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May 2023 · 89
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 · 49
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 · 295
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 · 130
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 · 144
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 · 142
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 · 172
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 · 734
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
Apr 2023 · 93
Run
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
Run
"Shoot your shot"
love at times can feel like a long shot in the end
Those with red flags spell trouble in bold letters;
bold enough to conquer your feelings with the phrase,
                                                      "we're just friends"

"Take your chances"
falling in love isn't as close to falling in love by chance
Past lovers without fathers, searching for a man in their life;
as you stand out of the crowd—seemly different,
                                         "best to keep to your stance"

Not everything that looks good,
is as good as it comes—not good enough
Quick charms are magical in those moments,
but could spell danger. So if you meet someone as
close to being imperfectly perfect...RUN!
Apr 2023 · 556
Cholesterol
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
Time is as smooth as butter

Man tries to control it
with a rusty butter knife




"His desire is blunt,
but still he'd cut himself"

man's timely death of  high cholesterol!
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
Seems I've already been here before,
searching endlessly in a void
A man trapped by the eyes of those who still see a boy

I guess I'm still yet to grow

There's an echo bouncing off the wall; back and forth
Swinging by, and whispering a sweet lie;
it could be the monsters, or just the voices in my head

Either way,
none of those sounds playing,
leaves me feeling a little bit scared

I should say a prayer,
but I've preyed on so much precious time,
I'm only left chasing the few seconds I have left
While being stuck in between an acute happiness,
and all the feelings of being depressed

There isn't an angle to explain how loudly
I want to scream at people's faces
Describing the colours of their aura,
mostly in their displaying hatred

But then again,
it may come out a little racist

I've come to find myself writing love letters to the dark

And the result:

the ugliness of the morning
to see such a beauty, of my dark art

                       ...bite your tongue,
                          as there are no other words
                          to speak of this
  
Just quietly shut your mind,
and open your eyes

                             This is the unholy piece
Apr 2023 · 1.3k
Saturday 15 Waffles
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
The wind and the sweetness
in the mix of this somewhat chilly day
I ordered an ice cream waffle; waiting
on my order while waiting on a gaining thought

I’ve gained peace, that which I thought impossible
Watching the passerbys, with a full mouth of ice cream
And behind it’s stain, was a genuine smile

In amongst the chaos of the random wind,
the jumping cheers of children on a jumping castle
The happy scary clown with white on his face
The flies trying to share in on my dessert,
and the eyes of those who had seen me alone

—I wasn’t alone;

Quite frankly I was far from feeling alone,
and feeling any kind of low

As with the tingling chills down my spine
of this really filling meal
It was to me, a moment so real;
I wouldn’t dare pinch myself to see if I was dreaming

And even if it were a dream,
twas a sweet one indeed
As all I needed was:
spoiling myself with something sweet indeed
Apr 2023 · 100
Beautiful wet kisses
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
How do our lips
closely rhyme with kiss,

In between a tongue with a hiss,
to submit so foolishly to this bliss

Ignorance as it is;
equally split in those slithering words
mixed with both our spit

All those beautiful wet lies, a crime we love
to speak in a stolen kiss
Apr 2023 · 63
False religion
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
A registry of my energy
It's not for the many me's, expect for my enemies
I grew up still with a heart made of steel
Until love stole my heart, and I haven't fallen in love, still

I've felt like the pun before a punctuation
Though I'm punctual now; as I'm never too late
Still my insecurities are often delaying
The stress is gaining; feels like I'm always failing
Never really concentrating
As all the voices in my head are all debating

Who, where, what, why, if
Would I fare better if I wasn't constantly called a *****
Would I have my life in order, if I was a little rich
And feeling like an A grade if I choice to be an atheist

But for plan B,
I might do things a little different
Believing in a can do spirit, as my life is not so perfect
But I'm trying to make it a little more brilliant
And taking myself a little more serious

But I grew up feeling like an intrusion
Always feeling like I wanted to be an inclusion
Still all of my thoughts are always so exclusive

Maybe I'm this way because of a false religion
I think I phrased that wrong;
"a forced religion"

Doing so much,
It's so easy to forget that I am Christian

In all Truths to read,
Seems to be me reading into my falsehood
Doing the things I shouldn't, and the things I should

Maybe I'm this way because of a false religion
I think I phrased that wrong;
"a forced religion"

And doing so much,
It's so easy to forget that I am Christian
Apr 2023 · 87
Silhouette of the night
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
And as I plunged into a sea of tears
My heart became sail; set casting to nowhere
Cast out of a world of my own
Cast out like a fallen angel,
Who tried to play a role not of their own
Sitting on my potential,
I sat comfortably on that throne

In a dream, where I've died a thousand times
Wings clipped by a tight breath;
Grasped by the choking words
As a throat made of an exhaust,
—exhausted is the word
A word I've being searching for it's meaning;
In a desperate attempt, such like trying to sew
Through the needle hole, with a wing of a fly

As time idles by in a wasting moment
To fly away in a breath of excitement
Do the good times last forever; seems so unlikely
And in this likeness, the background of my life
I am just a fly,
Lost in the dark of the scary beauty of a night
As the closer I am to beauty,
The closer fears buckles my chest
—I'm honestly just a mess

Avoiding the near view of what truly lies in the dark
I rest in this unknowing; this silhouette of the night
Apr 2023 · 70
Sad (random thoughts)
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
Bygones not to be bygones
we buy guns to compliment our own flesh guns
to have some dumb fun

Candle holding till my fingers
​are burnt with wax
I've run out of house candles

Many thanks!

******* in a treesome
a given sense for one of us to leave
Forcibly the unexperienced one
caught blowing in the wind

She's tasted a stolen kiss,
from the one and only who stole her heart
No wonder she fell in love with a bandit
from the start

​I slit my wrist in the bathroom
just to wash off the pain
I cry better in there, because nobody is watching
No-one to see whichever makes up my true tears
it's really all the same

I long to drive alone on an empty road
on a half empty tank, with no better place to go
Emptying my mind on an empty space of a thought
I feel so empty!

It's okay to not be okay
but not okay to admit you're okay
How you're doing today:
I'm okay in not being okay
Your response:
okay
Apr 2023 · 152
Breathe
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
The silence of a gun; non existent
A script for a perfect love; still unwritten
The desire to do better; can only be wishes

To which end, dire the consequences,
to concede into knowing any better
The anger of a prideful man,
rises to the top of his head as a boiling kettle
A headache of heading nowhere in the right direction
as failure is easy to all, yet to find success after such a time;
only a few are able to handle such a pressure

A focused mind is one's sharpest tool in their arsenal
A genuine heart is the shield of a caring hand;
destined to cover all bases
Their very skill to love; truly masterful

For once we were slaves to insecurity,
forgoing the means to find growth
As maturity is a fine wine, only to those of age
For every lesson of today,
changes course, as it becomes another yesterday
And in turn, we are not to remain the same
And for anyone to let go of their chains,
they must find ways for a necessary change

All lives come with shame
but the only difference is
whether you handle it well, or not
Either to shake when they call your name
or to walk proudly to the call of life,
not tied down by the bindings of a world's knot

We are those you sometimes know,
and those so common to a suppose
Yet the judgment of those, aren't the penny for a thought
to determine your worth
Live as your are, running away from stereotypical views
whilst chasing all of your dreams

Our greatest gift, remains being able to choose,
despite your mistakes, we remain as human,
strong but sometimes fragile

Everyone bleeds!
Everyone has their own set of skills!
Everyone is the energy they give and take in!


Live as long as you can,
let your voice out and never forget how to breathe in

Take a moment to breathe
Apr 2023 · 56
Cougar
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
A beast in the jungle
voiced by a lion and a thunderous rumble
Lurking in those shadows,
like dark thoughts on the low
In a sharp mind's fields of thought
Never once cut your lawn

With feelings like a well,
getting deeper and deeper

But it quickly gets boring,
especially when you're alone
As the imperfect incursion
invading your mind
—for a brief moment, she's a UFO

You chased an animal
that clawed it's desire in your flesh
Feasting on your youthful exuberance,
a mother hen to you,
feeling comfortable in her nest

But now...

Your tears taste of dew
an overdue time to cry

In due time,
not knowing what next to do
A cracked mirror of self reflection
in those glass eyes

You know longer recognise yourself
Apr 2023 · 95
Welcome to the losers
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
Growing up to people with long neckties
paying a tenth of a tenth of their tithes
Hoping to buy time; selling their schemes
though it's not as easy as it seems

But please excuse excuses
in an unheard inclusion, judged by all
By a constant generic conclusion
constantly saying you are clueless,
And sort of useless; but never using you less
because there's something that you're never doing

I'd like to set the stage off for us losers

Growing up in the shadow of a shadow
as life is darker when you convince yourself
that you don't matter
Only feeling like dark matter;
85% of someone else's centre of a universe,
And even as stars, we'll always scatter

But please understand understanding
when people have walked all over you
and are always so demanding
Maddening, how we could sing the same
song, but it feels like we're constantly disbanding

I'd like to set the stage off for us losers

Growing up loose for words
losing our words to speak to girls
Speaking about ourselves in loosely terms
and leaking out our heart loosened
by what everyone else yearns

But please lose losers
in a thought, of thinking I'm just
with the polluters
Wasting time and talent,
so ******* of you to say,
When you're the main consumers

But who am I to say anything,
I'm just a loser like you

Welcome, welcome all you losers
Apr 2023 · 81
Rapture
Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2023
Sigh!
It was never a dream
Just a constant nightmare of this living
To have loved so many,
But never feeling any love as it seems
Restlessness;
On all those resting places, you've set your heart upon
With all of the best times slowly fading into memories
All that we've once held onto, is honestly gone
Falling into the shadows of ourselves in their every iniquity
As I've fallen short in this game of falling in love
All which we know
All but somebody else's lessons and experiences
Betting yourself on a spare hand in a game of cards
But we seem to be the we; of all our weariness

Life seems tedious

The songs of ourselves
At times plays as an unanswered prayer
Only to hear the end of ourselves
While watching those we've loved, rise to the sky
All in the time of the world,
A rapture ends off this imperfect day
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
Never felt the sweetest of love
That a father would give his first born son
But I've tasted the sweetness of your love
All before it could scold my tongue

And I'm not okay
But it's okay just to say,
I'm not okay
And I'm here to stay
At any call
And at any word you say

But just in case
Remember all those memories
That we once shared, if I ever go away

Cos there's a man dancing inside the mirror
In the corner of my eye, and he wants me to die
But I'm not afraid to probably say,
That this isn't the first time I've dreamt of suicide

And I know it's wrong, I know it's wrong
And I'm feeling dumb, feeling dumb
Just a poor excuse for being young
Please excuse me for still being young

I'm just a child stuck inside a mirror
I'm not so good at reflecting,
While starring at my reflection
I cry at my own reflection
Mar 2023 · 76
Drive
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
I’ve got an itch on my mind
Trying to scratch out all that ill intent,
Sickening words, and vomiting out my anger
Screaming in my head, bouncing echoes of a shallow mind

Though I’m always in deep thought,
Over internalizing, self sizing with the daily voices
Conspiring, in these confines of a usually trapped thought

A hand of ****; guilty pleasure, and ***** ideas
And always wanting to touch it all,
Still as someone who hasn’t been touched at all,
More or less of what you call a touch of love
When a so called love, has molested your mind;
Wondering if the way you act is ideal, or just you replaying
your abuser’s ideas

As I bought myself a licence to keep my drive
Sometimes I feel my dreams lead me in the wrong direction
As pride is a weapon; whether you it point at people or yourself
There’s always a direction to point your shots,
Make your point and leave your mark in the world
Just be careful of your mind; not to deep dive into too many
thoughts, and try your best to keep straight with your drive.
Mar 2023 · 68
Dream
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
The echo of silence; in amongst it's violence
A flower that represents himself; I am a violet
In a dream of roses, sitting in the concrete,
I'm paved in all those resting memories

            ...I am a beautiful dream
Mar 2023 · 227
Alas
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
...Alas;
life is the word in itself
we live long, knowing not everything will last

...Alas;
the ringing sirens of heaven's bells
to only hear redemption after a hell of a life
I've spent my best hours on one hell of a night
one hell of a high; to rise above all of my trials

And surely to an unsure
to pity a fool; leaving love for the fools
Alas by chance, love is exactly that
so too is life—we live life by chance
And only by chance are we to express this
gift/grief of life; all in letting out a sigh.

                                        ...Alas
Mar 2023 · 423
Lost
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
And in a fading dream
lost in a forest of nostalgia
Winds singing the days of old,
new to present, unlike when we were younger
Imagination it was; playing house in the yard,
imagining how we'd be as adults
Building our lives out of moulds of mud

...it's makes me laugh in tears,
of how much we've lost
from when we were young
Mar 2023 · 104
Love or loved
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
All our memories of before
Childhood trauma; too young to escape
Or able minded to put condoms on our eyes,
To protect our sights from a mind ****

I could see you clearly after dark,
A place you and I are from; tunnel vision
Trying our best to run to the end of that light
I must have forgotten the taste of a bright smile,
In a summer; summoning up the words to summarise
All the reasons why I’ve fallen in love with you again today

Comprehension; my comprehensive spending
On all the times I picked your interests
Late night texting in secret, sexting at times
And of course it being so risky; we were together
To help each other put back our pieces

The loneliest people, alone in a crowded room
One touch for two, three extra shots
When I’m drinking it all for you
By the four count of a beat;
Causing my heart to beat like a drum
And counting five reasons to hold your hand tightly

           ...mmmh, is this a feeling of love
           or a feeling of finally being loved?

Mar 2023 · 93
Ugly nights
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
Hideous doorknob; hidden tears
just before a sin for breakfast
Twisting morals cause by pressures,
after party events, and forgiveness for
dinner. All those open doors of a daily sinner

Twisting curls of a girl's medusa
turning any man's heart to stone
Working by the corner, and side
hustling in ****. Trying to make a
living, feeling criticised by people

Searching eyes of light like headlights
flooded in tears, and drowning fears
Scratching behind an ear to find that
itch of hearing people's insults
Telling tails, "you can't, you can't"
from always feeling left behind and alone
Screaming in your head,

"you ****, you ****"

It's all the ugly nights of a dark mind
trapped in schizophrenia
Making up all those skits in your head;
all of those voices, those voices are so loud and ugly

...always,
always you fighting against those
ugly nights
Mar 2023 · 115
Love is fairy tale
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
A master calls on an international call,
as your visa card declined; no more flying in all your love dreams
Using a MasterCard to pay for smiles; but your smiles are fairy tale,
with all those Cinderella moments of wanting to go to a ball
Go out in the world, and have your heart stolen by a Robin hood,
for you once had a rich worth, but love treated you in poor tastes
And you never found the right steps to fall in love again,—never
fitting into that glass shoe

You were a snow white in pieces,
with a dress stained in blood; not as pure as before
Your prince charming left you in creases
pressed on you—as not all first impressions are like
that waking kiss. It’s often best to remain sleeping

As human instinct holds onto a past with a hand of hook,
we’re pirating on old joys. I love to recall the honeymoon period of
relationships. When the honey was still sweet, and sweet nothings
blocked my ears from all the buzzing bees.
I enjoyed that type of love, where we’d communicate constantly,
and speak to each other across a room, with just a look

My only want, is to love someone not for their value
in my life, but what value they have for themselves
And not on the ways they’d  show me a beautiful appearance
only in secret, — I won’t love you in secret!
Let down your hair, so I can climb the towers of your thoughts,
my only Rapunzel; it’s only for me to play with your hair
And firstly loving you as a friend, before I ever made you a wife
I’d cherish the treasures of your eyes, the gold hidden in a sight,
never buried from the world, — I won’t love you in secret

As love is fairy tale; only for the few to author
a better conclusion

Narrating their values, fears, and boundaries,
and in this composition of expectations,
least expect that happily ever after final kiss

Cos love is a risk, an untameable beast
that takes less of those outward appearances,
and rather what you’re willing to put in

      ...XOXO, choose and make out how you want the story to go.
Mar 2023 · 81
10:45
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
The softest echo of a heart
Are passions of someone with a secret to love
To express themselves in a manner that feels unmannered
For what I have to say feels like a ***** secret;
Something that would sound so risky

In person, I’m the furthest away from indecent
Still with the right mind set,
I could say things to leave you in pieces
And with a deep sense,
I’d whisper deeply all my unholy secrets,
Wishing for you on my wish list, that I wrote in secret

Like what forms a word, I’ve been well informed
To know that what I say is my target, I make it a goal
Whether whole or hole; there’s always a choice to take
Your servings in full, or to be left hollow in your words after

It could start with laughter, from tickling kisses that go
Up and down; to a crown of piercing sharp licks of head,
But instead the game goes well, by one being pleased and teased
And the shaking of a headboard from shaking knees

Yes indeed, a good loving is hot;
And a good reason for us being caught up in this heat
So don’t forget to breathe; but also know there’s no retreat
As a bedroom isn’t a place for the weak, caught in sheets
And neither for anyone to sound off their moans as meek

It’s a storm of passion; calm for a beginning,
Before the roars of thundering clapping gates
The pours of rain in the sweat dripping down your face,

Without haste, I shall bite the bullet after it’s taste
Another round, another round; shots of chance to pierce through you
A scar so deep,—a memory of last night,
replaying for tomorrow

...last night’s events,
where as eventful as I’d hoped for in this 10:45 hour
Mar 2023 · 142
Bipolar
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
I'm happy
burning fiery joy in a chest
Light hearted; ready for the day
"bring on the pain," we only grow through hurt
Human nature is a rose;— sometimes sharp words
of our heart's thorns.

Growing pains through the sores,
"I love the hurt," to feel my worth
a jewel indeed, jubilant as any could believe
Filled with glee, and like a tree blowing carelessly
in the wind —I feel free, and so happy to be free

As the sun rising; feeling on top of the world
kissing summer for her pretty girl
My smiles are bright; outside, outside, out side
out sigh— sigh, here comes the night



...setting day,
I'm upset, "I don't know why"
my heavy eyes, without a load of reason to cry

starring at a wall,
the curtains creeping cracks, excessively
kicked to the side, now it's kicking in; my OCD

everybody hates me,
..I hate myself, corrections to say I underrate myself
overrate my existence,— feel like a disappointment of a Christian



Ugh, growl, and a bark
my mind is stuck, angry and frustrated
What the duck! Flying words, and saying
a few foul words. I'm ******, but *******
by the wrong tree. Tried to mark my territory
warning myself in the shouting silent voices,
     "they should fear my bite over the unheard bark"

Nobody is listening, only the fiery demons poking
the fireplace of my anger. Life is an unbalance to find balance
No-one explained the rules, no-one gave me the chances or
explained the answers. I'm being tested; ****** are
testosterone filled. Ugh, clicking my fingers, clenching
jaw and fists. To many outward thoughts, might not breath in.
                   "about to explode in this imploding anger poking"

Eyes rolled back; cocking back my words
About to shoot down heaven with some harsh speak
A prayers afterwards, without feeling any peace
I'm pisssed, I'm ******, I'm ******; please don't try a
piece of me. Piece me together as a parton of war,
physics of battle, guns and aiming to blow
            "so **** angry, but not enough words"


But wait, I'll be happy by the morning.
Mar 2023 · 93
Hangover
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
Ugh..hanging body
hanging on threads;
tied around feeling tired
My eyes feel like a fire, trapped
in a package of my baggy eyes

Ugh...I paid extra tips for the
night before. Woke up feeling tipsy
The night before felt a little too risky
dealing with the heavy whispers of someone
saying they want to kiss me

Ugh...the day tastes ugly
and I really feel funny
Thankfully I was in good company
enjoying the good old days for a younger me
But now the daylight is chewing me up
and the loud sounds of day swallows me up

Ugh...Sunday hangover
Monday feels so close to the touch,
and I'm hoping for that day of work
I don't wake up feeling rough
Mar 2023 · 87
July
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
July babies, falling in the
atmosphere of a beauty's sight

In a line, a straight answer to say
you're so beautiful

But as usual, a beautiful sight causes
a man to lose his words

To sell his worth
to afford the confidence to talk to you

But as usual, the fool struck by beauty;
is lightning striking twice

...so all he can say is,

"hey you look really nice"
Mar 2023 · 98
Sights
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
A storm of words
I'm washed by a rain of you
reigning on my mind

You rule every thought,
—a queen, and desirable factor
My smile towards you is filled with laughter

Like finding comfort
in the comforting words of a stranger
Feels strange to be trapped by my eye of one's beauty

But I guess I'd enjoy my eyes being a camera;
capturing every beauty sight of you.
Mar 2023 · 69
Fragile flowers
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
Roaring dandelion,
nature's bravery
are the flowers still brave to grow

—in cold, hail; and the result
after a storm. Often bruised, split
and torn; atone to it's fragile state
it is not a slave to a fearful fate,

And if the fragile flower
chooses to be brave
what stops you too from
choosing that way?
Mar 2023 · 372
Death's crossroads
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
Oh soul, my soul
where shall we go
At the crossroads; feels like
I have no other place to go

Oh soul, my soul
countless demons want this soul
As they count less of us, all out for someone's soul
—they want my soul, they want my soul
And I'm afraid I don't have the strength to say no

Oh soul, my soul
I don't want the world's gold;
just the means and tools to make my own
I don't want the entire world;
just a place I built on my own, and to call home
I don't want to feel alive with success;
just feeling some worth, and die peacefully alone

Oh soul, my soul
is it worth a soul
—is it worth our soul?

"I don't know, I don't know
I'm still waiting for a bad deal with the man
waiting for me at Death's crossroads"
Mar 2023 · 11.3k
945
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
945
Loving you is like being kissed by the stars
A whole galaxy of experiences,
Caught in between that space,
—legs that are wrapped around a face
Our hair—a complete mess, and I must confess
that the taste of you is a taste of cosmic prowess
And I’m always stuck on loving you for hours

As is our nature, we who dwell on this earth
I’ve now learnt that your natural waterfall flows
After I’ve treated your wet flower source with a timely worth

A slow tease creeps up and down your skin
Your arched knees are a resting ground before another
journey of my tongue. As the sweetest taste is a taste of fun

By the skin of teeth, are the few bite marks
I’ve left here and there. Your digging fingers in my hair,
Is all the pain you and I have to share.

It all seems fair.
You’re lost for words, choked up by fiery passion;
my gentle hand around your throat
And this rule of thumb; is the one you love to bite on
An aggressive action, but never to be passive

It’s 945, and quarter close to ten
Usually the time we should be resting in bed
But instead, I’m resting my tongue in you

                         It tastes like a perfect end
Mar 2023 · 140
645
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
645
Urgency, urgently
his lungs filled with surgery
Ashes of the past, dust till dawn
a cigarette of time burns memories on a tongue

Six pills on the bedside,
six day preparations to feel alive
—secretly wanting to die
He tied himself with his everyday necktie
that suffocating work tie; as he hates his life
he wants to die, but can only dye his hair
to decorate all his despair

The 645 alarm echoes the day's hardships
he's a mind full of everybody's problems
Always longing, and wondering if his
life became as a cult following;
Blowing consequences of a fan for insecurity
usually when you secure yourself in a tone of
crool; they'd love to give you cruelty

..I tell you,

this isn't a random man's story
it's of how life loves to bully me
Mar 2023 · 78
Dying
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
Dying to stay young
dying young is dying inside
I could feel the chains in a perfect smile
and always feel that shame inside their eyes

I'm dying to speak the words
—I keep swallowing my pride
And how do I compare myself to a
much more successful guy
Writing all the words it seems,
but they don't read in between the lines

     ...how to tell those who don't listen,
                                 I'm not doing fine
Mar 2023 · 71
Mr & Mrs
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
Line marks on a face
probably their first good rest
Their events of yesterday;
she'd undress to address a situation
While he's given the address to her favourable location

"Where's the shame in a little pain,"
she had casually asked him
He seemed a little passive before his passion
"I prefer asking for consent," he told her, as he's old fashioned

"But I could imagine things I could do,
things I could never speak of; let alone speak to you
Not be rude— I'm sort of new to showing my other side
a beast inside, and my *** drive runs along a journey of being wild"

And just like a hoodie after ***,
she's worn out, anxious at the start, but now out of breath
"There's no need to pretend, in like those Nikes; I already checked
that you'd step out of your comfort zone, and just do it
At first I was a bit clueless; but that first hit was the first hint

...And if you ever feel shy to be yourself in public,
just show me yourself in secret
Your identity doesn't need to belong to the world,
you belong to me— your Mrs!
Mar 2023 · 109
23:25
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
inkless
hopeless,
towing a straight line
in a numbness of not knowing what to write
inspiration—like chasing a dream
though it's reality is me resting on a Writer's block street

no peace
no peace
no peace!


on knowing days before
I could write with such ease
Mar 2023 · 233
Bad religion
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
welcome to a bad religion
peers in pews of being a Sunday Christian
quoting common scripture;
commonly known as Bible bashing criticism
in an imperfect world criticizing you
for not being this perfect Christian

wishing Godspeed to those who rush
to that umbrella answer; "you don't pray enough"
living in the reigns of worship being entertainment for a heart
some blocking their ears from being cut by words
by a sermon so blunt

but how do you build strong character on soft words
and how could you test their foundation, without some force
as after you pray for patience; the devil loves to test
those desiring words, by a day feeling like the worst
still you forgot Jesus had spoken about woes

...doesn't it seem as far too see; modern Pharisees
we who speak about God, but do not love God
we who preach lively about God, but in with a dead heart
we who sacred a temple, but just because of their objects
we who teach a law, but not practising in turn those words
we who appear clean in public eyes, but so ***** in secret
we who act righteous, but hold onto a shaking hand with unrighteous
we who defend a reason not to ****, but ****** another in ill speak

...it's only a bad religion,
to us being such a bad representative
Mar 2023 · 131
21:06
Odd Odyssey Poet Mar 2023
a glass smile
it cracks me up
to crack a fake smile

fragile as most
broken in secret
dropped by disappointments;
only just the pieces




half empty, half full
a positive looking smile
from negative results

Feb 2023 · 81
Man is ocean
Odd Odyssey Poet Feb 2023
Oceans and tides; oh to see the lines of time

A clear glass from the inside; sands to the days of our lives

It pushes and pulls, washed in a before and after
children alongside running under the sun—a teared laughter

We are young and wild as the sea;
a moment we feel alive, and free —seasonal highs and lows
time is young and moves slow. But it will eventually grow

Hurricanes, and cyclones on the wayside, I see destructive eyes

A man is wicked by his pride; to prize what some despise
never to admit fault to it's mind. Oh never mind!

...his land is home, a poem
unheard clearly in the distance of ocean birds
Would you prefer us as lakes, but it's late to see
every man is deeply drowning in their own seas

Is he free, or swims endlessly
till they can't swim no more
            oh who really knows
Feb 2023 · 718
Sinner
Odd Odyssey Poet Feb 2023
—For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Romans 3:23‭-‬24 NIV

I'm in a knot of those lies
A rope around my neck,
A couple soul ties,
But tell me Lord if I never once tried

I've got ash in my throat, and dust in my voice
As the dirtiest talk could never cleanse my soul
I'm a cannon for words; shooting out what I think,
Not so boastful as most, but it boosts my ego if nobody knows

I'm a shadow's bone, as my flesh is a cage
And doing what feels so right in a moment, leaves me with shame

I'm a closet of pain,
Wearing the secrets of my skeletons
A teary eye of yesterday's happenings;
Tormenting me in the day's emptiness

...I am a sinner

And this could be more than a verse,
Equal as it is to being a sinner's prayer
Still in those regards,
Which imperfect human doesn't need a saviour?
Feb 2023 · 207
Offerings
Odd Odyssey Poet Feb 2023
To a starving child
would you offer food for thought
To a mute
would you offer a caring word
To a quadriplegic
would you offer a step ahead
To an insomniac
would you offer them a bed
To a shadow
would you offer it shade in the summer
To a drum
would you offer a beat for unnecessary drama

But no on a serious note; we're offering things
often to force ourselves in offing our heads/
—overthinking a gesture, is as good as to pretend

Playing your mind in chess,
a game of war that none can escape the draft
We're checkers until we're being examined for our past
Imploding cringey memories; a grenade for a present/
all the gifts beforehand a thought's delivery; all pre sent

Pretty less, on feeling less after the care I get
sort of a mind set to care less, seeming careless
on revaluating any of my regrets:
Hurricanes for past events, destroyed by past missteps
...tell me what's next, and what to expect?

Offer me a starving child,
and I'll feed them well in help,
and knowledge to never starve again
Offer me a mute,
and I'll voice their pain in an echo,
that simple words can't explain
Offer me a quadriplegic,
and I'll take the steps to help them
stand proudly on their outstanding worth
Offer me an insomniac
and I won't rest until they find a lost comfort
of all their dreams, spoken on with ill words
Offer me a shadow
and I'll shed light on the dark corners
of not only myself, but those lost in darkness
Offer me a drum
and I won't beat around the bush, on
making a load roar of one's injustice

                 ...these, these are all my world offerings
Feb 2023 · 58
Pockets
Odd Odyssey Poet Feb 2023
All the beautiful mansions
with ugly resident
I sort of care less for those who
use their money so careless
But I'm still a little jealous, envious
of how I believe I could do any better/

Grasshopper antics; devouring the land's
crop of provisions
Treason so close to betraying a brother for
his treasure —none is as precious as the black jewel
eye seeing another, and feeling envious

Wicked is he
a prideful man; mannered in the fashion
of a fraction of being rational
Factionalism, spilt in between the opinions
of having a poor attitude so rich
Or richly deserved of your worth in poor circumstances

...common denominator
always determined by a pocket
Costing less to be costed by what
we judge as wins, and whichever we choose to
remember as one's losses

But it's a worn out subject, of how we still
determine one's success by sizeable pockets
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