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Mar 20 · 318
That is Him
Nemusa Mar 20
His ghost sings softly, a broken lullaby,
burned into my eyelids, shaking whispers,
aching silence, like a thief of dawn
stealing breath from sleeping cities.

He moves restless through veins
poisoned by words unspoken,
shattered truths scattered like ashes,
dancing wild through toxic winds,
political nightmares devouring dreams.

His touch rough, aged like driftwood,
voice cracking open ancient doors,
bridges torched by reckless kisses,
healer and wounded, prophet undone,
hallucinating at the edge of night,
tongues tangled in unknown prayers.

She wanders like a gypsy star,
feeding off his sorrow, sharing ache
in silken melancholy, children smiling
innocently at illusions blossoming
in skies suspended, palaces of air,
golden cornfields swaying blindly.

The sudden crush of metal, breath lost,
belt marks branded, lungs crushed,
pain defined him clearly, brutally
etched inside city bones, illusions
layered thick, devotion bleeding quietly,
belief hidden in oyster shells,
galaxies spiraling slowly, secretly
inside his fractured core.
Happy Thursday still dreaming of an app fingers crossed 🤞 rough night think I'm coming down with the flu...
Mar 16 · 454
crimson feast
Nemusa Mar 16
snow fur stained with red,

white wolves feast beneath cold stars—

life from death renewed.
Nemusa Mar 10
It is always raining here,
not water, but time—
dripping, slipping,
pooling in places
             I do not recognize.

I stand in it,
let it soak my skin,
but nothing washes away.

My intuition whispers,
a quiet urgency in the dark—

change is coming,

or maybe it has already passed,
and I was too lost to notice.

I reach for the storyline,
but it frays in my hands.
I speak, but the words
c
  r
   u
    m
     b
      l
       e,
as if they were

                  never mine

to begin with.

Love once stood here,

steady,

    breathing,

        certain.

Now it is a shadow—
just beyond my grasp,
thinning with

              each breath you take.

You ask me questions,
and I try to answer,
but the syllables twist
before they leave my lips.

My brain is glitching.
It tells me stories
that don’t belong to me.

                 It rewrites the truth

before I can hold onto it.

I fear I am forgetting,

     not just you—

               but myself,

     my thoughts,

the language of my own existence.

Like a c h i l d,

learning to speak for the first time,
I fumble through strange words,
trying to shape meaning
from a world that no longer fits.

Tell me again—

      who am I?

            Who were we?

And will I remember
before the last light fades?

Perhaps—
this is what it feels like
to dissolve
into the

r a i n.
Mar 7 · 336
Unbound
Nemusa Mar 7
The ropes fell silent,
slipping like breath from an open palm.
Weight dropped—
dead leaves whirling in an unseen hand,
a whisper of what once held.

Not ungrateful,
but the air is clearer now,
the ground firm beneath unburdened feet.

You must trust—
let the tide take you,
let the light land where it will.

Heal not by holding,
but by opening—
wide as the sky,
soft as dusk settling on quiet bones.

Abandoned words live still,
tangled in the wind’s own song.
The everyday hero does not cling,
but walks forward—unbound.
Sorry I've been away but been very ill, didn't go to the poetry reading after all...such a disappointment. Glad the weekend is here again days have been blurring into each other.
Hope you're all doing better than I am, will try to catch up, happy Friday ❣️
Nemusa Feb 26
It’s not here.
Time grips my throat,
holds me hostage in this hollow pause.

I confide and confess to time,
a sinner every second,
more complex with each breath.

The air is thick,
pressing against my ribs,
too full of silence,
too heavy to swallow.

Hands shake—
not from cold, not from fear,
but from the empty space inside me.

Shaking in shock, triggers firing,
nowhere to go.

Golden iris blurs in the mirror,
pupils wide, searching,
movements slow,
body waiting,
begging.

I burn the evidence,
burn my fingertips,
watch the smoke twist like ghosts.
If they knew, they’d take me away from her.

But I can’t leave.
I don’t want to.
She doesn’t mean to hurt me.
It’s my fault—
I made her angry,
I should have known better.

She loves me, doesn’t she?
She keeps me close,
knows me better than anyone.
She wouldn’t lie to me—
I must be the problem.

The past drags itself forward,
pulling me under,
secrets I swore I’d buried
claw their way back.

I see them in the walls,
feel them in my skin,
hear them whisper:
you need her.

It’s like Stockholm syndrome,
this love wrapped in chains,
this hunger that owns me,
this ache that does not end.

And still, I reach for her hands.
Bad relationship with my mother but still yearn for her love. Though I cut contact like 5 years ago too much abuse and no regrets from her, not a single apology.
Nemusa Feb 26
She rises from ruin, wings burdened by crimson memory.

Sacrifice lingers, a hymn unraveling in reverse.

Jade eyes carve a path through yesterday’s sorrow.

Petals scatter, caught between celebration and unrest.

Love drifts, an offering slipping through open hands.

A promise paid in the language of fleeting bodies.

He died in sleep, untouched by the weight of farewell.

She finds euphoria in whispers of ******* nights.

Shadows dance at the edges of her knowing grin.

She pays her rent in ******* beneath powder blue skies.

A blade flicks back, a decision sharpened with time.

A mirror reflects a wound not yet surrendered to history.

Geese unravel their lines, like we came undone.

The elder woman sings of past lovers and loss.

They listen, silence curling in spaces between them.
Good morning hellopoetry community, heading to the doctor's today fingers crossed 🤞 have a good midweek ❣️
Feb 24 · 188
in the whispering glow
Nemusa Feb 24
the sky spills (softblue laughter)
over tomorrow’s edge—
where dreams flutter
like dandelion seeds
in a breathless breeze

and love (crooked smile)
blooms wild in the cracks
of broken concrete hearts
while shadows (playful)
hide-and-seek with glowing light

oh! how the stars (tiny giggles)
wink down at us,
tangled in a universe
of wonder—

we are (infinite children)
tracing constellations
with fingertips,
painting the night
with whispers of hope—
(isn’t it beautiful?)

to feel the pulse
of existence (sweet ache)
being alive,
even as fears
(bleeding, faint)
linger like needles,
silence trying to change
the rainbow pastels of
pills and apologies—
(too late)

in this (ever-spinning)
kaleidoscope,
mind-control dreams flicker
like dying stars,
reminding us we still (breathe)
hoping hopefully for dawn,
where light breaks
through the bruised edges
of our souls.
Good morning hellopoetry community, wish you all a wonderful week ahead full of strength and courage and healing ❣️
Feb 22 · 231
The Hive's Lament
Nemusa Feb 22
The walls breathe in, exhale.
He is afraid. The air is thick with it,
coiling like smoke from a dying fire.
A battlefield of splintered desks,
shoes scraping linoleum—
a boy thrashing against himself,
limbs loose, a puppet whose strings
have snapped.

I lie here staring at the bluest of skies,
a lie in itself, because the sky is nothing,
just a ceiling of quiet indifference.
The weight of voices settles on my chest,
mocking relentless, pressing, pressing—
a hive swarming beneath my ribs.

His mother weeps into cupped hands,
his father stares into the nowhere beyond
the drywall, jaw clenched,
as if holding his teeth in place
will keep the world from crumbling.
Every mistake, a fault line.
Every silence, an aftershock.

The bees fall, their golden dust wasted.
He kicks and kicks, a metronome of rage.
The desks collapse like ribs cracking,
his voice—feral, raw—
rakes against the air.

I want you to know, my friends,
you’re the reason I’m not running away.
But the words fall dead in my mouth,
drowned beneath the hum of fluorescence,
the sterile hands of pity reaching, reaching,
but never grasping.

The hive bleeds.
The world stares back, unmoved.
He is sorry, but there is no language for it,
only the heavy sound of breath,
a body too small for such a war.
Good morning beautiful poets, wishing you a lovely weekend ❣️ managed to write about yesterday's incident. If you don't work with severely disabled people it's hard to imagine a violent tantrum like the one I witnessed yesterday and had to calm the boy down, it will remain imprinted in my brain so sad to see a teenager going through this now we're suspecting schizophrenia as well I feel so helpless. But somehow it brought us workers all the more united very glad to be working with this team.
Feb 20 · 189
Lie to me
Nemusa Feb 20
In the hush of your lingering,  
I hear whispers—  
lost things,  
unvoiced sighs,  
a heartbeat (soft),  
echoing the  
darkness.

You were a flicker,  
a flame  
in my cold night,  
a ghostly joy  
wrapped in  
tragedy,  
and I thought—  
I’d lost you,  
hopelessly  
drowning in  
memories,  
always.

Lie to me,  
as I (morph)  
into shadows;  
tell me I’m fine,  
even as I unravel,  
because we are  
two souls,  
caught  
in this storm.

Strangers,  
falling in love,  
lost in c h a o s—  
every touch  
a spark,  
every glance  
a promise,  
written in the  
stars (above).

I’ll save you,  
even if it means  
sacrificing t r u t h,  
clutching at the fragile  
beauty of  
our delusion.

So let us dance  
in the ruins,  
the world crumbling  
around us,  
embracing echoes  
of tangled desires,  
until the night swallows  
us whole & we find  
solace in the  
darkness we’ve  
created.

Lie to me as we overdose on love,  
lie to me as I disassociate  
and give birth to another me—  
a reflection,  
a shadow,  
lost in the echoes  
of what we could be,  
a heartbeat (soft)  
in the silence,  
forever entwined.
Feb 18 · 150
The Weight of Absence
Nemusa Feb 18
i feel your absence  
like white lilies wilting  
in a forgotten vase  
unbrushed hair  
tangled in yesterday’s dreams  

names slip away  
like whispers in the wind  
each memory  
a fragile thread  
unraveling  

mother of the holy hands  
do you feel her touch  
in the spaces between us?  
trees whisper secrets  
the air thick with  
what once was  

unsure hands  
questioning eyes  
searching for answers  
in the echoes of silence  
where are your children?  

once greetings  
now good-byes  
water-soaked  
in a white cotton nightdress  
the fabric of our lives  
fraying at the edges  

yet we hold on  
to the flicker of warmth  
the pulse of love  
navigating this maze together  
finding our way home  
even in the dark
Oh what a day, I need the next 2 hours to pass swiftly...
Feb 16 · 211
Between Worlds
Nemusa Feb 16
He stands at the edge,
where the tide forgets the shore,
where silence is an answer
but never a comfort.

His voice is a clenched fist,
striking the air,
fighting with ghosts
that call him by name.

A silver fish drifts
through darkened waters,
but he is not the fish.
He is the stone,
a weight in the deep.

Like the current,
he undoes the problems,
taking away the pain.
I love his mischievous eyes,
the way they catch light,
the way they catch me.

Somewhere between the sky and the sea,
between strength and surrender,
your hands—useful, steady—
unravel the knots,
find the spaces between words,
and press them into me.
We were made for each other.
Have a great Sunday hellopoetry friends, very under the weather today X
Feb 15 · 183
Untitled
Nemusa Feb 15
You who hold the light
in the soft sigh of twilight
where shadows whisper secrets
and the world bends
like a delicate petal,
i find you—
a fleeting thought,
a spark of laughter
dancing on the edge of silence.

maybe the dead
stick to us,
like stars caught in the fabric
of our skin,
weighing heavily
yet beautifully,
a tapestry of what was,
embroidered with longing.

pinch me before I wake,
like an egg yolk I gasp,
swallowed whole by this moment,
the sweet ache of remembering.
lay me down
in the unkempt grass,
where wildflowers
stretch their arms
to the sky,
and the earth
breathes
in colors of dusk—
let us lose ourselves
in this gentle chaos,
where time is a wound
that heals,
and love
is the only truth.

you—
the one who catches
the dark,
who holds the light
in trembling hands,
remind me
that even in silence,
i am not alone,
that in the weight of shadows,
we are still
a little bit
alive.
Good morning beautiful poets, wishing you a lovely weekend ❣️
Feb 14 · 70
endless embrace
Nemusa Feb 14
love is a wild
   whispering river
        where hearts t u m b l e
          in sweet chaos,

sacrifices linger—
   soft shadows,
      breathless echoes of
        what we give,

i am a pearl
   of kindness
      resting on your tongue,
         a promise,
         a fluttering
      in the d a r k.

nature cradles
   our wounds like
      fragile flowers,
         blooms of forgiveness
      s t r e t c h i n g toward the
            light of new beginnings,

in the womb of the universe,
   we breathe life into dreams,
      acknowledging the
         precious moments,
   sharing secrets
      whispered in the night—

and in the soft
   embrace of dying,
      we find the
         thread of healing,
   weaving yesterday
     into tomorrow—

oh, how we dance,
   the endless embrace,
      two souls
         spinning in
    the bittersweet
   rhythm of existence,

celebration in every touch,
   a symphony of heartbeats,
      where joy and sorrow
         i n t e r t w i n e,
   crafting a tapestry
      rich with love’s
   enduring grace.
Good morning and happy st. Valentine to those who celebrate it, may love be with you always ❣️
Feb 12 · 192
tender hopes
Nemusa Feb 12
In the quiet of our hearts,  
where the shadows hold our secrets,  
I feel her touch,  
tracing the scars of our stories,  
mapping the
                             constellations  
woven into our skin—  
the universe conspiring,  
whispering truths we’ve long
                                             forgotten.  

We are not just observers;  
we are the keepers of tender hopes,  
nurturing thoughts like fragile blooms,  
each one a promise,  
a breath caught in the stillness,  
waiting to unfurl in the light,  
a heartbeat echoing  
through the corridors of our souls.  

I shiver under the weight  
of this endless journey,  
where endings are merely doorways,  
and in every shadow,  
a spark of light flickers,  
the way we shed our pasts,  
embracing the cycle,  
the gentle sway  
between night and day.  

In the pulse of our connected hearts,  
we are reborn,  
the echoes of who we were  
intertwined with who we’ll be,  
lovers hidden in the twilight,  
bound by threads of silence,  
in this sacred space,  
we discover our true selves,  
held close in the arms of our humanity,  
the cosmos  
nestled in our palms,  
waiting for  
the dawn of clarity,  
like a whisper aching to
                      
                                     break free.
Feb 11 · 157
Quiet Embrace
Nemusa Feb 11
We hold each other,  
skin to skin,  
the warmth wraps around us,  
a fragile cocoon,  
where the outside world  
dissolves into whispers,  
and silence breathes life  
into our shared solitude.  

No one has ever
wanted me  
with such depth,  
not even death,  
with its icy allure  
and promises of stillness.  
Yet here, in the rhythm of our
b
r
e
a
t
h
  s,  
I find a quiet refuge,  
a heartbeat echoing mine,  
each sigh a silent plea  
for the closeness that binds us.  

In the shadows we linger,  
two souls woven together,  
red threads of longing stitched  
into the fabric of this moment,  
reminding me that even in the dark,  
there is a flicker of warmth.  
In this tender intimacy,  
I am seen,  
a whisper of connection  
that lingers in the air,  
soft and resplendent,  
a reminder that love,  
fragile yet fierce,  
can illuminate the quiet spaces  
between us.
Feb 10 · 205
the pulse of letting go
Nemusa Feb 10
in the heart  
   of the earth  
where shadows weave  
      and whispers flutter  
like light on water—  
i stand  
   a solitary figure,  
yesterday’s weight  
   melting away,  
a cloak of memory  
   unraveling at the seams  

the sea sings  
   a lullaby of blue,  
secrets breathed to the wind,  
while grass—a tapestry  
   of green—  
bends low, cradling  
      truths,  
soft echoes of love  
   unspooled  

i gather remnants  
   of dreams,  
fragments like shells  
   on the shore,  
each a promise,  
   a sigh,  
caught in the web  
   of what might have been,  
lingering like haunting  
   melodies  

was it quiet surrender  
   that opened my chest  
      to the sky...
was it freedom,  
   unshackling  
the heart from chains  
   of desire,  
that led me  
   to this sacred silence...

and still, colors sway—  
   a riot of life,  
the world unfurling  
   in wild bloom,  
and i, a traveler,  
   grasping  
at threads of existence  

the grass bends,  
   humble witness,  
never breaking,  
   always yielding,  
teaching me the art  
   of resilience,  
the gentle dance  
   of endings,  
woven with new beginnings’  
   promise  

here, at the horizon  
   of my soul,  
i learn to embrace  
   the ebb and flow,  
to let go, to surrender—  
for in the quiet,  
   i find life’s pulse,  
and understand every farewell  
   is but a breath  
away from hello.
Feb 10 · 494
morning serenity
Nemusa Feb 10
swan glides through the mist,  

rippling glass of tranquil lakes,  

nature's breath in peace.
St Paul's feast day today we get a public holiday ❣️
Feb 9 · 666
Autumn's whispers
Nemusa Feb 9
Marigolds tremble,
burnt orange flames in the breeze,
sun sheds golden strands.
Ladybird on fragile wings,
rides waves of autumn's sorrow.

Leaves curl, whispering,
the earth sighs with each ripple.
Daylight wanes, fades slow.
Contraction of waves unseen,
a soft grief hums through the air.
Nemusa Feb 9
i see the  
   shadows  
   dancing—  
    a kaleidoscope of  
  memories (whispers  
   of laughter and  
   tears)  
   flickering like  
   dying stars  

death, with a  
   smile,  
   (hades’ embrace)  
   wraps her in  
   velvet darkness  
   where time  
   bends and  
   breaks  

photographs  
   strewn like fallen  
   petals,  
   each moment  
   a ghost that  
   clings (to  
   the edges of  
   her fading light)  

overdose—  
   a tempest in  
   her veins;  
   the world  
   dissolves,  
   (a soft sigh)  
   she slips  
   into the  
   arms of night  

and i,  
   a witness,  
   hold my breath,  
   caught in the  
   web of  
   her  
   leaving.
Good morning wishing you a restful Sunday, my eyes keep closing I'm exhausted stayed up all night ❣️
Feb 8 · 162
constellations of you
Nemusa Feb 8
in the quiet  
   of your mind’s  
      cacophony—  
   where shadows play  
         and whispers weave  
      a tapestry of  
         fears and dreams,  
         (you are not alone)  
you are the  
   garden  
      of chaos,  
   wildflowers blooming  
      in the cracks of  
         your heart’s  
      pavement,  
   each petal a  
      brave  
         echo of  
            you  

let the voices sing  
   their strange melodies,  
      (not monsters,  
         but echoes)  
   and the highs and lows  
      are just the  
         waves  
   of your  
      vast  
         ocean soul—  
   rise and fall,  
      flow and breathe,  
         you are  
            living art,  
   a beautiful  
         (messy)  
      dance of  
   light and shadow  

so gather the stars,  
   weave them into  
      your thoughts,  
   (you are the night’s  
      tender guardian)  
and let the world  
   hold you—  
      fragile,  
         fierce,  
      a constellation  
         of  
   everything you are.
Nemusa Feb 8
in the dim light of  
           our laughter  
we unravel  
   the tangled threads of sorrow  
               (whiskey drips like rain)  

your eyes hold  
   the universe’s  
             softest secrets,  
while smoke curls like  
        whispered dreams  
   slipping through fingers  

we have work to do  
            (trust is a fragile bird)  
   listening to the echoes  
of what was and what might be,  
               grieving in the  
              spaces between words  

as dawn stretches its arms,  
   we rise from the ashes,  
   two wild hearts  
    (beating in unison)  
   reborn in the light of a  
                brand-new day.
Feb 8 · 427
fleeting fireworks
Nemusa Feb 8
love's bright burst ignites,  

apologies in the night,  

lust fades with dawn's light.
Good morning again beautiful poets of hellopoetry. Already posted and deleted, hate when I wake up so unsure of myself, I feel it's going to be one of those days... but anyway much love ❣️
Nemusa Feb 7
In the tapestry of existence,  

where shadows dance

upon
    the
      threads
                 of
                     time,  

we find ourselves,  

woven into the fabric of
            our
                        days,  
each s t i t c h a whisper

of what was.

Oh, the heart, a vessel of longing,  

bears the weight of unspoken sorrows, 
 
and in the silence of reflection, 
 
the truth lies h i d d e n, 
 
beneath layers of

                    forgotten

                                          dreams.

Embrace the surrender,  

for in

                           letting

                                                  go,

we find the essence,
  
the sacred truth of our being, 
 
unadorned by the judgments of the past,  

freed from the chains of despair.

In the eclipse of our pain, 
 
the light may seem distant, 
 
yet within the                                darkness, 
 
wisdom stirs,  

a gentle reminder of

                                                               ­Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  resilience.

Thus, we walk the path anew,
  
not as prisoners of memory, 

but as
                  pilgrims
                                       of
                                                     understanding, 
 
finding beauty in the scars,  

and grace in the

                                    journey

                                                           of

                                                               ­Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â becoming.
& the weekend begins, time to rest as I am drained in every sense, have a great one my fellow poets...
Feb 6 · 451
Purity
Nemusa Feb 6
Calla lilies bloom,  

white snow on a black canvas,  

grace in shadows' hold.
Feb 6 · 215
(untitled)
Nemusa Feb 6
Well, the night is long,  
and the silence stings,  
messages like whispers,  
caught on invisible strings.  
How will you know what to do,  
when the truth feels like a game,  
and the words that fall from your lips,  
are just echoes of shame?  

In this world of quick decisions,  
where every glance can deceive,  
the heart wears a mask,  
and the soul learns to grieve.  
A liar’s tongue can spin a tale,  
but the heart knows the score,  
underestimate the shadows,  
and you’ll find you’re wanting more.  

Oh, we’re different features  
of the same old face,  
chasing memories like ghosts,  
in this empty, crowded space.  
Time’s a thief in the night,  
it moves like a restless tide,  
risking everything for a moment,  
when the truth can’t be denied.  

So we reach across the darkness,  
with hands that tremble and shake,  
searching for that flicker,  
in a world that feels so fake.  
And when the morning breaks,  
with the dawn’s gentle light,  
we’ll find the strength to rise,  
and make our shadows bright.
Feb 5 · 142
Silhouetted swallows
Nemusa Feb 5
swallows in twilight,  

burnt oranges kiss the sky,  

silhouettes take flight.
It's been a very tiring week, sorry haven't been around much.
Feb 4 · 190
Salt & Smoke
Nemusa Feb 4
The ferry rocked,
an old whisper on restless tides,
each creak a memory, a sigh from the depths.
Sunlight sliced through the salt-laden air,
too bright, too bold,
etching shadows into my restless skin.

Smoke spilled from my lips,
a dance of ghosts—
yesterday's sorrows drifting,
too light to stain the sky.
Your hand found mine, rough and worn,
a map of uncharted dreams.

The ink on your chest breathed stories,
mysteries woven in flesh,
a melody I longed to sing.
Time fractured,
the world faded—
gulls cried out at the edge of forever.

“Let’s go home,” you murmured,
your voice soft,
fragile as a thread untangling.
But home wasn’t a place;
it was the weight of your touch,
the sun’s embrace,
the engine’s roar,
and the ache of everything unspoken.

I didn’t reply—
I let the silence cradle us,
because home was this moment,
and this moment was enough.
I wish I could add a photo right now.
Feb 4 · 175
Snake Game
Nemusa Feb 4
My mind, ruminating,
thoughts eating themselves,
snaking longer, longer,
like that old Nokia phone,
remember?
The game we played—
winning meant losing space,
meant swallowing whole.

I can’t stop it.
No off switch.
No pause, no rewind.
Memory flickers, a broken reel,
an unreliable witness in my own courtroom.
Why did I disassociate?
To survive, to vanish?
Was I drunk on innocence,
or did I crave your love so much
I kept my mouth shut,
called my silence devotion?

You—
standing there in my shadow,
writing your story over mine,
turning my quiet into consent.
But I was always spinning,
always folding inward,
splintering.

Now I haunt the game,
chasing the tail of what I was,
swallowed by the loop,
still wondering
if I’ll ever find the center.
Nemusa Feb 3
The orchid leans on the windowsill,
its bruised petals curling inward,
a lover retreating from touch.
I press my fingers to the ache behind my eyes,
tears hovering like syrup, slow and amber,
binding the moment to the marrow of memory.
Time drips thick,
a sweetness heavy with regret,
its weight both burden and balm.

You spoke love as if it were a fragile thing,
delicate as twilight slipping between hands.
Your voice held the softness of midwife palms,
unafraid to cradle what could not yet breathe.
I clung to those words,
their sweetness lingering like salt on my tongue,
until they dissolved into silence,
the aftertaste of everything unspoken.

The sea rises in my dreams,
its waves stinging, cleansing,
dragging away the grains of unsaid good-byes.
The horizon remains distant, unreachable,
but I think of syrup’s deliberate fall,
how even the slowest drop reaches its end.
I carry the ache of transformation,
a tender weight,
and let the salt beneath my skin
become the shape of healing.
Good week ahead everyone ❣️
Nemusa Feb 2
When the blue silence presses,
and absence carves its hollow,
I search for a rare diamond,
a glint of you,
of us,
among the drifting days.

You, all edges and precision,
the logic mind.
I, the artist,
unruly and alive,
painting between your lines.
Together, we unmade the fractures
and called it a whole.

A dragonfly hovered—
fragile, fleeting—
a reminder of your soul
and the weight of what you left.
The brittle smile you wore,
I held it once,
felt the shatter in my hands.

Now, I sketch the absence,
and you map its edges.
Between us,
a quiet collaboration.
No need to name the loss,
no need to claim the light—
we move as one,
carving truth from shadow.
Feb 2 · 150
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Nemusa Feb 2
She shattered like a ripe pomegranate,  
its crimson seeds spilling  
on that frostbitten morning,  
where daylight carved truth  
into her skin,  
each ray a scalpel,  
each breath a confession.

Unraveled, she lay bare,  
a manuscript of scars,  
love’s futile battles  
etched in dried blood,  
bones jutting like the last  
frayed edges of a dream.

Tattoos inked in shadows,  
quivering black on alabaster,  
the ghost of him lingered,  
his fingerprints seared  
into her flesh,  
a haunting memory  
before the silence claimed him.

He was the prophet,  
the muse woven through lifetimes,  
departing like a forgotten flame,  
his whispers curling  
in the suffocating dark.  

We are all adrift,  
lost in the labyrinth of ourselves,  
struggling to stitch together  
the frayed seams of commitment.  
He extinguished his will to survive,  
lost in the wilderness  
of self-destruction.

Her belly, heavy with unspoken dreams,  
intoxicated by promises,  
the poison lingering from his kiss.  
She bottled his anguish,  
teardrops mingling with time,  
an elixir of shared stories,  
each drop a memory,  
each memory a shard of light.

Through the years,  
in the tapestry of shadows,  
somewhere we will meet again,  
forever my keeper,  
forever my ghost.
A 7 year oldie.
Feb 1 · 487
Fragile Waterlilly
Nemusa Feb 1
round waterlily,  

fragile holding above surface,  

dancing with the light.
Feb 1 · 196
A Gift Refused
Nemusa Feb 1
A laugh, a tear—  
what do we do with this cold world?  
She asks for so little,  
yet the air thickens with unspoken anger,  
a toll from a long week,  
severe and heavy,  
as if life itself demands a final request.  

Promises of sweet slumber,  
the kind that cradles the soul,  
shattered by lingering conversations,  
each word a delicate thread,  
pulled taut by a plea that feels whimsical.  
Fear, that insidious creature,  
wraps its tendrils around her heart,  
craving comfort,  
a whisper of security amid chaos.  

Why weave such doubts into the fabric of love?  
Why not simply exist,  
free from the weight of dominance?  
Old-fashioned beliefs linger like ghosts,  
it was merely a treat,  
a gesture of affection—  
can't you see?  

Letting go feels like breathing underwater,  
the pressure rising,  
and still, I reach out,  
a decorated veteran of this emotional war.  
A gift, tenderly offered,  
but you chose to turn away,  
clouding the tender moments  
that could burst forth with joy.  

I’m sorry for this weight,  
for the burden you perceive,  
but all I seek is connection,  
even as the world spins cold  
without you beside me.
Feb 1 · 191
Running from Shadows
Nemusa Feb 1
In the cramped silence of the toilet,  
echoes of fractured thoughts spiral,  
the walls constrict, a breath held in,  
where shadows twist like fingers,  
clenching the air, a tightrope of despair,  
normalcy dissolves like sugar in bitter tea,  
my pulse stutters, a metronome lost,  
Hitchcockian dread unfurls its dark wings,  
memories bleed crimson, pooling beneath the sink.

I cannot endure this solitude,  
where are you, phantom of my heart?  
Your golden essence, a cruel sun—  
breaking me open, revealing raw flickers,  
sacrifices made to coax a smile  
from the depths of my ashen soul.  
Hush, now—the tears tumble,  
each drop a stone, sinking,  
a release from this coiled torment,  
trapped in a moment where time slips.

Tired of running, running forever,  
this pretty broken girl, genuinely wronged,  
the world outside a distant murmur,  
yet hope flickers, fragile as a candle’s flame,  
a soft beacon in the cavernous dark,  
reminding me that even in despair,  
life whispers its stubborn promise,  
that one day, I may find my way home.
It's been s long week and I'm exhausted yesterday I wrote two poems, feeling very burdened down, hope I get to rest this weekend.
Jan 31 · 412
Whispers of the Ebony
Nemusa Jan 31
Ebony branches,  

holding back teardrop whispers,  

night's sorrowful sighs.
Jan 31 · 197
Ebb & Flow of Tomorrow
Nemusa Jan 31
In the stillness, she danced,  
water swirling like secrets,  
time a mere whisper,  
eyes closed to the chill,  
skin alive with the pulse of the depths.  

A fleeting liberation,  
where moments collide and shatter,  
thoughts unfurling like wings,  
forgiveness a fragile thread,  
I am the universe,  
emotions spreading like wildfire,  
sleep draped in silken shadows,  
light filtering through the cracks,  
nakedness swathed in raw truth.  

Tomorrow hovers, a shadow,  
a bruise in hues of dusk—  
she stands fierce, a believer,  
an idol crumbling softly,  
wonder scattered like autumn leaves,  
complex,  
a hundred regrets unraveled  
by the tenderness of touch,  
the clash of hearts.  

Forgotten streets murmur,  
eyes gazing through fractured glass,  
twisted futures loom,  
the shell of dreams yet unformed,  
caught in the symphony of now,  
overlooking the madness,  
the deceptions,  
the lovers broken like fragile glass.  

The scratch of pen on paper,  
the rhythm of a heartbeat,  
inked memories blur,  
sweet sorrow cascading—  
not unlike revelations,  
a bitter pill to swallow,  
the absurd,  
the shifting of my visage,  
the lens refocused,  
the key turned in the labyrinth of thought.  

Chains echo in the quiet,  
the poppies dance like sisters,  
bound by a thread of crimson,  
tears cascading,  
sinking in solitude,  
loving through the ache,  
death approaching,  
a tender, inevitable embrace.
An oldie.
Jan 30 · 298
Echoes in the Ferns
Nemusa Jan 30
She said he hurt her,  
a wound wrapped in soft lullabies,  
his voice a serpent  
coiling 'round her dreams,  
where the green fern forest  
breathed secrets into the night,  
and moss shrouded the bones  
of forgotten civilizations.

In the day,  
she fashioned dreams  
like delicate glass,  
eyes half-closed,  
floating through the crowd,  
a specter among the living,  
while shadows,  
like whispered promises,  
clung to her skin.

At night,  
the seconds drip drop,  
heavy as rain on a tin roof,  
each tick a heartbeat,  
each pause a gasp,  
he follows her  
as a prayer follows its own  
search for grace,  
the memory of a violence  
that needed no voice,  
only the cold embrace  
of silence wrapped around her.

In the twilight,  
she gathers the frayed edges of her soul,  
sifting through the dark  
for remnants of light,  
for the lullabies  
that cradle her in the depths,  
reminding her that even in shadows,  
the heart learns to beat again,  
even in the echo of pain,  
there is a flicker,  
a stubborn flame.
Jan 30 · 449
Whispers in the Pond
Nemusa Jan 30
golden shadows drift,

ripples cradle mirrored scales,

silent sunlit dance.
Jan 30 · 216
Hands of Strength
Nemusa Jan 30
Your hands rise,
lifting me like the sun lifts the sea,
like roots pressing upward
through the weight of the earth.

Soft, yet forged in fire,
they carry the echoes of old wars,
eyewitnesses to the quiet battles
fought behind closed doors,
where love and labor
bleed into one another.

These hands have sewn the sky together,
stitched the open wound of hunger,
performed CPR on broken dreams,
forcing life breath to breath
into what the world tried to abandon.

They have held me when I was
spiraling out of control,
when the weight of existence
pressed into my chest
like an ocean refusing to let go.

I have seen them whisper over water,
stirring secrets into steam,
curiosity flickering in their fingertips
as they trace the edges of another day.
Unforgettable memories live in their creases—
the hush of a mother brushing fevered skin,
the press of fingers that say,
I am here. You will not fall.

Oh, hands of women, hands of warriors,
who write history into my skin,
who lift me, who hold me,
who do not ask for thanks—
only the courage to go on.
God bless my fellow colleagues, you raise me up daily, not the easiest of jobs, I work with severely disabled youths, we're always encouraging each other to keep smiles on our faces.
Jan 29 · 215
Prism's Horizon
Nemusa Jan 29
colors spill softly,

rainbow bridge greets the still sky,

light bends into peace.
Nemusa Jan 29
A gloved hand, steady and unyielding,
pressed against the soft pulse of life,
fluttering hearts foretell the burst,
a silent pact woven in electric tension.

Behind delicate eyelids,
worlds collide, dissolve, reform,
rising from the depths,
a forbidden tide pulling desire
to its precarious edge.

Breath stolen, then surrendered,
each moment teetering
between creation and collapse,
a tightrope of euphoria and silence.

The veil lifts—brief, fragile,
revealing something raw,
the seduction of release,
a fleeting eternity
that leaves the air trembling.

When the hold loosens,
lungs fill with awakening,
yet the mind lingers,
craving the abyss it briefly called home.
Not sure if this gets removed or not, but it's a dangerous game to play for sure even though we did it in our teenage years.
Nemusa Jan 28
Ready to shock unconscious—
a scream locked in my chest,
a storm swirling where love should have been.
Forsaken.
Forgotten.
Black wings fold tight against my eyes,
dragging me to the place
where breath turns to silence,
and hearts go to break.

If you had an inkling,
even the faintest whisper
that I existed,
why didn’t you look for me?
Why didn’t you fight the tide,
pull me from the hollow space
where I learned to disappear?

Why was I the one who searched,
who fought,
embarrassing myself
for your love?
I stood in the open,
raw,
bleeding,
hands stretched toward a ghost
that never turned back.

I wasn’t a black hole,
wasn’t an absence.
I was flesh,
I was blood,
I was here.

Maybe we could have danced in the light,
or I could have played tag
with your sons in the long grass.
But instead,
I became the shadow
you refused to see.

And now that it’s all been said and done,
the bitter truth cuts deeper—
it turns out
I’m the one who resembles you the most.

Half my life
I wandered,
seeking a name
that could fit into my chest.
Yours.
Mine.
Ours.

But you never came.
The silence stayed.
And black wings
are all that’s left to hold me.
Well very personal to cut a long story short, I never knew my biological father till I was in my 20s my mother never wanted to tell me who he was but when she finally did and I approached him, he said he had suspected she was pregnant with his child. Since I've been in a thoughtful place I've been wondering why was I the only one searching for him, why didn't he fight for me, was I so extra to everyone...ma nafx għajjejt naħseb...it actually turned out that I really resemble him in many ways, I feel I lost so much at such an important time in my life.
Jan 27 · 545
Pressed memory
Nemusa Jan 27
skeleton leaf rests,

veins trace whispers of autumn,

time pressed between lines.
A special bookmark I have.
Jan 27 · 229
Golden iris, last resort
Nemusa Jan 27
Submerged beneath the lake’s golden iris,
her body drifted in surrender,
listening to the music of the universe
spilling its secrets into her veins.
The bird of paradise rose in silhouette,
its plumage a fleeting memory,
like the faces of past lovers
blurring into the haze of confusion.

The hills, black and steady,
stood watch over her solitude.
Their silence mocked her shame,
woven like a spider’s web,
each thread a detail she could not undo.
The lacework of her thoughts—delicate,
but broken—
postponed the weight of reality
for another breath,
another ripple of escape.

This was her last resort,
a refuge abandoned to the wind,
to the flight of birds
and the courage of stillness.
She swam deeper,
chasing the reflection she longed to become,
never wanting to be found.
To a prosperous week ahead ❣️
Jan 26 · 191
Fields of Silence
Nemusa Jan 26
Her forget-me-not eyes,
a map of forgotten borders,
traced the land’s open wounds.
Crimson rivulets bled through
the margins of untamed fields—
each step a line she refused to erase.

The air burned with unspoken names,
his gaze a steady tether
to a world she no longer trusted.
Even his touch,
a quiet echo, could not
mend the fissures of her running.

Inside her, war assembled itself—
not with banners,
but with the slow friction
of light against shadow.
Her body bore each sacrifice,
stitched together
with the threads of her silence.

She walked, balancing the ache—
between ruin and rebirth,
celebrating not the end,
but the fragile victory
of standing still
in the trembling light.
Good morning, wishing you all a peaceful and productive Sunday ❣️
Jan 25 · 247
Threads of the unspoken
Nemusa Jan 25
The weight of my truths
presses like stone—
no flood, no release,
only this grinding ache
against the sharp edge of language.

Each word is a wound reopened,
a splinter of myself
held to the light.
Silence is complicit,
it does not absolve,
only deepens the scar.

If my darkness stains you,
if the truth catches like barbed wire,
tear your gaze away—
this is not a plea for witness.
This is survival,
the slow unraveling
of a story that refuses erasure.

Do you doubt my suffering?
Do you doubt the sediment
of years pressed into me,
the residue of what I was?

What more can I give you
than this blood-inked offering,
this heartbeat fractured
between words,
pauses,
and the spaces you fail to see?

Let me remain unwhole—
not yet healed—
but forging the threads
that might someday
bind me to the surface
I cannot yet reach.
A reply to someone you know who you are, who made me feel terrible about being still unhealed from my past abuse and yes my trauma is very real.
Nemusa Jan 25
silken petals sway,

yellow pollen dusts white grace—

night whispers goodbye.
Jan 25 · 148
The Space Between Waves
Nemusa Jan 25
She breathes in a room humming with life,
a fragile song, not loud but steady,
a bridge between two worlds I can’t yet cross.
The air smells like morning,
crisp, new,
the kind of scent that cradles hope in its arms.

I drive to the beach,
rain dancing on the windshield,
weaving patterns that feel like promises.
The sand is cool beneath my feet,
the kind of cool that wakes you up
and whispers, you’re alive.

I pick up a stone—
smooth, enduring, timeless—
and toss it into the ocean.
The splash feels like a spark,
a seed of something unseen
but waiting to bloom.

Back home, her letters spill across the table,
ink alive on paper,
strokes of dreams I hadn’t known.
Friends I wish I’d met,
questions that feel less like fear now
and more like paths still open.

It feels like lighting a candle,
not the flame,
but the glow that follows,
where everything softens,
and even shadows turn kind.

In her story, there is a kiss,
but it’s not a prince—it’s the sky,
a quiet reunion between breath and stars,
a tide that always finds its shore.
The wind carries her voice,
not lost, but endless,
folding into the waves’ rhythm.

I sit in the car,
watching raindrops glide like silver threads.
Each one falls,
joins,
becomes part of something greater.
And I know I’ll keep walking with her,
not waiting,
but living—
in this space between waves.
Jan 24 · 205
The Depths
Nemusa Jan 24
Divers plunge into the ocean of my soul,
sifting through fragments of joy,
shards of laughter,
a mosaic of moments bathed in light.

Love, a blinding star,
grief, its shadow trailing behind,
the death of time unfolds silently,
second after second slipping into the abyss.

Tears carve rivers on my cheeks,
their currents whisper truths
I cannot name but feel—
bittersweet, an ache that sings.

I hold this hurt tenderly,
a fragile treasure,
and wouldn’t trade it for emptiness.

Still, I stretch toward the light,
my fingers brushing
the edges of something infinite,
a hope shimmering beyond the waves.
BLT word challenge "divers".
Jan 24 · 172
The jungle of my soul
Nemusa Jan 24
My words black and blue,
fractured echoes of a silence that roars.
I’ve finally lost you,
or perhaps just buried you deeper,
beneath the weight of unspoken truths.

Abuse doesn’t hide far;
it lingers in the marrow,
seeping into glances,
the falter of a smile
that struggles to reach the eyes.

I remain small,
and cracked till now,
a vessel that holds fragments
but leaks with every breath.

To share is to shatter,
to place the jagged edges of myself
into the trembling hands of another.
But I’ve learned—
not all hands are steady.

Secrets live best in shadows,
nestled beside shame,
wrapped in vines of memories
too sharp to untangle.

The key rests in the jungle of my soul,
forgotten,
or perhaps,
guarded.
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