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445 · May 2016
landscape(d)
chimaera May 2016
wearing out monologues.

a window.
shattered, the street.

starless night.
10.05.2016
443 · Feb 2016
Not
chimaera Feb 2016
Not
knots.

made of
knowing not
why not.

all i did not,
all i do not.

out of not
unknotting
what was not
knotted,
no, it was not.

so linear.
just
let it be
and move on.

or not.
17.02.2016
inspired by m.youtube.com/watch?v=R45HcYA8uRA
442 · Dec 2015
Graal
chimaera Dec 2015
If a friend
would have me,
I'd be capable of loving
and I'd look no more
for a back door.
16.12.2015
440 · Feb 2016
edible
chimaera Feb 2016
(spoiler alert: explicit, or whatever...)*


my hands,
cup shaped.
your warmness.
the pace of your
fleeing heart.
your *******,
naked, nibbled,
in my cupped
hands.
27.02.2016
Words as a playground.
438 · Jan 2016
Seasick
chimaera Jan 2016
Life.

Life?

Time drifter.

And then,
then
- this.

**** it.

I am not fit for it.
I know I am not.

I can't breathe.

I can't breathe
either way.
14.01.2016
436 · Apr 2015
indulgence
chimaera Apr 2015
try on some words,
little girl

take a match,
check the hollow

put on those words,
silly girl

play the swan,
and its final chant

echo the words,
poor girl

dye the dark
and let go

of it all
and the words
8.4.2015
435 · Feb 2016
treble clef
chimaera Feb 2016
poetry,
this palette
of deranged
chords,
in falsetto,
the impossibility
in my dreams,
to be gifted
to you.
18.02.2016
433 · May 2016
olden, adj.
chimaera May 2016
like the house
upon a dune,
dawning in the arms
of a salty sea windy,
a hoarsy rust
foreclosing the ways
inside, a home of
a hoarder, yet
a would-be-minimalist,
kind of a patine,
riddling scratches
of drifters.
28.05.2016
432 · Jan 2015
DARKLING - 5/5
chimaera Jan 2015

- Hey, birdie! Birdie!!

- Who is this, calling me?

- Would you sing me a song,
stand by me tonight?

- Sure, honey, but I have to tell you:
in a first date, my starter' always the guts!
17.1.2015
431 · Nov 2016
exhibit
chimaera Nov 2016
oh yes,
said the painter,
i've had
a bird phase,
but the pane
was a blur.
and the canvas,
one shade of white,
that's my drill
on blind wings.
4.11.16
430 · Feb 2017
queasiness
chimaera Feb 2017
a willow
however
stands

shallow waters

pebble stones
scattered

all the words

a cadency
of rusty hinges
hanged doors

sour, the dam
February, 2017
429 · Oct 2014
fountain pen
chimaera Oct 2014
i n k l i n e . o u t l i n i n g . i n s u r m o u n t a b l e . t h i r s t . s u b l i m e d . e m o t i o n . c o r r o s i v e l y . m o v i n g . i n . b l a c k . f e e d i n g . o n . w h i t e . a . b l o o d . s t r e a m . v e r s e s . t o . f i n d . y o u . v e r s o . o f . m e . w h o . a . c o n t o u r . a . i n k l i n e .
20.10.2014
428 · Jul 2018
wheresoever
chimaera Jul 2018
my whole life
i lived here:

this shallow wind,
folding,
unfolding
wavy dunes,

an elusive
bloom
of sandy
swirls.

nights'dark
always drowns
in the silver
of glowing moons.

the warmth of days?

i do keep
saving it,

in bottles,

lost to
no longer
known address,

with its fireflies inside.
30.07.2018
428 · Jan 2015
DARKLING - 2/5
chimaera Jan 2015
insomnia
ghostly walk
amongst the sleepers

hushed scaly sound
driving lights fleeing
an image on a mirror

flashing moments
scattered memory screeching
rowdy cradling
                       dawn
                                dyed in red
17.1.15
426 · May 2014
Silent night
chimaera May 2014
far, tree branches skim
the light satin of the moon
- unspoken fairwell
Haiku
425 · Nov 2014
Silly tales [3]
chimaera Nov 2014
a cling and a clang
a scary noise
there by the swamp,
a growl or a roar,
oh my,

it's a moody blue
birthing a wintry spleen,
listen to the complaint,
*to hell with lyrical,
my silly vein drain I shall!
18.11.14
423 · Apr 2015
iron box
chimaera Apr 2015
se recroqueviller.
s'effacer.

invisible:
mon visage,
mes yeux
(que j'ai crus verts,
ensorcelants)
.

éprouver l'oubli,
de mon vivant.

pour qui,
pour quoi,
je rendrais libre
ma voix?
20.4.2015
423 · Oct 2016
solitude. or whatever.
chimaera Oct 2016
a sill & a window,
the frame.
silly hold!,
for a feather's halo,
for a hole's sake.

unpacked.
standing.
frozen threshold.
night has dawned
to feast on light.

silence reverberates.
autophagically.
circularly.
time over time.

there's nothing to life
that death knows not.
11.10.16
421 · Dec 2015
"Transblucency"*
chimaera Dec 2015
northern lights, purple
pulse of sidereal fairy
- dazed heart, clinging.
Haiku.
*Inspired by Duke Ellington's theme, with that same title. m.youtube.com/watch?v=P3thESerMbo

10.12.2015
418 · Aug 2016
Untitled
chimaera Aug 2016
splintered night,
the thorn tree
of stars,
all falling.

hours
of broken glass.
20.08.2016
418 · Dec 2015
none of nothing
chimaera Dec 2015
had a cup of tea
it was icy cold

mended a heart
it was out of date

looked up
there was nothing

took a peek within
it was wide shut

put it all to rest
went for a dock in blue
12.12.15
418 · Jan 2015
Vertigo
chimaera Jan 2015
i step down
(again)
from the mercy of hope

i enter the deepness
of invisibility

                               this
                     wintry
             frozen
landscape

here
        i stand
        blinded
all by myself

conjuring time and
its sourly blurring
of awareness
into a slight regret of
a what

and

as i drift afar       into the mist

i cry and it is okay
because
there
d        is
a
  o      no
r
24.1.2015
417 · Jun 2015
Un-delusional
chimaera Jun 2015
There is
no dark.
Nor light.

Just me.

Feeling.

Filled.
Empty.
Refilled.
Empty again.

**** it.
I am not a bottle!
Here,
watch me
splinting
a dumb heart.

There.
No dark.
Nor light.
2.6.2015
(Edited; 3.6.15)
417 · Jan 2015
DARKLING -1/5
chimaera Jan 2015
pantagruelian wait
for the roundness to
burst in pink flesh

a first kiss for air depriving
a first taste of cherry flesh
a first burble of soft bones
17.1.15
417 · Jan 2015
Utterance
chimaera Jan 2015
Once upon a time:
that was the story
never to be told

but a serotinal wind
made the falling leaves
fly and vivid colours

looked for a canvas.
Blurred and unimpressive,
the story remains unread.
20.1.2015
415 · Apr 2016
tombstone
chimaera Apr 2016
the burial.

another,
again.

there
will be
no tomorrow.

children die.

mothers bury
the unripe fruit
of their womb.

who has
turned out
the light?
18.4.2016
...beyond words
415 · Mar 2016
mirror talk
chimaera Mar 2016
take a full hand of words
in a worldly language
and sprinkle the lines
with as much of something
as you can; carefully,
not to split out.

if you reach a slight resemblance
to whatever you meant,
be happy and contented:
that's what you're allowed,
sometimes, but never more
than the transparency of an esquisse,
half-way to incompleteness.

still, you did your best
- and your best-outlined-somehow-you
will stand there, in the open,
a threshold no one really sees,
not even when you think they do.
*(the one in the mirror went silent.)
3.2.2016
4.3.2016
414 · Jun 2014
100°F
chimaera Jun 2014
stellar hellish heat,
earthly spread lassitude
- black hollowed core.
408 · Jan 2015
eating chocolat
chimaera Jan 2015
Salty,
like a misty drizzle
by the sea;
sour caramel,
a dark harsh yellow;
a silky roundness
of reddish sweet

- tickling lust.
1.1.2015
Once, I participated in a chocolat degustation and we were supposed to describe in words the different kind of chocolats; for this text,... just craving for some chocolat...
406 · Dec 2016
unspoken
chimaera Dec 2016
day falling
slightly
scented
moss
and dew

quietness
of a garden
bursting
yellowish brown
a redful will

a bench
on the side

its emptiness
its vacancy

i see it
6.12.16
405 · Sep 2015
the fool's paradise
chimaera Sep 2015
dared
to ink a voice,
dived
into echoes
of a mirage,
willingly,
delusional.

blue devils'
summoning
watchful censorship.

despondency?
no. the relief
of exiting myself.
24.09.2015
404 · May 2014
In between subway stations
chimaera May 2014
Took my seat as usually, an old broken
puppet in a shelf, left alone, staring around.

And this girl is walking and now she seats
right in front of me.

Renaissance white blouse.
Brown almond soft skin.
Wet red lips.

She looks right into my eyes.

We smile.
No.
We laugh. Openly.

If I had lean towards her
we would have kissed.

I can feel her lips,
I am sure
she would taste
like cherries,
her skin fresh
as a breeze
smoothly warmed
on my leaning.

We should have kissed.

If I wasn’t I.

And I shiver,
leaving the train
thinking of her
all this time after.
404 · Jan 2015
Last
chimaera Jan 2015
[for Ellie's book poem challenge]*

In last,
the brat
pointed
to the slate,
to the grid
chalked there.

"And then
he found a way out
of the maze!",
he said,

and as he spoke
he erased a line
in that last square.

He smiled,
toothless,
to his best friend:

now
both of them
had it wrong
but that cage
of loneliness
was open wide
- at last!
2.2.2015
Picked a iBook from Agatha Christie... Totally random.
Ellie's challenge here: http://hellopoetry.com/poem/1019852/book-poem-challenge/
403 · May 2016
lapsus
chimaera May 2016
took that train,
just had to,
took the steps
on my free will
or whatever
and jumped in.

what a ride,
i tell you,
what a ride.

but dizziness
is just a blur
and that's why
i'm erasing
the bridge,
ahead.
09.05.2016
402 · Jan 2017
misfitting
chimaera Jan 2017
blank ink

hiccup

split
        slip
flee

no flight

nor fight
3.1.2017
401 · Dec 2015
ripple
chimaera Dec 2015
a witting clap
echoes

flocks of letters
take flight

words'
remainders
to gather

to lit a fire
within the night

smoke
above the canopies
4.12.2015
401 · Jan 2016
undecipherable
chimaera Jan 2016
one by one,
all the lines
of her silence,
manuscripted,
brought
before him,

one by one,
all the lines
on her hand palm,
all of her lives,
bringing her
before him.

and one by one,
all of it,
dropping,
down the royal
stairs, into stone,
before him.
9.1.2015
397 · Feb 2015
umbra
chimaera Feb 2015
to my dear me,
appearing still in three d

i remember you
playing catch with me
trying to out run me
childishly and laughing

i remember you
grimacing a svelter figure
composing a pose
with some lover

i notice often now your alarm
for this unidimensional you
gets plural in the downing of days
and you look for which of me is you then

but which of you is me then
is really what's troubling you
because don't you see it you're growing flat
and i surely dream not of roundness

so dear me in such a
dimension of extinction
oblige me and let me catch you
you my antumbra from my point of view

you run out of light i am a lesser pale shade of you
we know we shall fully fit into a penumbra

                                                       ­                                  your devoted shadow
3.2.2015
~~~
1.
umbra - Latin, meaning 'shadow'
antumbra - Latin; an annular eclipse, in which a bright ring is visible around the eclipsing body. If the observer moves closer to the light source, the apparent size of the occluding body increases until it causes a full umbra. (http://en.m.wikipedia.org)
2.
inspired by a poetry prompt by Poets&Writers;.org
397 · Nov 2014
Escapee
chimaera Nov 2014
I take my pencil
and draw two lines,
two points of escape
into the horizon line.

I draw a road
to walk through
the white blindness
of time.

I picture myself
on the road,
two points of leakage
behind, to drain the void.

Happily I get lost,
in the round bend of the road,
and become a hobo
in a new found equator.
5.11.2014
396 · Jan 2016
orpheline
chimaera Jan 2016
je t'ai jamais dit
maman
et on était
plutôt amères
on était peut-être
jalouses
ta vie dérobée
ma vie saisie
par la peur
de quoi
je n'en sais rien
je t'ai jamais dit
maman
il nous a fallu
un mot
un geste
et moi
je suis restée là
dans ce geste inachevé
où j'ai vidé ce que
je t'ai jamais dit
16.01.2016
This popped suddenly, after being moved by the reading of HEIRLOOM, by FJ Davis - http://hellopoetry.com/poem/1525767/heirloom/

No translation offered, I apologise.
392 · Sep 2015
We about to die
chimaera Sep 2015
Worldly life picks out
each one of us:
the main character
upon a stage for delusion.

Cheers and spotlights,
special effects solace;
frights, fights, sighs,
all but blind spots.

Main characters
of make-believe...!
Wordy life feed on us:
now you are, now you are not.
02.09.2015
The title is inspired on the Latin quote "Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant" (we about to die salute you).
388 · Oct 2014
Plainte de la mal-aimée*
chimaera Oct 2014
Are you the man I dreamt about?
I do not know
because you are the man
I chose to love
the way you were.

Yes, my life once had a glow,
I shined in the light of a purpose.
I expected us to be unexpected
and to smile at each other
in the discovery of that change
taking place in an invisible way.

You hold my love, you say,
but you don't hold me as then
in fear of losing me,
making sure I was for real.

We kept moving through time
side by side, insulated alone,
both choosing silencing ourselves,
avoiding convulsions,
suicidally.

Love is a hopeless fool.
Can you not see it in my eyes?
There is an eternal longing,
yes, for feeling to be loved.
This does not feel to be loved.
Unloved, lying next to you,
I am cold. You are cold.
One can not disguise
loneliness.
*A sort of a dialogue with Paul Chafer's poem 'Loved No More'
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/873498/loved-no-more/
387 · May 2014
Plain thought
chimaera May 2014
Love is but a superstition
on wich we create ordinary magic,
a glow over grey lonelyness.
387 · May 2014
Autotomy (*)
chimaera May 2014
First,
i broke my legs,
seemed you wouldn't stand
me being on my feet.

Then,
i abandoned my hands,
all my dids had fawls,
you pointed it out.

My voice wrinkled
as hoarsely you wanted
me quiet.

Finally,
i slipped my zipper
and let go of my will.

The day that bird
crossed my estrangement,
i took the golden azureous (")
of its passing by
and gave birth to myself.

Trying out my wings,
you now gaze at me
and still your blindness
will not allow you to see.

To love is a clarity,
a insight,
an offer of sanctuary
to our lover.

Would you know it...?

The wind claims my wings.
Irisdescence
composes my chant
and my chant summons life.

And i leave.
(*) Autotomy (from the Greek auto- "self-" and tome "severing") or self amputation is the behaviour whereby an animal sheds or discards one or more of its own appendages, usually as a self-defense mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape. The lost body part may be regenerated later. [en.wikipedia.org]
(") 'golden azureous' is a colour i first knew by my favourite poet, aka afc.
385 · Sep 2015
curling up
chimaera Sep 2015
i tried, oh i tried
to reach out

did you not
notice?
the hummingbirds!


still

this metallic cold
of not belonging

never again
to be kissed
11.09.2015
385 · Apr 2015
scenical
chimaera Apr 2015
do you WANT to live?
do YOU want to live?
10w
15.4.2015
384 · Jul 2014
Expectance
chimaera Jul 2014
I wonder... Have you
aged enough, upon grief,
came to love this matching heart?
katauta (poetry types: shadowpoetry.com)
382 · Feb 2015
on weight
chimaera Feb 2015
buried my feet
in the river bed
deep in a freezing time
incapable to choose to flow or drown

got rid from the sand
looked for wings
tried a life-lift in the aurora
the heart heavy on a love consistency

neither sandy or fancy
could ground me or root me
all fails its gravity pull
extraneously i stare the flutter of my feet
22.2.2015
379 · Jun 2016
Star dust
chimaera Jun 2016
Ah, to be like
a twinkling star!

You are
no longer there,
outgrew
the waiting,
poured the
wishing.

**** it.
No dream catchers
nowadays.
10.06.2016
378 · Feb 2016
in the deep
chimaera Feb 2016
days' rock.

heavier, as
Sisyphus' one.

i'll go to sleep,
now.

please.
03.02.2016
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