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517 · Nov 2017
We Dance In The Rain
Ryan Holden Nov 2017
Loose lips - loose we sit,
rain drops - love birds kiss
Spilling emotion
accidentally
with rain that drips,
Hands on your cheeks,
Hands on your hips,
We dance in the rain
We share all our pain,
We fall and we trip
We clutch and we slip,
into ones arms grip
Then just like that
all of the love
held in was spilt,
with just one tip.
515 · Jan 2018
Cold Shoulder - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jan 2018
Act oblivious
to the icy ways you snap,
I'll give the same back.
If you treat people a bad way, don't expect much back!
515 · Apr 2018
Cottons
Ryan Holden Apr 2018
I can’t repaint the start
Nor it’s tenderness
To understand
The complexity
Of it’s cottons -
But know I am soft,
And I will always
Keep your heart
Warm.
514 · Jun 2017
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.
514 · Jun 2017
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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514 · Nov 2017
Playing With Fire - Haiku
Ryan Holden Nov 2017
We play with fire
In dark, hoping we both feel
burns on our hearts.
510 · Jun 2017
Whispers - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
I just don't know what
To do, I'm haunted by the
Whispers of my past.
508 · Sep 2017
Awakening - Rap
Ryan Holden Sep 2017
This world is so broke
The earth wrapped in smoke,
So I rapped just to cope
Throw glow to a soul,  
Gave birth to adapt to the rap then I show,
Embrace my worth to grow l, then I sew,
Puffing this smoke blow away the fake hope,
Chasing my dreams til my dreams come home,
Spitting venom every sentence from a tongue of deception,
I question their method of self protection,
Adding dimension to this world I'm cutting tension,
Need a new invention for a cure to this infection,
I'm punching through-a-void, empty noise destroys,
I'm clutching to annoy so sing a-pray-a-boys,
people roun' me acting koi, like false raid on Troy,
actuality boy, shine the pain hide the joy,
so when I look right in the mirror I know I see me,
again, I took flight trial and error my guarantee,
I live daydreams writing schemes to be alone,
wearing baggy jeans no clean t, no phone,
a drone, figurines no family tree tired to roam,
singular road, my brains so fuzzy I'm bout to implode,
I'm the youngen in the runnin out gunnin,
I'm the one that's becoming too cunning,
I see your bluffing but your mind is numbing,
fallen in the system, it's your homecoming,
I didn't edit the lines, grammar doesn't count in rap ;). I decided to preach it through music. This is a verse I'm rapping on a collaboration with 2 American friends. The audio link will be up soon :). Hope you like my rhyme schemes ;)
508 · Apr 2017
Dove
Ryan Holden Apr 2017
My heart is free
Like a white dove,
But why is it that,
I'm all out of love?
Just a quick lil write :)
507 · Jan 2018
Fairytale Dreams
Ryan Holden Jan 2018
Peak at the stars,
Gaze at the moon -
Hide away safe,
Come again soon.

Become my shield,
Knight to his horse -
Fairy-tale dreams,
I will be yours.

Rescued from myths,
Dragon's include -
One true loves kiss,
Hearts are renewed
Just suddenly popped up at work so had to make sure I wrote it down!
500 · Aug 2017
Lost Wind - Haiku
Ryan Holden Aug 2017
I feel like lost wind
Floating in time, not able
To choose direction.
499 · Oct 2017
Fogged Clarity
Ryan Holden Oct 2017
So again I made a fool of myself
only to fall at the last hurdle
scraping my heart on the way down.

It's funny really...

Like I should have known how it felt the last time.

ha, I never learn.

What's to say this blistering
heat that burns day by day will **** me?

What's to say I let it just because
I've become accustomed to the pain?

Because if I'm not clear, despite the eagles eye of cupids arrow that was a direct hit, I'm afraid I'm out of arrows.

I was a fool...

I couldn't give myself, to anybody else but you.

So I threw the rest away, I was almost certain, I had finally marked your skin, with the only heart I had to offer.
A story about a man who loves a woman very much but she doesn't believe him.
499 · Jun 2017
Destiny (10w)
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Destiny will guide our paths,
Into a land of forever.
491 · May 2017
Scared Of Asking
Ryan Holden May 2017
I used to ride by every day
Making my paper round worth while,
Your beautiful hair, and your beautiful smile,
Kept me breathing the air,
Oh, how wonderful, how rare.

I would see you in corridors at school
Trying to be calm, trying to stay cool,
But we talked for hours about you,
It was then, it was how my love grew,

My sweet darling please stay here
In these memories, in my fear
Of losing you my darling,
You'll see, what you mean
To me.

I've loved you forever and always,
And you know that this is true
So please stay with me,
And tell me, you love me too?

Love me till I die
Please look me in the eye,
And tell me that
You love me too
And that the best part of my life,
Was the moment I met you.

Because I'm scared to tell you,
How much you mean to me,
Because I'm afraid you wont call,
As you're my everything, after all
I'm just fearing the worst
Because I think I'm cursed,
trying my best not to misconstrue,
I've never met a women,
Near as perfect as you.
A love song I wrote. About being scared to tell someone you like them.
489 · Jun 2017
Frogs (10w)
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Leaping frogs catch the breeze
And air between speckled thighs.
489 · Sep 2017
Wander - Haiku Poem
Ryan Holden Sep 2017
Wander around my
Mind, get lost and find my heart
So I won't forget.

What it felt like to
Lose your own ability
To control yourself
485 · Jun 2017
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.
485 · Aug 2017
Closed Book - Haiku
Ryan Holden Aug 2017
Keep this hand close to
Yours, you will never know when,
It stops you falling.
483 · Oct 2017
Destiny Sails
Ryan Holden Oct 2017
This Mental torture is like a flame on thick ice,
just not enough to melt through my core
yet just enough to leave a mark.

But...

I can't tell myself -
what should this wandering mind do?
Because I keep telling myself,
what will this wandering mind do?

My arms reached around you
sweeping you up like a cave.

But...

My grasp was loose,
as was the howling winds that blew
the air from my sails, plummeting me,
into a nearby whirlpool of blanked out, blocked emotions.

As the course is set and our paths align,
no matter how much paddeling I did. Attempting to steer myself to the safety of the shores but missing it by my fingertips.

I was merely brought back into your arms
despite my previous attempts
to pull you in closer and losing
You to a wrong turn.

Then...

As the second wind hits our sails
we got lost at sea - never to see the shoreline again.
482 · Aug 2017
True loves kiss - Tanka
Ryan Holden Aug 2017
We were tricked by close hands
To find different dreams,
But we arose
From this sleeping curse,
Then found each others dreams
And our true loves kiss.
479 · Jan 2018
Let’s Get Lost - Haiku
Ryan Holden Jan 2018
Catch day dreams with me
and get lost in our thoughts
of the future us.
477 · Aug 2017
Soul Cleanser - Haiku
Ryan Holden Aug 2017
Hold my cold tainted
Soul with yours, your purity
Warms and cleanses mine.
475 · Jun 2017
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.
474 · Jan 2018
Natures Planning
Ryan Holden Jan 2018
May our life tangle
Like stems without a thorn -
A beautiful flower
Atop a rose is born.

Whether we germinate
Through the bitter weather,
Flourishing picturesque
Petals fall like feathers.

With Love and Communication
Aligning destinies planets,
Astral stars rotate into place
Wind and air no need to plan it,
Big bang planning
fates open hand,
What a wonderful life,
This universe had planned.
I wanted to compare love with nature. A play on words here also. Gemini (Me) - Libra (Her). Enjoy.
472 · Nov 2017
Cards Of Fate
Ryan Holden Nov 2017
I once wondered how it truly felt
to meet fate, to see cards that are dealt,
Inside deep down I know,
that matter how long
no matter how I show,
My love is forever
it will expand and grow,
and you will open up
regardless of before,
I need you by my side
in my heart I adore.
472 · Oct 2017
Head Over Heels
Ryan Holden Oct 2017
Deep down I know this path was chosen for me, whether I play with cards and deal myself a new deck, or if I decorate my life with glitter.

I know what ever has happened has gone - put behind the curtains and closed for no one to see again.

Then even as the stars burn completely across the sky like drips of lava onto the icy surface, one by one descending into the faded night.

We still search for the sky that once was - but remember the coldest nights in December, were only made for us to hold each other close.

We remembered the only stars that we needed were in each other's eyes the whole time - only to glisten once more.

Knowing I would fight for you until my dying breath - whether you want me too or not, because you've already stole all of the air from my lungs - snatching at the last sharp piece of air I had to offer.

You pulled me into a vortex of uncontrollable emotions - and I fear I will spiral out of control as I don't know what to do.

But oh how I've forgotten what it was like - to be switched off from the irony of social media, and to talk the hours away like we didn't have enough.  

The laughter that's trapped inside our stomach - alongside the excitement of knowing the ins and outs of each other's purest souls.

Knowing I have you to dine, knowing I have you as mine.

knowing our souls are one design, written in horoscope sign.

All of these little things you seem to do, stealing my heart like a crime.

Makes me remember why, I fell the first time.
470 · Nov 2017
Burning Embers - Haiku
Ryan Holden Nov 2017
Torch embers fall down,
Descending into dust, we
Get lost in darkness
468 · Aug 2017
Bitten - Haiku
Ryan Holden Aug 2017
I may be bitten
Once, but my skin grows thicker
With each single bite.
467 · May 2017
Insecurities
Ryan Holden May 2017
Eating, away at your conscience,
Narrowing your vision,
Altering reality and fairytales,
But easily obtained,
Constant internal battle,
Nothing can make this mind,
As Beautiful as a butterfly.
A poem about insecurities.
463 · Jun 2017
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.
460 · Aug 2018
Tasting Pain - Haiku
Ryan Holden Aug 2018
Baby kiss my lips,
Try not to taste the pain it
Leaves behind after.
459 · Aug 2017
Presence - Haiku
Ryan Holden Aug 2017
You stole my mind, you
Made my whole world turn around
Your presence alone.
457 · Jun 2017
New Day - Birds (10w)
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
Morning bird calls help bring
harmony into a new day.
455 · Oct 2017
Gateway - Haiku
Ryan Holden Oct 2017
She broke the gateway
to my heart, and let herself
flood all the way in.
454 · Jun 2017
Medicink
Ryan Holden Jun 2017
The thing about poetry,
Is I don't know if the ink
Will be my medicine,
Or if it's the poison
Inside my veins that
Will slowly destroy me.
453 · Aug 2017
Optimists
Ryan Holden Aug 2017
Within torment, deciding if our jigsaw piece
is the right fit, we find serendipity.
For we're believers, day dreamers,
far seekers, and mind speakers.

We separate the gap
between positive and negative
For we are are the optimists
in this pessimistic world.
Just a quick write :) - I hope you're all keeping well!
453 · May 2017
The look you gave me
Ryan Holden May 2017
A steamy room,
The mist will hide,
That of passion, and lust,
Heat adding to the sweat,
Already falling from your *******,
Because those enticing eyes,
Watching into my soul,
Tell me, you want me.
453 · Aug 2018
The Cutest Smile - Haiku
Ryan Holden Aug 2018
You caught my eye, it
Happened to raise up with your
Gorgeous little smile.
446 · Jan 2018
Going In Circles
Ryan Holden Jan 2018
all of the stories we have,
a beginning, middle, end,
but we got lost chapter one
440 · Oct 2017
If - Haiku
Ryan Holden Oct 2017
If I whispered in
your ear, what you want to hear
Would you stay, my dear?
440 · Aug 2017
Whisk - Haiku
Ryan Holden Aug 2017
Whisk me up into
Your arms, like you want to blend
Our souls together.
436 · Sep 2020
We
Ryan Holden Sep 2020
We
We turned,
We laughed,
We skipped,
We danced,
We broke,
We cared,
Again,
What’s that?
We felt,
We fell,
We feel,
We choke,
We found,
A spell
Again,
Come back.
It’s been a while. I hope you’re all safe and well.
433 · Jan 2018
I Turn To Steel
Ryan Holden Jan 2018
I try to talk to you but
my soul just turns to steel,
this happens whenever I
Try tell you how I feel -
about
you.
426 · Oct 2017
It's About Time
Ryan Holden Oct 2017
Imagine the unimaginable lights -
that shine down upon me,
getting caught in my dreams by an angel,
a saviour, a guardian -
''twas a gift so unforeseen
the equilibrium still shakes me.

Because on this particular night
I was answered by a gentle touch,  
a gentle hand -
to finally become in sync with mine.

it was the day that wind stood still -
she captured it all, in her first breath
just so she could sweep me off my feet,
like tranquility had never seen
The big bad wolf.

Yet - the only thing I wanted
throughout the seasons,
was to capture the first winters snaps
from her nose -
I wanted to kiss her under the mistletoe
and steal her as my Christmas gift.

I want the summer sun to weld us together -
capturing unwritten memories like The heat that stirs between us is molten, bound together to set into stone.

I want our spring days to bloom -
Because the flowers weren't enough
beauty to see me through the season,
so I had to pick you from the fields -
stealing the wild flowers from your eyes.

but most of all,
I need you in those autumn months -
So I could get swept off my feet
only to be picked up by your hand,
Then placed in your heart,
For me to look forward -
to the rest of our days.
423 · Dec 2017
A Poet's Ticker
Ryan Holden Dec 2017
I sit
I write
it's what helps me sleep at night
I think
too much
It's what ruins the best sight.

But if
I thought
of the reasons I struggle
if this
if that
I'm just asking for trouble.

You see
I know
I need to not overthink,
because
this lady
might leave quicker than I blink.
419 · Jan 2018
Everything
Ryan Holden Jan 2018
You are the everything
I could never be
I will never have
I would always hold
I will always love.

Yet I still
swim
in
t
e
a
r
s
of knowing
I lost the everything,
I already had.
419 · May 2017
Rain
Ryan Holden May 2017
How mystical you dance,
Skipping over the surface,
I peek out the window,
Just for a look,
Into your shimmering soul,
As you provide life,
Thoughts of your value,
Whilst you descend,
On moonlit nights
418 · Sep 2017
Kindled Love
Ryan Holden Sep 2017
Love is kindled like a fire,
you need to create your spark,
your flame
and then your fire,
then the rest just melts,
into place around it.
392 · Jan 2018
Nervously Speaking
Ryan Holden Jan 2018
When I spoke to you
my eyes would scatter
And lose focus,
So I would avoid contact –
I got used to how
the pavement
Would paint my imagery.

But I nervously fell so steep
With no option to look up –
Only to escape
The pit you had me fall into
In the first place.
I used to look away when I spoke for the fear of falling - and when I did fall I didn't look away again!
375 · Oct 2017
Next To Mine - Haiku
Ryan Holden Oct 2017
I have been waiting
For the day my hand will hold
Yours next to my chest
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