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ben-holders
I'm just your average average every day guy trying to makes sense of it all. Myself included.
Some days I wake up, And the rent is due, The cable is off, My car won’t start My job is the one I swore to quite months ago Nothing can be done till payday And I don’t care, I got the day off. I can spend the whole day trying to pickle myself inside a SoCo bottle.
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Mar 7, 2014
Mar 7, 2014 at 2:21 AM UTC
Self medication/Day-drinking
Everyone you meet takes something, Leaves something with you. Some get their hooks in and stay. And stay. And it will hurt to tear them out. I close my eyes and pull. I pull because we are the words of those around us. So I pull And pull more, and pull more. And tear more, and give more . Then I look back and see all the hooks behind me, The hooks I put in other. I hope they hurt, Simply to balance the equation
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Mar 7, 2014
Mar 7, 2014 at 2:17 AM UTC
A million little strings
I don’t hate love And I don’t love hate But I find the sour taste Is best. It reminds us what is sweet.
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Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 2:47 AM UTC
Lemonade
People disappoint on all fronts. In every way you hoped they wouldn't. In every way they swear against People disappoint every day in ways they don't even know.
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Jan 3, 2014
Jan 3, 2014 at 1:47 PM UTC
"It's fine."
So I am Yin, and others are too. Some are Yang, and I know not what they do. But it is beautiful we are half of one And not simply two.
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Jan 3, 2014
Jan 3, 2014 at 1:43 PM UTC
Different folks
Stone face of my childhood has cracked The man who made me fear him, god, and the devil. Now makes me pity him. His thunder is gone and . . . His mind goes all the time I notice the jumps between visits. I live far away. The fall from human to . . . To dust. It is happening before my eyes. And I weep for the inevitable. This is the nature of things. I am the son, I must watch him become once again Stardust blowing across the ground.
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Aug 29, 2013
Aug 29, 2013 at 3:02 AM UTC
The soon over twilight
The wine plays tricks on young mortals On occasions bathed in pale sunlight Reason will be lost lost well before dawn The youth cannot rest Till only caveman instincts persist Do not try and hid, nor sleep The youth will scream you awake And the youth will give you drugs And the youth will drag you across town And shove you into basements, backseats, Dive bars, dorm rooms, and late night beaches With swimsuits strongly discouraged. And the youth will leave you be Only when the youth has burned you up Leaving you to the heap of a soul you have left The youth came last night To finish me off. They came with whiskey and women. And I succumbed to the temptation Of another blurred night.
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Aug 29, 2013
Aug 29, 2013 at 2:44 AM UTC
The trouble with socializing every night
And my heroes uses to sit on tall pedestals Above normal men But they reached too high into the sky The statues of my mind Reached the sun and ignited Turned to ash And fell at my feet. Heros made men Once more at my feet Able to sin like men should On the dirt from which we all come
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Jul 8, 2013
Jul 8, 2013 at 5:08 AM UTC
Pedestal
Forget what you learned in the night The youth do not have it right The wine plays tricks on young mortals In the late moonlight When reason was lost And caveman instincts run wild And I think I want to rest awhile But the youth will not rest And the youth will scream you awake And the youth will give you drugs And the youth will fill you with worth And the youth will leave you be Only when the youth has burned you up My body is on fire And the youth dance in my light The youth came last night Like all nights, and they begged to dance in my light I begged to dance in their light
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Jul 8, 2013
Jul 8, 2013 at 2:31 AM UTC
Peer pressure
I have so many dreams in my ******  head. They swell and flow and jumble all at once trying to get out. Creatures of my design I have colors dripping from walls in my mind Walls the lock me from my own kind I stumble and fall and bruise my ego On every little slipup Every little conversation The words are there on the tip of my tongue They sit and rot And then they become the words I should have said but forgot There is a world I want to show To let out and have it freely mingle But there is a wall between me and What I want to be. It casts a shadow and I droop from lack of sun people start to say I am not very much fun It casts a shadow and dulls the colors Kills the creatures of my mind I watch them die all the time.
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Jun 13, 2013
Jun 13, 2013 at 4:31 AM UTC
Inside a shell