#settling poems on Hello Poetry

Jeremy Betts Feb 8

~•§•~ Shouldn't be Too Much To Ask ~•§•~

"Go deep son!"
I run deep for the long one
But there's no one
The ball doesn't come
Now I'm just on the run
A prodigal, no, a wayward unwanted only son
With no distinction of direction between to or from someone
I'd give everything for a destination
I'd give it all for a connection
I'd settle for a distraction
Or even a sliver of affection

©2024

#running #prodigal #wayward #distraction #someone #destination #connection #distinction #affection #settling

For My Sanity Now Dec 2020

Dream

Everyone has a dream
Very few have the guts to chase them
Even fewer are those who reach them

And I'm one of the many who settled

#chasingdreams #dream #settling #reality

Charlotte Ahern Sep 2020

*Settling Downstream*

those who choose to lay in the river
eventually drift
into someone they know
and call it fate

Can you tell I prefer to make things happen than leave things to fate? lol

#fate #faith #truelove #settling #settle #downstream #life #quotes #micropoem

Owen J Henahan May 2020

Circles in Sky

I trace your name in air. Your feet follow
my up-down circle rhythms, steps unsteady,
bearing you fruitlessly into the sky. Like settling,
I bring you back down to earth. You bury yourself
in the crease of my collarbone and neck, joyous
smile sidelong, caught and carved in bas-relief.
Like settling, I bring you back down to earth.
Let you go. I lift you again, and again, tired arms
straining higher, desperate to guard this sculpted ecstasy
from the blunted hammerstrikes of reality. You
ought to see by now that sculptors exist to create
the very moment they strive to preserve.
To shield you and history from what follows:
your feet crashing down, relief cracking to sorrow.

#love #fantasy #reality #joy #sorrow #settling

John McCafferty May 2020

Shimmer

Afternoon sun
soaked in skin
Rays replenish
mind then at ease
Sounds are settling
softened by breeze
End of the week
surrounded by green
Two days to please
Reciprocating energy
from the power of flowers
and leaves

(@PoeticTetra - instagram/twitter)

#afternoon #mind #settling #green #please #energy

A Apr 2020

- almost from the other side

People talk about near-death experiences
and I feel like me almost staying with you was one.

Like me settling, saying 'fine, this is fine'
whilst my heart cried for more,
that was definitely one.

And it feels like I've just made it out alive,
my heart bleeding, my mind a mess
and my arms so tired from carrying you
but still, I made it.

#near #death #heart #settling #staying #breakup

Usama Firdous Feb 2020

Fears Stretched

If only it is meant to happen

No persuasion will bring a hindrance.

Pain is subjective, sorrows are possessed

Light aches my eyes, in the dark I am depressed

Insomnia bothers me, maybe I should curse it.

I should not swallow the bitter, maybe just spit.

It wasn’t a matter of months, but my wishes took so long

Thoughts beyond west of the west but emotions don’t go so long

In spite of respite, desolate notions are still popping

Worst is to happen, nothing is for stopping.

see me here as well.
https://lifeinexplosions.blogspot.com/

#desolation #pain #fears #premonition #doubts #settling

Willow Branche Jan 2020

Settling Is Only Easy When Your Choice Says No (2019)

Cat-calls and glances meant to sting
**** her heart - what a tired thing.
“Too big a heart” she spoke before.
Now her heart, it pleads “No more!”
She caresses my bones, fluid, moaning
This empathy leaves me open, groaning
Confusion settles in like a sickness.
What can she possibly do to fix this?
So she settles for the knife like
She settles for the pipe
She settles, she settles,
she settles, she settles.
She settles, she settles,
she settles, she settles.
Nothing anymore. Sweating. Broken.
She swears her heart will never reopen.
The pain in her eyes, left unspoken
She swears at God hoping someone will hear her choking.
What can she do to fix this?
So she settles for the knife
Like she settles for the pipe.
She’d rather take her life
Than be bound to this strife so
She settles, she settles,
she settles, she settles.
She settles, she settles,
she settles, she settles.

#cutting #selfharm #druguse #drugs #pain #suffering #settling #suicide #suicidal #marriage

Phasma de Oceanus Jan 2020

Fall Short

Desolate and barren,
The canyons call to me
Like the coyote calling the moon.
It feels so familiar,
Feels just like home.

Lugubrious and dwelling,
This weight cannot leave my
Chest until I relieve it;
And I can’t succeed,
Not this time.

Swallowed up into a sea,
I forfeit to a controlled fate.
Yes, I feel the downward spiral.
Yes, I sense the impending disaster.
No, I cannot bring myself to change it.

Here, I fall so short.
I never claimed to be an angel;
In fact, the Devil loves me.
I take his demons and allow
Them shelter within me.

Yes, I know the damage done.
Yes, I will never stop the spiral.
No, I cannot bring myself to change,
And that is where I continue
To
         f
              a
                     l
                          l
                                 short.

#sad #notgoodenough #settling #short #feedback #like #raw