Alex - Hello Poetry

Alex Nov 2019

800 miles and more texts than I can count
1 day online and the memories it would amount
A sleepless night spent together
Even though our distance caused different weather

I love you, so much, more than you'll ever know
If my parents weren't so upset about the internet, I would see you now
Even with our troubles, tears and the dumb crap we may say
I won't ever leave your side, even 800 miles away.

Oct 2019

Traveler

MAKE YOURSELF

Whether a comma, or colon:
Punctuation slows my rolling
I need no period. When I end
no Capitalization when I begin
Rulelessly I flow my art
Not a single!
Exclamation mark
Are you not the one
Who'll know?
Where a question mark
No longer goes

Warp the structure
Bend the lines
Put in repeat
Let emotion unwind
Make yourself
Your poetry's the best
Be your own ruler
Pass your own test

Take your own road
Where ever it leads
Lover or hater
It's all poetry!

Traveler Tim
.

Hay
No matter who you are
You have my deepest respect!

Vanity
All is vanity
The meanings of passion
The aesthetic expression
The lines we draw and stay within
Even love is beyond intent
Vanity transcends
Flowing from our pens
And so we breathe again

#traveler #tim #contemplation #commings #incubus #instruction #rules #directions #help

Oct 2019

Jordan Rowan

****

**** the voices on TV that scare us into depression
**** the killers ravaging the innocent and the gentle
**** the institutions placing us into corners
**** the religions trying to sterilize our minds
**** the powerful that feed on greed and power
**** the lazy that leech off the hardworking
**** the women who use men for ***
**** the men who use women for ***
**** the people that don't believe that you are strong
**** the weakness in you that you know you can defeat
**** the false prophets of false beliefs
**** those who do not respect
**** those who do not love
**** the apathetic
**** the lazy
**** the rich
**** the poor
**** the dead
**** the alive
**** the miserable
**** the happy
**** those who say that life is not finite
**** those who say that life is not beautiful
**** everyone
**** yourself
**** death
**** all that does not make you a better person
**** all that does not help bring happiness to others
**** all that does not make you smile
**** all that does not make you weep
**** all that does not make you feel alive

#****

Alex Sep 2019

Melodies

An invisible piano playing in my room

A sweet melody swimming through my mind

Suddenly, a thought of inevitable doom

Suddenly, I believe, I've run out of time

I try to sleep while the thoughts are screaming

Try to not cry while they watch me

Keep my mouth shut to keep them beaming

Oh, if only, if only they could see

Alex Sep 2019

Trapped

My lips are sewn shut
By the people I love
My thoughts are trapped
With no way out

I haven't been taught how to cope
So I joke about everything I know
Then at night or in the shower
I cry my thoughts out until I'm numb

I haven't been taught how to cope
So I force my thoughts away
Until my feelings are gone, too
And I wait until I'm able to force myself to be happy

I haven't grown up able to talk
For judgment would await
And I can't seem to find the light
They said would be at the end

I'm starting to think there is no end

Alex Sep 2019

Can't see, can't breathe

The walls keep me confined
This space I can't see
It keeps me

Every ounce of breath I have
Taken out of me
While my own thoughts consume me

My brain won't stop thinking
Anxiety and fears grip me
And I feel at a loss for control

I can lay alone in my own bed
But the darkness lays with me instead
And it doesn't let me sleep

I sleep, finally free
I awake, happy as can be
I feel fine, at peace with my mind

Then the darkness of the night comes again
And I can't see, can't breathe

Alex Sep 2019

t i m e

Time is sprinting ahead of me
and I can't catch up
I've lost track of my life around me
and the people who are stuck

The end is right there
I need to run, run, run
but time got there first
and now I'm in trouble, just my luck

I can't keep up with my papers and friends
my thoughts and confusion taking control
I'm letting it take over me, I gave up my fight
all I'm gonna do now is wait for the right time
(to say it aloud)