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Jan 2021 · 301
Wordy
Colm Jan 2021
Words carry me and coerce me
Drive me further away and on
They ever emplore me
Never employ me
Help to diversify me
And occasionally to yawn
Not just the at but with the person
I am impersonating myself
A staggering man
A sentenceless soul
A distant floodlight casting clouds
No word were ever a cry for help
Jan 2021 · 226
The Actor
Colm Jan 2021
How can you be someone else
If you don't know every side
And corner of your own self
?
Colm Jan 2021
Fields ache to be remembered
Just as moons howl and kernels crack
And waters bubble into rivers

Wide the view of the passing deer
Of the night so strong
That cold thoughts can endure forever
Jan 2021 · 151
When She Won't Ask Or Speak
Colm Jan 2021
Speak me a sound
  Not so that I can hear
  Or so that you can seem
  To be more interested in me
But speak to my heart
  And appeal to my mind
  And ask questions of my eyes
So that maybe we both could believe
That one day neither of us could be alone
Mhhhhhh
Colm Dec 2020
The sky doesn't ache for rain
So much
As the earth
(In all of its cold rotational truth)
Aches for the distant sunlight burn
Dec 2020 · 130
The Human Temptation
Colm Dec 2020
The duality of life
Of want, of business, and of busyness
Is so tempting
So intoxicating to live
By human standards and spontaneousness
For all of those sequential things
Which lead us to death anyway
Dec 2020 · 221
Forgottenisms
Colm Dec 2020
If you loved me - then - it's not me
I've already come and gone and went
Dec 2020 · 61
Prior Sight
Colm Dec 2020
Even when you look at me
Do you see me
Or do you see only
The years and years of your own idealism
Projected upon my being now.
Dec 2020 · 49
Foreplay Words
Colm Dec 2020
More direct than ***
In personal space to be found
F.  I.  N.  D.
Is mind to mind
Eye to eye
And soul for having found in each others parts the whole
A series about closeness . Not ****, just truth.
Colm Dec 2020
Wood takes years to sink
As sap turns slow to stone over time
Unknown highs
The kind which are not easier seen
But are known to the sky as common sights
Be it high or low expectations abound

It is harder still than all of these trees
More fermented than
To love someone for who they are
And not what you think of them
Or what you expect them to do
(For someone else the likes you)
Started with : "Stones and trees are hard as these. To let expectations go of another."
Dec 2020 · 61
Reflectivemake
Colm Dec 2020
You're a gleaming coin in a wishing fountain
A reflection of God to me
Dec 2020 · 53
Commotionn
Colm Dec 2020
How can I hear
Past the noise of all beings
?
If my own being cannot be
In quiet breathing
?
I can't
.
Dec 2020 · 56
Glistening Comets
Colm Dec 2020
Would you be my stars?
Glistening comets in full admiration of
Me, looking upwards having found
The only essence of luminescent
I ever could wish to see
And in being (together) feel
Dang
Colm Dec 2020
The snow light bright lays down beneath, looking up at these blues, with your brown eyes so deep and bright. And time, time is but a memory felt within a dream of oneself. And in believing this found therein our reflective sight.
Our eyes saw each other long before we first met.

This is my favorite thing for this particular day.

Mhmmmmm.
Dec 2020 · 53
At The End Of All Things
Colm Dec 2020
One day you'll look at yourself
And see a stranger staring back
In wonderment and awe no more
You there, reborn, will see yourself upon arrival
Having finally reached at last, the last
https://youtu.be/eOcofbse3dg
Colm Dec 2020
A fire never burns
Nearly as bright as when it's
First memory's lit
Meaning - Your youthful passion will always be memorable, because it was first and foremost YOURS. Your youth.
Dec 2020 · 41
Rain Fail
Colm Dec 2020
Expecting the next words [you taste] to save you. Is like praying for rain to [never] stop, and it will.
A little think about how nearly every mortal thing will always let you down. The high, the event, even the pen. Only God can.
Colm Dec 2020
There are days when breathing is not a thought.
And others where breathing is all I wish to be.
Present.
Me.
Sometime nothing is an addictive thing. Least to me.
Dec 2020 · 42
Unwinding Now, Out
Colm Dec 2020
Tampering like a kitten string
   Like a ball of yarn, I am, unwound
And in sinking now
   Into a bath of bygone grace
Of comings, and goings, and beings, and nothings
   As of made last night, late decisions by candles, unsound
Here in my weakness, drying, stretching out
   My tired mind unveiled to you
Go ahead with enjoyment
   My indulgence, go ahead
And have fun with me now
As a visual person, I tend to write best when I think less. Letting the words come alive based on just one or two things. Sometimes it's an image, or a feeling, or both. Yes, this one is both.
Dec 2020 · 75
Would You?
Colm Dec 2020
Would I say it then
If given the chance?
And risk the inevitable nothing
Would you

Give up all the unknowing and happenstance
To be with me alive
And for more than for this one instance
In mind

If yesterday was just a blink of an eye
And a new future we could hold creates itself
Would you?
Would you be mine
https://youtu.be/TS1c_sRqUrY
Colm Dec 2020
Snow knows no depth
Nor showers embrace
Like the sea at peace
Or the rivers mid run

For the coldest thing
Ever moreso than
These distant relatives embrace
Is this coffee in hand

It is happily so

[chilled to perfection]
Cold Coffee is gold.

Also - Here's the best Christmas song of the decade:
https://youtu.be/ozXb10fOi2A
Dec 2020 · 112
Breathing In Cold Circles
Colm Dec 2020
My heart knows no hatred
My loss no existence
There is only snow, and ash, and rain, and waters flow
In this directional way no more
I am contented and lost
Happily there with what I do and do not know
https://youtu.be/U289oHsEe6Q

I really struggle sometimes. To pause the thought, to be in the moment, etc. But this song really gets me for whatever reason.

So? So I gift it to you. Have cigar. Even if you don't smoke. The taste of life is what really matters.
Colm Dec 2020
I told my heartbeat not to beat
To hold its breath in quietness
And keep its chest in evenness
I told my heartbeat not to beat
And yet it has betrayed me still
By not being even but in a mess

[at seeing you]
I love [this]
Dec 2020 · 47
Battlefield
Colm Dec 2020
The day it's easy
To convey such depth
Is the invested day
Vested far beyond this
And is fiercely won
Words and meanings
Dec 2020 · 73
Bending Time and Song
Colm Dec 2020
I wish that time itself
Were a different meaning
A commodity I could bend and turn
Into a completely different existence being
And in nonsense found
The most sensible singers
Pleading to be heard again, together and
In such looks there can only be the one understandable meaning meant
You glance is haunting
And our seeing is what leads me to be
What nudges me towards believing
Dec 2020 · 50
Loss of Sensation
Colm Dec 2020
I don't want much
Or need another to hold my hand
There's not much left to be found of us
(Thank God)
I just want to taste
I just want to be able to smell the sky again
A virus
Dec 2020 · 30
Walking Through And Thru
Colm Dec 2020
It was always this way but you never knew that, did you?
Even now as you walk through my world on a whim
On your own terms because you can't handle mine
My own colors and their dark crashing imbued
Shine as a single sunset this particular way
But you never saw it as such
And I know it to be so
Dec 2020 · 129
Closet Doors
Colm Dec 2020
Put my ghost to bed already.
It's half past two
and we
are neither of us, young.
My ex stopped by the other day, and my not being near by for once kind of paid off. Because her visit seemed all too inclusive for me. Almost rude to her CURRENT to even mention our PAST. Like, really? Five years of silence and then suddenly a vocal hello? RIP ancient memory, I put you out of my buried mind about five years ago. Why didn't you do the same?

So yea, that was Monday hahaha.
Colm Dec 2020
The most beautiful words my former self said
Echo in memory
And in painted mind shine
An unapologetic sun glows bright in the sky
And I'm blessed with the sight
Of "I don't"
https://youtu.be/zpuw64tEONc

"Don't waste your time on me, you're already nothing, not even a voice inside my head. Thank God."

(: (: (: (:
Dec 2020 · 142
Never Aware (of self)
Colm Dec 2020
Does the ocean know where its own heart is?
Or the sand their numbers?
Or the rain its downfall?
No, not at all
It doesn't think of such things at all
Dec 2020 · 27
White Pillow Skye
Colm Dec 2020
Your stars never crossed over into my universe
Not for a second of time shown true
In the upward skylight of my eyes

If seeing this is believing in you
Then I caught only a glimpse
Of the truth in mind

Yet your stars never crossed over into my universe
Of which I am over the not of it
And that's alright
"Okay it's alright with me some things are just meant to be
It never comes easily and when it does I'm already gone"
Dec 2020 · 54
Real-ization
Colm Dec 2020
Dark days have crept slowly into the month of my mind, and with spring so far away I just don't know, how my summer hope will survive.
Real-ization
Dec 2020 · 36
The Mortal Second Thought
Colm Dec 2020
Words can never hold you
Like immortal arms can try
Or comforting words can pretend to keep
Everlasting as the books which fall short of life

Much emphasis on this mortal can
This inevitable, always, will try

Humans, right?
https://youtu.be/1iHhWh9FtsQ
Dec 2020 · 41
Ping Me
Colm Dec 2020
Your emotion isn't poetry
But your poetry should be an emote
Uninspired, I know
Dec 2020 · 39
Nadadada
Colm Dec 2020
Nothing has [a] name
A place
A feeling known as me
[In quarintine]
Nadadada
Dec 2020 · 56
Holes In The Clouds
Colm Dec 2020
Pointed hopes
Peirce skies above
And in colorful fallings
Reach the pinnacle of scope

We are seen most only when we glow
Holes In The Clouds
Dec 2020 · 37
PLATFORM
Colm Dec 2020
When God
Reaches down
And wraps your voice
Your arm, your mind
In a gifted shroud
Nobody cares about your small, petty, human politics stupid
Just go out and wow the crowd
PLATFORM
Colm Dec 2020
I've been so quiet and tired
so cold and concerned
with somethingness
that all I want is warmth
and a nonexistence for a little bit
nothing in this somethingness
Dec 2020 · 145
A Feeling
Colm Dec 2020
Even when I'm nothing
This something
Drives me
Mad
Nada
Dec 2020 · 48
Repetitious Me
Colm Dec 2020
Some paths are too well tread for me
And through other thrown
In the woods of obsession known
Are remembered by me all too well
Repetitious Me
Nov 2020 · 54
Flower Beth
Colm Nov 2020
Of all the flowers a bee could breathe
And visit in secret
Without nest or nectar knowing
You all the opposite of calm and to be expected
Smell sweetly dulcet and intoxicating
Being ever drawn back like a buzz
As only you could ever be
Nov 2020 · 61
A Personal Thing
Colm Nov 2020
All of the hopeful desires to be
Cannot be
When I see you there
And in the future unseen
See
close to one's chest
Nov 2020 · 45
I Want A Warmth To Share
Colm Nov 2020
Fitfully, I'm am the frosted earth
Cold as winter lace falling songlessly
Looking up at the sun in surface, longingly

How I wish to be a bright furnace now, fiery  
Holding fast to the solemn heat abound
Hopefully, within our bed to be found

Yet I am cold
I haven't been beside someone like that in YEARS. Miss it.
Nov 2020 · 105
Droplets Come and Go
Colm Nov 2020
Feelings like rain
fall regularly
flood haphazardly
and last sparingly

(on this human floor)
"My warrant is the Word of God--
Naught else is worth believing."
Nov 2020 · 69
D R E A M
Colm Nov 2020
At each unending end
When the night is darkest fair in the eyes of men
And the sight of it becomes meme
Whisper nothing but dreams
Breathing it's something of value
Into the ears of the dying day behind you
Good night and joy
https://youtu.be/eisW0skJ9fU

6-12-8 / 6-8-12
Colm Nov 2020
Music patters everywhere
Underneath little feet and rain alike
In falling, falling, falling out
This sound it pours directly from
The trumpet of my soul
https://youtu.be/yB8o-TiofLo

I'm tired.
Nov 2020 · 155
Itisanend
Colm Nov 2020
The best thing is. At the end of the day. It ends.
Nov 2020 · 84
Anthem
Colm Nov 2020
I am that which trades time
For opportunity
Love for freedom
And hate for impartial passion
A future oriented person. One who sacrifices the NOW for chance to strive forward in the future.

It's not a negative thing or bad way of living. It's just my perspective and preference.
Colm Nov 2020
Regardless of those outcomes
These comings and goings of great joy and unpleasantry  
Sing as my heartstrum stings
Bow and my base drum rows
For regardless of today aloud
Would you just be with me
My world for-unever in being

Together we'll forget the how
Having a great day? I rejoice with you. Having a horrible day? I suffer with you. Regardless of these and all of THIS. Can we just sit together for a moment and be still? Be chill?

https://youtu.be/rCFmLjGq3Jg
Nov 2020 · 86
Immortal Feelings
Colm Nov 2020
In a world full of arrogance and immortal feeling
It's so easy to forget how very mortal we are
Mhm
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