#normal poems on Hello Poetry

Emery Feine Sep 29

#57

Oh, I could drown in the air
Suffocate in the seas
I could float in the waterfall
Or fall in the breeze

Oh, I could freeze from the blazing sun
Burn from the coldness of a heart
I could stand on the whole universe
Or on each grain of sand's part

Oh, I could materialize anywhere
Or disappear for good
I've tried to do everything, normal or strange
But I could still never be understood.

this is my 57th poem, obviously, written on 11/27/23.

#normal #strange #wishing #longing #hoping #understood #desperation

Zywa Jul 25

[ The day starts okay ]

The day starts okay,

normal, like yesterday, just --

slightly different.

Science fiction novel "Grimus" (1975, Salman Rushdie - A Simurg(h) ['Thirty birds'] is a Persian legendary creature, an omniscient bird, symbol for someone's world of thought), part 1 Times Present, chapter 2

Collection "Low gear"

#order #normal #day #newday

Zywa May 26

[ Everything normal ]

Everything normal:

the queen size beds, the TV --

and the pizza box.

American motel
Novel "Quichotte" (2019, Salman Rushdie), part 2, chapter 9

Collection "Low gear"

#normal #american #culture #traveling

Thomas Harvey May 8

Sunny Day's

When life gets hard
He begins to smile
For he knows, you can’t cook without lard
And he’d rather walk home then walk a mile

When sunny days disappear
He folds his umbrella away
And follows up, with an afternoon beer
For even the rain doesn’t get in his way

For when he’s fired and put out on the street
He walks up town to buy a car
And then a house for somewhere to sleep
Later he even goes to the bar

Once he was struck by lightening
Then hit by a bus
You know what he said was more frightening
Being in the hospital and seeing all of us

A man who stands his ground
Whose determination knows no bounds
A man that’s been found
And also, a man that should be crowned

#irony #life #hope #normal #story

Jeremy Betts Mar 23

~•§•~ Undefinable ~•§•~

What I wouldn't give to be normal
Well,
Let's be real,
I know nothing about normal
Is there an actual definition that could be written in a way to make it simple?
I've tried to define it but I don't think it's possible
Forcing this to be rhetorical
But here we go,
What is normal?
All I've been able to conclude is it's normal to question what's normal
Other than that though,
It may be undefinable

©2024

#giving #normal #questions #definitions #unknown #impossible #help

Zywa Feb 4

[ Wouldn't you feel sorry ]

Wouldn't you feel sorry

for normal people who cling --

to being normal?

Novella "De grote wereld" ("The upper world", 2006, Arthur Japin), § 1

Collection "Appearances"

#people #normal

Jeremy Betts Feb 2018

~•§•~ Frankenstein's Monster ~•§•~

No place for me to fit in, sometimes not even my own skin
The 65th crayon on the floor next to the 64 count special edition tin
The two dollar DVD bin is even out of reach, at a loss as to where else to begin
I guess it's back to the drawing board to start over once again
Not a chance of bein' normal as an outcasted heathen
But that's never been a why for me, to fit in is not a win
I've been sittin' in this same place like a mannikin with a phoney grin
A clothespin holdin' together the fabric of my being with such discipline
But a strong gust of wind tears through like blowing your nose into a cheap napkin

Patched together like a quilt of sin read like a story board of which I'm a star in
Stitched together by not giving in, givin' it all I can, taking every shot to the chin
But life's not getting the win by KO or even by decision
I'm gonna need to be taken out the ring on a stretcher with blue skin
But the goal isn't really to win but to survive this doomed zeppelin
I start thinking maybe I can take this aggression and passion and turn it in...
...to a winnin' combination and spread it through the nation
Empower an entire generation, awaken an entire population

But all they'll see is Frankenstein's monster

©2018

#loss #start #normal #outcast #heathen #win #discipline #tears #aggression #monster

Malia Jun 2023

cry without laughing

i don’t want to be sad.

but for once, i wanna cry without laughing.

i don’t know why it’s so hard to simply cry

like a normal person.

if i’m gonna hurt, i’d rather hurt

the way most people do.

so, brain, you better be taking notes.

Anyone know how to upload a pfp? I tried to do that, and it was the right size, but it just won’t load. It’ll begin to load, and then just stay there. I quit after an hour or so.

#cry #normal

Zywa Dec 2022

[ Think of the office ]

Think of the office

as a madhouse, then the rest --

is pretty normal.

"Het Bureau - Plankton" ("The Office - Plankton", 1997, Han Voskuil)

Collection "Not too bad [1974-1989]"

#office #job #valuesandstandards #standard #normal

Panda Boy Apr 2022

Take The Day Off

The people in the venues,
Having meetings and conferences.
they mix like a dry salad
drenched in vagueness and normality

it is
okay
to not be there
and feel not happy
but not sad
just not there

it is alright
in the sense that you do not hide
pains or fears
But when business is about,
You can't run.

so go ahead and stop
let these conflicts settle
and fall into dreams
escape momentarily
For now.

#normal #happy #sad #hide #dreams