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Ryan R Latini Aug 2024
Every time I eat here,
I wonder if she’s still in the restroom.
I watch the cakes orbit
On refrigerated turntables—
a silent waltz for the ballerinas running omelets and coffee.
Back when she excused herself to the restroom,
the hostess was probably still in diapers.
Ambar Martin Aug 2024
¿Es pecado dar un grito ahogado para ser salvado del pozo oscuro en el que cada día nado?

¿En serio es tan malo buscar atención dañando mi propio ser? ¿O solo es una tonta acusación que hacen sin noción?

No lo dije, ni lo mostré, pero aún así, deseé que alguien lo viera, que alguien lo notará y me alejara del frío sentimiento que deja el filo cortando mi cuerpo.

Todo sería más fácil si lo hubiese hablado, este ciclo hubiera finalizado, las cicatrices no existirían y tal vez la culpa se iría.

Pero no pude, no pude y no puedo.

Las palabras se atascan en mi garganta y el resto de mi cuerpo es quien se encarga de dejarlas salir mediante finos cortes de los que después me voy a arrepentir.

Te pido que te pongas en mi lugar, y te des cuenta de que no me quiero victimizar, sino, que es mi manera de rogar un hombro en el cual llorar.
mi primer poema escrito :)
Q Aug 2024
The sticky sap crawls down my limbs
Violating the purity of flowers and foliage all around
I want to become one with the trees
One with the garden and dirt
From which I sprouted.

I look at the crimson endlessly pouring from my wound.
It lets me know that for now I am still human.
Not yet plant or earth but soon.
Soon I will be.

Maybe the creatures
will have families and love
So in death I could have
What I could not receive in life.
My bones will finally be a home
that they never were for me.
Jellyfish Aug 2024
When I get close to people,
I tend to overshare.
especially when I spot a shared interest.

You’re into cheesy memes?
I’ll flood your inbox with my favorites
You like scary things?
Even if I’m not always into them
I’ll find the ones I do like
thinking you’ll appreciate them too

But lately,
I’ve started to think...
maybe people don’t like this.
Because over time
they start to drift away.

It stings to be labeled a copycat
When all I've ever wanted is friendship
People close to me that I can be open with.

Maybe I'm meant to float alone
Like a golden jelly,
I should make my own pattern.
Jeremy Betts Aug 2024
••••••
Inspired by
Krista Delle Femine
~Still the Fool~
••••••
I always find myself here
With little to no explanation
I'm thinking it's because I elicit fear
They avoid my intensity
Every bombastic and overcharged emotion that overflowes from me
I believe they mean to
But they seem to pull themselves through
It's always something I did
Or didn't do
It's so much rejection
I've lost track of the lesson
It's only humility
And wanting from someone
Something they don't have for me
They often pretend
Put up a good front and deny the lie
I have to keep all of me inside
And leave it for everyone else to interpret what one of my issues it could be
Then it falls on me
Only on me
We don't have to wait and see
What I can't be
Even alone I can't be free
Not really
I'm still the fool writing about this
Letting them live rent free in my poetry

©2024
Inspired by
Krista Delle Femine
Still the Fool
https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4858445/still-the-fool/
Jeremy Betts Jul 2024
•••
Welcome home
•••
Heart of stone
House of glass
Fault is not mine alone
Karma credit blown
It happens fast
With no receipt shown
The last to know
A forced outcast
I didn't get here on my own
A house of glass
And a single stone
Another broken home
•••

©2024
Shin Jul 2024
Parchment frayed, edge crumbled to silky ash.
A single candle’s flicker caught dancing
to whispers from dust crackling their secrets.

The window sweats, powdered by evening snow.
His droplets quench the thirst of the rotted floor.
A mouse scurries, elated for its flow.

Etched in the corner, a rope swings freely.
Held together by habit above all.
Beneath it rests nothing more than shade.
Steve Page Jul 2024
Take an isolation of loneliness,
add one park bench,
sprinkle liberally with sunshine,
blend with mixed bird song
(and an optional warm breeze).
Leave to ferment for at least one hour.
Resist the temptation to disturb,
and you will have yourself
a healthy dose of solitude.
Take one as part of your five-a-day.
Solitude can be positive, you know.
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