ryn - Hello Poetry

ryn Aug 2019

Inking

Force not,
the coming of the ink.

Judge not,
what you feel and think.

•••

Then put nib to paper
and make your mark.

Let what flows
be brazen and stark.

#hellopoetry107 #inking

ryn Aug 2019

Release

The exhale is a relief
as the heart in my ear
slips subtly away;
back into the emptiness
in the dark.

So again I fill my chest.
And I’d fill it full.
Again and again.
Until then comes
a deathlike sleep.

#hellopoetry107 #release

ryn Aug 2019

Maim

The words weren’t daggers.
Weren’t meant to ****.

They were spindly,
like needles.
But barbed.
So they latch.

I’m not grievously wounded.
Yet I’m still bleeding out...

.

#hellopoetry107 #maim

ryn Aug 2019

Visitor

Open doorway
and there you stand, backlit.
Only feet away
yet too many steps too far.

A heavy veil of shadow
draped over your face.
Stand there, forever,
as I try to discern who you are.

.

#hellopoetry107 #visitor

ryn Jul 2019

Off

Strings taut in my head
Set haphazard side by side
Detuned and off key

#hellopoetry107 #off #haiku

ryn Jul 2019

Holding My Breath

Seconds pass
into an overbearing silence.

Holding my breath...

A lull in my chest -
nothingness that
seemed to stretch into forever.

•••

Just a bit more...
before the lungs would relent.

And the heart would speak again.

#hellopoetry107 #holdingmybreath

ryn Jul 2019

Beautiful Sound

Taking in this breath.
My chest would rise to its peak.
And at its crest I'd count the seconds...

Shhh, I hear my heartbeats -
sure but muffled as if enveloped
by a heavy blanket of the quiet
in the night.

A beautiful sound -
this clock in my body makes.
Whispers promises of continuity,
possibility and hope.

#hellopoetry107 #beautifulsound