Carlo C Gomez: Favorites

Jun 5 Carlo C Gomez

Whit Howland

A flag billows
gently

in a warm breeze
as a jet

silently makes it's way
across a blue sky

graying
at the edges of perception

An abstract word painting

Jun 5 Carlo C Gomez

blue kryptonite

Jun 5 Carlo C Gomez

Mary Bennet

blue kryptonite

God answers the prayers
I don’t remember praying.
My prayers are just stepping
stones to a better reality.
If I die this year I’d feel that
way about my last prayer.
My bitterness will stop injecting
itself into my fantasies.
My butterflies grow obese
because of the magic.
I’ll keep trying to grow
past all of this tragic.
I’ll stop living everyday as if
it’s already the future.
It makes my Time Machine
into a ready guillotine.
My depression and happiness
hug for the first time.
They have not been intimate
long enough it seems.

former accounts name is girlrinth

Jun 5 Carlo C Gomez

Chaos isn't Cute

Jun 5 Carlo C Gomez

Thomas W Case

Chaos isn't Cute

You were worried about
the storm, so you
invited it in,
wanting to control the
damage through your
kindness and friendship.
But you can't.
The storm doesn't have
a conscience.
It will never be a cute
pet on your leash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9IAYo0wZE
Here is a link to my YouTube channel where I read my poetry from my recently published book, Sleep Always Calls, available on Amazon.

#wwwthomaswcasecom

Jun 5 Carlo C Gomez

Sound Bites: 6-4-2025

Jun 5 Carlo C Gomez

Kurt Philip Behm

Sound Bites: 6-4-2025

Lighting Tomorrow

Memory’s
lantern
near empty
unfilled

Each night
in the darkness
to flicker
until

Your eye
without warning
a flash
unexplained

Forever
relighting
and fanning
— the flame

(Dreamsleep: June, 2025)

Shamal Winds

Lost
in the deepest
recesses of myself
And happier
than I have
any right to be
The hidden
regions
my newfound oasis
A Bedouin
convert
— home among the sands

(The New Room: June, 2025)

Infestation

The American Dream
becoming
a nightmare ...
Conscripted
by strangers
new thieves in the night
Usurping
our freedoms
embedded among us
Invested in nothing
but
— what they can steal

(University Of Pennsylvania: June, 2025)

Leaving The Noise

He came into
silence
like fish
take to water

The only thing
constant
his being
alone

To wander
the alleys
of quiet
reception

The noise
and confusion
for others
— to drone

(The New Room: June, 2025)

Jun 5 Carlo C Gomez

Two things

Jun 5 Carlo C Gomez

Salmabanu Hatim

Two things

If they fall together,
Laughter and tears,
Means it is the joyous moment
in your life,
Something to celebrate.

Jun 4 Carlo C Gomez

Notes on a friendship

Jun 4 Carlo C Gomez

Bekah Halle

Notes on a friendship

Wear your heart on your sleeve…
And let it get *****!

Love fully, but be prepared for heartbreak.
Know that these are the best
Days of your life;
they won't last forever,
But the memories leave traces rife.

They will reveal parts
You never knew existed,
Never knew you resisted,
And never knew you needed.

A true friendship is like a mirror
Where you see yourself reflected,
In the gaze of the beloved.

#bestdaysofyourlife #friendship

Jun 4 Carlo C Gomez

so much

Jun 4 Carlo C Gomez

irinia

so much

i follow pain everywhere she wants to take me
she reveals a cosmos in a tear,
the layers of time kept together by the vitality of light.
silences rest in between our dreams
the clouds are enough for the wind
branches enough for the birds
love is holding its antonyms with gentleness
i follow pain into the camera obscura of hope
wars are trapped in the flash of words without flesh.
the lament in the loops of time, so much

#pain #time