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Get up at 6 am Out at the park Joggers and Dog walkers Watch them run in circles Head's bob to something motivational I bet you find it relatable Maybe inspirational? Someday you'll see its all just sensational I can't see a thing but the turbulence in the air And some awful glare Up behind that cloud up there I just don't get why all you people like to stare Sit alone and ponder, that fake lover You thought you loved her? Try and capture that in that your social blunder As you burn up in the summer Look around at this sick little plot of nature Think your some kind of savior? Ignorant of that melting glacier? Huh, guess you wouldn't know much about being a maker Look I know its tough But your heart is puffed up in self righteous fluff Its the weight on the other end of your handcuff When are you gonna see that its enough? Why don't you put those clock arms back Back to when it was all pitch black But now that I'm awake I finally see Just how pointless it all could be. But you know just as well as I That there is one truth you can't deny That time is on my side Soon your heart will be as weathered as mine
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Jun 29, 2019
Jun 29, 2019 at 1:43 AM UTC
Summer Cynic
Fuzzy occultations hide ancient light Pinpricks in the sky On a warm dreary night Orange light floods empty streets Broken by shadows With steady heartbeats Music drowned out by the rush of air "Dont push it now" With this wind in my hair Beneath me an old friend Rough and Reactive With wounds I could never mend Steady now, as I let myself down Plastic and rubber melt As my foot comes down Even for all that thrill "Why do I always go out here?" After a moment all is still A shadow stumbles idly by "Its beautiful out here, even if im the only one" As I look up towards the sky Cathartic and Beautiful "Where to go now? Should I really stay out?" And strangely unusual Look up and down, and all around "How come its gotta be so clear?" I'm not sure I understand what I've found Foot forward and back "No no, dont think too much" I'm on my way back Cold blue doors slam shut "I've got this old feeling in my gut" I just don't know what
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Jun 16, 2019
Jun 16, 2019 at 5:08 AM UTC
Nostalgic Melancholy
I spent many days and many nights Lost, in a labyrinth of lights A dance in the eternal twilight Never saw something so bright A flash, before the night Seeded with desire And wrought with color and fire In it countless sweet simple things So obvious and plainly seen When I was eighteen Something faint in the sky Catches the inquisitive eye Watching it struggle up there so high Reminds me to say goodbye Now I've spent many days and many nights Lost, somewhere I'm not yet aware Still, a flower here or there An answer to my empty prayer Even after all this time, I find those familiar lights Haunting me in the nights And torturing me with forgotten delights Just for a moment I see them in puddles of water A flash in the reflection Or is it just my shoddy recollection? Hidden under all that lukewarm affection? Entombed a part of me seems to be In the depths of the colorful tones Buried under far too many stones And something else's bones Spent so much time looking into those lights They've been burnt into my eyes Got me addicted to those old highs The ones full of lies Even still after all this time, I find myself wanting to be, Lost Again, In a labyrinth of lights
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Jan 6, 2019
Jan 6, 2019 at 3:22 AM UTC
The Labyrinth of Lights
There is a great river Where it begins and where it goes Nobody Knows Everyone floats down it, each steadfast in a little handmade boat At first it handles roughly, the task is arduous and fickle And It can be demanding just to stay afloat A battle against every ripple The hull heaves as the water pulls to and fro And Cracks in the hull give way to the flow Water down below, Simply demands to be let go Sometimes vast boulders of earth and rock fall Down Down into the water they go Shaping the current, and curbing its flow Sometimes imperceptibly so On foggy days the water is strange and unpredictable The river is hidden Stones and Divisions emerge And vanish as visions and realities diverge Now I’m pulled along Some days I wish the water was faster Others slower I’ll fashion a sail to catch That gentle wind who holds the grass Guides the little things And sways the giants Points of light dance in the sky, Playthings in the hues of night Shine against the fading of the light Its then in that quiet hour When the heart turns sour And the hungry devour Those who are lost with nothing left to admire It’s there in those flicks of yellow and the rare green flash There in the bridge of future and past I’ve left my heart I’ll return to it someday For now I’ll keep my head locked up above As I’m pulled along Ever steadfast Towards that beautiful destination
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Oct 9, 2018
Oct 9, 2018 at 12:42 AM UTC
There is a great river
A harbinger of life and death He walks the sky Carried by her breath From above his many arms reach the earth They beat rocks down Carve waterways And raise earthly pillars From the sun he brings color Captured in his work Down, Down in the leaves His gift to her When her lungs are deep and shouts coarse His shadow is dark The land lost in premature night Interrupted by angry light On these dull nights with sullen color Life is ruptured And the blood of torched nature Swallows her When her voice is gentle and breath still His works are thoughtful and cautious Gifts numerous and precious And she’s alive Lost words capture the light Of the ancient giant Making the beautiful Visible to the earthly soul His touch like the heart Strong and warped by passion Imperfect and earnest And dictated by cyclic motion Wild and Eternal The Heart of Nature
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Sep 12, 2018
Sep 12, 2018 at 10:46 AM UTC
The Jellyfish in the Sky