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522 · Dec 2012
The Inveterate Optimist
Me Dec 2012
Holding
  My fingers
To my brain
It hurts-
    Framing my face, my head
       Encircling inner horrors
          And still –
For all there is, for all the dread-
I still don’t care.
521 · Feb 2012
Crack
Me Feb 2012
If
brick after brick
  drops down
   don't think you can
    pick them up again.
519 · Feb 2013
Strictly Speaking
Me Feb 2013
Count your blessings
you stupid idiot

count all the smiles and the fairytale moments
you deserved and did not deserve

count the minutes this earth was peaceful for you
and your loved ones

count your tears and the amount of those you have shed
in a happy embrace and the joyful look on your childish face

count - I beg you - the seconds of hope before desperation
and tell me-

why do you still not just take it and make what you want out of it
                                                                    - and break up your moaning.
512 · Jan 2012
***
Me Jan 2012
***
Unreal cities within the claws of two great lions;

None-existing walls to be mended in the end;

Roaring clocks that tick off all time;

Eternal sunshine spots no mind after all;

And we still think about meanings of form:

LaernU.
511 · Jan 2012
the long shot
Me Jan 2012
Clapping and smiling
They will tear me to pieces,
Outraged and amused,
They will knock me down.

I am a new member,
So please be soft on me.
Have mercy, my people,
You see what I cannot.
498 · Jan 2013
Growing Up
Me Jan 2013
Immortal, of gold and iron
And white wings
He is made,
They tell me, and with wide eyes
I listen.

Later, they say he is
An abstract, dark figure
With no face and no own heart,
And my thoughts grow louder.

And louder still,
Until I- strangely amused-
Discover the golden shine-
The iron twist in my skin-
And feel an odd pain
Between my shoulder blades.

Last night I saw
Little white half-moons
Surrounding my body
In a swirling echo.
491 · Aug 2013
Screw it
Me Aug 2013
"I was the shadow of the waxwing slain"
said once a clever voice

I now am caught by words repeated
and sit
and stare

and do not dare to move
when I should do

As if I had a choice!

Or do I?
490 · Jan 2012
The Poet's Schedule
Me Jan 2012
Look,
In winter I have concealed my face.
In spring we all felt the cruelty and all that comes
  with new beginnings.
In summer the heat cooled us down and made our fears
  seem irrelevant.
Autumn is about to come and the harvest,
Traditionally,
Can be both: good and bad, and good or bad.
489 · Jan 2012
The Poet’s Crossing
Me Jan 2012
All the weird shapes that take over
When the brain shuts off,
And slices of words that do not count
As they hang in the air -
And hover.

Shifting the moral
From wrong to worse,
And using up all their power,
Those books have caused trouble -
For their songs were always oral.

Set fire!
They say, as I pass their place,
In my dreams or not,
Fire to the grey cloud.
And I do –
And I join in their choir.
486 · Apr 2019
Homecoming
Me Apr 2019
"If Silence knocks
on your door and you actually
open

You might as well
let it enter.

It won't do any harm to you"


You were told so many
many times
my Love
God, why you be so rough
to me and yourself?
Why not stepping in
the light
that frightened you so long?
483 · Oct 2012
Body's Melodie
Me Oct 2012
My head is filled
and to the same degree
                 so is my heart
with nonsense
                with nothing that
                         from nothing comes
with memory
and irresistibly
this draws me in-

Silently collected words
              and shadows of their universe
drew nearer-

In silence their exploding hearts
         come floating by
                 and inky melodies
come streching-

until they reach
                                my skin.
479 · Sep 2019
Abundance
Me Sep 2019
you stay still,
listen,
and then utter
your honest wish which is
to share your
overflowing
Love
with someone.
478 · Jan 2012
- 21 -
Me Jan 2012
Outside the storm moves things to their ends;
Outside it is cold, and cold hands
Make me frown and I fear
The end, myself.

I stand at the window,
Seeing things reflected; the glow
Which comes from your eyes.

So I am not scared anymore,
Because inside
Things are not reflected,
But wide
And as peaceful as ever.
475 · Mar 2013
High Water
Me Mar 2013
I couldn't sleep
sleepwalkers talk held me upright
the night I walked away

His ears are blind
his eyes are numb
the depth of thought erases time
and lime stone drips inside his mind

the mill-stone grinds
but slowly-
and cautiously bright daylight shines
through the curtains of this mind
that was so long definded by *silt

and slowly moving elements
and tide-

the flood has come at last:

and vastly confluencing waters
share speed and wit
with this one mind that walked behind me
all this time

and finally
*awakens
475 · Feb 2012
Children of Mimesis
Me Feb 2012
We have learned
About eternal
Distinction between things.

We have seen
The separation
And the cutting into half.

The faces and the masks,
So similar but not
Entirely the same,
Are driving us mad.

Please –
Please for once -
Make it stop;

Make the division stop
And show us
The one thing.
474 · Jan 2012
Unthought
Me Jan 2012
Tell me one thing that makes you really sad, he begged her.

Looking at his eye lashes, she wondered, then said, there is one thing.

What is it, he wanted to know.

It’s when I am trying to see you the way you were as a child.

He smiled a confused smile. But you cannot know that. We only know each other for a few weeks.

Her face brightened up, her eyes watered; exactly, she said. Exactly.
469 · Jan 2021
21
Me Jan 2021
21
You look back at
Universe
feeling
no one's
untouchable
no one'd
reject
a hand cupping
a starry cheek
feeling
surprisingly warm;
So you do it
468 · Feb 2015
smart phone
Me Feb 2015

smarter than some poeple
think.

better than a night without
a drink.

better yet,
and still I will forget
this wonderous tale as soon
as I-Phone five
sends its betrayal
to the precursor.
466 · Jan 2012
- 22 -
Me Jan 2012
Hours go by, not unnoticed but silent.
I sit in the snow,
Counting the scars and how violent
They had been.

Slowly the melting water soaks
My coat and my bones.
And the turning pages do not make me frown any longer.

Dropping from my face,
Not a single tear but water.
And, tying my shoe lace,
I get up for the last time.
466 · Sep 2013
Impossible
Me Sep 2013
Alongside my body
there walks a shadow

that only melts
with my own shape
at night

You only know
the shadow
466 · Jan 2013
For You
Me Jan 2013
Darkening in vain the strange face
Imprints itself on every tree,
On every leaf;
Running in a twisted halo I can’t stop
I can’t breathe -
And I know
What some have told you;
What life is -
And again I feel – when I find myself
In the land of walking shadows, of growing fears
- no fear at all.
Me Jan 2012
Deep,
Deep,
And even deeper
On the very ground of the ground of this poem
Lies a word
That won’t come out.

And maybe,
Yes, maybe
It feels good where it lies,
Surrounded by those little letters and signs,
Unwilling to leave it alone.

So nobody ever will guess
What became of the word,
And if it had altered
Throughout the times;

Or if its lonesomeness,
Along with the fact that it rhymes,
Was not so bad
after all.
455 · May 2014
Outragingly wild
Me May 2014
Titles are caught
By little surprises
That reach out to grip
Their ends by a tip
Of the tounge.
448 · Feb 2012
Perfect Mind
Me Feb 2012
Thunder,
And my heart lies under
A pile of rotten gold.

Flash,
I crash the things and bash
The rules that brought me here.

Rain drops,
And I chop off the heads of the problems
And kick them to the edge -
Off, in the whirling bowl
Of elements and flesh.

Forever to be buried
Among the rotten and the dead,
There lie my gorgeous troubles;
The loveless and the judges.
448 · Dec 2015
No Te Vas
Me Dec 2015
Heart full
Of pure love for
People

Let every steeple now
Of every church play
The same melody

And let each ear
Hear what and why and whom
They love

At any time.
:-*
447 · Nov 2014
Fuckin Hell !
Me Nov 2014
Fist
Fight
Kid

Grow out
Of it?

I think not.
445 · Feb 2012
And this time I mean it
Me Feb 2012
I'm too wrecked
to write now
I'm so cracked
just see how

my words don't make sense
any more.

You put me
into a state which,
can't you see,
leaves me to stich

all my itchings
               by myself.
Me Jan 2012
As it came running
Like three lights or three eyes,
I could not but would not
Step aside fast enough.

It hit me and cold steel,
Slashing my body,
Drove right through the inside
Of my bones and heart.

Grieve not, for this time
I felt deadly alive.
Me Dec 2014
If you don't like me
just say it

come on, man

don't be such a baby

Spit it out
for ****'s sake - make me proud of you
once
I hate it and it's so ****** unfair and you **** because you make me sound like a teenager in rage and I want to shout in your ****** face right NOW.
****.
440 · May 2014
I am not a hipster
Me May 2014
This goes out
To all the perfect kids;

We are only perfect
In weakness.
438 · Jan 2012
The weary Poet
Me Jan 2012
A tall man is walking
Across the bridge at the river.
If I look very hard
I can see his hands quiver.

He is a poet
And popular, too,
For the men of the village
Claim it to be true.

But today he is moving
With a crooked pace,
His limbs slightly distant
Searching his trace.

Approaching the poet
I hurry to find
The skinny figure
With a beautiful mind.

As my lips part to speak,
His finger flies to my mouth,
Sealing the gap
So no sound would come out.

And his rickety hands
Shape figures above
Of great clearness and passion
For me to set off.

And I see for the first time
How fed up he is
With the weight of those words
- How genuine is this?
438 · Feb 2012
Golden Endings
Me Feb 2012
Down down down
we go -
(and so what, I think)
into the endless,
endless reversed tunnel;
("when most I wink", he says)
and nobody ever,
ever tells us
("then do mine eyes best see")
that all that is waiting
on the other side -
is the same tunnel
all over again.
(but we cannot know)
And what is worse:
It does not matter.
(and we should not care,
and we are asleep)
Ok I apologize, I am not in a good mood.
Me Aug 2019
Thus he-
all sweaty and all marked by fights and time
-returns
another lily in his hand
that he now
stretches out
to me-

I see
the same deep
Everything
behind his eyes-

a spark-
a second

And a brilliant field
of purple lavender

Til then
it's time-

No worries.
https://hellopoetry.com/poem/415789/why-it-is-called-chaos-game/
...I am creeping myself out at times. I tell you. Argh.
432 · Feb 2021
The Captain
Me Feb 2021
Your heart a scenery, a warm breeze and the scent oft salty sea, seagull cries distant and not so distant, your hand tight and secure
on the railing of your ship. Yes, your ship. The wooden planks now clean and fixed, the mast upright, the wind blowing just about right.
Where ever this will go, you are, and this is for sure, the captain.
428 · Dec 2012
Bright Nights
Me Dec 2012
Before sleep comes
before eyes fall
before daylight

I dream.
And dream I do
of the brightest of bright nights
of time and distance
of no resistance
of liquid lights-

thus I fear not
what I will know
for every night
has a bright shadow
that comes-
with daylight.
Me Mar 2015
One Two Three
Four Five Six Seven
Eight Nine T-

sorry I gotta go, coffee's ready.
427 · Oct 2013
Companions
Me Oct 2013
I give up posing and addressing
the wrong muses

said the king

But how -
how on earth should we proceed?

asks the Consultant exhausted

begin, the king begins to speak,
begin to bleed what you are feeling
and they will see

but my king, my-

Bring it on, my friend!* Assures the king,
makes him stand up,
start,

and begin with his tale
as if it was also theirs

and as the mighty audience glares at him
he feels a heavy hand
that seeks his shoulder

looks at his king, his friend, remembers
how the two got older

how in the milky light of dawn their faces
have grown and changed
and still have kept their basis

behind some shades and shapes
and shadows of the times -

He looks up now, relieved,
he gazes at his king and speaks
free now

and seeks no more for words
but finds.
426 · Oct 2014
stolen
Me Oct 2014
Something is there
That does not love a wall



Credits to Robert Frost
424 · May 2014
Two Gear-Wheels
Me May 2014
Silky leather pants
between my hands

a moving thigh
touches my eye

breathe, love
breathe

Beneath the clouds
under the sun
we hit it
we come until the sweat runs through our clothes

After a while
we lie next to each other
on mother earth's grassy green

And hot steam rises
from my chest and his
and fists are opening

and closing now around my wrists.

On and on this goes
until the moon comes out
and kisses with its pale fire
our whitened skin

And we begin again.
Me Jan 2012
As easy as the wind can make
The leaves shake,
So am I able to conjure up the image of your face
In my head.
And all the time, too.

Nothing in-visible to me,
Nothing you do goes unnoticed
But will always be accompanied by
a little counter movement,
A tiny expression on my face.
417 · Mar 2013
Awakening
Me Mar 2013
have you ever seen
a true face
in grace and honesty so similar to those
you saw in dreams at night

and has it dawned to you already
that this face is more faithful
than any of your words could be

despair not
and keep looking into those eyes
and fear not:

the wordless truth
of silent singleheartedness.
411 · Nov 2015
13.11.2015
Me Nov 2015
On a essayé beaucoup
on a rigolé
pour ne pas

laisser la tristesse
envelopper tous


In thought of the Paris victims. And everybody else.
409 · Mar 2012
Message
Me Mar 2012
I am the body
of a poem
that stops

when you drop
the paper

I am not sound
when your lips
quit performing

when your fingertips
start to touch
my inky lips

then am I truly alive.
408 · Feb 2015
Pick that up
Me Feb 2015
Maybe i am schizophrenic
Maybe i am crazy
Maybe life is something i haven't realized yet
I am on pills
I am not normal

I am beaming at my best friend's wide eyed awe
I shiver of sweetness when my boyfriend grabs the last slice of pizza
I tremble at my niece's grinning face when she has told a lie

What are you?
In which planet do you suspect a hot beating heart?
In yours?
In mine?

Whose heart is whose
Is not the question -
By the way.
403 · Mar 2015
Katrina
Me Mar 2015
Head first
she jumps into the twister and
is twisted
head to toe-

who could have known that-
blown away as everybody is-
she needed someone's understanding words
and touch.

That much I know.
Me Feb 2012
If you step out, love,
We push you,
Push you off this cloud.

If you shout,
If you cry, love,

You must die.
399 · Oct 2012
On Time
Me Oct 2012
If clocks slay time
what good is there,
I wonder,
for time to be slain?

In turning heads
in rising hands
in memory of only
a split image, of land that burns-

and all because
of this time-slaying,
blood-shedding mind of yours

and mine.
Me Jun 2015
I had popcorn with my
Flatmates and we
Kept singing to the
Old songs we all
Knew.

We drank the wine I
Got at the festival and -

Hell, did it feel good to be
At home.
396 · Oct 2013
Family
Me Oct 2013
all i have
and all that has me
in its grip

escape?

get rid of them
and all that's haunting me
from childhood on

escape? a dream
my love

so live with it.
i hope it s true what people say, and writing helps.
393 · May 2014
Needless to Say
Me May 2014
true poetry is of such nature
that every
single
letter
hurts

blood has to spill
from tongue
and lips

it grips you
by the nerves
hits
you
so
hard

that any other thing will  be
just something else.
Raise your glasses, my poetry friends.
Here's to infinite needlessness!
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