#poison poems on Hello Poetry

Aishwarya Kulkarni Mar 2021

the white moon and all the bright stars,
the bitter espresso and all the cold nights,
the unclear intimacy and all the prolonged talks,
the cozy sheet and all the free glimpses,
the hardest fall and all the vague hugs,
the heartfelt love and all the bad kisses,
the wild heart and all the improbable dreams,
the sacred trust and all the naked thoughts,
the correct intuition and all the wrong decisions,
the lost soul and all the hidden scars,
the slow poison and all the forgotten memories.
- Aishwarya Kulkarni

#moon #scars #cozy #memories #promises #poison

Thomas W Case Mar 2021

Deadly Nightshade

I was looking for tulips.
I found you, oleander,
deadly nightshade.
Nothing grows in the
darkness that you chose
to live in.
Had I known, I would have
left you to wilt and rot in the sun

#toxic #relationship #poison #plants #regret

helia Feb 2021

try me

baby i'm your poison
and you're my antidote
a taste almost divine
sinfully saccharine sweet

raise me from perdition
with your heavenly lips
kiss me til there’s nothing left
but marks blossoming red

let's let go for a while
don't be shy and come closer
i promise i won't bite
but i'd love it if you did

darling just wait and see
we were made for each other
i'd love to see how well
those hands fit around my neck

taste me, try me.
nov 2, 2020

#taste #try #poison #antidote #shady

Svetoslav Feb 2021

Nothing matters for poison

poisonous trash thrown
lives underwater suffer
wide bricks hold them in

Toxic Wastes
It's our responsibility as human beings to protect environment.
Syllable Count: 17 ~ lines 5/7/5 ~ 11 words
by Svetli

#bricks #haiku #poison #toxic #underwater

Static Heartbeats Feb 2021

Poison

Today the breath of life suffocates me
And the poison I poured
Makes me ask
If it is too much.

I feel a shadow in my head
That wants more
A craving
For a taste

Poison used for medicine
To heal by forgetting
And living in present
Without the burden of feeling

What an awful sensation:
The sense of touch;
After holding of another
Is learned,

The body never forgets,
And the only thing
That gives the senses in my skin
Amnesia of touching

Is the poison I pour,
But it’s never enough.

27 lines, 319 days left.

#unusannus #poison #alcoholic

Izzy Jan 2021

Cinnamon hearts & poison darts

Cinnamon hearts
And poison darts
No they don’t come with extra parts

I cry in tears of dreadful despair
Thoughts of candy apples danced through the air

I feel the pain on your finger tips
I see the sun and lunar eclipse

I’m blinded by the fact I’m here
I’m surprised I haven’t disappeared

Chocolate shakes
And body aches
Fill me up before I break

So take me away to the home of sweets
Dance of candy apples in the streets

Hope you enjoy!

#pain #lunar #eclipses #sad #poem #lonely #poison #darts #cinnamon #hearts

Cyrus Khounesavath Jan 2021

I'm afraid of plucking away at old memories

I'm afraid of plucking away at old memories.
They bite. It hurts.
And the more I remember,
The more I'm consumed.
Don't forget,
Poison remains poison.
The antidote is up to you.

#afraid #memories #memory #poison #antidote #thoughts #nostalgia #remember #hurt #sad

Evan Stephens Jan 2021

Milkweed

Pink supernovas
call monarchs to crawl;
poison milk drops from
broken green breast.
Fields flicker with rivers
of afternoon latex.
O fluent wound,
this is a poor man's Lethe.
There are better ways
to forget what happened
than the annihilating
milkweed cripples.

#milkweed #latex #monarchbutterfly #poison #hurt #escape