Poems of the Real World

Dec 2018

ryn

Give me a minute
To read the stars
Lamenting in their stories
Their laboured twinkling far and sparse

Give me this moment
To stumble and swoon
My branches reaching for
The faraway moon

Give me a while
To be one with the universe
Hear the colliding planets
As they spill their mournful verse

Give me some time
To plot my rightful place
Within my uncharted galaxy
And collapsing space...

#alone #time #stars #space #thinking #universe #reflection #planets

Dec 2018

Lance

Why Write.

I write for my past.
To make up for my present
I write for love
To show their beauty.

I write about my sins
To make up my mistakes

Dec 2018

Lora Lee

fragile heart moon

This fragile heart
sometimes bursts into
the tiniest shards
of infinity
clear as crystal light
yet empty
as an ocean, waterless
longing
to be filled and filled
over and over
as I would fill you
to the brim
overflowing with
enough life
and love to heal
a thousand
aching moons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnXkMNyc794

Dec 2018

Victor Bucarizza

In Heaven

I searched through the clouds,
Behind the crystal throne,
Beyond the ivory gates that Peter first welcomed me through.

I asked every angel I knew,
Gabriel wasn't sure,
Michael said he'd check,
And Lucifer wasn't in.

I interrupted the Almighty,
And even bothered his son.
Neither of them knew.

I've searched everywhere that eyes can see.

This must be Hell,
Because I cannot find you.

#heaven #hell

Dec 2018

mel

advice

all I ask of you,
don't buy me flowers.
take me to a garden.
for I get sad when they die.
when they are ripped
from their roots
in the ground.
their time for
growing is up.
they can no longer
have conversations
with the sun
or the grass
or the rain
as it kisses them
so softly.

Dec 2018

Eden

she’s in my soul.

your pathetic apologies did not
save you then,
your pitiful threats of war do not
save you now,
you are lucky i carry the mercy
of a mother in my soul.

because if i didn’t,
i would pull the rain from the clouds
and drown you in their sorrows.

#anger #sad #fire #tragic #truth #destruction

Dec 2018

Emma P

Shades of Gray

From the dust of chaos comes order,
For in that rubble, ideas are gleaned.
From the bright light of death comes the darkness of life,
From us comes everything in between.

#paradox #humanity #humans #life #death

Dec 2018

Sofie

like my dreams

you've changed
like my dreams at night

they used to be sweet
now they're haunting me