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graphitegrifter
She get’s nice weather when she walks through my mind The clouds burn off at her skin’s golden shine Even clear skies betray their own blue And borrow warm yellows that remind me of you My pulse fails to match with her whimsical pace And her visage obscures those footprints past traced The streets are unnamed, for the road she has parted Carrying my thoughts to places uncharted It’s silly to think, even crazier to say You’re sometimes asleep when your walk makes my day Because each time I find myself thinking of you I get to enjoy the nice weather too
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Feb 22, 2022
Feb 22, 2022 at 11:17 AM UTC
She Always Gets Nice Weather
You stayed with her smile committed to her curves her eyes her laugh nowhere to be found you wake up to no sound her lethargic you nostalgic for a time that never was always a problem and never a solution stress, her only trigger for attention looming, looming, looming dread, despair, the heirs of her mood crowned at last King of the pretty woman who did not age well
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Feb 9, 2021
Feb 9, 2021 at 2:17 AM UTC
King of the Pretty Woman
I wished for sympathy from the crowd in some sense A soliloquy would reveal my morbid intent Then tear burned lenses would hold a reflection Curving their contempt towards my affection I sought after sympathy from the crowd in some way That a minor character might die in my play A supporting actress would cry her last chorus And I readied to draw tears for the both of us I coveted sympathy from the crowd in some fashion But she dropped to the floor before assumed "action!" Curtains now drawing, how should I act? The audience sees clearly, dry eyes still intact I demand sympathy from the crowd at last Disbelief's broadcast came grouped in a gasp "This is not the tragedy, her character did not die! Only the mask that wears her, please stand by"
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Jun 18, 2020
Jun 18, 2020 at 4:26 PM UTC
The Act
Oh my—what’s a sober clown to do Someone needs to laugh but he’s all out of ***** Oh my—what’s a blind man to do He opens his eyes to find he’s deaf, dumb, and mute Oh my God, I don’t say in vain I would if I could, I don’t even know His name If just one bug knew how all the flowers bloom He’d hang himself inside his own cocoon
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Jun 12, 2020
Jun 12, 2020 at 1:47 PM UTC
Despair
which way does the moon trend against the darkness does it spin? and where do the stars end I feel I have them on my skin because when light does bend so do I into kin
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Jun 8, 2020
Jun 8, 2020 at 2:34 PM UTC
light turns
steel cold looks cool worked metal in hand American workers pause waiting to take stand not on trial but as witness to tell of planes and plain faces they have known so well cross examined with tacit emotion by averting eyes broken and curtains unopened the artist a jury convicts without words his portrait the judge its sentence unheard but architectures fate arcs down towards man to remind him of lost history's demand to imitate the past on infertile soil to bear no fruit and continue their toil
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Apr 20, 2020
Apr 20, 2020 at 5:30 PM UTC
American Gothic
I grew up in a tree and believed it to be, safe as the branches enclosed around me. On strings of breeze God may pull as he please, the life over leaves dances with ease. But when I watched by bees and birds as they fly, my limbs chagrined as branches down wind. Unaware before, I then yearned for more, now feeling bound to my link in the ground. Shifting my gaze, grip turned to graze as my eyes slid down to the trunk I had found. What could it be that afforded safety as I sat above graves among the leaves and the aves? Was I anchored by tombs no man can exhume, or was this decay the cause for trees' sway? To the mound I fell by gravity compelled, but when I did peel at what earth had concealed I found vines much stronger than ivy. Now posture is prayer so I look to the air, thanking the roots for taking such care. But before I feed fibers completing the rhyme, I must find time for the trees I will climb.
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Feb 28, 2020
Feb 28, 2020 at 12:23 PM UTC
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