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72 · Apr 2020
Applause
Me Apr 2020
I looked at the sundown
and looked at my ***
and could't decide
which one I liked best
true story!
72 · Aug 2019
Loving Stir
Me Aug 2019
In your hand
a purple blossom
grows and
opens
and reveals
the sleeping
peaceful
Universe
and how it sighs
and curls up in
your warmth
and how you blew onto
its tiny face
to wake it up
and play-
72 · Jun 2020
Detoxicating
Me Jun 2020
It's hard to expect
people to treat you
Kindly and act
peacefully if
they themselves want it
so much but never
knew how
in the first place

It's hard to see at first
that Your role
is not
to receive from them
but to
give-
if you choose-
'cause you can
Next time I 'll just say I feel disrespected and don't leave.
72 · Sep 2019
Inside
Me Sep 2019
Waiting for your eyes
to open
really is the
hardest part
it is tough.
72 · Apr 2019
Hear this
Me Apr 2019
You say
You cannot lie-
Love, that's particularly why
I love you.

That's the thing
that binds me
to you
and pushed me far away, before.
71 · Dec 2019
The Confused Alchemist
Me Dec 2019
I forgot the steps
In between
And thus the chaos, dear
Excuse me please
I'll fix it but i need
A hand in fixing
Look, here,
You know the work
71 · Mar 2020
27
Me Mar 2020
27
And from here
we create
what we want
and not
wait
til it happens
Good Morning!
71 · Aug 2019
Expand
Me Aug 2019
How everything-
How pain
And Love
And fear
And light
How everything starts off
In the whirlwind
And is twisted
Until your heart expands
And nothing is
Without a home or left
Outside.
70 · Sep 2020
Double-Vision
Me Sep 2020
I cannot get over
the sheer beauty
of this face
half white half
black
and lacking every feature
of a mask
~
70 · Jan 2020
Because
Me Jan 2020
Because I felt that you felt
What you said
So much
I have such a deeply imprinted
Emotional memory of this
Most beautiful scary moment
Everything's connected, you said this
And I thought it so many times
Amd want to think it again but also feel it again. This is probably the scary part.
70 · Apr 2019
Magnolia
Me Apr 2019
A purple path
unfolds
beneath my feet
and in the heat of my emotions
before I couldn't see it

a mother ghost
leads me
and leads me warm
this time

I find that
in this little time
I really made progress

confess, my love,
that you made progress, too.
70 · Jul 2019
If God knows what
Me Jul 2019
If God knows what
Is written all over your face
And if you stand
Outside my door
Your shoulders down
And tears clouding your vision

I am going
To embrace you -
Nothing else.
Come home.
70 · Nov 2020
Thinking in Poetry
Me Nov 2020
As a lightning strikes
down right at your bare feet
dripping
you await -
calm -
The thunder
70 · Oct 2019
The Well
Me Oct 2019
There is a tiny little
house inside my
heart
with yellow bricks and
flower pots
and reflecting
window panes

Sometimes the house
stands free and between
colours
sometimes clouds
mantle its door and windows

Sometimes I know who lives
inside the house-
Sometimes I don't

But as it's always there
I won't let outside weather
worry me
^
     /  \    
---|_n_|---
70 · Jan 2020
Approaching Carefully
Me Jan 2020
I cannot help
But treat
The Sun and Moon
Like friends
Who slightly make
My heart go
Sceptical
It's just like that now
70 · Jul 2020
The Thing
Me Jul 2020
...
Write it yourself, I say. Write it yourself like you write it into being with every single facet and fibre of it.
Write it like you know you are writing it.
A shape, form, emerges in front of your eyes,
your fingers are not still now, cannot be still
for they are at the same time describing and creating what you see with your own eyes.
They move, in constant motion because you are in constant motion, and you want it to be clear.
You are not running from it, but it is not easy.
It feels - it pulls at you rather strongly rather like this is the thing that is not very patient anymore not feeling like it makes sense to wait everything out - the thing that sent flashes of bliss into your fingers
in the first place, the thing that makes your very own chest sting and pound hard in turns, like a ship in the most childish of storms.
You do not dare to breath out fully, and when you do it sinks down right into your stomach and there feels
so much more profound and physical.
It stretches out into your hands and feet, your fingertips.
You do not look at your words because you are the one who’s already seen them before they came into being. You are not quite
daring to free the full power, the
full
spell of the word that lay under this thick layer, but you feel it fully, feel that already the word is out, uncovered, hovering - getting to know you better, getting to know your condition,
the multiple points of connection already apt and willing,
and the ones that still push - push away.
There is time.
There is time for sure. But the thing is as sentient as you are.
...
69 · Oct 2019
Jay birds
Me Oct 2019
This morning I was called
out on the balcony
by two insistent
jay birds


68 · Sep 2019
Postcard from Here
Me Sep 2019
A pilgrimage does not
start on the pages
you may as well walk
around blocks and into
grocery- and coffee shops

As long as you can say
for sure the way came
from your heart
and you did not
let anyone dictate
a starting point for you

everything's well

Have coffee
cigarettes and cake
on your own path
have everything that makes
the aching fear come
out

Take good advice and
money, wisdom, sweets
take all this from your friends but don't make
doubt to be a thing to take on

And maybe you will meet me
on your way
and maybe we will chat or have
a cup
or maybe you'll walk past
and that is fine with me

And at the end maybe
you ll meet
Yourself
shake hands
embrace
and turn around to see
that is was worth it.
68 · Sep 2019
The Bottom of Faith
Me Sep 2019
There'll be a point when you
exceed a line
of being asked
again
but when it is instead
a well known fact that you
will always answer
yes
I do believe.

From this point on
no grief, no pain or sorrow
will ever knock you
down again
68 · Sep 2019
Reclaim
Me Sep 2019
Reclaim those parts
that you don't claim to be
part of Yourself

Restrain your brain
and start empowering
your mind instead of
spamming it

Stretch out your
arms and widen
your territory of
downright responsibility

Reclaim your ****
and shove it through the light-
and own it.
It is time!  No ******* excuses.
68 · May 2019
Enlightenment
Me May 2019
...That half
does not make compromises
always shouts yes
and never whispers

always exhales
always sees all colours
never says their names

always knows mass
and no numbers

calls for help immediately
and always helps, without doubt

jumps in puddles
rings doorbells without waiting
takes big bites off all nice cakes

always speaks from the heart
cause she knows nothing else to speak from

loves fully, always

takes fear by the hand and talks to it,
quietly

and merges.
Me Apr 2019
From it
there reaches out a long
green
arm

and pulls me in, or out

reliably that arm was there
before I was
and knows my mind
my soul
my heart
68 · Oct 2019
Downstream
Me Oct 2019
Eyes closed
and rushing
downstream
towards something
you want
and are
scared of

But on the way
the current washes
off the fear so that
you'll definitely get there
whole and
bright
and clear
God the way is so so so hard somedays
67 · Dec 2020
Towards the Surface
Me Dec 2020
The untanned soles of your
naked feet the most
vulnerable part yet facing
my palm now
I'll slowly embrace
the crocodile woman
67 · Sep 2019
Swallowed
Me Sep 2019
Picture a vast
wild sea
rough and waves
as high as
skyscrapers
ice cold water
and sharp edged
riffs

what is it
I ask from
you?

I ask you
to

jump

and become
the sea
with every bone
every muscle
every single of your
eyelashes and words
and breaths
become
the sea

before it calms down
and washes you
to the shore
and let's you off

and your eyes meet
all you constantly
dreamed of
67 · Sep 2019
Wake Up
Me Sep 2019
Stretch
your backbone,
Love,
You' ll need it

defeated and
in corners lie
your enemies

you look through all
your withered poetry and find a piece
that states:

There lie my gorgeous troubles,
the Loveless and the Judges


Breathe out
and know that
you have laboured well
to get this piece of truth
out on the table

that, stubborn and ferocious as you are,
no label will stick hard enough on you
to soak you back into their games

Time to wake up and say
to those who prefer playing
that playing time is over-
that grey suits will not help
to cover up, disguise, a sleeping mind

That, with a BANG, you'll wake them
and make them shake til
every
single
molecule
has chosen to light up
in color.

There go my gorgeous troubles;
the Loveless and the Judges

~
BANG!
Me Jun 2020
Racks my brain
racks my brain racks my-

because:
how why for what
reason

do we
so much in vain attempt
to
pin
things
down

not let them

be
***
67 · May 2019
Rise
Me May 2019
You see
Three old men
Sitting on chairs, smoking and
Having a coffee in the sun
And say
These lazy *******
Not realizing
That you are the lazy one
Who lets his freedom,
Voice
And love
*******
Out of fear of
Taking
Responsibility.
66 · Sep 2020
Encouraging the Fire
Me Sep 2020
~
But what if I burn too much
says the fire
In that case I will
just put you out a bit

murmurs the water
and wraps itself
around the flames
just enough
to calm the fire down a bit
~
Me Feb 2020
Calmness
Irritates
It seems
Cause everytime
I meet new people
They ask
Why do you speak in such a
Low voice
And I wonder
If I would shout and boast
Would they ask
Too?
It's tiring. It seems that it truly Irritates people at partys. I don't get it. Next time I'll ask them, hmhm and why is it you are shouting so much?....
66 · Dec 2020
The Wind Itself
Me Dec 2020
You whisper your lines out
like an airborne feather,
light in the air
an inherent sense of where to go
not interfered with
by heavy objects
66 · Jun 2020
Her Treasure Box
Me Jun 2020
This is my
treasure box
she says grinning and
gifting you with
a brief look inside
You
irritably
glance back saying there
is nothing in it
Her grin grows
bright
lips curling
up
Sure
she replies
every time I find
some thing that I love I
immediately throw it
back into
the waters
66 · Aug 2019
Popcorn
Me Aug 2019
Kind of like
Universe saying
(eyes rolling):
What in the world do I have to move
to make you trust

you must-
you must not fear
a single bit
what comes your way;

I throw
a bucket of
nature's best flowers
on you
I send out
my animal helpers
make them
approach and watch
over your steps

and however long it takes
until you trust-
believe-
and wake up with
a radiant clarity that wipes
out all gloomy thoughts
-
I'll stay
and watch
and
hold
your
hand.
66 · Dec 2019
Infinity
Me Dec 2019
What do you get
when you put
three and three
together?
66 · Nov 2020
Orion's Belt
Me Nov 2020
Three bright figures stretch
across the night sky -
a pinpoint delivery
attracting
my restless eye
before I dare go to sleep
65 · Aug 2019
Up
Me Aug 2019
Up
Whom did I
unlock
just there
at night
in sleep and dream

Who
carries such
a
foreign
name?
65 · Nov 2019
Smile
Me Nov 2019
We're all born
butterflies
and just disguise
as caterpillars
until the time
has come


Me Dec 2019
There is a room
filled with
green light and fog
and it is
unconditional
and it is love
and we are there and you
ask me
what about things like
war
the kid that died
the crimes in 36th street
the beers and that
unpleasant argument last night
are they
outside the room?
I tell you
No
nothing's outside
the room
and if it is
it's cause
you put it there
65 · Sep 2019
The House full of Candles
Me Sep 2019
She lives in
a house full of candles and lights
one for each happy thought

He walks by and feels
the warmth of her fire
on his skin and stops

and knocks on her door.
64 · Sep 2019
Enough
Me Sep 2019
I owned a lot of things
that are not mine
and did for very long-

Now I ask you
to take it back.

And if the dark disgusts you
maybe take some time
and start by promising
that you will not
push all your ****
to me
again.

Or I will promise
to myself
that I won't take it.
64 · Dec 2020
Enamorado
Me Dec 2020
An orange blue
bird
huddled outside under another
fluffy bird's wing gives you
an impression of wholeness
calm now
and swim
Light up
Me Aug 2019
I want to write
a poem for YOU

who has suffered so much
who has seen
so much
and was- for so
so long-
not allowed to see

For YOU
who was always there
sometimes in a dark, dark corner
sometimes out
in the daylight and
dancing

Who never really left
just went
somewhere else in order
to survive

For YOU
who was there before my tiny feet
were touched by the doctors and nurses
before my mother looked into my eyes
for the first time
before I took my first
oxygen breath
before anyone could know-

For YOU
and for the fact
that you are with me
even in times where
I did not believe in
anything
when the waves came rolling so high
and the rain fell so heavy
and the storm blew so hard
I couldn't even
see the shore

This is for YOU
and for me
and to honor
the most beautiful
fact of all-

That it does not matter anymore
whether it is for YOU
or for me
because
we
are
not apart
anymore.
credits for the title of this poem to Toni Morrison, and love.
64 · Oct 2019
The Bridge
Me Oct 2019
Such a stunning piece of work
it has become
and glowing
in the bright sunlight

Only here and there
are some spots that need
mending
still-

an ill feeling of
half-presence befalls me
every time I step
into such a spot-

But only for a second
before I kneel down-
hot and panting-
next to my toolbox and start
filling in the space
and thus connecting-

      This Bridge is not
a simple gateway to get
from one place to
another

But rather
is it in itself
a connection piece
63 · Dec 2020
The Call
Me Dec 2020
There's a huge marble palace high
up above the clouds in the woods in the sky and beautiful birds
circle
its spires and fountains in this palace lives
a boy with pale skin not from
the lack of sun
with white lashes silvery
airy hair
A boy who runs plays jumps and one day
stumbles
into an unknown room
too dark to see his pale hands
Nevertheless
he permeates
the darkness
Eyes narrowed muscles only
half-tensed
A foggy thing softly
pushing tugging at
the corners of his mind
A memory
emerging
makes his feet
keep
the steady pace
into this room
towards a spot where
behind dusty curtains
a figure
curled up
sort of sleeps but breathes
gently
Pale hands find
Raven hair tug
lightly
Wake up, love
I was so pale cause you were missing
63 · Nov 2020
Through the Flames
Me Nov 2020
{...}
Fire almost burned away
sizzling
every stench by now every quivering unauthentic vow of love
every trick played on you
for the sake of
surviving

But you'll come out soon
and you'll reek
of smoke and you will choke a bit
on your own courage
But Baby, it'll nourish this
entire world

Nobody fake it you
will make it through the flames
62 · Oct 2019
The Unguarded Vase
Me Oct 2019
There is
a vase
out in the hallway
totally unguarded
and always
has been
62 · Dec 2020
Anticipation
Me Dec 2020
Like a children's book -
I leaf through
all the coming adventures
and I wouldn't want
to be anywhere else
62 · Sep 2019
Head in my Hands
Me Sep 2019
Ignite
a spark
from the middle
outwards
and show
the world
its colours

Come
smile your Buddha smile again,
it makes me so
unspeakably
happy.
<3
62 · Nov 2020
A House of Flesh and Bone
Me Nov 2020
Imagine
with every inch of skin and every
wondrous bone
Your body serves you
Imagine every
Beat of the Heart every new
pumping of blood
happens
for you to thrive
❤️
62 · Sep 2019
Warrior Girl
Me Sep 2019
Unbroken
Holding a green
Felt pen in YOUR right hand-

Holding it up
Like a weapon

We start, and keep, and continue drawing
Green into people's hearts
To crack them open.
I know it took me a while.
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