing
that you can
stack the dishes
as high as
my anxiety builds
in hopes for it all
to come
crashing down?

Is it that you can
leisurely
spend your money
on
toys?
oh how your car needs
that ******’ loud exhaust!

though home
isn’t your concern
because love to you
is not having
to be concerned
about how I feel

I am just here
to cater to you

how am I so
easy going
to just grin
and bare it

you love me
so
you don’t
have to
consider it

because
you say it
routinely
so surely
my heart
is content…
right?
Venting... and it was much needed!
388 · Jul 2020
Zephyrean Kiss
Pepper Dove Jul 2020
and
        when
        you
        feel
         that
          soft
          gentle
           breeze
           against
           your
           cheek
           just
          know
         it is
        me
386 · Jul 2017
Blushing Eyes
Pepper Dove Jul 2017
I arrived
and just in time too
for you
to show your face
oh that face
you make
when I enter the room
I can feel your eyes
like lasers
scanning my body
when I’m turned away
I know
that when I glance
in your direction
those piercing blues
will meet mine
for they were already there
just as I had hoped
so I could steal a smile
blushing red
quickly turning away
mouthing the words
I love you
in silence
to yourself
381 · Sep 2017
Sad Machine
Pepper Dove Sep 2017
I followed in a dream
one day,
a melancholy sound
Beating the drums
in my ears
as my heart
pounds,
With every uncertain step
I took
the sound began to fade,
reaching an empty
candled lit room
with a child,
wiping tears from her face,
I asked
what were those
haunting sounds
I had heard?
She opened her mouth
with a bit of a smirk
"It's a sad machine,
I play...
I found it in a dream...
when I followed
you,
one day."
372 · Jul 2017
Quiet
Pepper Dove Jul 2017
is what
I do
all too
often
it engulfs me
smothering
me to
realization
that all
I have to
do
to breath
is

just
SCREEEEEEEEEEEAAMMMM!
366 · May 2017
Moms Advice
Pepper Dove May 2017
To hell with it then.
(6 words or less)
364 · Feb 2015
Stretch to Fall
Pepper Dove Feb 2015
So close to me
can't reach
yet...
I keep stretching.
Water beneath my feet
eyeing my reflection.
Smile faintly
gawking at me
won't let me be,
stood to turn
then fell right in
forgetting how to breathe.
364 · Jul 2017
Freestyle
Pepper Dove Jul 2017
Bright lights may blind me
but it isn’t the light I see
slipped back into time,
you see
it wasn’t the right time for me
Daily pains become mundane
it's the insane reframed
within this window pane
shattered glass that
once reflected my inner mass
scattered on the floor
swept into the past
A different point of view
than you, it isn’t new
it's just a clue to how
the tables turn like pages
even though they’re burnned
like sage is
Just a little freestyle, letting the words flow without over thinking it
331 · Feb 2018
System Overload
Pepper Dove Feb 2018
Difficulties arise
competing with
all of these
fallacies
surrounding me

We're incomplete
receiving till we overheat
technology's consuming me

Because what you see
it isn't me
it isn't me
system's overloading

We've got to dilate our minds
- disconnect to reconnect -
evaluate your time.
323 · Jan 2018
Universe of You
Pepper Dove Jan 2018
Eclipsed,
by the curve
of your lips.
I unveil my eyes,
no longer blind
to icky little tricks
sewn closely
to your wrists.
Go...
go ahead now,
voodoo what you do.
Dizzy silly dazzled minds,
fracturing the rules.
Déjà vu wouldn't help.
No chance to reverse
ticking clocks
on the shelf,
soaring through the universe
of
yourself.
Narcissists…. need I say more?
313 · Feb 2020
The Other Side
Pepper Dove Feb 2020
Outside my window, dull light peers through
bringing with it a solemn feeling, cold and still
an ache deep within, to escape to faraway places
filled with the warmth of the sun, warming me to my bones
awakening my soul, like an old candle finally lit
a burning, a yearning to brighten this room
casting whimsical shadows on the walls, stories to tell all
of worries turned into hopes, learn to cope anyways
move on with the day, skip along to the song playing
playfully in my heart, dancing like a child
alone in her room, singing into her brush
hair in a tangled mess, I must confess
the music caressed, moving me to a rhythm only my soul knows
blind to the outside world, on the other side
of my window.
When the winter blues kicks in at full, all you have to do to cope
is let the inner child out
302 · May 2017
Dream Stuck
Pepper Dove May 2017
A mind so vacant,
ain't it awful
it's still complicated?
Life so full
and weighted with
pockets full of
   hesitation.
Can't seem to let go,
yet so
eager to now cut the rope
wrapped around a swollen throat,
hindering worries.
Not fit for elegance,
true to limbic resonance.
I keep myself closed off,
   tightly
in a mason jar,
you see?
No!
There's no turning back.
The veil's been pulled,
the world's not flat.
Stuck in all these disbeliefs,
while monsters still
control your dreams
286 · Apr 2017
If Only
Pepper Dove Apr 2017
If only
the wind could carry
my kiss
to your lips

If only
the moon could hold
my gaze
in your eyes

If only
the sun could brighten
the darkness
in my soul

If only
the river could drift away
my worries,
swallowed by the sea

If only
277 · Mar 2018
Stained Words
Pepper Dove Mar 2018
You see,
    there’s this thing
   about you…
   …in the way that you chew
words
so effortlessly

Stomach
on    empty
after you spewed
  all   over   my   sleeve

Where I wear
my heart
  no courtesy
  to  wipe  it  clean

You would let it
stain
if it weren’t for the
       rain
to wash it
                   away.
268 · Apr 2017
Sick Bay
Pepper Dove Apr 2017
The clock read 6:50
on a dull
rainy evening
Soothing saxophones
serenaded my eardrums
While smoky swirls
of Myrth
filled my nose
when he
decided to set sail
to Sick Bay
Organs
clenched tightly
to one another
making it easy
to forget
how to breathe
to breathe
to
breathe
Creeping
from his pores
the creature
of panic
came out
to play
disguised
as tiny droplets
trickling from his brow
inhale
slow and steady
now
exhale
just
breathe.
261 · May 2017
Beside You
Pepper Dove May 2017
Eyes opened
mouths closed
ears half volume
but I am still there
beside you
blindness could still see
my presence,
my lingering
sadness
Who is
What is
this heaviness
beside you.
255 · Feb 2018
Hands
Pepper Dove Feb 2018
I have never been so uncertain
on holding back
all of my emotions.
One minute you're saying that
you love me
then it's like I have
no existence.
But I would never ever dare
to say so,
in hopes that you'd finally catch on.
Can't you see that I'm waiting
here, so
you can let your emotions
fall...
let them fall
into my hands.
Tell me now what I'm suppose to do when
my heart wants
and doesn't want
you?
Perhaps my minds got the best of me?
Or maybe I'm just a silly fool?
Hold me back,
cuz I'm about to freak now...
can't you see the realness in my face?
I'm really trying not to ******' flip out!
Can you show me
some emotion,
please..
let them fall
into my
hands.
Lyrics I wrote to a pretty intense song.
252 · Apr 2017
Empty Promises
Pepper Dove Apr 2017
A heavy head hangs woefully
so lonely
emptiness takes over me
stubbornly
I'm left with my thoughts
until
my gaurd had been cut off

Glossy eyes now approaching
faded, jaded
now I'm loathing
I'm noting
a smile full
of empty promises
when the butterflies flew
from his lips

I'm more
than dinner and a movie
I'm deeper
than the floor below the sea

you're floating

in shallow waters
oh so murky

so
leave me be
don't provoke me
I'm sulking.
241 · Mar 2020
Sipping and Slipping
Pepper Dove Mar 2020
Milky clouds rise like kicked up dust
and spread like fog
in the early morning

Crystals rain down into the flood
of memories, swirling and twirling
until dissolved

Its tide slows and settles
stillness overcoming its surface
mirroring grey eyes
as quivering lips disturb

Slowly she sips,
warmth filling her void

Slowly she slips,
into numbness
Making tea with milk and sugar; though sweet it may be, sweet is not how I feel while drinking it

It allows for time to slow, and for the mind to wander... and wonder
237 · Oct 2017
Gone Again
Pepper Dove Oct 2017
Your eyes
are the tide
pulling me in

to an ocean
of emotions
got me sinkin'

deep into
the grooves
sand's loose
no room
to breathe

my lungs filled
with brine,
crystalized

No time
to change minds
my body's heavy

even if I tried
I'd explode
like confetti

nerves all shot
to hell
I stood
and fell

into the realm of
enchanted isolation

Tell me how you'd feel
If I'm gone,
gone again

'cause this is how
I feel
when your gone,
I'm gone again
235 · May 2017
Release Me
Pepper Dove May 2017
For some time
I believed you
  Through my heart
I'll release you

  I know it's gonna pass by,
like the wind on a stormy day
  everything's gonna blow away
And every time I wait for it,
  I'm feeling weak and blue
it's not how I'm wanting to
  I've kept my heart from opening,
with only windows for peaking
  but not a screen for breathing
Knocking down these walls of mine,
  releasing clutter from my chest
making room for only the best

  For some time
I believed you
  Through my heart
I'll release you.
Releasing any emotion that's holding you back and trapped inside through your heart to break free.
230 · May 2017
Butterfly
Pepper Dove May 2017
Most days I spend my time
Alone
Just me, myself
and a wall
Yes, a wall
And not an interesting wall either
There are no abstract paintings
hung on it
No intricate wooden trim
to be dazzled by
Nope
Just plain ol' white
A boring and dull
empty and lifeless white
So I try to liven it up a little
and splatter vibrant colors all over it
Orange
to bring warmth after this dreadful winter
Yellow
from the light in my soul
Kisses
of pinks and reds
Light blue and dark blue
to show that the sky is not the limit
and the ocean is not for swimming in
And green
for the peaceful sound the leaves make
when the wind blows through them
And all for what??
to trickle down onto the scratched up floor
into a hopeless mess!
Just on the verge
of crying over spilled paint
a butterfly drifts in
and lands on that **** wall
bringing with him funny little thoughts
belly laughs
and sweet butterfly kisses
Warming my heart a thousand degrees
before gently fluttering on by
disappearing behind the curtain
So now I wait
in hopes of the butterflies return
as I continue splattering paint
on this wall.
He is the wall, and I am the painter trying to bring his true colors to the surface by throwing my color onto him... and just as I want to give up, his vibrancy briefly appears in a subtle charming way I didn't expect, as the butterfly.
227 · Jun 2017
Dismissed Kiss
Pepper Dove Jun 2017
A kiss
was dismissed
when I fell
to your lips
turning
I'm burning
with pain
my heart twists
226 · Apr 2017
Follower
Pepper Dove Apr 2017
Trouble
on my mind
look to me
look to me
now you're sorry

Hand
inside my hand
follow me now
and don't worry

Going over your head
I'm
going over your
head
going over
your head

You're

going under.
172 · Oct 2020
Bleeding Tongue
Pepper Dove Oct 2020
The taste of pennies
in her mouth
As she continues
to bite

Her lips
Her cheeks
and her
Tongue

Holding back
So others
can
Breathe

All the while
she
Bleeds
153 · Jan 2020
Not Really Sure
Pepper Dove Jan 2020
I sit here
And let my mind wander
Down silly paths
Pondering the past
Wondering why some things
Last
A shadow casts
My silouhette trying to stand
Tall
But small
Is how I feel
As I fall
To knees pleading
I'm not really sure how I'm feeling
These days, become all the same
Mundane
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