#forwards poems on Hello Poetry

Broken Pieces Nov 2021

The Same

Read it forwards but it's all the same.
Read it backwards, give it a name,

Just go away.
They don't want to stay,

How could you believe they care?
Don't think that life is fair,

I'm tired of living in the past.
Turn the time, make life last

This isn't goodbye, I wish it was.
I want to be floating in the stars,

But life tends to be mean.
I want desperately to be seen.

~Read it backwards or forwards but it's kinda the same, not quite a palindrome, though the meaning is the same~

#same #backwards #forwards #life #poem #poetry #stars #name #seen #stay

Mark Toney Oct 2019

Sleep Aid

don’t get caught standing
you’ll fall backwards or forwards-
Ambien’s effect

#senryu #sleep #aid #ambien #fall #backwards #forwards

Amanda Kay Burke Sep 2019

Small And Sweet

Welcomed by Mother's well-meaning embrace
Touch tender as a trap could be
How could my poor mother know?
The path laid for her precious baby?

Naivety must have rendered her blind
To awful truths of this life
Pain is inevitable for everyone
No one escapes sorrow and strife

A happy bubble flourished years I was small
Raised a sweet girl who made her proud
Four members of a perfect family
Tucked in each night warm, safe, and sound.

Had riches beyond measure when I was young
I treated it like dirt
Ungrateful for blessings owned
I'd never experienced hurt

Time unwillungly thrusted me forwards
Stole innocent hours one by one
After that problems rushed swiftly in
Unappreciated happiness forever done

Heartbroken heaviness settled in my bones
Weight growing larger still as days go by
If mom had paused to really think her decision through
Would she have chosen to birth a daughter who would rather die?

Day three of the 30 day poetry challenge im trying to keep up with

Pick up the newrest book and flip to page 8. Use the first full ten words in a poem in any order and anywhere you like.

My words were: small sweet innocent tender young still unwillingly taken mother's baby

#30daypoetrychallenge #small #sweet #family #mom #parent #time #unwillingly #thrusted #forwards

Emma May 2019

Ambiguous Sightings (REVERSE POEM)

You know
It’s like a feat
It never stops or misses a beat
It’s like a feat
It’s like a dream
It takes you down an imaginative stream
It’s like a change
It surprises on what’ll be an exchange
It’s like a nightmare
It gives out a sickly red herring glare
It’s like a fall
It rushes out to a crying yet crackling call
It’s like a feat
It stops or throws out a defeat
It’s like a feat
You know

Another poem for my art project, a reverse poem. Read it forwards or backwards, though I prefer backwards.

#reverse #backwards #forwards #dream #nightmare #fall #defeat

Sketcher Nov 2018

Forwards Thinking vs. Backwards Thinking

I hate life,
The major lie that I'm dealing with now is,
That everything is fine,
Soon I began to realize,
Everything is falling apart,
And the following is not the truth:
I love life.

Read from top to bottom, then from bottom to top. These are hard to create. Sometimes I have those days where I think forwards and sometimes I have those days where I think backwards. Just depends...

#read #forwards #backwards #forward #backward #life #love #hate

Brandon Brazel Feb 2018

Shivering

These days are always chilly,
My temple is shivering frivolously,
These days are going so fast,
But maybe it’s because I’m stuck in the past.
Those days were filled with a smile,
But my brain puts those memories in a file,
Because nowadays,
I’m stuck in denial.

Stuff gets hard, look forward not backward, anatomy shows that Which way you face, you will walk that direction. Stay happy stay healthy, love you guys.

#depression #anxiety #ptsd #denial #past #future #forwards #backwards #memories #sappy

adira Feb 2018

onwards

world is demanding a never ending place were onward we must go

take no second thought onwards we must go

you are sweating ageing your back breaking but..onwards we must go

and for those who stop to think in this constant spinning circle

shall be flung aside forgotten.. onwards we must go

to the world you are just one of seven billion other men onward they will go

you are already a slave to this earth because onwards you must go

the world will always move onwards

with or without you

#forwards #earth #world #chaos #depression #onwards #demanding

Evelyn Rose Dec 2017

Onwards

I am ready to leave,
this nest of
m&s duvet covers,
The smell of pasta,
Fresh linen,
Striped carpet,
Laughter,
And candlewax.
This nest has kept me in its
Clutches.
Safe, warm
Like coffee in cold hands,
Surrounded by the scent of home
For 18 years.

Finally this bird
has fully extended wings
and
will fly
Onwards.

#leaving #home #onward #forwards

Diána Bósa Oct 2017

One Step Forward

We are heading toward the unknown morning,
ready to face with the heavy light of the world
only this livid silence embraces us now,
yet still, I do not fear to take one step forward
for I know there's no future forsaken
for I know I am going to happen by you.

#light #love #morning #together #true #uplifting #world #freeverse #step #forwards