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164 · Apr 2022
Talking on my own
Colm Apr 2022
No amount of silence
Can fill the void
Of which and in which
Would live the presence of yours

No song to last
Or calling bell deprived of joy
Cast in iron fast

Your voice

Leaves me hungry and listening
For this tension to break
Like the fast between these many hours

I wish
That such a sound
Was known to these walls
And echoed all around

And that these talks were not just me alone
And of my own
164 · Jul 2020
Want
Colm Jul 2020
Want is not of the most natural, always
And in line with the intended almost never found
Beneath the trees or above the sky
You'd be more in lost finding
Searching words for books
For in losing this you will surely find
SIX LINE

A tertiary thought
164 · Dec 2020
The Human Temptation
Colm Dec 2020
The duality of life
Of want, of business, and of busyness
Is so tempting
So intoxicating to live
By human standards and spontaneousness
For all of those sequential things
Which lead us to death anyway
163 · Dec 2021
your place away form my own
Colm Dec 2021
well or ill
or thought of or not
means less to me now
having been the constant
attentive focus
of your forgot

and yet fine
is me
in this unnatural sea
for your hold has no sway
and I have no such need
of you to set me free
I think it's funny. That after all these years, I still can, and do, attract the same kind of people to me.

Very ironic.
163 · Feb 2019
Missing
Colm Feb 2019
Quiet lips
I want to kiss
More than any girl right now
I miss
The silent whispers in the trees
The quiet hour on the back of the moon
And my ears full of you
Miss nothingness
How your quiet lips find only words
And thoughts within
To manifest
How I miss you now like I’ve missed my room
And the space within
To acquiesce
Time
163 · May 2019
Worlds Around
Colm May 2019
Perspective is perspective based
As it takes no magnifying glass to find
That there are hidden worlds all around you to be found
Long lasting and prior existing
With Windows tall, and short, and high
If you'd only take the time to see them
And open your eyes
There's no telling what world next you'll be wandering through
Just to leave behind
Worlds Around
162 · Jan 2021
Headache Based Haiku
Colm Jan 2021
No coffee can cure
Or time can begin to hide
Such lack thereof, sleep
Mhmmmmm
162 · Dec 2019
A Goodbye, Never Hello
Colm Dec 2019
(Of Me)

I have my eyes
My tested heart
And know not where else to find what flies
Beneath such Carnelian skies as these

An Easterling I’ve been all my life
Lost within memory until such days arrived

So I asked my God the other day
What should keep me here
Ought to make me say?


And I prayed he’d open up my eyes, be seen
My ears intent on what could be
No more than the simple rustling leaves

And then like an opal
There nestled within the rolling green  
Your words spoke in whispers like the hemlock trees

(To You)

And now, say not a word at present, please
My distant friend
If you are joyful and in sated bliss without me

Full of heart and with brimming mind
Contented with this newfound sky

But again, if you ever you find yourself free
Ever at ease
Devoid of attachment, soul, or being
Your essence adrift like the sun each morning
Before your first cold step into the dawn anew, then please

Don’t wait for the newborn leaves to color
Don’t search for the old lines in rearrangement to be  
Don’t wait for a second without such a thought
Since the one still waiting, is me

Be it regardless in passing
I wish you more than just well
More than a sunset sound to be quelled

Would you please be as well
And I will also

(Me)
Take care, OK?
Colm Feb 2021
This tall tower
Skyscraping master of one
Has a name and internal beams of rust
And to see within at the embrace of time is to trust
6,4
161 · Jan 2021
Khakis
Colm Jan 2021
I've since discovered — that the hardest part of seeing (with such unique perspective) is to see — what the person or pleasure actually is, and not what you think it is, was, meant, or could quite possibly be.
161 · May 2020
when the moon winked at us
Colm May 2020
Until the sunlight bounced its last light
Off
Another gleaming face
And we
Looking up amidst the lenses
Memories bright as burning eyes
Puddling in skies
Above you see
And when the moon winked at us
Knowingly
We knew that it was alright to love
when the moon winked at us
Colm Jun 2018
When the stormy days come
     And do not leave

When you're turning like the July wind which rolls
     Through the summer trees

When the walls seem dry
     And the wells turn warm

When the childlike embrace
     Finally runs to the storm

When all of these things happen
     When all of these things combine

When the rainy season comes
     There's no reason to hide

Live your life in the storm
     Waste no moment alive
When the storms come for you...THAT is the time when you most need to live your life. Not recklessly, but with confidence in your backing.
160 · Jan 2021
Ms. Bennet
Colm Jan 2021
Wit is only as valuable as
the appropriateness of mind which
can begin to be, and thought of when
     For want of all moxie
     For the stress of all scholars
Implied
Ms. Bennet, Ms. Bennet, Ms. Bennet, Ms. Bennet and Ms. Bennet
160 · Mar 2021
alone on this
Colm Mar 2021
saying I have been through a lot
is like saying my lungs have been through oceans of air

yet

Being . Is . Fair
160 · Sep 2021
the written carolinas
Colm Sep 2021
if we all dream of her, and her sister too, thus
do the Carolinas ever return the favor
and dream of us
?
All these writers, out here idolizing the Carolinas in their novels. So this seems like a very fair question to me.

The most unplanned set. 9/12
159 · May 2019
Thought Selfish
Colm May 2019
Are thoughts all the happier
When they think they're thought?
Or tucked away in a book pressed flat
And stored away for another day?
I think not
At least speaking for myself and for my own thoughts
They are quite demanding, unfolding
And unwilling to thought of as naught
Mhm
Colm Apr 2020
My world is words
My pen my ears

And all I want right now
Is to hear

You
And you alone

All other noisey words can go
Back into their never homes

Alone

Indulge me please
Colm Jan 2022
Reaching into absolute nothingness
And yet, with just a glimpse,
or a second, or a moment past
My objective correlative
Just as you pass
I can grasp at straws and universes unknown
Yet to be explored
By spaceships or writers or wanderers alike
Newry Set . 4
159 · Feb 2020
Cut My Hair
Colm Feb 2020
Sit
Remove all cares
---------------------
Cut free the ties
Of prior strings
The jagged becoming of nothing
Which you were
---------------------
Becoming more
Of everything
Of all that is right
And just of being
Straight and narrow
Clean and keen
In this nothing chair
---------------------
Sit
Breathe again
The breath of escape
And cut my hair
https://youtu.be/MjvTHF-x2Ic
Colm Feb 2020
This rain has met its match in me
Such short ends becoming nothing

Bursting I am lonely at all
Not a heartthrob

But tall as Pine and less of Willow

It’s just a breeze

I ache when you’re not here
“Honestly, the only thing that gives me comfort you guys. Is while I’m sitting at home, staring at the ceiling just wishing that I had someone to talk to. Is knowing that none of you idiots realize how lucky you are.”

Not really a personal verse. I just really like the tune and wanted to embody it in verse.

https://youtu.be/sahlA0XWF5w
159 · Jun 2020
Infinite Value
Colm Jun 2020
Words are worth
Infinitely more
When they’re etched in your own currency
(time well spent)
Write For You And You Alone
158 · May 2022
Mr. Lighthouse
Colm May 2022
I view myself so sternly sometimes
As a tower standing tall above sands
Like a lighthouse alive on the shores of Lyme

When really I'm a swingset
Noone plays on much more

Bright in the sun perhaps
But no less weathered by time

Regardless, I am kind of tall
Presentme . 4
Colm Sep 2020
You are the radience inside my heart
The warmth within my December hue
The fire above my hearth
Is you
As you're always burning, not the answer
But the voice which softens in the dark
The winds which whisper in the snow laden park
And speaks of secret ivory keyswere alive
Theses always were
Is you
"You were not the same after that"
158 · Nov 2021
only today
Colm Nov 2021
tomorrow, Lord knows what I may become
but today I am all vibrance and fur
all electric fuzz and fire and fountains
stroke daringly, me, and see for yourself
the life
Fifteen Feelings. This one is very masculine.
Colm May 2020
Softly does this song extend
Out a gift of memory back in time

To the touch of wallpaper and pillow down
The same smell of pretzels and of youth
And of the quiet Summer nights before the fall of June
Found only before and once well known
I will not forget that quiet little town
Or all the trust that it had in me
As I laid there late at night and on the ground

We understood each other
Did we not?
https://youtu.be/gebjNeiWYaI

PARKSIDE Memory 4
158 · Mar 2020
Joe Black, A Tanka
Colm Mar 2020
Death came to dinner
One day refusing to sit
As he was hungry
For more than the common man
He wanted time itself, this
Colm Apr 2021
spin me like an old record fine
with a crackling sea
in an endless summers day to see

and hear what you will
I, between these vinal keys
humming brightly refined

wherever memories may be
there also you will find
the shores on which our oceans first met

this
continual
collide
not sure where these come from, but I'm glad they visit occasionally
157 · Aug 2019
Everyone
Colm Aug 2019
Everyone believes in something

That they are the one
That they are someone
That they are nobody

Everyone believes in something
Everyone
157 · Jun 2020
Never In Between
Colm Jun 2020
When you write
Write for no one
Or for someone
Never in between
Never In Between
Colm Dec 2020
The sky doesn't ache for rain
So much
As the earth
(In all of its cold rotational truth)
Aches for the distant sunlight burn
157 · Feb 2021
girl Dream
Colm Feb 2021
When I least expect
Your presence to be
Without longing or desire
Or conscious choice
Without all of these
Some mornings you'll appear
Out of fog and vale revealed
Almost sudden without warning or iniquities
You aree simply there
And I'm left wondering as to why
You chose once again to visit me
Not in the real but the realm of dreams
Left is right, up is down, and I am you
157 · Jan 2021
A home lost, a home found
Colm Jan 2021
I lost my heart
And haven't found a care
I built my arms up - to carry us
(And can't)
I found out how I would fair

This world, this wind
This rounding of homes
Knows nothing of the me now
(I've been)
The boy you used to know

Having built myself around you - now
I know where I have been
156 · Jan 2020
Seen, See
Colm Jan 2020
Everywhere I go, unseen
The prevailing narrative being
"I could not speak to he"

Tall and menacing
Quiet and stern
So well and in his pace, to flee

Looking quietly past the height of me
And quickly away by chance
But you

In passing with a scrolling spree
I adore when you can read as this
I adore when you see me
Seen, See
Colm May 2020
If you could just see me when I'm alone
You might just fall in love me
The only problem is
That I don't let anyone see ME
When I'm alone
156 · Nov 2021
Sixteen
Colm Nov 2021
I look for you in the words of others
I wonder where you've gone, yet know
156 · Jan 2021
Sheepish-thought
Colm Jan 2021
I'm trying
To corral this herd of nothing
Into something orderly
With hint of white and spotted stain

I'm trying
156 · Jul 2021
Grace Kelly
Colm Jul 2021
Breathing isn't royalty
Breath is commonality

These thrones of men
Standing over nothingness
Devoid of meaning

But life, true life
Doesn't discern from either you or me

All of man will fade
All of made will unmake
And in time you will see
Learning ever on

That the time to make up your mind about people - Is never

That the time by which you may even see me - Is limited
Grace Kelly
Colm Feb 2021
Don't hate the snow
Or the cold of life
  A breath is still your choice to breathe
And if you wanted to (so badly)
Noone is stopping you (but you)
  Maybe you should leave
155 · Nov 2020
Droplets Come and Go
Colm Nov 2020
Feelings like rain
fall regularly
flood haphazardly
and last sparingly

(on this human floor)
"My warrant is the Word of God--
Naught else is worth believing."
155 · Sep 2019
Just Belief
Colm Sep 2019
I could euphorically find and dive into a pleasure yet know by this good man, goodnight. But I won't.  

I could buy myself tastefully, everything I could ever want in this life, and be perfectly lost for but a second. I know.

I could kindle an old flame, stoking it bright, though all that would do is just burn us both.

I could go out, be seen, eat my fill or hide. And in pretending so know that no one else does.

I could try every old well-known thing under the sky and be unimpressed. I think.

Because the only thing that turns "I" away and doesn't circle back to "Me" is belief. Just belief.
Just Belief
154 · Apr 2020
A Gentleman's Coattails
Colm Apr 2020
Long strides
His flashing coattails on the countryside
Winding like a sight but for a desperate moment
No less in his footprints often found

But as a pumping heart with a walking pulse  
And a wondering mind no more contrived
He knows not yet instead
He decides
When he's comin down the hills - Did I post this already?

Can't recall...
154 · Dec 2021
Rest Full
Colm Dec 2021
Rest is neither for the living nor the dead
No, rest is a response
To both the condition known as life and death
Rest is something entirely different
And neccessary, and comforting, and terrifying
This
Such rest is not always best
But needed nonetheless
We rest
In each other, away from each other, with each other

All the best
154 · Aug 2020
MONOLOGUE I
Colm Aug 2020
You are not just the hero within the pages of your own story. You are the vessel of intuition. The growing understanding of self-undiscovered, be it in the conscious or unconscious arena. Competing with all under the sun. You live not to forget or yourself become the great shining deeds by which you may never achieve relics. But to bear witness to the self and its finite attempts to grow steadily alongside the tree of life. And in standing therein, rooted, smile at your own death. Knowing a more practical end awaits you moving.
Though not everyone is aware of it, or even capable of such contemplation. We are all so very different. With our many vice-passions and obsessions.

Enjoy.
154 · Nov 2021
For Her Beside
Colm Nov 2021
A yawn is not that
But an invitation to,
With sleepy eyes, wish
K8 Haikus
153 · May 2019
Relapse
Colm May 2019
I suspect that I also am your old drug as well
It's just that you're clean
And ever cleaner than me
I suspect that's what commitment does to people
It keeps them clean
As clean as can be
Relapse
153 · Sep 2020
Commit Our Memory To Memory
Colm Sep 2020
How often do the clouds get looked at
For who they are
As compared to what you think you see?
In them and these?
If you would be so kind
As to opt into please
Would you commit this
Our memory
To memory
What do
You see
?
https://youtu.be/Xfat5G1i2Os
153 · Aug 2021
A book for whom and why
Colm Aug 2021
A write is such a wrong
If found (in) to be nothing more
Than a turning out
Not of ideas
Or truths
Or questions
Or desires
But of disregard for craft
And the pretensions of these selfish liars

Create to make, not make sum
Visions and lights (7)
Colm Feb 2020
A stretched of highway in my forehead
A road to travel
I will, must
Be it conscious or in sleepness
I too shall go
I will
I must
Even When Tired, Must Travel
152 · May 2019
Cloud Spirit
Colm May 2019
I fell from the sky
Ages ago
And that is why I like the rain
Because it reminds
And disguises that I, am not home again
Because when it rains
I can smell the clouds
I can even pretend
That I’m living in the sky again
I fell from the sky
152 · May 2019
True Growth
Colm May 2019
A strong person
Although possibly repetitious
Is never the same
As the person they were
Before they became
Their current self
Because strength is change
And change is strength
In the arms of regular growth and application
Change
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