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Colm Nov 2020
Don't tell me you were just a dream
That the skies you showed me were not bright
As dawn could eventually be.

And in growing day don't for a moment say
That our eyes were not brightened
By the sight of each other.

That our time was not spent wisely in
These discussions spanned
By the making of flowers grow again.

We power the world
We spin the tides
With just the understanding behind our different colored eyes.

Don't tell me you were just a dream
Now that my mind is certainly open wide
Like moons over the mountains high.

The ache is a wish — would you let me stay
Just to wallow in this mirrored time
For a little bit longer by each others side?
Sorry, I can't really speak anymore. But if you're there. Feel free to slow your heartrate, and read to this beat for full effect. Cya!

https://youtu.be/pStQo3YQPqg
Nov 2020 · 52
Insatiable Me
Colm Nov 2020
Put a river before me, dry
   I drink
   An insatiable sea I'll be

Set a star between myself and my sky
   And watch
   And wait
   And see (what I will be)
Nov 2020 · 45
Breathing Water
Colm Nov 2020
Sometimes
All a man can do is
B R E A T H E

Be with the current
Atop the stream
And alive within the breeze

Sometimes
All a man can do is
B E
Nov 2020 · 42
Consistently Away
Colm Nov 2020
I know you're running
Never still
Because I can see your feet
From this distance beneath
I know you're running
Even still
Nov 2020 · 60
A Tired Heartbeat
Colm Nov 2020
I am both here and nowhere
Inside these words and out
Lost in a questioning, wondering, how
To be free of something that will be
To be like snow and water and cloud
To be a bit more of a pragmatist free
To be something un
Somethint that isn't all about me
Preferably now
Sleep please. More sleep.
Oct 2020 · 92
BRIGHT
Colm Oct 2020
Sometimes you just have to sit there silently
Outside or near the tallest windows true
Just to let the light shine inward again
Just to find yourself feeling  
Once there alive in being
Through and through
Find me by tall windows, always
Oct 2020 · 62
Umm Yup
Colm Oct 2020
In nether regions
Downward last
In valleys carved
And chartreuse hopes
I wish to be
There in you
Umm
Oct 2020 · 54
Pouring In And Out
Colm Oct 2020
Eventually you'll find
That after every doubt and waining fear
Has been stripped away
That time is all and good for your soul
And that jazz is just good coffee for your ears
Findings
Oct 2020 · 39
Wishes Break
Colm Oct 2020
I can see the way you'd remeber me
So clearly in my mind awake

I can see the truth before me fall
And into self and to its pieces break
Yup. Just happened. Guilty.
Oct 2020 · 36
The Truth Above
Colm Oct 2020
Sometimes boys just want these eyes alive
And men, men want to write about women
And moon and stars and skies
Above
Oct 2020 · 90
Five Of Five
Colm Oct 2020
By my own hand, self-oblivion comes.
By my own mind, undone or wound.
By a question asked, all is lost of found.
By opinion shared, around.
5/5
Oct 2020 · 34
Four Of Five
Colm Oct 2020
Stars never wander, just as waves never falter. All in crashing, plummeting, omnipotent agonizing, no. No downward motion was ever known, by any of these, such as me.
4/5
Oct 2020 · 45
Three Of Five
Colm Oct 2020
A wish is no more want or desire. A blink in the eyes of the eternal mind. Our love but a memory in an ocean of sighs. I hope not an ounce of salt within to find.
3/5
Oct 2020 · 37
Two Of Five
Colm Oct 2020
Some days I ache like the desert for rain. And others for the end, of Tsuyu one and the same.
2/5
Oct 2020 · 48
One Of Five
Colm Oct 2020
So many wonder, so few will find. The ring which you threw into the river knowingly. With the currents, truth will never un, but wind.

Until the sea's remind.
1/5
Colm Oct 2020
My heart calls out
Across miles of the inhabited found
By those who cannot hear
Living peacefully in something-towns

For its by our sounds
That I wait for you
Like dust on the rails
Like anxious feet on walking trails untouched

I am waiting for you
Like Christmas snow
On the morning birth celebrated anew
Come home

Would you tell me my one whisper true?
The trees here miss you. And tell me all the time.

https://youtu.be/Ns7lrumJSVo
Oct 2020 · 490
Coffee Heart
Colm Oct 2020
Blessed
With a warmth of be being
And a sound of beating
Inside this coffee chest
A heart is (sound)  

Unrest
Is not a string to be pulled
In this piano choir
Or in this soundless town
Where the wandering soul walks (aimlessly round)

Restful
Is not a feeling felt
Or minded state
So much as it is a conscious place
(within cup)
Coffee Heart
Oct 2020 · 88
How I Feel
Colm Oct 2020
Somedays I hate the way my own body heat, collects and is in entrapped within. In the arms of wind I nowtimes wish, that I could relax again and just for a moment be. Truly, cool and light, airy and free.
Not serene. Just tired of thought and the comforting heat. Please no more. Please. Just let me be.
Colm Oct 2020
The unheard sound
Like a song stretched out
Over the many sunrises spent
Beneath silken vine and canopy tent
Forever is a very long time left to see
But this sound still unenduring
Is the most beautiful thing
To be heard of and by me
Oct 2020 · 102
Have Courage My Friend
Colm Oct 2020
Stuck is nothing more than everything

When in eyes unseen it is realized that
There is no breath without first breathing
No baseline without hearts first beating

And in unified personified existence being
There is no whatsoever love forsaken
Without ever first the chance of breaking
Oct 2020 · 56
When Poetry Overtakes You
Colm Oct 2020
As my archive
Kept archiving me
With a strong hold
And a seal so great
That in quiet places
I couldn't begin to think
Let alone even meditate
On what should be done
About these growing words
About flattened seams obese
And so I'll never again perhaps see
The rushing waters within the streams
Of a most flowing forth into my unseen
And to this I think, that it's alright with me
Having long since looked upon the accepted sea

And accepted such a fate
This one is about my feeble attempts to stay organized. To not be reliant upon any site to archive my work. When in reality, I long since lost track of where I first began. And do not care an ounce for the work of copying all of my old verses down.

No, just no.
Oct 2020 · 46
Conversingasadrug
Colm Oct 2020
The most addictive substance
Known to man
Is no man at all
Nor a compound unleashed

But a woman found
And with whom quietly you can
Atop corner seats and within window cafes
Speak

As if no air had ever passed between
True to me. So true.
Oct 2020 · 99
Sight Unified
Colm Oct 2020
I love the world most

When it let's me be

To just sit and breath

And to think of these

Most fervent truths

Which are known to noone

And inparted to everyone

As a part of me

In our seeing we are one

We are free
Sight unified
Oct 2020 · 81
Fearnot Unwinding Threads
Colm Oct 2020
Fear no
Being
Or lack
Of existence
Un

For you were
Meant to be
Exactly as
You have been
Thus far

Undone
If you're breathing today. I'm happy to be happily with you. (:
Colm Oct 2020
The breeze between my fingers holds me
Exactly where I need to be
Far
And for a moment found
Indefinitely
Connected there
Almost lovingly with
The soundless trees
Which have whispered fair
Next to nothing's for all eternity
Colm Oct 2020
No fear calls my name
quite like the opportunity of you
does.

And in remembering this, and in the failures that
let the truest of minds remain
alive.

For in the most quiet of conveniences found
there is only the one thing which I truly
distain.

And that being is of no importance or remembrance worthy, compared to the one who now calls my
name.
Flow like the waters. Please.
Colm Oct 2020
The same old tables know my name

And memories felt

In feelings like young hands first touch

Return in eyes one and the same

In creation, I create

And in hopeful optimism grow

Looking continually cut

Like the flowers by the highway lives

In wishing and where is why I tend to find

That you are the foremost thought of late

The only sonnet ever on my mind

In a humming truth like a vibrant bird

You are here most every time alive
If you could just see what I've become. I swear or will happily promise by high heavens, you'll like what you will find.
Colm Oct 2020
Every day I sit and wait
  to be paid so that I can sit and wait
   in public for thoughts to free themselves
    and hopefully migrate towards the future you
     who knows me not but wishes for these same things true
Oct 2020 · 66
Your Body, A Vacation
Colm Oct 2020
Your hair is sunlight fading slow
Kisses crashing on rocky outcrops
Skin a warming beach beneath
Where I dig and dig in sands of joy
And dream of sunsets underneath

In looking find and in knowing, know
You turn my fire to ember coals
My dreams to shallow shoals
In waiting seemingly never known
Your hair is sunlight ever fading slow
Your Body, A Vacation
Oct 2020 · 52
The Next Eight Hours
Colm Oct 2020
He walks around all day and stays
With coffee veins and shining heart
And jazz whisking his head away
As show through 8-8-8
Oct 2020 · 49
the prominent role
Colm Oct 2020
How far does the waning songbird ring
How unheard of long the song which calls you home

you know?
Colm Oct 2020
I peer into the night
The dark of thought
Of wonderment
And
Reaching into the vastness
Of what ought to be the sky
Pull the dawn into the existence
Of a more familiar set of eyes
Reaching, always reaching
Oct 2020 · 48
Denial of Both
Colm Oct 2020
You catch in my throat
Like a prayer which hurts the most
And a song remembered from the very first note

All of nothing and of something and of wishes and of woes

You see right though
And yet without want for his perfect timing
I find
That we both in unison say no
But perhaps for yourself, just a little moreso (;
Oct 2020 · 51
One The Same In Song
Colm Oct 2020
It’s been too long
since in findings found.
I lost myself in words like leaves
In waving metaphor and euphoric breeze

It’s been too long now for even me
to say that I can still smell the trees,
and live like aspen beings tall and young.
It's been so very long now since our song's been sung.

Like an echo it
reverberates across water mists.

Like a chorus I
am no longer left ununified or in wanderings lost.

No the sky,
we were meant to sing songs such as these
You and I.
https://youtu.be/dVLX5ItE_FI
Colm Oct 2020
Sighed
In revelation of
How sleeping waking is the same
Colm Oct 2020
Cried
In realization that
Even memories die alone
Oct 2020 · 48
Secrets
Colm Oct 2020
I pretend - And with infatuations paint at life
         with colors sound
         until this be known
To all those wishfully waiving trees
          who choose to grow
          in such close proximity to me  
That the secret is - I’ll never know what I want to be
Oct 2020 · 49
Morning Feelings
Colm Oct 2020
Cold extremities
Loud thoughts in quiet eyes  
With screeching questions underneath    
And squealing breaks      
On days like this; the sky should just go back to bed        
The sidewalks roll themselves up and hide
Morning Feelings
Oct 2020 · 52
Separation Skies
Colm Oct 2020
The most beautiful essence of memory
is the breeze.

The most powerful beat of the drum
is the heart.

The thunder paints colors in my ever clouding head,
and rumbles to be heard once again with ease.

In all of your astounded ears, surreal, would you please?
I wish to be whole and not in part.
Separation Skies
Colm Oct 2020
When I read you
I’m most selfish and selfishly
Within my own inhabitants be
Close your eyes now you may see
That when I read your words aloud
(in this often times more than not)
I’m not reading you so much as
I am looking and listening
There for me
Tis true, sadly. We're all such selfish beings. Me first and foremost.
Oct 2020 · 37
What A Slight Smile Means
Colm Oct 2020
Near not
Nor want of desires am
Be told as much by their fathers
Less
For fear of a girl expecting more suns
For expecting stars without such burning
Infinitely falling duress

We are not them
Human which tears apart parting flesh
Nor timeless clocks or flea ridden pests
When wondering in east
Be confounded by the floundering boundless this
That we are but men
Infused with Gods lost compasses

Near not, you’ll find
That behind the guise
We smile and acquiesce
Inspired by a look. An image of truth. And the meaning behind man, fathers, daughter, and sons too.
Oct 2020 · 31
The Cliff of Loving Again
Colm Oct 2020
My barefoot sand
And rocky outlook
Blinded by the trust in being
Feels beneath
And over the edge
Of falling for you once again
From the feeling of this am I
No longer fleeing
Describes it nearly perfectly
Oct 2020 · 76
A Dove In The Storm
Colm Oct 2020
No one and everyone
On the wings of nothing
Above winds of something
.
Less storms not come
And time not find
That no human mind ever spoke aloud
..
No cloud or raindrops ever having held on too long
Nor I to you clung so fervently as
Like static electric enchantment capacity

These are not but a blink in the eye
Of a storm so mighty and fierce in sky
Which devours like an hour
..
You and I both know
That no dove be ever caught
Dead to flying right in a storied storm
.
Though in mind it is certainly not
By any means explanatory
Or for want of try to fly
What's in a name? A meaning most true? Not a memory or voice which completely explains, this being known as, me. I am. The once which wisely never flew. On a darkened day of gray and cold. And yet, once asked, I am ever capable of living a breathing life between the folds. Blah blah. Me.
Oct 2020 · 80
The Uninstall
Colm Oct 2020
I reject you

Oh modern soulless

Hallow chest of a shell

Plundered socially left

And more negatively right

The swipe I say

Is a curse at best

On the men of this

No longer protruding

Less West
***** swipe culture. Write me a letter.
Oct 2020 · 46
The Realization
Colm Oct 2020
People forget how deep it is
Till the ocean looks back at them
Intently from beneath the cliff
Colm Oct 2020
It’s been a long time since
the sound of you came back to me
In an echo so fierce like the roaring trees
and embedded deep itself within wooded mind

Albeit growing towns and in doubt maybe
You are still eternal in stillness and air
Like moth wings ever felt unseen
and mulled ciders reckoning

Like a street vendor fair
How you always unroll the sidewalks clean
and walked out of us as far as eyes could be seen
Until carnival sounds were at backs and finally at ease

How the sound of you came back to me
without so much as a whisper spent
On this, these prattling autumn trees
No songs remind or need I see
We Used To Walk Each Autumn Fair - I Don't Need A Remind
Oct 2020 · 40
Nomadic Thinker, Wishing
Colm Oct 2020
I don't fear you
So much as I do
My me as a being
Preoccupied with evicted thoughts
A homeless mind
Is mine
I see

Would you grant me some of your spare thoughts, please?
Hmmmm......
Oct 2020 · 70
In Love With Nature, She
Colm Oct 2020
Beautiful shade falls freely from these trees beneath this autumn day. Cascades like hope while padding like rain. With puddling saturated truthful rays, it streams like rivers and reflects on kings. With a whistling harp over hills unseen. And this, all this, is your favorite thing. Moreso than me to be underneath. Perhaps, its understandably so. Such fair and free beings in the shade of these most loving trees, I see. Finally see. I am you. And one with you are me.
Was
Oct 2020 · 75
This Yearning Be
Colm Oct 2020
I love you more than anything me.
Wait for you like ocean tides knowing.
And speak with fire bright stars,
   where our hearts reside, burning.
In ever we will be togehter in
   this yearning.
Oct 2020 · 37
Spinning Rains and Storms
Colm Oct 2020
And then one day
   When the sky’d had enough of it winded and vitriolic shame
With eyes wide as well mouths
   Looking down from the most inhuman skies abound
On that one day
   When the world wouldn’t stop for even a second anymore

It rained
Spinning Rains and Storms - RAIN
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