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#beige
The candles are aesthetic— dripping wax like curated grief down the sides of glass jars bought for their softness. Everything is beige here, muted, intentional— even the sadness has been filtered warm.
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Mar 27
Mar 27, 2026 at 4:11 PM UTC
Warm
___FLUFF:___ _Frequently, I discover words with hidden meaning, shining like coins in a handful of fluff, apple seeds and other down-the-back-of-the-sofa leavings. Some are too precious to share and I secrete them away. Others I spend cheaply on rigged slot machine verbiage. Mostly they sit waiting to be written usefully. Adding insight, lending moment to my day._ § ___NONSENSE:___ _Foraging amongst the dahlias For Cinderella’s lost slipper, I am Barbie magic made manifest, I am Germaine (sodding) Greer’s antifem, I am Super Mum with gumboots on._ § ___ABSURDITY:___ _The best nonsense is always spoken in the middle of the afternoon while heading north on a train bound for a smallish beige town, and so it was that the occupants of second-class carriage BG1754 found themselves gripped by a kind of eloquent hysteria as they rattled around the final bend in the tracks before the steep descent to the weatherboard station at Claggy Peat._
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Apr 3, 2021
Apr 3, 2021 at 3:51 AM UTC
Fluff, Nonsense & Absurdity
You blamed me for keeping you like an animal caged But honey didn't you see the stars that traced every bar in beige?
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Apr 19, 2020
Apr 19, 2020 at 1:07 PM UTC
The Cage
Beige is the color of my brain When I can't think of a thing With wheel spining round And not gaining ground No thoughts to write down hushed is the only sound Beige is the color of my brain When I can't think of a thing
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Mar 16, 2016
Mar 16, 2016 at 9:59 AM UTC
Beige Brain (can be read Forwards or Backwards)
More than ninety-eight days Since you've been gone I never was good with numbers You knew that very well There were times When you called me stupid It didn't bring me down I knew better Insults from you Never came out as offensive anyway There were times We had conversations So terrible I wanted to dissolve In my cup of tea Yeah like sugar I didn't know about you though It was hard to But I remember our last as a couple It was the worst of all You cried for the first time And I didn't Yeah for the first time There's a shadow On my beige painted wall tonight It belongs to no object Quite funny It's the shadow of your love I think, I hope, I wish More than ninety-eight days passed Since you left and forgot But I know how You will never walk with a shadow again F.Z.N
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Nov 3, 2014
Nov 3, 2014 at 1:45 PM UTC
The Shadow of You
In a room The colour of the dawn I turn the lights off And you turn them back on. I keep your shirt on And you lift mine. I kiss your lips And you pull away Quickly reaching down Between my legs. I open my eyes To find yours wide awake Exploring every inch of me As if that's all there is. And maybe that's all you see. But I just want you to love me. Rather than simply **** me. F.Z.N
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Aug 31, 2014
Aug 31, 2014 at 3:00 PM UTC
All You See