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Karma Oct 2024
In the dark typhoon, swayed a dark dark house.
In the dark monsoon, flew the dark dark mouse.
Below dark dark clouds, people scream and shout,
And by the 12th hour, noon, is when the Sun comes out.

In the light, you see rubble, and the people all dead.
On a tree that had fallen, lies a small mouse head.
Through the wind left behind, you hear what the house said
As its boards were all torn from beneath its beds.

You hear the creaking and wailing of nails, screws, and springs
Which escape from their places, among other things.
They escape through the windows, and break their panes too,
And as the whistling fell silent,
All left now,
Is you.
Jeremy Betts Oct 2024
"I wish I may
I wish I might
Have this wish
I wish tonight"

What is the wish I wish,
To a mostly empty sky?
There is none
There's never one
I instead hold up
My carved up wrists
Eight feet high
And I don't wish,
I cry the question why
To no reply
"Same as last night" I sigh
Then wish the moon well
Before my last goodbye

©2024
Michelle Oct 2024
After a break up, boys don’t care about you anymore.
They don’t care about whether the new girl they’ve moved to is your closest friend.
They don’t remember that it’s the same girl they countlessly denied over and over again.
They don’t care about the fact that your heart skips 100 beats in one second when then pass.
They don’t care at all that you miss them.
Boys only want what they want.
They move to the next best thing at the slightest opportunity.
They glance at you and smile, expecting you to smile back, but forgetting that they caused you the worst kind of pain you ever felt in all your years of living.
If you don’t smile back, you’re a bad person. If you smile back and your smile is a little wonky cos maybe you have just cried, then you’re ew or now they know you’re still in love with them.
You do your best to avoid them in the hallways. Why did you do that?? Now you’re the bad person.
Look what you’ve done to yourself.
All because you fell for a boy. Big sigh.
im broken
My Dear Poet Oct 2024
I am so alone
can you hear me?

Hello…

Hello?

Why is it every time
I want to write a poem

that is real
that is raw

I start every line with
“I am alone”

Hello??

Can you hear me?






Is anyone there?
Giuseppe Oct 2024
In the empty train
your bracelet peeks out my sleeve
a quiet reminder.
Every criticism Is gladly accepted
Lily Oct 2024
Despite all the chaos,
She puts up a smile,
hidden in her pathos,
alone for a while.

She has had enough,
fighting with her inner self,
all she does is laugh,
hoping everyone else is deaf.

Aiming at her is an arrow,
made of pitch dark metal,
all she feels right now is sorrow,
all she needs is someone gentle.

That smile is hiding
as much pain
away she is sliding
out of that long chain.

All she need is someone
to be by her side
his shoulders to put her head on
whenever she feels like to hide.

Beneath that glorious smile
lies a face no one's ever seen
she's held on for a while
waiting for him, unseen.

-Lily
DKN Oct 2024
Overwhelming from all sides
But it’s easy to be lost in the waves
of feeling that you’re stuck
Arise now, march into the meaninglessness
of your receding breath
Weak now, more than it was last minute
Yielding in was never an option
Jia En Oct 2024
I’m waiting for you;
Waiting for you to
Appear,
Yet I fear
That you never will.
It’s been twelve years
And you still
Haven’t arrived
In my life.
Where are you, pray tell?
I should know all too well
If you’re here,
But I still don’t think you’re near.
lonely and mad
Emery Feine Oct 2024
Like a tree whose roots are forever taking
The nutrients in the soil, ever shaking
The branches of mine never breaking
And yet I still cannot grow

You put me on the performer's stage
So you can get your lousy wage
And write my name on your contract page
A never-ending show

An airport, where to exit you have to pay
And they're so close, yet so far away
Like a phone call you forgot to take today
So leave a message at the tone

Like a turtle racing across the shore
And a robot's still heart at its core
A bird's long-gone partner soar
Forever stuck alone
this is my 123rd poem, written on 9/10/24
Jeremy Betts Oct 2024
I leave her alone
To give her the time
To feed her desires
'Till her own passion expires
And she falls asleep...
...in her preferred alone
So I can then come in
And kick the same tires
Left to fight the nightmares
Of my expressed fears
Of again being unwanted
And then try to sleep...
...in the worst type of alone

©2024
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