#almost poems on Hello Poetry

aa Jun 2017

Everytime I see your name,
hear your voice,
see your face,
I get this sinking feeling inside
because we no longer talk.
And what a tragedy,
for we broke so quietly,
without a single drama.
You went with your friends,
people I am strongly against,
and I went with my new friends.
I've always known that one day
you are not going to be mine.
But whenever I hear you laugh
coming out of my speaker,
my fingers itch to type 'hi' and
talk about my day with you.
But I don't.
I know you're going to reply warmly.
But I also know, that we won't be
what we used to be.

Milana once called us an old married couple, do you remember?

#lit #almost #friendship #friends #love #break #up #married #mine #laugh

Madison Greene Jun 2017

almost

I lost myself somewhere in-between our ending and all of the might've been's
I wanted it to be you
the kind of love that was always more forest fire than fairytale
and all I know is you left me someplace in the middle of "I miss you" and "I need space"
I fell into your hesitation because it was all I had left

#love #endings #uncertainty #almost #almosts #heartbreak #teenagers #young #understanding #learning

Penelope Winter May 2017

the gentleman: an update

you may have read a poem
of a gentleman i met
and i bet that you're all wondering
it anything's happened yet
now, i'll only say this once
so listen while you can
i just wasn't enough of a lady
to satisfy the gentleman

- p. winter

a followup to my previous poem "the gentleman"

#poem #poetry #love #gentleman #lady #sad #almost

Penelope Winter May 2017

Almost

Nearly
Virtually
Close to
Practically

All but
More or less
For all intents
and purposes

Borderline
Pretty much
Not far from
As good as such

You could have
Should have
Would have
But you didn't quite
Love me

- p. winter

#poem #poetry #love #almost #relationship #sadness

Penelope Winter May 2017

mutual confusion

why we do this to ourselves
remains a mystery

our conversations all wear
the same clean livery
the words fall into line
as if they've been rehearsed
it's like we're both too scared to improvise
it's a curse

why is either too afraid
to be the first to speak a phrase
overwhelmed with what the other
could think or do or say

why do we look into
each other's eyes
and tell ourselves
the same old lies
believing

that this feeling

will one day
go away

- p. winter

#poem #poetry #love #relationship #sadness #almost

Anna Grace May 2017

Home

Ship in the harbor, I’m leaving today
the sails are set,
I don’t know yet
where it’s going to stay.
Across the crystal water, I’m leaving today
the only place I know I’m going
is that I’m going away.

All the people at the station living out their day
I go to wander and pray,
I wonder if any of them
have felt this same way.
When my trains pulls from the station I’m going away
Far from all the things I’ve known,
I need to get away.
When I’m gone
will it make a difference?
If I don’t come back
would you remember me?

Speakers at the airport calling meaningless names
I don’t care if it’s mine,
to me they’re all the same.
Pain grows smaller with runway lines, to the sky we take
flying today,
just to get away.

If I flew too high,
would you look to the sky for me?
If the ship went down,
would you look to the sea?

New city every day, finally I am away
I don’t speak the language,
I have nothing to say.
Life can be good whe you get away,
replaced with the longing
to find somewhere to stay.

#away #get #out #journey #almost #there #stay

Celeste L Hernandez Apr 2017

almost is never enough

almost is never enough
maybe i'm too blame
for the read messages
missed calls
ignorance
for the short glances
for all the times i said i would, but didn't
for every word i said, yet couldn't mean
walking by you though looking past your presence

almost is never enough
to all the times i caught you staring
i never wanted you to turn away
all the times you wanted me to be yours
"yes" i would've said
but you never asked

almost is never enough
at last, after all those weeks of denial
i longed for you
completely
with so much hope and ecstasy carried on my shoulders
i-
naive and thoughtless
ready to be swept by your winds
i stepped foot in your storm
hoping that the wait would be worth it

almost is never enough
i search for you amidst all the rage set in place
in pure solitude you sit in the eye of the tempest.
infuriated. wretched.
when all at once comes a figure
someone i'd never seen before
pleasing to all who looked upon her
your eyes fixated on her
chaos
madness
fright
terror
and then
silence
almost is never enough

-c. alejandra

#almost

apollota Apr 2017

Ghost

Reflection.
It’s in everything, everywhere.
in the water you run away to when things get hard,
in the glass shards on the ground every night,
in the spoon you hold while you eat breakfast alone,
in the screen of the phone you use when you have thoughts.
Reflection is everywhere, in everything.
Almost.
Because it’s not in the mirror you stare into,
when it’s 2 am and you’re desperate to know yourself.

-=-
2017-04-17
-=-

#reflection #unknown #almost

J Apr 2017

Almost

Drudged for the gold but drawn silver
Yearned for warmth, greeted by shiver
Braved the tempest for your embrace
Awoke with heart that ran a race

Oh, Star! My Star, empyreal
Your luster is ethereal
I reached, resolved and full of hope
Lo! I gaped through a telescope!

Within arm's span but could not grasp
Stung achingly like spider wasp
A shunned love, a bursted bubble
Such pain is unfathomable

Bewildered thoughts, our hearts won't weld
Let go of things I never held
Tender soul, albeit bereft
Set free someone I never kept

And though the sun shined ever bright
All I can do for now is write
And bid the long tale to a ghost
Of a love most true, but almost

#love #almostlove #almost #unrequitedlove #star

Leigh Marie Apr 2017

passenger

maybe, I'm holding on to the best parts of you
but there are so many best parts that
I don't wanna let go, I can't let go
can't open my hand to wave good bye
can't open my arms to anyone else
didn't have you long enough to
say I love you but
boy did I
knew that for a while cause
I always had

I said happy birthday cause
that's my white flag
my bridge to over it
my olive branch
but I haven't heard from you since

I miss the feeling that you weren't going anywhere
cause your 4 am hellos were enough
your "you're probably not awake"
your "have you heard this song"
my, being awake
my, "I love that song too"
were all enough
do you still think of me when you
hear those songs or find that art
or have you completely forgotten about us
riding together in your car like we had started
the beginning of forever?

I try to forget I miss you by
finding the good in everyone else
finding prospect in guys not meant for me
maybe you were not meant for me either

So instead I tell my stories, of my crazy, funny friend
and how he lights up my time at home
with good luck and bad timing
how everything for him always works out
but almost falls apart
of our time together, in the car, driving
incidents with police officers
where I kept my cool and
your good fortune got us out unscathed

I tell them about the time you stopped in the intersection,
just to make me laugh till
I pulled you back in the car and we drove away

I keep to myself that first morning after in the car, silent
we didn't talk for 30 minutes till
you told me you wanted to buy fruit leather
I don't even know what fruit leather is

I keep to myself the time you looked at me and
told me how she broke your heart
I keep to myself the time you broke my heart

All our best times together were in the car
going somewhere or nowhere
just going, together
going out for coffee, but you, not getting coffee
cause you don't like coffee but I always forget and
pick the same place to eat
you never remind me that you don't like coffee
if you ring me again I promise, I won't forget that
you don't like coffee

#sad #friend #best #melancholy #gone #miss #almost