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Jul 2023 · 205
Stranded
Odd Odyssey Poet Jul 2023
He pulls at the last strand of her flowing hair
In a pool full of their tears
—lost; and too their love
One last whisper goodbye
as her eyes shut away to that long night
One last strand goodbye

He feels stranded now!
Jul 2023 · 73
Dear Society
Odd Odyssey Poet Jul 2023
I see a young lady,
all skins,— free **** on the phone screen
The eyes of ****, inside a naked eye
Intrusive thoughts; quickly look away
As I  pity myself, but more a less pity such a pretty sight
Pretty much seen by all, activities of trends
Actively following them all

Sigh! Fatherless activities
Jul 2023 · 237
Dear People
Odd Odyssey Poet Jul 2023
Spare change to make up the cents
Of buying people a little common sense;
Commonly uncommon
Conversations with so many commas,,,
thinking, thinking, thinking,

Unfortunately for those so many
thinking more with a quick tongue than what's in their head's
Jul 2023 · 384
Dear Ex
Odd Odyssey Poet Jul 2023
Today's feelings:
somewhat like a late night text to an ex
Debating, reminiscing, yearning, scratching my head
Select all, delete, and maybe not press send

I can't allow sad feelings allowing me to break down
And go back to what made the high of an ex;
of those high expectations
Jul 2023 · 99
Dear Equal
Odd Odyssey Poet Jul 2023
I couldn't see past through the ash and smoke of your tears;
We've burnt too many bridges

Jul 2023 · 129
Dear Nobody
Odd Odyssey Poet Jul 2023
"Oh to sought after love
I sort of thought it would be that easy,"
So you did always tell me

Revealing all your cards to this game of love
And in your voice I could tell that you had lost so much
A sort of bad luck, as you gave your heart in trust
But it was pushed out violently ;
I guess the word was really ******

I don't pray that you find love again
But rather a lover to help you find that love you had,
once again
Jul 2023 · 138
Dear Me
Odd Odyssey Poet Jul 2023
I'm two sides of being psychotic and iconic,
But right I'm in between being ironic
Lasting sickening thoughts that feel quite chronic,
With so many voices in my head I yell out, "stop it"
The shy guy who chokes on his words, that feels like *****
And still chasing dreams, with a constant anxiety that's so hard to run from it
While my moods switch up so quick, like a liar trying to switch a topic
A subject to excersing my self torture,
Searching himself; as a piece of myself, I might of lost it
With every bone to pick with the skeletons nicely packed in my closet

But in the end I have to remind myself,
"hey, you're pretty awesome"
Jul 2023 · 66
/ˈstreɪn(d)ʒə/
Odd Odyssey Poet Jul 2023
They live their lives like there's no tomorrow
Cos life is fragile as that see through glass
Trying to forget it all inside that bottle
And what's no longer past, just all comes to pass

A life made of glass, a life made of glass,
It's never strange; to a bunch of strangers
Jul 2023 · 88
Dear Humanity
Odd Odyssey Poet Jul 2023
It often takes us searching ourselves,
To realise all of the extra shelves
Of our skeletons nicely packed away in their closets
Jul 2023 · 179
Dear Sleep
Odd Odyssey Poet Jul 2023
Even five minutes of  you,
Will always be a tired man's sweet dream

Jul 2023 · 231
Dear Love II
Odd Odyssey Poet Jul 2023
The longest love letters never sent
Secret crushes;— well at least in my head
Awkward smiles, starry eyed, and feelings out of this world
I liked a girl, well not just one...there's been a few
Different faces, different places, different races
Though the feelings of a crushing crush are never too new

Never so true, relying on the lies of insecurity
And so foolishly, the pen is just ink written out for my eyes

A sight for sore eyes;
Stuck only to gaze, and grazing on words never heard
A herd of words I wish I knew and would of spoke
To sort of feel like less of a joke
More of a man to take a chance,
Less of the tears behind a friendly laugh
And to grasp onto what's at hand

But alas,
I always gasp at knowing I've missed another chance!
Jun 2023 · 82
Dear Chocolate
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
Always so sweet,
Well it really depends on the type
But hey, you'll always be so sweet to me
That little pinch inside my cheeks
Treat myself with a late night treat
A bite is just a tease,
A few more just leads me to repeat
Five packets later...oh great now I'm feeling sick!
Jun 2023 · 65
Dear Music
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
Thank you for the good times,
Good vibes, and the tissue to wipe my flooded eyes
An escape from reality in those whispering melodies
Catchy hooks, lyrics and catching onto their rhymes
I've felt alive, felt in between, and felt what it feels like to die
Perhaps inside; still the rhythm in my heart you give
Are all those beautiful songs that filled me with life!
Jun 2023 · 68
Dear reasoning
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
Laughs
Okay, I really need to get to know you more,
A painful sight at times before seeing your name sake,— reasoning
Such an eye sore !
Jun 2023 · 96
Dear youth
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
Always gone with every passing yesterday
Adulting is really just trying to make through another day
Oh it's your birthday,—okay three cheers of pretend
Hip hip hooray!

Smiling so many colourful smiles,
ssshh; in secret they're all so grey
I'll just let myself get kissed by times's another day
And kissing my youth away!
Jun 2023 · 95
Dear love
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
Why do all our conversations start with "what the f*ck'
Well this obviously *****, being stuck
In another mud puddle filled with ***** intentions
A few mentions of how to measure your heart
On the size of love you're willing to share
As true love is honestly rare,
When two friends fall in love, after their true feelings meet
Feelings that feel at best medium rare,
As I've seen one hoping to be in love, while another just  wishing
To be in their insides with their hungry meat !
Jun 2023 · 82
Dear depression
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
It's been a while, honestly I don't know why I'm writing to you
Maybe I've gotten so used to you,—
Lost in myself, finding another reason to be so blue
Cos you are an ocean, in those tides pushing and pulling
Times of me pushing away my obvious sadness,
Just to pull me much closer to you
And in the growing distant; a beautiful site of calm and peace
But it takes me sailing through these rough waters of my mind
Fighting the winds of voices; fighting against you!
Jun 2023 · 78
Poetic demons
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
Poetry coming soon...

Really at most, it's just intrusive thoughts that love to consume
A force weapon of a pen,—red; as the after article read, is the inkling of inner demons demonstrating themselves out of my head
Amongst a night of inhaling the devil's smoke, painting ash in my lungs As it's not of doing the act for fun; or being numb to the obvious self harm. The burning passion in my heart is a fireplace,
as the smoke at times comes up and out of a chimney neck
To then coughing those fumes like a dying exhaust, exhausted by
a facade of pretending not to be as odd

With voices in my head...

Screaming whispers of a daily insecurity, usually when I
convince myself of not being belittled by the litter of *****
thoughts, that I quickly clean off with an innocent smile
Mr Nice Shy guy; someone you shouldn't waste to bat an eye
But the truth will swing at you abruptly

Things that all happen in the dark...

The sort of enlightening events to reveal one's darkest spot
Like those who act a little more holy than their holes in their
socks,—it's all but the stench of us all searching to be whole
But it's ironic though, that you need to feel whole to fill up a hole
And my mind is this gaping hole, that only a pen could fill in this deep abyss. But it sometimes betrays me like a Judas kiss, hanging me over
As I have an angel and demon battling over who speaks louder on my stronger shoulder

Poetry is coming soon, I'm just waiting for the voices in
my head.  All those voices of the things that all happen
in the dark

             My poetic demons
Jun 2023 · 56
A white lotus turns red
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
your body was shaking right after
you had ***. It wasn't from how it made you
feel, but just the disgust that you felt
—they call it regret

and it was so hard to breathe,
as it wasn't what you hoped it to be
as you were no longer what you have always been
a ***** intention; no wonder why you didn't feel clean
with these puzzles in these corner sheets,
you were looking for a piece of action,
—but now you're just a missing piece

    Sigh!

let your imagination run as wild as it can
but your mind could not fathom the pace of
reality. all the pictures in our minds are not
all so pretty in our head
sometimes it's painted in ugliness and stains
are what came, all painted in red
—the same colour of your bed

                    ...sigh
Jun 2023 · 672
Climax
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
Feelings of ecstasy
fills up an empty lonely room,
His words, "I want to fill/feel myself in you"

Intimacy; into admitting those desires not of public ear
A request to touch her as if it were their very last;
a sort of lust rush, as he pulls her near

And from the sight of red eyes, a few hours
before, when they had passionately cried
Falling into sight; a blush picture of her
cheeks painted in cherry red
Giving into their feelings; all unquestioned
reasons to be sharing a bed,—

Tonight,
could be a long night of bodies being next
to each other, making up tomorrow's memory
And if it hurts to bite, her response,
"nothing hurts better of what pleasures me"

...mmmh, it's all but basic reality,
yet feels so much like a fantasy
Playing into future events in their heads
of a present affair. A make up type of ***
to forget about old history


                                 Awaiting their ******.
Jun 2023 · 899
Red bicycle in winter
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
A red bicycle just sits on a wall
waiting, waiting patiently, to be rode

To be out on the road once more;
more or less a reason not to be left out in the cold

Red in a fiery paint; red fury blaze in a colour as bold
waiting, waiting patiently; not on display, being
watched and ignored

It had hopes of being picked out of that store;
to be out in the world with so much in store,
—to be so much more

Waiting, waiting patiently; once as excited as the little girl
that opened him out of that Christmas box;
To be found in awe of a child and their parent's applauds

But alas, as it's winter's pricking thorn,
this red little bike has to wait all winter, pierced by the thought
of knowing he has been left out in the cold
Jun 2023 · 265
Sticks and stones
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
Sticks and stones to break your bones
Stick your nose in being too nosey,
and you may end up with a ****** nose
Jun 2023 · 77
If only
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
If only I was dream: lucid
Able to do anything, just by my thoughts
of anything I could think: endless
For what could feel like the end, could be
where I first begin; or where I fall in between: desire
Oh how beautiful would that be; to be a lucid endless desire

                     ...if only.
Jun 2023 · 80
Out skipping
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
Skipping stones, and skipping rope
while skipping past all the cringy memories
All from the days of skipping a few classes,
sometimes skipping ahead in movies to the exciting scenes
As all the time feels like it's skipping away at the pace of
these days,

—Death in the end, has nobody in this life to skip
Jun 2023 · 56
Gun violence
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
letting all the guns sing;
society and our bodies Already know the chorus
someone dying by the gun isn't just a tragedy, but just Another Story
dying in a blaze of fury,— Innocent deaths, going out without any glory

... circles, circles, and circles; it's just how the cyle goes

and there's no water under the bridge;
while we're all Drowning in those bullets
raining tears, and smoke
better grab your umbrellas, under Another day of Bullet Storms

... circles, circles, and circles when will the cycle
          end?
Jun 2023 · 72
Ocean cigarettes
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
On an ocean with a broken cigarette;
a man and the ocean had to shed a tear
Wondering if the Lord of forever was somewhere
near an ocean view; wondering if heaven on earth was ever real

As nothing is this world, ever tasted as new,
like kissing a stranger and sharing ***** secrets that you never knew
I've been lost, but not as lost in the scent
of a past lover and their nostalgic perfume

I've been a thousand places,
but not a thousand more than the sands of moments
we spent by the beach side. To now just smoking in the waters;
     feeling so washed up thinking about you
Odd Odyssey Poet Jun 2023
The product of love, is it's desire for multiplication,
as the time we have together, subracts the more we kiss
And in addition to one day having kids; the idea of how to raise
them could cause division

Still to love as equals, as despite the position of the head
non could be greater than the head of us above

            ...the perfect mathematician is and will always be God
May 2023 · 91
World circus
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
Lord protect me from turning urban
So easy to act so different, when you're living suburban
You could get lost in all the foolish things while constantly searching
To many of us forget about a recent sermon,
But remember what we found two weeks ago, while internet surfing
Drowning in our sorrows, and still wondering about our purpose

All it really takes is God's discernment...

Life is so unnerving,
Crawling under your skin; as the flesh is always burning
Always yearning;
And when you feed into it, our spirit is slowly hurting
As the sacrifice made for us, is something we're undeserving

Still it served a much larger purpose...

It's so easy to lose your faith, if you trade it's purpose,
For buying into feelings like a daily purchase
As this prayer would end off as it started,
As a prayer for protection from this world circus

                              Amen.
May 2023 · 84
Pt II
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
Telephone, telephone
I wrote a song for a girl
but it was just a poem

Her name was ringing
inside my head, but she loves
calling me her best friend
The only reason why
I chose to come to this event

Shisha sticks in rotation,
Russian roulette with smoke
Puffing long,
eyes red and bleeding tears;
trying not to cough and choke

Crowds of lungs made of hell;
black smoke, ashy rains and
little black stains on your soul...
May 2023 · 74
Freedom of speech
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
Walls clearly out
the scratching and chasing
They called it a kitten's mitten
'a man with a soft touch and glove
As men would say, "you're merely a *****"

Round and round; those circles
of being like a dog chasing it's tail
Said a man being a dog, "just chasing *******"
******* off strangers, ******* on the front porch
'I have to mark my territory, a terrorist for girls
going to war

Still with the shell of surviving anything
cockroaches; festering with all cockiness
Tell me when the light shines on you
does that confidence start to scatter
A little pit pat into the tiny cracks of the cupboard
where those skeletons reside; a skin disguise of pride

Oops, excuse my running mouth
just exercising my lacklustre freedom of speech
May 2023 · 69
Random
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
A face of one good expression,
tastes of deception; covers depression
A life of tags; no mentions
not mention a passive aggressive

Beat up, won't give up
the Sun's feet up, after kicking my ****
Double t; tedious tip toeing
But my mistake it was three
like the three seconds I forget to breathe

...exhale heavily
one hell of a life, hoping he dies heavenly
This task of living feels a little heavy; not nearly
as being blinded by time trying to see clearly

'Oh but that was just me in third person
third verse, standing on that stanza
But yes I can sir, by the fourth try;
nurturing, sensitive, compassionate, I'm a cancer

              ...oh wow, this felt a bit random
May 2023 · 70
Nowhere
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
Not really much I could ever say
"How I'm feeling today
The sky was clear, and a beautiful display
'But tell me why I woke grey

Spent all my life on someone else's broken dream
Close to dying on liquor;
Waking up wondering if anything was still real
I'd shed my skin after I shed some tears
'But crying doesn't change a thing

Oh, I'm tumbling down
'But still a rock in a hard place
Tell me how it got this way
No direction, or any signs;
I wonder what to call this place

"Nowhere"
...this emptiness just feels up my plate
'But I'm still full of myself
Still hungry for attention
I wonder how I got this way
May 2023 · 102
2
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
2
The roses that were red
You seen me more in my blues
The small tips of sugar
For those without a silver spoon

Euthanasia,
Likely for us without anymore patience
Yes my heart with racing,
Between running from myself,
And running after you

My eyes that were red
Crying all other days in dews
I woke as the self version I hate,
And longing to be selfish of you

Sigh,
My long lost number two
Has split me up in
2
May 2023 · 64
Scar
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
It's only for those who know;
he seems not to know enough
about truly knowing the things about love
And how to speak of it with just a minor taste
of it in his mouth

Kissing so many strangers; kisses that start
to all feel familiar
Pointless shooting your shot; what's the point
if we're just victims to it's trigger
The victor of vigour, to prove your victory
of finding love
Oh only the foolish are the ones to see a present
victory, more than a future of successes
And for him,— it's all just another scar
May 2023 · 54
Untitled
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
A man could be looking for a wife,
But not looking to be her husband
As we'd stay glued to our past
Only with a glimpse to the future

                   The similarity?

We'd go on searching for the right fit
Of past experiences in a small frame
The bigger picture,—
Is we're often stuck in something
By ourselves, together in misery
To say it's love; well at least for the other
It's a love for an idea,
A glimpse of a preferred future

.          Careful, love is always a tricky thing
May 2023 · 540
A poem about racism
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
At the start of this, it already sounds racist
From statements about dating a white girl
Being considered white whale chasing

From jokes being made of being loud as a coloured,
And acting raw as a black; we'd pass the jokes carelessly
Without any care of offence, as we'd carelessly laugh

From jokely calling everyone the N word
In a country where it translates to give
Wouldn't the outer world love to give their own opinion,
And cancel us with no F's to give

From the stories from parents about the white man being rough,
But bringing so many things to us
To now taking their farms, and stating "this right is ours"
How is this the future, when history has repeated itself,
But in reversed roles; not much to say we've come so far

From the eyes of a child to see a poor white man as something strange; and a poor black man as a much closer relative,
Relatively speaking it's still the poverty of our eyes, seeing such things so poorly. And how's a poor man to look for loose change,
In a world that hasn't really changed?

But if I went sightseeing around the world,
blinded from stereotypes and world opinions
Perhaps to see everyone as a fellow sister and brother
Of the same father,—father time. The same mother,—earth
Could that instead give them a second to think in their hearts,
Not to be a racist first

                 ...or will this only be, a poem about racism?
May 2023 · 185
Moment
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
Dancing in their shadows
The past, the future are both dark mirages
As the present is the light of day;
You see clearly and enjoy that moment
Our pasts are forgotten, the futures unknown,
All we have is now, all we have is just a moment

                                       ...More or less
May 2023 · 62
Time's law
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
The story of Today that kissed yesterday,
But soon forgot about it tomorrow
Father Time being around the corner,
Was stealing time off the Grandfather clock
Without anymore hours left to borrow

And as the tides of time
Were constantly pulling and pushing
Before and After were dancing in distant silhouettes;
Constantly moving...

I learned a lonely second is a low as feeling alone
An author of writing out all the tiny beautiful moments,
We seem not to have any control or authority
As we are all bound by Time's law
May 2023 · 88
Untitled
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
Love is a rush
but to what end of fools rushing to fall in love? Hearts to be pacing in the presence of your love; still there are those running to break another heart.

Breaking and entering,—
all those stolen heart's to never fall in love again. Conversations of us just being friends; putting up these walls of defence. Oh how maddening it is, to know there's no ****** for your heart, to defend yourself from love sickness. It is wicked, as all our crushes can leave us in pieces.

Still a love in pieces, can build you high towers of towering over love,
or cowering over love.
May 2023 · 48
Sigh
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
typing... backspace
     typical really, when he always second guesses
what he really wants to say; what feelings to relay

idling pointer... thinking
it's a no brainer, if you can imagine the art of what to say,
                         your heart can be it's paint

select all.. delete
"no, I'll just tell her how I feel another day"
May 2023 · 293
Silver pen
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
the secret slip of underwear
he was caught off guard; unaware
widened mouth and could only stare
gazing at her pond of ten thousand sounds,
how easy could it be,— a bit too fishy
knowing he wasn't the first to go skipping a
few rocks

but as a rock in a hard place
between a devilishly charming smile on her face,
she was, "a good friend's friend"
and he thought that made them "just friends"

and not one to play cliches
"i don't want this," he made it as clear to say
in that room at night, he wasn't interested in her,
and it was clear as day

he came only to help pen down a study report
but perhaps the con of hoping there'd be much
concentrate; were the first letters
written by her, wanting to spill ink in a little *******

                        click!

that idea was well tucked away and hidden,
like the tip of his favourite silver pen.
May 2023 · 87
Apart
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
like a piece of gum spat onto the concrete
—some of us that are still stuck to the streets
without any real reason to look for love;
just being trampled by stranger's feet

like a fly on the wall, seeing it all in
a private room
hovering over flesh, and trying to make small talk
out of a conversation already dead
reading into all these pointless conversations;
all spelling doom

tell me why I'm holding onto you, and still losing control
with all the stars in your eyes, galaxies and planets
it will always be us being so many worlds apart
May 2023 · 615
Words to describe a mother
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
"Mummy"
screams a child running into her room
"I have an owie,— a boo boo"
a child that runs into her room, is running
into her care

The cherished love, cheery smile of it,
and being patient as the cherry on top

"Mum"
miraculous unconditional marvel,
the superhero of wonders in the kitchen
At times a quiet disciplinary in public, with
a sharp eye of a cutting glare

          Later at home you'll be in trouble...

She is love, often not loved enough
even though; her love is more than enough
And can never be undone

"Mummy, mum, or just ma"
she is all, she is a mother
May 2023 · 127
Friends with benefits
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
Tucked away smile;
biting cheek, and a little cheeky gaze

"we can still be friends"
he bravely chose to say

Benefitting mostly from your company,
just to have somebody, but not a someone
just to have something, but from it nothing...

.
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
Two lover's body language,
not so good with words in between kisses
The then after; it's likely me ending it
off,— just awkward laughter
Taking bites on the dictionary to feed
my diction

          "I was lost for words
                after our very first kisses"
May 2023 · 143
Desdemona
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
hiding behind the tears in your eyes,
crying while you sleep; ten thousand
wet dreams

swimming pools for eyes,
drowning in those regrets. baptized by time
catching up on your love for cigarettes

chimneys for lungs, and a smoker's paradise
where all wear black atire
always wanting to con science of your conscience,—
never too concise, to tell the next person
of next person you like

and waiting so patiently for someone
to make you their wife
all with the pretend make-up to make up for your
appearance that makes them think twice

                  "I hope you find true love this second time"
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
quarries of thought
turning a mind to stone
all those queries of fears;
quickening heartbeats from working my
livelihood. it all makes my worth it's home

and at a time I'm alone
i don't feel as low, underneath the opinions
of those less understanding
to so many people's branding; my many social suicides
of conversations left hanging
and always feeling like an unanswered call;
with all those intrusive thoughts constantly ringing

        repeat, repeat, rinsing out old dreams
        trying to stretch what time I have to achieve them
                 "time is made up of unpredictable wrinkles"


yet strangely enough, I have so much time
to love and hate people.  in part to be part of party people
going a couple few rounds with a rowdy group
and pretending to be like you, and playing what's left
of my youth

feeling always as the
alone, depressed, antisocial, introvert
in every room
May 2023 · 141
How it feels to die
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
Emptiness—
filled in the the echoes of loved ones prayers in this void

First a handshake with Death;
a firm grip of arm wrestling between her and Life

A tightening chest, running a marathon of a racing heart
Twas I, chasing after a lost final breath

And drawing a line in the sands of time;
a flatline, revive, and a second try
                
                     "How it feels to die"
Near death experience
May 2023 · 171
Blonde
Odd Odyssey Poet May 2023
Trees wither, as like the branches of your hair
Blonde moments of all the blonde jokes we used to share

                       Oh how I miss loving you so freely,
                       as the wind blowing in your hair
Apr 2023 · 731
Interlude
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
In between scenes,
in place of hopelessness as it seems
A lonely darkness, as lowly demons plot their schemes
in a field drowned of yesterday's tears

Succumbing to peer pressure;
shortcomings of having less experience in your teens
Still a ****** into conquering your personal fears

Interludes of thoughts,
all intruding in and out of me
these many intervals of internal torture,—
Waking up everyday feeling less, and less free
Eternal; as an endless sinking headache
in all these thoughts, deep as a broad sea

I am but a man,
always stuck in between
In between feeling like myself
or rather still, the foolishly lost teen
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