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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.
229 · Dec 2017
Why Bad Things Happen
Colm Dec 2017
The coldness felt
Is the willingness of God
To let it be as we perceive it to be
From our fatalist stance
Be it true or false
It simply is as he allows it to be
Two cords which we cannot coexist
Connectively
My publish poems option is erroring - So I'm working out of my drafts - Tell Elliot please. (:
229 · May 2020
Comfortable Stagnation
Colm May 2020
Comfort is a funny thing
All graciousness and charm at first
Like cotton down or endless cups
Or a pool of cool atop the earth

But in too much comfort and you will drown
In the constant reassurance of self worth

Too much of that comfort will actually keep you
From the discovery of new to be found
At work

And by work I mean
THE SEARCH
Stagnation kills creativity folks. Ya gotta take risks. Note to self.
229 · Aug 2017
Truth
Colm Aug 2017
It's not that I hate people

I don't

It's that I hate those expectations of myself

Which I place upon myself

When such people are near
Truth
Colm Sep 2022
Battled as a worrier be
I feel berated all around
Not just the wind or the waves
But by what I cannot see

As it is me always been
Always will not hopefully
These constant battering thoughts
Cautious tumultuous as is me

But if I'd speak as I speak
Lean on Gods listening
And just walk into freedom
Be it overtop of the sea

Next, I'm known longer lost
But instead, free to be
Like a sailboat again
Against winds constantly
Most times I, do indeed. Pray for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWgAlZjf760&ab_channel=CodyFry
228 · Oct 2021
Concrete and Clay
Colm Oct 2021
You are not bound by your genetics, only inclined by them. You can change, your degrees, to a degree.

I find.

We are all inclined
We are all mutts and mixed bags.
228 · Jun 2022
His london fog
Colm Jun 2022
If the London air tasted anything like this
I'd pray for wings and spout quick as can be

And fly to another continent so fast
It would make your head spin

If only tea were in the air
As in flavor pallet here it is with me
1Sight . Fantastic drink
227 · Apr 2022
More About Skiing
Colm Apr 2022
This mountain knows my every move
From memories pulled like frigid springs
It remembers how my childish feet
Once loved to steer, and weave, and groove
This mountain knows my through of through

And even when old days are spent
And my parents go into their own recluse
My children will find a youthful strength
And stammer with joy about
And why?
Because this mountain loves the way we move

I can feel it still
I can sense it through
227 · Jun 2018
Out Of This World
Colm Jun 2018
It doesn't hurt
To not be valued
By those who do not know your worth

No...

What hurts is when the human heart
Desires the starlight
Beyond its own earth
But then again...who doesn't want extraordinary?
227 · Jul 2019
Recent Times
Colm Jul 2019
Recently
And more so than the mountains

I've been blue

I've been tired
And I've been steeped in fog

But most of all

I've been living without coffee every morning
Which is the same as living without you
without coffee
227 · Dec 2020
Forgottenisms
Colm Dec 2020
If you loved me - then - it's not me
I've already come and gone and went
Colm Jul 2020
These clouded heart strings
Cannot hum through air most faint
When in breathing out
226 · Jan 2020
Distance
Colm Jan 2020
From a distant place
Your echo reaches me here
At this length
Like a drum in my ears
Your memory kiss reverberates
And shakes my very soul of souls
Creating in me a sound of old
Which slowly fades
And with anticipation
Waits
To hear the breath of all which once was told
Next yours my present face
https://youtu.be/OSv9vstpXMo
226 · Aug 2018
Truth And Humor
Colm Aug 2018
Sarcasm is the cowards wall

Hide behind the most obvious observation
But deny the subtle truth you believe
And walk the same way

But know this, so
By the sound of your footprints, I will know
What you really think, what you really believe

Your prejudice shows
If silence isn't an indicator of whats not funny, you're pretty delusional.
226 · Jan 2020
Self-Stifling
Colm Jan 2020
Once was given a great gift of voice
To sing loud and be heard before many a thousand
But the crowds silenced me, as I preferred to sleep
And speak less with the world a burden

I am selfish I find
Asking for differently
As my own first motivation is the speech within me
It is what is, will be
Say what you want. Try it out in person. Though you may learn to dislike it later.
225 · May 2019
A Less Social Me
Colm May 2019
Has realized
That a train station is not an evil place
Inherently
It's just busy
A Less Social Me
225 · Sep 2018
Unspoken Questions
Colm Sep 2018
Would you hide with me, unwind with me?
Would you sew my home for an hour or so?
Would you let me cook for you into the night unknown?

Would you listen to me, would you speak the words?
Would you fall back into the quiet, until, we can hear the obnoxious chirping birds?

Would you want my hand as I want your mind?
Would it matter if I asked you for just a little more time?

And your body, your spine, in its perfect align.
Is but a hopeful wish for distant tomorrow.
One that belongs to the keeper of heart in due time.

But then, in such situations as this, to ask...
Would my courage not fail me?
Would such moments now last?
Would? Should? Haha... Silly self.

HondaGirlSeries
225 · Jul 2019
Wisdom, A Haiku
Colm Jul 2019
A wise man will say
Such days are an illusion
Such lies are well lived
Wisdom
224 · Feb 2021
Only Yourself At The End
Colm Feb 2021
Inevitability and time are plagues
On the human soul, the psyche, the mind
Leeches leech
And ticks borough
But time and inevitability weave
And sow so much of nothingness
That without (God)
There is no now
1904
223 · Feb 2021
A riddle
Colm Feb 2021
Give me too much
Until little it takes
And I'll be wasting away
In a field of either unthought or none
No pace to set or mind to bind
There is nothing of theirs
In this most unkind form of lost
T I M E
222 · Feb 2019
Starlight Fast
Colm Feb 2019
Tears for clouds
Snow from eyes
And shines
Oh the outpouring of light in your luminous eye
And your mind, your mind
Like a scintillating star in the night sky
I blink
And like a shot like in the dark
You pass me by
Quicker than the realization of time and light combined
Starlight Fast
Colm Jul 2019
You won’t know either quiet
Or the world
Until you step outside at 3 a.m.
To fill the void of an empty mind
With the deepest drink of sky imaginable

You are no less alive
Give Me Moonlight When I'm Leaving
222 · May 2021
Plastic Ball Haiku
Colm May 2021
This plastic fire burns
Into a melted mixed bag
Of ***** and strikeouts
222 · Dec 2019
Let Rivers Pass You By
Colm Dec 2019
Close your eyes
Stand in the river
Let all of the waters whip past you by
Though you be made of similar materials found
You are no less running
Ever moreso alive
Than the current to be found around
Let the waters pass you by
This is how I, an introvert, need to be around people. More willing to flow without being swept away.

Let the waters pass you by
Colm Apr 2019
There is willingness
And there is want
And the lack thereof, one from the other
Is noticeable
A sign of impending doom
And gloom
And if so, you’d best not try
You'd best not move lest you fail to pass
The test of passing time
Necessities of limited life together
222 · Jan 2021
Cafeism 874
Colm Jan 2021
Eventually ...
You drink coffee for what it means
For how you see yourself when you drink
And to think
... Eventually
Colm Jan 2020
Desire of being
Give me your name
And a photo to match so that I can see past
The flatness of this absent meaning
Give unto me
Please
Be
Yesterday - Tangent, Wishful, Desire To Know
221 · Feb 2021
falter and falling
Colm Feb 2021
We
     the leaves
     the snow
     the rain flow
We all
     fall
poe
221 · Oct 2019
The First Time You Speak
Colm Oct 2019
It's newfound lovers beneath the first starry night sky shared together

It's a child playing at the tail end of a wave, just wishing for a second longer it would stay

It's a moment consumed by a clockless mouth

It's the most pleasant forget which you can find within yourself

It is a passionate glory in a war without spears

It is the flowing rivers of song in communicative ears

And therefore in being, be it the evermore near

Such love at first words is all that you wish you could hear
The First Time You Speak - nuff said
220 · Jan 2021
Notes
Colm Jan 2021
These notes were just abandoned pages, until I took them in and they adopted my thoughts. My name as their own.
ME
220 · May 2018
Random Blurbs
Colm May 2018
It doesn't matter if I haven't. Because I've seen enough to cloud my eyes a thousand times over...

The open road is openly, the place for an open opportunity of mind...

Pictures placed at the heart of mankind, do not last. Not even the servers will satisfy or survive...

Every word I ever wrote about the ever loving trees was never for me...

Turn a new page, open up. Maybe today you will not stop and let the story die inside. But instead draw it out, into the pages where it ought to reside...

Love is such a shallow thing, its nothing like it presents itself to be...

Give me a structure that is not my own and I will not believe in it. Tell me my structure I cannot do and I will invest hours thinking about it. Excited for it...

The only truly haunted walls are those that are plain and bare of thought...
I can't sleep around such walls...

These are a collection of oddities in no particular order or sequence. Just randomness of thought, etc.
Colm Feb 2020
I cannot satisfy myself with flowers
Out of fear of never seeing the trees
Swim in puddles
When I know that I ought to dance in the ocean
Selfishly, I'm not sorry now
Though I may once have been
If you are niether as tall or as deep as these
But I want no wattage less than sunshine
No new life born of less than me
You will learn this quickly, perhaps
That I am a proud and patient sort of being
Maybe she was right to give me that nickname... Welp. OK.
Colm Sep 2018
Whenever here the stars are closer, the Moon is fuller, and the trees could never fall. This is a world away from worlds within, and there's so much here. For me. That I'll never be able to describe it all, or explain therein.
Yup.
219 · Jan 2021
Dear Intuitive
Colm Jan 2021
Inbound thought.
Outbound prayer.
Are you well?
Are you versed?
219 · May 2019
Time
Colm May 2019
Time is a river
A perspective
A current washing through your fingers
Time
219 · May 2021
The Eventual Tanka
Colm May 2021
Eventually
This truth be told to the world
Gray skies come for us
All beneath one and the same
None ever escapes from rain
Deter Me Not Set (4)
219 · Sep 2021
Carnival, A Tanka
Colm Sep 2021
Carousel clouds, spin

In skies of unnatural,

Colorful being.

Until onenness felt, is

Of carnival earth beneath
Love a good Tanka.

The most unplanned set. 7/12
218 · Feb 2021
death is mortal
Colm Feb 2021
We aren’t living and dying
   (in this world)
      The living and dying are     of   this world
217 · Sep 2017
The Ocean Is Writing
Colm Sep 2017
The ocean is why I wish to create
Look at the depths
Feel the weight
When you’re lying on the bottom reef
The pressure is immaculate
And you cannot wait
To taste the newness of each breath
Surrounded by salt
And the slow falling sand
Like the snow of the sea
So the freshness in your eyes cannot wait
To be both above and then below again
And that is why I wish to create
Like the ocean sands which are underneath
And not like the hot sands beneath our feet
Both in the sand and of it. But only when it's cool. My preference.
217 · Mar 2019
Sand Castles
Colm Mar 2019
There is weakness in two just as in one
A sandcastle of constituents
Molded and bound together beneath the basking sun
But the conjoining doesn’t change the component
Nor make it any more fun to be
The most honest version of the newest one
Certainly sand has its own set of difficulties
Who you are before really matters.
Colm Jan 2020
A fish can say to a frog
   "I am a tree
    And you a leaf"
But that doesn't make it so
In truth or shade
Midst nature and in light
They were designed as neither such to be
On top of which
It's different languages they speak
We are the only painted creature, by the hand of God, who thinks this way. Not Angels, or birds, or bees. But our awareness and being makes us different.
215 · Apr 2021
A Lost Breath Breathed
Colm Apr 2021
We forget to breathe and thank God for that freedom of ...
Feelinglessness.

And yet the being (which is).
Is also you, and not.
The breath is yet to be, yet also not be.

What is freedom?
214 · Apr 2019
Son Of David
Colm Apr 2019
My eyes fill with oceans
My mouth healed with humbling salt
When I hear the goodness of the psalmists voice
When I read his song
The psalmist
214 · Aug 2021
11,541
Colm Aug 2021
11,541 days a breath
With nothing standing in my way
I can live and walk into the sure, unsure
Cutting paths to wilderness, song to wind
But to attribute THIS to my own success
Is but wishes and hopes
Nothing more or less
Visions and lights (5)
214 · Jun 2017
Just Look
Colm Jun 2017
There are those people who know things
Without even having to speak them
You just see them
And you know it to be true
That they are true
How the music plays
The wind blows
And the eyes speak enough of what you both already knew
*shrug*
214 · Apr 2020
Burning By Nature
Colm Apr 2020
There is no dark side of a star
Only hydrogen and heat
Careening forward and beyond
The bitter cold of knowing

Unaware of the reality of fall
Unpersuaded by all
Afraid of nothing that has been
We are not falling stars, my friend

No we are not
213 · Apr 2018
Realization
Colm Apr 2018
I'm not myself when I write like this.

I am no more than a memory.

An ink well river which flows and bleeds on tempered sands.

Forever resting at the foothill of childhood.

I am.
It strikes me as odd. That I write so much and yet remember so little of what I write. But one word, one line revisited by me, and I'm right back there in the moment of its conception. Silly self. Lolol.
213 · Jan 2019
Clouds Pass By
Colm Jan 2019
No sky will ever hold such elegant phrases
Or pen to carve the cursive clouds
No such dreams were just a thought to be
Not meant for you indefinitely
No, like clouded skies they were ever passing through
Just as now no memory will remain
Either of or through or of you
Clouds Pass By
213 · Nov 2017
Wallpapering Words
Colm Nov 2017
The real wallpaper isn't plastered
It's ongoing and expressed
Pulled out of the nothing of tongue and cheek
And unknown until it finds itself
At home at last
Surrounded on these four sides
The walls which we keep

*No thought is heard until it is spoken
spoken thought word mind inside speak speaking to understand poem poetry poet verse rhyme sean scribbles lol
Colm Jan 2020
Listening waters
Breathe and flow as breath being
Chest heaving under
Sound of streams and rocks smoothing
Over current ears which hear
Water Over Stones Smoothing (A Tanka)
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