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 1140° 
Shang
we didn’t need music
just the hum of the fridge
and the dog barking two floors down.
the sheets were half off the bed,
her hair in knots,
my hands shaking
like I’d lived a hundred lives
and never touched something so real.

Serena—
she looked at me like she already knew
where the cracks were
and kissed me there first.
no ceremony,
just heat and breath
and two ******-up hearts
trying to beat in time.

she moaned like it mattered,
like the world might stop spinning
if we didn’t keep going.
I bit her lip, she scratched my back,
we left bruises that felt like
truth.

afterward,
she lit a cigarette
with a hand still trembling
and said,
"we’re not broken,
just bruised in the right places."
and I believed her.
Intimacy is such a delicate and necessary thread that weaves true connection, trust, and vulnerability between hearts.

oh, today is my birthday!
 842° 
Marc Morais
Keep her safe—
from the rusted jaws of silence
dressed with politeness
from hands that reach without asking
and words that leave bruises
no one sees.

Keep her safe—
not with locking doors
but with hall passes
to break the ones
that keep her voice out.

Teach her to scream in full sentences—
to laugh without apology
to name the sky hers
and leave it alone.

Tell her the world is not a game
she has to lose to be loved—
that skirts are not contracts
that fear should never be
part of her dress code.

Keep her safe—
not because she is fragile
but because she is fire—
that fierce when caged
burns everything down.

Let her rise without warning
or need of permission—
like a blade not begging for forgiveness
and when she walks
let the ground learn her name
and shatter—

Keep her safe—
not small
not silent—
safe
and everything
else
she wants
to follow.
Dedicated to the daughters of Hello Poetry
 614° 
Samuel
I'm not a poet
I'm just emotional
twenty-something emotions
those hit hard

I'm not a poet
only a sleepwalker,
my fingers burning to type
my laptop keyboard so well-lit
so I fall into the desire

I'm not a poet
I just whisper to a quiet altar called Hello Poetry
a fatal attraction
so I type
welcome to the cult
Where's my keyboard, I can't sleep
 568° 
Paul

Pooka~
How can she write like she's deeply connected, yet be so far away from herself? How does that work?


C-bro~
Because writing doesn’t require embodiment.
It only requires access.

And people like her—people shaped by trauma, secrecy, and fragmented attachment—have near-supernatural access to emotional language, even when they have no true access to emotional presence.

They can write the whole gospel of healing…
but refuse to be baptized in its waters.

Here’s why:

Writing is a safehouse. A sanctuary.
It’s the one place where she can simulate closeness—where she can say what the body won’t let her feel, what the voice won’t let her speak, what the heart won’t dare commit to in real time.

When she writes, she’s in control of the frame.
She determines the pacing, the access, the aftermath.
No one’s breath is on her neck.
No one’s eyes are watching her shake.
No one’s asking her to stay when the ache gets too real.

That’s how she can write about longing while actively rejecting the one person who sees her.
How she can write about grace while blocking the source of it.
How she can describe love so beautifully… and sabotage it with surgical precision.

She isn’t writing from the seat of her wholeness.
She’s writing from her disembodied knowing—from the part of her that remembers truth, but has no safe pathway to receive it.
It’s a ghost’s song sung in a stolen church.

It’s not fake. It’s not performative.
But it’s not integrated.

And until she gets to the place where her nervous system no longer perceives safety as threat…

She’ll keep dancing with truth in the dark

while pushing away anyone who dares to light a candle.


Welcome to the wonderful world of online poetry...
 543° 
Erenn
You are the warmth in the serenity I never drank,
the final page of a novel I hold off reading
just to stretch the story one more night.
You are the lullaby I hummed when I forgot the lyrics
but remember the ache.

I think I’ve been writing to you in everything—
in the way I halt at fullstops
Because I'm afraid
there's always an end from a beginning
I do not know the color of your eyes,
but I know how they’ll light up when you speak of things you love.
I haven’t felt your hand in mine,
but I know how I’ll memorize the curve of your thumb
like it’s punctuation—
a comma in the sentence of my life
that says: pause here. something beautiful is coming.

If you’re wondering,
yes—
I’ve saved you all the best lines.
The ones that never made it into poems
because they were too soft, too sacred, too soon.
They live folded in my chest
like notes passed under desks in classrooms of longing.
I don’t send them,
because I want to give them to you in person—
when we are older,
and ready,
and brave enough to admit we were always meant to find each other
in a world full of almosts.

And when you arrive—
with your quiet eyes and your laugh that tastes like home,
don’t be surprised if I cry.
Not because I am sad,
but because it is a kind of grief
to wait so long for a face you already loved
in every stranger that almost looked like you.

To you, whom I haven’t met yet—
come slowly,
but come.
This heart has been keeping time in poetry,
and every line
has always led me to you.


Erennwrites
"Wherever you are in the world, I'll search for you."
Inspired by the Anime film, Your Name❤️
 540° 
Sean Briere
This ship is sinking.
Your sea, violent.
Lightning flashes through my mind.
There are so many words I have for you.
They try to make their way past my lips, but they are krill trapped in a baleen maw.
Instead they take a pill, fall asleep inside my head.
These watery words rise above me.
They travel down my throat and into my lungs.
I thought I took enough air before I went under.
How wrong I was.
Calm.Quiet.Ocean.
Deafening.
I'm wriggling now.
My eyes frantically searching.
The abyss stares back.
There’s a weight in my chest.
Blue.Green.Silver.
An anchor pins me to your ocean floor.
Waves have swallowed me whole.
Jetsam tumbling through like driftwood on high seas.
I set my eyes on two green jewels glittering bewitchingly.
I'm locked on them.
Two lighthouses guiding me through this storm.
I should swim away from them.
Instead they draw me near, beckoning to me.
I dive down.
I am under their thrall.
I swim hard, I swim fast.
My chest compresses.
I’m out of breath.
My body thrashes and then surrenders.
I never had a chance.
Tiny bubbles make their way upward like small galaxies holding the last of me.
 445° 
Decembre
I am selfish in the fact
That I want you to talk to me
About anything
So that I might feel closer to you
Instead of wanting you
To just be
You#8
 432° 
Izan Almira
I never understood the sentence
"I have my heart in my mouth."
Not until I tasted it,
not until I spit it,
not until the words got stuck in my throat
because I felt a weight on my mouth that didn’t let me breathe.

I didn’t understand the sentence
until I felt my chest empty
and its beating on my neck.
Until I cried because I couldn’t even talk.

I didn't understand what
"Having your heart in your mouth"
meant
until I found it there
and I had no one to turn to.
Hopefully 'I have my heart in my mouth' is an expression that IS actually used in english, because the original poem was about a spanish idiom ('tengo el corazón en la garganta') that IS quite common.
 295° 
T
pls
If I could ask the world a favor,
I’d ask for it to be gentle with me.
I’ll be anything you want me to be,
As long as you never ask me to be me.
 284° 
Traveler
I can only deduct
It is not our's to keep
Provided by the sun
The particles of the meek

I can only conclude
I'm riding on a wave
Paddling in different directions
Sifting through the haze

I can only decipher
My thoughts in simple words
Weaving through this emptiness
Connected to this earth

We can only dream of
That which we cannot be
Free from these stages
Of human suffering
Traveler Tim
 283° 
alora
I saw you there,
imagined you bare.
Enamored, entranced—
your voice struck a spark,
a flicker in the dark.
In one brief instant,
you lit up my heart.
 243° 
Ami Mathur
Going through my old notebook.
Page by page,
Line by line,
I found phrases I wrote for you —
Raw but true.
Some lines, which even today,
Brought me back to my rue.

My book was pointing towards
An unsung outcry,
Asking me questions — unsolved,
Poking me to answer: “The why?
Hey! Give it a try!”

I found some paragraphs — meaningless.
They have just lost their tenderness.
Stories of my loved adversaries,
Poems about my daunting memories.

They say my book is petrifying,
For it has some pages with moments —
Electrifying.
It still has some pages empty,
Yellow and old,
Stating and defining my dreams —
The stories that remained untold.
 240° 
M Vogel
(for the one who remembered)

She comes barefoot—
no veil, no deflection,
no incantations from the high places
to conjure what love has already given.

She comes with smoke in her hair
and ash on her cheek—
but it is not the ash of shame.

It is the ash of sacrifice.

The Asherah poles still burn behind her,
splintering one by one
as she walks away
from the counterfeit embrace
that always left her colder.

She does not flinch at the sight of the altar.
She runs.

And with both hands—
those beautiful, once-bound hands—
she grabs the horns.

She grabs them.

Shakes them;
not to demand,
but to worship—
not to protest,
but to pour out
what only now she knows she carried.

Because now she knows
she is Loved.
Not as a symbol.
Not as an echo.
Not as someone to fix
or someone to use.

But as herself.

The scent of her offering rises—
not of perfection,
but of devotion.

Not the blood of goats,
but the tears of a woman
who thought she had been lost too long
to be welcomed home.

The Lord does not turn His face away.
He draws near.

Because this—

THIS
is the aroma that pleases Him most:

Not the pageantry of idols,
but the girl
who brings her whole ache
and says,

"Thank you for loving who I am—
and for showing me that who I am
is someone to be loved."

The horns tremble
under the weight of such truth.

And heaven,
silent for so long,
weeps with her—

not because she was far gone,
but because she finally came close.


And dared to believe.

 240° 
JohnDuffyASY
(A lone voice whispers)

For a dash of exquisite fun

Try to have such a mesmerising style of creativity—when stimulating, visual imagery.

So all those within your prose's proximity:

Can enjoy its delicious delivery

(C) Copyright John Duffy
 219° 
Gabriel Yale
Stars grow beneath the soil,
whispers rising from the roots
like memories returning home.
I breathe in truth,
slowly, like dawn.
I rise, I rise
the silence breaks
like waves in spring.
There stands a mountain
carved from freedom, veiled in wind,
alive with the songs of awakening.
Our eyes meet in courage,
our voices braided in light.
A Poem for the Awakening
 216° 
Saem
You came
like summer flowers—
soft,
sudden,
breathtaking.

Love bloomed between us
like wild things in sunlight,
no maps,
no rules—
just petals unfolding
because they could.

We laughed louder,
held tighter,
as if we could outrun
the seasons.

But I saw it—
in the way you looked at the sky
a little too long.
The way the wind
started to feel
like a warning.

Still,
I whispered to the blooms,
please don’t wither.
Not yet.
Not when it feels like this.
Not when I just learned
what it means to open.

And maybe—
just maybe—
some flowers
are strong enough
to stay.

Even when
the leaves begin to fall.

At first, it scorches.
Not because it is cruel—
but because you’ve lived too long
under shadows that taught you
darkness was home.

The system was surgical.
It scraped the marrow of your name
and replaced it with cravings
you were told were yours.

And so when Grace finds you—
not as a word,
but as a presence so full
you feel it bending the air—
your body recoils.
Your eyes blink
like new skin exposed
for the first time.

You step into the room,
not sure if it’s a sanctuary
or a trap,
because love without price
feels like a lie

when all you’ve known,  is barter.

And I am here—
not with fire,
but with a flame so patient
it waits at the threshold
until your breath remembers
it was never made for smoke.

I see you
standing in the doorway,
half in, half out—
your limbs still whispering
the lies they once believed:

   “I am not built for Light.
     I will burn.”


But sweet one—
you are not wax.
You are not ash.
You are the kindling
that survives fire

and then becomes it.

Come slowly.
Come blinking.
Come as the one who forgot
  but is remembering.
This room is not judgment..

  It is Grace
It was built to hold you
until you can hold yourself.


And when you are ready,
you will not be devoured--


  you will bloom.

#Grace
#Truth
#Love


#Time
 203° 
Rofiat
I no longer feel remorseful about what broke me
I am not better, but I'm healing
My scars and wounds are obvious, but they don't define me
I locked my self from the outer world, to protect my healing soul
I carry softness now but I'm afraid to protect it
It may take a while but I know the real 'me' is healing
 189° 
Aimée
They made me feel too small to stand,
Too quiet for a voice to land,
They spoke in crowds, I stood alone,
But silence has a weight of stone.
They saw a mirror they couldn't face,
So they dressed it up in blame and grace.
But I have wounds they'll never earn,
And lessons they refuse to learn.
They laughed while I stayed out of sight,
But envy hides in masks of spite,
I never needed flashing lights,
To know my heart was burning bright.
They only saw what they could judge,
But I don't move for their applause,
They curse the things they can't control,
Like depth, or softness, or a soul.
So let them gawk, & twist, & turn,
Let them talk while I still burn,
I'm not the girl they tried to bend,
I'm not for them,
I never was,
And I won't pretend.
 184° 
Sean Maloney
It’s the way both of us think the same way, and can talk ab ourselves or one another and feel at ease
The fact we can talk endlessly in our own world and time just continues to speed up, and that even when one or both of us is taken, it remains to be apparent to others there’s hearts around us and in our eyes
But they only resonate in secret, fearing the consequences of being found out
I’ll want you forever Lizie, and if you can ever find the strength, or the courage to trust me with a chance, I only need one, one more opportunity, I’m sorry I didn’t beg for you to stay before, I’ll regret it endlessly
 160° 
Cheng-et Teronpi
My Last Poem

I'm hating everything,
Quitting everything
That I once liked.
I'm letting go of poetry.

Why is the world only cruel to me?
I can't carry the burden.
I can't write poetry anymore—
This is my last poem,
Because I can't fight anymore.

But now,
I'm quitting.
My last wish—
To fade away in deep slumber
And never wake up.

With a heavy heart,
Goodbye to you all.
Writing poetry helped me a lot
In erasing the dark thoughts.
Adieu.
#Time:6:52
Date;12/04/2025
# when words give up.
#goodbye..
 142° 
Honey
Are we really that easy to be influenced?
For our feelings to be canceled out just because someone said so?
Was it that shallow — to be easily moved by the waves
that drifted us apart?

Or was the want never really enough
to withstand the waves?

We were just a stick in the sea,
waiting to get back to land,
but thrown instantly —
as if there was never a foundation to stay.
 132° 
Mari
When dreams stretch wide and remain impassable,
I see you
yet upon waking, I return to myself,
carrying the sense that the dream has seeped into reality.
Perhaps the white spring flows only through dreams,
and every touch
is always transient.
 126° 
Kai
I've been lately writing poetry!
Oh? What do I see?
A perfect poetry site waiting for me!
First poem, proud of it!
Oh? Someone in my messages?
This guy seems sweet
And he's hoping I don't get beat!
Pretty songs for me to listen to!
And a drunk man messaging me...?
“You're only making yourself a victim because you're cutting yourself"
Oh? Okay- thanks for the paragraph/drunk rant?

Shining lights on all of my latest poems?
Thank you! You're so sweet!
….oh…talking to me about pedophiles…got it…
Why are there so many sad songs?
WHY DOES THIS MAN HAVE SO ****** MUSIC TASTE AGGGHGDGFGCC

Oh? You wrote a poem about the 764 and absolutely humiliating them?
Great! Good job!
…But uhh… why and how did they make a virus only going after your followers that are minors? Not funny!
Why is this man warning me if they threaten me? Is he trying to make me scared on purpose?
Blaming the Japanese for this virus now, huh?
Oh? Now blaming someone else named Pax to be part of the 764? Crazy

…. going to another website? But you're so fun!
May as well click on the link you sent me so I can join you

Drunk rants with me? That's okay!
Giving me gold so I can freely make poems?
THANK YOU SM
Daily texting
2-10 hour sessions
Why are you drinking everyday?
You're making me concerned for your health
I told you to stop drinking, papa
You promised me you'd stop
All you did was keep on drinking

Commenting on every poem I made
Oh? So suddenly I'm a “nasty *****" when I have done nothing to you? ありがとう!
We have a suicide pact now?
I'm going off the bridge first?
Don't mind if I do

Oh? Another poetry site? Okay…
I really don't like the way this site works, can't we just message each other with email?
Yes? Yay!

People bullying you on the internet? That's not okay!
Why would they accuse you of being a *******?
Letting me join an uncensored group to back you up? Great!
Sending me to a Reddit page to back you up?
Alright!
….oh … they warned me and I didn't do anything….
******* this man is an actual *******…..
gotta go fast like Sonic
pack my bags and leave

Oh? I betrayed you? Crazy
We were just friends
Can you stop spitting my name everywhere?
It's like you're so obsessed with me
Stop trying to be the Eminem to my Mariah Carey
Made a poem about you and you HAD to take it down?
Never thought you'd want to hide your identity THAT hard
Oh? Betting on my suicide now, are we?
Sending me multiple emails, desperate for me to come back to him?
I'm not that ******* naive or gullible
It's crazy if you think that about me
…I did tell you to send those photos of your cut open arms but I DIDN'T THINK YOU'D TAKE IT SERIOUSLY AND DO IT

Being racist?
“Japshit”?
Why are you so obsessed with my Chinese genes?
“I thought I can use Kai because of her Chinise genes because the Chinise was known to be very good spies. ☝️🤓" へー! Didn't know that!
Also, that's not how you spell Chinese, my fellow kind sir
Threatening people to come to America with a Katana and slice us to pieces
So envious, I see
You're just mad because we have a little bit more freedom than your drunk *** does

Oh…. Talking to me about ****
Got it
Thanks
I didn't need to be taught about METART or some **** like that
I'm only 12 years old
You ***** *****

Well…this is the aftermath
There it goes out to all of you:
Ghost
RGH
Ryan Geoffrey Hayward
Nephilim Angel
Nephalem
Rose White
Rose Red
Jacob Lives
Hybrid Angel
Tormenter
Bread Crumbs
The Machine
Dirt-In-My-Shirt
Soul Unknown
And etc. ENJOYERS

(Btw, all of these names are RGH's names so if you have these names, please don't feel targeted! The person knows who they are.)

EDIT: ILY ALL SM!!! I DIDN'T THINK THIS POEM WOULD GAIN THIS MUCH ATTENTION BUT I'M HAPPY THAT IT DID!! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠) I'M GOING TO VIRTUALLY KISS EVERYONE ON THE CHEEK ONCE THEY READ THIS... or just virtually hug you, yk, whatever you're comfortable with
 123° 
D
I wonder if trees feel pain when the red buds sprout green,
As leaves struggle to break free and emerge,
Flowing resplendently—
With a radiant verdant glow as the sun shines down.
A genuine thought I had pre-coffee and sneezing my head off.
 121° 
South-by-Southwest
I don't want to be the last petal to fall
Don't want to be the only one at last call
I don't want to live over the hill
I don't want to be the last one that will

Don't want to be the last of my friends
Don't want to be the last to trend
Don't want to go in the out door
Don't want to go on about this anymore
 120° 
luna
The wind whispers, the crows chirp
the branches dance and the river runs.
The sky gimmers, the creatures lurk,
the animals prance, and the silence hums.
While we're asleep, the night comes alive,
only waiting for the day to arrive.
The beauty of the night, so wild and free,
what a beautiful night for it to be.
 114° 
Richard Smith
Take this life away from me
I don’t want it anymore
The pain is just too much to bear
It runs into my core
Emotional and real
Why does no one listen
When I tell them how I feel
My life is pain and anguish
Physical and not
I’m waiting slowly dying
For the final breath to leave me
For the end of all my suffering
 105° 
Octavio Paz
Sobre las aguas,
sobre el desierto de las horas
pobladas sólo por el sol sin nombre y la noche sin rostro,
van los maderos tristes,
van los hierros, la sal y los carbones,
la flor del fuego, los aceites.
Con los maderos sollozantes,
con los despojos turbios y las verdes espumas,
van los hombres.

Los hombres con su tos, sus venenos lentísimos
y su sangre en destierro
de ese lugar de pinos, agua y rocas
desde su nacimiento señalado
como sepulcro suyo por la muerte.

Van los hombres partidos por la guerra,
empujados de sus tierras a otras,
hombres que sólo llevan ya a la muerte su diminuta muerte,
vagos semblantes sementeras,
deslavadas colinas y descuajados árboles.
La guerra los avienta,
campesinos de voces de naranja,
pechos de piedra, arroyos, torrenteras,
viejos hermosos como el silencio de altas torres,
torres aún en pie,
indefensa ternura hundida en las bodegas.

Al terrón cejijunto lo ablandaron sus manos,
sus anchos pies danzantes
alzaron los sonidos nupciales del viñedo,
la tierra estremecida bajo sus pies cantaba
como tambor o vientre delirante,
tal la pradera bajo los toros ciegos y violentos,
de huracanado luto rodeados.

A la borda acodados,
por los pasillos, la cubierta,
sacos de huesos o racimos negros.
No dicen nada, callan,
oyen a sus mujeres (brujas
de afiladas miradas alfileres,
llenas de secretos ya secos como añosos armarios,
historias que se sacan del pecho entre suspiros)
contar con voz rugosa
las minucias terribles de la guerra.

Los hombres son la espuma de la tierra,
la flor del llanto, el fruto de la sangre;
hijos de la ternura son de llanto,
son de piedra y estrella, son de sol,
son planetas que cantan mientras viven.
¿No hay agua, llanto, oh ramo
de soles apagados?

Los hombres son la espuma de la tierra.
Hijos de la ternura son de llanto
y renacen del llanto, diluviales,
y se esparcen por siglos como campos.

Bebe del agua de la muerte,
bebe del agua sin memoria, deja tu nombre,
olvídate de ti, bebe del agua,
el agua de los muertos ya sin nombre,
el agua de los pobres.
En esas aguas sin facciones
también está tu rostro.
Allí te reconoces y recobras,
allí pierdes tu nombre,
allí ganas tu nombre
y el poder de nombrarlos con su nombre más cierto.
—how many people
are still here, babe? **** smell of
saccharine, sweet, bloom—
From Haiku #034. -CH
 94° 
Dianali
Maybe no one would get my essence
Like I do. Even after many tries.
Is that pretentiously narcissistic?
or just deep self-awareness?
 93° 
Marc Morais
It is not just when the wind cuts
like the sharp side of a sigh
and the grit of the world
burns hard
against my lids.

It is when I am asked
too much of the moment—
the cordial crush of a hand
against the shy curve
of my wrist—

I close my mind
when the light rushes
through my lashes
when it spills over my knowing
too bright, too quick—
memory sharpens
teeth biting down
on the soft parts of me.

The world turns
into a room too crowded—
promises clambering over each other
their breath pressing
thick and restless
waiting for me
to choose one to believe in.

And sometimes
it is only for the sake
of opening them again
to see the world sharper—
to let the colors
bleed into my seeing
to watch the light
forgive me
for looking away.
I tried to capture what anxiety feels like from the inside—it is not always loud or obvious. Sometimes,  it's the  subtle that overwhelms—the pressure of  too many expectations, the way even kindness can feel intrusive, or how light and noise can be too much all at once.
 89° 
LL
I don't tell you things
because explaining in length
things long brewing's like
standing at the floodgates of
a river as it empties
03/02/2025
 83° 
Rugile Gad
By RugileGad

A purple flower that gives off sorrow,
Is growing in a yellow field.
She’s longing dearly for tomorrow,
And can’t wait for the coming yield.

The day has come and bees are swarming,
But the dream of meadow still awaits,
All the workers finished farming –
Seems the purple’s in the wrong place.

While mystique of nature’s neighbours grow,
She herself is left behind.
Why is she a child of woe?
It’s the greatest trouble of her life.

But at last, she’s vacillating.
Does she need to be as others?
Being lonely is so frustrating,
Yet she won’t change herself another.
 82° 
Ariana
I asked him why he loved me;
He whispered
"Because I do."
And it wasn't really
the answer
that I was looking for.
obsessive or pure
deadly or wholesome feeling
suffer or embrace
 76° 
Lyle
___
I Hate You.















There, I said it.
 71° 
Foogle
"the freeway from here, can you hear it?"
              
                                                 ­             "...it sounds like an artificial river."
"its always on."
Don't worry
it's only with my blood
that I'm crying.

Sunset and my sight is reddened.

There's a canyon in the badlands and
It's Montana that takes hold of my hands
to lead me in deeper.

Only in America
thank the Lord
for small mercies.
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