Colm: Poems

Dec 2018 · 408

Colm Dec 2018

Take me away from my own mind
I cannot stand
Another second
Another instance of time
Spent sitting inside
The same old thoughts and lines
Of mine
Of mind

Of Mine, Of Mind

#of #mine #mind

Dec 2018 · 511

Torn Heart In Hand

Colm Dec 2018

Torn Heart In Hand

When I realized
That I was left to stand
There heart in hand
Tearing myself apart just to give me to you
And it wasn’t that you didn’t want me
It’s that you never truly knew

Torn Heart In Hand

#torn #heart #in #hand

Dec 2018 · 352

Just Outside

Colm Dec 2018

Just Outside

To the sounding chill
Past the open sill
I could never compare

My voice but a whisper
And hers a symphony of a thousand crickets
All performing piano consonance on the air

Just Outside, Right Now

#just #outside

Dec 2018 · 396

Feelings

Colm Dec 2018

Feelings

More ups and downs
Highs and lows
Ins and outs
All around
With thoughts abound which fall like snow to melting grounds
Citizens Cope play me out
Because knocking me sideways is what this life is all about

Feelings

#feelings #citizens #cope

Dec 2018 · 319

Gibberish

Colm Dec 2018

Gibberish

Expansive un
O' mind unkind

Prestigious thought
Occurs to who?

My never where
O' not of which
Mine unto you

Gibber gabber

#gibberish

Dec 2018 · 520

Turning

Colm Dec 2018

Turning

On a dime it turns
Vertical and sharper than any knife
Falling to one side
Suddenly
And the next thing you know
You’re not there anymore
In life

This is about sudden change and the shift in perspective. How quickly things turn on this human earth. Like finding songs, changing directions and the like. Some things just pop up out of the nothingness of the unexpected life. Why? Why did you choose? Why did you try? Or not... Just because. LOL.

#turning #life #world #choices #choice #choose #dime

Dec 2018 · 370

Pity The Foolish Tongue

Colm Dec 2018

Pity The Foolish Tongue

When they curse and cry and weep and wail
When they try and throw you down like a stone
Don’t sink or slurk, but float
And that alone will be enough, to know

Pity The Foolish Mouth

#pity #the #foolish #mouth

Dec 2018 · 364

Nothingness of Mind

Colm Dec 2018

Nothingness of Mind

I dare you
    To sit or stand
    To draw or write
    To paint or wrong
    To not be so **** polite
    To force or feel
    To be without phone
    To stand in rain
    To not be so alone
I dare you again
I dare you alive
I dare you once more
    To stop thinking about it
I dare you to try

Nothingness of Mind

#nothingness #of #mind

Dec 2018 · 240

Listening To The Rain

Colm Dec 2018

Listening To The Rain

If you need me
I’ll be floating
Awash in a puddle of memory
Unaware in a sea of opportunity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLDIQ-oNtUk

#listening #to #the #rain

Dec 2018 · 278

Attempt

Colm Dec 2018

Attempt

If I vanish
If I fly
And do not return to such a height
Know me here
And that I tried
Endlessly to express the un at the edge of life

This is how I live. And justify my not saving these. Haha!

Dive into the light.

#attempt

Dec 2018 · 440

Always Side By Side

Colm Dec 2018

Always Side By Side

As sure as my blue-eyed skies are blue
That will never be normal
Nope
It will always be you

Always Side By Side

#side #by

Dec 2018 · 777

Memory

Colm Dec 2018

Memory

Not the aimlessness
Indecisiveness
Or the constant lack of questioning
No
None of that
But I’ll always remember her raven hair in a spiral stair
And the jealousy in her sister’s eyes

She did Have Nice Hair...

#she #did #have #nice #hair

Dec 2018 · 365

Hello

Colm Dec 2018

Hello

Hello poems
I'm your penman
And your ship which has sailed over a thousand times

Hello times
Where are you going?
Lord knows in nowhere you will find

Hello no one
Hello some
Hello life and underwhelmingness of love

Hello certainty
Hello un
And hello to you my most newly begun

underwhelmingness - Not a real word lol

#hello #poems #penman #ship #love #life #underwhelmed #haha #lol #hi

Dec 2018 · 827

Breathing Mist

Colm Dec 2018

Breathing Mist

Like a forest breath
Breathe out with me
With a gentle hiss

As you cup your hands
Hear the hallow hall
And the hushing kiss

Breathe out with me
Into wooded abyss
This breathy mist

Breathe out with me
Breathe out with me
This breathing Mist

Breathe out with me

#breathe #out #with #me

Dec 2018 · 351

Beneath St. Elmo’s Fire

Colm Dec 2018

Beneath St. Elmo’s Fire

Let it go
Release your hold
Lie back at sea
And be

Turn your eyes
Up to the sky
Into the fire
Stare back, daringly

Cover not
Your wavering life
Of the underneath
Be free

For all is heaven
All is earth
And all around
Is all to see

Open your hands
To grasp no more
Open your mind
To stars ablaze

Let night consume
Your morning plans
Let waters wash
All fear away

Let first your thought
Be not of me
Not of yourself
But all of these

For all is heaven
And all is earth
And all around
Is all to see

Beneath St. Elmo’s Fire

#beneath #st #elmos #fire

Dec 2018 · 238

Homeliness and Homelessness

Colm Dec 2018

Homeliness and Homelessness

You dust the cobwebs
Dawn the attic
Wear the house like a flared dress
So that I can see the not so bitter end
How our world would end

And I’ll pull the nails of our old lives out
One by one until all around
Fall the remnants of these former towns

Building homes amidst adventures is not how

https://youtu.be/BeGU_em4wgQ

#homeliness #and #homelessness

Dec 2018 · 345

Flakes Like This

Colm Dec 2018

Flakes Like This

Large snow
Flaking and falling
Like eye lashes
Eww

Flakes Like This

#flakes #like #this

Dec 2018 · 467

Between Ivory Keys

Colm Dec 2018

Between Ivory Keys

Ripples beneath concrete feet
Falling all around the trees
Are the days of lightful shadows still
Are the scenes unseen to me
Quietly
Softly
Mostly
Between ivory keys
Are the pulling, plodding, plucking leaves
Which kiss the earth like a butterfly
And depart fluttering with bus stop wings
To no other earthly springs comply

Between Ivory Keys

#between #ivory #keys

Dec 2018 · 603

Tess

Colm Dec 2018

Tess

Her waist a stone laid wall I know
Beside a path walked quietly in the dark

With hair sudden like crashing waves
Informal as a Christmas morning
Full of lights, full of sparks

Persistent as the cattails in the northern breeze
Steady as the trees
And cool as stars, almost unreachable, untouchable
Unbearably far

Yet softer than the flowing mane
Of the mare untamed
In distant field that was once up close

With a breath of steam for a cold grey world
Hang on through mortal comatose
And wake

Tess

#tess

Dec 2018 · 407

Sunday Last

Colm Dec 2018

Sunday Last

Like the hazy screen
Projected off the fog and green lights of a Sunday night

I am en route to you
Always

Although sometimes stopped
At a red light

Like the green. I am a colorful, unmatched focus, which cuts through.

Jump into the fog.

#sunday #last

Dec 2018 · 222

Rolled Out

Colm Dec 2018

Rolled Out

I’m going to plaster my words on the walls of life
Like paper
That way you cannot avoid me
Or the memory of mine

Just as a heart will not be cheap
Or doted upon everywhere
Or rolled out with ease

But plastered meticulously
That’s me

Rolled Out

#rolled #out

Nov 2018 · 517

A Comparison

Colm Nov 2018

A Comparison

I...
Was an arrow from a bow named Young Summer

And he...
Was nothing more than a crooked quiver in the cold of Winter

Twang, ZINGGGGG

#*** #comparison

Nov 2018 · 262

Cold With Cold

Colm Nov 2018

Cold With Cold

A slight draw
With jawbones peaked

Another day revealed

Revealed to be cold
And cold with cold
On this mountaintop

Yet no wind remains
To appeal to me

I will not yield

Cold With Cold

#cold #with

Nov 2018 · 245

A Sword Named Order

Colm Nov 2018

A Sword Named Order

Dear chaos heart
Die on the edge of my orderly blade
And bleed out your malevolence
Forever depart

#dear #chaos #heart

Nov 2018 · 349

The Instive Memory

Colm Nov 2018

The Instive Memory

The nature of intensity is like an eclipse in the sky
Most memorable
Most vibrant
Most unique to others
But no less alive than the prior tries
No
The trick is in the duration
Just for a moment
A certain time
That is what in the mind’s eye remember
What makes the instive memory shine

The Instive Memory

#the #instive #memory

Nov 2018 · 590

Words Mean More At Night

Colm Nov 2018

Words Mean More At Night

Reflected rays
Reveal the truth

Once read aloud
Between the lines

That words remain
Longer than footprints

And with illuminate truth
The moonlight shines

From the corners of my room.

#words #mean #more #at #night

Nov 2018 · 258

The Old Man

Colm Nov 2018

The Old Man

Someday I'll be an old man
Just a note in my granddaughters calendar
And
It'll read
"Visit him"

The old man

#the #old #man

Nov 2018 · 359

Observing A Vice

Colm Nov 2018

Observing A Vice

The struggles and vices of another.
Are no less genuine to them, than you are to your own.

For we all have scars, and struggles, and little selfish lies.

The kind of thoughts that say that THIS or THAT or HE or SHE...will satisfy.

When they will not. And you know it.

Trick is finding someone you can respect.

#observing #*** #vice

Nov 2018 · 605

Envision And It Will Be So

Colm Nov 2018

Envision And It Will Be So

Think as if JJ Abrams is watching
Speak as if alone
Be true to you amongst all the sounds
That way your presence will resound
And to yourself, you'll always be known

how to

#how #to #envision #it #and #will #be #so

Nov 2018 · 502

Ageless

Colm Nov 2018

Ageless

To love is to appreciate the other.

The complexities of mind and heart.

The fraying string stretched inbetween.

And the newness of each breath to start.

I'm with you. Always around you. Only love, only love.

#ageless #timeless #string #of #old

Nov 2018 · 449

Strike True

Colm Nov 2018

Strike True

A lance is such a different thing
In a different age
Perceived by those who turn and ride off, away
But best?
What is the best way in modern day?
To avenge unrest, to strike and sway
In a time when the world throws words away
Catch truth and cradle it in trust
Till the strike rings true
Till the passive armor falls and is stripped away

Strike

#words #*** #lance #strike #ring #true

Nov 2018 · 265

The Sound of Lineage

Colm Nov 2018

The Sound of Lineage

Listen to the verbiage
The quietness of a different nature
The winds, the woods, the wildness
I am not my father
Though I am his son
I am me
And the past, the pretense
That's who he is

The Sound of Lineage

#the #sound #of #lineage

Nov 2018 · 314

Tall Golden Trees

Colm Nov 2018

Tall Golden Trees

Jet and handsome you'll never have
With eyes as dark as treebark
Hair curled and seasoned as the leaves
But I can tell you what you will have
You'll have everything he never had
The gold afield, the blue of sea
The tallness as a yew of trees

Tall Golden Trees

#tall #golden #trees

Nov 2018 · 585

... When

Colm Nov 2018

... When

... When I'm writing I am torn apart
    I am there more less than me

... When I'm fearful that my heart's exposed
    And too disclosed, in such moments I am free

... When her topic weighs upon my mind
    And no self-thought will settle me

... It is when I write, I don't know I've found
    That I create what I've yet to see

And this is this how intuitive lives. LOL.

#when #verse #rhyme #poem #poet #poetry #write #writing #head #heart

Nov 2018 · 813

All I Can Do, Around You

Colm Nov 2018

All I Can Do, Around You

Struck speechless
Stretched for words I am
As I have never been
This close to you
And all I can do I can do is grin

All I Can Do, Around You

HondaGirlSeries

#all #i #can #do #around #you #poem #verse

Nov 2018 · 169

The Edge

Colm Nov 2018

The Edge

Never again will you look down
There is only upward and onward to see

No more the feel of your stomach a flutter
Your eyes set afire and the shale beneath your feet

Oh yes, you jumped before this miserable me
But then again my friend

Any day I can fall from the cliff just like you
But never again can you choose your decent like me

From a single man to a married man. Trust me on this, as I trust you in regards to other things. Any day here I could, but never again can you. *nods*

#the #edge #never #again

Nov 2018 · 256

Puzzle And Piece

Colm Nov 2018

Puzzle And Piece

Puzzle me
Piece me
Try and place me
As you may
In a more human light
A more natural way

But you cannot
Just as I cannot

Tip over a pawn
Without gravitas
Without leverage
Without a certain sway
Puzzle over as you must
To piece another way

Puzzle And Piece

#puzzle #and #piece

Nov 2018 · 348

At The Edge Of The Sea

Colm Nov 2018

At The Edge Of The Sea

Pick the lock on this old heart
Would you?
I've thrown away the key

Into the foam
Where the towers fall
Just over the edge of this most dramatic me

Would you batter it down
The old barred door
Let the oak tides crash for an eternity

As you hear the churning waking sea
So it consumes the sound
Of a splashing key

At The Edge Of The Sea

#at #the #edge #of #sea

Nov 2018 · 264

Mountain Veins

Colm Nov 2018

Mountain Veins

Crushing, beating, heart of the mountain
Encased in stone and rock enclosed
Ruby, emerald, sapphires, gold
But also bedrock veins of water
Running silently and cold

Short and to the point. Found in an old note which I refuse to change.

#mountain #veins

Nov 2018 · 757

Appearance Below

Colm Nov 2018

Appearance Below

Looking at an author

It’s in the cheekbones
Below the eyes
Beneath the subtle shades of truth
It lies
To hide the self
Hiding itself
Yet worlds
Worlds are presented as such
So as to think
That they reside inside

And sometimes they do

Who? A girl named door of course.

#appearance #below

Nov 2018 · 322

Isildúr úm Dúnadan

Colm Nov 2018

Isildúr úm Dúnadan

Emerald eyes
Consuming flowers
One crowned with white nobility
One being still
Endlessly
Taillessly
Timelessly
Devoured

The crown less again shall be king

#the #crown #less #again #shall #be #king

Nov 2018 · 421

At The End Of The Yearlong Road

Colm Nov 2018

At The End Of The Yearlong Road

When I'm There

After all of the noise
Of all the days
Of the all time spent prior

When I'm there

All that's left is silence
All that's left is the sound of the wind as it breathes
Through the spheric nature of me

At the end if the yearlong road

#at #the #end #of #yearlong #road

Nov 2018 · 300

Reality

Colm Nov 2018

Reality

I'm a typical human
Looking into a fishbowl
Expecting to see an ocean

Realistic

#real

Nov 2018 · 204

Stand Up To The Night

Colm Nov 2018

Stand Up To The Night

You think I’m scared of you?
Oh timeless fear

Of your taste for light
Which gnaws at stars
And nether years?

Well I’m not

I’m indifferent

Staring without impudence
Into the moonlit eyes
On metal roofs
Where feet can fly

I need not hold or soil with soot
My hands to cup the sky
As is, as it wished

No, nameless fear
I fear you not

But to challenge me with ferociously
Just try and see
What becomes of truth

When you tell me I should be afraid of you
Just to terrify the mortal in me
Just try and bend my eyes away
From the first new sight of another day
And I’ll break your iron will in two
With my indifference

Try as you may
Your power holds no heavens over me

As a broken line of sight is free
From the abiding night which is stripped away

With dawn come every newborn day

And spit in it's eye.

#stand #up #to #the #night

Nov 2018 · 438

Cold Moon Over Atlantic

Colm Nov 2018

Cold Moon Over Atlantic

Cold as moonless sun
Close as stars
Far off as city streets
Swept apart by the combing of the beach

Mere steps away
From the sandy sea
Is the salty churning stairwell down
Into the depths

But there no answers are to be found
Just like here
Only sounds
Are the words to me

Cold Moon Over Atlantic

#cold #moon #over #atlantic

Nov 2018 · 1.3k

Receding

Colm Nov 2018

Receding

Show me a world
In which I’ve slowed myself down
To the point where I can see my own point of mind
My own line and where it ends
And when

Laughing at myself. Receding. Smallness of mind.

#receding #laughing #at #myself #smallness #of #mind #seanathon

Nov 2018 · 1.4k

What You Ought

Colm Nov 2018

What You Ought

The answer is not
To wander
To lose one’s self in the wondrous thought
Or to throw precaution the wind

No

One answer which will travel much farther
Is to simply do
Whatever it is
You ought

That which you can

A blurb about something I learned long ago. Saying isn't doing. Declaring you will or would if you could, isn't doing. Life waits for noone who hides behind a when.

#dear #millennials #what #you #ought #wanderlust #is #silly

Nov 2018 · 936

The Color of My Heart

Colm Nov 2018

The Color of My Heart

Depends upon the day, the place
The amount of light through the southern panes

Based upon the subtle shades
Around my neck and through my veins

Rolled up like sleeves, a comfort to me
With a crisp cold lip and a floor wiped clean

Oh, yes
There is no step close enough to see

But it depends upon such things as these
The none, the less, the purpose of me

#depends

#the #color #of #my #heart #depends

Nov 2018 · 347

Humanity, Inevitability

Colm Nov 2018

Humanity, Inevitability

No amount of organization
Or busyness
Or peace of mind
Can keep you from it

The realizations
Of these
Of this
Of time

Endless and dripping
Reaching from an eternity of ripples
Beneath lakeside pines

Just as no amount of distraction
Can keep you from within
From your own mind

Humanity, Inevitability

#humanity #inevitability

Nov 2018 · 676

Perfectly Natural

Colm Nov 2018

Perfectly Natural

In the clutches of envy, or judgement, or denial
With eyes turned outward at another life
Don’t hide when the inkwell turns up dry
But accept the death which comes to life
And lets you pass by this windowed world

Fly
Fly into the perfectly natural
Die

You should look up E.E. Cummings on how Dying Is Fine

#perfectly #natural #if #death #were #good #i #wouldnt #like #it