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Jun 2017 · 588
Sunday Tranquility
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Town hall bells ring
Vibrating my skin awake,
Birds whistle my ears into
The new harmonic day,
Grass-cutters chop my dreams
Short.

My dog licks my tired eyes open
Soaking them with love,
Fresh coffee tingles my senses
As caffeine runs through my veins,
Counting grains of sugar instead of
Counting my parking allowance.

Despite my lack of sleep,
Baggy eyes and aching bones,
I still miss my Sunday mornings
When even what seems like mayhem,
Is sweet tranquility.
Jun 2017 · 1.1k
If Only - Haiku x2
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
If only we were
Dogs, unconditionally
Loving without thought.

The world would form a
Bond, that would be unable
to perish or break.
Jun 2017 · 707
Star - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
You are the brightest
Star in this galaxy of
Lost, faded wishes.
Jun 2017 · 2.9k
Calcium Love - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Don't leave yet, my bones
Already miss you like they
Lack in calcium.
Jun 2017 · 532
Kiss Of Hope - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
In moments of dark
Hope kisses my cheek to say
"It will be okay"
Jun 2017 · 538
Performers - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
We are performers
And we cut all our feelings,
From the second take.
Jun 2017 · 769
Her Strength - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
''Twas her love and strength,
That forced my fragile, weak heart
To beat fearlessly.
Jun 2017 · 1.9k
Rays Through Drapes - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
You were the rays of
Light, that shined through cracks in my
half open curtains.
Jun 2017 · 557
Stay - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
The morning to day,
Like a gift to make you stay,
I so like this way.
Jun 2017 · 524
Be My Encore
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
It's when in presence
My heart gallops fast horses
On these lengthy tracks,
You draw me in close
I smell the sweet aroma
Bearing on senses,
I can't feel your touch
But I know it draws so near
I pull you closely,
Nibbling your ear
Tasting your skin on my tongue,
Your body tingles I can
Feel protuberance
Forms from your heart as you push
Against my warm chest,
As our lips sow stories of
Devotion with fire,
We edge into a
Never ending spiral of
Painted encore tales
And constant passionate dreams
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Jun 2017 · 499
Paradise On Clouds
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
We can't find
our paradise on clouds
My hands are together praying
between two houses on fire,
Whilst I watch the unforeseeable
Perish into ashes of wool-gather.

Razors, Scissors and chainsaws
will cut me all the same,
Yet you were the bloodiest cut
I've ever been prescribed,
Poison drips from your skin
matching the sap from weeping willows.
Jun 2017 · 587
Flowers Of Constellations
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Perhaps One day
our love will d
                        r
                        i
           ­             p
Like rain from washed up gutters,
But perhaps, one day,
All of my love I've given,
Will be thrown into the air
Like flower petals
for our constellations.

F
o
r
m
i
n
g
into a puddle
Of mud and mulch,
Like the heart inside
My forever drained and washed
Out chest.
Jun 2017 · 618
Hurt Too Many Times
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
I am a thin sheet
Of ice, I will crack through and
You will fall with me.

But I'm scared to swim
I might choke on a wave of
Fear and loneliness.

I scare you won't dive
In this water after me,
And I'll drown alone.

I need to feel heat
That radiates from your bones,
Heating my dry skin that seems
To flake away with everything
I cared about.

Just tie the anchor
Around my jelly like legs
Let me sink below.

I won't be the man
In fairytales or your dreams
I will be fiction.

Hopefully I can
Give more love to the ocean
And be lost treasure
x3 Haiku X1 Tanka x3 Haiku - all making one poem :)
Jun 2017 · 2.0k
Monsoon - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
You were the drought in
This monsoon, when I was the
Rain that fell too soon.
Jun 2017 · 495
Rivers Of Memories
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
As we hop over the boggy river
We leap like gazelles,
Trying not to get wet
But someone always falls in,
Our muddy hands and knees
Would remind us of our success,
Wet feet not so much.

We would throw rocks
Attempting to skim them on the surface,
Remembering the disappointment
Of only hopping two or three times,
But carrying on for hours until
You finally got that golden throw
That raises trophies.

Sap and moss would cling
To your soft skin,
Making it rough like the bark
That you had been climbing,
But our innocence was as pure
As the nature I grew to love
And continue to love.
Jun 2017 · 521
Modern Society
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
We make history as we go
But we also create destruction,
We build sculptures clouds high,
Then find it so easy to knock down.

We rummage and do everything
Possible to find what we can't have,
Shouldn't have, don't need, just greed.

We fight because it's become normality
to brag about what you acquire,
Rather than to share what you have
So you've become a viper.

We walk past one another
As our palms cross paths,
And only dust falls slowly
Whilst our hands collide.

We don't want you to become
Another person to fall into the trap,
That modern society seems to be
Building and creating so cleverly.

Yet stupidly becoming blind
To it's own downpour,
So I wait for the day
As I pray,
We can all be together again.
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
https://soundcloud.com/ryancatullusholden/succubus-ryan-holden-rap-vocals-acoustic-rap-beat-by-freebeats
Okay so basically I've been writing lyrics for a few years. But recently, however, I decided I'd try rap and sing I've only been rapping 3 weeks and attempting singing this once for this song! This is one of my first attempts, I recorded it through my earphones and laptop so it's a live version so its rough. I wrote all the lyrics including the chorus. It's really deep, I wanted to keep it poetic though so I hope you all enjoy. Constructive criticism is all I'm looking for at the moment especially being so new. I promised I'd post it!
Jun 2017 · 716
Familiar Smells - Haiku x2
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
We taste sweet perfume
From freshly mown lawn as we
Roll through pollen trails.

Staining clothes like we
Mark minds with familiar
Scents and surroundings.
Smelt the fresh cut grass and it brought me back!
Jun 2017 · 518
Whispers - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
I just don't know what
To do, I'm haunted by the
Whispers of my past.
Jun 2017 · 555
Rocket To Her Heart - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
I'm a rocket ship,
Your heart is my only true
Destination point.
Jun 2017 · 2.0k
Come Back For More
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Tasting your skin
Whilst you scratch my thirst,
A flavour into the uncharted,
Flashing lights on our taste buds
As we fall into one another's worlds,
Our legs intertwine like vines,
Our breaths match simultaneously,
You raise your back like you're
Stretching your senses into my soul,
I separate you into two dimensions
And you still come back
For another whole universe
To explore.
:)
Jun 2017 · 1.6k
Balloon Love - Tanka
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Love is a balloon, One tiny
little pin ***** and all of the
Filled love that has been blown,
Will Burst into absolute nothing.
Jun 2017 · 1.4k
Moving On - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
If you feel broken
You need to break the force that
Is pinning you down
Jun 2017 · 1.4k
Lies - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Even after I
Cut out my eyes I can still
See truth behind lies.
Jun 2017 · 469
Merge Our Souls
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Lay your dreams where nobody else will
close your eyes,
I've travelled so far just to have one mere second with you,
I have walked fields of glass and wasps to feel your touch,
I will do it all again if it means I can pour my heart into yours,
I want us to emerge into one beautiful concoction of lust,
One mere soul, one mere dream
Isn't enough for me as my nights are full of terror.

I want to go back to the moment we met,
When you looked at me like I was everything,
Nothing else mattered as we melted into each other's eyes,
Butterflies would flutter in my hollow chest bursting from inside,
They would fly around our heads like two souls were merging,
And living happily ever after in one, beautiful, fairytale.
Jun 2017 · 1.8k
Hold Me - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Keep me close at night,
I want our hearts to beat in
One dreamy rhythm.
Wrote a few love Haiku's. I hope you like them! :D
Jun 2017 · 614
Dive - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
When I took your hand
I sunk into the unknown,
but swam with dolphins.
Jun 2017 · 3.8k
Domestic Abuse - Haiku x2
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Spare me excuses,
These aren't falls they are bruises,
Wrong boy she chooses.

Words hurt like fists do,
Apart from words remain scars
Painfully longer.
I'm writing a song on domestic violence, so thought I'd put a few Haikus on.
Jun 2017 · 592
Don't Blink - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Even when I blink
It hurts knowing that moments
are taken away.
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
(Chorus/Hook)
I've tried so hard to find you,
I've seen empty roads and streets,
Empty sheets, and broken dreams,
love is not all that seems.

Fire or cold it seems whatever the weather,
We used fight for our love but we came to our tether,
But her blood is ice cold and I cant seem to shiver,
This pain inside my heart my blood flows like a river,
My hearts been crushed into a million pieces,
You were always my biggest flaw, biggest diseases,
I'm rummaging around trying to find the pieces,
of this soul, that you stole, whilst my heartbreak increases.
But you tore me in two, even when you knew,
I was trying to renew, as you tried to subdue,
The lies behind your eyes as love fades, love slowly dies,
so does her disguise, a succubus applies,
but she denies, all the love he feels inside but its no surprise,
cause she was a regular woman who drains and dries
Her soul, to reach her own goal then breaks up with guys,
But then he buys, her a diamond like shes won first prize.

(Chorus/Hook)
I've tried so hard to find you,
I've seen empty roads and streets,
(Growing and Hoping you see, no women stopping me)
Empty sheets, and broken dreams,
love is not all that seems.
(If you're weighed down break free or drown)

I think those back-trackers are all delusional,
you're losing your mind your becoming dysfunctional,
I'm hoping, I'm choking, I'm breaking down and I'm shaking,
while her heart is flaking, love from my bones I'm quaking,
in my shoes, like a puppet on string, a short wired fuse,
to trip me at any moment then abuse,
My kindness and goodwill to show people I always spill,
All my pain and love into one girl and it won't fulfill,
The persistent greed she has and the cold dampened chill,
Her life of torment and the ability to ****,
A singular man to stone with one look in her eyes,
But don't worry I'll be saying the final goodbyes,
So watch me as I walk out of your fiery frozen door,
but Don't ignore that my heart will recoup and restore,
To it's former fame and glory its an old untold story,
How my past relationship was really ******* stormy.

(Chorus)
I've tried so hard to find you,
I've seen empty roads and streets,
(Growing and Hoping you see, no women stopping me)
Empty sheets, and broken dreams,
love is not all that seems.
(If you're weighed down break free or drown)

Because she's dripping am slipping on the venom shes sprays
while I'm gripping and swinging these double edged blades,
wearing these shades to protect from the rays that she will blaze,
from her eyes its the only way that it seems to fade,
But you always pointed the finger at me like you knew,
that from the moment we both met it was gonna be you
the one who cut me in half and left me in two,
But I gained strength from within then I squashed down and drew,
A line through the page that messed with my sanity,
cos of confusion,  I couldn't catch gravity
in my fingertips avoiding pain and agony,
but just for the formality, i gave myself mortality
Just so I can outgrow the pain that weighs me down
But we'll leave this town and I'll turn it right around,
if illusions perceive me my mind stays incomplete,
if details were plain to see Intercepting your cold hearted feet.
I made my poem "Succubus" into a rap. I'll post the audio on here soon. I sing the chorus also :). I hope you like the lyrics anyway! (3rd verse to follow). I try use a play on words here :)
Jun 2017 · 939
Urges - Haiku x4
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Pin me down with chains
Or else my inner passion
will eat you alive

Perfect hourglass,
Sand falls elegantly through
Those mystical curves.

Eyes like dark brown pearls,
Lighting up my impulses
Which are otiose.

I cant resist any
longer, I want to make art,
And us the picture
:)
Jun 2017 · 591
Shined - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Beauty has always
Shined from your heart, mind and soul,
Since the beginning.
I haven't had much time and won't have much time to write. So I thought I'd put a few Haiku's on that I wrote on my lunch break today, just for you guys! Just quick thoughts, that's all :) I'll be back soon!
Jun 2017 · 2.1k
Aging - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
I know poetry
Made me age quicker as each
Line wrote are wrinkles.
Just a perspective. Haha.
Jun 2017 · 1.4k
I Forgot To Write It Down
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Before I started draining parts of me
onto this page
I couldn't see for the clearest of paths,
I would dwell,
Hide away in my own safe house
Of saturated stories.

I would scratch my head catching gravity
between my fingertips.
A color would be a rainbow in black skies
of circling crows.

The floor around me would move
dancing along,
It would lead me and my pen to paper
Like a knight's sword to stone.
I would wonder why my mind
Could paint,
My thoughts would explode
into millions of fireflies.

Sometimes I would see the most
flawless imagery
But I couldn't write it down for the awe
of being lost,
Inside my own world of untold stories,
and poetry.
For the times I don't get chance to write down my thoughts!
Jun 2017 · 787
Daffodils Of Time - Tanka
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
I dream of my childhood freedom
When my fragile innocent bones,
Would run through overgrown fields
Of daffodils in summer sun.
Jun 2017 · 549
Wolves
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Those snow prints mark you
Like a howl at the pining moon
Crying at your beckoning calls,
Family and loyalty runs deep
With wilderness in the night.

You find spaces in hollow pine
Whilst stood on boulders,
Your cry screeches through
Descending moons and bark,
The most gentle of heart
But viciously snarls and bites.

Coat as thick as the ground you tread,
Scratching at your fur as snow flakes fall
Shaking like the leaves
in cool breeze beneath your feet,
Blending into snow but only able
To see pearl smoky quartz eyes.
Just a quick write. I'm glad HP is fixed also! :~D
Jun 2017 · 599
Caring Souls
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
I walk listening to music
Inside my own tranquility,
Searching these lonely
Yet full streets,
Like a ghost town
For the sociable,
Attention is directed
Toward phone screens,
So we talk about the unspeakable
Silence at an awkward occasion.

We try filling the gaps that we lost,
The cracks that had been opened,
We seclude our souls in this
Marvellous giving world,
We reach for arms but
Can never seem to grab them,
We beg for help but can't seem
To give our own emptiness.

For all could be filling our gaps
Like we need to be fixed,
The falling trees and lives
Match those of sticks and stone,
Sticks resemble our innocence
Whilst stone indicate our hard
Relentless ways to hurt one another.

But I continue to stay in my own
Tranquil world of loneliness,
Because I've grown accustomed
To the curtains I can draw
So easily shut,
I've grown accustomed
To accepting that we will never
Be caring souls anymore.
Modern society.
Jun 2017 · 787
Shooting Stars - Tanka
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Even if I had stars in my eyes,
Would you still make a wish
If they flew past as you looked
Into the forever fading sky.
Jun 2017 · 870
Horizons - Tanka
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Not only does
The early bird
Catch the worm,
But they see the earth
Open into glorious horizons,
Over her blanket.
My first attempt at a Tanka style. I hope you like it anyway :)
Jun 2017 · 1.0k
Incubus
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
He squeezes her shape into a suit that fits
But happily disregards the ones that don't,
As every material or materialistic item
Is merely just temporary clothing he wears for his comfort.

Her silky waist down and up to her cotton flammable heart,
Both burn and tear just as easy as the next,
Despite his sweet persona,
He's as bitter and acidic as chemistry gone wrong.

But he washes and rinses her into a wave of hope,
And she drowns,
Because she has been habituated to drowning.

Cold bones is her love,
But he always glides away like a ghost in the night,
Questioning whether he bleeds the same blood,
Because is it humanly possible to do the things he could.

She has dreamt of his silhouette all night
But is unable to see the whole faded image,
The silence has become part of her,
You clipped the angel wings she would bare just for you
And is no longer able to fly.

Instead she drowns in an ocean that you quaked,
Suffocated on an island of crashed cold bones,
Cold, cold bones.

Even when she was the soldier
That never fled from battle,
You made her the brute
With a machine heart and machine mind,
Steered from her innocence
And tenderness to be kind.
As promised! Just a quick writen whilst on my lunch break at work! Haha.
Jun 2017 · 1.5k
Succubus
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
A fresh lick of paint
Is applied to these houses
That are so far and few
In between.

Just like deception
And lies that are covered
Up to steal another life force
For your benefit.

But you don't think I see
The transparency of your ways,
I've seen your type before
Succubus of stone hearts.

You reap and haunt
The dreams of innocence,
Men who are so happy
To be loved and to be whole.

But that's your favourite trick,
Once they're yours, you disappear,
As you siphon liquid gold
And purity from trapped souls.

Trapped in an endless cycle
Of doubt and hope,
But they still hold onto
The woman they once knew.

If that woman ever existed.
A poem about women who use men. I've seen this many times in my life and thought I'd give it a quick go!
Jun 2017 · 794
Aspersions
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Does your mouth
Lead you towards ease,
Like your mind blindly thinks.

Does your thought process
Consider or weigh options
Of passing weeks or months.

Do you feel remorse
Or sympathy as you cast
Spells of aspersions headed.

Do you even know
The reason why you chose
Me instead of the other options.

Do you even care
That you hurt me more,
Than you'll ever know.

But do I care enough
To explain how you
Wrongly accused me?

I guess we'll never know.
Just a quick write.
Jun 2017 · 569
Haiku - GooseBumps
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Goosebumps layer skin,
As wandering hands arouse
Your Inner secrets.
Jun 2017 · 1.9k
Haiku - Crocodiles
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Scaly pointed skin,
Log shape body, razor teeth,
Spinning coil of death.
Jun 2017 · 498
Frogs (10w)
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Leaping frogs catch the breeze
And air between speckled thighs.
Jun 2017 · 460
New Day - Birds (10w)
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Morning bird calls help bring
harmony into a new day.
Jun 2017 · 508
Destiny (10w)
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Destiny will guide our paths,
Into a land of forever.
Jun 2017 · 823
Fingertips
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
You talk so lightly
Like fresh air in fog,
You were my vision
Through absolute blindness.

You were the world
That revolved around me,
You made me fill in gaps
That were missing inside.

You made me feel
Like nothing mattered,
When you had me,
If you'll have me.

But you made me crash
In the fog that I tried wandering,
You made the world crumble and fall
Beneath and above these walls.

You made me feel
Like nothing mattered,
But nothing did matter
Anymore when you left.

I'm still shaking and crawling
These walls that disappear
Around my feet and heart,
As I look below I see emptiness.

As I fall into a never ending drop
Of uncertainty I look back up
But hold my arms towards you
So you can catch me as I go.

But you only caught the fingertips,
Of my love.
A poem about feeling like you had somebody, but then you don't.
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
A little birdy told me, hearts and souls are mouldy,
Walk with me, talk with me on this journey of doubt,
You'll question people and you'll question the drought,
of honesty people lie about, because It's time to scout,
For people of kindness on earth,
From birth, I think I've been cursed
It gets worse, as I rap this verse,
I'm trying to explain how life can be complicated,
Because we're all intoxicated, muffled in fumes of disease and fleas that cling onto your skin,
Use the energy within, and repel them this is where your journey will begin,
I've been searching for a moment or a pin, point in time,
When these rhymes and lines will be classed as devine, as I perfect and refine,
I'm just wondering how many times I can assign the same rhyme, so all sit back with a glass of wine, whilst I intertwine every line, lyrics so evil I'm committing a crime, maybe I'll get a statue, maybe a shrine, I need to switch it up so let's all decline, but you'll remember this verse as one of a kind.

Whilst I'm standing still over this hill, I think of moments in life that gave me a thrill,
But I remembered the pain and I remember the chill,
Of the cold dampened hearts that never seemed to spill,
Love or affection, like it's protection they need during the question, should I mention, you never gave me attention,
Like the worlds in one convention and I'm stood outside looking in,
I grin, whilst I use these forces buried within, to show people in verse what I mean, before the planet isn't green, before the seas collapse and wind is no longer a breeze,
We freeze in an ice block, tick Tock, tick Tock we stopped the clock.

But no body hears me so everyone listen up,
Stop what you're doing and please raise a cup,
For stopping global warming and extinction of animals, because we're all valuables on this tiny spec of galaxies,
Yet governments plan strategies, to profit from the tragedies, they keep us all living in fantasies, but strike in catastrophes
So let's help our families and all become one, before we've got none and everything we love and everything we feel is gone,
Putting a bet on the apocalypse, odds are 10 to none,
So hold hands with me now let's rejoice in song!
Just some rap lyrics I wrote quickly last night. Drafts but as well as sharing poetry I like to share lyrics I write also. This one was a massive play on words and quick succession rhyming.
Jun 2017 · 638
Destined Paths
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
You stole the breath
That was meant for you,
You stole the heart
That I kept hidden.

Aligned paths, cast in stone,
Breath fire, peninsula,
Ignition to my heart
Longed cold snaps melt away.

You guided our journey
And you had it all figured out,
You held my heart in hand
And you merged it with yours.

Now we both walk the same path
That we were destined to do,
Now that my heart is yours,
You have me, and I have you.
Love I've acquired. Thought I'd share!
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