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30 · Apr 2020
Never Lie
Colm Apr 2020
The trick is not a trick at all
     Of self
           Of other
                 Of wanton desire
But in thIs and therein the I
Never be what err you cannot
And never have a reason to lie
30 · Oct 2020
Spinning Rains and Storms
Colm Oct 2020
And then one day
   When the sky’d had enough of it winded and vitriolic shame
With eyes wide as well mouths
   Looking down from the most inhuman skies abound
On that one day
   When the world wouldn’t stop for even a second anymore

It rained
Spinning Rains and Storms - RAIN
30 · Oct 2020
Four Of Five
Colm Oct 2020
Stars never wander, just as waves never falter. All in crashing, plummeting, omnipotent agonizing, no. No downward motion was ever known, by any of these, such as me.
4/5
Colm Mar 2020
Feeling the winding springs beneath
Gravitational pull indefinite
Might leave now
Definitely
A play on feeling cute, might delete.
30 · Jun 2020
Feathers In My Hair
Colm Jun 2020
I move so fast
That the birds have stopped nesting in my hair
This year
Feathers In My Hair
30 · Jun 2020
Crazy, Constant, Faith
Colm Jun 2020
When you see the heights
of the mountain
and climb
You realize
That it take a certain kind of psychosis
to believe
So constantly and with edge
That you can and will
fly
When you see the top competitors. The 1%.
30 · Oct 2020
Two Of Five
Colm Oct 2020
Some days I ache like the desert for rain. And others for the end, of Tsuyu one and the same.
2/5
29 · Oct 2020
What A Slight Smile Means
Colm Oct 2020
Near not
Nor want of desires am
Be told as much by their fathers
Less
For fear of a girl expecting more suns
For expecting stars without such burning
Infinitely falling duress

We are not them
Human which tears apart parting flesh
Nor timeless clocks or flea ridden pests
When wondering in east
Be confounded by the floundering boundless this
That we are but men
Infused with Gods lost compasses

Near not, you’ll find
That behind the guise
We smile and acquiesce
Inspired by a look. An image of truth. And the meaning behind man, fathers, daughter, and sons too.
29 · Dec 2020
The Mortal Second Thought
Colm Dec 2020
Words can never hold you
Like immortal arms can try
Or comforting words can pretend to keep
Everlasting as the books which fall short of life

Much emphasis on this mortal can
This inevitable, always, will try

Humans, right?
https://youtu.be/1iHhWh9FtsQ
29 · Mar 2020
Let's Drink
Colm Mar 2020
Coffee smooth as scotch and butter
Tea to last an hour past
And wine as vineyards stretching out
Let's drink until the cows are stars
The comets turn cold coming home
As a shipping roost will do for us
Let's drink not though we must
29 · Jun 2020
Arrows In The Night Sky
Colm Jun 2020
Writers are those who bend their bows
Shooting arrows into the night sky
Hoping almost to hit
But not yet ****
The stars
Arrows In The Night Sky
Colm Apr 2020
Doves coo a quiet
And whisper softly to her
That they've seen'em thee
The suitor suns inquiry
Of her eccentricities
Mobilewriting
29 · Mar 2020
For Want Of A Bite
Colm Mar 2020
Sometimes I can feel
The words swimming beneath the surface
But they will not rise
To the fly of me

Maybe a nymph tomorrow
For Want Of A Bite
29 · Apr 2020
Filter, A Tanka
Colm Apr 2020
Let there be words found
Midst accompanying song
Joyous actions too
Abound with simple light stroke
In this artistry complex
Filter - Crosshatch - A Stroke Too
Colm Jun 2020
The moonlight serene
Looks both different and differently at me
Through these Hemlock wings alive
And the summer breeze perspective
Flying above us with its free embrace
Whispers a painted picture of forest green
Into your ears the essence of my dream
Of which you are of part and parcel
A major reoccurring being
You, and this new moonlit scene
Colm Apr 2020
Humans, we are who
Being of sound voice and full
Speak often not of
And more so now than ever
Of that which is nothing new
5-7-5-7-7
29 · Aug 2020
Re-Injured
Colm Aug 2020
Just when I thought
I was fully to mend
And started walked thereout
The ache in limping form returned
With my reign at an end like a summers warmth
Guess it's time to limp off
And in trying begin again

To walk
https://youtu.be/jbB0nEm323o
28 · Mar 2019
Unbound
Colm Mar 2019
A shoestring I am
Like a railroad tie without a shirt
Or a pair of cufflinks without caboose
Unbound
Unbridled
Unshackled
Alive
Like a stallion without pen or care
I write without knowing what it means
To ride
Lulz
28 · Jun 2020
From Now Till Far Away
Colm Jun 2020
And then suddenly
Like the dawn, she was there
And my face alight with a joy so bright
That she was even more radiant
In the second sun of my reflected
Impervious to shadows and the nets they weave
I am glad that I waited through the night
To be greeted by my dawning eyes such as these
I am glad
Colm Feb 2020
One day a song is there to stay
And the next it fades
In the memory of sea
Like a courseing wave
NEW descends upon me
And then like the tide
It ebbs away
Never to be found again
Until NEXT appears
Beneath my sandy feet away
I am born of music
I am born of music. That and tags aren't working. Lol
28 · Oct 2020
The Truth Above
Colm Oct 2020
Sometimes boys just want these eyes alive
And men, men want to write about women
And moon and stars and skies
Above
28 · Jun 2020
Just Outside of Frisco
Colm Jun 2020
When you are in Texas
The storm feels closer
The grass feels more vibrant
Not greener, but strong
And the cool wind blows
In a proud feminine way
Unpredictably beautiful

When you are alone and in Texas
You are peacefulness embodied
Tranquility on the edge of both war and throng

A wonderful feeling of being and belong
A Reflection
28 · Apr 2020
Walk
Colm Apr 2020
Walk to the end of the road
And turn
Walk, not till you find yourself
Or your place
But walk because thought
Because stillness kills
We are walking beings
At pace
28 · Feb 2020
Banished Shwdow Eyes
Colm Feb 2020
I hate the morning
Love the shadow eyes
So much
That I often forget to
To see the light of day
How bright it is
To feel
Amazed
Be gone. Lol.
28 · Jan 2020
Why Silence
Colm Jan 2020
Your objectivity is worthless
Without experience
Just as your opinion isn't helpful
When plagued with negativity
Grow up
(If you would act just this once)
And get some responsibilities
Aimed at noone in this general vicinity. It's just that in a different social circle, I find myself surrounded by spoiled people behaving like children.
28 · Mar 2020
The Ownership We Give
Colm Mar 2020
Time does not turn on a dime
No it scrapes
Like shoes on the asphalt
Chalk on the slate
Scuffee
Time is not time
When another man pays
It is a slow and mendacious
Pain
27 · Oct 2020
One Of Five
Colm Oct 2020
So many wonder, so few will find. The ring which you threw into the river knowingly. With the currents, truth will never un, but wind.

Until the sea's remind.
1/5
27 · Jun 2020
We've Become The Body
Colm Jun 2020
The body never truly falls
Be it completely forward or back on itself
Because the body is so much bigger than just the one
Made up of ones nonetheless

When one man stumbles
Though it may reflect in small and personal pools of running water beneath
His falter is not of the body, the whole
For we are as one, and made up of ones
And when one man stumbles in his walk
Another man will always be there
To step up and catch his fall

For as he was in full, once one
Now we are in full, many as one

With him our unity never truly falls
Colm Mar 2020
Sit and stay
Until the clouds unravels
Till the hot coals glow
And the night calls you back
Try and try as you may
To pull the smoke out of snow
And it will outlast your hopes
For a clearing of day
Though I would be happier still
If I were creating along thr way
Sometimes the quiet
Is the creation of self
Sometimes all that you can do is just
Sit and stay
Sometimes all the stars align, and I still can't capitalize. Lol. My life.
27 · Feb 2020
Truth Is...
Colm Feb 2020
Not to be found
But reaffirmed in mind
As no verse will ever lift you up
Or bear your cross quite like
Christ
Yup
27 · May 2020
Falling Into Words
Colm May 2020
You can set up all the pins
Set aside all the time in the world to try
And still fail at being
And in that failure of self
Be
And it's alright

No bird without falling ever first learned to fly
And so will you
With word
PARKSIDE Memory 2
Colm Apr 2020
About the wind
From here where I am wondering
In
How it endlessly whips through the hair of the willow lace
Calms the desperate sigh of the wandering mind
As its own embrace
Reaches across every state and barrier
Being felt by many whose hand will never hold  
Yet wonder about the leaf born trees
From rock and acorn, stem and root
I don’t wonder about their noise or leaves
For the wind is behind it all
I see
Just as you are motionless
Silent to me
Just as I have left, and you have left, leaves.
27 · Apr 2020
The Horizon In Her Eyes
Colm Apr 2020
From the moment I first saw
The sunlight fall
Into irises warmer than southern seas
All I could think about was how
You are not my starlight
Yet in sky
But as another day ends
I'd like you to be
27 · Aug 2020
Was One Of Few, Am
Colm Aug 2020
If anything be known
Be it by memory or reflex of habit fine
It was once and for a midnight shone
For a spell of time and worth
That there is coal and those who burn
And he a diamond in the earth

Shining
Still makes me smile - LOL
27 · Jul 2020
Highway Flowers
Colm Jul 2020
One more day
One more breath
One more second yet to pass by me
In exhaling exuberance of life and living fast
I am tired of seeing
And by roadsides existing
Not stopping to smell thoroughly
Such quiet flowers by the wayside
Passing myself by
This is me
I'm ready to breathe again. These last few weeks have been high pressure, full of personal expectation, and muggy. I'm ready for a change. A change.
27 · Feb 2020
Life of Falling Snow
Colm Feb 2020
The snow starts
The snow stops
Unknowing weather
It wants to fall
Or not at all
Finding unrest on our country streets
Dear friendship atop tiny trees
As it thinks it's way
Both in and out of existence cold
Melting worries until
Surrounded by water
It is no longer standing still
Let alone growing old
Life of falling. Snow.
27 · Jul 2020
Rooted Deep In Self
Colm Jul 2020
My strength is like a weathered tree
Though shanken on the surface blown
And thrown about in raptures occasionally
Your summer storm will not shake me
Or in my roots well known, feel anything
You will not shake me. Not now or ever.

(:
Colm Jul 2020
Someday their skies will open up
And they'll realize that
I was always a cloud
Just never aloud
As clouds do
Colm Apr 2020
How does one cross an ocean
Begin a journey in a direction
Unknown

Let die an echo in an empty room
And speak without hating
Your only sound

How, how

Do you let yourself be seen
For real
When all around you is judgemental and rude

When the moonlight amongst others
Is not willing to avail itself to you
How then will you begin

With a breathing step
Into the drowning unknown

Beyond how is the when you will go
26 · Jun 2020
Looking Onto Ponds
Colm Jun 2020
Deep beauty
Steady silence
And ripples stirring into waves
Unchurning days besought with shadows
And a shying sky which looks
And gazes longingly beneath
At each of these
One blue, one clouding grey
Begotten eyes

Only to see what I can see
At the end of whipping, curling, line
Two
26 · Oct 2020
The Cliff of Loving Again
Colm Oct 2020
My barefoot sand
And rocky outlook
Blinded by the trust in being
Feels beneath
And over the edge
Of falling for you once again
From the feeling of this am I
No longer fleeing
Describes it nearly perfectly
26 · Jul 2020
Casting Is Like Flying
Colm Jul 2020
The tensions slips
And in an instant the air whips vibrant
Most churning colors in the July sky
Offset the black outline
Of a spry nymph in flight

Who was I to wake and think that I
Wouldn't be the one to fly
When I was
With the right music that is.
Colm Jun 2020
Do you feel, do you think, do you pretend for, and still hope to be? Do you try, do you want, do you wish for, and occasionally plead? Do you shine with vibrant wonder, and in dreams cool resolve to be? Free from the sake of those waiting upon you.

Do you still wish to fall?
I'm sure you do. But for me?
Distant Wishes Under The Same Sky
26 · Oct 2020
Separation Skies
Colm Oct 2020
The most beautiful essence of memory
is the breeze.

The most powerful beat of the drum
is the heart.

The thunder paints colors in my ever clouding head,
and rumbles to be heard once again with ease.

In all of your astounded ears, surreal, would you please?
I wish to be whole and not in part.
Separation Skies
Colm Jul 2020
A wish is just the absence of a realization.

Just as the night is just the absence of the sun, which ignites our minds to breathe.

Just as I wish that I'd realized this sooner.

Yes, even I am susceptible to life itself.

Espdcially me.
Being is who we are in that moment, growing.
26 · Jul 2020
When Your Cellphone Dies
Colm Jul 2020
Sometimes to disconnect from the world
You need to realize
That although (you're alone)
You are forever most a human
Not a planet in and of yourself
Alonez
26 · Feb 2020
Strings By Fireside
Colm Feb 2020
Golden strings
Worn thin and brown
Like hair once let
From ponytail down
Around fireside
A plucking keep
A look by flames
Ignites in me
A song
A song
To keep
https://youtu.be/Jyi4XJhYu9E
26 · Mar 2020
Colorationz
Colm Mar 2020
No one knows the color of the sky
Our rods and cones decree it is
An abundant place
With waves of clouded wishes warm
And cold hard truths
When it rains and often storms

And yet know one knows the ways in which its true colors go
And show
And show
26 · Jul 2020
Wanting More
Colm Jul 2020
Quite coffee
Warm looks through
And cold seats no-more alone
And in knowing of such
Warm up to you
Quiet as your opinion of me may be
In memory
It's what I want more than any such truth

At least at present
25 · Apr 2020
Rebecca, A Tanka
Colm Apr 2020
Radiant your dawn
Untied meaning ever yours
A joyous lifted
Hymnal light as spoken word
Be here not gone from my side
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