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Eleanor Rigby Nov 2016
Big loud words,
Never heard.


-Watercolour
Jules Nov 2016
everything’s been a little cut-deep lately,
heart-pound lately,
teach me
how not to feel
for once.
this isn’t the first time, y'see,
that my heart wears me down,
lungs a little too full.
d'you know the feeling?
but—teach me how not to.
how not to feel every quake of every bone,
every pulse of every vein,
let it fade into background noise because god,
only thing louder than the entire world is my own **** self.
exhausting.
either teach me how to make it hush
or lay me down
to sleep.
i don't know, myself. so just breathe through it, like always
E Copeland Oct 2016
“I would compare falling out of love more to coming home from war. It is a slow process, but then suddenly it is gone. You prepare for months and weeks to return from war. The days seem to drag. And then you’re home and you have no idea what to do with yourself. You can spend forever fighting with the one you love, trying to make them stay, trying to remind them who they were, but then suddenly it’s over and they’re gone. And akin to loud noises seeming like gunshots, people’s voices sound too much like theirs and certain songs sound like them coming home. It is hell. And I’m not sure it ever goes away. Maybe you drown out the similar voices and you learn new songs, but one day you hear a gunshot ring out, and you’re back where you started.”
Excerpt from a book I hope I finish #1
Zackary Hayford Oct 2016
Young hungry people
Grab hold the first sight that they see,

For what's present is plastic, you bought the rough piece,

Starve,  keep starving
Misery shapes the soul,

Somethin'a callin but, I don't know
I dug and dwell my little hole

Keep quiet, keep quiet, shh

Don't need anyone to know.
elizabeth Oct 2016
The radio is so loud;
My father's voice sounds
Like thunder.
The car is too squeaky;
The cat meowing sounds
Like an obnoxious alarm.
My own thoughts are too noisy;
My voice sounds
Like waves pounding on the shore.
It's like someone turned my
Sensitivity levels all the way up;
Like some form of torture.
October 21, 2016
When the Earth ceased its motion
The volume muted the commotion
It all was pain and suffering until
The day the earth stood still
xmxrgxncy Oct 2016
My poetry voice
can sing like a bird
and drone like the chorus
that no one has heard

My poetry voice
can howl like a wolf
and moan like the windsets
that brush just off  the gulf.

My poetry voice
can scream like the lost
and make a new mark
to be fervently embossed.

My poetry voice
can whisper like ghosts
and fade into darkness
like those we love most.

My poetry voice
can silence like  the grave
and mourn all the losses
I've not written today.
wanted to rhyme, and this turned out really ******. Yay.
Tehreem Sep 2016
I heard you say it loud again
You never called my name
All the voices in my head
Love you and curse the pain
Nothing is wrong with my heart
It is addicted to unrequited love
You can't give me the dream
They say you are not mine
Ruins and ashes.
Jules Sep 2016
I’M SORRY,
BUT WE ARE A HOARD OF HEAVY HEARTS,
A LITTLE LOST,
A LITTLE SHAKY—
A LITTLE BREAKING.
CAN’T YOU SEE IT,
ALL THE STARS FALLING FROM THE SKIES,
LANDING NOWHERE TO BE SEEN;
AND YOU ARE LEAVING
AND I AM LONG GONE
AND I HAVE NO POETRY LEFT BUT TO SAY

THAT THERE IS NO MAGIC IN THIS ANYMORE.
and i ache for you already
and this house is ever so empty
without you here
Idiosyncrasy Sep 2016
There are times when I'm with you
That my heart beats so loud
I stop and wonder
If you ever hear it too.
Give it TIME./m/
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