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725 · Sep 2012
Waves Crashing Down
Pandora dO Sep 2012
There's a slight pressure
behind my closed eyelids
and I'm desperately trying
to will it away. Be gone!

The pressure increases
as the water slowly grows
and tears softly push the
edge of where my lids meet.

Go away, you feelings,
you've become too much
for me to handle, now...
I need some rest, please.

The emotional wave persists
and some tears squeeze
their salty way through
my still closed eyelids.

As some kind of great waterfall
the emotions start falling down
on me and I break after all,
the tears cascading down my cheeks.
©2012
Pandora dO Oct 2012
I         can
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whenIknowhe's

...home...
Trying to sleep... Wish I'd succeed.
686 · Nov 2012
Storm of Pain
Pandora dO Nov 2012
She lies in bed late at night
and listens to the pouring rain.
The falling drops are comforting,
but it doesn't numb the pain.

She hides beneath her blanket,
the wind outside howling sadly.
The noise isn't able to keep out
the pain she hates so badly.

She puts her head beneath the pillow
to try and block all the sounds
of the anger and emotion
that off walls and ceiling bounds.

The storms of family fighting
rushes through the house like hurricanes.
Yet even though it hurts her heart,
from crying she always refrains.

She pretends she's deep asleep
as someone knocks on her door.
'Please, just leave, go away,
I can't take this anymore.'

She lies in bed late at night
and wishes for better days.
Though she knows it's futile,
she waits for the sun's shining rays.
Pandora dO Dec 2012
Music plays throughout the world,
an intriguing composition filled
with millions of different parts
spread all around the orchestral planet.
671 · Nov 2012
Winter Blues
Pandora dO Nov 2012
Even though Fall is beautiful
and the world is decorated
with crimson and golden,
I cannot help but feel disheartened
as I see Earth's cycle near its end.

Then, when the temperature lowers
and Earth freezes over,
nothing is there to prevent me
from getting the Winter Blues,
as Life seems to whither away.
© 2012
661 · Nov 2012
With or Without
Pandora dO Nov 2012
He is the one who calms my mind
every single day of the week.
His touch is the one thing
which ceases all my thoughts.
With him near, there’s nothing
inside my mind to worry about.

Every single day of the week
he's able to help me relax.
When his arms embrace me,
a warm calmness surrounds me.
With him near, there’s nothing
that can take away the peace.

He’s able to help me relax
by just being there for support.
His hand in mine makes me strong,
he’s always there to pull me along.
With him near, there’s nothing
in the world that I can’t do.

By just being there for support,
he does so much for me.
With a smile he makes my day
and with his jokes he cheers me up.
Without him there’s nothing,
nothing at all, in my life.

He does so much for me
and I can’t thank him enough
for being part of my life.
© 2012
660 · Nov 2012
Bird's Head
Pandora dO Nov 2012
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© 2012 - giving this a try...
659 · Jul 2012
Ollie
Pandora dO Jul 2012
An ache in my chest
tells me that this is real.
The tears on my cheeks
show what I feel.

Somehow it seems
this pain will never end.
I'd never thought
I would lose a friend.

You were here with me
for fourteen amazing years.
I will remember you always,
with smiles and with tears.

Smiles for the fun we shared,
and tears because I miss you.
It's never gonna be the same.
Tuesday, July 3rd 2012. For our sweet dog.
Photos on my tumblr.
Pandora dO Oct 2012
The horrifying moment
                when you realize
           you're slowly
starting to catch a cold.

Feeling tired all week,
     thinking you didn't sleep enough.
              But now thoughts are jumbled
   and your nose starts feeling weird.

  A vague ache
now is in your throat
           and you know it:
    a cold is on its way.
© 2012
Most bosses think having a cold doesn't stop you from performing well at work... I think they think wrong. A real cold is a real pain.
637 · Oct 2012
Many Minis
Pandora dO Oct 2012
The grass is covered,

with
many mini mushrooms,

tiny umbrellas.
© 2012
So cute! (photo on my tumblr)
636 · Nov 2012
Lovely Warmth
Pandora dO Nov 2012
Mankind found many ways
to keep warm when it's cold.
Burning wood in a fire,
burning coal in a stove
and then burning gas, too.
There's central heating now,
even showers heat water themselves.
and don't forget underfloor heating.
But lately, all I desperately want,
during the cold days late in the year,
is heating in my toilet seat.
© 2012
Pandora dO Sep 2012
dusk's               slowly          approaching         the           world
slowly              fading           is                           day’s        light
approaching    is                  men’s                    rest           dutily
the                    day’s            rest              ­         finally        moved
world               light            dutily                    moved       around
©2012
Pfew, not as easy as it looks. What do you think?
630 · Nov 2012
Why so stupid?
Pandora dO Nov 2012
I'm wiggling my toes like mad
and my eyes continuously move
around the room nervously.
I wave my arms like I'm crazy
and I keep asking myself, why?
There's no way I can sit still
for the entire eternity of an hour...
A freaking hour for each layer.
Oh, ****, why was I so stupid,
why did I want to paint my nails?
© 2012
I'm bored but thank Heaven for my touch screen phone.
625 · Jan 2013
ADD (4:20)
Pandora dO Jan 2013
To have some more focus
would truly be a blessing..

Distracted way too easily,
as per usual.
© 2013
621 · Sep 2012
Reasonable
Pandora dO Sep 2012
There's a silence within me.
No words are able to form,
no feelings can be expressed,
as if my head and heart are empty.
Empty of everything sensible
and empty of anything logical.
It's like I'm searching for
the reasonable side of life.

No noise comes from my spirit,
it finds no reason to make any.
The feelings are being pressed away,
thoughts are found useless
and thrown away.

Gone is the sensible,
gone is the logical
and on goes the search
for the reasonable.
April 8th, 2007 - taken from my older collection
620 · Sep 2012
Stormy Tree (Tanka)
Pandora dO Sep 2012
There's a tree outside,
it's right beside the window
of my study room.
The wind blows hard and it moves
the tree with scary, loud gusts.
©2012
No time like the present to write something new. The tree's noise freaking scares me lol
611 · Sep 2012
Can You See Me?
Pandora dO Sep 2012
The day was long,
after a night too short,
but I am on my way.

The hours dragged
and the seconds crawled,
but I am on my way.

It felt like an eternity,
this short time I was gone,
but I am on my way.

This journey seems to
go on, on and on and on,
but I am on my way.

Just a little bit more
and you're done waiting,
as I am on my way.

Can you see me coming?
597 · Sep 2012
As a Poet...
Pandora dO Sep 2012
When a person
writes tons of poems,
it doesn't necessarily mean
he actually is a poet.

A poet isn't a poet
just because he wrote a poem,
as there's so much more
to being poetical.


As a poet
you can see
all the beauty in life,
and you always know
how to find the right words
for describing something.

Allow yourself to see beauty.


As a poet
you use space
to work out things best.
You don't need to understand
every single little detail
to derive a message.

Give yourself enough space.


As a poet
you need time
as you use time to think.
Poets do not act in a rush,
we think eveything through
so the end result will be perfect.

Don't live in haste.


As a poet...
There is so much more.
See the beauty,
give yourself time and space,
and the chance to flourish.
© 2012
I've seen many poems about being a poet, lately. Here's my version.
Inspired by the words of my college supervisor.
593 · Jan 2014
This is for you, D
Pandora dO Jan 2014
Dearest,
I'm breathless.
You amaze me
Time and time again
By how beautiful you are.
And I keep asking myself this;
Are you really, really, here with me?
Are you never, ever, going to leave me?
Will you stay here, stay by my side forever?
Will you be my friend, as long as we'll live?
I'll cheer you up, as you'll cheer me up.
I'll guide you along as you'll guide me.
We'll be together through thick and thin,
We'll keep going and show them
We're good for each other.
You're the very best,
the most wonderful
Puppy ever.
Donder
© 2014
For my sweet little pup, Donder, who's not so little anymore (over half a year old now). He fills the hole Ollie left in my heart. For Ollie, check my earlier work.. (July 2012)
589 · Feb 2014
Season Finale
Pandora dO Feb 2014
The air might feel cold,
but I do not care,
and as a chilly wind
blows through my hair,
I listen to the birds
that sing with great flair.

The seasons are changing,
the cold will pass soon:
that makes me happy
and over the moon.
O,  this happiness inside,
I could almost croon.

Days are more often
filled with the sun.
Warmth slowly follows,
but when the cold is done
none of that will matter
as Spring will have won.
©2014
587 · Feb 2013
Tender Heart
Pandora dO Feb 2013
Do you even know what you're doing to me?
No, you're probably too blind to see...
This is something hard to notice, I know,
so why does it still surprise me so?

I know almost no one'll love me for who I am,
just like there's no one who'll ever like spam.
Not often is someone admitted into my heart,
which is made of shards of glass.
So tender, almost falling apart.
Taken from my old collection, 2008 or 2009.
Pandora dO Sep 2012
When they did a lot:

cooking, laundry, homework and
tidying their room.
Note: or maybe when they *finally* did a lot lol
566 · Jul 2012
Building site
Pandora dO Jul 2012
An iron skeleton
of construction.
Machinery rebuilds
the city.

Buildings rise
from the ground,
they seem to appear
out of nowhere.

Every day,
the workers go home
with satisfaction.
30/11/2011
559 · Jan 2013
No Nothing
Pandora dO Jan 2013
Go on, go on...

Don't stop but
keep going on,
'cause we need to
keep working
all the day long.

Money doesn't come
to you by itself,
you need to work
and need to earn it.
Otherwise, too bad,
no food and no nothing.


But have you ever stopped?

Stopped.

And listened?
Have you listened
to what your body says?


Have you ever stopped?

Stopped.

And felt?
Have you felt
what your body needs?

Sitting still
and doing nothing,
it might be difficult
but take your time
and take your rest
when you need it.

As when it's too late,
when your body is spent,
when the burnout is close,
what will you do then
besides doing nothing?

No, nothing.
©2013
557 · Jan 2013
A Felt Goodbye
Pandora dO Jan 2013
Mind is still turned off,
body is half asleep.
Touches seem to linger
for an eternity.

Your lips press on my cheeks,
one time for each.
I can still feel your kisses
minutes after you've left.

Your hand moves through
the hair on my sleepy head.
I can still feel your fingers
tenderly moving away.

I know I could come with you,
go downstairs, have breakfast,
hold your hand, hug you
and then see you off.

Yet I don't want to come,
it's selfish, I know.
I'd much rather feel this,
I want to feel your goodbye.
©2013
554 · Jan 2013
Cause of Life
Pandora dO Jan 2013
It feeds,
it heals,
it sustains,
it grows,
it thrives.

It is everything
and everyone.
It never dies,
it's always around.

Without it,
there would be nothing.
Not you, not me,
no life at all.
Let's treasure it.
© 2013
Pandora dO Nov 2011
Both are an eyewitness,
both are a crush,
not knowing one likes the other,
thus both wandering off.
© 2007
542 · Nov 2012
Ups and Downs
Pandora dO Nov 2012
It is quite strange
how an entire day,
which passed so beautifully,
can be ruined

by only one,
short,
conversation.
542 · Nov 2012
Short Winter Days (10W)
Pandora dO Nov 2012
The dark rainclouds
chase away daylight...

Hours earlier than usual.
© 2012
The sun goes down earlier every day, but it seems it's getting dark already now, at 4pm...
530 · Oct 2012
Touched My Heart
Pandora dO Oct 2012
A single tear
is in the corner
of my right eye.

It feels like
it's on repeat.
Been there before.

When exactly
I don't know,
does it matter?

Too often I read
of tragedy and
of things gone wrong.

When I do,
the tear returns
to travel down.

Just the one tear
showing emotion
and heartbreak.

Letting the world
know that something
touched my heart.

Letting people know
that my heart aches
for those hurt.

Letting them know
I feel for them
and I'm there for them.

There's a single tear,
it's in the corner
of my right eye.

It sends a message:
I care, I'll help,
you're not alone...
                ~
© 2012
Written after reading 'Inch Worm (dark poetry)', by Cold As Ice.
527 · Jul 2012
Painting walls
Pandora dO Jul 2012
Clothes are streaked with colors,
colors found on every wall.

Some of the colors ended up
in my hair, on my face
or somewhere else on my body.

But also on the walls,
where they belong.

Each color got two walls,
neatly done along the edges.
Or rather,
as neatly as it possible
by human hand.
© 14th, July 2012
I've been painting the walls of my new home, it's awesome.
522 · Sep 2012
Money Does Bring Happiness
Pandora dO Sep 2012
Being rich
doesn't make you happy.
But...
Being poor
doesn't make you happy either.

What does bring happiness
is having enough money
to get by each month.

Not too little,
not too much
but just enough,
with a little to spare,
so you'll have no worries.
510 · Oct 2012
Smile(y)
Pandora dO Oct 2012
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502 · Sep 2012
A Fuzzy Oops
Pandora dO Sep 2012
All dressed and
breakfast's finished,
it's time to start
a whole new day.

But...
Why is everything so fuzzy?
Oh, right.
Forgot my glasses.
© 2012
473 · Jan 2014
Before the Start
Pandora dO Jan 2014
I go outside
while it's still dark,
the sun hasn't yet woken.
Everything here's
still cold and stark,
morning hasn't yet broken.

All is quiet,
even the park,
the birds' words yet unspoken.
Nature's serene,
there is no spark,
peacefulness's yet unbroken.

Nothing's there to
have left its mark;
this day's still without tokens.
But, there it is!
The first dog's bark,
morning has finally broken.
                        ~
© 2013
472 · Dec 2012
Year's Ending
Pandora dO Dec 2012
The time turned to 0:00AM,
on the first day of the new year,
for the first time in Australia
and her first time zone.

Since that moment a gigantic wave
of the most colourful fireworks
has been travelling across the planet.
© December 31st 2012
- Happy New Year x
465 · Oct 2013
Living The Life
Pandora dO Oct 2013
A bright new day has started
by the sound of the alarm.
You start with a cup of tea
and a shower to get warm.

After this it's breakfast time,
a slice of bread or two,
while thinking of everything
that, today, you'll have to do.

First drive through busy traffic,
leave early or you'll be late.
Second, spend all day working,
which your family will hate.

Third, have lunch while working still,
as you have no time for rest.
Fourth, you'll be driving back home
through that busy traffic pest.

Fifth, you'll be eating dinner,
prepared by your loving spouse.
Sixth is watching the telly,
sit, all evening, in your house.

Seventh, you'll just go to bed
'cause there's nothing else to do.
Then, after a short night's sleep,
everything just starts anew.

Think about it for a sec,
is this really what you want?
Gonna live a standard life?
Well, I know for sure I shan't.

Want to do things I enjoy,
go wherever Nature goes.
Want to live in happiness
instead of living my woes.

I want to see world places,
not be trapped in my hometown.
I don't want to become known
as the woman with the frown.

No nine to five job for me,
I wouldn't fit the standard.
Though I'd like that cup of tea
to soothe my poor achy throat.
Copyright © 2013
461 · Apr 2013
Back to Life
Pandora dO Apr 2013
Some book are dusty and old,
and since long were written.
The lovers sometimes feel cold,
but I still feel smitten.

As I love reading every book
and what really doesn't matter
is the way it starts to look
as time continues to pass.

'cause the story might be ancient,
but it will live again when I read.
An old, forgotten one (2009)
459 · Sep 2012
Còte d'Or Chocolate (10W)
Pandora dO Sep 2012
Take a bite...

And
let the rich taste
encase you.
© 2012
One of the tastiest chocolate brands ever <3
459 · Aug 2012
Sleepy Musings
Pandora dO Aug 2012
There's a numb feeling
pushing out all my thoughts.
It almost makes me believe
that I'm not smart.
Because smart people think
all the time, right?

Heavy limbs block the way
to working and having fun.
I try my hardest, to no avail.
I must not be smart.
Because smart people know
how to let their body work.

My lids feel heavy
and I try to fight
them closing in on me.
But that's not smart.
Because smart people,
they go to sleep
when they are tired.
441 · Oct 2012
Together at Home
Pandora dO Oct 2012
Whenever I say
that my home
is wherever he is,

he replies
that his home
is wherever I am.

Our home is everywhere,
as long as we're together.
© 2012
It doesn't matter whether your house is big or small, as long as you can share it!
438 · Apr 2020
You'll only fool me once
Pandora dO Apr 2020
I felt a connection, I opened up
as you seemed to be different,
but you told me you weren't
a typical male one too many times;
the shine slowly faded.

The deep connection was superficial
but love still makes blind and I didn't see,
swept away by the waves of my imagination
showing me what could have been.

Your actions betrayed your words,
you said you didn't mean to,
but you were the moon, I was the tide,
pulled in and pushed away,
unknowingly part of a game
that I didn't understand.

I fell for your act but how easy it is
to not fall for who you really are
but let you go instead, and yet,
I don't grieve for losing you,
because you've always been fake.

I only grieve for a lost pleasant dream.
© 2020
437 · Sep 2012
Shop-a-holic's Dream (10W)
Pandora dO Sep 2012
"I dreamt
of malls in malls,

and it was awesome."
December 2011
I found this in a dusty corner and found I liked it after all.
436 · Jun 2013
Senses (excerpt - 4:20)
Pandora dO Jun 2013
Of fair floral fragrances
and these colours all around.
All of it’s encircling me;
by my senses I am bound.
Copyright - 2013 ©
429 · Feb 2012
For you <3
Pandora dO Feb 2012
Being away from you...
It didn't change the way I feel.

And, my feelings,
they won't change
till I see you again.

They won't change.
They'll only grow.
They are growing,
growing stronger.
428 · Aug 2012
Hungry waking (10W)
Pandora dO Aug 2012
Pulled out of bed at 5am
to eat something filling.
416 · Feb 2014
Though, Who knows?
Pandora dO Feb 2014
I search and I search
but I'm not able
to pinpoint the thing
that I'm looking for.

I look and I look
but can't seem to find
whatever it is
that I'm looking for.

I seek and I seek
but it's out of reach,
I cannot get to
what I'm looking for.

But I'll keep searching
for without a doubt
I know I'll come through;
I'll find what I ought.

And I'll keep looking
as I know for sure
that there'll be a day
I'll find what I need.

So,  I'll keep seeking
the much needed rest
that my heart craves so,
though, what it looks like?

Who knows?
©2014 - about my quest in looking for peace inside.

Feels incomplete, might add something later.  xox
408 · Jan 2014
In Thoughts
Pandora dO Jan 2014
You help me clear my muddled mind
when I'm in danger of drowning in thoughts.
You are there to put them in line
when they threaten to flood my core.

But what do I do when I have to leave?
What can you do for me when I ain't here?
What do I do when I need your help
and you're still across the ocean?

What do I do in that entire month?
What can you do for me when you're still there?
What do I do when I need your help
and you're still on another continent?

What do I do in those four weeks?
What can you do for me with only words?
What do I do when I need your help
and you're unable to give me a hug?

I bet I'd drown in thoughts.
©2014
400 · Sep 2012
Thinking Out Loud
Pandora dO Sep 2012
I want to write.
Another poem
or maybe one of my stories.

I want to do something.
Take a walk,
do something fun.
Enjoy the sun.

I wonder
when he'll come home.
Hopefully soon.
I miss him already.

I like living together with him.
Has it only been five months?
Oh my... Feels like forever.
Glad we found our little place.

Hm, we need to finish
our kitchen, soon.
Or maybe do the garden first,
before winter sets in.

Winter? Oh no, already?
I would like some more summer...
Please, fall, go away
and take winter with you.

Even though
I do like the snow.
I just don't like
feeling cold all day.
© 2012
Too many thoughts! My man noticed it, too. He has ADD (diagnosed) and thinks I might have it as well...
400 · Oct 2012
Mercury
Pandora dO Oct 2012
He was so many things.

A man
An artist
An actor
A lover
A friend

But above all
he was a musician,
and a great one as well.

It's time to start
gathering his work
instead of only listening
to dad's collection.
© 2012
Just saw a great documentary on the awesome Freddy Mercury, the man who died just a month before I was born.
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