#epiphany poems on Hello Poetry

J Jul 2018

Change

inside me is a tidal wave.
wrapped around my heart and suffocating my lungs, it stirs, and it stirs.
sometimes i feel it's mist clawing up my throat,
but my lips only part for the red sea.

inside me is a tidal wave.
twelve pieces of bone can't seem to succumb the riptide that crashes through the abyss that is my heart.
so it sheers into my brain and rolls down my face, leaving nothing but stained cheeks.

inside me is a tidal wave.
or so it used to be, for it has made it's escape.
anger had spit through my mouth.
determination had sweat through my pores.
and sadness had glistened in my eyes.
but happiness, happiness shines through my core and warms the crevices of my heart. happiness warms the bones that were once broken and happiness soaks up the flood that had once consumed me.

inside me is the sun

Written when I was 18 and lost in a sea of possibilities.

#change #epiphany #emotions #resilience

D Baby Bey Jul 2018

Who told you you were evil?

It was only once i embraced the devil in me
that i realized he was never even there

#devil #sin #epiphany #whole

Chantal Jun 2018

Null reciprocal

To have an epiphany. To realize ‘wow, this is it.’
To see that not everyone has the same heart as you do. As humans, regardless of whether christian, Muslim, Jew or any other religion, we are predisposed to believe the idea that we should treat others the way we want to be treated and that by norms, if we are kind, we should expect kindness in return. But no one actually talks about how rarely, if ever, that happens. In life there is always a garden and a gardener but people haven’t learned yet to take turns and balance out that compliment. A gardener takes care of a garden for decades until one day, they turn frail and die. And the garden will either be tended to by another gardener or will wither away. The world is so full of harsh realities that are hidden. To say that there are only a few genuine people is completely and utterly wrong. For every person there are only a few genuine people. That is correct, so in that sense, yes there are only a few genuine people but in the world there are many of them. These genuine people become involved in a persons life one day and their intentions are undeniably pure. They give and give and give, and that’s the reason that every person only gets a few genuine people; no one realizes who the genuine people are around them, or if they do then they simply dont care enough to think, this person has only tried for me for so long, and I feel warmth in my heart because no one else tried like that.
-c.j.m

#life #friendship #epiphany #kindness #realization #love #unrequited

Larry Kotch Jun 2018

In you I see the fusion

I look outside my window and it becomes within.
natures are converging on my behalf,
they’ve been here, the nest, the walls!
They come to end old twos with enchanted grasses,
so that now brass and birds are equal to know,
they sing, in harmony, from far to near,
they constitute the new world that brought you here: My symbiotic woman and creature clear.
I’l stop shouting ‘****** place!’ and ‘fleshless trees...,’ thinking of exotic canopies,
such sublime notions have betrayed this locality, downplayed our bonds,
could have never set me free.

Today, many worlds have travelled from afar, looked up at me,
finally! Joined to make me see.

So I open the window and shout at you: The world is multinatural!
Uneven textures fill my spirit,
dualisms have stopped debating,
silenced by the mind’s web creating.

And in the middle of these new topographies, your face,
coming to a door, made of trees, horses, thoughts and economies.
All histories, cultures and natures here: She is a node of forces,
ambassador of the new continuum and this ecstatic feeling,
an affective vision of a singular healing.

#nature #naturalism #places #meaning #love #epiphany #affect

Ajey Pai K Jun 2018

Epiphany

I encountered a fading moment,
In the sparkling eyes of a lady.
The gamble to express my love,
At the behest of my feelings,
Was like the evanescing tail-
Of a nugatory shooting star;
Dead in the dead of the dark.

My verses whispered in the past,
In the dreams of a dead poet.
The effort to pen my thought,
At the beat of unusual events,
Was like awaiting for dreams-
In the purposeless slumber,
And the tumultuous din of day.

But your words are my symphonies-
And in your company is my epiphany.

For Peace. With Love.

#epiphany

Afia Jun 2018

Survival of the fittest

You say
that you're hurt.
That you seek
a fair choice.
Dear one,
even a flower wilts.
When the sun undresses it,
desperate for the maniacal love making;
and the bees **** the honey.
The petals turn dry
when the nectar leaves.
And so it rests on the ground.
Open and wasted;
thus enjoys an eternal sleep.

#love #war #peace #complain #mankind #epiphany #emotions #selfrealization #pain

Kaylee Lemire Jun 2018

En Route

I step into the mid-June semi-dark to place
his letter in the mailbox. I flip
the flag to attention, adjust
my polyester robe, open a slit
wider down my center, let the tepid,
lukewarm twilight graze
my nakedness beneath.
I recede up the driveway,
padding barefoot upon the still-warm asphalt, when
the resonant hum of the bikes on the bypass
behind the trees seems to
all at once
lay flush upon the parts
of me left bare, the flashbulb
fireflies too bright, too alive for
the nocturnal lull,
and I pause at the stoop;
After a breath I step
dazed into the hushed air-conditioning
of the foyer, starstruck and
overexposed.

#summer #evening #epiphany