Hello Poetry

501°

amanda

amanda
amand
aman
ama
am
i
allowed to admit
these letters
are losing meaning
everyday?

some days
i don't want to be me

some days i don't want
to be a person

(no, friends, i'm not
suicidal again,
i'm just excited for death--
whether its tomorrow
or 40 years from now)

375°

Ashley

wrong..

it happened to me..
..but yet it feels like my fault..
... it feels like i should have kept it to myself

#depression #thoughts

309°

max

Only question

I only ask "what if
I smile, crying inside
I'm calm, screaming with eyes
The river doesn't care, it just flows
I wish I could change into one.

#theonlyquestion #the #river #flows

303°

Rosemary Porretta

I want you

He says to me,
"I want you",
and therefore i said to him
"But you don't need me, do you?"
He replies back,
"i need you yes"

Quote on his love for me.

#love #romance #emotion #stories #couples

300°

Anita

For now

For now-
Go to sleep
And wake up a better person.

#mortality #2020 #sleepless #nights

169°

Sidharth Suraj

You

This feeling of love,
to the confessions I made,
from the sleepless nights,
to our early morning debates.
From realising we are meant to be,
to understanding you are the missing piece in me.
This feeling seem to justify,
the unrest in me,
the excitement in me,
the joy around me.
You are key to the escape I feel.
Now you seem to capture,
feelings way more than
what I could put in these words.
Just going to end this with an
"I Love You so much."

it shouldn't be "falling in love" could have been something like "captured by love"

#love #missingyou #romance #romantic #feeling

116°

Anne M

mending places (haiku)

hearts and rattan chairs
from even the gentle homes
fray at old crossroads

102°

Sarah

Wrapped

Close the window,
it's cold out
and start the fire,
I'm freezing

It's December
& I'm wrapped in you
before I learned
you're leaving

It's before I learned
the tender truth
that's leaning towards
forgiveness

When I would watch
the snowflakes fall
& you were mine
at Christmas

#forgiveness #loss #love #breakup #death #grief

92°

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 but the computer is not correct
455 likes and loves
Beware.

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

86°

Hammad

The Waiting

And then you came
After I have counted
All the stars...

#waiting #love #heiko

78°

Apple juice

Goodbye my Bean

The pains in my belly
Are almost comforting.
Something’s inside down there and you’re creating it.
can you feel her?
She’s in there
Waiting for me,
Waiting for mommy to make up her mind, Waiting for me to use my sense, Waiting for me by handing me the opportunity not to be useless.
Oh baby..
I’m sorry daddy just isn’t happy..
I want you to know that
Mommy just isn’t ready
And mommy would never place a lifetime of harm upon you.
You are the design combined of everything I’ve wanted
and everything I’ve loved.
You’re what I always wanted.
I just can’t bare to give you up...
Mommy will be with you in another life...
a safe place for us to play.
a safe place for you to grow.
I’ll be ready then.
I love you my all
Until we meet again my bean
~ sincerely, a pregnant teen

Such a decision no not based on pride but empathy and reason for another number in our horrid foster system.

#guilt #ridden #avoidable #tragedy

56°

Bina Mukherjee

The White furry dress

When it snows,
the airy white petals falls on the alps
and rests.
The mountains wear the white cloak with pride,
as the gift from the high above
and I enjoy the majestic morning view of the creator from my humble abode.

Bina Mukherjee

#snowfall #alps #majestic

52°

Mikaela L

Aloft

After a while, I realized,
My mind was quite aloft,
All the daydreaming, the crying,
The cursing in between dreams,
So bleak, so dark, so tasteless,
So easy to forget, but so notoriously present,
I no longer sleep at night,
Instead, I sleep with my eyes wide open,
In bare daylight,
I marvel at the talent I've cultivated,
Or, at least, at the unspoken ability that,
The little girl that I once was has resorted to,
Just to bear one more day,
Only one more.

Do you daydream as much as I do?

#numb #aloft

49°

c a r o l i n e

I fell

For you, wrongly
Till I knew it right
When our song came on
We couldn’t help but sing along

48°

Yenson

they make me laugh....

they are tripping on counterfeit love
perhaps its the magic mushroom
that got them going
and now they see love in rainbows
and drink pink ***** in tubes
singing arrivi dici
we are tripping

46°

Amanda

An Array Of Ways

You aggravate an array of ways
Not listening to anyone
Have to correct everyone always
To you fight is never done

My mother is always on my *** about EVERYTHING

#array #ways #life #love #family #fight #done

46°

Heather

Him

His face
The sight brings a smile to yours
His eyes
You can stare into them forever
His lips
You wish you can kiss them
His hands
You wish you can intertwine them with yours
His mind
It intrigues you
His soul
You can love it for eternity
His heart
It doesn't belong to you

#love #him #sad

46°

charles bateman

perfect peace

I stand alone against an army , I stand in line my turn to die , I muster all my faith and my courage without having to ask why . There are many in the valley , in there they wait to decide , they dont know that they're warriors , with God's power they do not hide . In the clouds God's mighty army , that are with the one afraid , I can count at least one legion , many ran but one man stayed . It's never to late to be forgiven for the prince of peace is here , just say a simple prayer to Jesus he is always standing near . Lord forgive me my heart is heavy , all weighed down with sin and grief , I lay my all at your feet Lord , all my sins for perfect peace .

44°

Hira malik

A strange pleasure!

There is a pain of love
So bitter sweet
And
There is strange sweeteness in bitterness
And sweet is barely bitter
This amalgamation is a strange pleasure to heart!

42°

Qualyxian Quest

"Astronomers find water on an exoplanet twice the size of Earth"

Scientific American
September 2019

39°

Brett

If I Die Tonight

If I die tonight
Please don’t pray for me
Hell is full
And Heaven’s gates don’t open free

If I die tonight
Look up to the stars
Peel back the façade
Past the hate in our hearts

If I die tonight
Find peace in my courage
Never backed down
Went out in a flourish

#death #life #rebirth #fear #sadness #love

38°

Words' Worth

Still You Stay

Since, you've been gone
I can do what I want
There's so much this heart longs

Its been ten hours, since I last called
I don't know if you're still alive
In my head

Nothing dies, it's no surprise
After all the drinks and friends
You're still in my head

34°

Keebo

As Good As It Gets

I am the lonely boy who loves a lonely girl
When I’m blue, she’s the one I run to
You’d think we go together like two + two
But in fact, we make five and here’s why
—————————————————
We’re both equally traumatised
With a battlefield going strong in our minds
It tires her out all the time
Whereas I use drugs as a coping vice
We’re both fairly afraid to get close
Because past lovers still have a hold
Not in the sense we keep a torch lit
Just scarred and bruised from the flames within
We’re both so anxious about timing
She’s thinks she’s too much, I think I’m not enough
—————————————————
These are the cards we’re dealt with
But having her by my side is a blessing

Originally this was called “Lonely Girl” part two to my second poem “Lonely Boy” but renamed it after the Jack Nicholson film

#love #friends #mentalhealth #unstable #lonely #boy #girl #life

33°

Lexie

Mingle

Undress my heart
Let her feel the cold chill
Of November midnight winds
The howl of the coyote
Is music to her rhythm

32°

Kelci Nicole Leigh

The Storm

A storm of wind and rain
Blows through my veins

This gale carries me
Where it will
And ever I feel drawn
To the mother
Of all things

I have set my sails
With only a tempest
To guide me
Heeding only
The call of the wilds

#nature #outdoors #storm #mothernature #feelings #thoughts #shortpoem #pnw #majestic

32°

Shy

Breathe

You were
My sigh of relief
And now
You’re gone
And I’m sitting here
Gasping for air

30°

Deb Jones

Heartache

This is my heartache
To bear witness, to listen
As one of my adult sons
Cries from a heartbreak
Only to me will they cry
As I make soothing noises

#sons #heartache #mothers

30°

Lady Misfortune

An Empty Cup

I say:
Do you want me to pretend you do not exist?

She says:
Do as you wish.

I perceive:
All I was once you moved onto the next,
A waste of breath.

What a mutual perception process,

You keep on running and now I have nothing but my beliefs.

And what do you have?
Your cup is empty

It would be full but...
You poke holes in all the words I speak

The art of assuming the worst

Created 5.21.18

30°

Flatfielder

Listening in

A young boy in surrender
To his skills' fears and foes
Is overhearing arguments
Affecting him most
Youthful and helpful
Naive it can't be
Troubles are brewing
Not to be told
It
He can't see
Not to grab the extent
Of problems not his own
His family's fairing
No solution to save home
So he wanders and abandons
He did listen through the wall
Never spoke spoken to
The end of it all
(c) near_lane7

Flatfielder is near_lane7
Written a year ago before going for back visit

#lost #wordshistory #poetryrelief

29°

Saudia R

2019

Let my silence teach you

what my words

did not

This year, do not explain yourself (especially repeatedly) to someone who does not listen. Let your silence be your response. Let your happiness be your response. Let your peace be your authenticity.

#new #year #self #care #jomo #silence #lesson #2019

28°

elaine

that was us.

you never asked to read my poetry
maybe that was the sign.
i told you i wrote for fun,
you shrugged and moved on.

red flags went up everywhere, but i didn’t bother looking

#sorry #love #poem

27°

carminayasmin

me last year

watch me scatter the solemn ashes of my youth on these trails
A mind so mindless; so enriched with allure pink skies and withering dreams.
One so naive so bluntly ignorant to the cruelty that buries itself under the trails of a rooted fate.
watch me wander watch me waste time

1 September 2019

27°

caroline

never grow up

pony-tailed playmate
head tucked in her shirt
gazing steadily down
at her toes in the dirt

chaos tiptoes around her
naive oblivion
journeys in far away lands
just west of the meridian

watercolor fairy tales
bleeding outside the lines
unaware of the danger
unaware of the signs

let me sit with you, darling
in the dampened flower beds
and paint a new world
for us in our heads

27°

Myrrdin

Mortuary.

You built a cemetery for me in your head
Just in case you found a way
To bring back the dead

#love #dead

26°

Mykarocknrollin

R

right time
right place
right person
right moment
right feeling
right moves
right touch
right hug
right kiss
is this right
am i right
to feel this way
coz you said hey
you made my day
everyday

xo

#love #prose #poetry #missyou #freeverse

26°

misha

drunk on you

your name is
forbidden in
my mouth
or in my heart
because when
i think about
you;

i'll cry a little more,
hurt a little stronger
love a little softer
because you no longer
make me feel sober

i'm drunk on the
memory of you

if only i could chase you with pizza but shots don't work like that

#hearts #mind #soul #girl #lonely #heartbroken #love #drunk #tears #cry

25°

Sarah Flynn

charcoal skies

it is gray outside
of my window,

and it is also
gray in this room.

but outside,
the gray is obvious.

the clouds are
blocking out the sun.

and inside,
the gray is irrelevant
because you shine
so bright that

I am only ever
looking at you.

the world outside
fades away in here.

it is beautiful and
sunny and vibrant.

here, the stress of
the world outside
can't touch me.

I see no sadness
or pain or fear.

I only see you.
I only ever see you.

#clouds #rain #love #blind #happiness #see #forever #future #beauty #sunshine

25°

reenie

But I'll love you anyways.

It's taken loving you to feel the deepest of my scars.
It's taken loving you to know what I want.
It's taken loving you to know I no longer want anything at all.

Letting go isn't the hardest part, still loving you is.

#poetry #poems #love #lettinggo #him