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195 · May 2021
breath.a
Colm May 2021
seeing you
in minds eye now
and your winding ways
of browning trees
makes me remember and breathe
in the taste of cold
which November only knows
and December wishes it could be
(or was)
194 · Sep 2022
A Challenge
Colm Sep 2022
Waiting for the Lord

As the soul waits for the wind
As hands wait for the friend
As homes wait for each of these

Small beings no more than the grassy seas
Just as rain is sent by the lord again
So that all of these may grow and be

I **** at accepting gifts
The set about creations . 9
194 · Aug 2018
Whereas...
Colm Aug 2018
It takes a quiet mind to sit and listen, to live this life slowly.

An insatiable appitie is an aggressive death, desire to express and to capture the expression wherever it stands.
As compared to. The opposite.
193 · Feb 2020
Sean's Haiku
Colm Feb 2020
Regret has no name
In a life well lived with lone
Expectations loud
Yup
193 · Jul 2021
A Thirsty Earth, A Haiku
Colm Jul 2021
A twist of cloud zest
Looking up into sky glass
Perhaps the earth drinks?
192 · Aug 2018
Rough Cut Edges
Colm Aug 2018
With an edge like brick
Not beautiful by any means

So curt you are
As spoiled milk

Yet I'm unturned
And therefor left

Alone to drink
In this uncomfortable way
Yup...
192 · Feb 2021
OPPOSING
Colm Feb 2021
My bones are strong
my back straight enough to keep .
If anything I do not
need any more structure in me .
I need
            opposite . The
192 · Mar 2018
The Realization
Colm Mar 2018
You always remember the last time
Iconicized within your mind

Think back to when it was actually then
And you'll find it out over and over again

Like a slowing dance
With contented sigh
You can hear the fond memories rolling by
At a gradual pace

Be it in truth to pass
Or in feelings which last

There is the feeling of first
And the memory of last
Gosh, this rings so true to me.
191 · Jan 2020
Love Is Not Love Apologetic
Colm Jan 2020
When choice is not a matter of heart
Or sight a glance at sun kissed chin
Arise my dawning love, arise
Don't look away
I'm not sorry that we must being
J'San killing it - https://youtu.be/Y0QvbstgevA
191 · Jan 2021
Son of Sun
Colm Jan 2021
Somedays I'm the orphan
And others
I'm the imperfect avatar of the world in shining
All of its smiling glory
191 · Jun 2018
Little Birds
Colm Jun 2018
Homeless is the bird which flies from tree to tree.
And so are we...
So are we...
No home is ever truly home until you're home with HIM
Colm May 2020
Do you ever find yourself
(when beneath canvasing trees)
Standing alone in the singular comforting heat
Of the of the only illuminant rays to find
Their way through the clouds of leafy green?

Do you? I did
And it felt so immaculate to be
Warm and alone in the wooded wilds
Where I was free
<3
190 · Jan 2021
Nopologetic
Colm Jan 2021
Sorry about the way I fall      
  how mortality fades me    
through and with.          
Inevitably it's this      
And this is this.      
In you and calling
Me out so much
Not seeing is.
To me        
a true      
being.  
(you)
190 · Aug 2019
Give And Take
Colm Aug 2019
Give me iron
And I'll give you structures

Give me thunder
And I'll give you storms

Give me raindrops falling on an empty beach
And I'll give you a song like never before

Give me one
And I'll give you all

Give me time
And I'll give you naught

Give me the knowledge of what your human heart desires
And I'll give you my every waking thought

Human as this practice may be or not
It is give and take between be taught
Give and take
190 · Jan 2019
Death Of A Good Day
Colm Jan 2019
I'm SAD today
But don't ask WHY
It's about my PAST
Best let it DIE
That's crushing news.
Colm Feb 2020
The beauty of here
Is not me
Or that you can see
With the exactitude of what is
No, the beauty of here is you
And that you're willing to look at all
At this reflective, moonlit, sea
Thanks readers. (:

(for HePo)
189 · Mar 2018
Looking Up
Colm Mar 2018
Dreams are...
Like the stars
Unreachable but
Still embedded
Within existence
You may not reach. But that doesn't mean such a thing does not exist.
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
189 · Jan 2021
Cold Cream
Colm Jan 2021
Cold cream,
sweeping taste,
atop the hottest cocoa.
Pure bliss which
incites violent smiles
below my eyes.
189 · Nov 2022
Suddenly actualized
Colm Nov 2022
It's a different sort of thing to feel
To go from one to another
No longer constantly

But to suddenly see
All of your fanciful dreams
Just as what they are in the light of day

Then you know what has been
And what will thankfully never be

And then suddenly you're free
But not in the way you'd imagines

Let alone in the time-frame

Yet you can finally see
ST5
189 · Jan 2022
Fog Like Wine
Colm Jan 2022
A riesling fog
Rolls back like fingers
From the base of the Alleghenies

And I
In watching still
Call forth no words to move as it
Newry Set . 2
189 · Oct 2022
Just so you know
Colm Oct 2022
I'm not a suitor
I am gray skies and bright suns
From flying days past

That is all, a Haiku
SJ - lol
189 · Apr 2022
My mistress named Poetry
Colm Apr 2022
I understand
You're jealous of my words
And greedy for my eyes and time
Which seeks to self aggrandize self
Which forgets our God and you alike

I see this now
As clear as red flame
I can see what wishes you had in mind
And I, and I, still can care for these
But forgot not how to forget this time

Please understand, you are also in
My life
188 · Jul 2020
Pretenders Fall
Colm Jul 2020
I pretend to know
How the universe and its infinite rivers
flow like dandelion fields alive
When really the only thing which bursts in me
is unknowing and being
in this reactive fall
And as the earth approaches fast below
I ask it why
And plead to fly
For myself no less to all
You make it up as you go. Everyone does, or at least is envious of those who do.
188 · 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
188 · Jun 2021
Big IF
Colm Jun 2021
If songs had bodies
Yours would be
So fine
And refined
And full of life
Most fine
Colm Feb 2021
My carbon becoming
near this oxygenated girl
Breathe
breathe
breathe
and breathe
Everything but me, IN
as my outward going is
https://youtu.be/wI1y8b9OG7I
188 · Aug 2019
Fitzwilliam
Colm Aug 2019
As Fitzwilliam was
And said
Now I've only to be ashamed of what my own have been
Fitzwilliam
187 · May 2019
Waking Up A Dream
Colm May 2019
Pull me out of the threads
Like a ragdoll willing
Almost excited to climb the cotton mount
And fall with goose feathers down

Sacrifice a fruit on the alter of passion
But do not deny me this one little thing
This basic, simple, moment left
To let my head fall ever down

And when I wake from such a falling out
And my time spent surfing on goose feathers runs out
Would you bend the rules of time for me?
Would you unwind the clock with parts ferocity on the ground?

Because even if you must
I beg of you
I plead
Please don't make me wakeup to this morning now
Waking Up A Dream
187 · Mar 2018
My Writing Is
Colm Mar 2018
Experiential and sensation
Mixed with a desire to connect
A wonder regarding where its going
And very much
The fear that I'll forget
Scribble, scribble, scrawl it quick
The moment turns like a television set
Onward with the next
The fear I mentioned, is what intuitive mind may call a lightning bolt. A sporadic shock of thought mixed with the alignment of truth and observation. The desire to capture that and hold onto it... That can be a strong motivation.
187 · Dec 2020
Never Aware (of self)
Colm Dec 2020
Does the ocean know where its own heart is?
Or the sand their numbers?
Or the rain its downfall?
No, not at all
It doesn't think of such things at all
186 · Mar 2021
Huemen
Colm Mar 2021
Unfeeling is no cloud above
Though ground unwilling to hold you fast
Like stars and fires and ocean sands
We turn and burn and age unto ash

Huemen
186 · Feb 2019
Caught Between Fog
Colm Feb 2019
Fog like mountain eyebrows, hovering above the area of Earth which splits between the snowy ground.

A train to steep the far side of the valley, and the other now filled with the exiting towns.

And I the traveler between the two heights. Wondering how and why this fog stays this way around.
A morning view unique to many
185 · Dec 2017
Ebbing
Colm Dec 2017
The water with its honest breath
And the inevitability therein
Will always waiver with the tides
And bring such truth back to me
Like a tempest, with ebb, it begins
From a day long past. When I couldn't post.
184 · Aug 2018
Permitting Self
Colm Aug 2018
Sometimes to lose is to find
     It's true

But sometimes
     You cannot allow yourself to live
          (At least as you'd like)

Until you stop
     Pause
          Go back
               And rewind
Permitting Self
Colm Jan 2021
As a support of one such political property
Of a soul who seems to be so happily
Bartered off and begged and sold
On the corner of progress
Like prime the rib real estate
(Which ***** is)

I fear no more for my self or my morals
But for my mind I fear ardently
That this IT will unravel and unwind
If ever again I look at either side and see
Anything less that a creaply constructed property
(Sold off seemingly without want or kind)
Is there no one left to actually serve and do the will of the people? Absolute disgrace across the board.
Colm Mar 2021
eyes as sharp as shining hooks
deeper oceans than wellsprings
of talking could ever be

so this hope is set onward
free into this prospective
sight whatever sea could be
183 · Sep 2019
Meaning And Being
Colm Sep 2019
The greatest trap of all for mankind
Is that of being and not being
And when there is no God
Not being begins to look awfully friendly
Being doesn't necessarily imply the other.
183 · Aug 2021
Your seeing makes me bright
Colm Aug 2021
You are the restless morning
Breaking over dark horizons
Devoid of light

You see me through
And usher in the dawn
With glorious, knowing, radiant sight

You see me as I am
Not just how I live
And practice, play, at this impatient life

No you are more than nothing
Less than some
With all the coolness of this defeated night

Your seeing makes me bright
https://youtu.be/_kYEboic74c
182 · Sep 2019
The Right Choice Undoubted
Colm Sep 2019
All of the superficial, super-******, similarities in the world...
Are not worth an ounce of misunderstanding.
Or two ounces of lifelong regret.
The Right Choice Undoubted - Glad Indeed
Colm Apr 2020
Ruminate through me as the ache of trees
The quiet joyful tears of rain
Which ripple and shake
The ground beneath

These stars, this shimmering gleaming shine
Never tasted half so sweet in mind
As when I am with you
And underneath
181 · Oct 2018
Summer And The Night
Colm Oct 2018
What depths could I describe?
What sights have you not already seen?
What could I possibly tell you that you haven’t already heard from the whispering trees?
The warmth of summer
The shimmering gleam of the frigid stars
With stream water splashing about your feet
What cooling sensations could I possibly bring
To a heart such as yours  
On warm nights such as these
Cool is not always arrogant.
181 · Jun 2018
Breathing In The Night Sky
Colm Jun 2018
The stars
To me
Are so close
Tonight
That I forget
The distance
Of you
Breathe in, out, up
181 · Apr 2020
Inevitable Sun (A Tanka)
Colm Apr 2020
Streaming sunlight calls
New beginnings like a day
With existence old
And remembered fondly found
The familiar ways return
Some things you can just feel, as inevitable as the daylight unfolding. It happens, and you knew it would.
181 · Oct 2022
A Shared Cup
Colm Oct 2022
This feeling isn't my own perhaps
But imparted to me in part by you
The way the words just wouldn't last
The foiled hours which ran me through

I walked and spoke
You sat and sang
To each our own in tune and life

And yet the feeling permeates
And makes me sip another drip

To share like that another life
180 · Jan 2020
Why Shinkai
Colm Jan 2020
Shinkai understands light and reflective shadow. The flow of nature, pacing, and time. Capturing distances close, with quiet thoughts aloud, while voicing the humble machinations of the hopeful mind. He applies miles of perspective with both rigid and applicable standards, as well as a **** good ability to create the sublime. He is creator and visionary director in detail. And I admire and aspire all such of his kind. That's why.
A Reflective
180 · Oct 2022
God above
Colm Oct 2022
I will not worship
Those visions which claim
To be higher than God
And deliver far less
Then such a noble sacrifice actually did

No sight or promise if feeling compares
To he the am that it
All else
180 · Dec 2019
Psychosis Deep
Colm Dec 2019
Why do we stare into the mirror?
Why do we turn away from a cosmic gaze?
Wanting crowns, but afraid of being kings?
But why?
Because we humans do not know the depth of things
Though we like to think we do
https://youtu.be/8z5-Wum2enQ
179 · Oct 2021
October Day
Colm Oct 2021
Make all 20,000
breaths you take
Today be the best
you could ever be

For tomorrow is left
yesterday is death
and righr now
you are where you're meant to be
Oct Headache 12
179 · Sep 2018
Unactualize Desire
Colm Sep 2018
My desire for you
More than anything
Is that you'd be at peace beneath these eaves
That you could sleep more deeply than the sea
And dream, oh baby that you could dream
Of the distant starlight you can barely see
My desire for you
More than anything
Is that you'd be my most comfortable everything
Some verses, for me, are just sentences or passing thoughts. Whishes in unspoken form that just ARE for me. I say unactualized because I know where I am. And heck, I don't know what I'll do tomorrow. So who knows what my life will be. Who knows?
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