Hello Poetry

2710°

zumee

Dear Reader,
if you're reading this
it means
I'm dead
as a paper

free

to be etched
with the poem
I tried to write
so many times
when I was m-

319°

alupa

sweet syrup

You're still stuck on my fingertips
And leave your mark on everything I touch

Maybe it's time to wash you away.

#touch

240°

Theresa M Rose

Rose's Pearl

The greatest pearls only come to be after the harshest irritants has placed itself into the clam's place for, way way too long.

They'll think, ' I am so wonderful being a pearl!'

When in fact...,
A pearl is merely a gravemarker of an irritant.

237°

Kalen Dion

Rise from the Ashes

Yes,
you will rise from the ashes,
but the burning comes first.

For this part,
darling,
you must be brave.

#pheonix #poetry #poem #poet #rise #ashes #fire

214°

madi

amnesia

is it harder to
forget or to remember?
to forget is bliss

a numb, empty bliss.
and to remember is to
live with so much pain

#haiku #short #series #forget #sad #friend #breakup #lonely

165°

Opal Wood

H A P P Y

How can I be
A little happier
Places I lived seem shattered
People have changed my heart
Yesterday didn't save me

153°

X

After All This Time

We've been together for a really long time
You are the only person that is by my side
Every time I look you in the eyes
I always melt inside

They say that love loses over time
But with you, I feel
that my love grows stronger each time
You're the one that made my heart heal

I can't believe that after all this time
You are still mine
I always wish that we are together
Because you always make my world better

You always cast away the doubts over my head
You are like a *** of gold that never ends
Always positive and cheerful
Always clingy and playful

After all this time
I always feel nervous inside
I still love you all this time
I still want you to be mine

#love #relationship

137°

Luna Maria

break up

I did not write as much
not because I don't care or because
it did not have an impact on me

just because I've been escaping and avoiding
instead of writing and feeling.

distracting myself from the painful feeling in my chest

#break #up #breakup #sad #love #pain #writing #write #feelings

129°

David Lessard

To an unread poet.

I used to read your poems
but lately you don't write
you're silent and aloof
you know that isn't right.
You can't close a door once opened
you can't abolish all your dreams
you're a poet of the heart
mustn't fall apart at the seams.
Say what you can in words
they speak the message true
spoken from the heart
the poems will see you through.
A hermit's not your style
a recluse, you are not
never give up writing
of things that you've been taught.
I used to read your poems
I'd read them once again
if you would send them out
(this one's from a poet friend)

122°

gracie

moonfall; a haiku

it was the last time
you ever kissed me goodnight
the day the moon fell

#haiku #moon #moonfall #goodnight

104°

Erica Girone

Untitled

Only good enough when it’s convenient to you

96°

zz

Healing

You were teaching me
for years
how worthless
I were

Now I walk around the world
learning
my own lessons
of love
and forgiveness

#self #love #healing

77°

Brumous

Untitled

Let's pleasure ourselves with physical games,
wear made-up names,
put on a facade

be someone
in a roleplay

69°

Jade

Blue In The Flames

The fire in my soul
has started to die.

It shrinks down
the trellis of my ribs
like sun-burned flower petals;

wanes itself
to but a simmer

until it is
blue in the flames

Fire needs oxygen
to burn

but

it is getting harder
to breathe
around here.

My lungs thin
into icicles

frost congeals
around my chapped
lips

veins freeze over

(and so does this inferno)

Desktop Site: https://notapreciousgem.wixsite.com/tickledpurple/blog

Mobile Site: notapreciousgem.wixsite.com/purplemobile

Instagram:
_poetry_and_pressed_flowers_

#burn #flames #inferno #tundra #flashpoetry #blue #ice

67°

Obadiah Grey

Del's dilemma.

I met my uncle Albert
down at asda, in aisle three;
he got there in his mazda,
jus' a smidgen after me,

said he'd traversed sainsburys,
tesco liddle n the spar,
but not one o' them flogged caviar
truffles or foie Gras.

He sidled past the pork pies
streaky bacon turkey thighs
a headin for the french fries
n forsaken knock down buys,

He shimmied 'round the ankle biters;
expectant mums to be,
popin pills for bloated ills
in the haberdashery.

Feel free to add a verse !!!!!

64°

Siyana

Little Girls Like You...

“Little girls like you play dumb, but I know you’re not… You are just broken, waiting to be saved by a world that died a long time ago…”

#love #sadness #pain #hurt #eyes

46°

Eleventheshyone

Once I loved Lynn

The day came when my pen no longer
Wrote your name
Freedom
Comes in many forms

#love #lost #feelings #goodbye

43°

Naveen Malhotra

FOOL

Fed-up of ordinary life
FOOL
Free opportunity on line
FOOL
Facing onslaught of lust
FOOL
Finally out of luck
FOOL
Four FOOLs make a fool!

#fool #ordinary #life #fedup #free #opportunity #face #onslaught #lust #out

43°

Lani

Track

"Why do you want to join?"
To lose weight.
To make friends.
To be popular.
"To run faster."

"What's your goal?"
To become prettier.
Thinner.
Better.
"To run faster."

"What are you struggling with?"
Weight.
Grades.
Everything.
"To run faster."

"What do you need?"
Help.
Support.
Someone.
"To run faster."

42°

Poolza

Hurts

When I was younger, I was told not to feel
"You'll just get hurt"
I listened

But then I see these people
Laughing and living

I disobeyed and felt
I was alive

But I should have listened
Now I'm hurt
Now I'm broken
Now I'm -

39°

Max

Falling

She said "I'm falling in love."

I said "I'm falling apart."

What's the difference?

#love #falling #apart #him #her #he #she #begin #short

38°

helloitsyellow

poem i've been trying to write

i still
do not know
the poem i've been trying to write
and maybe
that's because
i haven't been
writing one at all
or maybe it's because
the poem i've been trying to write
is not ready for paper
and maybe
i'm the paper
that's not ready for it

36°

Nadia

Covid 19

Covid 19

November 2019,
seeping in
Wuhan , China,
Locally,
Nationally,
Internationally,
Globally,
Around the Earth,
criss crossing.
Spreading fast, shaking us,
insidiuously,
waging a cruel war at us.
Our human cells
fighting on and on,
some tragically
others triumphantly
with the help of our medical heroes.

That Disease
Can’t Own Victory Definitely!

Together, we’ll triumph!

Nadia Brouk

36°

Caitlyn Fletcher

Too Many Nights

I spend too many nights thinking
Wondering, writing, dreaming
Of someone who doesn't even think of me

35°

Tanya

Night Therapy

☾

Yesterday I cried to the moon
as she wiped my tears away
made my worries disappear
so I could sleep again.

☼

Today I smile at the sun
and it shines back on me,
what a wonderful world
to be alive;
to be me.

#love #pain #hurt #moon #sun #happy #feel #good #sleep #night

35°

Exosphere

bravely

stop freaking out
nothing is changed except everything
which is no big deal
also, I still love you and you should come
bravely
for a visit

34°

mey

haiku 1

a silent pin drop
vast into the ocean blue
injustice no more

#haiku

32°

Erika

half empty

i spend my days
pouring myself into the cups of others

only to find that
when it’s time for myself
to take a sip

all that’s left
in my cup
is the remainder of a girl
who gave too much

self care is extremely important. most days I fight my depression by putting smiles onto others faces, but forgetting about my once bright smile.

#self #care #love #depression #anxiety

31°

nd

:

name:
age:
date of birth:
zodiac:
phone number:
emergency call:

nice to know you-

imagine this as the punch line to your crush

#crush #lovelife #lovestory

31°

taylor styles

pretty.

you told me i was pretty,
but you said i looked prettier on my knees.

#love #*** #relationships

29°

Venga

if you touch me i’ll scream

I was stuck in the bubble
I kept screaming at the people around me

but

they couldn’t hear or even see me
I was like the wind
invisible and quiet

but

I caused a tornado

28°

D Thornhill

haiku 26

ignorance is bliss
it also gets you eaten
by the crocodile

©️ dt + b

#haiku

27°

ARAYNA

Untitled

When I looked into your eyes I realized that sometimes forever can just be for one second

27°

Ana

kind girl

she accepted people’s bad behavior,
because she thought,
they went through difficult things.
yet, she invalidated her own feelings,
even if she knew what she went through.

#secret #poetry #sad #lovely #mentalilness

26°

joe machetto

the throes

an old woman
sweeping leaves
from her porch

winter's relentless
wind returning them
in nettled dusk

25°

LS Martin

Paper Rocks

My ancestors followed the stars
And I can't even follow my own heart

25°

Traveler

MAKE YOURSELF

Whether a comma, or colon:
Punctuation slows my rolling
I need no period. When I end
no Capitalization when I begin
Rulelessly I flow my art
Not a single!
Exclamation mark
Are you not the one
Who'll know?
Where a question mark
No longer goes

Warp the structure
Bend the lines
Put in repeat
Let emotion unwind
Make yourself
Your poetry's the best
Be your own ruler
Pass your own test

Take your own road
Where ever it leads
Lover or hater
It's all poetry!

Traveler Tim
.

Hay
No matter who you are
You have my deepest respect!

Vanity
All is vanity
The meanings of passion
The aesthetic expression
The lines we draw and stay within
Even love is beyond intent
Vanity transcends
Flowing from our pens
And so we breathe again

#traveler #tim #contemplation #cccommings #incubus #instruction #rules #directions #help

24°

Grace E

Braille

I traced the texture of your words
Like my heart was blind
And your voice was braille

24°

Beckie Davies

happiness

happiness is not having what you want
it is much more simpler than that
happiness is wanting what you already have

wanting what you already have

#happiness

23°

NightPoet

Soothed

A place of peace,
of birdsong and freedom
A bubbling brook, soft with moss
the stream runs a steady pace
bringing me quiet

23°

Sophia

I'm afraid so

She was a thrifted sweater and denim and jersey knit sheets
Pizza breath and red wine and toothpaste
Alabaster skin and knotted hair and freckled shoulders
A tangible dream and my favorite good morning
She agreed to let me kiss her and I agreed to let her slip my shirt over my head before she became
Blood and tears
"I trusted you" and "I’m sorry"
Midnight poems and a drunk "I need you"
I’m afraid I loved you like the way I wrote