#change poems on Hello Poetry

Jack Groundhog Feb 2

Berlin, Berlin, just what art thou?
A cake of layers baked from fates
by many bakers, cold and proud,
who filled it with chunks of bitter dates.

The cream on top is cloying, sweet,
to compensate for the stale flour
and brownish yeast of marching feet
with bruised crabapples, soft and sour.

To try a slice of this complex taste
isn’t easy: It’s baked in haste.

Inspired by this photo I took of a traditional Berlin pub: https://bsky.app/profile/jackgroundhog.bsky.social/post/3lh4trjdxnk2d

#berlin #germany #history #change #bitterness #cake

Jack Groundhog Feb 2

The throne

Up hiking on a hill that once housed a king
whose golden age had gleamed long ago:
His former realms filling all that I’m seeing
but little trace of him now, just shadows.

Standing alone, his abandoned throne,
overgrown with brambles and weeds
that crack its old stone, unbemoaned,
while the vines spread more of their seeds.

Many years later (or less?), a hiker will pass
up and down this very same hill
and look back on us past, wondering at last
why our gilded age didn’t last like we’d willed.

Inspired by this photo I took of a neo-Gothic stone seat overgrown with weeds and vines: https://bsky.app/profile/jackgroundhog.bsky.social/post/3lgvntghchs2i

#time #history #king #change #glory #impermanence

Jack Groundhog Feb 2

All systems go

Everything’s under control.
Sure, the controls are a bit old —
nah, it’s not quite like a dice roll,
it’s all still working, kind of, all told.

Not to worry, everything’s fine,
all systems are still online
even if it looks like some redlines
are warning us of flaws in the design.

Sure, a failure happened before
that had lots of troubles in store,
hordes of red flags that could not be ignored
but were anyway. Led to one or two wars

but it’s OK, we fixed it back then
without needing to count down from ten.
Shut down your doubts, say yes and amen —
What, me worry? That’s our kind of Zen.

Inspired by this photo I took of a decrepit looking utility access point on a semi-abandoned 1970s concrete and aluminum building in Berlin: https://bsky.app/profile/jackgroundhog.bsky.social/post/3lgyhhnr5vc23

#technology #change #failure #society #worry #collapse

Unpolished Ink Feb 2

Herännyt*

Winter sun
kissed by the breeze
shakes the limbs
of starveling trees
wakes the bones
of each bare bough
and tells the spring
it’s not long now

*Finnish for awaken

#seasons #spring #change

silvervi Jan 29

Reminder #7

CHANGE in feelings and life's circumstances is natural.

Accepting this may help to live life with a lighter heart. 🙏

#change #feelings #lifeischange #reminder #reminder7

Leanne Jan 29

The road you chose

Life points in all directions,
Each road is different.
Some roads we travel, we often choose to blame.
Why blame the path we’re taking?
It’s a product of our choices.
You can’t change the way you get there; the destination is yours alone.
You pick every turn.
You take every detour.
Sometimes darkened, and sometimes light.
But this road, the road you choose to go down, was made just for you.
Imagine, a straight flat road.
There would be nothing fun to do.
This road is full of valleys, and sometimes the highest peaks.
It might scare you to keep traveling on.
But know that this road doesn’t define you,
Or make you who you are.
It’s who’s traveling this road with you that helps you when you feel you can’t go on.
So life Points in all directions;
never judge or show any shame.
This person on this different path, may be experiencing the same.

#life #road #destination #tirn #detour #change

Tye Jan 29

Midnight Passion

Tonight is the night
Where I plan the changes
To become the person
I dream of being.

I’ll wake up tomorrow,
Leap out of bed,
Make the world my oyster,
And break my chains.

I can’t wait
Until my alarm hits,
And the cobwebs shake free.
But boy—
my bed is real comfy.

#change #growth #passion #fear #anxiety #happiness

Rosas witten Jan 28

Switch

Alive
Morning walk with a smile
Sublime
Worrying decision to make
But ! hey
I shall break the ice
Urgency of change
Scared as a buried man alive
Belief a treasure to possess
God willing...
Will see where it goes
I promise to go onward
I shall challenge mistakes
Even in the worst times
For a step forward

#hope #change

Malia Jan 27

taste the waves

i race across the boardwalk and
i taste the waves,
throw my phone into the ocean and
find some form of freedom—
whatever’s left will do! I’d do
anything to find out who i’m supposed
to be, i guess that should be me,
but i’ve never met that girl
(𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦?)
so instead i keep running and
you might ask from what but
only the Lord knows that and maybe
my tide-worn mother too but once
she tried to tame the frizz out
of my hair but it didn’t work because
she never expected to have a firecracker
for a daughter, 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳
𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, but i left that all behind so i could
race across the boardwalk
and taste the waves, but now
i am here and somehow the salt
tastes bitter.

#family #freedom #mother #bitter #youth #change #searching #identity