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Oct 2020 · 52
Sonder
ilias Oct 2020
She haunts souls
In abandoned voices
Witnessing stories
In fragile minds

In the midst of dust
Words are lying
She gathers them all
To cure the blind

She longs for the whole
And gifts the world
With stories unheard
From left behinds
Oct 2020 · 56
Birds
ilias Oct 2020
Birds so high
Attached to the sky
Golden wings
And warming light
Another short one, ‘cause right now I’m wordless
Sep 2020 · 69
A lullaby
ilias Sep 2020
A lullaby for
The sun to set

All those puddles  
Of fallen rays
In our home-cities
Pouring, flowing
Into our hearts
The beat of places
We long for
From afar
Sep 2020 · 56
Poetry
ilias Sep 2020
Poetry claimed as freedom
But with words imprisoned
Sep 2020 · 37
Moonlight
ilias Sep 2020
Dozens slowly die in sunsets
By the moon they are dragged down
The goddess, the mentor of purity
Golden hour, vanishing sun
She‘s playing with your hair
While in sunsets dozens slowly die
She maintains your horizon flare
Sep 2020 · 74
Artistic
ilias Sep 2020
Eclipse in the sky
Abolished wonders
Yet the stars fly
Out of the universe
And into your mind
you contain the universe and all its occupants
Sep 2020 · 93
Wide sunlight
ilias Sep 2020
Bluish mornings
The best to discover
Bright glowing orange
To leave your fingertips
Bond with the sun
Feel the horizontal verge
Sep 2020 · 52
That‘s our world
ilias Sep 2020
Fires
Tornados
Reckless behaviours
Wars
And scars
See, that‘s our world

And don‘t forget
That people are dying
Day for day
From illness
And pain
Because they have been put
Into deadly chains
this is reality -
Sep 2020 · 40
On hands
ilias Sep 2020
Sicker trough sand
Tiptoe on hands
A soul so
Sophisticated
My sight became blurred
Sep 2020 · 74
Barefoot
ilias Sep 2020
In silent woods
Far from the haze
Two are running barefoot
Through sparkling waves

A significant interaction
of clouds so cristal clear,
The surface‘s turquoise,
And two devouring pristine air
Sep 2020 · 229
Bumblebees
ilias Sep 2020
postpone the bitter trip
until he relapses
a grown-up kid
averting the bumblebees
he‘s cluttered with
Sep 2020 · 53
Kingdoms
ilias Sep 2020
It is, yes it is
So utterly wild
The jungle moans
And all clouds cry
From far away
Royal roars chime
A kingdom of lions
So utterly wild
Sep 2020 · 227
A wooden palace
ilias Sep 2020
A wooden palace for the dead
had everyone came in black
flowers, voices, mother earth was awake
To celebrate, regret and retract

The living came to purify their souls
By invigorating adorned cathedrals
And singing songs about loss

Almost as on a causal wedding day
They did not come to celebrate the dead
But to cry about the left behind
Together, to feel more alive

And they were dancing
Around the gone
Voices creating vibration of air
Which sounded peacefully
To the song of despair
Sep 2020 · 52
Interactions
ilias Sep 2020
He knocked back a bottle
     maybe
     three or four
We were both drunk
     upside down
     on the floor
A play of tongues
     and sweet-bitter
     wine
Forced reactions
     and a thunder
     inside

When he pressed his body
     against mine
I should have seen the stop sign
Sep 2020 · 92
Unsafe place
ilias Sep 2020
Go and change the world with me
Open your eyes, this is reality
An unsafe place for us to be
‘Cause we‘re ruled by inhumanity
Sep 2020 · 113
Minor character
ilias Sep 2020
I‘m only a minor character
Of my own story
Just another stranger
To myself
Sep 2020 · 42
Shot dead poetry
ilias Sep 2020
Onto the battleground we‘re nailed
Provided with guns and swords /
But our mission failed
We mourn our fallen words
Sep 2020 · 60
Alone
ilias Sep 2020
Don‘t we all feel lonely
Until we find ourselves?
Sep 2020 · 62
A four o‘clock poem
ilias Sep 2020
Time to go
To rush on and see
What life brings to us
To you and me
Rush, be hushed
Along your way
It‘s four o‘clock
No time to stay

Time to go
Commit yourself
To the course of events/
‘Cause no stop sign
Not any at all
Can ever be seen
So go with the time
It‘s already four-fifteen
Sep 2020 · 87
Silver dust
ilias Sep 2020
We fade like silver dust
Into the universe
Sep 2020 · 154
Drugdealer
ilias Sep 2020
Words can be
scathing
Like demons
They lurk into
Our minds
And my parents
Deal with drugs
They feed us
Screeching monsters

In lethal doses
Sep 2020 · 48
Your heart
ilias Sep 2020
You take my hand
And drag my finger over the part
Of your body
Where the heart is supposed to be
But I can not feel it
Oh I wonder where it has gone
And you smile
Take a deep breath and say

I just gave it away
where is it now?
Sep 2020 · 485
By the sea
ilias Sep 2020
She can only be found by the sea,
My darling, my love, my second me.
The highest tide of my life,
My darling, my love, my lonely wife.
She had to run, run to find the reason why,
She went where the ocean meets the sky.
The absence of her presence can not be fair
But how she craved for the feeling of despair

Now she can only be found by the sea,
My darling, my love, my second me.
A poetic presence of a wish to die
Every imaginable moment I feel her cry
So I run, run to find the reason why,
I go where the ocean meets the sky.
Inspired by E.A.Poe‘s masterpiece „Annabel Lee“
Sep 2020 · 157
Solitude
ilias Sep 2020
slowly sinking back
into the solitude
I used to forget
I have
Sep 2020 · 204
Words drip
ilias Sep 2020
Our words drip
They keep falling
Like water falls
From high above
To make the sky
Blue again

                    Drip
              Drip
     Into the
Abyss
Sep 2020 · 208
When atoms bond
ilias Sep 2020
We collide
when thoughts connect
We bond through
the gravity of words
And when we hold
each other
Our atoms seem
to touch
Sep 2020 · 49
Water bubbles
ilias Sep 2020
Water bubbles in your mind
Feeding up our damaged lies
Sep 2020 · 135
In the middle of life
ilias Sep 2020
We died in the middle of life
Faded away silently
And the earth‘s motion continued
Because we are not the world.
Sep 2020 · 284
Our words
ilias Sep 2020
We are strangers
Glancing at the same words
Written down
But seeing different worlds
In our poems
Aug 2020 · 65
Red skies
ilias Aug 2020
Skies drenched with
grief and loss, with
despair and ****** pledges, with
lost senses and keen edges.
No more blue can be seen.
We now stare into infernal red.
Aug 2020 · 234
Stand still for me
ilias Aug 2020
Sometimes you just need someone
Who listens to your silence
Someone
Who stands still for you
when the world
Moves too fast
Aug 2020 · 72
Alternative reality
ilias Aug 2020
Let‘s create an alternative reality
We can escape to
If the world goes under
And we only have each other
Left
Aug 2020 · 70
Which one
ilias Aug 2020
I‘ll colour this poem
In green or blue
Tell me which one
I should use for you

Green,
Because you didn‘t
Stay, when I needed you.
You changed, as most leaves
in autumn do.
Or blue,
Because I drowned
In your eyes,
And you didn‘t hold
Me above water
So I died with you
Which one?
Aug 2020 · 40
Poet of my pain
ilias Aug 2020
A poem is not for others
But for oneself
To summarise
The endless pain
Aug 2020 · 66
Summer skies
ilias Aug 2020
The cold broke in
And we forgot
How it felt
To look into
Summer skies
Aug 2020 · 103
Blooming poem
ilias Aug 2020
All of a sudden
A thought of creation
Possesses your head
And letter by letter
You sow art in your soul

You water those letters
Again and again
The seeds become words
And they start to glow

-
With your mind in a flow
You write flowers on paper
And let them bloom
Your effort is shown

Oh, all of a sudden
A poem was grown
Aug 2020 · 89
Under living skies
ilias Aug 2020
I feel as if the sky with all its shades of blue
and all its different clouds
is some sort of weighted blanket.
And sometimes
this huge layer wraps around me, carefully, almost as to make sure I’m okay,
before it suffocates me with invisible mist.
Do you feel the same?
As if the sky descends to hold you tight and slowly
let’s you die?
Aug 2020 · 184
A finger‘s width
ilias Aug 2020
Life is this tiny space
between
infinities

A finger‘s width full of
love and despair and
the desire to be
free
Aug 2020 · 147
Dancing dreams
ilias Aug 2020
And we keep
dancing through
empty streets
not knowing when
reality brings
us to a halt
again.

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