#bottle
The house is quiet with your gone,
your name still caught in every wall.
I tried to face it sober once—
the grief was louder than it all.
So I leaned into the burning glass,
let silence blur, let memory bend,
each drink a step away from you,
each night pretending not to end.
But morning breaks the fragile lie—
you’re gone, the truth comes crashing through.
No bottle drowns the shape of loss,
it only deepens missing you.
Mar 18
Mar 18, 2026 at 1:14 PM UTC
I want to
Scream
Kick
Yell
Throw
Hit
Jump
Show you my true self.
And all I can do is
Cry
Stand
Isolate
Pray.
I want to paint the walls with my vibrant emotions
To show you the damage you caused in me.
But I dont want to lose you.
Or I'll be alone again.
But if I keep bottling up
My vivarium will fill with toxic fumes
And **** me from the inside out.
So decide to listen with a gentle ear
Or die trying to put my fire out.
Mar 16
Mar 16, 2026 at 9:51 AM UTC
a note in a cracked champagne bottle
A Poem by Colton Warr
I yearned for you long before you ever knew,
Before my name meant anything to you,
I carried it quiet, like something I stole,
A bright, aching spark in the dark of my soul.
My heart is champagne meant to burst into light,
To laugh in your hands on a warm summer night,
But somewhere along all the waiting and strain,
A crack found its way through the glass of my pain.
Now every soft feeling escapes with a hiss,
Each word I don’t say tastes a little like this,
Like sweetness gone flat, like a cork never freed,
Like joy that arrived far too early to be.
You speak of your dreams, you speak of your fears,
Of people who held you through years upon years.
I nod like a friend, I smile like I’m fine,
While adoring you lives in the marrow of my spine.
If bottles could speak, if glass could confess,
Mine would be shaking with all I suppress.
A note swims inside it, written in truth,
In ink made of longing and leftover youth.
But I fear if I open what’s breaking in me,
The spill would be more than you’d care to see.
So I let it go quiet, I let it grow old,
This love losing bubbles, this warmth turning cold.
Still, somewhere inside the cracked, fragile shell,
The champagne remembers how joy used to swell.
And I adore you like that, unspoken, unfree,
A celebration you never knew waited for thee.
Part 2 (Champagne Stains)
I carry my love the way a party carries
its last hour,
quietly, with the lights dimmed,
confetti bruised underfoot,
music still breathing but tired.
You don’t know this.
You smile at me like a passerby smiles at a window display,
not realizing the glass is warm from someone standing too close for too long.
My heart is a cracked champagne bottle,
once sealed for celebration,
meant to be opened with laughter
and a gasp of surprise.
Now there’s a fracture along the neck,
thin, almost polite,
leaking its fizz into the air
before anyone can toast.
I keep the bottle anyway.
I tell myself cracks are proof
of pressure, of joy waiting too hard.
Inside, the bubbles still rise,
still believing they’ll reach your lips.
You talk to me about your days,
about the weather,
about people you loved out loud.
Each word is a fingertip
tapping the glass,
and I pretend it doesn’t ring.
If I could, I’d slip this poem to you,
a folded note drifting in sweetness,
let it wash up at your feet
when you least expect it.
But the bottle is flawed,
and I am afraid of the spill,
afraid that once opened,
there will be nothing left to save.
So I stand here, fizzing quietly,
celebration postponed,
adoring you in the way oceans love shores
they’re not allowed to cross,
endlessly,
patiently,
leaving everything I am
in the sound of breaking bubbles
you never hear.
Part 3 (uncorked)
I keep my love sealed deep inside of this glass,
A champagne heart I dare not yet unseal,
The bubbles climb, insisting they must pass,
Each rising spark revealing what I feel.
A crack runs thin along the bottles side,
A fault line drawn by time I cannot slow,
The pressure builds; my silence can’t abide,
The fizzing truth that’s begging me to go.
I’m running out of time to play it safe,
The cork is tired of hearing me pretend,
If I don’t pour it now the glass will break,
And spill a love I never got to send.
I have two glasses waiting on the table,
One meant for me, one meant to meet your hand,
So drink with me while it’s still a fable-
Before the bottle breaks, please understand.
Jan 1
Jan 1, 2026 at 11:39 AM UTC
QUEEN Afareen designed a perfume bottle
she herself exuded a scent of untainted ambergris, orris wafted as her heavenly cue
lime with jasmine spritz her exuberant hue
a black swan neck curved crystal female form
this bottle crafted in alexandrite, mirroring her
pharaoh shaped silhouette, gold sun rays embedded facade, stopper of opal warm
ruby inlays rested languidly at bottle base
slivers of pearl and aquamarine laced
replica of Aphrodite she encased in Myanmar teak, sculpted with elk ivory, reclining bottle
in Muga silk before a river lilting lily wattle
then gifted herself her own bottle, liquid tomb
nimble fingers twisting opal top for perfume
her unique irreplaceable exuding essence
imperceptibly drifting reverent presence
drinking the last undistilled drops from
edenic perfume bottle, QUEEN Afareen
extinguished herself gracefully into muscled
arms of Adonis, as bottle drifted downstream
towards turquoise ocean emptied, beamed
a sorrowed counterploy buried, it screamed
Copyright: GhairoDanielsPoetry ____________
Sep 26, 2025
Sep 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM UTC
Trotoar yang basah
karena es yang mencair,
Ungkapan penyesalan
beserta cacian terlontarkan.
Seseorang memilih hidup di masa lalu,
Seseorang yang ingin merubah semuanya,
Seseorang yang ingin mencari tujuan,
Kita semua punya dosa masing-masing bukan
"Kami tertawa kami sepakat
ini semua baru permulaan."
Beberapa pria sulit menceritakan hal buruk
yang terjadi pada dirinya,
Beberapa dari kita terjebak dalam rutinitas
yang tidak pernah kita sukai,
Pola yang berulang setiap pekan.
21 yang menyebalkan, namun penuh pelajaran
Kami melempar dadu yang sama berkali-kali dan menebak angka yang salah,
Kami anggap ini skakmat kehidupan
Menunggu dimakan atau membalas menyerang.
2025
reydmh
May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM UTC
You can't pour wine from an empty
Bottle, the pop-up ad tells me.
I laugh. I laugh as the cracks
At its bottom cut into
My palm; I pour you
Another glass. It's all red anyway.
Who cares what that AI has to say.
Mar 22, 2025
Mar 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM UTC
I can't focus on us anymore
it feels like a dream we once had
rather than a lifetime we worked on
You once made me feel precious,
invaluable,
loved.
Now I'm the fall back and safety net
you need to desire
before you hit the bottom of your bottle
I am miserable trying to hold the foundation alone.
I was looking for a life partner, not a freeloading liar.
You promised me change.
I was the fool who believed you and saw with my own eyes
you didn't touch a drop.
Now I'm left with the empty bottle in my hands,
searching for an escape from my isolation.
Nov 16, 2024
Nov 16, 2024 at 11:29 AM UTC
What's family mean?
Bottles holding hearts hostage
Won't hold our love back
Oct 1, 2023
Oct 1, 2023 at 2:20 AM UTC
20 years and a Bottle,
not much has changed
between the mother
rubbing whiskey on her
infant's gums
and the girl that stands tall now
drinking it from a cup.
Mar 23, 2023
Mar 23, 2023 at 11:43 AM UTC
i trudged through frozen rivers
passed through red oceans
i bottled up my feelings and tossed them into the wrathful sea
fishing ships skimming through the vibrant bay
caught wind of my hopeless message floating meters away from where they cast their nets
tiny thoughts floating through levels of salty sea foam, devoured by the vicious waves
breaking, scattering and tossing seaweed into the briny air
“land ** they bellowed, tying a thin rope to the side of the vessel
wonder if that truly makes a difference or that the boats just don’t really desire to depart
with unwashed fingers and hands, they ripped the bottle from the ocean’s greedy grasp
observing it with curiosity, they tapped on the glass of the object
the bottle cap popped open, revealing the suspicious contents
pouring it out onto the dock, they whispered when they saw the small yellowish letter lying flat; my letter
the captain read it to himself quietly and deemed it unnecessary to repeat to the rest of the crewmen
“perhaps, it is time to rest. the moon is almost at her peak.”
the captain uttered a couple words, for he was astonished such a hopeless thing could float ironically in the most teeming ecosystem to ever exist
my feelings were daggers, and not knowing where they originated from worried the captain
but everyone rises and falls
everyone lives and dies
everyone hopes and becomes hopeless
water carries secrets,
and in that, it holds stories
-happy ever afters don’t exist in the ocean
Aug 3, 2022
Aug 3, 2022 at 3:09 PM UTC
To whom ever finds this bottle
My message is to you
I want to say now
I'm sorry If It sounds like I'm venting
But really I just want to tell someone
What's on my mind
And a little about me
But not know who I am telling
For some reason
That is comforting
I myself am not the brightest bulb
And I may make you want to
Hit your head against a wall
Sometimes many in a day
Because I spoke faster than my mind
Was thinking
My mind is weird
For if you ask something of me
I know I can do it
But yet my mind has a panic mode
And in a way forgets how to do it
Or the item you wanted me to grab
I question it for some reason
Even though I shouldn't have
So yea I am not all that smart
Sometimes I feel really ******
And just worse than dirt
And it's hard because I know
I am
Smarter
And better than that
I do have my moments though
Where I don't always think, rather act first
But it manages to put a smile on your
Face and make you giggle
That usually helps to make me feel better
But thinking back I feel dumb
But remember that I made you smile
And so I smile
I try my best to do better
For I love learning new things
And doing anything
That sounds different
Or fun
And an adrenaline rush
I will say yes to
Because that is such an amazing thrill
I may not always make sense
And sometimes I struggle
Putting together my thoughts into sentences
I get there eventually
But I get there
So if you're okay knowing
this little Bit about me
I hope this message
in this bottle
In your hands
Finds me
But if you do not wish
To want to know me
Then toss me back
Message in bottle
for someone new to find
May 4, 2022
May 4, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC
Our initials chiselled,
With a crown cork bottle cap,
Into the trunk of our favourite tree,
Will the world wonder in time to come,
Whatever happened to you and me?
Jun 7, 2019
Jun 7, 2019 at 6:47 PM UTC
_Empty:_ as the word meaning a
glass bottle in Africa.
I'd have my fill;
to the brim of life's expectations.
Expected of the plenty from the very
little I have given.
Life is that empty,
as many are trying at their fill.
On the straight and narrow, of where
it sits.
_Hoping it won't spill._
How tall do you measure your glass
view of life?
Fragile are the moments; tapping on
the taps of glass.
_Hoping it won't crack._
This bottle is what I make of it's fill;
Am I overburdened, or overflowing,
with the cares of the world, or whether
the Holy Spirit?
A question, only with the answer from
within; and as I ask from Him.
Feb 27, 2022
Feb 27, 2022 at 6:53 AM UTC
slowly chipping away my manhood
with my lips pressed against the cylinder
sweet and softly wrapped around
ready to take the blow
ridiculous in my silly little ways
my desire to die was unkind
the bottom of the bottle is bittersweet
but only if you want it to be
the salty bedrock tastes like hell
life in pain is okay
you're already dead that way
you only left small burns in my heart
I bet you never even felt that
but I never cared it seems
and I think that's only fair to me to believe that
Oct 15, 2021
Oct 15, 2021 at 6:56 PM UTC
Once a year its champagne!
I feel calm passionate and teary.
It gets my head to Paris
As life is broken down goes out
in transition or revelation,
there's a greàter darkness then the one we inadvertently fight,
the darkness of the soul
that has lost its way.
I was chosen by great sages crossing paths the sting of my blindfold lingers noone sees hope or their future, or where it leads we know only that it's bought in pain and sacrifice.
Letting go what I loved the most.
was eternal loss, having
no reparation, neither in time,
nor in eternity.
My love river is truth it's mouth is
cosmic creation.
He measured sensuality
secretively, and in shadows
he showed me feathers of half
a man syllhuette of him,
and feels guilty I just fill in blanks,
why smack a devolving face?
And what the heck!
I first measure people in trust.
then love, as true love is rare.
Trust tells love where to roam.
Love can't be made perfect
in distrust nor fear of rivals.
When I give my heart I do,
When I share my dreams too.
I do not drown in midnight
dew not retreat;
but I won't take sand in my eyes.
After the loving I go from rags
to riches in his love or shine
to wiser horizons..
~~~~~~~~~
Mr and Mrs Andrews.
At Karijinbba
Oct 13, 2021
Oct 13, 2021 at 10:08 PM UTC
my words
might wash up
against your shore
in torn up shreds
each scribbled letter faded
obscured by time
obscured by rippling waves
that thrash and tear
each piece left vague
dowsed in mystery
and a lingering
a longing
to be read
soon
maybe
next time
i'll be mature enough
to put them in a bottle.
Apr 29, 2021
Apr 29, 2021 at 2:00 PM UTC
I wish I could fit myself inside a bottle,
that travels across oceans
sailing off with the message,
earth is not home
anymore
and that I'm better off,
living in this beautiful irony
of getting by
with the swelling, and the panics and the wild spasms
of the waters—
the only place
where I could
never
drown.
Jan 23, 2021
Jan 23, 2021 at 5:21 AM UTC
After leaving I thought I knew it all,
and that’s the worst part.
Because all I ever wanted was silence
but now the silence pierces
like a dart.
And I thought I was strong to walk away
from ruins- but tell me,
does it take more strength
to walk or build, in all honesty?
And all the words I chanted to my heart
are the opposite of what I now croak
from the bottom of an empty bottle,
from the hollow of my soul,
from the redness of my eyes,
from the fullness of my mind
and every ounce of my wit
now only proclaims,
you made me a hypocrite.
hypocrite | shevaun stonem
Nov 12, 2020
Nov 12, 2020 at 10:23 AM UTC
in a thick milk bottle
a dark green one
which grandfather found on the beach after the war
having inside a shriveled yellow paper
without any drawing
without any inscription
the grandmother's ashes stayed for a while
grandmother being skinny
the bottle was almost empty
so the grandfather put the paper back in place
when he missed her
he took the bottle
put it on his chest
and spoked to her
and when my grandmother had to answer him
he was turning it like an hourglass
and so he did for two years
until he crouched too
(although it was harder
because he was hefty)
in the milk bottle
then
to make room for him
I finally took that sheet
and I stuck it on the window
when it rains on the sea and it's lightning
on both sides of the paper
two overlapping palms can be seen
one of a woman
and the other of a man
crossed in filigree
by a single line of life
nothing else
Oct 23, 2020
Oct 23, 2020 at 2:49 PM UTC
I'm back to not sleeping again
I'm back to doing drugs without my friends
I'm back to nothing
An empty room
An empty bottle
A full head and ashtray
I wish I could close my eyes and go to bed
But I just can't
Aug 27, 2020
Aug 27, 2020 at 8:33 PM UTC
Having luck where I can achieve anything... Is like a young kid opening a bottle of their favorite bottled soda the day it first came out! Awaiting it's arrival like the coating of a nice breeze dancing throughout the company of skin coated with sweat. As the hairs with little droplets of already coated sweat came (as if a light drizzle fell over the field of endless rows of arm hair) not so long ago. Standing perfectly ***** as the sun blazes downward like a coating of sticky smog! Making the tips of the already ***** endless rows of arm hair) shine brightly with droplets bending light between it's different surfaces. Almost as if when looking through the pure liquid droplets, you see the inside of a crystal instead. A crystal fine layer with the inside of many warped and distorted angles. All the very uncomfortable effects may seem mildly dreary...at first. Except for the awaiting call of the miracle that is the sizzling bubbles popping within a still closed bottle cap of your favorite bottled soda! And that's where ALL the effects that may seem mildly dreary...at first, is usually because of the miracle that is on an "occasional" slight delay!
Sincerely... The "luck" is in the young kids favorite bottled soda!
Jul 27, 2020
Jul 27, 2020 at 8:16 PM UTC
Here I sit,
In my safest place,
Still scared.
Paranoid to spit,
I must control my face,
Or be impared.
Falling into the pit,
Must state my case,
In repair.
Jul 24, 2020
Jul 24, 2020 at 1:45 PM UTC
The lid of a stained glass bottle,
leaves a burning sensation in my palm.
What was I hoping for?
Surely, this message will wrinkle-
my painful words silently drifting away.
And all that'd be left was my starving soul,
craving to be found someday.
Jul 20, 2020
Jul 20, 2020 at 10:40 PM UTC
A broken bottle
Rubbed smooth by the ocean
Tamed and beautiful
Jun 29, 2020
Jun 29, 2020 at 9:50 AM UTC
Nobody looks too deep at the paintings I do
Could you tell who was the person lost
Who was drowning in the sea that I so much efforted to paint
Me, in the coldest and fakest water alive
Dead, and lost, such as a skeleton should be.
I, in love, how I wanted to be;
Satisfying love like lavender field in summer,
Flame of a candle, warmness from the fire
But frightened from the same medicine
Love is overrated and unpatieful, cold as a bottle of gin
Submersed in the midnight lake.
I've always been afraid of falling in love,
They never told were we would fall to, or where from
And if so, do we land or do we keep falling?
Is love an abism or a simple metaphor?
Jun 28, 2020
Jun 28, 2020 at 10:40 PM UTC