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Jul 2021 · 65
Colm
Colm Jul 2021
One with the earth
Some days so much
That I cannot help but smile
At our collective being

And then other days away
I would rather be
As I'm not one of you
I see
This is me. 100%
Jul 2021 · 146
Grace Kelly
Colm Jul 2021
Breathing isn't royalty
Breath is commonality

These thrones of men
Standing over nothingness
Devoid of meaning

But life, true life
Doesn't discern from either you or me

All of man will fade
All of made will unmake
And in time you will see
Learning ever on

That the time to make up your mind about people - Is never

That the time by which you may even see me - Is limited
Grace Kelly
Jul 2021 · 112
Seek It (now)
Colm Jul 2021
Comfort is the greatest killer
Of every dream and wish unborn
Be not afraid of end of days or of Sundays spent in mournings morn

Embrace, embrace
Walk calmly this
Over the living earth and lifeless breeze

Of this dominion, breathe
Out the nothingness
Discomfort you seek
Dis.com.fort
Jul 2021 · 82
A Heart, Abandoned Home
Colm Jul 2021
Condemned
My heart
Please open up

Infuse
With earth
This growing song

Amend
And then
In breathing long

Alive
My mind
In moving on
Was going for a 2-2-5 feel.
Colm Jul 2021
Saying I'm tired
Is an insult to sleep
Just as ignoring our what hasn't been said
Is a insult to me
She falls back into my life like a crashing satelite.

My atmosphere isn't honest enough.
Jul 2021 · 68
Saying Goodbye
Colm Jul 2021
The world is hollow
It swallows whole
Your parents and mine
And me
And us
All pass away.
Colm Jul 2021
I once spoke freely with a joyous ease
A rippling sound which resembled wind
And the breeze in which entanglements kept
These trees her hair leaves even now I see

As nature speaks softly of many things
And calling turns echoes to the hills unseen
Your glance alone in anticipation of what
Still held me motionless as evergreen glades

Your phosphorus glowing eyes of stars
With limpid pools of wonderous means
No more than nothing or something or of
Yes moreso my mind with you how it pleads

For one more just conversation with me
Beneath moon and sky and days without eternity
By the grasp of mother natures ask into air I speak
Begging these eyes for another moment to see
I met you here, over three years ago.




Come back?
Colm Jul 2021
look at me knowingly (thru
as I look at you)
as if we were two; the only hands to understand
this universe suddenly grasping anew

look me up and with solitary in
through and thru as I'am to you
hi eyes
Jul 2021 · 358
In Sleeping There Beside
Colm Jul 2021
Shorts which curl, and justify just half way up her thigh
Him outlining her, like the moonbright edge of a starless night
They in perfect unison align
In a quiet breeze breathed out between
And know nothing less until their mutual sunlit dawn, arrives
Spoon
Jul 2021 · 97
To me, Be
Colm Jul 2021
It's nothing
p·e·r·s·o·n al

It's everything
person a·l·i·t·y
Jul 2021 · 104
Speechless
Colm Jul 2021
You few, who, make me want to leave the windows open. Just to breathe the same air, and to sing the same breaths of somethingness.

This midnight me.

Wishes.
Colm Jul 2021
Sleep is to unlife
More than being is for some
Merely escapeism
Jul 2021 · 71
Of Parenthood
Colm Jul 2021
And then suddenly
Your own faculties
In addition, to
The most incredible teaching, un
Are pull apart by time
And designated by others, only
Until such freedom re-arrives
At the turning of adulthood tides
And even then still
You too must return, suddenly
Colm Jul 2021
When a tune is sent
And whistled on a summer's breeze
For someone in particular, noone

Mother nature reaches out
Grasping at the mail of straws
And delivers nothing (more than that which she has already received)
Jul 2021 · 317
About Ideal
Colm Jul 2021
Fear me not
Lest judgement find
That I am not matching
Not molded out of or shaped being
To that sculpture of which
Has been always there
In your mind

All that is, is already made
Or so I find
Colm Jul 2021
I can hear
As it (comes)
With a distant approach
And a whisper which mingles
With treeward sounds

The rain (which gives)
Unabashedly as it pours
It summer heart out
Over and down
On us

It approach, quiet
Jul 2021 · 222
Feelings, A Haiku
Colm Jul 2021
Feelings personal
So much so unknown to self
Still they want to grow
Jul 2021 · 712
Glow, A Haiku
Colm Jul 2021
A silent heart calls
Along wires out humming low
Like power lines hot
Wires, and saki with juice
Jul 2021 · 79
Flight, A Haiku
Colm Jul 2021
I grasp for such words
On tempered wires perched like birds
But they fly away
Reaching out, though you'd never know it
Jul 2021 · 186
A Thirsty Earth, A Haiku
Colm Jul 2021
A twist of cloud zest
Looking up into sky glass
Perhaps the earth drinks?
Jul 2021 · 110
Manthem
Colm Jul 2021
Though my hand my waiver
And my pen fall silent as smoke
For an age as long as the disenfranchised believer

So all fevers break
And to wellness, sky, and oceans turned gray
My mind will take

Just as my heartbeat knows no break
And my memories moreso ache
As the thousand stars burn

It's your turn
My friend
Jun 2021 · 100
Oak
Colm Jun 2021
Oak
Greet me by morning
Turn my back and walk away
By the end of each night returning
And with the dawn departure, again
You remain here even when I try and turn
You repeat your glances longingly and sway

You are my oak
And I am thankful
Oak . To. Noone. But. A. Tree.
Jun 2021 · 292
Un·ending·light
Colm Jun 2021
Though my eyes may turn
And in darkness
Try to hide

It is beneath this earthly chest
In which where, light
Will always reside

Un·ending·ly
Jun 2021 · 106
after years rewrite
Colm Jun 2021
I'm dying at this opportunity
trying not to think, as I
my old self would
with anxiousness and wonderous worry
at these days to hurry
so that this history might
rewrite itself
and this time, this time
might not pass us by
Hopefully neither of us are still running.
Jun 2021 · 596
Where our obsessions meet.
Colm Jun 2021
The noise is not the trees.
Instead, I understand
And stand where life begins
And questions end.
Now comprehend,
What shakes therein.
For that sound is not a noise at all,
It is the wind.
True story of a past feeling. God bless.
Jun 2021 · 181
Big IF
Colm Jun 2021
If songs had bodies
Yours would be
So fine
And refined
And full of life
Most fine
Colm Jun 2021
breathing out your resonance
like a memory smoke
or a clouded day
...
brings a sunlight smile, wide as the sky
for me at least
for you slow me no more
..
but reverb me still
in memories now uncombined
.
https://youtu.be/E5_gSsvUvwY

That's why I was no good for you
Jun 2021 · 241
Vibrance, A Tanka
Colm Jun 2021
When I think back now
To a time when time was not
Of such vibrant thought
And I feel the weight of be
In this world of being now

(Where I Am More Aware, Now)
Yup
Jun 2021 · 93
Unknown, A Tanka
Colm Jun 2021
Time knows not it's own
Ticks and subtle sounding clicks
Which pass by like days
In the minds of men who know
That life as is exisits

(Time's Arrow)
Yup
Jun 2021 · 83
Whisper, A Tanka
Colm Jun 2021
The snow how it flies
The raindrops which weep and cry
The sunlight rays keep
And the breeze which tries to speak
All have this in common

(Those things which tell us were alive)
Yup
Jun 2021 · 102
Inevitability, A Tanka
Colm Jun 2021
Don't care for shadows
Just as sunshine cannot keep
And stars must burn out
All in their oceanless end
So we also soon will be

(Inevitable)
Yup
Jun 2021 · 104
Nature, A Tanka
Colm Jun 2021
Be found in this ache
In the stretching of limbs and
The yearning of trees
In my own growing pains I
Ache like the old wooden days

(Nature)
Jun 2021 · 60
Honey, A Tanka
Colm Jun 2021
Somedays my own
Headphones more than blue eyes
Want to sit you down
Turn on the song which turns me
And spin our eternity

(I want you, honey)
Yup
Jun 2021 · 560
Memory, A Tanka
Colm Jun 2021
Does the earth ever
In a fit of feeling fear
That her daughter trees
Will uproot too much too far
From her no child ever leaves

(Memory)
Yup
Jun 2021 · 130
Experiencing You
Colm Jun 2021
I hear it as jazzing sound
And see it as a breathing sigh
The snowfall and its white feather down
Both light and bright as a once darkened sky

The distant stars drowned out by the day
An aesthetic row of these ancient books
To hide is not part of the mountains way
All it takes for this one is a look

And I am lost beyond horizons
More cold than hollowed ocean nooks
Just as the breeze brings gifts
And rgis wish by a field to sow

I hear and see all this alive
And about you I wish to know

That it was
Truestory
Colm Jun 2021
And so I sit here in the sun
Not to shine
Or call
Or to warm
Or hum
But to reflect
(:
Jun 2021 · 79
Waiting Here
Colm Jun 2021
More patient than a memory
In ambitiousness and steadfast true

You are far too fair and yet too close
To be felt alive

Too afraid perhaps of the awkwardness again
To be seen by each other and to renew

Yet it's not just I who can see this end
It's pursuit so nearing us through and through

Arise my old language
Arise and breathe life

Over a thousand days died here waiting away
Just as I too have waited for you
Waiting Here.
Colm Jun 2021
Just beyond the hillside windmills unstill
Where the horizon meets the sky
and eyes are lost in clouded light
Brighter than all cares and graduation caps combined

It is where the goodness of present day
And the tides of gifted times glide past
Beneath the feet of the lover stands
A happily shifting sand which has eroded away

And the only thing left there between us to be
Is the sea
In all of its wonderous and most secretive
Glory to be shared as one

(And all this my dear, is just beyond)
These moments are like waves, or so I find.
Jun 2021 · 67
After The Self Control
Colm Jun 2021
Learning how to say no
Doesn't make it any less easy
Or anymore fun to be without
That whatever-it-is
Which you think you need
And in your moment of doubt
Never did
Yup
Jun 2021 · 73
UnStill
Colm Jun 2021
The best way to get over yourself
Is to start climbing
To stop thinking
And to start seeing yourself as
Something truly surmountable
Mhmm
Jun 2021 · 87
Heartspring
Colm Jun 2021
You don’t understand, perhaps, just quite how high
Your memory and my feelings therein, can still elevate and makes me fly

If you want to see spring in my step, **** the winter
If you want to see stars in my eyes, would you be
And if you’d only speaks words one more time to this wordsmith
There’s at least one true smile which awaits you, I can guarantee
Forward with hope
May 2021 · 112
confuscated?
Colm May 2021
she would look at me like I had stars in my eyes
though I know not why, what I love is what I know
you see I love rustic hills, forgotten and still
i love breathing nothingness in, out the quiet, and the ease
i love freshly cut grass and forest meadows never meant to be tamed
i love the snapping fish most talkative and the slim bodies of waters beneath grasping trees
i love he quiet sky above the 3 a.m. streets
and the flickering candlelight whispering things
and above all of these things I hope not to love, is me
though that choice is a which I do heartily admire
and give it still my most willingness forward
if you'll see and let me also see
please do
Hi LP. Two very different stories, I'm sure. Yup.
Colm May 2021
If you knew me, you'd know
And in such feelings be felt
More than a stranger passing by
More than a simple smile
Or an almost unexpected sound

In the real you would live
And out with expectations you'd breathe
Until your lungs were filled
With more than just speculation
And your thoughts were more honestly bound
(By such realism) and no longer free

And if I began wandered here less around
Without the knowing's of so
And in my mind decidedly worried less
And started more committing to find
There's no knowing where or here or when
Our future together would commence to go

All I know is that this and in this way
(Towards the sky)
We must both more than wish in order to grow

But then again, if you knew me …
You'd know
Deter Me Not Set (12) - END

Thanks for reading, if you do.
Colm May 2021
Ghibli films feel right because
everything is just as it is
or was
or was secretly meant to be
Like grooves on a record
like trails of the cautious deer
or etchings upon ancient stones together
You know, that what you're about to see
was designed to be seen
and seen uniquely

Whatever your opinion is, you're right
Deter Me Not Set (11) . Totoro
May 2021 · 86
CaFe
Colm May 2021
Awful coffee still has its caffeine
And by that same logic
Even awful people can still sharpen me

Unless they're decafe
In which case,
Ew
Deter Me Not Set (10)
Colm May 2021
war
once declared
turns out a deck to find
cut a pack fiercely into
and with the next flip missed
then another, and another, all aligned
discover that there are no more ladies left
to be found in such empty hands as these, no
here - there be only jokers left alive
Deter Me Not Set (9)
May 2021 · 78
If you
Colm May 2021
If you give a man ... more stones to dig
He'll find
If you give a man ... more time
He may still not know, let alone who
If you take from him ... nothing when you go
Then the building of his own high wall, is no crime of yours
Ever, nor ever was
Deter Me Not Set (8)
May 2021 · 81
Rainwish
Colm May 2021
I wish this mood upon a puddle
And then find myself drying
When it does not last
What a gas
This is
Deter Me Not Set (7)
May 2021 · 101
waves of crashing honesty
Colm May 2021
Receding.

No ocean says, "I want to give way to a strong and crashing love." It doesn't have the time to burn and not churn. It has already landed on the shore, and back again.
Deter Me Not Set (6)
May 2021 · 57
the true one, alone
Colm May 2021
Can anyone find me
A single mind of true solidarity
Which sounds as good
As the nothingness of speech
Which I predict upon myself

Both seamless and unendingly

Until I am reminded that
I am alone again
And all too intimately
Standing close and contentedly
With no-one in particular

Maybe my one is meant to remain?
Deter Me Not Set (5)
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