#breath poems on Hello Poetry

Debbie Brindley Apr 2018

Suffocating feeling
gasping to breath
Overwhelming sensation
A need to leave
Isolation wanted
Great need for space
Overheating
Burning up
Sweat on my face
Head starting to spin
Walls closing in
Need to escape
Leave
Get out
Before it's too late
Inhale
Exhale
Out the door
Through the gate
Sit
Breath
Take my time
Got out
Got away
Everything will be fine

When I was 19 started suffering panic attacks and the only way I could stop them was to leave the place I was having the panic attack. Had.them for about 3yrs

#overwhelmed #panic #breath

Jo Barber Apr 2018

Tobacco

Take a deep breath,
and forget about death.
Once more, I set the stick aglow.
My fingers smell of tobacco.
Oh, I wish you could know.
Tenderly I blow.
I want to let go,
let my habit lie fallow,
but I'd miss the flow.

This is precious cargo.

#cigarettes #addiction #night #death #breath

adriana Apr 2018

look on the Brightside

I'm wrapped around your fingers.
Your fingers are wrapped around my neck.
Choking the life out of me.
Breath by fading breath.
The Killers playing in the background.

It's a hit. It's also a song. Ironic, isn't it?

Mr. Brightside - The Killers

#brightside #killers #breath #wrapped #fingers

Amanda Kay Burke Apr 2018

Shh

Shh.
My ears are exhausted.
Do not say those words.
I turn the music up louder.
Screams fly out like weightless birds.

Lungs fill up with air, still and stale,
They will burst with one more breath,
I sit beside you on my bed and sing.
A desperate song that may be my death.

If you utter the phrase I have been hiding from,
Black magic words spun into a lullaby,
We will both have no choice but to accept..
The love we have been trying to deny.
Shh.

This is an old one. I dont even remember who it is about it is so old.

#love #shh #quiet #accept #deny #words #lullaby #breath #lungs

trinity Apr 2018

Untitled

music is a sigh of relief in a world that holds its breath

big constant mood

#music #breath #world #poem #poetry #one #line #short

Gale L Mccoy Apr 2018

first and last breath

winter is the season of waiting
always for something different
than the same grey everyday
spring brings hope of change
breathing a thawing gust
that pushes you from behind
summer holds freedom
a suspended span of time
to indulge in all things bright
fall spurs creation
a rush to bring last life into
what dies in winter

its in the first breath we chase
not yet dreams but gratification
the joy of the moment till
the moment ends

its in the last dying breath of life
we move the most
building a hoard of dreams to
hold us warm in hibernation

#breath #seasons #spring #winter #fall #summer #moment #dreams

Lora H A Apr 2018

GOALS

They scream.
All yelling at me.
Go, Go, Go,
They repeat.

Run, run, run,
I tell my feet.
I speed,
Nonstop until I get in.

My heart beat,
Too fast.
Too deep,
I breath.

I look around,
I feel confuse,
I refuse
To give up.

Not until
I achieve
My last goal,
Until I breathe my last word.

#goal #breathe #breath #fast #run #heart #beat #look #around #feel

DancingEnt Apr 2018

Before You

I don't remember my life before you.
I don't know if I really knew how to breathe
before you walked in and took my breath away.
I don't know if I knew how to walk
before I learned to walk to the beat of your heart.
And it may sound cheesy
yes, it may be cliché
but I don't know if I knew how to talk
without your name being every word that falls from my lips.
Not being able to function without a person
labels another being "dysfunctional"
But, baby, that's how I was before you.
waking up every day
in a fog
you've cleared up.
never knowing where I was going
just through the motions
and now those motions lead me to you
at the end of every day
and I have something to look forward to
that isn't just another way to shut out the world
I have LOVE.
And I don't remember my life before you.

Just thinking this morning..

#love #life #lover #partner #you #amazing #breath #remember #dysfunctional

Nayana Nair Apr 2018

Not There

Stay right beside me.
Stay till I fall asleep.
Once my eyes have given up,
on seeing the world for what it is
and failing each time.
When my hold on your fingers
loosens breath by breath.
When I finally fall asleep.
Let me dream of a love for us
that hurts little less.
Live the life that I dream of.
Even if I am not there.

#asleep #beside #breath #dream #each #even #if #eyes #fail #fall

Nayana Nair Apr 2018

Wish

The stars that crumbled
at the wind of your wish,
have their light taken say for your sake.
In their dying light they take your name.
Even if the wish comes to life
it is heavy with a sadness, a grief.
For they are just dying breath
with promises to keep.

#breath #crumble #die #heavy #life #light #name #nayana #nair #promise