invite everyone 2 - Hello Poetry

May 2018

PoserPersona

The Cliché of Smelling Roses

"Stop and smell the roses" is an ironic cliché,
cause when doing so literally, it is strange?

Inspired by my smelling flowers out on a walk and getting weird looks.

#stop #smell #roses #cliche #expression #literal #strange #metaphor #irony #funny

May 2018

PoserPersona

Eulogy to a Dichter

The fertile weighs less than the barren
Exquisite fruits crumble placid stones
The farmer induces their own famine
Seeds may be perpetually sown

The costs of a cultivated spirit
are greater than its untilled counter,
yet produces a boundless harvest.
How do the fields fare, neighbor?

"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living hand to mouth" -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fertile #barren #fruit #stone #spirit #famine #harvest #produce #cultivate #neighbor

May 2018

grim-raven

ex nihilo

everything in life is changing
so how could we find
a stable answer
to a changing thing

there's so many layers of uncertainty
but what we can do
for sure
is live the best lives
we can
within our means
and be fearless
and loving
because we will be back
someday
after all the chaos and darkness
we will be back

a 27 year old stranger's wisdom

#existential #crisis #life #questions #weird #**** #wisdom #thoughts

May 2018

grim-raven

Another ****** Story

When a stroke killed their own
A shadow from afar
Left a tiny gray spark
Kid hanging from his feet
Begging for mercy
Begging for life
Blood bursting out of his veins
While wings of murderer spread in delight
While his face, paralyzed with fear
And others crying in panic

His heart stopped beating
His lungs ran out of air
His body stopped fighting
And nobody tried to dare

#killing

May 2018

grim-raven

Aokigahara

I’m tangled within a sea of trees
and lost with no markings or guides,
I have once read about
history absorbing
the dense and porous lava,
once in this land
as it does me now
providing my sense of solitude

#suicide #forest #japan

May 2018

PoserPersona

Tell Me How Not Why

Million goals set in store
To win your heart back once more
Raise my stock, my self esteem
Never enough, it sadly seems

It's time now...
I know why... But how?
Not to get over it as they say,
but rather accept it. Find a new way

"If Manes can live without Diogenes, why not Diogenes without Manes?" - Diogenes the Dog

#breakup #lost #love #sad #acceptance #transition #self #esteem #goals #stock

May 2018

PoserPersona

Marching of the World Spirit

Living in the dark, yet afraid of the shadows;
  cast forth from the stars of a mystic scintillant soul

Knowledge illuminates the scholar's glass window;
  scorches the brush of the ignoramus's finite goals

Remember, however, all fields exist as fractals;
   pursue to infinity and perceive the worm's crawl

Brothers and sisters, united in life's shackles;
  the universe's fixed physical laws constrain all

Though collectively, mankind strives for heaven's lenses;
  forever advancing Hegel's romantic world essence

#ignorance #cultivate #infinity #romantic #world #spirit #knowledge #mankind #universe #soul

May 2018

PoserPersona

Palindrome's Irony

A palindrome isn't a palindrome, intriguingly
How can that be?
That something isn't itself by definition, literally
...Am I really me?

#irony #palindrome #intriguing #literally #me #be #definition

May 2018

PoserPersona

Bridge of the Golden Gates

Was denied a request
    to live a life of bliss

        Away from this stupid mess
         to receive a final wish

       This is a way to death,
        but it is no way to live

   Healing waters pierce one's brain
   absolve one of existing pain

  Falling from one Golden Gate
to potentially the next

In reference to the Golden Gate Bridge and it's infamous suicidal allure.

#golden #gate #bridge #suicide #falling #pain #death #depression #mental #illness

May 2018

PoserPersona

I Lie with my Lover

We lied in bed together
Never catching a breather
You called me.... Baby
You said that... You love me

To blue eyes,
Mistress lied
But I can't really blame you
I do the same to me, too

#lying #lie #blame #love #breathe #bed #eyes #mistress #homonym #homograph