#articulate
Eye to eye with a two faced mirror
Stern threats stated towards this duplicate I see
"I'm warning you, don't make me come in there,
You know you don't like it when we're angry"
Though, my mind and I both know I know better
Fully aware I don't have a victory on it's territory
A half baked example of what makes a quitter
There's a lose on every flipped page of my story
©2024
Aug 7, 2024
Aug 7, 2024 at 1:11 PM UTC
through salty hazy eyelids
there is a passage of time.
high-rise buildings towering over
yet no surfaces of words appear soft
on my uneven teeth.
have there a remedy for this banal wording
or for this dread?
come to my wedding
the nonexistent death of my nonexistent cowardly heart.
there will be no groom,
just empty pews and the priest who will mourn for me.
foggy windowsills with a disillusioned soul inside.
good poetry shouldn’t have more than one metaphor
i shove them all in just for good measure
and that’s selfish.
aren’t we all just living hedonistic existences?
all bound to chains and fire breathing dragons
all firm in our decisions to remain exactly who we are
but i don’t want to be who i am
and i cannot articulate that any better.
Oct 22, 2023
Oct 22, 2023 at 6:57 PM UTC
I miss you in ways I'm still learning to articulate
like maybe the sea misses it's purity
or your sweater misses the way my shoulders held it
the grass misses the sun's light when night falls
and in the same way the dirt on the ground wonders if it will ever feel warmth again
I miss you as though you're never coming back
Apr 12, 2020
Apr 12, 2020 at 5:33 PM UTC
_Neither to imagine inarticulately the moon,
Nor to articulate unimaginatively the sun,
But to scan the celestial sphere for sublime inspiration: the poet._
Sep 8, 2019
Sep 8, 2019 at 4:42 PM UTC
Yearning
to be something i'm not
to be someone i'm not
Artistic
what does that mean
does it mean I can articulate my feelings
beautifully
does it mean I can sing
or dance
or rhyme
or cry
or read
or breathe
or love
beautifully?
I don't think I can
how sad
that i'm not artistic
how sad
Nov 17, 2018
Nov 17, 2018 at 10:23 PM UTC
I can't cope when my
page stares at me
White, soft and gentle
Empty, dull, lifeless
And the burden to fill it
becomes so heavy
My quill in the inkpot
Pen and pencils, unused
And I feel so flustered
when I am unable to
tell my truth
Words I think wither
Creative juices dry
My mind becomes a
disastrous chorus line
And I feel so trapped,
unable to talk with
my pen
I'm taken back to the
days where my soul
was heavy with pain
That pain was soothed
when I stained my page
with words because now
I had a medium and I
could go forth, confident
and free
When I stare at the canvas
I remember that little girl
who found a way to be
seen and still be unseen
That's the feeling I have,
was born with, that gives
me so much comfort
I can protect myself and
guard myself from how
the world wants girls to
be seen and how I don't
fit the mold
I find I feel more at peace
to be part of that world
that draws it breath
from the words
on my tongue
drawn onto the
canvas by my
right hand
But the words, I find hard
to pour on the page in new
verses. The page that is
empty and free, is
somehow grinning
at my misery
Jun 19, 2018
Jun 19, 2018 at 10:13 AM UTC
Endless void of articulate delusions and vicious delirious,
Dark thoughts fills crippled lungs;
Calling, screaming, find the truth,
To society shadow, the putrefied soul.
Wicked mind, weeping life,
Monstrous thoughts, haunt the mind,
Depression, misery, sees me right,
In this depraved time we call night.
Nefarious illusions of weak land;
Weep, beg, for the execution of men;
This articulate delusions hold the hand,
Of the black torch of burned plans.
The archetype of flawless man,
See the day of the mystic shine,
Created by love of bright schemes,
And Annihilated by the thought of wicked minds.
Such Reapers haunt the barren lands,
In search for one, true light;
Mist riddled, hidden in sight,
It transforms the mind to unparalleled cry.
Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 8:48 AM UTC
Like so many of us, surrounded by binaries and cold concrete,
he finds it hard to say what he feels, and I found it hard
to understand, for a while, that he loved me just as I did him,
when he never vocalised his feelings completely, and I did.
It took me some time to realise he shows them instead, and maybe
that is all the more eloquent than anything I could ever
materialise on a piece of paper filled with smeared ink.
His love manifests itself in lingering gazes and the lightest touch,
in private smiles and the softening of his eyes when I laugh.
Like a child resorts to pointing at things they cannot name,
he ends up holding close what he cannot verbalise he needs.
- “You make me happy,” I tell him. He looks vulnerable and smiles. c.s.
Apr 7, 2017
Apr 7, 2017 at 9:17 AM UTC
i pray for silence.
a quiet moment from the storm.
my mind possesed by unwritten lines
burdened by the weight of life.
i am unable to feel
beyond the thunder and trashing
of my own mind.
slowly losing myself.
chaos breeding inside my head
of words that are slowly dying.
my battle has always been
between overwhelming thoughts
accompanied by poems,
versus... not feeling anything at all
with pages left blank.
i prefer either the scorching passion
or the cold numbness.
this is much worse!
with each thought not articulated,
i'm missing pieces of myself;
which i can only find
in the calmness of writing.
Oct 4, 2016
Oct 4, 2016 at 5:08 PM UTC
Pretentious prize life unwinding splendid endurants
Licentious Khidr illuminates in it neo verse lee
Like In tro vert eyes knott the sea spontaneously
Nature deceives one apple a time returned
When life giveth to empty pleas neatly
Even when don't make sense literally
Follow where poets pout analogy
About How the needy are poorly
Helped up off their knees and
Why wholesome matrimony
Is a holy introvert baldly
Hungry unquestioningly
Aug 26, 2016
Aug 26, 2016 at 12:37 AM UTC
Each passing time my will to create with words depart from my impulse,
The drive and want and passion lost by crippled sense of inner flames.
Do you see the dreams blurr the skies of blue to grey,
As crimson and hues of purple interplay in the celestrial plain.
From the time of land parted from the skies zenith ago
And further more the time garden of Eden let Lilith go!
It's a place of Queens and Kings with wings,
while ladies and maiden play among the swings.
With stone and lands with rocks shaped into castle,
All those creation crumbled to dust to ashes blown by the wind.
Such illustration created by sleeping illusion eludes interpretation,
As time elapse our minds will shut to collaspe with no variables.
As the strand of hair turn black to white with forgotten songs,
One can lose all of their imagination and can only surrender to sleep.
Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 11:06 PM UTC
being alone isn't always lonely and being happy doesn't always mean with you. sometimes the thudding of my heart is more comforting than your voice and sometimes you never find the other half to make you whole.
there are edges and lines, curves and lies, too intricate the detail that only a master could weave it with the articulation of shakespeare.
my favourite things were moulding themselves around you and if life stopped i'd never press play, with you.
thoughts come in bucket loads and the river is over flowing and my mind can't contain it all anymore.
i said i love you and i know they're only three words but it's three more than i've said to anybody else.
i hold a pen like i hold your hands, tightly, until it hurts. you hold my heart the same way.
i went into an abandoned house once and imagined living there with you and suddenly the smell of death and lingering atmosphere subsided and although the windows were smashed and the drops from the ceiling felt like the whole place was crying, i was comforted. i guess you made every place feel like home.
if the world was upside down in the universe and gravity one day failed us, i'd descend into the stars happy to have known you existed.
but you didn't exist how i wanted.
did you know that fighting isn't always violent? sometimes it's metaphorical. sometimes you should fight, for me.
there are words more beautiful than people and that's why there are no words for you.
if i leave, when i leave, don't follow. my next journey is an adventure for myself and who knows? maybe i'll find my way back, but you'll be skipping along the savannah holding hands with someone much more graceful than me.
take care, and don't leave her empty like our abandoned house.
Feb 15, 2015
Feb 15, 2015 at 12:35 PM UTC