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Rjb1998
27/M/New Zealand
Murdered souls in paper bags Taped to toes names are tagged Body's strewn out through a empty street Our politics of rotten meat Leaving limbs at children's feet This world is only here for crying We go on killing fears for years Hearing bullets ripping in our ears Women scream but no one cares Flooded towns of lonely tears This world is only here for dying Preacher speak only empty sounds God says nothing that profound Politicians painted up like clowns The truth is nowhere to be found This world is only here for lying The homeless souls out in the cold Blankets in shops sit with a pretty fold Rich elites money sitting, growing mold Human lifes worth much less than gold Don't believe what you've been told This world is only here for the wealthy Killers stalk out in the night Rapists walk round in the light Arsonists light fires bright No one's brave enough to fight This world is only here for suffering Advertisements trap you in the undertoe Stuck in rooms lit by electronic glow Words of poets muddled by the undertone All the masses glued to a phone This world is only here for indifference Investors take from the mouths of youth Governments tax away the truth Make you believe powers in a ballot booth Eye for eye , tooth for a tooth This world is only here for stealing
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Jan 23
Jan 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM UTC
Protest
It's a story One of love One of loss  Of the highest clouds of silver Of the lowest depths of black A story long been written That you cannot redact Constantly evolving Seldom stays the same Reading the old chapters Gives only pain Even when darkest It can always change You're the author of these writings Your heart on every page So next time you are fighting Struggling to keep afloat Remember that life is funny Fickle and queer And one thing is certain That a day will come You go to open your eyes Only to find That your final chapter has arrived So leave a book well worth reading That will make the people smile Even while grieving That you're no longer here
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Jan 23
Jan 23, 2026 at 3:19 PM UTC
Your story
It'll be different this time , I know that it will . Just let yourself fall, It's lifes greatest thrill. Stop telling me that, She's just like the rest . That I'll get my heart broke, Left second best. Im intoxicated, Almost obsessed , Feels like my heart will beat out my chest. She's still not responding, Her phone must be dead, She's pushing away, No it's all in my head! A week has gone by , I wish I was dead, You knew this would happen, I didn't listen again. I was walking today, A girl flashed me a smile, I asked for her name , We talked for awhile. My heart won't stop beating, Im almost obsessed , It'll be different this time, I know that it will.
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Jan 19
Jan 19, 2026 at 1:46 AM UTC
Different this time
Bullets stream, A child's scream, peaceful dreams, Torn apart. Rockets roar, morbid art, Buildings fall, A bleeding heart. Playthings now ash and dust , Left shattered under stone , Mothers eyes turned lifeless, A child left alone. Innocence replaced by hate, Soft souls turned to stiffened leather, A self-fulfilling fate, Radicals you create, With bombs, And guns, With shells, And planes, With tanks, And drones. No water. No food. No medicine. No humanity. Only insanity. One kills for Adonai, The other in Allah's name. Both of them are murderer's, Both one and the same, Both sides are unburdened, Deviod of all shame. Killing women and children, An uncivilised game. Hamas bled its people , For publicity's sake . Global condemnation , better than a billion bombs, **** a million people , Just to further their cause. The sons of Israel, Commit holocaust genocide, Old Ben is no saint, He steals, and he lies . How can you not see , Auschwitz is next door , Jackbooted Nazis, Walk your parliament floor. And shame on the people, All over the world, Supporting these demons, With those flags all unfurled.
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Jan 5
Jan 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM UTC
Poem for the innocent.
A shooting star appearing suddenly, Lighting sky's of deepest black, It's brilliance flickers it's beauty's dance, Entrancing splendid hue. Reality comes creeping back, When it's faded out of view. Weakened knees give away, Falling into you, Heart warn upon a sleeve, Unable to remove. I wish for that shooting star , To become a shining moon, And for the night to be lit by day , And the sun come into view. But darkness seems the only freind , Turning once warm blood to ice. Hiding inside steep earthen walls, So one can feel no pain. History has shown me, That dreams won't last the day. I cannot just let you in, For one day you'll just walk away .
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Dec 11, 2025
Dec 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM UTC
Shooting star
Eyes of purest opal, A kaleidoscope in view. Like the greenest Emerald , Beside deepest sapphire blue. Flecked with stars of golden brown, A light thats clean and true . A smile so bright of piercing white, Commits ones hands to shakes. It steals your breath, Speeds the heart, Leaves you weakened at the knee. Her hair it flows, In a summers glow , Beautiful and dark . Hypnotised, by her eyes, Pulling down the walls. Setting free a part of me , Forgotten in all the years. Her light it shines, Hot and true , Blotting out the sun . To stay right here, In her beauty's stare , Is where I wish to live .
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Dec 8, 2025
Dec 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM UTC
Eyes of opal
Butterfly's replaced with bullets hollow emptiness that remains dark depravity at its fullest Memories locked in chains From dreams i have awoken It can never be the same All words left unspoken the bitter sting of pain I feel like I'm a child Lost and scared and cold Stuck out in the wild A misery untold I wish that I could go back To the places I once knew I cry for you to come back I don't want this to be true My heart is ripped to pieces My soul shredded on the ground When happiness finally ceases Depression is all i found
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Dec 4, 2025
Dec 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM UTC
Untitled
Overstocked and ladened fields Governments refuse to yield people starving for their meals Men in suits make dollar deals While working class choke on the bills And the wealthiest of pockets fill Making addicts selling prescription pills Don't give a **** who it kills Yachts and planes and oil drills Export the evil overseas sweatshop children cough and wheeze But it's better this way when you cannot see Profit and power over humanity When did we become blind to insanity Wrapped up in our sycophantic vanity Like a new consumer Christianity Worship it's profound profanity Spitting in the face of you and me Aint no body ever truly free Even the wealthy chained in greed Bottomless hunger they cannot feed That dark depravity is their creed While the masses left to die and bleed Hooked to smack and snorting speed politicians catered to every need Won't let genocide hamper what was agreed Keep dropping bombs till they succeed Send the young men to die in their war A story we have all seen before If you don't abide it's against the law Beat you down onto the floor While canisters of teargas soar Justice becomes a common ***** keep the prophets locked behind the doors We sit and watch the fires roar While those in charge let petrol pour The whole world burning ,all up in flames Wondering where the missiles aimed Civilian lifes pawns in their games The status quo stays the same We are too asleep for it to change Frozen in fear of a rockets range Or sudden drops on the stock exchange All our ears filled with their lies How our loyalty their money buys Deafened to the murdered cries Who really cares if a child dies When creature comfort blinds your eyes As mushroom clouds fill the sky Society left as food for flies The winner rules what remains Of corpses and fallen city's slain Apocalypse is what they gain No consideration for our pain No longer led by the sane The story will always be the same And you and me are the ones to blame We sit and watch hanging heads in shame While the ones who lead us **** in our name .
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Dec 4, 2025
Dec 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM UTC
Society
Overstocked and ladened fields Governments refuse to yield people starving for their meals Men in suits make dollar deals While working class choke on the bills And the wealthiest of pockets fill Making addicts selling prescription pills Don't give a **** who it kills Yachts and planes and oil drills Export the evil overseas sweatshop children cough and wheeze But it's better this way when you cannot see Profit and power over humanity When did we become blind to insanity Wrapped up in our sycophantic vanity Like a new consumer Christianity Worship it's profound profanity Spitting in the face of you and me Aint no body ever truly free Even the wealthy chained in greed Bottomless hunger they cannot feed That dark depravity is their creed While the masses left to die and bleed Hooked to smack and snorting speed politicians catered to every need Won't let genocide hamper what was agreed Keep dropping bombs till they succeed Send the young men to die in their war A story we have all seen before If you don't abide it's against the law Beat you down onto the floor While canisters of teargas soar Justice becomes a common ***** keep the prophets locked behind the doors We sit and watch the fires roar While those in charge let petrol pour The whole world burning ,all up in flames Wondering where the missiles aimed Civilian lifes pawns in their games The status quo stays the same We are too asleep for it to change Frozen in fear of a rockets range Or sudden drops on the stock exchange All our ears filled with their lies How our loyalty their money buys Deafened to the murdered cries Who really cares if a child dies When creature comfort blinds your eyes As mushroom clouds fill the sky Society left as food for flies The winner rules what remains Of corpses and fallen city's slain Apocalypse is what they gain No consideration for our pain No longer led by the sane The story will always be the same And you and me are the ones to blame We sit and watch hanging heads in shame While the ones who lead us **** in our name .
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Denial it is unreal It is a dream A figment of the imagination Shake me oh mother For i wish to wake A nightmare Tears crashing like thunder I see the lighting flash Yet I refuse its reality Louder Louder Louder Like the stamping of feet The scream wakes me From the warm comfort Of a blanket of lies I am now wake . Bargaining Like a peddler A pitiful grifter Willing to sell my soul On a ***** street stall Lying and stealing To avoid my heart reeling To cheat fate A cost I cannot bare The consequence Time to pay the piper Take from another To give to the other Just means to take what is mine And give to myself Empty promises That will not be fulfilled To lie to ones self No this is the death rattle The last breath Love leaving its mortal coil The reaper is here And he will not be swayed Taking what he came for I am now free from denial. Anger A festering feeling Welling up Bursting past A fire lights A brilliant flickering glow An unholy feeling Devoid of god The fires growing , burning the fields Purifying the land Revealing the truth Balled fists , and teeth clenched A searing feeling I point the finger Straight at your heart And hope that it turns it black I hope the shadows haunt you Follow you in slumber Lurk behind the doors Peer round the corners Fury of scorn The city's are burning The wurlwind is here Fanning the flames And I hope it consumes you I am done with bargaining Depression A choking feeling Heavily breathless Fingernails on chalkboards Here is the darkness Dread fills me That empty feeling Am i dead ? I wish to be . Is life is just pain Numbed by brief joy I no longer have will Im weak and im tired For i am battered by day With constant reminders And at night Tormented by thoughts And in my sleep I am no longer safe You haunt me How can I move on When my feet are chained Where can I go I cannot hide Nowhere is safe I am ready for the conclusion In what ever form . I am passed anger Acceptance I cannot keep What is not mine to hold I must let go The knot in my stomach Which i have held on to As a reminder of you Now it fades Now it fades I am free from the burden Like a bird that has learnt to spread its wings Im ready to leave sleeping dogs Where they lay Not to return To the pages that have been written To leave this chapter To continue to write New pages New leafs Oh the beautiful skies On the horizon There is more sunrises to come More sunsets too I am released from depression Hope What come next Well springs full of sweet dreams Without regrets A smile A flash Untarnished joy Like the snow from the mountains thawing The heart swells again Breathless nights are gone Ones filled with sleepless excitement Have now arrived To see love again And not to hide Bluish green seas rippling Waves of joy The Grey sky of winter Now colored by the sun The leaves have changed from auburn to green These are heady times Full of wonder and magic The soul and spirit soar They reach out and touch the stars I was not broken I am stronger Than I have ever been before And although some days Sadness stands at the window Hope will chase away It will not win As hope is here to stay . I will keep hope .
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Dec 4, 2025
Dec 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM UTC
Six stages of grief
Denial it is unreal It is a dream A figment of the imagination Shake me oh mother For i wish to wake A nightmare Tears crashing like thunder I see the lighting flash Yet I refuse its reality Louder Louder Louder Like the stamping of feet The scream wakes me From the warm comfort Of a blanket of lies I am now wake . Bargaining Like a peddler A pitiful grifter Willing to sell my soul On a ***** street stall Lying and stealing To avoid my heart reeling To cheat fate A cost I cannot bare The consequence Time to pay the piper Take from another To give to the other Just means to take what is mine And give to myself Empty promises That will not be fulfilled To lie to ones self No this is the death rattle The last breath Love leaving its mortal coil The reaper is here And he will not be swayed Taking what he came for I am now free from denial. Anger A festering feeling Welling up Bursting past A fire lights A brilliant flickering glow An unholy feeling Devoid of god The fires growing , burning the fields Purifying the land Revealing the truth Balled fists , and teeth clenched A searing feeling I point the finger Straight at your heart And hope that it turns it black I hope the shadows haunt you Follow you in slumber Lurk behind the doors Peer round the corners Fury of scorn The city's are burning The wurlwind is here Fanning the flames And I hope it consumes you I am done with bargaining Depression A choking feeling Heavily breathless Fingernails on chalkboards Here is the darkness Dread fills me That empty feeling Am i dead ? I wish to be . Is life is just pain Numbed by brief joy I no longer have will Im weak and im tired For i am battered by day With constant reminders And at night Tormented by thoughts And in my sleep I am no longer safe You haunt me How can I move on When my feet are chained Where can I go I cannot hide Nowhere is safe I am ready for the conclusion In what ever form . I am passed anger Acceptance I cannot keep What is not mine to hold I must let go The knot in my stomach Which i have held on to As a reminder of you Now it fades Now it fades I am free from the burden Like a bird that has learnt to spread its wings Im ready to leave sleeping dogs Where they lay Not to return To the pages that have been written To leave this chapter To continue to write New pages New leafs Oh the beautiful skies On the horizon There is more sunrises to come More sunsets too I am released from depression Hope What come next Well springs full of sweet dreams Without regrets A smile A flash Untarnished joy Like the snow from the mountains thawing The heart swells again Breathless nights are gone Ones filled with sleepless excitement Have now arrived To see love again And not to hide Bluish green seas rippling Waves of joy The Grey sky of winter Now colored by the sun The leaves have changed from auburn to green These are heady times Full of wonder and magic The soul and spirit soar They reach out and touch the stars I was not broken I am stronger Than I have ever been before And although some days Sadness stands at the window Hope will chase away It will not win As hope is here to stay . I will keep hope .
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Was i a butterfly? I thought i was . Now a blowfly metamorphized from maggots Tantalized by spiderwebs of tortured dreams . Swirling seas of darkest imagining thrashing and breaking , whirlpools of deepest sorrow drags and drowns Scorched lungs choke on black smoke Breath is unobtainable ,slow suffocation Gasping,clawing ,muffled screams . Slit throat of a slaughtered lamb Crying through flowing blood A hearts contents draining onto the dirt Hopeless spirit drains from its eyes Weary and tired Unwilling to fight Sweet realease of the endless nothing Welcome me home again
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Dec 4, 2025
Dec 4, 2025 at 4:02 AM UTC
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