Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
 
388 · Dec 2018
Littering
Colm Dec 2018
A gentle, delicate, beautiful hand
Extends from the Excursion
And drops a can
Ugh, what a hideous hand
Are you kidding me?!?!?!
387 · Mar 2021
the ink
Colm Mar 2021
our nature is not inkwells
our tongues are pens
our will's to live
387 · Mar 2019
Unwinding
Colm Mar 2019
If work, a sea, has tossed me asunder
Then I in two, will sit on the edge of a caffeinated cliff
And write about it, about me, about you
Unwinding Till Unwound
387 · Jun 2018
With A Woosh Of Air
Colm Jun 2018
I cannot help
But feel the feeling
That our trains have passed
In the dead of night
One before the other
Ever so slight
Just passing by, one before the other...have we both since turned?
387 · Jun 2018
A Gentlemen's Love
Colm Jun 2018
To hold her for hours
And hours on end

The desire of he
Who contends with discomfort
And fights for her future
Be it not his own

These are the paths which only he knows
Lonely though they may ever be
He walks
Steadily into the good night

A light
Alone

Thank God
My sin is my own
You'll know that a man knows how to love, when he thinks of a future that could go beyond him.
386 · Jun 2019
Blank Page Lies
Colm Jun 2019
The perfection in the blank page
Could never be matched by me
It says
In a boldfaced lie
Designed to keep me from the one thing which will
The TRY
Pages
386 · Jul 2019
Tall
Colm Jul 2019
When you're tall
    You unfold like sunlight
    Stretch like silicone
    And unwind like the outstretched cobbled road

When you're tall
    (and you apply yourself)
    You become something else

    You don't just gain a strength masked dangerous, no

When you're tall
    And you have conscious opportunity
    You grow
Be It Only Sideways - GROW
386 · Feb 2019
A Song In The Air
Colm Feb 2019
I’d paint every leaf back
Pluck every vibrato piece of string
Catch a falling star enroute to earth
And cut Newfoundland fog
Just to hear the same old song once sang
A Song In The Air
386 · Sep 2022
With starlight in eyes
Colm Sep 2022
You walked in
And I saw
For a moment struck by falling awe
The same starlight in your eyes
As had been within my dreams as of late
And like that
The morning of not knowing was over
And you were there in the afternoon

I didn't expect such starlight then
Someone once struck me - but I'm glad it passed
385 · Jan 2019
Through A Window
Colm Jan 2019
All along
I’ve been looking through
The stained, the pure
The meaning of clear

With a surreal light
Which bends the prism
And frees me from physical
Prison cell

And all along I’ve been looking through
The edge of iron and steel
The wood, the window
The highest ideal
My Window - How appropriate
385 · Dec 2018
Hello
Colm Dec 2018
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
385 · May 2019
Highway Beside
Colm May 2019
Cars roll by in subsequent order
Aimless yet guided
Aware of me yet not
And so, gone in an instant
Though similar in nature
Are thoughts
Are cars
Are these other lives
Are these
Highway Beside
383 · Aug 2017
Initial Mistake
Colm Aug 2017
If you suspect that you've made a mistake
And it's me
You have
But not at all the mistake you were thinking of
Initially
I can't stand such relational fear. Honestly. You shouldn't try and fly if you don't have wings. Because you can't keep me from the sky.
383 · Nov 2017
Tall Trees
Colm Nov 2017
The great woods are
But a memory to me
Of a time when my words clung to the branches of trees
Before the fall
Great indeed for their inherent value
For their intrinsic worth
Were such words and such times to me
I need to walk that path again.
383 · Dec 2017
Running Water
Colm Dec 2017
Drop a smooth stone in a pond
And no one sees the ripple
Skip a stone on a running river
And the ripple is consumed
My publish poems option keep erroring for some reason - So I'm working out of my drafts - Tell Elliot please. (:
382 · Mar 2017
Fall Asleep With Me
Colm Mar 2017
The smell of skin
Alabaster
Mixed with deep breaths in the dark

As quiet minds
Slowly unwind
And let go of the thoughts inside
Like shooting stars
We fall in line
Most quietly here side by side

Within this bed
All that could've been said
Has faded like the setting sun
At least until the morning comes
Until you smell the coffee
And hear the distant purring hum
Of the ceiling fan
Let your heart beat slow until we speak again

Because there is no safer place
No secluded cabin or basin by a mountain face

There is only you
And there is only me
And the edges of what cannot be seen

Like the trust we keep in each other
So completed
Which results in an expert exclusivity

So you know that when I say I can
I mean thay I will indefinitely
As you know that you could for me

Because no other eyes can see
The certain way the palmtrees sway
Longingly beside the sea

So if you ever desire to sleep
While lying right here next to me

I wouldn't mind such a memory
In fact I'd cherish it, hold onto it
And try my best to forever keep
The essence of your tiny feet
As they passed by my awkward knees

Provided you don't mind my skin
Or the smell of my cologne which I always keep
For as surly as the sun will peak
Near by my side is where you'd be

And slowly as you succumb to sleep
And drift into a pleasant dream
I'd close my eyes and be at peace
Just knowing you were next to me

There in the dark
Where our deep breaths meet
Is where I hope you'd fall asleep
Good night.
382 · Mar 2018
An Observation
Colm Mar 2018
Those two are like jazz
In both song and spirit
Full of unexpected twists and turns
Highs and lows
Peaks and valleys
Moors and mist
A pairing of interesting interactions described. That what this was meant to be. A few words about one reflection on two people... Good Lord, I hate mathz.
382 · Jun 2018
Insatiable
Colm Jun 2018
Sometimes my stomach empties
And it feels like I
Could consume the sky
With a single breath of air

But when I see my peers
And their success
How quickly I forget
Every win and concurred fear

The hunger is an eternal thing
With an observation to see
But the memory of what ere I've won
Ought to be enough for me
On competition.
Colm Dec 2019
Love turns to face Hate
And at the altar says
"I am yours and you are mine "
Hate doesn't respond
Knowing similar sames
And marital fate
Such similar emotions... (:
382 · Mar 2018
Taller Still
Colm Mar 2018
I have always been a shadow tower

With arms of bended steel

Love me, hate me

Do with me your opinion what will

But never will I change as this

Or let my shadows lack therein

The will to see it though and thru

And deliver it with a furious will
With a sly look mostly
381 · Feb 2019
Shining In The Sky
Colm Feb 2019
Those who are not just "I am"
Glow like stars in the night sky
And serve others
Even if they do not know it
As guides
In the absence of light
Is where they shine most bright
Not burning out fast, but slowly in time
381 · Dec 2022
It is here
Colm Dec 2022
It's not the walls
Or the people same
Or the trains which make this place my own
Not the beaches which I joke about
Or the hilly slanted towny homes
It's the clouded skies and windmills wave
It's my own my spoken out in voice
In all that there is this homely place
And the power of my own my choice

It is here
381 · Feb 2019
Bitter Rain (Falling)
Colm Feb 2019
Nine meters per second
Twenty miles per hour
No speed is sufficient for this
This kind of falling

To close this wound I never knew
To slow my waking thoughts alive
One moment I am all a hope
The next I am crashing into a puddle down

But not like the others
Ever falling over and over again
For I am a selective raindrop now
Falling as a young man who learns
381 · Apr 2016
Drink You In
Colm Apr 2016
True reflections appeal to me
Like the churning waters of the Atlantic
I am lost amidst the vastness of this deep blue sea

I think therefor I am and hope that I will ever be
A clever well of reflective waters
The kind that people always seek

And yet I search for you in streams
Because I thirst and need to drink
Your words in deep which comfort and compose the likes of me

No other soul will see you shimmer neath the snow capped mountain peaks
And so I stoop to catch your fragrance
And drink you in a draught so deep

-SS
381 · Nov 2017
The Chest Clearing
Colm Nov 2017
A surgeon reaches down a path
And walks out with the heart of the woods

Be it beating slow or beating fast
The hikers pray
That the woodlot surgeon puts it back

In the heart of it
Where the woods still belong

Strong...as they once grew strong
Indeed strong...as they once grew strong
381 · May 2017
The Honest Truth
Colm May 2017
I know when I am kept at length
I feel it still

The distance between
The shortness of breath
The memory of such

Did you know that such things never escape me?

Like the way in which you used to be
How you used to breathe
So...openly

Just know that this change is not insulting to me
But speaks more firmly than any word
And more clearly than any crystal stream

So I need not ask if I may drink
I simply cannot
Nor am I capable of thinking beyond

For that is how you have made this to be
Quiet again
And short without sweet

And thus, I am left
Disappointed in myself
For sharing like this
So....unabashedly

How I feel like a child standing beside a rapid river
Raging onward
How it runs and swells and passes by my confidence, quickly it flees

For in my mind comparatively
We were the same in prior days
Like a mountain stream
Clear and crisp

But now, just know that I must learn to flow more cautiously
In order to be and protect myself 
Remaining as is

For this is how it must now be
Directional, proportional
Or at least based on what I've seen
For therein grows a greater distance between
And greater still

And I will not pay
I will not suffer
When your attention in such moments
Is no longer free, to the likes of me

So here I lay the honest truth
In an honest statement, without plea
There is nothing else to say I'm afraid. Somethings are just too complex to explain. And to bring to light such things, would only call attention to those feelings which, need not be addressed. I simply must go. I simply must let go and let it be. That is the best way for this. *nods at self, be it rather sadly*
379 · Jan 2020
Mind Soup
Colm Jan 2020
I cannot clear the palate of my mind with all of this noisy taste embodied.
Mind Soup - In Ears
379 · Apr 2018
Regarding Such Feelings
Colm Apr 2018
The height of the stars
The depths of the ocean
The colors of the flowers
And the warmth of a summers morn
No human heart nor hand to hold
Is responsible for making you
Feel with such feelings as these adorn
To love is to try. To forgive is to forget. And such choices go beyond mere human fleeting feelings.
378 · Dec 2018
Beneath St. Elmo’s Fire
Colm Dec 2018
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
378 · Nov 2018
The Instive Memory
Colm Nov 2018
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
378 · May 2019
Standing By Self
Colm May 2019
Is there truly strength in knowing?
I used to think so, so knowingly
When really the strongest person
Is the one who does know, doesn't run
And doesn't worry about such
Knowingly
Introspec
378 · Dec 2018
Just Outside
Colm Dec 2018
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
378 · Apr 2016
Like Fire
Colm Apr 2016
A cylinder of burning flame, standing tall in the dead of night.
With wisping smoke and warming waves I radiate.
Emulating the fires of old, which charred the brick and mortar stone of a fireplace.
Like the flames which gave you first your warmth, turn now to me.
A fiery ember burning fast, a glutton for your oxygen.
My lifeless love will ever last.
Until the waters poured upon me turns the lye from Phoenix ash.
I am your love.
Your lonesome fire.
A comet in the sky to pass.

-SS
378 · Jun 2019
Always, A Mind
Colm Jun 2019
Find answers at the bottom of a cup?
I think not.

Find freedom in the freedom to choose how you will be?
Not me.

Find a lack of self in a deepless sleep, where no answers are present for a moment?
Maybe.

Find yourself on a way, to being OK, with the inevitability of everything?
Now that...

That sounds like something substantial to me.
Fervent Series (8/10) - 06/23/19
377 · Aug 2019
Excerpt From An Old Journal
Colm Aug 2019
No matter how hard we fight...
Natures rain falls regardless...
Even if we hide.
https://imgur.com/gallery/Y87Qv0T
377 · Jun 2019
Presume The Best
Colm Jun 2019
Presume the best
And best meaning first
It's far better than the opposite
Far more trusting than the worst
Presume
377 · Nov 2018
Observing A Vice
Colm Nov 2018
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.
377 · Aug 2019
GROWN
Colm Aug 2019
You are the girl across the yester year
Like a memory bound town
Vague as watery days spent in summertime swimming pools

And now, we have the same ears for similar sounds

The same ears for similar sounds
GROWN
376 · Jul 2018
Contrast Of Seasons
Colm Jul 2018
I love the warmth of heart as a home run is hit in the July heat.
The simmer on the weathering skin by the Carolina beach.
The grilling asphalt beneath the feet of the inquisitive kid.

But above all of this, both prestated and said.

I love the old worn wintery ways, the weathery, the cold and gray.
Where the days are as short as the ticks of a clock.
And the words turn slower somehow in due time.
Like the mirror's edge, I end and yet, know that I age a little less in the wintertime.
Northern Heart... To always have.
376 · Jul 2021
A Feeling Once Felt
Colm Jul 2021
Such love stretches out above mountains and trees
Into distant nights and ocean valleys deep
Into stars and seas
Where only the masked and glowing beings beam
And words go without sound nomore unseen
Such is love stretching out into this universe of being
Until they're shared by you and dissipating from me
376 · Jun 2017
The Shadow of the Mountain
Colm Jun 2017
Sitting on a mountain top
On a sliver of rock
As jagged as the pointing edge of the west
Indefinitely, is the earth beneath me
For I do not know how long this will last
But I know that I will sit and wait
For the sunrise of my youth to finally pass
Not because I fear the day that’s been or will be
But because I am smarter than the shadows
Which will not outlast the light
A verse about time. About waiting. About my time.
375 · Sep 2019
Pen & Quell
Colm Sep 2019
We remember heartache for a spell
Not because of the significance of those who have cast us off
But because it's the brightest color red
On the first of many canvases
That is until
The permanence of togetherness
Bring together both pen and quell
Not quill. Not a typo.

Pen and quell the memories of past lovers with togetherness.
375 · Sep 2019
Sunset, Lovers Torn, Tanka
Colm Sep 2019
Cool blue turns calm dusk
To hopeful still and quiet
As warm well lit dawn
Arrives in full force of arms
To carry tired lovers torn
Sunset, Lovers Torn, Tanka
375 · Jun 2019
Green
Colm Jun 2019
There is no green bright enough
In all the trees
Or in every sea
To tell of how envious I am of you
Yup - At finding such a friend true

And good for you
374 · Aug 2019
Sound I Am To Be
Colm Aug 2019
You cannot see me
Hear aloud
Though here I am regardless

Consisting of the why in wind
Though I may howl
And crash upon the sudden leaves

I am still
The whispering in the hear and now
Tuesday 12 - Half way though and loving the sound, of silence now that is. Lol
373 · May 2018
What It Is
Colm May 2018
Loneliness is the realization that all of your friends and family have married. Long before you have tamed and owned your own expectations regarding reality.
Hahaha silly self
373 · May 2018
Questions Midst Letters
Colm May 2018
Ask me not
The question I most want to ask
The letter never sent which flies
And falls apart between the lines
You think I'm scared of you?
No, not scared...
I'm terrified
Questions Midst Letters
373 · Oct 2019
They're Just Words, Right?
Colm Oct 2019
They aren't just standing there
Breathing in and out your air

They are standing at the very spot
Seeing with the same clear eyes

And feeling that which you once did
The breath, the silence, the reply
Part want, part passionate distaste for it. Sharing as such.
373 · Feb 2019
Digging Down
Colm Feb 2019
Sometimes when I look at the ground
And see it round
I want to dig so that it's not there
So that what's beneath it is revealed
Is extracted and laid bare
Sometimes when I look at the ground
I want to know evermore so
And in my desire I do not care
Sometimes you just want to know why.
373 · Apr 2017
In Writing
Colm Apr 2017
The moment when you think about
The way it must begin or end
To rhyme or flow
It’s there that you’ve lost the original thought again
For the sake of format
For the sake of style
For the sake of trying to relearn what which you already know
Because the original thought is something to be cherished.
Next page