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215 · Sep 2019
Looking into the Ocean
Bede Sep 2019
Like an icon
I look into the sea-foam
And stare deeply.
Reflections of the sun,
Burning passion, and glorious blues
Mixed with the greens of life.

The ebb and flow,
The circle goes,
The oceans flows,
From the icon
That I stare deeply into.
You're my reflection
Of sacred things
That I hold so dear
214 · Sep 2019
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You'll never feel
Like a disappointment
To me.
208 · Sep 2019
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The Olympian Spirits compare not to your wondrous beauty.
Their power is nothing to your smile
The dragons of the world revile
When they're pierced by your shining glow.

Your radiance appeasing Helios,
Athena admires your wit,
And Aphrodite loves your look
Every curve, every bump, is blessed.

You may not be able to look past my odd beliefs
But I adore yours
You need not khernip, for your miasma
Is as wonderful as fallen snow.
A polytheist stole my heart
207 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
You drive me crazy
Like a child seeing
Stars for the first time
206 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
We can work through the pressure
Just take your time,
Know who's there for you,
And make your heart Happy.

Your soul, golden to me,
No matter your choice.
I know I am a sorry soul
But never forget i love you so.
204 · Sep 2019
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This wasn't a break
It was a breaking
To see how far I'll go.
I'll go forever,
Just ******* watch,
I'll prove I am your pine.
203 · Sep 2019
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I miss things
So many things,
The most of which is you!
200 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
I will trust
My instincts
From here on.
198 · Sep 2019
Druidic Commandment
Bede Sep 2019
To re-mystify, here's what i mean:
Imagine a well planned out, ancient scene
Imagine the Druids all clothed in white
Waving their staves, a pure, wondrous sight

Can you smell the fire burning?
Can you hear the kettle turning?
Can you see the embers rising on high?

Can you hear all the chanting?
The rhythmic drum bashing?
This is what i mean: Re-Mystify!

Bring back the comradery
Of dancing round, fondly,
A fire that's meant for a king!

Take all of your friends
And tie all of your ends
May the mystical triumph ascend!
Bring back the righteous, the virtuous, the dancing ways! Even virtuous pagans can be saved, if not, we'll learn from their dances!
197 · Sep 2019
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Let that smile return
Never let it fade
Whatever's occured
I know you'll feel better
189 · Sep 2019
What I Need
Bede Sep 2019
Every emotion fills my brain
And I'm left here to sift them.
I'm grateful for time
Dedicated to myself.

My wants, my needs,
What is it I need?
I tell you the one thing;
A hug every day.

To have someone to hug
To hold, and they hold you
That is a treasure
Worth holding close.
I just need hugs and thoughts, smiles and kind words.
187 · Sep 2019
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I may be your world
But you seem like a spaceship
Flying to another planet
And I wish my gravity
Could pull you back in.
174 · Sep 2019
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What is love?
Is it purely romantic?
No, nay, nary,
Then why do only lovers say it often?

My hope will remain
But you know that story
And I will love every minure
Of our tale.
Thank you, Claire. I will say it unto the ages of ages. Into infinity. Thank you
171 · Sep 2019
Haiku 1
Bede Sep 2019
Worry not
My still beating heart
You know the risk
Bede Aug 2019
Stowed away in darkened halls
In murky crypts it's kept
The mighty it has humbled
And, oh, every widows' wept.

This thing is kept in lock and key
In spikened treasure chest
But there's no gold, nor silver here.
Oh, let me tell the rest.

The bane of wives, the horror of lives
The husband's fault so clearly.
To kids, they cannot handle it.
Adults, we hold it dearly.

The end of all good things, if not
Kept neatly under wraps.
Like Pandora's box, once opened up
The whole of your world may snap!

The treasure's called Anxiety,
The box's name is Worry,
And the key is just one single thought
Left in your mind to scurry.

So keep your thoughts together
And let not one be your end
For if you open Anxiety's Box
You'll surely lose a friend.
A reflection of today, a correction for tomorrow. Lord help me overcome my passions, and grant me peace of mind to make others happy, just as it make me.
169 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
I'm thankful for you
I have given you my heart
And i pray you keep it safe.

No matter what
I'll keep yours safe
Beating happily next to mine
166 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
*** doesn't hide feelings
I wish it did
160 · Sep 2019
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You are still my joy
Until the end comes.
I say those two words
Because they're right.

Never forget me
I won't forget tou
Even if you've got to go
For a while.

I will be here
While Autumn's coming
And I shall
Be here for you.

I'll never leave you,
My Autumn Darling,
Even if your leaves
Weren't evergreen.
157 · Sep 2019
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You may not return
Into my loving arms
As anything more
Than a friend,
But this won't stop me
From loving you like crazy
Every day of my life.
156 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
Other poems went viral
Just as I expected
Proudly, they're decent
155 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
I feel like I can breathe
Like my lungs are full of freedom.
My heart, still heavy, is lighter
And my mind is much less dark.

I am still not okay,
But i know that won't last.
I will look towards the best parts of life
And hold onto them.

The forests, the trees, the mountains and foggy mornings
The fresh air, ths dew drops, the evening most
Of rainy days.

The love of friend, memories and potential, all equally dear.
153 · Sep 2019
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Thank you.
135 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
You knew
I was right
To worry
128 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
I will remember
My dear, oh medicine.
Ananke, bless me so.
Inevitability,
Compulsive necessity,
May I remember
Her embrace.
128 · Sep 2019
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I may be extreme at times
But I will mellow.
I hope you heal
Just as I hope to too.
125 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
Every word you said,
Bouncing around my mind,
Like a lovely ball of light
Showing my soul
That smiling is okay.
122 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
'Cause you said that'
Now please just
Say it to me.
It's not my choice whether this is a break, dear. I didn't leave.
121 · Sep 2019
Acrostic Confession
Bede Sep 2019
I shall say these words
Acrostic confession
May even add embellishments so
For if i spoke honest
I would not be confident,
No, never,
Ever again.
119 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
Imagine a world where
Man can be who he wishes,
Never feeling sorrow
Or knowing the pain of the heart.
That wondrous feeling
Of freedom, contained,
Kept deep in the soul.
And I don't have this, I'm sorry I told
You a lie today.

I wrote this acrostic to tell the truth
Im sorry. I don't want you to worry about me. I want you too, but I don't know
118 · Sep 2019
Middle Ages
Bede Sep 2019
Folkloric tales of fables and songs
Of rabid bands of wond'ring throngs
Of merchant men, of robbers sweet,
The hearts of all are sold as meat
117 · Sep 2019
Secrets untold, laid bare
Bede Sep 2019
Don't you know, lad,
The price of knowledge?
You've forgotten Odin's price.
He gave his eye for knowledge kept secret,
And you've given your heart
116 · Sep 2019
A Memory of Janet
Bede Sep 2019
I remember
A time, forgotten,
Where i spent
Five years on her.

How could I have not
Seen the issue,
How did she
Captivate me so.

Learned my lesson
I have not, so,
She's my friend now
And she loves me so.

I remember
Talking daily
For years and years
I cried and cried.

I am drawn to love
Dynamic heart beats,
Of being torn
By those i love.

But, from that torture,
I learned a lesson.
If I persist,
I can make it gold.

Just like Janet,
Who's heart i broke,
She still my best friend,
And so shall you be.
I need a hug
115 · Sep 2019
I Can Dream Again
Bede Sep 2019
I hung blankets from my bedroom walls
And draped them over my windows.
My head lays down, thoughts abound
What is this that I'm doing?

Why am I finally able to dream without sleeping?
Finally awake to the glory of the world!
I'm able to think about adventures
With the one I love

Its like I'm clearer headed
Than I've been these past few years
And I still can't believe that I
Have gotten to where I am.

I can finally sit and imagine
Ponder of how I can be
Look in my minds eye and travel
Across land, air, and sea.

Not alone, nay, never
The worlds too vast for one
But share it with the one I love,
And I'll be forever blissful.
My last few relationships, mixed with substance abuse, made it to where I was unable to think about enjoying the future without guilt or shame, dreaming of adventures and all. Things have changed, my mind is whole, my love is forever by me.
114 · Sep 2019
Ode to Ambrosia
Bede Sep 2019
Oh, Ambrosia!
Feed my soul,
And fill my being with song!

Olympian gods
Could feast on your love
Until the dawn of the new age.

Oh, Ambrosia!
My most favored drought
Please, quench my thirst, oh great one!

You, most admirable of beings!
You, giver of eternal fire!
You, oh might lover of gods!
Let me be the god, quench my being
114 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
My sea-foam beauty
Your smile, lovely
Just like every
Wave of the sea
Bede Sep 2019
You're not a sinner
You were always my saint.
You, higher than the Fathers,
You, greater than the archangels.
You, magnificent, magnanimous, though flawed
Me, a sinner, incomparable to your glory.

Your secrets may not be something my mind can fathom
Or my heart handle
You are still my favorite person
Even if my love may not be with you like it was
And even if your secrets breathe into me the very sorrow i wished to avoid, no matter what, my heart is with you. I don't care what God thinks, you're my favorite saint
110 · Sep 2019
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Cutting corners
Unburred edges.
The bringers of
Harsher thoughts.

Don't free my body,
Don't let me see inside my own.
Just let me have my peace
These corners hurt my mind and body
106 · Sep 2019
Prelest
Bede Sep 2019
I didn't know
By teaching things
Of salvation and of death
I would be tossed
Into such a state
No wonder I'm a mess.

How dare I contemplated the Lord
As if He told me to?
How dare I teach the ways of God
To those unwanting few?

It's said thoughts of suicide
Can accompany prelest
And I saw the damage the demons caused
When I decided to speak.

I know now what I've said
I've only learned from books
That's why my mind is troubled so
Plagued with Hell's fishhooks.

I need to fight back the thoughts
That well up in my head
I need to fight the demons back
Unless I'd find me dead.

Suicide, depression, please spare me, please.
I just want a single day of release
I would like to not feel like sleeping all day
And I want to win my life back.

But, alas, I chose my fate
And now I've got to heal my mind
I feel like dying, I cannot see
The light that I once had
I feel bad for speaking on things i had no right to speak on
105 · Sep 2019
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I may have thought
Non stop last night
Of running inside the fire
But I am excited now
To know, today,
I'll see the one whom I miss.
The one who helps give
Me meaning
To push on.
I made a promise I must keep
103 · Sep 2019
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I regret thinking
Like I wrote
The ignorant bliss
Knows not the inquisitive mind

But trust knows not the mind, as well
Worried for the worst, is still assuming.
My apologies, my most dearest joy.

I have faith that you were lovely
And didn't stray, or fall
For the man with green blue eyes
Healing begins. Thank you, dear
103 · Sep 2019
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I say i love you far too much
For a man who rarely hears it back
Something to work on, maybe just not as much until I hear it back.
102 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
I miss you so, dear.
I pray that we speak
Before I have got to go.

Work will be long
Like any other night
But its longer without you
Bede Sep 2019
I'm sorry I held on
Even though you made it clear
I should've been smarter
And I intend to be now.

I've got to guard my heart
I never must let this happen again
I trusted others to protect it
Yet, I couldn't trust myself.

I shall grow, and I shall be better
I'll be the hero I aspire to be
You'll be by my side, me by yours,
Friends until the dawn of the end.
Thank you for teaching me lessons of love and life
101 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
Editing poems
Secrets kept
Worries expunged
For now
100 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
I don't know when you stopped loving me
But i regret whatever I did to make you
Love me less
100 · Sep 2019
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I cannot be used,
Nor can I be loved
And both of these, fine with me.

I cannot fill the void,
Made inside this pine,
So I shall cut down the whole tree.

Make a stump
Prepare it well
And transfer up a sapling

Let this be Love
It be my faith
And let it grow from my dead body
98 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
I'm sorry
I don't know why anymore
But I am
95 · Sep 2019
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Bede Sep 2019
Lord burn my skin
Enliven my flesh
In a way, only You can.
Transform me,
May the harm be cleansed
Like holy fire,
Transfiguring sinner
To saint.
Bede Sep 2019
Im going to regret
Writing every single word
On my soul, flesh, paper, electricity
Flows from my being like
A star has exploded.

My very essence has been transformed.
What catalyst has caused such change?
Alchemical reactions to extreme emotion
Solidified in the will to become
A free soul.

Bring about my decalcification!
Bring forth the rudder that steers me to victory,
And bash my ******* skull in.
Make me a free man, my soul,
Restore to me the primal essence.
That primitive vitality, Lord,
Let me become You.
In a theosis sense, not me becoming big G God
94 · Sep 2019
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I hope, even though he said no,
That you are made happy.
Dont let anyone hurt you
Dont sacrifice yourself
Dont be like me
And wait for nothing
I'll keep working. I'll keep me waiting to myself, however long it lasts
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