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annh Feb 2019
braided reflections
midsummer intertwining
flying to the sun
Still in aeroplane mode...mellow. :)
5-7-5
ms reluctance Jan 2019
A sigh echoes across the chasm
of the sullen winter afternoon.
I dissolve daydreams with regret
in the cozy confines of my room.

I shall never understand
how time has passed me by
yet stretches ahead, yawning.
I am not alive; I cannot die.

The flowers wilt into dust,
the fruit hangs rotten.
Lost amid conjured trepidation
a promise slumbers forgotten.

Once upon a dulcet time
each path was ripe for the picking.
Dreams sour if they cannot cross
over to the land of the living.

I waste so much time
rueful of the time I wasted.
Every opportunity I missed,
each victory I never tasted.

The winter light warms my face
as I lie in bed, brooding.
The lump in my throat melts away;
my solitude turns soothing.

I savour the lightness of being
incomplete but whole.
If I can’t get that one epic win,
holistic hedonism is my goal.

Drop by drop, every tiny delight
I will use to fill this mighty ocean.
Whatever makes me happy,
I shall do with utmost devotion.

I smile and spring out of bed
as the sun dips below the horizon.
Stretch and switch on the lights
as I make my way to the kitchen.

The future is intangible –
the big picture I cannot yet see.
But today I shall take comfort
in woolly socks and hot coffee.
TL;DR Sad but happy :)
emma hunt david Dec 2018
orange bodies in the
yellow light in the afternoon
green thumbs in the garden
blue lips at night standing at the crosswalk
Hae Sun Dec 2018
Today, in this early afternoon, the sun is missing but I think I met someone I could like - actually, maybe I already like the person enough to type these words that were stranded in my pocket for so long. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Am I supposed to talk to him? To take him out for dinner? Ask him if we could ride the train together? Maybe I'm not supposed to do anything, maybe there's nothing to be done with it. It's just funny how I used to think that in real life - this ordinary and mundane life - we don't meet someone just as it plays in the movies. We don't meet someone we would ever so suddenly click with, we don't meet someone who would ask us all the right questions no one bothered to ask. We can't meet someone like that, I thought. But then, just as the universe knows every single push and pull of our being, it happens. We meet someone who would ask and listen. We meet someone who feels easy to be with, someone with courage and grace - but then it ends there. We meet someone and sometimes that's it.

The universe designed us for the longing and the missing and the hollowness that comes with it. It makes us live with the thoughts and the questions of what ifs and what should've beens but lets be glad it does. For at least in a moment, in that fraction of time, you know they felt it too.  With such fleeting silence, the world slows down, and the sun decides to show up only to adore what it would soon lose in that early afternoon.
not really a poem I guess
rayner Dec 2018
these lines are covich
with an urban cold twist
we keep our clothes thick
what's fitted on your hips
ain't  suppose to hold this
love is blind so i flow mist
forecast is ohh ****!
poverty cast lines like get drunk off rose pitt
feeling like a snail against the law of motion
your either drown or keep your head above it
i stay cooler than an ocean
poem of the day
Abby M Dec 2018
His heart beat in two
And mine was in three
Our cadence was always just off
But I switched to a two
One bright afternoon
When I missed a beat trying to cough
j Dec 2018
its three o'clock
i wish i wasn't going home alone
my sadness, it *****
then add this playing melancholic tone

the same playlist on repeat
i keep on thinking of you
my heart still skips a beat
i love you, always



--jeannery a.

what's the date five days ago? It was written five days agoo soooooooooooo
Gianna Nov 2018
it´s five in the afternoon
and i tricked myself into thinking you´d like me back
but how can i be so sure
when you treat everyone like that?
it´s five in the afternoon
and i´m thinking about you
again
how could i have been so foolish?
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