#tide poems on Hello Poetry

annh Dec 2018

Flotsam

I am drowning,
I am returned.

In the flow,
On the ebbing tide.

I am drowning,
I am returned.

Wrong-shapened and unfamiliar to myself.
Overwhelmed as much by the experience, as by my release from it.
But ready, ever ready, for the next wave.
Which may sink me - what are the chances?
Which may settle me on soft, sun-dried sand further up the line.

What are the chances?

#flotsam #beach #tide #chances #life

Atlas Dec 2018

The tides

You are the moon and I am the ocean
You have this powerful magnetism that moves me
I am consumed by you
But you are too far away to notice how beautiful we can be
Together

#ocean #waves #tide #love #magnetism #powerful #lover #moon

julianna Nov 2018

Red Tide

Oh, when the pain comes rolling back in.
Like the red tide.

It kills.

Wow, the past few days/week have been bad.

#red #tide #**** #pain #anxiety #bad #days #hard

L Oct 2018

Hourglass

Im losing track of time again.

Lost in words, lost in my own head.

Theres so much to see, so much to do.

So little time.

And it slips from my grasp like how sand slips through the fingers of a clenched fist.

Theres no fighting the flow.
So why try.

Dont bother. Youre gunna end up getting swept away anyways. Deal.

"*******, its dark outside."

#deal #flow #water #tide #sand #beach #mental #head #thoughts #time

Morgan Mercury Jul 2014

The Savage One

Feel the tide.
I am the ship.
I am the captain.
The ocean is a savage
the way it pulls my body,
slinging me around like i'm weightless.
I will not surrender to this beast.
The waves mean nothing to me.
I've been fighting this savage ocean for a century.
100 years of getting carried away across these waters.
Isolation is my home.
It's all I know.
I brought this on myself.
I ran away from land and into the water,
unknowing of the horror it holds.
But I will not surrender
I am the ship.
I will not kiss the ocean goodnight.
I will not fight.
I will float on until the day comes I greet the sea.
My lungs will sting and my head will rush.
Leave my body in isolation.
Let it be a peace offering.
So the ocean wouldn't have to carry away another ship that day.

#tragedy #ship #ocean #savage #sea #body #tide #peace #isolation

Poetic T Sep 2018

Death Quotes #3

Life is just a grain falling
to an inevitable conclusion.

That is, every tide comes in and
drowns it.

#tide #conclusion #drowns #dearth

b Sep 2018

dr. nobody

dr. nobody knows everybody.
but nobody knows dr. nobody.
a chest for his secrets
a key for his spine.
he loves magic and crime.
a trick with a victim.

he knows you when you
walk in. he sees motive like
blood through a white shirt.
he is a doctor after all.
dont forget.

don’t dare lie to dr. nobody
he is lossless like time.
words are his muse and his
monument. the angle of
shoes like soup to the sick.
an off hand joke
like a blade on your tongue.

best waste no time,
just be honest to dr. nobody.
he can offer you remedy,
the perfect chain link
to keep the tiger in.

dr. nobody must be flawless,
wrong, he is nobody.
he will boil at below freezing.
he will wash with the tide.

and if you really need
dr. nobody then i pray
you can swim.
he is dead on the rocks.
he is bread on the floor.

#nobody #doctor #knows #motive #like #blood #flawless #tide #swim #bread