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Jon Hanlan Aug 2019
For some forgotten seafarer
On a flaccid wreck somewhere
I, too, am lost and shattered
We’re both stranded, the hard concrete
Made for our searching: in spite of all
Silver crown, dubbed beauty
We searched, through the frenetic infrastructure
Long-distance romance, fingertip pounce
The cobwebs that lay huddled
Was it you, to become me?
Flew west to build a nest
In the forests they’ll find me
Wave goodbye to all you know
A new face, on this painted white landscape
Tiny miracles elusively overfull
Ecstatic flight and fresh linens
Beckon, home awaits
Daisy inquiries
Of eternal youth and temperate vigour
And sometimes,

she wishes that she'd finally be enough for someone.
But I'm not, and I guess that's the problem... isn't it?
Dana Aug 2019
Whispering to the candles,
Sat upon my birthday dishes.
A thousand shiny pennies,
An army of well wishes.
Clock reads two elevens,
So I prayed again,
to the heavens.

I closed my eyes,
I took a breath,
Laid my eager head,
Down on your chest
Is it fate?
or the falling stars?
Thought to myself,
As I traced your scars.
I wished for you,
Before I knew your name.
I had called it happiness,
but you are one in the same.
Havent written anything in awhile! What do you guys think? I've been writing poetry for less than a year so suggestions are always good!
Zywa Aug 2019
I live healthily

because I want to be more –


than just my body.
"Epistulae morales ad Lucilium" ("Letters about ethics to Lucilius", AD 65, Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Collection "Known"
lenora lovegood Jul 2019
It's not what my friends all say
I don't need to be what they need -
I've overcome that particular fear
I'm only tired now and left with
this longing
it's like a mountain hyway
or a horizon moving sideways
as I glide in a boundless ferry

The longing is some long distance
I see reeling on
an idea towards an end
I vaguely put together from memory

I see it traveling in echoes,
sound's shadows
carrying on
like their only mission
for the rest of my life
is to for them to carry on
Poet X Jun 2019
i used to think it was a pathetic thing,
to be scared of dying .
then the universe gave me you
and i never wished to be more alive .
thank you, universe
amber Jun 2019
i am drowning in a pitch black sea:
gasping for air,
and swallowing water.
my throat stings,
as i claw at the liquid,
finding nothing to hold onto.

the water reflects the beam,
from a lighthouse.

i scream out:
to the light;
i scream out:
to you.

but it never finds me,
and neither do you.
Jac May 2019
we should move
to the castle
on the hill above

we could spend our moons
singing songs so sweet
while watching those
beneath us

we would find the light
between the clouds
while the wind brings forth
a violet like perfume
dozing us into our dreams
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