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Odeto
Odeto
21/Genderqueer ☆
How pretty she is To grow from seed To sprout from the dirt Into vines that bloom And bare sweet fruit Salicylic acids, tannins and defenses Utilizing the rhizosphere That’s surrounded her since birth To blossom; to bloom Into something she is proud of With no one to tend to this loving seed, Herself has created a life, Unbothered by invasive weeds How thankful I am To tend to her, to know her, to love her No longer she has to produce those defenses As I am tending to the blossoms So that they may bloom, and bare tasty fruit Without fear No invasive creatures will ever Haunt her roots again
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Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM UTC
My Strawberry Wife
Endlessly and powerfully My love will always persist My love will always exist; That kind of love doesn’t go anywhere When you cry for me You do not cry because I’m not there I’m always here, there is no place that far That I wouldn’t run to to hold you Even in death, I am always with you When you miss me, you remember me You search the valleys of your memories Until you find me That’s where I’ll be waiting for you In visions I’ll comfort you The taste in the air, My arms wrapped around you My kiss on your cheek The wisps of your hair caressed by wind My laugh in your ear as we share this moment These details in your memory keep me alive May they comfort you Visit me anytime, I will be right here As you continue to live without me, Do not live in fear I taught you how to change the world Go do it, just like you changed mine
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Dec 28, 2024
Dec 28, 2024 at 12:32 PM UTC
A dead mothers letter to her daughter
A veil of fear Floats around my face Aimlessly I was some starry eyed child Never taught self control The fear of aging And living through this day in age Consumes me And wanders aimlessly In my brain But still seems to stop me in my tracks The things I’ve done Remind me not only That I am imperfect But that I am aging Growing into a starry eyed woman Who learned that she can change Because when you stop growing You are dead And I am full of life I have nothing but time And even so Even if this veil of fear Floats around my face There are things I can only Learn with time There are things that only Come with age And I am aging all the time I am growing all the time So in that time I will throw the veil from off my face I am not afraid to age I am not afraid to change
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Jun 2, 2024
Jun 2, 2024 at 8:38 AM UTC
I’ll always be me
Familiar sights, I'm covered in bites and the ants crawl and the night falls. Spring comes, lights aspire King set fires October, the time of falling Time has no meaning, it is tainted and our lives are truly painted.
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May 26, 2024
May 26, 2024 at 4:34 PM UTC
Springs with no water; dry at the mouth
Haunted by ghosts of past lovers and lives But she holds her hand in mine And holding her now While time seems to slow down The sound of her snoring and deep breaths Comforts the part of me That I’m too afraid to dissect I’m not afraid to show her who I am Haunted by ghosts of past lovers and lives Slowly we are forgetting the sins and All the things we did to deal with these Past lovers and lives
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May 8, 2024
May 8, 2024 at 3:05 AM UTC
Ghosts of Past Lovers and Lives
I was made for hopeless dedication, for love that feels like poetry. And it exists because I carry it with me. It's heavy and I can't put it down.
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Mar 11, 2024
Mar 11, 2024 at 12:31 AM UTC
Untitled
Why would I choose you? And flatter yourself under my skin With visions of What you think I should worship you? Why would I choose you? You’d never know the words ***** poets do to you You’re not the only one Don’t flatter yourself With something you can touch But will never understand
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Jan 5, 2024
Jan 5, 2024 at 10:19 PM UTC
Easy
Cancer is a thief It stole your faith, Your lust for life Cancer is a thief It stole your breath, your lungs And you from me Death is not the end of life, But growing up feels like the end of mine As I got older, so did you And you can’t do all the things you used to do Which made me realize just how much things change My size, soul, body, thoughts Your skin, your energy My memories are all I have left of you, And of my childhood Nothing is the same And I think that it’s okay That things change You have to do it sometime But I wish cancer didn’t steal What I wanted to have forever
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Sep 25, 2023
Sep 25, 2023 at 12:58 AM UTC
Cancer is a thief.
Cancer is a thief It stole your breath, your lungs And you from home Cancer is a thief It stole your faith, Your lust for life Cancer is a thief It stole you from me
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Sep 19, 2023
Sep 19, 2023 at 3:47 AM UTC
Cancer is a Thief
I am every age I’ve ever been, And she lives inside of me. I changed, I grew But I’ll always remember What it feels like to be 12, 10, 2 To view the world from a perspective Stolen from me by aging Now as I grow taller, older, wiser It is my job to make her happy The child still inside of me Who just needed someone like me
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Sep 19, 2023
Sep 19, 2023 at 3:45 AM UTC
Growing up