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Sandy 1h
Every Morning,when I rise, I do make sure
there’s nothing in my mind
nothing in my body
and nothing in my soul
as if I am a bottomless whole
as if I am a fresh born baby

Then I make sure,whatever work I am going to do
In the day
Will improve my mind,body or soul or
Somebody’s other body, mind or soul
And if my work is neither doing anything I said above
Then I am a useless monster just passing my time for sure

And when I have done the improvement work
Then every night, when I sleep
I feel mind like heaven
Feel my soul dancing
Feel my body energetic

And  if I have done no improvement work
Then I feel no difference between
Rising and sleeping.
I was a bottomless whole and still
Have achieved no goal.

Now you decide o people!!
Whether you want difference in your rise and sleep
Or you just want similarity
And remaining at the bottom of heap.

Choice is yours o people!!
Options are mine
I suggest you  to chose the improvement option
As it will take you to the cloud nine.

And then every morning, when I rise.
I do make sure……
I do make sure……
Straight from the old  diary
Cadmus 1d
🐺

The more I understand man
and what he’s capable of…

the more I am convinced
the wolf was framed

and Little Red
wrote the story.

🧣🧣
Interpretations are often shaped by those who survive to tell the tale. Sometimes, the villain is just the one without a voice.
You were there again-
just past the gate,
where the light never quite reaches.

No words.
Just the shape of you
holding something too heavy to name.

You looked at me,
through the distance,
like I was supposed to understand,
like this was always going to end like this.
That it was what love could never save.

And then
the sound.
Sharp. Final.

I didn’t move.
I just watched the world turn red,
in the place where you stood.

You had made it a performance.
A confession, meant for my eyes only.

You didn’t even ask for forgiveness.
You made yourself unforgettable.

I woke up choking on air
like it had been your name.
And ever since,
i have carried that moment.
Dreams.. nightmares….
I opened that notebook again,
After ages I picked my pen.
Pressed strength on my wrist,
Gave my hand a gentle twist.

Scribbling through, I went on
In the world where ink lace spun.
But it was different from what I knew,
This ink was of a different hue.

And I flipped the pages back
A glimpse of me in the ink stained rack
The letters were bolder, deeper even
They held power higher than I now sustain.

And so I closed my notebook again,
It's ink wasn't in my own pen.
And I closed the lid once more
Let it sit where it was, before.
The ink wasn't mine to use,
It wrote a story where I couldn't fuse
Tell me a beautiful story, but just for tonight, please don't punish me with the truth...

-Rhia Clay
I wear a paper crown and a blanket as a robe

I bare my big front teeth with a grin

My voice echoes when I roar

My feet stomp carelessly, shaking the floor


I am not a king, possibly a prince?

I am wild and unruly and untamed

I am loud and rude and mean

Yet my fur is soft and my heart is clean


I am Max - or Maxine

King - or prince

of the Wild Things
Tobi 7d
His men still,
All at arms,
Young of age
Not readied for all harm.

"Fire the artillery,
Send for the Calvary,
Get them there,
Hold the line!

Die not for yourself,
A simple trade:
Life for eternal glory,
No soul is wasted,
In these fields of death"

He watches, he waits
He thinks, he stumbles
All in vain
As his plans fall the drain

"What now?" they say,
All is lost, none stand,
Great autumn orchids
Stained red
With youthful pride and vigor,
Gone for a pointless dream.

Guiding hand
To earnest and certain doom,
He sits on a throne of corpses,
Wasted genius, wasted effort,
All for naught, all far gone.

Tactician, intellectual,
Butcher, fool
Hero, Angel,
Villain, Devil,
A man of no equal,
A man of all folly,

A leader and a killer,
A man , in his hands
The hopes of nations
And empires,
A man with no where to go,
"There's nothing we can do.",
He says at last,
"Here's my Waterloo ; all is lost.".

As he stands in surrender,
Both flawless general
And flawed man.
I was running as fast as I could as I heard those siren sounds
Blood is still leaking with every step of my way
My heart is racing, my tears are falling
My mind is blank as I stare at the wall in front of me
"I'm sorry, I have to save myself", words you uttered before you hand me the knife.
I still remember the pain in her eyes as the sharp-edged knife went in and out of her.
I can't blame him; he saw her naked with another man.
Perfect alibi! I went inside the policeman's car, smiling.
Love goes beyond what mind can think
Kara Palais May 23
In a town where gulls call over foam kissed stone,
Where sea salt grief clings to wood and bone,
Stood a hotel twenty three rooms small
A place where secrets crawled the walls.

It’s wallpaper was floral and faded red,
While whispers rose up from the unmade bed.
The year was nineteen forty seven
And she’d never know he was on his way with a vengeance

He wore a hat pulled low to hide
Eyes like storms, deep and wide.
Her name was still a song he wept
A curse he caressed a prayer half said

His love had been a ship at war
Cannons blazing towards the shore,
But her leaving? That was the gale
A wind so cruel it split his sail.

Hatred now was fuel to flame,
Drinking down whiskey
And forgetting his shame.

He climbed the stairs with measured tread
Knowing the ninth room housed her lover’s bed.
Opening the door was like splitting a scar
Inside lingered her perfume, the sounds of light jazz, the scent of cigars.

“Don’t” she cried out, but he did not hear.
The sound of revenge pounding in his ears
He pulled the steel from a coat lined dark
A love burned hand, a flint struck spark.

One shot - like thunder cracked in two,
She fell like a wave the sea once knew
The floorboards wept where she now slept
Where evil came to lay her to rest.

He left her there eyes full of dread
Hate on his lips and blood on the bed.
A man who loved like storms love the coasts
Broken down by revenge is now haunted by her ghost.
Steve Page May 22
Your songs sweeten this bitter passing
Rudder me through to calmer waters.

Your words secure my departing
Restore my shredded sails
For this last crossing.

But first let me stay a story longer,
Tell me a tale from our voyages together:
Of past storms soothed,
Of old foes bested.

And so ready me to weather this course
To its end.
sometimes i come across a poem I've written (this time from 2017) and I'm almost convinced I must have copied it down from another poet.  But I cannot find this despite my best google-jitsu. I've concluded this did indeed come from my pen.
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