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Me and You Mar 2020
Full of water
now
what formerly consisted
of separate compartments
has merged and
is connected by
the soft flood
that has forced
the cells to
recognise their oneness
Me and You Dec 2020
Braided hair around
her elegant head
she knows her feet well knows
her steps but does not care
so much cares more about
her music
her whole body
in unconditional agreement
amplifying
her Song
Me and You Jun 2020
A sparkling
sticky trail on a
wet forest path

A morning between
broad-leafed trees and
speedy bugs

Blackbird couples
skimming
the leafy ground

Soft
eager rays of
silver light
separated by
red tree trunks

Reflecting back from
the snail's trail
tracing it
like your eyes do
Me and You Feb 2021
The snow fox hops
into the
snow
head first
and topples over
never mind though
Me and You Jun 2012
Somebody told me
- between the last bit of light at daytime
and the first rise of orange in the morning - that
actually life signifies nothing

that so, I thought, and bells started to ring
in my ears, and yours.

quit performing this dance, I thought
quit transferring your sport into life
for I fear it

you strive for this horror, the horror
of pages
and pages of pounding works
of giant piles of living paper

Later you will see
or hear
how they laugh at themselves
and this sound - which you will hate -
feels so great to me

The sound of laughing paper
of running ink
contradicting itself
in - and by -  its very own shape

Is not that great?
Me and You Nov 2020
Soft blue folds itself
around you
you don't need to
control it

whispers in your ear and the wave this
sound lays out for you
has your feet
trust
the path you walk on
Me and You Jan 2021
Are you traveling
through galaxies
with the speed of light
dear
are you showing me
that you
nevertheless
can be here in an instant
beaming with leaves
still stuck in your hair
Me and You Feb 2021
(o)

Crack!
goes
the final layer...
Me and You Apr 2020
If it
stops
or not
is now
irrelevant
look at your hands
my dear
and blink
as many times
you like
Me and You Aug 2020
I set out to built
a street
a shed
a house
then wanted
a palace
an island
a country
a landscape
a universe

You begin to be
become
a universe
with stars
with earth
with hearts beginning
to beat
to know you
Me and You Feb 2021
[...]
And are you are you gonna
come
Home this time are you gonna speak
it all out the way the words are there now
are you
spilling over and are you
letting go of this age old story and
release
it to be exactly that now
A story
that you may not even want to revive for your children because the
fear
that they have to know they need to know because what if
is now
gone for good
replaced
by this massive
thing which
and it takes a while to accept
a while to
sink in and realize

is  L i f e  itself
Life that always supports
always holds ground
and never fails you
Life that
comes up with the sun and the grass and the sea
and everything else
right in front of your face
never ever pulls away from you in truth
This
is Life and this is
the only story
worth passing on

Within you there is a new kind of earth
being formed
with a new clear fresh
sea
although it is not other
A sea you dare set sail on
now
and share
and the sound of the waves crashing on the sandy shore makes
your eyes water
your heart almost
explode
of joy
Can you see it
See it
You exhale
slowly
your hair ruffled by the warm wind
What a journey
you think
What a long journey to get back here
and find everything
even more beautiful than when I have left off




                             ^^^^^^^^^^^
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Me and You Nov 2014
Shaking hands
I turn to friends and weep
about the loss that did not even happen
yet

To me the everpresent threat of it
looms over me
and to get rid of it I really would
have to get rid of my own self

In my heart's shelf there stand
a thounsand dusty photographs of loss

Once tossed and smashed
I now feel numb when I remember
How those kids left

Bereft of all that usually helds up
a healthy rationality I stop
and stumble

Maybe -
a tiny flicker burning in between the dust -
maybe this time it could be different

Maybe this time
there will be clarity
and - rusting in the chambers of my heart -
the images will softly leave this rhyme

and drift apart
just like they should.

Just leave my heart.
...
argh.
Me and You 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.
...
Me and You Jun 2020
The thing before thought
envelopes me
making
my heart unfreeze
Me and You Mar 2020
A tiger walks beside
a lion
hip to hip
they talk
about how quiet
the world had
become
and how much they
enjoy to be
walking beside
each other
how mother nature
now
allows it
Me and You Dec 2019
The totality of everything
Might give you peace
And freedom
After a period of time
And serious work

The totality of everything
Sometimes shows up
Comes out
Shines through for you
In the tiniest moment
And whispers:
Hang in there!
Not lost, but found.
You are with me.
Me and You Mar 2021
If they were all my children I'd say
you have done well
til here
shake off the doubt
If they were all
my children
I'd say
I'm kind of proud
of you -
She
to all her children
never withholds
her trust
never does anything to truly harm
she sees you
rattling
and thus becomes
evermore calm
so as to maybe catch you
in mid-fall
soothing
the challenge
you imposed on yourself
Last night I dreamt of a turtle sticking her head out of the sea. Looking very purposeful in the act :) I'm kind of grateful. And want to share it.
Me and You May 2014
Forever eighteen?
U r kiddin', right!?
Come on *****
**** that switch -

       Turn off that light
So that we can ...

               Make love.
We need to use that word more often
Me and You Oct 2019
There is
a vase
out in the hallway
totally unguarded
and always
has been
Me and You Mar 2021
Coming through again for
what seems a very deep night
the voice
of your Heart
accepting fear and all of fear's
what ifs with a knowing conspiratorial smile
Me and You Feb 2021
Look
a beautiful thing
casts
its shadow
once it has
decided to stay
and take form;

A beautiful thing you are
finally casting
your shadow
People seem to love the light. I see why. But I also have grown very fond of the shadow it casts. I am happy about that.
Me and You 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?
Me and You 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_|---
Me and You Jan 2021
Time
as you knew it
cracks

lacks continuity

A huge well's
massive brick
surrounding

pulverised

water trickles
gurgles

swirls
around
before your wide
mesmerised eyes

a pull

you remember

water was

       supposed



                     to flow
Me and You Apr 2020
You stand there
lingering
what are you
waiting for,
Love
Me and You Mar 2020
The whole Universe
with a cheeky smile
conspires in
fulfilling
your heart's desires
and is happy to
Me and You 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
Me and You Jan 2020
The wind always
Tells me things
To comfort
And I cannot help
But believe it
Me and You Nov 2012
He covertly rubs his hands,
wiping an "A" from his mouth
sprinkles his ankles
with ashes of "summer's days".

He licks his blue lips,
parting to speak:
Not empty but "full", he howls
and, rolling the empty bowles-
with loads "of sound"-
to the edge of the table:

"And fury" he cries- shrill and brief
- Crash!
the little green ******, the *******,

that word-loving thief!

He slides down the wooden leg,
silently now, scurrying back.
Head low, mouth sealed,
yielding
                 the field
                             to the writers.
*does that make you think of a Leprechaun?*
Me and You May 2014
Eating strawberries in a very ****** way (but without ever using them for ****** act because: do not play with food!)

Pronouncing things to myself  in the different languages I know

Walkin by a flower shop and turning my head as I walk

Preparing food and taking ages just to make it look beautiful and tasty

Looking at a small child and smiling about the way it is walking

Touching the cover of a book and feeling mysterious

Doing kicks in the air with no one to see

Having *** fantasies including only people I have never seen

Riding a bus

Writing poetry that is not meant to be anything but existant.







Liking you just because you have wasted your time reading my peotry that keeps on existig.
Me and You Nov 2020
As a lightning strikes
down right at your bare feet
dripping
you await -
calm -
The thunder
Me and You Feb 2020
Think of it as if
you already
had it
cause you do
Me and You Aug 2014
A shadow of a shadow of a shadow casts
His long dark hat
across my feet
And floods the floor.

But with a wink I shoot
A ray of light along the ground
That creeps toward his shape and slams the door.

The darkness shrieks
And grows a little weaker;
and as it starts to part I feel
My nose does bleed
My hands do shake until -
Eager to run -
I lift a  shaking leg

Now suddenly the shadow moves;
It moves toward the curtain
Spreads  out ten thin long lines to reach the spot
But fails
And stumbles back

The two of us
Keep fighting for a while
I carry his grey marks under my skin

My shins are stripy black
He lost an eye.

Eventually the sun
Shows its bald head
And my friend starts to fade;

Smaller and smaller he becomes
And quiet
Then, with a simple single beat
He leaves;

No shady warrior
No riot

And he leaves me behind.
Me and You Mar 2015
I had the strangest dream last night;
I dreamt of my whole family
and how, beneath the stars and in the peaceful dark-

they were all-

I can't say it!
It't so hard, I swear!

As I woke up the fright was so unbearable,
and what I saw so unimportant;

So now I hope, and hope, and hope
that, holding on to physical reality, it breaks not.

It takes not on a shape as in my dream.

You see?
Me and You Mar 2015
HOW** ******* serious are you takin'
your holy book?
HOW much can one not see
that those who break all rules
are just their makers?
Me and You 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
Me and You Mar 2020
Through the
heart of the earth
not the mind you can feel
it's a kind act
coming
from motherly decision making
from taking you
into a place of
collaborative
self-responsibility
Me and You Jun 2020
My doctor goes
crazy about
my thyroid
flutt'ring
here and there not
giving
any
steady
values to be
accurately measured
I soothed her today
saying
thinking
It's just
Life calibrating
my body balancing
itself
It's just the
Butterfly Effect
She says ok but
please
get yourself another
appointent
I smile we
both know
It's just my body
calibrating itself
It's just
Life
calibrating -
No pills will cure your balance, Dear.
Me and You Sep 2020
The thing sitting
on my chest
immobile
staring, wide-eyed
not saying
a word
why
not a single
word
Me and You Apr 2021
Clench clench clench
Kid
I begin to feel again
It is
An empty fear
Me and You Jan 2021
Time becomes
something
else
altogether
and you try to wrap
your head around it
until you feel:
this is not
for the head at all
“At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something that could not have happened before and will never happen again. Few people know how to take advantage of these critical moments, unfortunately, and they often pass unnoticed. When someone does recognize them, however, great things happen in the world.”
― Michael Ende, Momo
Me and You Jun 2020
What a
Sick thing climbing
Up and out
Never to return again cause it's
Enough already
It’s
So much enough now that
I almost shove it out
Cupping my hands together thinking
Off off outtt
And howl
Like a wolf but fiercer
Teeth more
gritted and
Gripping what seeps out of my intestines pushing
It like no now is
not the time
Not the time for
Minor fuss
It’s time for
Big things
Major changes
And I am sick of
Waiting
Me and You Mar 2020
My Soul's
A puppy dog
And wants
To play -
Bumps into
Thick
Grey
Walls
If you don't
Want to
Me and You Apr 2022
It feels like
the middle of the day and yet
you are
tired
It feels like a river that does not flow
Me and You Mar 2020
And why not value
your writing just as much as you would value
your body
an orange
a cement vase
a jar of honey or
a metal instrument
why not
bend
reality
to your own needs
and wishes
this time
why not
rhyme
your world into
a state of
being
Ahhhhh!
Me and You May 2015
I hold a blue dried rose
up in my hand so that
a ray of sunlight finds its way
through petals

and there - like melting metal I can feel
how - finally - the
big
hard
stone
that so long blocked my throat
melts, too.
:-* cheers.
Me and You May 2014
I am a file to waste your time
I have no style
I do not rhyme

I am a poem that makes no sense
I do not know the future tense
nor do I care about it

I am a piece of golden ****
that clings to you like sticky paper
to be remembered later when -
in moments of appropriate silence -
you are the one to burst out laughing
and throwing up your hands with violence

When asked to please explain yourself you smile
cover your eyes to disappear
and see that this -

though silly it may be -

has changed your life.
Laugh now -

You will see.
Me and You Jul 2012
Run -
I will have to run for a while
and not think of all the things
at once.
In fact this is what I will do right now....
Me and You Apr 2020
People hurt you because
they are
hurt
by taking it personal you
just hurt
yourself
let it sail on by,
Love
let it
slide
Me and You Feb 2021
A thing that divided itself til it felt
there's no need
to hide anymore
A thing that divided
until it became
tired
of being divided
A tide that floats back
into the big river bed
towards a glistening ocean
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