#backwards poems on Hello Poetry

Talia Aug 2020

THESE GADGETS I DESPISE
TOLD I NEED THEM TO SURVIVE
AS THEY ARE GETTING FLATTER
SO IS OUR MOOD
WHERE IS THE INSPIRATION
NATURE EFFORTLESSLY SHARES
YET DEVICES MUST HAVE
ONE MILLION FEATURES TO CAPTURE OUR
ATTENTION!
FOR ONE SECOND
A CHARGE OF LIGHTNING WOULD CAUSE ME LESS PAIN
YET WHERE IS MY APOLOGY?
SORE FROM THIS TECHNOLOGY
IN AWE OF THIS ENVIRONMENT
STILL, IT'D BE AN HONOUR TO BE STRUCK BY
YOU. MOTHER GAIA

Empty pleasures, too many options and choices that are actually turning us backwards. Looking towards more and more gadgets or material 'goods' for happiness can make you feel so empty. It cannot fulfil what the natural world was made to do.

#nature #natural #environment #gaia #backwards #technology #society #devices #gadgets #phones

Isaac Spencer Jun 2020

Posture

-My back hurts
,I'm carrying more than my fair share
-It's backwards
,Cause I'm the one saying 'There, there'

-My neck hurts
,Sticking out for these strangers
?Deranged
?Or fed up eating anger

#weird #tired #style #strange #backwards #angry #annoy #simple

Steve Page May 2020

Walking backwards

I met a man walking backwards,
head to toe in high viz.
He was happy to ask for directions
and overtook the crowd with ease.

I met a man walking backwards,
telling me what was to come.
'Keep both eyes on the past,' he said,
'for the future is just re-runs.'

My daughter told me of a local man who walks everywhere backwards. When she told me that hed asked for directions I just cracked up. I haven't laughed that much in a while.

#walk #past #future #guide #backwards

Claudius May 2020

One Step forward, Two steps back

I've grown into the type of person that says "I will go on with or without you."
Into a person that loses people left and right, but knows that as long as I have myself everything will be alright.
So, why is it I still check everyday for your response?

#progress #friendship #growth #backwards #trying

Glenn Currier Apr 2020

Bloodthirsty

Guilt and its grave cousin shame
a heavy gnarled ball and chain
on my ankle, holding me back
sinking me into bloodthirsty black.

#guilt #shame #retrograde #sinking #holding #pulling #backwards #past #bloodthirsty

Micah K Apr 2020

Backwards

The world is a backwards place,
Sometimes it seems there is not enough space,
For all of humanity to run a race,
Oh how we've fallen in this case...
But back again we stand,
For such is human nature to demand.

#humanity #backwards

Maha Jan 2020

Question and Answer

I don't know
If my answer will always be
That I'm afraid of thinking about
Is it safe to say,

you should read this one backwards too. It's a conversation between two people.

#conversation #reverse #love #backwards #question #answer

Capriccio Jan 2020

Broken Glass

Take the time
To be better then fine

Be happy and content
Doing saddest with intent

Play with the rainbows
Bend over backwards

#broken #glass #time #better #play #rainbows #bend #over #backwards

Colm Jan 2020

Seeing Backwards

Until the stars crash, the clouds wave back with whisking foam. Twinking, glowing, black with morning dew to greet this coming you alive.

Until affections rise in reflective ways, as moon and stars unite, with pinions that of a lovers embrace.

To stay, I must until such heaven returns, and reunites with soul to be, believed. Know that I want to, but for me. I will only think of you beneath walking trees, with thoughts small as bugs beneath celestial day. In my own time and wantingly, quietly way.

Seeing Backwards

#seeing #backwards