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The music is long done
We dance now merely to a hum
An unheard whisper
Of a long dead god
The last vestiges of consciousness
Fleeing a hollowing skull
RH 10h
Twisting
Turning
Writhing
Wrapped tightly ‘round my thoughts
Squeezing
Squirming
Demanding
To ignore it would be naught
Powerful
Majestic
Destructive
Leaves logic dead in its wake
Beautiful
Sernene
Inviting
Maybe I’ll listen this once
Just a feeling that crossed my mind, probably not that good. Enjoy anyway! -RH
A river, my river, I am the river.
A river, water that goes with the flow.
A river, a calm flow most of the time.
A river, now in a time of life that overflows.

The calm river, gone
not coming back as it was
but as a new river it went somewhere.

An island, a calm place
a stopping point.
The rivers stopping point.
An island, a place to learn
a place to evolve and come back better than ever.
But even an island can’t stop a storm from happening,
emotions from escaping.

A storm, a disoriented place where everything is dark.
A storm, a cry
just a girl.

A person, a safe place until the storm happens.
Even beauty can’t safe the sea.
The sea can never be saved.
It can only safe herself
And after some time
come back anew
as a calm river.

It’s a cyclus, happening over and over again
until the island disappears.
Until it’s fully gone.
But an island never disappears.
it might not be an island anymore
but it’s still there with me every step of the way.
This time it follows the flow,
evolves along the way until I don’t need him any more.

And then I go my own way,
to find that island.
As a calm river, getting ready for the upcoming storm.
As a girl, preparing to hate my mind.
But its nature, its human.
It will happen many times all over again.
And thats alright.
for a life of creativity
a clean voice and lung
calm weathered brain
i ought put effort
diary prayer from 23/10/23. minor tweak made (‘for’ added to beginning and 'i oight put effort' to the end) . taken from shorts iii no. 11
Amesh 5d
Cruelty was never the point.
But it happened anyway.
It was never scripted. Just lived.

Instinctively, asymmetrically.
Unscored by safewords
or symmetry.

Where dominance wasn't roleplay
but a structure the other bled against.
And neither one called it love.

Because love would have demanded
less elegance, more responsibility.

And some part of us needed it to stay
as ritual, not reckoning.
This...
The shaking of a reed
The movement of the water
The flicking of a flame.

This...
The crying of a child
The weariness of the labourer
The burning skin from the sun.

This...
The racking pain of guilt
The salty tears of loneliness
The swan song of past glories.

This...
The masks of complacency
The contracts of acceptance
The closing of the mind.

This...
The continuing saga
The words that fill the pages
The lot in life we all share.
Shower Power does it for Me! He He!
And You don't need to See!
Oh but I feel so Free, Relieved.
The Water hits me on the outside
And stirs the inspiration inside
Till I ride the high tide
Of my amazing Mind!

DLR - 07.09.2025
Inspired by Ben Noah Suresh's Poem - Whenever I'm In The LOO
What's in the mind?
Memories of beautiful times,
Memories of painful times,
Thoughts,
A tempest of dark thoughts that run through our minds,
Imagination,
Creations that we create in our minds,
Sometimes beautiful starts, and other times broken songs.
Our mind is like a universe full of beauty, with painful memories hidden.
4AM-
a boy runs across
the four-lane roadway,

eyes like rare stones,
face burlap-creased dust,
jean shorts, a dolphin backpack
meant for someone smaller.

I track in my car,
take the exit that curves
around an abandoned encampment.

I find cement steps,
but the boy is gone.

Only smoke remains:
a hooded figure curled
in a doorway of a derelict building,
an empty tent split by knife.

The world recedes,
layered, unbroken.

another vision settling
into the mind,
a thick silence I fold
into the others.
Maria Etre Sep 3
Once you give
the heart
the job
it's supposed to do
you start
thinking you feelings
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