Poems that Speak to Me - Hello Poetry

Oct 2014

calpurnia mockingbird

Freedom

I emerge from the cocoon of your chilled form with music in my knowing smile. My heart blossoms and beats without restraint. There is a sweetness to the air I cannot place, an electricity, tangible on the stirring breeze. My eyes lift to the heavens, grateful for the lack of salt that has marred their vision for so many years. I am all. I am everything caught whirling in this softening glow, this haze of glory mine to keep for all lifetimes that pass in the blink of wondered eyes. I embrace the morning with a love unfettered and know that she is mine. This is freedom.

Woke up with a grin, being single is better that being miserable....took a while but I get that now. Onwards and upwards! :-)

Oct 2014

one llucy

Telescope

Why is everything I desire miles away?

Only to be seen through a looking glass.

Who would have guessed I was blind,

And looking through the wrong side of a telescope?

All along I thought my happiness was just
                                                                         out
                                                                                 of
                                                                                      reach.

Oct 2014

SG Holter

Driftwood. World of Snow

I'm a man of lucid
Nightmares; this time
Lost in a world of snow

With nothing to keep me warm
But the piece of unlikely driftwood
I held on to for its familiarity alone,

Sobbing into it; tears softening its
Brittle texture until it transformed,
Became flesh and skin and pulse,

And whispered, as its twigs moved
Against my chest, my name with
Slight concern; either for me or

Her own lack of sleep.
I kissed her elbow, released her arm
And left the bedroom to watch the

Rain dance on the stage of the
Streetlit pavement outside the window,
And thus celebrate reality, where I can

Sit and listen to something breathe that
Loves me so intensely that my absence
Would be a world of

Snow, without a single piece
Of driftwood to
Cling to.

Oct 2014

The Messiah Complex

God Only Helps Those...

"I won't help you nor your brother
till you both get right with god"

My sister asking you for help
should have brought out any goodness
you had left inside, not this rancor and bitter swill

It's times like this I weep
it's times like this that I wonder
if heaven exists, what will we find
behind the curtain and the booming voice?

I am not a perfect soul
but the goodness inside me
yearns to grow without promise of
reward or threat of repercussion

One day you will either receive retribution
or you will just cease to exist
either way, I hope you find the peace
that the cancer you call religion, could never give you

Oct 2014

Silence Screamz

The Story (Part 1, Home)

This is my story,
so it will be.
Open your eyes,
but don't cry for me.

Started at five,
dad home from work
I had to grab him a beer,
oh, what a ****!!

Everyday he came home,
more drinks would follow,
off came the belt,
making me hollow.

Yelling commenced,
my mom on the floor,
"What did you say,
You ******* *****! !"

My screams were but silent,
in my own empty head.
Get out of this place,
wished I was dead.

Many years did follow,
of abuse on the walls,
Pounding and slamming,
No crying no calls

I never did laugh
and never did smile.
Just went to school,
getting by for awhile.

This is Part 1 of 4!!
You will see my demons and why I write!!

#home #alcohol #abuse #violence

Oct 2014

The Messiah Complex

Tell Us

Tell us how you really feel

Tell us how you believe black people
originated from god cursing Cain
Tell us how you think

"It's the children that suffer
from interracial relationships, because
it confuses them and they don't know
which race to embrace"

Tell us how you believe the poor
"Should just stop being lazy"

How teenage girls should just accept
responsibility for their decisions
while refusing to listen to their pleas for help
after the baby is born into your cruel world

Tell us again, how your god
doesn't pick and choose
the winners and losers
in this ****** up life

"God gave us free-will,
the evil in the world is our own doing"

Tell us how saying a prayer
is more acceptable than
actually giving a ****
about your fellow man

I am looking for a reason to believe
*just tell us....

I'll agree with one thing you said. The evil in this world is our doing and I was always taught that if you aren't a part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.

Oct 2014

Raj Arumugam

I visited your page

I visited your page
to read your poems
(I thought you'd like to know)
but they were so lost
in a very long list of poems
by so many other poets
and so down and down I went
digging and digging
to find you
in your page
but hey, it was too much bother
(yes, you can take me to task for it)
diving so deep to find you
so I just aborted and clicked away

Don't blame me - I can only hold my breath
for so long when I go free-diving;
and if I dig too long, I get a bad back

I thought you might like to know

#poets #page

Oct 2014

wordvango

My best friend

My best friend shares all her toys.
She doesn't play with the older boys.
On rainy days,
we play inside.
hide and seek-
(I'm smiling now,)
and I- spy,
are our two most favorites.

I cry on the days
she tells me she can't
come out to play.

Oct 2014

Poetic T

What Is A Truth 10W

What
Is
The
Truth,
But
A
Better lie painted white.

#truth #lie #better #shades

Oct 2014

Poetic T

Swimming In Balloons

I was swimming in a sea
Of balloons
They were
Ocean
Blue
&
White
I tried to hold on but
Always slipping under
The white would slip off
the many blues
And hit like a
Feather
Shaped
Brick
Many more would fall
I tried to breath
But the latex water
Suffocating,
Asphyxiating,
Breathless,
As each rolled off my face.
I was in a ocean of
Balloons,
But they kept floating down
Knocking the air from my lungs,
I swam,
I drifted,
As the white wall faded
Sinking to the bottom
The weight too much,
To float as the blue,
I was swimming in balloons,
Now floating face down
Suffocated by the endless blue..

#life #death #blue #white #water #balloons #suffocate #balloon-series

Oct 2014

Louise

'Someday'

~

Vague thoughts of you
leave a lingering taste
on my tongue

Thoughts of you
'there',
memories of you
'somewhere far away'

They merge
so delicately
and with such
a tenderness,
yet are still laced
with a sadness
that lingers on my tongue also

Unable now, to remember
the exact moments
I'm trying to forget

Someday
I'll recall them
but will I want to,
will I need to
when all I have here
is the 'now'
a place
where the past will never be.

~

Aaargh!!! Haven't put pen to paper in ages!!!
(not sure what's happened)

Oct 2014

Jack

Just left of the sunrise

~

Here I rest on this soft shoulder of desire,
hitch hiking to places I’ve only dreamt,
due north of where I used to be,
just left of the sunrise,
near the still waters
where stones have been skipped
and ripples encircle these thoughts of
what if…

Oct 2014

Anubis the Philosomancer

Subject to Interpritation

Truest of Love
gets willingly
on it's knees.

;D