#breath poems on Hello Poetry

Maria Apr 16

You packed in yesterday
And all that you left
Is your touch on my hair
And only your breath.

You packed in yesterday
Just leaving behind
Kisses of your lips
And your cool "Unwind".

Maybe you want that
I'll entrust wholly
All my desires
To this night truly?

Just say me that!
And no other cue!
Nothing else matter
But being with you!

You packed in yesterday,
Leaving me memory
And this dead night,
Without you, but me.

This poem was born under very strange, not at all poetic circumstances. I was waiting for a medical procedure at an ophthalmological clinic. My eyes couldn't see. So I began to dig into my memory, into my past. I remembered a sad story from my life. And that memory took the form of this poem.
Thank you for reading this poem! 💖

#yestarday #kiss #unwind #leaving #night #memory #hair #breath

Manx Kronos Pragna Apr 15

To Give & To Be Given

Love & love not,
Live and not to love;
Death should be better
Were I read the letter
Of forget our stitched knots.

Live & live not,
Love and not to live;
Life could be no worse
Than in longing for that
Which itself draws no breath.

#short #philosophical #love #death #life #breath #knots #recycled #nonconfessional #fun

Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 12

Writer's block [BREATHE]

“I don’t really exist, and I know I don’t exist,”

so it says – being latent, until it’s been found.
Where I sometimes break down by the corner
of Writer's block; where the drive I had for
something, finds an abrupt stop.

In truth,

this Writer's block doesn't exist; it's just
a point of time, the writer needs to BREATHE.

#writersblock #thoughts #breath

Zywa Mar 31

[ Singing together ]

Singing together

in a circle we pass on --

our breath wavily.

Composition "Eclipsed Vision" (2006, Kate Moore), a never ending song for everyone, for large choir, performed by Focus Vocaal, the VU Chamber choir, and the Herz Ensemble Singers in the Organpark on February 14th, 2025

Collection "org anp ARK" #92

#together #community #breath

Peter Gerstenmaier Mar 26

Breath

Maybe they're right…
Maybe I’m a terrible person
A narcissistic ******* with
Manipulative tendencies
And a giant ego

Breath

Could I be a wolf
Disguised in sheep’s clothing?
Or perhaps a deceptive villain
That became an expert at
Playing the good guy part?

Breath…

What if I’m no better than
My **** father and grandfather?
What if the difference between us
Is merely circumstantial?

Breath!

You know all those dreams
Are never going to happen
Right?!

Breath!!!

It doesn't have to be like this
It could all go away, you know?

Breath, breath, breath

It will go away eventually
But not like this

Breath…

Had another episode last monday... they're becoming more frequent. Happening like every other month.
This piece is not pretty, and writing this was really hard. But it's my best effort in describing the chaotic struggle of trying to push those intrusive thoughts away and getting back the control of my mind.

#depression #breath #struggle #chaos

Digital Melancholy Mar 21

The Scent You Leave

Your smell is a warmth
I can’t touch
but feel in every breath.

The air carries your smell to me,
like a secret message
only I can understand.

In every breath,
I feel closer to you,
as if your essence
is the thread
that weaves us together,
stitching my soul to yours.

I want to smell you even more,
to breathe you in even closer,
to let your presence
fill every part of me.

I want to live in a world
where your scent is the atmosphere,
wrapping me in a love so deep,
where the universe itself
holds us together.

#scent #smell #warmth #breath #love #essence #soul #atmosphere #universe #connection

Immortality Mar 20

Like Air

Love,
in its calm,
feels like breathing,
quiet,
steady,
always there.

Calm love should feel like the early morning light, - soft, steady, and effortless, isn't it???

#love #calm #breath #presence #minimalism #family #friends #warmth #simplicity

Abbott J Hardison Mar 13

On Its Way

If nothing else,
At least the spring is coming.
My soul may fade like winter,
But at least the snow melts.
I may disappear into the last breath of winter breeze,
Still spring is on its way.

It has to come already it has been winter for too long

#spring #winter #season #breath #breeze

Grey Feb 27

Love

Love,romance

The commonest emotion

I've seen ,heard and felt

Pitiful if you ask me

It's beginning blinds us so

That the middle and end is a blur

Just another page we've torn of our lives

The greatest of them fall

So why bother then

It's simple

It's hope when there's non

Even the most eloquent or the majority

Do promises such pleasure

But I haven't seen one
That met such expectations

Just like our fingers

We can't be loved the same

One could be broken person

who is promised a good stitching

Other needs a sense of completion

The purpose of it is still a mystery

That its not worth holding my breath for.

#love #romance #hope #broken #promise #deception #worth #breath #purpose #mystery

neth jones Feb 17

lung bean

courting breaths   after blue i brighten
       i lighten   with originless humour
and then ugliness anew
   i tighten   into some packed pearl of monster
breathe in   breathe out   courting breaths
the susurration    of all this lung
resuscitation    and it's 'good morning mourning'

then 'bring out the empathy' !  and zitty connections
and marvel over   'those poor things'
larval in their struggles   up the redline
and envision throwing them heaps
of hairdryers  salad spinners  monopoly boards
            vibrating cushions  for back massage
and obscure tinned delicacies  from my extensive travels
the five devils of my mind  tackle my erratic breath
five mad ideas  of how to run their lives
                        milk their hive
form a worship  and go to war..

..then it is i who goes larval
                          carving in on my minuscule heart
crutching in like a fractured pill bug
not daring to raise my eyes
             for fear of offending my superiors
breathe in   breathe out
counting down the breaths til rattle

#breathing #breath #depression #mood #swings #superior #inferior #wealth #poverty