#sweat poems on Hello Poetry

william robert roy Mar 2018

a scene

Sweat dripping down your face,

Muscles lifting me up from my waist:

I believe I can really touch the sky.

-WRR

#love #sky #young #youth #heart #feelings #sweat

DracoTalpus Mar 2018

No Sweat

Phileas Fogg,
On a brigantine sledge,
Braved the Omaha wind
As it twirled.
So, Jules Verne might say
That a full eighty days
Is plenty to travel the world.

Amelia Earhart
Crossed the sea –
The quickliest feat
…For a girl –
In twelve hundred forty
Short minutes, you know:
Others failed, but gave it a whirl.

Rosemary Doyle,
Our wonderful mum,
Exceeded these
Feats of grand scale!
She has crossed oceans faster,
Breezed over Great Plains,
And – without perspiration – prevailed!

Carefully, casually,
She raised five kids:
‘Neath our burden
She never collapsed.
Loving and giving
Us lives we are living.
Have there – really – eight decades elapsed?

Octogenarian?
Silliest word:
It sounds like
A sea creature’s vet,
But if you want true fun,
Then just orbit the sun
Eighty times, like our mom: It’s no sweat!

© 2Mar2018 DracoTalpus
For Rosemary N. Doyle
On the occasion of her 80th birthday

I love you, Mom. Thank you for creating me. Thank you for including me in your family. Thank you for loving me right back! <3 :D

#love #mother #mom #birthday #family #80 #octogenarian #decade #sweat

Bee Feb 2018

Death Valley

It was 9 a.m. and already 95 degrees.
I wished for a pool of ice but
instead I swam in a shirt drenched with sweat.
This was my first summer here.

At 10 a.m. I realized this drought,
this cracking, dry, unwarrantable heat,
might burn away the doorway hiding
away any signs of forgiveness.

11 a.m. lulled by,
heart beating dizzily in sync with the
fan spraying my skin with sickly sweet stale air,
habitually smothering my body’s hasty pulse.

At noon
I knew I couldn’t linger any longer.
Detrimental integrity leading a rope to
the next state over.

One o’clock came and
for just a second, there was fresh air,
or so I thought. Maybe You are what
made up that canopy’s cover.

I couldn’t wait until two, there’s always
some reason to stay. Time to make due
and evaporate like sugar dissolving in the cracks
of the asphalt burning our toes.

#hot #heat #pool #time #sugar #air #burn #morning #sweat #summer

Kartikeya Jain Feb 2018

Perfume

Dripping
from the neck
to your collarbones
the sweat on your skin
meets your musky perfume
and leaves a scent
which makes my heart
run like a mad man.

#perfume #neck #sweat #skin #scent #madman #heart

jess Feb 2018

promise

i promised him i'd write him something
not for him
more for me

i dont wish to have all my thoughts be about another
i want more positivity

i want to write about him
i need to

i want to try and put into words all the emotions that are being pushed towards me

soft
gentle
calm
collected

you make me feel a way no other has made me feel before
i feel enlightened that you love me as much as i do you

beautiful
sweet
serious
control

i trust you with everything
no moment is dull and no second is anxious

breathe
gasp
sweat
love

your hands running along my body feel like silk gliding past me
you don't leave one inch un touched

lovely
honest
loyal

i love him, he has my heart and he's put it on a pedestal
he sees my flaws and kisses the scars

caring
confident

he fills my head with thoughts of bliss
i feel at home inside his arms

safe

i cannot tell if we will last but lord knows i hope we will
hes changed my life

im writing this about him

he is mine and i feel a sense of accomplishment because of this
he is mine and i cannot see it being any other way

yes we write songs, say sweet nothings and make gestures
yes we make mistakes,
but we are human

i believe we will make it.

i love him.
-j.p.

-for my love, my rock, my world. james.

#love #boyfriend #sweet #honest #lovely #world #writing #promise #soft #sweat

Jake B Feb 2018

idiot intellect

I'm an idiot.
At least i'm smart enough to know so.

#idiot #drunk #stupid #ramble #short #sweat

Jake B Feb 2018

anonymously omnipotent

If I had created the universe I would make sure no one knew it was me.

#god #creation #short #sweat