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119 · Sep 2020
Five Lines Of Fire
Colm Sep 2020
Lifted up from an ocean death
You breathed into my chest a breath
And gave me fire from the sun to glow
Thunder in the ears of me
And lightning bolts to throw
119 · Nov 2021
Leaf or Leave?
Colm Nov 2021
Find me not beneath
A different sea of trees
For I will not, leaf?
K8 Haikus
119 · May 2022
Reality Check
Colm May 2022
When your standards are so high
That birds cannot perch
And construction workers, who work
Have the option of throwing themselves from above
Then perhaps it's time
To reconsider your own
And come down from the clouds
Lest someone ends up getting hurt
Presentme . 8
119 · Jan 2020
When I'm Free On Earth
Colm Jan 2020
Lost in a car ride roadside song
Joyous with praise in the halls of his days
Carried through the well-known words by unfamiliar ways found
And when I lay my head down
I am free
On earth
When I'm Free On Earth
119 · Jul 2020
Ingenue
Colm Jul 2020
I dream of a world
Where you hear my words
Letting me wander until my oceans run dry
And then in your arms up stream hold still
And onto everything grasp
As if in every river you wanted to dive
Hear me, here. Hold me.
Colm Jan 2021
Stars burn far as sands
From head to foot underneath
And the moon looks down
In earnest reverie at
The wonder of why we ****
A Tanka - 5-7-5-7-7
118 · May 2019
Posterior
Colm May 2019
That is the glorious peeking dawn
Youthful flowers in a denim vase
Pure beauty beneath, behind the face
Posterior
118 · Feb 2021
Skin Deep, a Haiku
Colm Feb 2021
Beauty has no name
Or surface questioning whim
Like yours engrained in
118 · Jun 2022
Having Been Seen Again
Colm Jun 2022
Think of me
And wonder
Wink
Not to tell, or explain
Or affirm, or deny
No, none of those things apply
(to me)
I am instead, not what is or will be
That's not me
But what could've been
That is me
(not to be)
Boxing Poems . 6
118 · Jan 2021
Incapable Capable
Colm Jan 2021
Where capable love - becomes compelled to try
And turns into "he acts"
Even when she is "intent on inaction"

There is no-one so capable - this nothing more senseless
Than the song upon deaf ears
Which falls in a beautiful hum, regardless

Because you made up your mind about me long time ago
In this day and age, you only get one shot at certain things. Which is fine, but not always fair. Meh, this is life.
118 · Jul 2022
Inevitable Shores
Colm Jul 2022
Take another pass
Find no (new) hopes to smash
There is nothing left on these shores of mine

All that remains to do - is to laugh
118 · Jan 2022
A mind with an ocean view
Colm Jan 2022
Waiting for a second set of eyes
Who sees the ocean as it is
In all of its terrifying grandeur and beauty
The colors this and dark abyss

Who sees the rolling waves of God alive
And sands of heated shoals to hold
I wait and look for these other eyes
For those who now also behold
Newry Set . 7
118 · Sep 2021
Someone . Else
Colm Sep 2021
If the fear is greater
Than whatever intreage you once felt
In passing looks like days now spent
Then a week of me would never change
These months of unbeing
Let alone those years spent with Someone .
Else
Only you can change you. Don't expect that of others.

The most unplanned set. 6/12
117 · Aug 2020
1700
Colm Aug 2020
By the height of skyscrapers
These glorious buildings glowing brightly in the New York sky
Though people wouldn't know it of me
(my alone if they tried)
Someday perhaps you'll come to realize this
and in seeing (through the glass) notice
That I was here all along standing quietly beside
Verse number 1700 for me (at least here).

It's about my height, lol.
117 · Mar 2020
A Dreams Remind
Colm Mar 2020
I wish for dreams and when I have
They remind me that my soul yearns for yours
As you hold the only hope alive
Of hearing admits understanding
Of heartbeats within quiet warmth

Do you dream of me as equally alive?
https://youtu.be/0UtujSm0eXI
Colm Jan 2021
After all of the summers spent alone
The turning autumns approach
And the attempts at running through walls
(which would not give way)

It's by lakeside fires which glow and grow
In crackling sparks lifted up

And in finding no more found
This diminishing day, once ends

For no matter how hard I try
Or wish or pray
It's always you who I don't find
As I just can't seem to make you mine
https://youtu.be/iOlsSIZaXHE
117 · Oct 2020
Have Courage My Friend
Colm Oct 2020
Stuck is nothing more than everything

When in eyes unseen it is realized that
There is no breath without first breathing
No baseline without hearts first beating

And in unified personified existence being
There is no whatsoever love forsaken
Without ever first the chance of breaking
117 · Apr 2022
Hands and Writing
Colm Apr 2022
You're the keys on my keyboard
You're the font in my mind
I can see you curve like cursive streaks
How I wish that we were aligned
Colm Feb 2021
Write my old name
Brand new in a book
For your serendipitous
Ultra ompintotus almost belief
Until our discovery it does keep
Within the dark deep abyss of this
Not knowing as it is, you will one day see
That boy oh boy, was Barnes & Nobles ******
(;
116 · Aug 2018
Flower
Colm Aug 2018
Some flowers wither
Others bloom better
Far away from the garden of perpetual care
The father, the mother
The assaulting, influential weather
Flowers
116 · Oct 2021
Forward Light
Colm Oct 2021
Into the sun
I walk
Without fear of shadows cast
Without thought
Which could potentially fault
Or hinder my step

It is forward
And with purposeful passion
That I stride
With confident eyes
With the glorious dawn
Which turns its day
Into glorious dying light
Always forward. That's the way.
116 · Jun 2021
UnStill
Colm Jun 2021
The best way to get over yourself
Is to start climbing
To stop thinking
And to start seeing yourself as
Something truly surmountable
Mhmm
Colm Feb 2020
Hush is not a shush, lover
Change is not of force but nature
Grown from stem, and root, and sound
Like fingerlings in the mountain streams
Like the tingling of your neck rundown
Can you hear the ripple deep the vein?
Can you feel the starlight warm composed?
Will you look in my eyes and see
Yours of the possibilities found
The kind of wish we both know?
With this symphonic symbol yours
And the seconds fleeting faster than stars
Falling I give you more than another song
Which I do not own
With this I, I give you my own
I Can't Explain, Just Put On My Headphones
116 · Nov 2020
Anthem
Colm Nov 2020
I am that which trades time
For opportunity
Love for freedom
And hate for impartial passion
A future oriented person. One who sacrifices the NOW for chance to strive forward in the future.

It's not a negative thing or bad way of living. It's just my perspective and preference.
115 · Apr 2020
After The Fade
Colm Apr 2020
Saying you will
Is not doing at all

Just as doing without
Is not reason in the least

Man and woman need meaning
More than the other
More than anything
115 · Jan 2022
Treeful
Colm Jan 2022
Somedays
A cold existence as a tree

Calls out to me
This warming flesh
So full of fault and failure anew
So weak in ages duress
And yet
The trees they see with neutrality and
Fall freely each year in the form of leave
They live, they die, they oversee
And grow taller than I could ever hope to be
One ring can not compare
To the many found therein with these

Somedays
I envy the trees
Newry Set . 1
115 · Jan 2022
A Frigid Tanka
Colm Jan 2022
Cold sunshine, seeps down
On a day without hope and
Brings forward anew
Like a sound without new sound
On us, cold sunshine beats down
Newry Set . 5
115 · Aug 2021
Red, Yellow, Green
Colm Aug 2021
Life, the earth
Like traffic lights
Yurn, regardless of you
Your direction of self

And based on perception
We all stop
We all go
And get *******
115 · Apr 2021
highstrungyoungman
Colm Apr 2021
His tune returns — Anew and ever strong
(like telephone wires in the wind)                                              
Not infallible —but swaying still                        
With a lyrical cadence there
(he is ready to begin)
115 · Dec 2020
Would You?
Colm Dec 2020
Would I say it then
If given the chance?
And risk the inevitable nothing
Would you

Give up all the unknowing and happenstance
To be with me alive
And for more than for this one instance
In mind

If yesterday was just a blink of an eye
And a new future we could hold creates itself
Would you?
Would you be mine
https://youtu.be/TS1c_sRqUrY
115 · Feb 2021
Snow on the rails, a Haiku
Colm Feb 2021
Ache consumes me through
Like snow melting on the rails
You saturate mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOSpS0WOnCo
114 · Jan 2020
Detached As You Are Now
Colm Jan 2020
Create
   Are you happy now?
Escape
   Are you something now?  
Engage
     Are you lacking now?
Erase
   Are you nothing now?
Replace
   Are you growing now?
Keep pace
   Are you fleeing now?
Change face
  Are you about now?
Embrace
   Are you joyful now?
https://66.media.tumblr.com/1769e366235e586db829f15e9437625c/tumblr_pkcozpFuSe1vbt6lgo1_500.jpg
114 · Apr 2020
TAALI
Colm Apr 2020
Talk about a lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting lasting impression.
This isn't even a verse. I'm not sure what this is. A truth?
Colm Jul 2020
Nothing has a name
More beautiful than green trees
Seeping like strong tea
Over stirring waters round
And quiet eyes beside found
https://youtu.be/CQklNpxP0D8?t=48
Colm Dec 2020
The snow light bright lays down beneath, looking up at these blues, with your brown eyes so deep and bright. And time, time is but a memory felt within a dream of oneself. And in believing this found therein our reflective sight.
Our eyes saw each other long before we first met.

This is my favorite thing for this particular day.

Mhmmmmm.
114 · Oct 2020
A Dove In The Storm
Colm Oct 2020
No one and everyone
On the wings of nothing
Above winds of something
.
Less storms not come
And time not find
That no human mind ever spoke aloud
..
No cloud or raindrops ever having held on too long
Nor I to you clung so fervently as
Like static electric enchantment capacity

These are not but a blink in the eye
Of a storm so mighty and fierce in sky
Which devours like an hour
..
You and I both know
That no dove be ever caught
Dead to flying right in a storied storm
.
Though in mind it is certainly not
By any means explanatory
Or for want of try to fly
What's in a name? A meaning most true? Not a memory or voice which completely explains, this being known as, me. I am. The once which wisely never flew. On a darkened day of gray and cold. And yet, once asked, I am ever capable of living a breathing life between the folds. Blah blah. Me.
Colm Apr 2020
Fear not

Concurred worlds such as these, incurred
Stretch out only in mind
And thorough constant memory
And considerable adaptation, often hold

As the army of creation marches on
Towards the rounded everloving demise of me
So this uniformity of us marches there without toll

Paying nothing
Saying nothing

And to no one
In particular

We grow old before we can realize that fear
Held nothing but the bitter cold
We Humans Ignore, Based On What We Want
Colm Feb 2021
Listen to the snow
Rising, sweeping across this
Hallow winter rose

No flower ever
Sees to live in fields of white
Let alone let's grow
X2
Colm May 2021
When a window closes
It doesn't mean
That you're banned from the breeze
Or from the appreciate and growingness
Of the height of trees
No, less is meant by such an explicit shift
When a window closes it only means
That your sight is obscured
And only partially

Yes . Your eyes, your sight
Is still free (to be)
113 · Jan 2021
give me a bedtime sometimes
Colm Jan 2021
can we just stare into each others eyes again
and not know all of the things which — seem to be
but — have always been?
















it's 3 a.m. again, friend.
https://youtu.be/0myDCuYoKoA
113 · Jun 2022
Choice and Joy
Colm Jun 2022
I cannot, in good faith
Recommend anything which
Will make you happy immediately
And yet miserable indefinitely
Boxing Poems . 2
113 · May 2022
A handwritten Me
Colm May 2022
There is no time left in the sky today. All that remains is the darkness of eve which this growing day has left behind....
Presentme . 5
112 · Jan 2021
That Damn Coyote
Colm Jan 2021
There is a life beyond life
a mere glimmer in the dark. And for me
it can be seen
(sometimes) in my 3 A.M. eyes.
I quote artists wayyyyyy to much.

"Drivin' north bound, drivin' homeward, drivin wind is drivin' me."
112 · Sep 2021
She smelled like Autumn
Colm Sep 2021
Uncharted days
Ahead stretch out
Like a season known
With all its ends

And the scent of you
The smell itself
Is what keeps me back
From running therein

Essence, my cornerstone
About a particular, beautiful smelling, past.

The most unplanned set. 11/12
112 · Feb 2021
Charcoal Writings, A Tanka
Colm Feb 2021
Dark stars scratch lightly
On uneven canvas sky
And I in seeing
These new lines now come alive
Love her galaxy even
112 · Dec 2021
A Speeding Sprite
Colm Dec 2021
I run through rivers
And pull down lightning from the sky
Like fire and smoke

With a mystic bliss, here
Mist spraying and forever
Fog and strike, there

Stand by and watch for hope
For I am the air itself beneath
And everywhere I fly and then

My lightness becomes the talk
Like paper edges fresh and sharp
In the histories of men
112 · Aug 2020
My The Self
Colm Aug 2020
I write more than I read
Because I'm not obsessed with them
Obviously
I'm an introvert
And introverts are obsessed with who?
Exactly and not untrue
That would be, me
Yeppp.
Colm Feb 2020
I cannot speak to who you are
But what I see
Is skin like umber
Hair as olives
And eyes alive with a sharp and rustic ease
You seem to be
Every wild choice I wish I would've made
Every moment to dance not taken
Every handshake met and opportunity spent
When my prose is your con
And my quiet your noise
Dance, dance
In your reflect I see
That you are the opposite of me
A Setting Son (2) - She was a mirror, but fine by different measurements
112 · Sep 2021
Oddly Honest
Colm Sep 2021
Tell all the must-dos of your life, for just a moment, hold your p*ss. There's no snow in September anyways, and one more such afternoon will not be missed. In the scheming grandeur of nothingness.
TOD set
112 · Jan 2021
What I Am Is Not
Colm Jan 2021
I'm not what I want
...What I'm doing
...Where I've been
I'm not a metaphor or dream
I'm not a wish or sudden whim
I am in passing and in kind
I am a thought perceived
A wish perhaps
But most of all I'm you becoming
For having since gone and read me in mind

(exist anew)
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