S R: Favorites

Nov 2019 S R

C F

You tell me to call,
With a smile.
To just pick up the phone,
If I don't feel quite right.

It's a lovely gesture.
But I think you and I.

We both know.
Don't we?

I wouldn't dare touch
A single number
For you.

Nov 2019 S R

U2

Nov 2019 S R

TheConcretePoet

U2

i still haven't
  found what
i am
   looking for is
much more
   complex,
much more
   profound than
just a few things.

   unrewarding
is a life
  asea that
lives and breathes
  within one's
dreams.

   exhausted;

what i look for
  may not
even exist
   except for
what lies in
  my subconscious
mind.

dubiously
   just living
and seemingly
   wasting time.

Nov 2019 S R

Sugar

Nov 2019 S R

ryn

Sugar

Promise
and action
must go
hand in hand.

Because
sugared words
are much
too brittle.

.

#hellopoetry107 #sugar

Nov 2019 S R

Inking

Nov 2019 S R

ryn

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

Nov 2019 S R

Into the Sun

Nov 2019 S R

ryn

Into the Sun

Walk,
as far as these feet will take me.
Moving with deliberateness,
laden with calculated purpose.

And knowing that every time each foot
successfully meets the earth,
I would always be somewhere new.

Each step would feel perhaps
unfamiliar ground,
shed new light, see fresh faces
and experience different days.

As long as I stay loyal to the course...

Always moving...
Walking,

into the sun.

#hellopoetry107 #intothesun

Nov 2019 S R

Give Me My Space

Nov 2019 S R

ryn

Give Me My Space

Give me a minute
To read the stars
Lamenting in their stories
Their laboured twinkling far and sparse

Give me this moment
To stumble and swoon
My branches reaching for
The faraway moon

Give me a while
To be one with the universe
Hear the colliding planets
As they spill their mournful verse

Give me some time
To plot my rightful place
Within my uncharted galaxy
And collapsing space...

#alone #time #stars #space #thinking #universe #reflection #planets

Nov 2019 S R

Paint it out of the Mirror

Nov 2019 S R

Shofi Ahmed

Paint it out of the Mirror

Hidden within the earthy depth
only emerges with time
only dances in tangent
now slips out with the butterflies.
Now the nightingales singing aloud!

One has spoken out, one blew
a kiss out off the dark seed.
Ah, what then broke through?
Up from the sky the blue-nymph
dropped down on the scene!
One that hid blurring that's image
on the mirror is that now been seen?

Pouring rain singing down to primulas
paints it with all the colours of the wind
now the Spring picked up her paintbrush.

Rain some colour blow a kiss of the flower
paint it out of the mirror!

#spring #flower #kiss #sky #time #butterfly #rain #mirror #blue #paint

Nov 2019 S R

play

Nov 2019 S R

thesa

play

we played hide and seek by the rivers
and sometimes i would chase you

but never would you chase me
and when i asked why
you smiled because

love to you
was just a game

#hide #seek #play #chase #you #never #ask #why #smile #love

Nov 2019 S R

Opposites

Nov 2019 S R

Anthony Feng

Opposites

You drain away the strength away from others
I give the strength away to others.

I give the antidote to others,
you give poison to others.

I'm a giver,
you're a taker.

Whatever we do,
we're so opposite.

Wish we were those
" opposites attracts each other"
but we're not that.

That's the sad reality...

It could be about a lover or I’m talking about my past self.

#poison #lover #past #self

Nov 2019 S R

The Art of Being Okay

Nov 2019 S R

Darcy Lynn

The Art of Being Okay

I am adept
In the art of being okay
I have mastered the craft
Of covering my troubles
I use all sorts of fancy facades
Acrylic, oil, watercolor
You name it.

I can paint over nearly anything

You will never know
How late I was up last night
Or why.

My eyes flicker
Like candlelight
But you couldn’t see
You couldn’t possibly see
I’m too good
For that.

I can dance, too
Waltzing away my sorrows
Carefully tip toe-ing the
Pas-de-I-am-fine
I get a standing ovation every time

I’m very talented, you see.

But my all time favorite
Is my disappearing act
I’m still perfecting it
Right now
But one of these days
I’ll show you
How I
Slip
Slip
Slip
Away

Right through your fingers.

#sad #anxiety #facade