#thorns poems on Hello Poetry

Scaevola Lisianthus Jun 2018

I know someone who loves to look at her reflection,
Thinking about her own inception.
She has wounds and scars of her past,
Which she knows will never last.

She cries, wanting to be saved from those thorns in her reflection.
Thorns that deepens in her skin from sharpness.
She looked again in the mirror and realized,
It's just me standing there with the familiar darkness.

I had no idea what to write so....yeah. Well, I tried my best. It's a dark poem.

#mirror #thorns #dark

Lemonade May 2017

Roses.

Maybe there was a time,
when roses had no thorns.
Just like we did before.
Now, we guard ourselves,
just like the roses do.

#life #roses #thorns #rose #broken #hurt #live

Sally A Bayan May 2018

Rose Garden

Nothing...had enchanted me more,
than that big yellow rose...
bright, stunning at the tip of its tall stem,
soft petals.....yet to fully unfurl,
its inner part...a soothing light shaded swirl...
i sniffed a bit of its fragrance,
and felt its softness...but,
i got pricked by a hidden thorn,
---
just a tiny puncture...yet,
my finger bled so much...
---
i walked on through the garden,
...with my pricked finger inside my mouth,
i was amazed by other flowers, more colorful ones,
but, the yellow, pink, red roses outshone them all...
with care this time, i touched a big pink,
slowly.........and, again, i didn't see,
another thorn was in the way
---
it was more painful
it bled even more...
---
i stood thinking, while bleeding...
its beauty, its silky feel...its
fragrance that lingers in the mind
would all be difficult to resist,
the pain from the thorns...harder to forget,
but, i'd still want to walk through this vast
garden....live this life...and seek those roses
feel them...be inspired...over and over
---
never mind the spikes!
never mind the pain!
---
love is beautiful like a rose
a rose is beautiful like genuine love,
there are thorns...hindrances and
hurdles, that come with its beauty....yet,
that wonderful feeling of loving,
and being loved, in return,
the wanting, the longing for it,
never dies...the fear of bleeding,
is ignored,
---
for, what is life without love?
and what is love without pain?
---
isn't love lovelier...more hopeful
the next time around?
---
a rose could never be a rose
without its many thorns...
---

Sally

©Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
April 11, 2018

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MOTHERS!!!

#punctured #thorns #bleeding #life #yellowpinkred #rosegarden

Liam Hunter May 2018

Thorns

Lay me down
On a bed
of headless roses,

So that the thorns
Will hold me tight,
and never let me go.

#love #roses #thorns #pain #sleep #death

Devin Ortiz Apr 2018

Petals, Pens and Pain

The hand rose petals of ripe red.
A fast bloom of rotten revenge,
Stemmed only from gnarled thorns.
Sage runs strong into crimson.

Reaping, what is sewn or shown.
This paradoxical thought has flowered.
Was it first the pain or was it desire.
Trim the fray or overgrow in vain.

Suckle little roots, undying doom
Eternity's flora in the poet's stalk
Blood cursed words, ancient fret.
The seed of grudge is the heart's regret.

#regret #rose #red #thorns #pain #desire #poet

alexa Apr 2018

a poet’s promise

i promise to make pain look beautiful,
i will make you wish for thorns instead of roses
just so you can feel my ebony words,
just so you can choke on the bitter truth
for a while.
i promise to paint love as the most beautiful sunset you’ve ever seen,
i will make you give everything
to have a world of your very own.
i promise to hold a permanent spot in your mind,
trail through your thoughts like music notes,
feelings so overwhelming you can’t breathe.
i promise to have you scribbling lines on any surface you can get your hands on,
post-its and notebook pages and tree bark
and your ex-lover’s lips.
i will make you ******* words, cloyingly
sweet with an acrid aftertaste once you realize
”oh, he’s not actually hers.”
i promise
to make you feel something.

#promise #poetry #feel #love #thorns #pain #beautiful #poets

Danielle Apr 2018

Red Flower

I’ll stand,
an awkward flower amidst your thorns
Perhaps a touch battered;
Most definitely worn.
Red and invoking dreams-
I’ll stand.

Another one of those poems were it was written about a friend, but the tables have turned and I'm the one standing now,

#rose #thorns #red #dreams

Danielle Apr 2018

Fairytale

I’ll sing you lullabies
Of sticky toffee
And Fairy’s wings.
Falling stars to taste.
Whispered rhymes,
My soul to take.
Rosy thorns that grew
Into golden thread
And tied, my heart to you.

Oh the sweet start of a relationship. Not that I'm particularly in the mood to write such things, but sharing them is probably a good thing,

#lullabies #toffee #fairy #rose #thorns #golden #heart

Kartikeya Jain Apr 2018

Do not settle for the thorns

you deserve love
served on a
bed of roses,
do not, I repeat,
do not
settle for the thorns.

#roses #love #thorns #poetry