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308 · Nov 2021
Her Eyes Are Orange Essence
Colm Nov 2021
Your essence is simply everywhere
like the orange hue
mid afternoon in the summer sun

Your glow, your radiance, resonates clear
in the eyes of other twos and ones

I see you here, your rippling there
through everywhere I pass is you

Your family flutters through the air
such loveliness beyond radio waves of hair

Like ember essence, burning fair
you are midnight candles
your radiance is simply everywhere
Fifteen Feelings. This is just another set of poetry I wrote on my day off. But this piece, in particular, is probably my favorite one of the lot. Becasue now I see these glowing eyes at every turn. (:
307 · Apr 2017
For Those Who Feel
Colm Apr 2017
If I'm too busy for you
I'm too busy for me
And that is unhealthy

Because perhaps in vain and vainity
We are the same?

Skilled at creating for someone else
At adapting for the US entirely

But could it be that within the entirety
That we lose the ability to see?

Like the blinders of love
Be they ever imposed
By this realization of who is me?

Perhaps we are the same indeed?
Perhaps one day you'd let me try
For you, as also you could for me?
In truth, I often think about more than me.
307 · Aug 2019
Fickle Want
Colm Aug 2019
WANT is such a fickle thing
Worth no more than prior words
Spent unwisely in the spinning of a slot machine

Cash out while you can?
Better instead, to not play with that which you do not believe

Better yet, indeed
Fickle Want
307 · Oct 2018
Envisioning Contentment
Colm Oct 2018
I dare not breathe
I dare not hope
I dare not try and be
Any less content with this now
To be any less jumping up and down
Would not be true to me
Envisioning Contentment
307 · Apr 2018
To Create Is To Be Free
Colm Apr 2018
When a mans intent becomes one with his craft
He is not the same man so much anymore
Because the actions of a man midst passion is more
Than whatever his mindset had since set before
And his intent all along though it long since has passed
Is still willed into present
When he's one with his craft.
This can be applied to all humans. (:
307 · Sep 2019
With Your Eyes Closed
Colm Sep 2019
Feel the shade refresh your mind
The sunlight as it seeks your eyes

This is when you do your best writing
When you're most awake and alive

There is nothing wrong, nothing else
There's not an instant left for thought

Find
Not

There is only that which is less of you
There is only quiet in the stillness calm

Now reach out and pull towards you
The burning truth which has always been

Shining like a Silmaril
Endless, an eternal bright

Smile
Though you can only feel the light
With your eyes closed. Hear. This is a mediation of sorts for myself and others.

I was I was better at this. Writing like I speak instead of like I think.
307 · Oct 2022
When left alone
Colm Oct 2022
There's absolutely no proof
That if left alone
Human beings will be
Or course correct more than anyone
Who have lost themselves
Most resoundingly at sea

If anything we
Need more guidance than ever
In this time of being most encouraged to be

Whatever we feel
Whatever we dream

When really we are actually not at all these things

We are just that which sees
Humans who be
We stray
306 · Mar 2017
As It Is
Colm Mar 2017
You reap what you sow
Or so I’ve heard
You get what you deserve
Or so it’s been said
Well whatever it is that I certainly want
I can't speak about it
I can't even think about it inside my head
Because how could it be
Or even come true for me
As it is?
Having sown something else
Beneath a much different tree
And as it is so you see
Never once indifferency  
And the only one who could've planted it
Was me
Somedays I just don't know - But I don't tell them that
306 · Jul 2019
Beautiful Rememberence
Colm Jul 2019
Trapped is not a possible feeling
When you're found in the sound
Of the rain falling out
Of the sky amidst the summers cry

When you're full and brimming as the dawn
With contemplative thought
And your stomach is quenched
Your mind alive with the memory of trees unbent

Quiet as the flooding stream
Noisy as the Red Winged Blackbird
As it pecks and cackles at the Sparrows hence
Until no more can be seen

Such impossible feelings and thoughts as these
Are but a mist in the morning
Are no more disturbing
Than the raindrops rippling on a pond serene
It's been awhile... (:
306 · Feb 2019
Light Polution
Colm Feb 2019
Chances are
When there's not a star in the night sky
That it's you who cannot see past the light
And the pollution you choose to allow in your eyes

Just as the stars are always there
He IS
Never far from out of sight
So many people, myself included, say that God has abandon them, when he's never truly left. Just as the stars are always there. He is. Never far from out of sight.
Colm Jan 2020
This morning
Grey thunderclouds
Fell on my morning horizon of hope
And I, half asleep still
Could hardly note anything
Less than try

So I did
When you haven't seen the sunrise in months. And then, caught speechless by its beautiful sight. You have nothing to day. That was my morning on this young day. RIP. lol

Writing this some... Nine hours later.
305 · Feb 2018
Be Like Water And Storm
Colm Feb 2018
Crosshatched in the sky

The stalling rain

Which cannot decide to be snow or not

Iconicised

In the eyes of me

Just as you'll always remember the last time

The moment before you smile and flee

Into the new storms eye

Good endings don't always metastasise

But water always begins again

And evaporates most every time

You don't have to be more than you've ever been

All you have to do is try
That moment when you see rain turn to snow. Almost mid air... Is ever so slightly magical.
305 · Jan 2019
Not Today
Colm Jan 2019
What do we say
To a god of death
Perched precariously high
Upon this rocky way?

Do we walk
Or flee or fight?

Either way
With the spit in its eye
We say not today
Not today
"There is only one god, and His name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: 'not today'."
304 · May 2017
Pity The Famous Man
Colm May 2017
The worst illness available to man
Is not a fever of sorts
But fame
And the expectations stored within
That he has been solved
That he has been called by his true name
Which, ironically
Is never true at all

Because it's better to live in a house of wood
It's better to build without a name inscribed
Than to be called by all
And requested at all hours of the night  
Because what then becomes of life?
When you suddenly have
All of that which you have wished for?
For he is not free
304 · Sep 2022
A Taste
Colm Sep 2022
Noone wants filet minion
Everyday
And if they do they don't have it

Envy is an occasional thing
Whereas the truth is much more real
And substantial
The set about creations . 5
304 · Apr 2019
Continuation
Colm Apr 2019
When you find it
Put your finger on it
And press it down on the table before you
All you want is it, over and over again
For that present moment of non-suffering
To continue on
And to never end
Wherever it is, in faith or not. Hold on to it for a little bit. And then let go of it once again. As is our nature.
Colm Jan 2020
No youthful regrets beset
None of that stuff shines to last
I do not, will not
Look back through closed windows without seats of cushioned green, no
A neck is facing forward for a personal fast
And I for the hunger next of dawn
Will taste all that the future holds
Nothing
Will turn
Me back
Natural and just have been my failing feelings of the past. But they do not and will not dictate my future life.
(:
Colm Apr 2018
Blow the whistle
Hear the rumble
Rolling in your chest

With tracks bound down
And feet locked east
These carousels a crest

Around and round
With heels of steel
And steam so deep to mist

As a southbound train
He whistles now
And his heart she travels west
The best writes have no thought or self judgement attached. They just are, as is, as they're meant to be. Stop planning your life down to the hour and live it. Enjoy it. Every minute of it. Please.
303 · Dec 2018
Listening To The Rain
Colm Dec 2018
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
303 · Mar 2018
Well Wishes and Hopes
Colm Mar 2018
Hope beyond all hope to be
Smile in earnest objectivity

Stand aside
Walk away
Drink a tall alone in stay with room for milk

And scribble furiously at me
Be it not at all

For within some distance
Far away
As a hope for me I feel called to say

Or with half an ask

That I hope though know that you're okay
Random or not (;
302 · Nov 2019
How Words Appear
Colm Nov 2019
I was walking
Down a path of premeditated evergreen
Kicking at pinecones with a well-known song
When you came along
And in looking down at this discovery
Not that you fell too far for me
But there you were
Most beautiful and suddenly
There and aware
You became known to me
Suddenly they appear... What a wonderful way to live life.
302 · Mar 2018
Proving To Her Someone
Colm Mar 2018
Staring into the eyes of life

And to be not afraid of another day

Is the essence of a man most confidence

And to hold it confidently in such a way

So as not shake or waver within

Or to back away from the wall of change

But a change as it is, is a chance to remain

And to never break from your life's first gaze
See? Hahaha. Play me some Living Proof.
302 · May 2017
Too Personal To Read
Colm May 2017
I do not know
What I mean to you
If anything
But I would like to know
I would like to know
No note necessary
301 · Feb 2021
Jinn (A Haiku)
Colm Feb 2021
There is nothing there
Something always within me
Burning myself thin
301 · May 2019
Abuse Of Sleep
Colm May 2019
There is no peace

When you find yourself
Persuing sleep
As if it were non-exsistance

There is no rest
In such restlessness of spirit
For a friend. Along with prayers.
300 · Aug 2021
Shift your feet
Colm Aug 2021
The dream of being
One day more
(than you already are)
Is **** of sleep
And of walking nowhere
You stagnant water.
Move!
Colm May 2019
When your hand reaches, grasping mine
It's like I'm pulled through the ice on the pond my own imagination

With fingers waking
I fall from the clouds without landing
And return to the wandering desertless streams

Until you squeeze again
I forget who I am
Daydreaming And Hand Holding
300 · Jun 2018
A Morning Memory
Colm Jun 2018
In the quiet hour
With three am alive and well
In the background close behind

I hear it now, as you spoke to me
Going on long ago
In a voice heard only in mind

And the memory somehow
I now know more intimately
Fondly, as if it was yesterday

Because memories and decisions
In the early morning light
Make more sense at that time
"Hey... We should be friends!"
300 · Jan 2019
End Of The Road
Colm Jan 2019
You go to the end of the road
And you know
Immediately what's there
That is why you don't acknowledge the sign
The street
The loop
It leads nowhere
Loops
300 · Oct 2017
Simple Waters
Colm Oct 2017
Two great rivers
In different valleys
Wishing we could run together
(:
299 · Jul 2019
Where Rain Meets Water
Colm Jul 2019
There’s something majestic about where water meets rains

As body of water seemingly warmer than that of your own

As if the worlds fishbowl had been turned upside-down on a playing card

Where the warm is cold and cold is the air

And all I want to be is in and beneath

The broken, shining surface of this rippling world

Not quiet, not callous, not alone
Where Rain Meets Water
299 · Jul 2017
Like A Knife
Colm Jul 2017
It's getting better
But every time the sun sets
On another age
Another opportunity
My heart sinks
A few inches more
Deeper into my chest

Although there's nothing more to be done
I wish that such things would pass me by
And leave my heart alone at last

Although it's getting better
I wonder what will remain of me
And who I will be
If I survive to see it pass
Certain interactions are not easy to me because of how I utilize language, tone, diction, information, etc.
299 · Jun 2021
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
Colm Dec 2019
Kiss me like the moonlit stars, reflect and reach the Everglades, and embue with blue like the Sunday shade. Cool, crisp, refreshing, and new.

Don't cut my leaves and curb my bite, to melt me into pasty walls of glowing white. Which will only hold the captured light of the sun which shines to rise.

Don't let me fall without a trace. To meet my end in the shallowing streams of fading grey, where I could never dream of meeting thee, with such a wave.

But take my greeting in from rooftops as a simple sign of life to stay, and fall like stars of burning Orr if you must. Frozen until crashing down, only catch me along the way.
Unknown till heard. The best is when it flows.
Colm Aug 2019
My childhood
Born and died on a hook called quietness
In the stillness growing with contemplative reverence
Until meadow flowers and cattails calm
Burst forth with artistic being again
And now, having been adopted and reborn on the same mountain breeze
My perspective has changed me entirely
To adopt the sun as quite my own
And in moonlight see, to forgive the Father
For as dirt is dead and dies eternally
So the seed breaths quietly, living on in life and death
To reflect the stillwaters on the aspiring breeze
It ends as it began
Quietly
Indefinitely, Me
298 · Apr 2018
Write Without Boundaries
Colm Apr 2018
Break the line
As the back of a mountain
To discover new ridges, peaks and valleys
Twist the water, break the fountain
And flow instead in unpredictable ways
That is what Mr. Estlin would say
Write Without Boundaries - EEC
297 · Mar 2018
The Heart of all Hope
Colm Mar 2018
You cannot compare yourself to them -- Be it anyone, sibling or self -- Because God cares not about the framework you desire -- Or the shape or the size of your house -- But God looks inward, with the truest intent -- So does man fail to see past the skin - Because God builds a house in the heart of all hope -- And that hope is where contentment begins.
Honesty.... I need more of this in my life. Both with myself and in my interactions with others.
297 · Jul 2019
Smooth Jazz
Colm Jul 2019
When I listen to jazz
Hot like seeping tea
As it cools like coffee directly in front of me

All I see is the ocean
All I hear is the swishing sound of the sand being turned to glass
Beneath the feet of an unwalking rhythm

Unwaking and amiss
Good jazz doesn’t walk a straight line as this
It’s a drunken rhythm and a deep sip
In love with the indescribable, naturural, eternal bliss
Smooth Jazz
297 · Dec 2018
Attempt
Colm Dec 2018
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.
297 · Mar 2018
Reading? Glasses?
Colm Mar 2018
Adjust your glasses
Ever slight
The way your shoulder turns a corner
Such a beautiful pattern, not in shirt
But within your features glowing bright  
Expressive as the newborn day
Collected as the cooling night
Adjust your glasses once again
A habitual study within sight
#frames

HEY! This was my 500th poem posted here on HP.

300 some on the original Poe, 400 or 500 on PF, and now here we are!

Editors note: Is this what I think it is? Lol. Adjusted the last slight to sight, because she was seen.
297 · Jan 2021
See this?
Colm Jan 2021
The most beautiful light
Is the bounding brightness
Which leaps off of perfect snow
And catches high in the ceiling eyes alive

Such a vision will be forever alive in me.

See this?
Reflective snow makes the afternoons glow with beauty.
297 · Nov 2017
Escape
Colm Nov 2017
Meet me in between the lines
  Where the voice hums and the mind hides
     Most adamantly
        Away from these
Distract me until this most recent death
   Is dead to me
And hug me still
   Until I'm still
   Until all that’s left is the music and us
   Until, until
My earbuds hums and burst with song
    And shatter my drums
         Because these other songs are too sad for me
Sad to see...so young. RIP.
296 · Jun 2019
Holding For You
Colm Jun 2019
Emptiness
Is having held once before
And having time alone
Say no more

Holding For You
Holding For You
296 · Oct 2022
Looking down at a love
Colm Oct 2022
Though you may squint,
And look and see,
And maybe catch a glimpse perhaps

In remembering your past,
In looking up most lovingly

That was the past,
And you're no longer that

And now, this present sight,
Is me
another yuppp
295 · Jun 2019
Hayseeds
Colm Jun 2019
Grass browned and cut with a chawing cud
Fat and round with a sun burnt down

Unlike me

Not a one of them knows a breath of Frost
Or has ever weighed over an ounce of Cummings evenly

No

We are different makers, different means
With different paths to guided completely differently

And thank God for that
And this preferential me
Thank God for that

Fervent Series (3/10) - 06/23/19
295 · Feb 2019
Everything Or None At All
Colm Feb 2019
Give me the ocean
Or not a single drop

Give me time
Or not even a moment to stop

Give me every glimmering evening star
Or none at all

Give me fire from my finger tips
Or no more sparks left to fall

Give me everything or none at all
Give me all of you before I fall
Everything or none at all
294 · Jul 2019
Haiku of the Mind
Colm Jul 2019
Trap me not in these
My old memories of mind
They are less than I
Less than I
294 · Dec 2019
When Home Isn't Home (Go)
Colm Dec 2019
Too much time
Not enough air
Stale paling walls and melted snow
Sometimes home is the one place to which you cannot go
The one thought of which you dare not revisit in there
When Home Isn't Home (Go)
293 · Jun 2016
From The Shadows
Colm Jun 2016
My heart is in the shadows,
Though my eyes are on the sky.

Full of light, aware of darkness,
Amidst these hallways where I hide.

Behind the walls and whitewashed doors,
My alter ego the other side.

A phantom man I have ignored,
A different person I've entwined.

A gentle guy who gives you things,
The grounded soul which yearns to fly.

And though the shadows slowly seep,
It's here they meet and coincide.

To form the future and the present,
To sort the truth and dispel lies.

Because in the shadows I've risen,
But in the light is where I'll rise.
Keep looking for that burning light. :D
293 · Jan 2020
The Three Year King
Colm Jan 2020
It's drive and focus
   Edge and flexibility finesse
It's youth which fades
   Bulls On Parade
   And my curse midst blessing
   One of many things
BEST my meaning, interesting
   As for one more year
   This old mortal
   Is king
Forward any doubters
   Doubts trying to bring
Win once and they're happy. Twice and they're concerned. Three times and it's official, you are evil empire.

https://youtu.be/my6bfA14vMQ
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