#swallow poems on Hello Poetry

Pax Mar 17

Does your love that shallow?
              Is it just for show?
     or does it hard to swallow?
                           Are you that shy
    to evade me, then why lie?
I know -  I’m old and weary
so I worry,
I don’t want
to be played sorry.

just better not to like me at all.

#love #pax #played #sorry #weary #lie #shallow #show #swallow #shy

I S A A C Sep 2022

escapist oasis

never been addicted to the pursuit
loaded the gun but i would never shoot
i like where i am, i understand now
just had to see how it panned out
escapist oasis, touching land now
swam in muddy waters, searched for myself
thought i knew better, looked outside myself
follow the river into the ocean’s mouth
swallow my pride and shut my mouth
observe and serve
discern and curve

#escape #discern #serve #outside #ocean #river #muddy #swallow

George Krokos Jan 2022

Quatrain #412 - If at times we have to ....

If at times we have to swallow the bitter pill of remorse
we may at first appear to sound much like that of a horse.
And when copious tears flow they tend to purify our being
leaving us with an inner peace and clearer sense of seeing.
_______

From 'The Quatrains' ongoing writings since the early '90's.

#swallow #bitter #pill #remorse #tears #purify #being #inner #peace #feeling

Hamna Apr 2021

Apology

you chide me
   to right me
then you utter an apology
    although you don't need to
for you'll never tolerate if hurt hurts me

you swallow guilt
   and I swallow resentment
I fill myself with fury and ****** it all to you
    Do I ever care if it hurts you?
Zillion apologies emerge from you, but not even one emerges from me

#chide #apology #hurt #swallow #zillion #anger #forgiveness #mom #care #guilt

Amanda Hawk Jul 2020

Swallow

Swallow all of me
In one gulp
Until only bones
Floating on our conversations
I drown
In your hello
And I become bare
A skeletal smile
With your name
Sticking in my teeth

#date #swallow #conversation #bones #smile

rowdy lee May 2020

A Useless, Silly Nothing

as far as I am aware
you are not wonderful
of course you can have
other positions
you may be good
from another point of view

but from mine
I see just a girl
without eyes, without ears
without a face, without a head
as they are
too clear

there is just this behavior
too superficial
to know something deeper
to try to know something deeper
to want to try to know
something deeper

but still, something about you
there is
that is why
is this poem done

however, if you are able
there is a chance to see
how bad this poem really is
written in one minute
like you
history will swallow it
as nothing
as a useless, silly
nothing

Maybe there is a grammar/meaning mistakes in my poems as English is my second language. Glad if you'll warn me. Thank you.

#nothing #useless #bad #done #deep #swallow #canal #sea #night #day

Serendipity Mar 2020

Daffodils

Sometimes I feel as though
writing poetry
is like throwing scraps at the dogs.
Have I satisfied my mind's hunger to write?
Not until
I can say
that I've written
with pride.
For the only way to be full
is to be brave enough
to swallow
my own
words.

#daffodils #writing #pride #swallow

Hollow Steve Nov 2019

Swallow

Places left forgotten
And memories still swaying
There's no place left to say
How it could've been this way.

Places left intact
To say how I should react
It dismembers itself
And displaces the rest

An empty swallow
A withering remembrance
A place left to show
Where nothing else will grow

If I call upon myself
What do I let summon?
Nothing but the pain it brings
Nothing but the place that sings

#sing #empty #hurt #swallow #pain #cling #summon #memories #forgotten