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Me May 2014
true poetry is of such nature
that every
single
letter
hurts

blood has to spill
from tongue
and lips

it grips you
by the nerves
hits
you
so
hard

that any other thing will  be
just something else.
Raise your glasses, my poetry friends.
Here's to infinite needlessness!
Me Jan 2021
They whisper about the new King and how
he is a bit odd
in several many things
and different

Their heads bow
nevertheless
to address this man
who does not know how
to suppress a stare
to swallow down
any feeling to ban
all signs of insecurity
from his face

They kneel just once
before they are pulled up
in an awkward ****
a strong
slightly shaking arm
commanding them upward
level with an open face
in awe of
what had just happened

A wordless command
You will never be Bystanders
ever again


^^^
-----
Me Jun 2014
We are even;

A scar for a scar
A heart for a heart
I put yours in a jar
You won t part, love!

A smile for raised eyebrows
A dream for a chat
My blood flows, kid
We ll both feel bad
In the end.

The end for our start
Hold! All systems go
We are not so smart, love
Our hearts won t know
Where to start or to end,

Give me your hand, sweet
Let us go.
I hav no control
New
Me Feb 2022
New
Slowly, very slowly, the child stops fighting, starts to lay down shield and sword and crawls out of its dark corner, shifts towards the light [...]
Me Jan 2021
a fish flies
through the night air
hardly remembering
he was not born
a bird

a word swims
through the ocean
almost remembering
its destination

a grim old man
feels his heart turn soft
and decides to go
with it for once
Me Mar 2021
It's frightening so
so frightening to be
open and bare and the mask
fluttering in the
air beside me
a moment from
floating away
Me Mar 2020
The moon has shown its crescent form; pale but warm light through milky clouds in the night sky. It felt crisp, and yet like soft touch. The moon beams at you, and your heart jumps at its kind expression.
[...]
Me Jul 2013
nothing to say
I sit
in the dark place with my back split
open.

But no time
believe me darling
and the wounds will heal.
No inernet at home, nothing in the kitchen, people I don t want to be with... and thus: this night time escape
Me Feb 2012
In the twilight
I feel safe
For this is the only place
Where we can shift

Between two lands.
Me Sep 2019
A sharp knife in
her hands she separates
that which does not belong-
which rejects
integration

She highlights-
like the lines pointing
towards emergency-
the puffy artificial stuff

the rough parts-
those that give you a
real headache trauma

all drama, all that sticks
to you and makes you
heavy-

drop it now
go on
be ready to
explode
Me Mar 2022
You pick up your pen
nightly
to get off your chest what lies on it
heavy like a stone
and you write
inch by inch
bit by bit
what needs to be written down
of all the horrors your eyes have witnessed
all the beauty that you remember
your hand shakes
pouring ink all over your page
and yet you get all the numbers right
all the names and ancient signs
You pick up your pen again this night
tonight
and you write honouring all ancient women' names
in the soft moonlit room
You put down your pen
out of breath and sweat pearling down your chest
knowing
you wrote
another night
against all odds
for the life of them
Me Oct 2015
On the couch right next
To me so close that
Our knees touch but far enough
To not kiss.

Coke and tea and coffee
Do not make a perfect
Basis for us getting
More courageous.

But that's ok and even
More - it is quite good.

For ages have I not felt
This comfortable.
Me May 2020
East to West

It's not
Either or
But
And
🌈
Me Apr 2013
this is not a poem
it is a question

what makes you think you're so remarkably
invincible, and chasing rays of light until they die away?

what makes me cling to this
disquieting momentum, this moon-absorbing, hateful creature?

this is not a poem
it is a question

why can i not detect the seconds
of high voltage danger, and why-

why do i pour my heart
out to a stranger?

why

°°°

this used to be a question-

turning to an answer, though, and tapping
at my chamber door, pronouncing

with a clear voice - and with rain-drops bouncing off the window pane -

the word:

because*.
Me Dec 2015
Heart full
Of pure love for
People

Let every steeple now
Of every church play
The same melody

And let each ear
Hear what and why and whom
They love

At any time.
:-*
Me Oct 2019
~ ~ ~

Nothing has to take shape
because you want it to
Nothing escapes you
if it likes

Nothing bows not to your
imagination
if it so wishes
Nothing can shake your schedule
upside down

Nothing can take you
by the hand and guide you
to Something you
with your restricted glance
have not anticipated

Nothing
can dance

and become
Everything

~ ~ ~
Now
Me Jan 2020
Now
Meet me
here and now
to take
my hand
with confidence
my Love

Don'tĀ Ā hesitate
to put
both
feet
on our path

and walk

Come lift your gaze
courageously
and look
at the
horizon

Walk on
Look
up
Happy new year
Me May 2012
I don’t feel like going
Anywhere
Without knowing
Where you are.

I apologize,
I know how this sounds
How you frown
Because you’ll never hear it.

I know I should tell you -
And in the meantime
We live parallel lives -
Tell you what drives me
To this place
Every day.

Instead we do not move
I say nothing
You are silent
Only the violent, fiery cuts,
Once in a while,
Are proof enough.
Me Jan 2021
A woman in orange cloth crosses
a dusty street
cluttered with
dusty fears and believes -
she straightens herself
nods
before she greets
all of them kindly
Me Jan 2021
From here you lift your gaze
see
a million silver stars
looking back
looking
ahead
you share their eyes
their hearts unfold
your natural language
everything talks
Happy new year
Me May 2020
How you said
whining
You want to go home
How I got it
then
and answered
You can go home soon
How this was
probably
the hardest thing
I ever did
Hospital scenes
Me May 2020
He'll follow you nonetheless
in the shadows
so you might as well turn
face him
see how
crooked and helpless
he looks
how he took on the shape
of your enemies
Go over
Love
hug him
embrace
the stuff you have
externalised
Make this poor devil
stop the chasing
I think all the mess started when we created a figure to be responsible for all the **** we never wanted to face. I also think it is time facing it :)
Me Jan 2020
My heart is swelling when I think
About all you did for me
Totally selfless
Also
It cries for you
Because I see that you dealt with the horrors
All alone
Not anymore now.
Me 4d
A soft
Invisible blanket of
The fabric of
A more than Loving
Universe
Wraps itself around Me
And I
Accept it

šŸ–¤
Me Apr 2020
I want to erase
Everyone's judgement except
My own
And say that today
It exceptionally
Hurts
To remember
Me Feb 2020
We'll grow into
where we
already were-
this time
with all our parts
and with our hearts
wide open
one day... ā¦
Me Jan 2020
One good thing before
I close my eyes tonight
A good-
Pleasant warmth
Around my heart
As I see
The ice
Is melting
Me Jan 2020
Some places in the world
Seem to be more than
Just of solid flesh and grass
And earth
They pull you into
A tremendous drift
Of living
Memory

If you are brave
If you don't close your eyes
They'll make you see why it is
You
And why
You are not bound to
Time and places
As they look

Why
If you like
You'll greet all spaces
Past and future
Me Oct 2012
If clocks slay time
what good is there,
I wonder,
for time to be slain?

In turning heads
in rising hands
in memory of only
a split image, of land that burns-

and all because
of this time-slaying,
blood-shedding mind of yours

and mine.
Me Dec 2015
Eigentlich gehƶrt
        Der erste Gedanke,
Wenn ich aufstehe,

Immer dir.
Me Oct 2019
Patience,
darling,
don't always look at
tomorrow
with
yesterday's lenses-
cleanse
your view
and leave the window open
so that your head
can feel
the breeze...
~oO~
Me Nov 2020
It feels worthwhile now
Dear
to not fear
open doors and
windows

It feels
worthwhile to let
the

Sun

shine

in
Me Nov 2020
Three bright figures stretch
across the night sky -
a pinpoint delivery
attracting
my restless eye
before I dare go to sleep
Me May 2020
Out of the woods stumbles, falls the most lovable creature,
beaming red face half smiling half bewildered and tears everywhere, scratches on the cheeks and forehead and even on the nose,
thick eyebrows covering beaming eyes.
You take first
hesitant
steps
, walk towards the tree line, where the grass melts into the soil and touches the tree trunks.
This face, beaming; Your eyes, still a bit fearful to meet.
But oh you cannot really wait.
You take more steps, walk a bit faster now,
watch your own feet as their pace quickens…
still quickens…
How your heart opens, reaches out…
I feel like a deer!
Me May 2014
Titles are caught
By little surprises
That reach out to grip
Their ends by a tip
Of the tounge.
Me Jan 2020
Outside the storm moves
things to new
beginnings
and lures me
to finally come
outside
too

ā¦
Me Oct 2020
Something inside is beating louder, louder still. Hands fingers legs toes already spread as wide as possible and tense of knowing. Spread out and connected, less than a beat from-

This creature is just about to send a vigorous beat out - send it outward - crash - everything that it had acquired
everything out, accumulated within the vibrance of
this
beat
in unbending blazing green beams of fast light -
light that goes through - that does not even know any kind of barrier nor reflection - this light does not need to think to plan to manage - this light is send out to be
something so strong there are no words -

You do not need to fear it though. You do not need to fear it.
It is for you. To be where you are, it sings.
It sings, whirrs, with no mercy.

You think of vines of ivy and something else. Of the light,
traveling where ever it likes. Unapologetically.
Me May 2020
I cannot
lie
either
Dear
If one thing runs
through my veins:
It's truth
Me Apr 2021
Racing mind self left
behind and
momentarily blinded to your truth
let it be there share
if you like and my stomach
twists and clenches
Me Jul 2013
I don’t see how -
I don’t see why
There couldn’t be across the sky
A paper plane made of blue print
And floating softly,
Possibly?

No.

But why not?
Look, if heavy things fall down and drown
Within the rivers
And if, again, the earth digests
And fills its own round belly
With that same stuff-

Go on.

Then why not have in light and cloudy air
A paper plane that couldn’t fly
Without your will
And mine?

*After this one last conversation
You left my head and,
Hanging by a threat, I still delight
In this sweet memory
Of the impossible.
Me Jul 2019
You run
And run
And run
And yet you tell us not to go away
And keep us close
With less then just a wink
Of the eye.
Has no one ever told you
How messed up this is?
You experienced it yourself. Yet, even more so, no reason to do it to us!
Me Nov 2014
What shall I add?

                My heart is wide and big

In coldest times I saw

I may rely
       On my best friends.
ā™”
Danke
Me Mar 2020
Sunshine. A small Spanish town in the mountains. Coffee. A table with three old men gambling and smoking and laughing. The town square lively with noise and kids' feet trampling and playing. Two women in a friendly conspiracy talk about their men. In the middle, a spot, and everything is right and as it should be. Freedom. And the sound of a spring with birds' song.
Patience.
Me Mar 2020
Imagine a kid
falling and hitting
her knee
and disguising
her pain-
Me Feb 2012
Thunder,
And my heart lies under
A pile of rotten gold.

Flash,
I crash the things and bash
The rules that brought me here.

Rain drops,
And I chop off the heads of the problems
And kick them to the edge -
Off, in the whirling bowl
Of elements and flesh.

Forever to be buried
Among the rotten and the dead,
There lie my gorgeous troubles;
The loveless and the judges.
Me Mar 2020
Mankind sits
in paralysing
indecision
while earth
and universe
are very clear

Mankind blocks
everything
out of an age-old
fear
blocks
every
message-

until
for now
they have to
hear
Me Nov 2020
A merciless clarity rubs
Your white collarbone *****
At your lips
Has your breath hitch before
One final
Twist of your gut
Me Dec 2020
An open hand
cannot hold
strings
Unfolded wings
cannot not fly
Me Sep 2019
She hears too many voices
stands in stupor
hand reaching up
and in that pose
is frozen

chosen not to trust
her inner voice
the only one that counts

and so she stands a while-
hand up and clinging
to the tree
eyes fixed upon
the apple-
when

a sudden breeze
brushes her face and makes her
blink
enough to interrupt the flow of
fear and guilt and shame
enough to plant into her ear
the humming sound
of color
enough to make her spirit sink
into her hand and
make
her
grab
the fruit

Pollute her not
it hums
and leave her

retrieve your rightful place
my love
and munch away
your apple.
Me Feb 2015
Maybe i am schizophrenic
Maybe i am crazy
Maybe life is something i haven't realized yet
I am on pills
I am not normal

I am beaming at my best friend's wide eyed awe
I shiver of sweetness when my boyfriend grabs the last slice of pizza
I tremble at my niece's grinning face when she has told a lie

What are you?
In which planet do you suspect a hot beating heart?
In yours?
In mine?

Whose heart is whose
Is not the question -
By the way.
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