Hello Poetry

480°

maria

it took 30 years to find you

how long until I find another that will crack me right open?

211°

Johnny Dust

There’s a First Time For Everything

Talk me down
Take your turn
Cigarette
Let it burn
Ease the pain
Lose my mind
Lies flow out
Like "I'm Divine"

179°

Sarita Aditya Verma

The power of the divine

A devout spiritual
Birth and death
A mere passing
To closely watch this beautiful world
Temporary the presence
Learnings and memories
For the soul
Depth of this life
Felt
The fragrance of ancient soil
The mountains rock solid
And the journey of the *****
Under the luminous sky
Yet, a belief in the higher power
The divine, supreme being
Ever so deeply rooted
Beyond the cycle of life and death
Lord Shiva
To draw strength and endurance
Some wisdom
To walk the path of truth
Not through rituals
But being closely guided by the divine
In deep reverence
Chanting
Ten thousand times
Om Namah Shivay
Uprooting the fears
Gently placing faith
In place
Belief in self
In the power of the divine

🔆🌿🌿🔆

6th January 2021
Only, sharing my experience 🙏🌿🌿

#chants #om #namah #shivay

110°

rew

exist

i didn't exist for ages, you know
then, all of a sudden, this brief glow.

104°

Reach the light

Look at stars,
They are so far
I catch a shooting star
to burn fire
in my heart.

I know what I want
In me, someone
tryna be number 1 #
be the only one
great as the sun.
I know it's so hard
a pillar wish to fly,
the winds wants to find
where it belongs.
Nothing will be wrong
to follow what we love
And I'll be strong
to reach the light.

I haven't written a poem for long time
in life there're a lot of things to carry and I was kinda confused.

100°

Safana

Moon at the center

When I take a
look in to the
sky I see the
moon at the
center it looking
in to the gravity
of the earth

87°

bennu

Certainly don't waste

Death's citadel grows roots into the world
Like the sinking teeth of an infernal dragon

Inside me lives the chance to waste it
Which is more symmetric than good is to good

An infernal, internal dragon

An infernal, internal, eternal dragon

A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad dragon

83°

Lunar Roses

Sorry I liked you

You didn't ask for this relationship
I did
You didn't want a romance
I did
You wanted it to be casual
I couldn't
I would say you want to be friends
but I don't know if you do

My first mistake
I went into our friendship with romance in my eyes

My second mistake
I didn't let my feelings die that night

I dreamt of you the day I wanted to sever that connection
My head hurts
There's a pressure in my mind
Is this what our friendship is supposed to feel like?

I can't ask anything from anyone, in the end it's their life but still
Do you value our friendship? Or is it an obligation
Do you care about me? Or am I just another person in this world
Do you enjoy my company? Or am I just another part of your anxiety

If you do value me, then we can rebuild
But if you don't, then I don't know

I don't know

68°

Giovanna

Don't be a moon!

Why do you have to be the moon?
when you can be the star with your own light!

#moon #star #light #success

63°

nal

dearest devil

God said that I was his favorite,
but the Devil leaned and whispered:
"I used to be his favorite too."

#replacement #replaced #renewal #substitution #trade #preferred #chosen #favored #treasured #god

61°

Mr Shankley

Chains of the past

I kissed a girl with a broken smile;
nothing could come near.
She carved it with a pocket knife;
slit from ear to ear.
And she wears it like her favourite scarf;
it keeps her from the cold.
So I told her its only woven by
her enemies of old.

58°

Yu Han Sung

patch me up

I'm not broken
don't throw me away

48°

Jon York

Deep Within You

Inside you

is where I want to

be,

thrusting

within the folds

of your mind

penetrating

the sweet softness

of your soul,

throbbing

as I release my love

deep within you.
Jon York 2019.

47°

Alexandre

drowning

He is like the ocean
But I never learned how to swim
Now I’m drowning
In a love
I cannot contain

You’re perfect. I just don’t know how to love

#him #love

45°

Kyle

Insane

I'm about to go insane,
Because of this pain.
I keep thinking of things,
That would become my sin.
It's hard, I'm getting tired.

#depression #anxiety #suicidalideation #pain #sadness #loneliness #tired #outburst

43°

Julia B

Girl

There was a girl
She was hurt
She didn't know what she could to,
Without advice,
She sank into the unknown.

#girl #unknown #hurt #lost

41°

Humble

Letter to self

Dear me,
Don't just sit
Rise, and pursue greatness.

Don't just watch
Go after what you want.

Don't just exist
Strive and start living.

Don't just dream
Work hard and aim for success.

Don't get tired
Keep hiking until you get to the peak.

#rise #letter #me #purpose

41°

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
.
P.s
Strange, the Hellopoetry computer demanded I put two stars on this poem to repost it to the front page... But it was worth it, it’s been on here for over a year now, I appreciate it Elliot.

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

40°

mila

you are the mug and i am the milk

i keep pouring milk into my cup of coffee even when i see that it is overflowing
it is bleeding over the rim
and dripping down the edges
i will have to clean it later
the counter will be sticky
i keep pouring

the half gallon from the grocery store is empty

39°

Tif

Shift

Into a dream I slipped yet my mind was still equipped with the sub avert in tact I was free to than react

#conscience #concious #conciusness #subconcious

37°

Lost Property

The dark side

Mum says “light a candle, burn some incense”
but mum my inner sense is the only thing stopping me from burning myself to the ground because I can’t stand the light anymore.

Nan says “your'e too bright to be depressed”
but the bright sparks that flicker of a memory that is dark, and the flame only reminds me that everybody I love is someday gonna die.
But mum..... nan...... i’m not afraid of the dark, that’s the problem.

It’s hard to have fun when i don't feel like having fun.
Don’t get me wrong it’s not that i don’t want to go to the party,
I WANT to go to the party,
but i’m stuck in an abusive relationship with depression and anxiety and they talk me out of going.
Cancel plans last minute, making up a physical illness,
because "sorry I'm too depressed to see u" sounds utterly ridiculous.

#depression #lost #stuck #family #anxiety #heal #dark #light

34°

ghost

thats when you know its over

“You are ageless,” says time with a laugh. I needed a photograph to track my past. The future is alluring, the present is getting blurry, the past chimes in with an “I told you so” so I stood up tall, head held high, and accepted that even the truth wouldn’t make me cry. “This is when you know it's over, my friend”.

33°

Chani Goldstein

Our Love

Although I have
Nothing to say
I still want
To sit quietly
By your side
And take in
Our love

#my #love

33°

Emily

Sea

I am the deep, the sky in reverse
I have what you seek, for better or worse

I am the blue of infinite depth
I've swallowed the crews and cleared the decks

You are afraid or maybe intrigued
Of the place where you played and also was freed

Kiss me now like you did before
Give me your vow and the ocean is yours.

#sea #ocean

31°

Inevitable

We made it to "forever"

It took all year for the imprint of your promise to erase from my finger
and
In 7 years I will have a body you have not touched.

"Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years"

#divorce #love #breakup

31°

Emma

Understanding

I know you.
Sometimes you say things, expecting that I won’t understand, and I think it’s strange because
I know you.
That’s what this is. I know you,
And I want you,
And I care about you
Anyway.
Don’t want no one else.
You might not know me,
The stanchions you use to prop yourself up eating all that I have fed you,
In the darkness,
In the night,
But I know you.
And I want you anyway.

#understanding #knowing #poem #freeverse #care #wanting

30°

earthchild

9 months sober

Coffee and carrot cake,
to mark this milestone.
God's greatest gift,
to have shared five with you.

30°

Laila

i love you

They’d waited too long to say

“I love you”.

3 words. 3 syllables.

Yet they held millions of emotions unspoken.

and now that they’d done it, they wouldn’t,
couldn’t, stop

they told each other all the time. In the end of the argument and before the good news.

In the middle of the storm, even though it was hard to see, and after, when the raging winds had settled on a breeze

before the rising sun turned the sky pretty colors and after it flickered out and faded away into the dark

Underneath the stars that their love had been etched into

There was no love until death for them. Because it would never stop. Their love was beyond. It rose above any border that would dare to try and stop it. There was no finish line

because they were each other’s end game.
-L.R

#love

29°

Hank Helman

Can

It can't be

That I will spend an entire life,
Begging for love,
Confused by anger,
Afraid of frowns,
Eager to blame,
Bored with myself,
And
Waking up dead,

Can it?

I tried to sneak up on myself. Tip toed. Didn't work.

29°

Crystal Freda

A dying art

Why is poetry dying
when we still have the gift?
If we still have water
then we still have a ship.
We can sail to the places
these words take us.
We are still shaken
by the words that make us.
Why should we let poetry die
when there is so much to explore?
If only people read it
and discovered more.

#poetry #read #death #nature #life #art

28°

Abunde

?

Do you just only love me, or are you in love with me..?

love vs Love

#love

27°

Alyssa

A cup of tea

I poured myself
inside your cup
pretended to be tea
your lips pursed to the rim
burning kiss
bile churns
you forgot
I'm made of sins

27°

Hammad

The Chaos In me

The noise inside my head
is so loud
that it doesn't let my voice in

and yet,
Something in it changes
all the chaos and swirl
fall into silence
when You Speak...

#chaos #love #noise #silence

26°

Nitin Pandey

Careless happiness...,

A moment of careless happiness,
Full of joy and emptiness...
Making argument always,
Was playful push, poke of ways.
Pretend they were too small,
Lost it, and can't find that all...
#thought #life #happiness #ways

26°

Luna Maria

I N K

tears
are the ink
for the pen
a poet uses
to write

- L.M.

#ink #poet #poem #write

25°

Bailey

Isn't Enough

Sometimes the light
Isn't enough to out the dark
Sometimes silence
Isn't enough to bring peace
Sometimes fear
Isn't enough of a warning
Sometimes finding someone to love
Isn't enough

#enough #light #fear #peace

25°

rig f laurel

pink

when i died the first time
inhaling an ocean
they said
this was not the plan
turn back.

and when i did
i tried to fly with no lessons
nor wings
and they called me
stubborn.

but i came round
and sought a chainsaw
and then a mermaid
and then death herself
i think she was

and each time
they said the same thing
over and over and over and over:
wrong destiny. wrong destiny.
go again.

the instructions are in a language i do not possess.

#pink #color #death #love #instructions #fly #search #destiny #plan

25°

Himangshu Singh

heaven and hell.

is heaven the rainbow
and hell the rain
for when I love the heaven
i fall for hell.

i love the rainbow but rain manages to keep all my notice

#rain #rainbow #heavenandhell

24°

Mitch Prax

A Gentle Tear