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Robert_E33
“The sky is the limit.”, they say. Tell that the guy who is afraid of heights. We all have them, like fingerprints, like names, like clothes. Limits. Different, unique and yet similar. Limits that limit the speed of our car on the highway of life. Limits that cover the sky with dark daunting clouds. Limits that are steel bars of our steel cage. We are not alone in this cage. Everyone carries a list in their pockets. It's good to know about the list. And to recognize the handwriting. You will see that some of them are not yours but just passed on from others like family. Others are well-written in your own words. But either way: You've got the pencil in your hands. Scratch out what doesn't serve you anymore. The sky is the limit, they say? Remember the astronauts who launched themselves into space.
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Aug 18, 2017
Aug 18, 2017 at 3:45 PM UTC
Limits
I wished I could look into your mesmerizing eyes and see your bright warm smile in person instead of interpreting it in a text message. To hear the words uttered from your soft lips, unfiltered. And not as a digital voice through my phone that I'm trying to listen to with my headphones to intensify the sound. To feel your presence, to touch your body with my own hands Instead of plainly touching you with my words. To smell your perfume on you Instead of keeping a bottle with the liquid in my closet. I wished my senses were attuned to you in distance...
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Aug 16, 2017
Aug 16, 2017 at 3:00 PM UTC
Distant Love
People who only know poems from school expect to hear a rhyme. But what about mine? Without it they can still shine. It s about rhythm. About the plain play on words on the playground of the alphabet. About the image painted in our mind, the sound that rings loudly, the feels that touch my skin while listening. It's the comparison to make the message as big as the Mount Everest. It's the metaphor that the ocean is full of poetic fish. I tell you what you can expect to hear in my poems: A part of myself.
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Aug 15, 2017
Aug 15, 2017 at 3:55 AM UTC
Styles of Poems
I look at him and he looked at me. The seconds turn into minutes while I'm drawn into his eyes. They say the eyes are the windows into our soul. At first glance, he is a stranger for me but as he opens his windows, I feel reunited with a good old friend. Although I'm an only child, in this life. With him, I suddenly feel so close and befriended. A rare feeling that is beyond a basic friendship. We gently shake hands and depart with a silent smile. I ponder, that's how it must feel to have a brother.
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Jul 28, 2017
Jul 28, 2017 at 5:55 AM UTC
Brotherhood
Stop to look at me like that! Treating me with your eyes as if I am the key holder for the lock to your happiness. No, I don't have a magic stick with some ultimate spells of enlightenment for you. I am not here to break your shield of excuses, that YOU build surround you by yourself, that keeps you from your core of inner wisdom and self love. I am not the one who makes the act, the decision of exchanging a dead plant by a healthy seed. You are the gardener of your own Eden, you have the hammer, the magic spell, the key... Already. It's all in you. When you look at me in all fascination and awe, realize that you can only see in me what you have in yourself. Instead of looking for a role model in someone else, behave like the role model you would like to see. Look into mirror... to see the person you should be striving for to be.
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Jul 27, 2017
Jul 27, 2017 at 10:43 AM UTC
I am not your savor
I see you, I hear you, I feel you, I acknowledge you and I want to let you to know … I choose to embrace you.
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Jul 23, 2017
Jul 23, 2017 at 6:30 AM UTC
Dear Fear
We live in a society that provides studies, education and university. We live in a society that also provides therapy. See, if I said I refuse the education, everyone would look at me in shock and irritation. But if I told I take a therapy, I would get an alien-look that makes me feel like here I am not supposed to be. Sure, it's not quite a thing you say at a party or your first date. But why is it still labelled as something so bad? Because let's face the fact. Everyone carries at least one package of **** in their bag pack. And there is **** you better flush together with someone else. So, I show respect, to those who seek out for help. This is not a sign of weakness but lion-strength. Dealing with oneself, looking into the darkness of the past, making footsteps into the old pain, that deserves applause and acknowledged fame. Society provides enough stinky people who keep carrying their **** Who got so used to the smell that they just live with it. But the package gets heavier and heavier over time, turning into bricks. I understand that it's scary, and some people would rather jump off the cliffs of Grand Canyon than opening the seeming box of Pandora. And I say it so simply and easy, even cheesy, but there is joy and peace waiting piled under the **** So, people. Look at it! Get rid of it! Go through the dark tunnel, dare to make the step. By healing yourself you also heal everyone else. Flush that ****
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Jul 22, 2017
Jul 22, 2017 at 6:37 AM UTC
Therapy
“You miss 100% of the shots that you don't take.” is a piece of wisdom that hits me loudly like a gunshot. When I look into the fountain of my memories, it's not blur water but pretty clear that most of the stupidest things I ever did were not the ones that actually happened. They are the ones that I missed to pull the trigger. Thus, they only happened in my minds' vivid fantasies. Which make it seem so so real: As if I could feel the touch of the loved one who needed my hug and I didn't give it. As I I could hear the words of apology that were not even spoken in silence. As if I could see the scenario that has never happened and still waits for a true witness. I make a guess, it's part of life to miss some of the non-missed shots where I still have the bullets for. But from now on, I take it in my hands. ***** it! Forget the bow or pistole, give me the bazooka. I am not scared of shooting for the stars any more because of scarcity of bullets. I know by now.. where the ammunition is.
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Jul 21, 2017
Jul 21, 2017 at 6:50 AM UTC
Stupidest things I ever did
So many, strive to be happy. Putting happiness on the podium as the end goal in life. Me, I strive to be sad. Not as a depressing view on life. But it's easier for me to feel happy than to feel sad. And I don't believe it's healthy to cherish the one and abandon the other. It needs a balance of yin and yang. Life is about the full spectrum. Without the low tales, we wouldn't recognize the high mountains. I wished of course to have often times tears of happiness in my eyes. But I know of the value and relief that the salty tears of sadness can bring into the soup of life. How they purify our being and help to let go. To let go of not working relationships, passed loved ones, unfulfilled ideas, not met expectations and undo-able concepts. Sadness shouldn't be something to avoid, but the one thing to be embraced.
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Jul 21, 2017
Jul 21, 2017 at 6:04 AM UTC
To be sad
Give me a pen and a blank piece of paper. Let me create a phenomenal piece of paper. Full with lines that create lions, full with sharpening shapes, full with cycling circles, and full with inpatient ideas, that are passed down from the creative mind to the burning tip of the pens' ink. Waiting, to be released to fill in the blankness.
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Jul 16, 2017
Jul 16, 2017 at 2:13 PM UTC
Pen & Paper