#reality poems on Hello Poetry

ajasco Mar 20

do i have enemies?
yes, the passage of time
the wilting of flowers
the ending of a perfect day.

#emotional #daunting #reality

Arii Mar 19

I
can’t
Tell.  if
The      sky
Above       Is real

Or not          Quite there

Quite near                            Enough
To hold                                                   The stars
In the                                                                             Palm of
My hand                                                                                         And be
So glad                                                                         That I
Can see                                             The light
That shines         All through

The night.       Will it

Go out? Will it?

Will      it?

Go
out?

#stars #sky #reality #dream #darkness #light #shining #twinkling

Abbott J Hardison Mar 18

I Knew It!

I knew it!
I knew it wasn't real,
I knew the echoes of this place,
Were just misleading hooks in my face.
Look at all these people, real,
I swear they aren't simple clones,
Or were they all along?

Leave it in the past

#knowledge #echoes #hooks #reality #people #lies

greatsloth Mar 18

Bound by Words

You see words the same way I do,
With eyes that glow in yearning,
With heart bursting at the seams—
My comrade, you are.

We traverse these dimensions
Of black and white,
Where the smell of papers
Lingers into our lives.

Each smile is a memory,
A dream or an adventure;
We have bonds beyond reality
More precious than any treasure.

It is carved deep into our marrow,
Identical to the myths that we hallow,
The moment you read any prose,
Fate binds us as fellows.

Your mind and my mind
Like God's hands they intertwined,
Creating myriads of realities
That only we could realize.

Made for the AB month of our college.

#bound #comrade #words #reality #fellow #prose #treasure #adventure

Zywa Mar 18

[ Waking up, lightly ]

Waking up, lightly

balancing between repose --

and my brand new day.

Composition "Fragile Balance" (2014, Jürg Frey), for ensemble and piano, performed on four saxophones by the Amstel Quartet in the Organpark on March 8th, 2025

Collection "org anp ARK" #99

#consciousness #dawn #wakingup #reality

Abbott J Hardison Mar 16

These Meds

I hate this pill,
I hate these meds,
"Don't forget! Don't forget!!"
If you don't take them,
You're a disgrace to this earth,
Such a terrible person you are a scar on this earth.
But if you remember, like you can never,
That capsule will absorb all feeling.
It's not my heart that doesn't work,
It's these stupid medicine measurements.
Why do I have to either go through hell,
Or put everyone I love through it.
How is that fair?
I guess it's not.
Life *****, but I don't want it to end,
I'm still waiting to feel reality,
When does this wear off?
Will I ever stop being an actor,

And just be me?

Meds never work in the way they sell them to

#meds #sadness #metal #reality #feelings

Dr YumnaKay Mar 15

Illusions

I love illusions.
Of places I've never been to.
Of situations that might never get real.
And of people who're not the same anymore.

I must be hallucinating.

#love #illusion #reality

Carlo C Gomez Mar 15

Phantom Limb

~
I'm an exit wound
I'm a numinous obstacle
I'm about to make landfall
I'm about to break free

I'm a nerve ender
A fascinator
A purifier
A world populator
And I'm about to break through

I'm the push and pull
I'm a counter argument
I'm dissonance resistance
I'm viral replication
I'm about to break out

I'm a singularity
I'm a spark
I'm the perfect detonator
To mind and heart
And I'm about to break up

I'm a simulacra
I'm an oscillation
Made of breath only
I'm a living, moving imprint
Of what no longer is
Yet somehow seems to be
~

#syndrome #sensations #reality #society #analogy #metaphor