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245 · Apr 2022
Many Partings
Colm Apr 2022
Old friends fade like sun-filled days
And last no longer than the rain
Which turns to winters waste above

And yet
I grow like trees
Even when I don't want to

And see them go below
To death
Where these memories and away friends go

Into the un, "I do not know" them
This is me, saying goodbye to a friend who passed away. And also getting rid of some toxic memories.

RIP Alex.
245 · Aug 2019
Realization
Colm Aug 2019
For granted takes me every day
Not by surprise
But by the hand in quiet lives

Too little do I appreciate
The sacrifice
Of those people in my common life
Call someone you care about today. They could be gone tomorrow.
244 · Jun 2018
A Gift
Colm Jun 2018
A little vial of the light that's behind my eyes, next to the wrinkles. Would you keep it on a chain around your bed post? And pull it out from beneath your pillow, occasionally, when you cannot sleep, to illuminate the night?
Burning
Aching
Yearning
My soul for yours
244 · May 2019
Faith Gives More
Colm May 2019
Faith makes faces shine
Like crumpled tin sheets in the sunlight

Gives the backing of Giants
To those once considered meek

And shows one's own ability to believe
In all that ever could be

Faith brings both warmth and luminosity
To the cold, small, twisted mind of man
Faith Gives more than any un
243 · Jul 2017
Lonesome Words
Colm Jul 2017
With no words written on the wall
Lonely is a man's heart
At least when trying to balance out
The respect, and the desire to call
For this true
That lonely is a man's heart in all
When there are no words left for him at all
Words mean so much to me...kinda wish they didn't sometimes. (:
243 · May 2021
Your smile, about me?
Colm May 2021
I see your smile
so subtle and fine
And I am selfishly founded
on this belief of you, in us
And I
I
I want it so badly to be only for me
243 · Feb 2021
Petals
Colm Feb 2021
Sometimes feeling
Like a flower unfolding

Open to any passing bee
Overcaring and all giving of pollen
Of any wanting or for wanters flying by

I avail myself
Until I am tired and empty
Colm Jan 2020
Like snow on the rails
Trampled leaves on the grounded trees
Fleeing light
Familiar scent well known
And the lasting stars you cannot always see
But are still there
The wait is having
My heart a quiet rustle in the summer breeze
Just go and live
Be it amongst noise or fog
As you hold not a single familiar scent or sound
Over me
You are winters cold
And your crackling quiet frustrates me
Just go
Please
Yup - My own well practiced consistencies are not always kind to others.
242 · Jul 2019
Little Things
Colm Jul 2019
When one man says
"All the little things"
He is looking into the eyes of her
In love and drunk on summers wine
Before the winters fall
As if the endless summers were yet alive on this earth

When in reality
"All of the little things"
We do, and say, and act to be
Are but seasons we have aligned with time
Are but dusty feelings
Stirring occasionally in a field full of tempered streams
Little things
242 · Jan 2020
Mortality Is Being
Colm Jan 2020
Waiting doesn't stop with love
With responsibility, distraction, or understanding, no
We wait because we're human beings
And the "being" demands we do so
That and waiting. Be it for life or Christ.
241 · Dec 2017
Like What Love
Colm Dec 2017
Deep like oceans
Flowing like rivers
Falling like leaves
And growing like trees
     Running like the animals atop the earth
     Sounding like horns on the holy night
     And burning like the sun in the summer sky
          True like the words the apostles did speak
          And round like the earth with its edges beneath
               Stained like ink
               And pressed like books
               And tested like an automobile which looks
               Like Christmas morning gifted to man
                    Like the clattering of pots and pans
                    And the soothing touch of a mothers hand
                         Like this, like that
                         Is what love is to me
                              But what love is for you
                              May still yet to be seen
So much more here could be said. But I prefer to save my breath.
241 · Jan 2022
Bursting Words
Colm Jan 2022
You coat me
Like a blanketed fall
Turn eyes like stars
And speak bursts like fireworks
Into a sky of strangers . You alight

Well lit in memory still
Newry Set . 8
241 · Apr 2018
Something In The Eyes (FLY)
Colm Apr 2018
Every time she looks on him
Every time she reads what was his
Every time though he tries and tries
It’s every time she makes him fly
Something In The Eyes (FLY)
240 · Aug 2021
Experiential Self
Colm Aug 2021
I,
can-not will-not would-not,
did

When an older you,
knew should but,
didn’t
240 · May 2022
Looking up is a need
Colm May 2022
Yes, self
Reading is romantic still
If it's done by a supermodel
Sure

Noone is coming to turn your eyes like pages
Sorry
240 · May 2019
The Inevitable
Colm May 2019
Never let it be said
That I took a bite too big to breathe
That I scorched the earth beyond repair
That I cut down every growing tree
That I delved too deeply into the questioning unrepair

Never let it be said
That time itself is now regrettably by
Or that I was never truly willing to try

Never let it never be said that my faith ever waivered, without purpose or reprise

Never let it be said that I said no more
Never let it be said that my breath will not end
Never let it be said I will not endure
Never let it be said that I was not of men

I was
I am
I'm not a Calvinist. But I am me. A human nonetheless.
239 · Nov 2022
Burn on above and beyond
Colm Nov 2022
If there's one thing I know
More than anything un
It's that the sunsets will fall
The skies will stand tall
And just out of reach
Of this shared everyone
The stars will burn on
And be unseen when they finally decided to come undone
ST2
Colm Sep 2021
reaching through my window grasp, my collar lined, my mind unfolded. pull me through this painted glass, the crown unmolded, and shape my day with glorious rays, with simple scents and lilac embolded. with the coming way, of every may, would you make my day most intoxicated, in such a simple yet glorious way?
tis true

The most unplanned set. 10/12
239 · Sep 2019
Inadequate Search
Colm Sep 2019
Someday, they'll burry my grave, long after the ink and parchment have faded.

Long after my thoughts have longsince passed into the undying lands.

I just hope that my neices don't have to burry me

Which is why now I search for a new family.
Inadequate Search
238 · Jun 2022
Signs
Colm Jun 2022
Some mountains just refuse to be climbed
Don't dispair, or blame, or take it personally
No, the no trespassing signs are of their own design
1Sight . Do not despair, Fitzwilliam
238 · Dec 2021
Memoric Love
Colm Dec 2021
The lover on the other line
Who whispers nothings
Literal nothings
Isn't real

She's just the memories which
I'm inclined to think about
And yearn to kiss
Again and again
237 · Feb 2021
When left is alone
Colm Feb 2021
Which is louder
   ?  

   The silence
   You create
   For yourself
   ?

   Or the silence
Left
   When someone else
   Doesn't want
   To create
   With you
   ?
Taken from an old (shower thoughts) notebook.
237 · Feb 2019
Mind You
Colm Feb 2019
It’s not about romanticizing the failure
But realizing the redundancy
The struggle to be thankful and kind
In a world full of fleeting feelings blind

Mind you

Encouragement often flees from truth
And the staying therein of proof
Is what's easier said than done
Not to mention most often true
Originally titled Weary Wide Eyes...

Why I'm not sure.
237 · Feb 2020
Her Hair Color
Colm Feb 2020
Raven, earth, sand, sky
A color for every millennia dream
Through trees in rushed winds
Comes a dancing wish
To know is a reasonable wonder of mine
To explain the why
I wish
For someday (soon)
Beauty knows no color. Only perspective. Perhaps. Lol
Colm May 2020
Yearning for the hours free
But once set upon
By the all too present moment
Found
You may wish yourself
Back
To the time before a viral wish broke out
So be careful of your wishes now
A Year Stolen From Ourselves
235 · Feb 2021
take a taxi
Colm Feb 2021
When my channeled radiowaves groove
and reach your ears like LEDs
(and in mind's eye explode)
with colorful remnants of unimposing
ultra all-knowing, unimportant dues
You will want (if anything)
to pick up the phone
and (to no one in particular) call
and take a taxi beneath the moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfGff4Do-J4
235 · Sep 2022
A Beleif
Colm Sep 2022
I value creation
I care about outcome
I live not for me
But to die everyday
To away from the old ways
I flee
The set about creations . 7
235 · Sep 2021
Oddly Intimate
Colm Sep 2021
Having is not having
And nothing exists
When can be more than something

Shared
TOD set
235 · Dec 2017
Let Go Of The Old
Colm Dec 2017
Forget them all and forget the calling
The rhyme, the reason, the motivation
Forget the original thought entirely
The process which has since passed you by
Forget it all
Just breathe on the ink and let it dry
Forget like the clouds overhead
And be free to fly between the pages
Unbound as the open sky
Since opening and letting go, and being all that you have been
Is not a sin
Forget the details of the journey
So that you may simply walk again
And discover the mindfulness within
Forget and let it begin again
My publish poems option keep erroring for some reason - So I'm working out of my drafts - Tell Elliot please. (:
235 · Jul 2018
Concerning Memory
Colm Jul 2018
Like a beautiful window in a summer home that's now closed to you. And the only memory that remains is the last day before before this new autumn view. Unseen is the growing day of this memory between me and you.
Yup.
Colm Jan 2020
The end
A poignant secret
See

You're my type of breeze
The height of trees
Whispering in the arms of wind
I can't wait for the beginning. Not the end.
235 · Nov 2017
Subconscious Stories
Colm Nov 2017
Blank
Is the mind within the pages of these
The books of forever
The eternal novels
Which line the wall of consciousness
But never open to eyes awake*

I could add more but you wouldn't believe me
Sleeping giant
A yarn about how a human both can and cannot in thought.
Colm May 2021
There are days when I am in love with eyes
the world in looks
and the passing by glances
of a newfound friendship, and fondness revived

And then there are days
like this one en which,
there is not enough dirt on the surface of the entire earth
to cover all of you
235 · Feb 2019
True In Truth
Colm Feb 2019
The greatest sign
Of a most conscious might

Is not to devour and to destroy
All of the falsehoods of life

No

But a true clue is
To let them exist
So that the true sees truth

And yes
In this
True In Truth
Colm Sep 2018
I want to go beyond your clouded skies
Love deeper than the ocean bed
And lie peacefully beneath the trees of ease
My love and I
Quietly watching the leaves float by
Almost titled this "Shared Vision"
234 · Jan 2020
Showers Before Bed
Colm Jan 2020
Short wet hair in wild sheets
With seeping eyebrows bent with dew
Tired breath, warm chest
And memory foam
Soft cotton sleeves layered like carved stone
And quiet cold from windows still
Our heads beneath these pair of sills
With heaving breaths in unison bound
Our heartbeat drums the only sound
Amidst these vibrant warms around
Mere unity I'm pleased
Surrounds
Showers before bed
233 · May 2019
May Isn't For Rain
Colm May 2019
This is me
Standing on a tower cold
Pushing up the clouded skies
With fingers stretched wide
Trying to hold back the rainy clouds
Until this imitation month
Which proclaims to be a daughter of May
Proceeds to pass us by

May isn't for rain
Stealing her sisters MO
233 · Aug 2017
The Inevitable
Colm Aug 2017
I admire those who aren't caught in traps
Who can commit themselves to something else
And not feel trapped by the weight

Because time doesn't matter if you're content
And nothing is ever wasted if never spent

I admire those who don't fear their own fate
But embrace the fact that they've embraced
It's bound to happen after all...
233 · Sep 2019
Holiday Coffee
Colm Sep 2019
All my favorite
Coffee shops
Closed at noon
The only problem
Is that I
Only open up
Soon after that

Holiday Coffee crew
Holiday Coffee
233 · Jan 2021
The Actor
Colm Jan 2021
How can you be someone else
If you don't know every side
And corner of your own self
?
Colm May 2020
Which is the greater fear?
That you might
Despite all of your wishes
Be seen?
Or that you will find something
Once you truly begin looking?
My guess is that the truth of you
Lies somewhere in between
Lost but found
Like coins in this fountain of being
Young
(For now)
https://youtu.be/vl4w1VojBIE

PARKSIDE Memory 1
232 · Dec 2018
Rolled Out
Colm Dec 2018
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
232 · Jan 2020
Time, It won't
Colm Jan 2020
I trick myself
More often than most
That the time before me will feel better
(somehow)
Than the air which I now breathe most close

It won't

Time is time
Just as a perception is a vision of the mortal mind
Most unknown
Heck, I
Need to learn how to live for the moment of most

It's time
This is one of the ways my mind works. Even if I do mimic a bit of EE in my speech.
Colm Feb 2021
The only windows
which appeal to me
Are the two of gleaming intrepid green
        which I see in you
231 · Apr 2019
Steady Beat
Colm Apr 2019
Though a billion others
Like a drum beat sound
I say here stay
With words found between hand and head
As it's trapped between
Tried, tied and true
And so it is a subtle sound
Which beats ever longingly for you
Between hand and head
230 · Jul 2018
The Breeze Unseen
Colm Jul 2018
The world alone is not enough
        It was never a shade of me

Though from the earth, the straw men rise and fall
        There also blows the breeze
        More beautiful than all once seen
The Breeze Unseen
230 · May 2018
Under Thinking
Colm May 2018
Time to be,
Not even yourself.
In the memories of another.
Doing so helps.
How to stop it. Sometimes.
230 · Feb 2019
Ivory Box
Colm Feb 2019
You are ivory magic without a single tusk taken
Boxes of fun without a single gift opened
More gold than any pocket, more silver than any second place token
You are the pounding crescendo in my head unbroken

Yes, I like your sound
Take a box, one that rocks....
230 · Feb 2019
Howler
Colm Feb 2019
A dog grins
Knowing he was once a wolf
And one day he will be again
But when, but when?
Colm Dec 2019
Close
Far
Warm breath
Cold air burning beneath southern stars

Quiet
Noise
A comforting voice
In ears at last a presence being, my present
https://youtu.be/gebjNeiWYaI
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