sean-briere - Hello Poetry

You know why I'm here. You know what I came here for. You won't speak up. You won't make a move. You light the match You watch the flames rise up. gleaming on my face I stare at you and you can't look away This moment will be burned into your memory forever. You have the power to save me You have the power to make this all go away. Instead you will watch the skin you once caressed turn to ash and blow away in the wind. I watch you watch. You do nothing. I keep hope that you will come to my rescue. This blaze is wrapping around my legs now. You still stand there, staring. I look out into the distance. Why have I come here? Red Orange Yellow A dance around my waist. I feel it inside of me. Creeping up. I can't hold on much longer A wave comes over me It's in my chest now Pumping through my heart Incandescent white light bursts through my eyes. This is it. Billowing black smoke rises up high above us to a starless sky. Obsidian clouds are parting Ash settles. You look up to see my eyes are still set on yours.

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Mar 15

Mar 15, 2026 at 5:32 AM UTC

Wicked

You know why I'm here. You know what I came here for. You won't speak up. You won't make a move. You light the match You watch the flames rise up. gleaming on my face I stare at you and you can't look away This moment will be burned into your memory forever. You have the power to save me You have the power to make this all go away. Instead you will watch the skin you once caressed turn to ash and blow away in the wind. I watch you watch. You do nothing. I keep hope that you will come to my rescue. This blaze is wrapping around my legs now. You still stand there, staring. I look out into the distance. Why have I come here? Red Orange Yellow A dance around my waist. I feel it inside of me. Creeping up. I can't hold on much longer A wave comes over me It's in my chest now Pumping through my heart Incandescent white light bursts through my eyes. This is it. Billowing black smoke rises up high above us to a starless sky. Obsidian clouds are parting Ash settles. You look up to see my eyes are still set on yours.

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Let the noise be drowned Let the noise be drowned Let every dream inside of me find it's way home And slip easily, Gently towards this world Let me hold onto the wonder Let me point to the sky As my grandmother’s head tilts up “See the moon” “See the moon”

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Mar 30, 2025

Mar 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM UTC

See the Moon

Let the noise be drowned Let the noise be drowned Let every dream inside of me find it's way home And slip easily, Gently towards this world Let me hold onto the wonder Let me point to the sky As my grandmother’s head tilts up “See the moon” “See the moon”

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There are thousands of frogs waking up in the forest behind my house A choral cacophony erupting from the bog Like them, I'm starting to thaw Soon I will bellow out my song at the heavens Just because I can feel I'm alive I, too, have been in stasis Frozen beneath the moss and rock Stopped my heart, and forgot to live It took the smallest amount of warmth to remind me I want to do more than just survive I want to open my mouth wide Guzzle down every drop of life Leap to the next footing Come alive under the full moon Feast on all the morsels around me Savoring every speck I want to live

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Mar 29, 2025

Mar 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM UTC

Pacific Tree Frog

There are thousands of frogs waking up in the forest behind my house A choral cacophony erupting from the bog Like them, I'm starting to thaw Soon I will bellow out my song at the heavens Just because I can feel I'm alive I, too, have been in stasis Frozen beneath the moss and rock Stopped my heart, and forgot to live It took the smallest amount of warmth to remind me I want to do more than just survive I want to open my mouth wide Guzzle down every drop of life Leap to the next footing Come alive under the full moon Feast on all the morsels around me Savoring every speck I want to live

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Leave the flowers be Let them bask Let them live a full life until they shrivel into themselves until next season Resist the urge to fix Let other people have hard feelings Meet discomfort with curiosity Take it in your arms like a dancing partner Let it swirl around you Watch it dissipate like smoke ***** safety nets all around your mind Crawl into pillow forts of regulation Look for dew on the grass in the morning Let the sun kiss your feet Eat an extremely ripe mango Paint your nails on the porch Breath into your belly Your life is happening right now And right now And right now

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Mar 18, 2025

Mar 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM UTC

Directions on How to Heal

Leave the flowers be Let them bask Let them live a full life until they shrivel into themselves until next season Resist the urge to fix Let other people have hard feelings Meet discomfort with curiosity Take it in your arms like a dancing partner Let it swirl around you Watch it dissipate like smoke ***** safety nets all around your mind Crawl into pillow forts of regulation Look for dew on the grass in the morning Let the sun kiss your feet Eat an extremely ripe mango Paint your nails on the porch Breath into your belly Your life is happening right now And right now And right now

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A constant craving The laundry just sits and sits The itch that won’t scratch

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Mar 17, 2025

Mar 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM UTC

Dopamine: A Haiku

A constant craving The laundry just sits and sits The itch that won’t scratch

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A mangled bird slumps in her gilded cage Surrounded by opulence and feasts she cannot savor Golden bars festooned with rolling joints and popping bones A doll sewn by a child's hand Pull her thread as she buckles like a berry Blood A viscous syrup in her legs Sticky confluence Heartbeat like a hummingbird The nectar would likely cause an eruption of glowing pink hives A rosy sanguine sea Vision blurring Rumination like hands on a clock Round and round Living days like Copy, paste Groundhog's Day Oh, look, it's night again Ice packs and Epsom baths Erratic dreams The clock resets Oh, joy, it's day again

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Mar 13, 2025

Mar 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM UTC

Perpetually Unwell

A mangled bird slumps in her gilded cage Surrounded by opulence and feasts she cannot savor Golden bars festooned with rolling joints and popping bones A doll sewn by a child's hand Pull her thread as she buckles like a berry Blood A viscous syrup in her legs Sticky confluence Heartbeat like a hummingbird The nectar would likely cause an eruption of glowing pink hives A rosy sanguine sea Vision blurring Rumination like hands on a clock Round and round Living days like Copy, paste Groundhog's Day Oh, look, it's night again Ice packs and Epsom baths Erratic dreams The clock resets Oh, joy, it's day again

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This ship is sinking. Your sea, violent. Lightning flashes through my mind. There are so many words I have for you. They try to make their way past my lips, but they are krill trapped in a baleen maw. Instead they take a pill, fall asleep inside my head. These watery words rise above me. They travel down my throat and into my lungs. I thought I took enough air before I went under. How wrong I was. Calm.Quiet.Ocean. Deafening. I'm wriggling now. My eyes frantically searching. The abyss stares back. There’s a weight in my chest. Blue.Green.Silver. An anchor pins me to your ocean floor. Waves have swallowed me whole. Jetsam tumbling through like driftwood on high seas. I set my eyes on two green jewels glittering bewitchingly. I'm locked on them. Two lighthouses guiding me through this storm. I should swim away from them. Instead they draw me near, beckoning to me. I dive down. I am under their thrall. I swim hard, I swim fast. My chest compresses. I’m out of breath. My body thrashes and then surrenders. I never had a chance. Tiny bubbles make their way upward like small galaxies holding the last of me.

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Feb 12, 2025

Feb 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM UTC

Leviathan

This ship is sinking. Your sea, violent. Lightning flashes through my mind. There are so many words I have for you. They try to make their way past my lips, but they are krill trapped in a baleen maw. Instead they take a pill, fall asleep inside my head. These watery words rise above me. They travel down my throat and into my lungs. I thought I took enough air before I went under. How wrong I was. Calm.Quiet.Ocean. Deafening. I'm wriggling now. My eyes frantically searching. The abyss stares back. There’s a weight in my chest. Blue.Green.Silver. An anchor pins me to your ocean floor. Waves have swallowed me whole. Jetsam tumbling through like driftwood on high seas. I set my eyes on two green jewels glittering bewitchingly. I'm locked on them. Two lighthouses guiding me through this storm. I should swim away from them. Instead they draw me near, beckoning to me. I dive down. I am under their thrall. I swim hard, I swim fast. My chest compresses. I’m out of breath. My body thrashes and then surrenders. I never had a chance. Tiny bubbles make their way upward like small galaxies holding the last of me.

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Light breaks through the littered cinerescent clouds as I watch from a Windex streaked window Tangerine incandescence fighting it's way through as dusk approaches Warm rays caress my face through shadows of the evergreens that line the street As if a reflection of a giant brass *** was being cast into my living room Fragments of dust filter through the clementine colored air sitting cross legged on an old Persian rug covered in dog fur A weather beaten Japanese maple scratches its fingers on the window The stellar jays bask in this rare gift, hopping from branch to branch The inevitable gloom and grey catching up Ashen warfare surging on a daisy farm A sense of malevolence runs through the clouds A split screen between the high spirits and the melancholy The Castor and Pollux of the skies Like a giant wondrous creamsicle threatened of being swallowed up by the smoke This contention sends them blissfully unaware of the eclipsing nightfall that is upon them Twilight enraptures the heavens, ending in nebulous sovereignty

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Feb 24, 2013

Feb 24, 2013 at 9:57 PM UTC

Grey and Orange

Light breaks through the littered cinerescent clouds as I watch from a Windex streaked window Tangerine incandescence fighting it's way through as dusk approaches Warm rays caress my face through shadows of the evergreens that line the street As if a reflection of a giant brass *** was being cast into my living room Fragments of dust filter through the clementine colored air sitting cross legged on an old Persian rug covered in dog fur A weather beaten Japanese maple scratches its fingers on the window The stellar jays bask in this rare gift, hopping from branch to branch The inevitable gloom and grey catching up Ashen warfare surging on a daisy farm A sense of malevolence runs through the clouds A split screen between the high spirits and the melancholy The Castor and Pollux of the skies Like a giant wondrous creamsicle threatened of being swallowed up by the smoke This contention sends them blissfully unaware of the eclipsing nightfall that is upon them Twilight enraptures the heavens, ending in nebulous sovereignty

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It figures she's looking out at the stars again Lost in air Lost in breath I thought i'd find her laying here Coffee growing cold A view from the window Rain puddles on the sidewalks Desire tingles in her feet. To get up To travel planets. To love, all at once She sits on the edge of her dresser And twists daisies in her fingers Soon she'll fly out of here She pulls out her suitcase She packs all the unnecessary things Like broken glass and fairy wings I hear the "ziiiip" of her freedom She knows it too I hear the slam of the taxi door from outside And so I go lay down on my bed and stare at the stars

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Feb 24, 2013

Feb 24, 2013 at 7:16 PM UTC

Stars

It figures she's looking out at the stars again Lost in air Lost in breath I thought i'd find her laying here Coffee growing cold A view from the window Rain puddles on the sidewalks Desire tingles in her feet. To get up To travel planets. To love, all at once She sits on the edge of her dresser And twists daisies in her fingers Soon she'll fly out of here She pulls out her suitcase She packs all the unnecessary things Like broken glass and fairy wings I hear the "ziiiip" of her freedom She knows it too I hear the slam of the taxi door from outside And so I go lay down on my bed and stare at the stars

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This ship is sinking, your sea is violent. There's so many words I have for you. Never spoken. Instead they take a pill, fall asleep inside my head. These watery words rise above me. They travel down my throat and into my lungs. I thought I took enough air before I went under. How wrong I was. Calm.Quiet.Ocean. I'm struggling now. Reaching out to nothing there. I can't seem to get back to the top. Blue.Green.Silver. There's an anchor pinning me to your ocean floor. Your waves have swallowed me whole. Jetsam tumbling through like driftwood on high seas. I set my eyes on two green jewels. I'm locked on them. Two lighthouses guiding me through this storm. I should swim away from them. Instead they draw me near, beckoning to me. I swim hard, I swim fast. I'm out of breath. I can no longer go on.

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Feb 24, 2013

Feb 24, 2013 at 7:14 PM UTC

Leviathan

This ship is sinking, your sea is violent. There's so many words I have for you. Never spoken. Instead they take a pill, fall asleep inside my head. These watery words rise above me. They travel down my throat and into my lungs. I thought I took enough air before I went under. How wrong I was. Calm.Quiet.Ocean. I'm struggling now. Reaching out to nothing there. I can't seem to get back to the top. Blue.Green.Silver. There's an anchor pinning me to your ocean floor. Your waves have swallowed me whole. Jetsam tumbling through like driftwood on high seas. I set my eyes on two green jewels. I'm locked on them. Two lighthouses guiding me through this storm. I should swim away from them. Instead they draw me near, beckoning to me. I swim hard, I swim fast. I'm out of breath. I can no longer go on.

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