Interesting - Hello Poetry

Oct 2021

Carlo C Gomez

Root of All Evil

Money may not
grow on trees
But far too many people
are willing to go
out on a limb for it

#satire #sarcasm #humor #funny #idiom #money #tree #evil

Oct 2021

Esther

when darkness sat down next to me

lights flicker
in the distance
far far below

I’m here
looking down on it all
wrapped in a blanket
a book lies next to me
pages flipping themselves
in the cool summer breeze
inside are the sounds of life
outside are the sounds
of the questioning
the air is filled
with random notes
fluttering around me
like guardian angels
I know why they’re here

darkness
sat down
next to me
to keep me company
we look at the flickering lights
in the distance
he tells me
you’d do fine down there
if you wanted to
be a light
surrounded by light
but then he shifts his gaze
the moonlight
dancing through his being
but you’d do great
up there
be a light
where no one has dared to be
and with that
he left

#darkness #light #depression #hope

Oct 2021

dawid

Mirror

I think my demons are just my own
Too revolting for you to be shown,
Yet in the mirror their twins play,
In you, in exactly the same way.

Oct 2021

Artemis

She Knew

she knew then
the ways of this world

she knew then
of clenched fists

she knew then
her future
her place
her face, and all the weight that it carried

she knew then
of all the doors shut

she knew
she knew
she knew

of incomparable power

of beautiful strength

of divinity and all that is sacred

of wisdom and benevolence

she knew
she knows
we know

so she straightened her crown and rose

Oct 2021

daúd

love sonnets : one blues.

i do not sing the storm. i do not sing rage, wrath
the lightning bolt, the scream. Despair i do not sing
i do not sing struggle–revenge poisonous blast–
the hurricane, the quake that tears the city of peace

i do not sing no border. i do not sing no flag
i do not sing no warrior but she that fights all fear
Poverty & sickness-night, the blade, the club, the trap
blows, wounds, cries, lies, bursts & war-blood i do not sing

i do not sing despise for any thing or being
i do not praise no richness no governors, no kings
From all this flower-garden i pick one single rose:
creation is just dew upon the rose of love

i celebrate one flame. i only sing one blues:
the flame of endless loving with you & only you

#love #woman #women #sadness #heartbreak #you #forever #relationships #lovers #song

Sep 2021

silentwoods

Moon Face

She watches me
as I illuminate her
head on the pillow,
still cornering the daylight
into the rear window.

She lays, outstretched,
filling the back seat of the car
with unwrapped thoughts,
too deep;
my rays can only reach so far.

Her sleepy eyelids blink
at me in question.
A suggestion?
I hide my face behind a cloud.
"'till soon," I whisper.
I'm only just a surface moon.

Sep 2021

raphæl

language

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#dialogue #haiku #575 #image #poetry #music #language

Sep 2021

Shubhankar Mathur

Greet

Midnight
I'm out for a stroll,
I greet the devil
Out there collecting souls.

these dreams that I'm having maybe the best I've ever had.

Or wait...

Am I the devil and there is no dream?

#midnight #walk #devil #soul #dreams

Sep 2021

Aishu

The wait