Hello Poetry

327°

It's more
I'm more

about the interior
landscape

the mind that was once
young
and like an engine room full

of wonderful gears
and spinning wheels

that over time
has turned pointed
and predatory

Whit Howland © 2020

A word painting.

#blackmountainpoet

272°

Her.

she is a happy ending,
not everyone can wait for.

#her #she #woman #happy #end #story #tale #poem #poet #poetry

239°

The Fog

Its the days when you don’t cry,
But you don’t smile either.

It’s the days when you’re quieter than usual,
And people notice.

It’s the days when you aren’t quite thinking about anything.

But if someone asked you what was wrong,
You wouldn’t know where to start.

#numb #sad #confused

200°

soweto is about to sleep

soweto is about to sleep
it's 21H47
this side of the world has its back to the sun
its the moon that has our attention
nothing special about this night
beside the fact that I am telling you about it
soweto is about to sleep
this side of the world has its back to the sun.
I hope your time
on your side of the world
is a pleasant
as this Soweto night.

158°

25

you're twenty-five and i'm twenty-two
it seems there's nothing i wouldn't do
to make you interested in me, too
but i know i mean nothing to you

#love #sad #unreciprocated #heartbreak #heartbroken #crush #depressed

143°

30th August

it was the night
You first kissed me
The night
That felt so magical
The way you held me
And wanted to kiss me
You couldnt stop yourself
Neither could i
It was the day
I knew
Im so in love with you

103°

Emotion

Everyone fell in love
With your beauty and grace.
But no one saw the tears
That streamed down your face.
Because people only see
What they want to see.
"If that's true," you ask,
"Does that mean you wanted
To see me cry?"
"Not at all, my dear.
I just think emotion is beautiful.
And when you are willing to show
An emotion like crying,
It proves there's more to you
Than meets the eye."

91°

Broken arrow

Fire the arrow
To burial.

Pull bowstring taut

And release.

Broken arrow,
Going nowhere.

O where to die?

Right here?

O how to die well
Right here.

Useless archer
Failed to live
Failed to die-

Broken arrow
Failed to fly-

82°

Meaning

When two poets love,
Words start to hang in the air
And lose their meaning.

Another haiku? Wow! I'm only so good with words until I actually need to use them. Just ask my girl. (Spoiler alert: I'm really bad at articulating my thoughts in the heat of the moment. That's why I'm here.)

#poets #love #meaning #words #haiku

66°

i’m proud of you.

you get one day to cry
but tomorrow
it’s time to fix your crown

64°

A lost peace

A cozy bed I don't want to leave.
Enjoying the last half an hour of peace.

Before the message come flooding In
Already wanting the day to be over.

Watching as the clock ticks feeling as if each tick gets louder.

Why can't I just stay in this cozy bed
Wrapped up in his arms.

But no that kind of peace never does last.

63°

lies

“i love you”
those words
                      d
                         r
                           i
                             p
                               p
                                 e
                                   d
                                      from his lips
i believed his deceitful manner
his charisma, it was alluring

I think most people take this as an s.o. but it could be anyone who stopped loving you a friend, a parent to just deceive you to get what they want from you. I also thought of the devil as I wrote this, he deceives you and feeds you with lies to follow him.

62°

Losing me

I wonder what it feels like
To hold the world in your hands
And let it slip from your grasp

Suppose I'll never know

#losingme #ex #breakup

57°

₹ Solemn Wanderers ₹

We are wanderers,
not by choice,
nor by right,
nor by crimes,
but by fate.

We are wanderers,
living in;
a shell,
a roof,
a sky,
a cloud,
and a soul.

We are Wanderers seeking to keep fit and survive.
We are Wanderers of the earth.

We are all wanderers.

#wanderers #samson #favourbeloved

46°

Heartful of Lanterns

My
heart is
A LANTERN
Inside, lives a
fae
♡
g
e
n
t
l
e
♡
a
     n
      d
      ♡
s
w
e
e
t
♡

                  With
                   bright wings
                     G L I T T E R I N G
                     with love, life and
                     hope
                    ♡
                 f
           o
           r
                 ♡
                         p
                             e
                             a
                       c
                 e
                     ♡

As
I grow,
S H E  R E M A I N S
youthful, timid,
safe
♡
a
f
r
a
i
d
♡
t
     o
♡
f
l
y
♡

                                        She
                                        spent days
                                          JUST  CRYING
                                          feeling so lost
                                          Hurt
                                          ♡
                                          I
                                               '
                                                     m
                                                      ♡
                                                    s
                                               o
                                        ♡
                               s
                             o
                                    r
                                          r
                                                  y
                                                    ♡

                                                                        The
                                                                         summer
                                                                          OF HER HEART
                                                                             became winter
                                                                          bleak
                                                                       ♡
                                                                                a
                                                                                     n
                                                                                  d
                                                                        ♡
                                                               c
                                                             o
                                                                  l
                                                                            d
                                                                                   ♡

                        But
                       with time
                          SHE MANAGED
                        to pick herself
                       up
                      ♡
                  a
                   n
                           d
                                  ♡
                                          h
                                        e
                                 r
                          ♡
              p
      e
          n
                 ♡

With
the help
O F  O T H E R
fellow Kings and
Queens
♡
t
h
a
n
k
♡
y
o
  u
♡
s
       o
       ♡
m
u
c
h
♡

                   You
all have
A D D E D   TO
my heart's inner
flame
♡
a
n
d
♡
h
o
p
e
s
♡

       Winds
blow, wings
NOW FLUTTER
I'm ready to
fly
♡
s
i
d
e
♡
b
y
♡
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e                                                                    ♡

I'm back!
So sorry everyone, the last few weeks have been... a strain on me.
I am still doing my media course and all, but mentally and emotionally,
I was slipping down into a dark place. My sleeping patterns have been messed up, my nerves have been completely out of control, my self-doubt, anxiety and depression drained me so much that I found it really hard to write, so I needed time to gather myself. It was so hard for me to pick up a pen. To do anything. My smiles were hollow and I just felt so lost.

I just wanted to apologise, I didn't mean to worry anyone. I'm truly touched by the out-pour of support for me. I got so many messages asking if I was alright. I can't express how much that warmed my heart. I'm so used to people being angry at me for my silence that it usually scares me to come back. By nature, with everything I've experienced, it's made me more and more of an isolationist. To all of those people, truly, thank you so so much for staying and just being kind to me...
Really. Thank you T-T
And thank you to all my followers, old and new.
245 followers... I can't even... T-T
I'm sorry if I sound like a broken record but thank you.
I'm back now, and I'm feeling better.
It's easier to hold my pen so I will resume spilling my ink.

I'll continue the Masked Bard on Thursday, I'm free the whole day.
I have no idea of my schedule the coming week.
Again, I appreciate everyone one of you.
Thank you for keeping me in your thoughts.
Thank you for staying with someone like me.
With much love,
Lyn ***
♡

#returntohp #lyntern #love #heartfelt #gratitude #hopes #honest #fears #truth #blossom

46°

Romantic Reflection

You were always so
Uncertain about us
While I saw
The seeds that could
Have been planted.
You can't say goodbye
To flowers that never grew.
All you can do is
Plant new ones
For someone else
Someone certain
They will help
See them bloom.
I will see mine flourish.

#faith #in #your #partner #uncertain #times #bloom

45°

Goblet of Gold (Prosperity Poem 62)

See a rich goblet of gold
Empty and ready to receive
Ancient in style, yet shining bright

This antique treasure of old
Belongs to you. Trust and believe
And claim your prize in calm delight

In your mind
Become the goblet
You are precious indeed
Your lasting worth decreed

Feeling your worth
Made from riches of earth
Fully fulfilled every day

Spark of divine
Your wealth is a sign
Of life surely flowing your way

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#gold #westra #worth #antique #treasure #wealth #prosperity #riches #day #flowing

44°

Crush

I am still lost
if you could not
see me.

44°

mermaid

how do you name
this kind of strength?

the thing she loves most
shatters her, irreparably

shards sink to the depths
drowning she dies there

then recreates herself,
returning to care for it

43°

Say goodnight to the day.

The day has now gone here is the night
It's twelve o'clock all lights gone out
Not a single soul no one insight
We look out the window no one about.

Eyes are weary we are fighting sleep
Time to clime up that wooden hill
Waiting for us is the bed and sheets
Tired and drowsy sleep we will.

The evenings are colder
The frost here again
But we are much older
And our health's not the same

So as we head to that slumber land
And we dream our cares away
We pull up the blankets with our hands
And say goodnight to the day.

These cold nights a nice warm bed is welcoming.

42°

come back (please)?

once upon a time
long ago
there was a you and me

i knew you once
and it was nice
silence was comfy
and we didnt have to try

i knew you once
long ago
you shared your secrets
and i shared mine

i knew you once
long ago
but where did you go...?

argh, i miss you.

#breakup #relationship #love #missing #younglove #boyfriend #girlfriend #iloveyou

40°

Hide & Seek

Searching in the midst
For your calm delicate arms
Are not mine to hold

39°

drift

girl friend
girl                   friend
girl                                                 friend
girl                                                                               friend
girl                                                                                                             friend
girl

#drift #drifting #stylized #stylizedpoetry #poetry #friendzone #heartbroken

39°

sad

im sad
but i smile
im not okay
but ill pretend to be for a little while

#sad #bad #depression #sadness #anxiety #ptsd #abuse #hope #alone

37°

Time doesn't heal

Time doesn't heal.
And the wound knows it.
Layers gather on the ****
but the damage remains,
hiding itself deep inside
the secret scar

time healing wound layers damage hidden secret scar

37°

Untitled

Verse and poetry
Is an emotional release
Pristine and beautiful.
So wonderfully simple,
I don’t know if I could ever
Write a novel

36°

Blue

Loving her was blue
Each day a different shade
Today feels more like the ocean
While yesterday had a tint of gray
My favorite is at her brightest
Although I’ll take her any way
No matter what her tone is
I still love her just the same

35°

If You Could Read My Mind

If you could read my mind,
You’d see a thousand papers
Filled with broken poetries
And deadbeat proses
Full of woeful verses
With mournful pieces
Of unfinished stories
That are yet to be written
And failed to be spoken;
If you could read my mind,
You’d hear horrible screams
And earsplitting weeps
From shattered dreams,
Kept in a nasty notepad,
Scribbled on a bed
Of bloodstained words,
Ringing in my head.
If you could read my mind,
You’d see the shadows
That lurk within me;
You’d hear the bellows,
Screeching the words
“I’m tired,”
“I’m a failure,”
“I’m stupid –”
I know it sounds stupid,
It’s pathetically foolish
And seems too *******.
If you could read my mind,
You’d feel the tears
I had ever failed to cry;
You’d see the people
That make the weak weaker;
You’d see the monsters
That consume my head;
You’d hear the hollers
That failed to be freed;
You’d see the heart
That still bleeds and bleeds.
If you could read my mind,
You’d see the face
I’ve failed to show back then,
The face I’ve faked back then.
If you could read my mind,
You’d see a character
I had ever failed to become
If you could read my mind,
You’d be able to read
A book you never wished
To touch and read,
But sometimes I still wish
Someone could read my mind.

33°

Untitled

I feel my hunger growing. My desire pulsing, thirst growing
Knowledge abound, growth all around

31°

Quiet (10w)

Actions speak louder than words,
You wonder why I'm speechless.

31°

A Reverse Poem

I love him
I tell myself
I know that
We will be together forever
I don’t believe that
We could be separated
My thoughts tell me that
He’s the love of my life
Sometimes my heart lies and says
I could live an eternity
Without him
Like my friends say
“We’re perfect for each other”
And you can’t tell me
He’s not the one.

Now read from bottom to top.

30°

i deserve better

i deserve better
than chasing after you
and wondering if someday
my dreams will come true

i deserve better
than looking for a way
there's this pain in my chest
that just won't go away

i deserve better
than waiting for you to notice
the way i stare at you
handing you all these chances

i deserve better
than being taken for granted
time and time again
i am not the one you wanted

#sad #love #unreciprocated #crush #selflove #heartbroken #heartbreak #depressed #depression #deserve

30°

“So much”

So much to say,
So few people to truly listen.

#depressing #sad #truth #true #reality #aesthetic

29°

Addiction

Too much Youtube,
Too much cable,
too much Facebook,
and too many RPGs,
with snacks on one side
and too much to drink
on the other,
and I'm
alone.

29°

Heart

My mistake
Was loving you too hard.
My regret
Was never telling you
That I needed love back.

#love #life #relationships #sad #crying #emotional #bpd #relateable #depression #sadness

28°

The scariest part

You asked
What is the scariest part?

I answer
The scariest part
is not the feeling of loneliness
or the darkness that fills you
despite the looming pain
of emptiness

The scariest part
is the realization
that you have lost yourself
completely
sinking in as you lay awake
at 2 AM
because you lost the ability to sleep
and you can't even cry
because you don't even care

28°

sounds of the ocean.

keep your eyes closed love.

           e     t
       m           i
    o                 m
s                        e
                            s     all you have to

                                                                 l                  is to what the sound
                                                                 i            n
                                                                  s           e
                                                                         t

                                                                                             v
                                                                                        a        e
                                                                       of the  w               s

                                                                                                      tells  you
                                                                                                        to do.

"keep your eyes closed love. sometimes all you have to listen is to what the sound of the waves tells you to do"

When I was much younger, beaches were my second favorite places. I still love watching waves as they go by, crashing against each other and the whole process repeating all over again.

#shape #poetry #feelings #thoughts #life #beach

28°

Love is...

love is
the space
between my heart
and yours
when you pull me closer

#love

28°

This Young Lady

cette jeune demoiselle
trembling at her own boldness
burst upon them like Cinderella
was so kind
in her beautiful, friendly way.

* all phrases are from Little Women, cut and pasted into poetry. These are not my words, just my order of someone else's words.

*I used clips and excerpts from Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" to create this poem, so please note that it is simply a collection of phrases that she created.

#littlewomen

27°

2020

Hindsight may not be 20/20 after all.
Because after years of thinking I had the answer,
I still have no idea what I could have done
To keep you.
To still have you.
And even now, I fall.