Ian Robinson: Poems

Ian Robinson Mar 2019

Somber slow
Deep
Breaths bring bleak
Thoughts to
Compensate choreographed
Flaws flowing for future figures

The truth touches tongues
Silencing secrets simply structured
In intimate interjections

Desensitized

Ian Robinson Feb 2019

Desensitized

Tragedy isn't even very tragic anymore

another 6 word poem

Diet Dirt

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Diet Dirt

remember when you were a kid
and the most fun you had was
when you were bored eating dirt?
remember banging on *** lids
and it was all just because
even though doing so would probably get you hurt?

Those were the days,
so long since past
now hair grays
and the days long since last
were the ones you wish would stay

Dissociate

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Dissociate

I write this through cold fingertips
Dipped in the blood of my heart
I see my own soul in the bathroom mirror
It's weird i can see myself so much clearer
So while i lie here alone
And stare deep into my phone,
Call out to me,
I'll reply with the cold dead truth

The cold dead oak tree
Roots itself inside my head
But i have never bled

#dissociation #depression

Does it fall?

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Does it fall?

Can it fall?
Does it end?
Will it stop?
Won't you fall?
Why can't I?
How will we?
Why so many?

#questions

Drowning

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Drowning

What's it like to drown i wonder
is it this aching feeling i am always feeling
when i am deep in my head?
it's dangerous in there i say
to myself through a mirror

Experience

Ian Robinson Mar 2019

Experience

They say
"You don't have the experience to be a poet."
"Don't even try."
"You may have talent, but nothing to nurture it with."
"You're. Just. A. Kid."
But being a kid
I have a better imagination
I can create better visuals
And stimulate senses better
Like soft serve on a softer summer day
Or the crumbling of a stone statue heart stuck on a girl
I am just as good at you
Though I lack experience
I can be better than you

Getting fed up with people telling me I don't have enough life experience

Falling Backwards

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Falling Backwards

I see you in my dreams
But I don't know you yet
But that's okay because I know you;
You are beautiful, in your own way
You are smart, in your own right
You are short, by that I mean with me
You are everything I need

I am a mess. a train-wreck.
I know I am a handful,
But you'll be able to handle me
I won't just be attracted to you
I'll be attracted by you

I'm from Evergreen
If you know what I mean
so I'll be calming
You're probably from Sunshine
Because you already brighten up my day

I'll never have to see you
way back in my rear-view

#love #unrequited #unknown #happiness

falling faster

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

falling faster

Am i falling
in deeper?
my heart
cant keep her
i am but
just a weeper
i can't admit
i need her

Faux Feelings

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Faux Feelings

You said it
I believed it
I ate it up
Like the starved child i am

Now I sit in silence
Wishing

#love #heartbreak #lies #emotions #wish

Favourite Flower

Ian Robinson Mar 2019

Favourite Flower

Flowers of so many flowers all meaning
Different things,
Tulips: cheerfulness, royalty and forgiveness
Roses: Love and lust
Buttercups: childishness
But favourite of all
Hydrangeas: Heartfelt gratefulness

I love hydrangeas

Flair

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Flair

I want to write something that Pops!
Something that will drop your jaw
Something to retract cat claws, one that brings
Bling and sparkle to the world of poetry
I want the reader to gape in awe from the beautiful
Scenery I depict like park-hills and
Starry nights underneath
Blankets in the summer or screeching bats attempting to retreat
To caverns and attics also
Make the reader hear chromatic scales
And feel Christmas wreaths in July
I just want to write something good

Flowers for the Fallen

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Flowers for the Fallen

They fade away
we learn to live without them
in the decay of dead flowers
future fallen just the same
i lay a bouquet of bachelor buttons
for the fallen family lines

Forward

Ian Robinson Mar 2019

Forward

Lost dazed and confused
I don't know what to do
A brisk breeze blows me in the direction I need to go
I'm being torn apart
But not how I'm used to
We talk nearly enough but we still love each other
You're not toying with me
But you're torturing me
Burying me in concrete to my eyes and filling my heart
I finally understand exactly what I need
And you can't give it to me
Just like a spring wind
Is still cold
You are stuck in one place
While I'm moving on forward

Friends

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Friends

I need new friends
My old friends keep leaving
And I've never felt so alone

#lonely

Gingerbread Houses

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Gingerbread Houses

Hazy candy store blues
     with candid lazy attitudes
        and sickly sweet stumps stalked high
Is where I first fell in love

        a truffle for my mother
     a treat for my crazy brother
            Icing on the roof as we sat aloof
sweet scents of clove
and
        a wood burning stove
churning in a choice strokes
            as we built Gingerbread houses

trying something new give me tips and ideas for more free-verse rhyming

#love #christmas

Glacier Lakes

Ian Robinson Sep 2021

Glacier Lakes

The cool breeze side-to-side
With a smile and a hard glare
The child in me wants to take you back
It's hard trying to show you what's within
When I know I have nothing
But forward momentum left.

Somehow I feel deep inside,
That the hard rock-rolled beach
Is where we should call home
And it's selfish of me to say,
I want to see you walk into that
Glacier Water Lake again
A fluid contradiction

Gone

Ian Robinson May 2019

Gone

It's been a while since we've met
Good ol' keyboard
I know I've been neglecting you
But I've missed you
Almost as much as I've missed myself

Sorry I've been gone... just missing something

Green Grass

Ian Robinson Mar 2019

Green Grass

A blanket of great green grass
Fills the child inside with love,
Wishing for a wish to be granted
Under soft smooth skies
Of baby blue and jet streams of white,
Hoping to fly away with the air currents
And be blown away by soft soothing sayings
Said under shade of passing by drifters so high;
Our heads can barely fathom
Our hands can hardly touch
Our eyes can barely see
Our hearts can hardly feel
Just from lying over blankets of green grass now blue

Grocery Stores

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Grocery Stores

Fresh vegetables and fruits
the step of boots
it's winter here
yet there is no fear
it's just cold

Guns, Swords, and Pens

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Guns, Swords, and Pens

The Pen is mightier than the Sword
Or so it's said
But what about Guns?

They say never bring a knife
To a gun fight
But what should i never bring a gun to?

Head Over Heals

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Head Over Heals

Grab me an ice pack for his ache
I'm head over heels
And now I now how it feels
But I don't think you know what's at stake

Oh I've fallen
And now I'm sore
I feel like I was hit with a boar
So now I sit here callin'

I feel the birds and butterflies
In the pits of my belly
It's turning my insides into jelly
And it makes me want to cry-

-Out in joy
and I promise I won't play
You aren't my prey
And I won't be coy

I'm so madly in love with you
I'm head over heals but I'm feeling blue

#lovesick #love

Heaven in Hell

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Heaven in Hell

With you I'll be moving
through hell while stuck in
heaven

Heights

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Heights

Those not afraid
Are the ones most bound
To fall
Straight to the ground
And the ones who are
enjoy the tranquility
of falling

#falling #heights #fear #peace

Help

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Help

I'm falling
Back into the abyss
The medicine doesn't work
Anymore I feel so angry
And today?
Today was a good day...

Her

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Her

I don’t know what it is about her
I do know I think I love her
I want to hold her
I want to protect her

It is selfish
But I know I am a bit of a shellfish
Always crawling back into my house
The scare little mouse
I am

But no matter what I do
I can’t seem to convince you
I won’t make you blue
I wish you’d get the clue

I was in utter disbelief
But also I felt relief

You shared the same feelings
Like me

#love

Heroes Need Saving, Too

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Heroes Need Saving, Too

Yes it's true
Heroes need saving too
They get beat black and blue
All to save damsels like you

#heroes #adventures #fighting #damsels #meaningful

Honesty

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Honesty

It is better to be honest and alone
than to lie and be isolated

#truth #honesty

Hope

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Hope

What really is that little
4
letter
word?

To me it is power
For it gave me life when I was dying
It woke me up when i was asleep
In my own body

When no one could save me
Hope did

Hope is hell; however
Open to new meanings
Playing the user who abuses it
Even opening up new doors and closing them just the same

What has hope done for you?

#hope

How you make me feel

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

How you make me feel

Deep in the dark forest
that is my body
lies my heart
and now it flutters for you

when we touch
my heart races
when we kiss,
i melt inside
i'm so madly in love with you
i can feel you under my skin
and it warms me up <3

I found her <3

#love

Hurt Me; Haunt Me

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Hurt Me; Haunt Me

Although our memories are dead,
The ghost of the past will forever haunt me

Hush up

Ian Robinson Feb 2019

Hush up

Hush up, I hear the howling wind
Wind down, and hear the clock ticking
Tick tock goes the great grandfather
Grandfather says "hush up"

Hush up because the three headed wolves are coming
Coming to steal your soul far away
Away to place no man should stay
Stay against the wall
Walls are our safety net
Nets are butterflies and fish
Fish swim up a river of sorrow and spray, "Hush up"

Hush up, the demons are here
Here to stay through the night
Night scares them inside too
Too many and they all echo, "Hush up"

"Hush up" dies down the wind

I******a

Ian Robinson Mar 2019

I*********

From the day I met you
I knew that you 'd forever haunt me
I also knew what you'd be before you knew
I have a weird superpower to predict the future
Upon first contact
Little did I know that it would be my fault
I don't blame you for hating me
But
Know this
I don't even remember your face anymore

Ice

Ian Robinson Feb 2019

Ice

I hate to start this with a question
but what was your childhood like?
Was it filled with imagination?
Or void of inspiration?
Could I write a book about it?

I just want to break some ice
with a spike of words
so this broken silence rings with music
of conversation

infinite points from the center
all facing each other
playing a game of cats and mice
i just wanted to break some ice

I feel you

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

I feel you

I can feel your heart beating inside my rib cage
and the beating of your heart is causing internal bleeding
It beats
it thumps
It spews out blood
and now I'm drowning in it

If I Could...

Ian Robinson Feb 2019

If I Could...

I'd write you a song
one not too terribly long

I'd ink your name
under a sketch of your face

I'd love you
the way you should be treated

If I Was

Ian Robinson May 2021

If I Was

If I was ever renting a room in your heart,
Its surely closed off with cation tape.
However, a step through the door,
will reveal a well kept, seemingly pristine world.
After-all, I gave you what you wanted,
Nothing but the world.

Indoors

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Indoors

Sometimes i sit and ponder
what life would be like if i stayed indoors
would the neighbors notice, would i be forgotten?
I suppose I'd resort to imagining rain and thunder
Instead of looking out the window
I wonder what the world would be like
should i stay indoors

in love

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

in love

I'm in love
with the person
i want you to be
that's how i know
i don't love you anymore

In My Heart

Ian Robinson May 2019

In My Heart

Sundaes at sunset
Made me realize just how much I
Flutter at the sight of your perfect brown eyes

Don't let them fade

Soft silky complexion
Stays healthy in your dying moments
Facing it daily

Please don't fade away

Something says to
Never let these days die

They say perfect people
Don't exist
And I know you're not
But to me you are
And just as I realized
That,
That thing in my heart,
You told me
Something that made me lose my grip on reality

Intimacy

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Intimacy

To share things
In a boundless way
to bring a couple together closer
no matter what is

THAT is Intimacy.

#love #sharing #intimacy

Intimidating

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Intimidating

I was told once that
Women are intimidated by me...
I'm a 5 foot 8 inch blonde twig with acne
How am I intimidating?
If anything I'm translucent

True story, I'm not that intimidating lol

#funny #teenager #love

Introductions

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Introductions

Hello, hey, hi
or some other opposites
of goodbye
Introduce us to new possibilities

#introductions

Island

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Island

I live on an island
In the sea of my own thoughts
Life is never stagnant, neither is the sea
That is why i choose to stay
Where in isolation, I am least alone

#emotions #thoughts #seclusion #isolation

I swear I've never been better

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

I swear I've never been better

I see you in the trees
I hear your voice in the breeze
I feel your presence when i eat your favourite ice cream
I smell your hair when i lay face first into our pillow
I hear your voice in the videos we made
So tell me why i miss you so much
When you're right here in my heart,
The only place you can be

Job Hunting prose

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Job Hunting prose

As a teen, job hunting is very tedious. Many don't know what to do or how to do it. Many don't know where to start. But the best piece of advice to anyone looking for a job is: Just start with Google

Juvenilia

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Juvenilia

Defined as
"works produced by an author or artist while still young"
And I've still got a long way to go

Last day

Ian Robinson Jan 2019

Last day

The last day we were really together
I was still madly in love
but you were long gone
moved on
even

Lazy days