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102 · Jan 2020
Growing A Tanka
Colm Jan 2020
Presuming the best
Works best in those fields which feel
And believe in big
The kind of thing which makes trees
Grow and flow in fields of mind
Growing A Tanka - About finding those around you who will help you grow
101 · Nov 2020
Immortal Feelings
Colm Nov 2020
In a world full of arrogance and immortal feeling
It's so easy to forget how very mortal we are
Mhm
101 · Jun 2022
She Had Wings
Colm Jun 2022
From a window I saw an Oriole bright
When my eyes were young
And my prospects light

On a breeze of fancy fluttered her wings
And with a flicker of power
She flew away

And I hadn't though about her wings
Or how on the wind she would glide and sway
Until today, until today
Boxing Poems . 4
Colm May 2020
Where the mountians meet the sky
There is more sense and visibility
Behind all of these tree branches reached
Than in me

In this moment of there and then
When I'm caught wondering about life
And where my next meal will begin
Respect is built

And all that's left is the untimely hill
Which is yet to climb
Over my yesterdays self
To again is to try
Colm Jun 2021
And so I sit here in the sun
Not to shine
Or call
Or to warm
Or hum
But to reflect
(:
101 · May 2022
A need for romance is being
Colm May 2022
Waiting is neither romantic nor fun
Neither easy or true
It simply is
A choice to be made
To wait is to see
To decide is to see it through
101 · Oct 2021
October Waters
Colm Oct 2021
I am as unsettled
As a stretch of running water
Ever could be and seemingly ever (is)

Always moving
Never forward
Seemingly

These thoughts are but
Oct Headache 2
101 · Nov 2021
with truth like moonlight
Colm Nov 2021
fear holds no candle
to the cooling night of truth
which overwhelms the blinded eyes
and - in its own reflective way - shines through

this moonlight is my own steadfast renewed
sometimes I feel called to speak - it's not often, but it happens
101 · Nov 2021
Babble
Colm Nov 2021
Get out of my ears
With your endless babble
I'm trying to hear my future thoughts into being

Just a step beyond community
Frustrations. Fifteen Feelings.
101 · Jun 2020
Satirical Stones
Colm Jun 2020
Your stormy words
   Cut through the clouds
      Dry as rain
And falling like stones

Hailing from another earth
   I feel the weight
      The desperation
Long before they reach the ground

Such weight embraces
   This trepidation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XxXCJ7n7Ec
100 · Jan 2020
Not Running From Self
Colm Jan 2020
The hardest part of a mirror in mind
Is not the seeing
It's the not running
The most tempting thing for me is to want to escape from within. Because I'm with myself all the ****** time... yup. That's me.
Colm Jun 2020
Expect no answers
To come from your mind
As it knows no more
Than tempered clouds
And expects too much, of you always

Expect no truth
To flow from your heart
When it's heavy with rain
And pouring out
Of this saturation found, and moreso

Expect instead
To be and fade
Like the ends of the endless
So comes the new
The next in line, is now

Just as the day most true is in ending
Found
Colm Feb 2020
The best sound doesn't pull me from you
The best song drives me further into your arms
And creates a new look of understanding between us two

This is the nature of sound and song
You ever just want to put headphones on someone. So that they can really see you and really feel what you're feeling. Yup, sound and song.
100 · Jun 2021
Heartspring
Colm Jun 2021
You don’t understand, perhaps, just quite how high
Your memory and my feelings therein, can still elevate and makes me fly

If you want to see spring in my step, **** the winter
If you want to see stars in my eyes, would you be
And if you’d only speaks words one more time to this wordsmith
There’s at least one true smile which awaits you, I can guarantee
Forward with hope
100 · Nov 2021
Lovers in tandem
Colm Nov 2021
Balance like the ocean tides
The pull of leaves, and lifting words
Which coat the trees in wind and song

The hum of every burning star
Which falls in arching patterns long

The glowing cats and caterpillar eyes
The worms which gnaw the earth below
And the longing of the youthful juvenile dog

Our earth she looks and see all of these
As I look at you now, knowing that I belong
The ebb and flow of what is no longer come and go
100 · Sep 2021
Oddly Spring
Colm Sep 2021
I am reeds
neath green turned leaves
which strain to catch
the whispers of the wind which pass
as fervently as they speak

and to noone at all
I listen
TOD set
99 · Oct 2020
In Love With Nature, She
Colm Oct 2020
Beautiful shade falls freely from these trees beneath this autumn day. Cascades like hope while padding like rain. With puddling saturated truthful rays, it streams like rivers and reflects on kings. With a whistling harp over hills unseen. And this, all this, is your favorite thing. Moreso than me to be underneath. Perhaps, its understandably so. Such fair and free beings in the shade of these most loving trees, I see. Finally see. I am you. And one with you are me.
Was
Colm Aug 2020
I write like I am your underwater
There in awe of not being
No longer of earth
Once fully submerged
I see but cannot breathe a word
About anyone but myself in secret
And then suddenly my words run dry
Bursting forth into sandy existence
And I'm out
All at once, it just ends. And I'm never sure how it even began or when I started to swim in the first place. Odd.
99 · Sep 2021
mindful (sight)
Colm Sep 2021
there is the seeing
and the steps between
to take yourself there
to where you think
(you need to be)
thought is not action - a reminder

The most unplanned set. 4/12
Colm Dec 2021
This tall ivory tower itself
Would will itself to fall
If it understood and heard
The winds of all thoughts
Rushing here around

We were meant to be stone
Meant to be (in our oneness thoughts)
Alone
Hmmmm....
Colm Mar 2020
Cold clay cannot be coaxed
Without warmth of fingers
Pressed and felt

No mold ever existed without mind behind
Or sculptor without a wheel to turn

Just as fingertip valleys were always meant
Thumb to thumb. Known.
99 · Feb 2020
I Dream Of You, And Then?
Colm Feb 2020
A dream of you is like a story
I cannot, will not, wait again
To catchup and
Turn a sheet, a page

Dive and then, upon awakening
Will myself
Be whisked away again
Just to see you
And if, what then?

Sadly
No future is found in an ounce of sleep
Really wanted to go back to sleep again. Just to converse more.
Colm Dec 2020
There are days when breathing is not a thought.
And others where breathing is all I wish to be.
Present.
Me.
Sometime nothing is an addictive thing. Least to me.
98 · Jun 2021
Whisper, A Tanka
Colm Jun 2021
The snow how it flies
The raindrops which weep and cry
The sunlight rays keep
And the breeze which tries to speak
All have this in common

(Those things which tell us were alive)
Yup
98 · Jan 2021
The End Isn't Nigh
Colm Jan 2021
Revelations isn't tomorrow
I know because in knowing means, I don't
Don't tell me I don't care for today
Or know what it means, when in reason won't
Fast held in gossip, I'm telling you this
In the nothingness found only free
Don't sacrifice freedom of mind to less
And lesser things from revelatory such
Wants of being in the know you think
I know this so, in this so so world we do change but don't ever grow
No One Knows the Day or Hour
36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of [a]heaven, but My Father only."

The world is the world, this story is round, stop trying to convince me that we've changed so much.
98 · Aug 2020
Never In The Present, Me
Colm Aug 2020
Unaware of my own walking
Feet are numb though midday may be
Forever wandering and talking
About the sunshine nothingness of time
And I am witness to this madness
My farsight focused, nearsight blind
Yup
98 · May 2022
Stars, and evenmoreso
Colm May 2022
Living between, caffeine and sleep
Is like pulling the moon out of earth's orbit,
So that the galaxies can finally dance,
And the stars can be entertained
Glowing evenmoreso with wine and cheese
Presentme . 1
Colm Jan 2021
Remember the time I stopped by your town
Just to sit myself down and think about you?

Where you were
What you meant
What you thought
And if you knew or wanted to know

Of me and where I was
My thoughts or what for me
(rang out eternal and true)

No, in retrospect
I remember the time I went to your town
I remember it now and yet you never knew
Thanks for the song, but yo. You will not live forever in me.
97 · Jan 2020
Venting, A Haiku
Colm Jan 2020
Who can master tongue
No friend without friend to hear
Can find self silent
Venting, A Haiku about how I usually have to speak it out before I can calm myself. Angered.
97 · Jul 2021
Self Fear
Colm Jul 2021
Scared of you, no
Terrified of me, please

Is there a question mark to be marked in here?
Fear of, etc.
Colm Aug 2020
Your heart a grey sky scenic quaint
My brushes too cold unable to touch
Your fragrant sky now dark as storms
With stars like broken glass finely crushed

And I, and I, a dusty grain
In of a field of sandy wishes warm
Found nothing but a sharp memory pain
In the heel of my mind there sticks your thorn

Like tress unborn of acorn hopes
And buried wishes beneath dead stones
There rise and fall in the mind of see
Having since seen my dawning home

Peaking above the wavering trees
There our path beneath ever separates
And in turning hearts now etched in grey
Sketched out an open talk

Just to say that this is one of the many places
Though we once traversed, we will not walk
Two lovers unknown to each other, except really in the realm of self.

https://youtu.be/HwgzNYCSivk
Colm Oct 2020
The breeze between my fingers holds me
Exactly where I need to be
Far
And for a moment found
Indefinitely
Connected there
Almost lovingly with
The soundless trees
Which have whispered fair
Next to nothing's for all eternity
96 · Jan 2020
The Hopeful Flame In Mind
Colm Jan 2020
If left to my own ...
Fine devices
ALONE

Without anything ...
But conflict
FELT

I will not shine bright ...
Or glow by candle
LIGHT

But blow out the fire
Of hopefulness
COLD
...
I'm so negative sometimes. Unkind to myself.
96 · Oct 2020
When Poetry Overtakes You
Colm Oct 2020
As my archive
Kept archiving me
With a strong hold
And a seal so great
That in quiet places
I couldn't begin to think
Let alone even meditate
On what should be done
About these growing words
About flattened seams obese
And so I'll never again perhaps see
The rushing waters within the streams
Of a most flowing forth into my unseen
And to this I think, that it's alright with me
Having long since looked upon the accepted sea

And accepted such a fate
This one is about my feeble attempts to stay organized. To not be reliant upon any site to archive my work. When in reality, I long since lost track of where I first began. And do not care an ounce for the work of copying all of my old verses down.

No, just no.
Colm Feb 2021
I'm not angry, I just sense
and in perpetual thought, be

I breathe, deeply in these tunnels
because your memory is more shallow than me
96 · May 2020
Stupid Questions
Colm May 2020
There's no such thing?
There is, you see
As you walk into the room
Sit down with your little book of nothing
And stare at me demandingly

As if I know where the universe came from
As if your words are those which deserves to see
Through me intently

With your nose to the ground like a well-kept hound
You sniff up my leg most intentionally
When really
You are the furthest from the trail of truth
And you cannot even comprehend this loop
Which leads you around a thinly mirrored tree

So yes, every time I enter this houndtown
I will laugh you upside right from down
Until you bark with a tone more befitting your moan

There's no such thing to see
You see?
Stupid Questions
Colm Jan 2021
Sometimes I ... want to keep you, still. to stop the earth from breathing, the seas from braking, and its foam from reaching his conscious shores. sometimes aligned the night wishes, upon us, itself not to end. and the dawn away from us. because love is love, and heaven is held, here as far away from your thoughts as hell. sometimes I find ... that I just want more, and more of us as well.
something a younger me once felt
95 · Aug 2020
Presence By The Shore
Colm Aug 2020
Oceans, and

I am the place by hollow shores
Where salt and osprey meet in airs
Like hurricanes turned on their heads
Like feathers in the fair duress
I fold the melting sands amess
Into being as one they sung
By rocky shoals and jutting reefs
My currents forever run

I am the presence by the shore, the waters beneath the sun
Presence By The Shore
Colm Jan 2021
Better is sometimes
s u b j e c t i v e (and)
borderline based on what has been or
has not been or
will not be or
wasn't ever meant

to
be
Desire this, desire that, or don't. Sometimes your perspective is just that and no more.
95 · May 2020
hopefully forever
Colm May 2020
I hope so now, more than ever, forever
That you will see my face in the quiet uninhabited corners
And when you hear this song
May you always
Remember
hopefully forever
95 · Aug 2020
Live Like Rainfall
Colm Aug 2020
There cannot be a new being of you
Until you stop clouding the same old skies
With the comfortable grey you've known
Since you last tried
But instead
Let it rain until the rain is through
Let it rain and then
Even when it hurts and all which you desire is behind you
Forward. Even when it hurts and all you want is behind you.
Colm May 2020
I find
That some of the hardest things to do in life
Is to do for you
And not for me
To live for life
And as a being be
To let go of that
Which was never free
And to let yourself fade
With a gentling ease
For as sure as I am of many things
Theae are truly the most difficult for me
And after all of that. All I can keep is now. (:
95 · Jan 2020
Desire To Shift
Colm Jan 2020
I want to move you like a day
well remembered
from afar

Short and sweet
your heart to shift
your eyes to reach for another star

My hope is always in 'suchaways'
presented so as not to find
or be guilty of wanting less

I express and play
with the vision just beyond my own

To show you, see you
move enact
such is my desire today

As I want to move you not so far away
Desire To Shift
94 · Sep 2020
Musicbox
Colm Sep 2020
If my heart sings
   And I give you songs
   You'll know of such sounds
(in a quiet whisper)
   And in sounding out
   Before so long
You'll know
Your love is a song
94 · Sep 2021
Oddly Up
Colm Sep 2021
When is not a doubt
If life living is without
A sense of purpose
Much like a sky without stars
Or a moon without its shine

Would you look up into eyes and see
All that could be
And is within
?
TOD set
Colm Nov 2020
Music patters everywhere
Underneath little feet and rain alike
In falling, falling, falling out
This sound it pours directly from
The trumpet of my soul
https://youtu.be/yB8o-TiofLo

I'm tired.
93 · Mar 2020
Easy Is Already Finished
Colm Mar 2020
In any fight there is a breath
In every battle a sky soaring innocently overhead
Watching us make mindless decisions
Every day upon days unend
We sleepily forget as if anew has begun
When really if it were easy to do
It would already have been done
The difficult thing is that which alludes you
Colm Jul 2021
When a tune is sent
And whistled on a summer's breeze
For someone in particular, noone

Mother nature reaches out
Grasping at the mail of straws
And delivers nothing (more than that which she has already received)
93 · Nov 2020
A Tired Heartbeat
Colm Nov 2020
I am both here and nowhere
Inside these words and out
Lost in a questioning, wondering, how
To be free of something that will be
To be like snow and water and cloud
To be a bit more of a pragmatist free
To be something un
Somethint that isn't all about me
Preferably now
Sleep please. More sleep.
92 · Oct 2020
Pouring In And Out
Colm Oct 2020
Eventually you'll find
That after every doubt and waining fear
Has been stripped away
That time is all and good for your soul
And that jazz is just good coffee for your ears
Findings
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