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#carve
Sitting down and carving away, Scooping up the stringy bits and mush. Dirtying my hands with pumpkin guts It is when I feel most at rest. The tearing of pumpkin flesh A wonderful feeling It resonates down my spine
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Oct 30, 2025
Oct 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM UTC
Pumpkin Guts
Please, Do not carve wounds upon your skin, Do not let your blood spill thin. Instead, Carve pain in words upon the sheet. Pour your sorrow out in ink.
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May 26, 2025
May 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM UTC
Dear self-harmers,
"a box a ******* box' Yesterday, I shook, I shook while my mind flooded with vivid flashes of that, sliver, soft, shiny, crisp blade No, THOSE silver, soft, shiny, crisp, BLADES. a box, a ******* box.
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Apr 15, 2025
Apr 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM UTC
a box
I wake to walls I did not build, A space too small, a name too still. They call me by a voice not mine, A shape I wear, but never will. The world beyond hums soft and bright, A distant place I’ve yet to claim. I trace its edges in my mind— A whispered truth without a name. The mirror shifts, the cracks run deep, Yet in them, something starts to grow. Not wings, not fins, but something else— A self I’ve always seemed to know. So let the door be rusted shut, Let silence press against my skin. I’ll carve a window with my hands— And let the light come pouring in.
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Feb 1, 2025
Feb 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM UTC
Caged Echoes
Here we are again, in my darkest night, _I’ve never escaped_ I thought the last stretches of a pitch-black pool did not  reach me. Should I be happy on the crescent carving my brokenness? you said _how beautiful the glimpse of the moonlight is,_ they have been a prosaic, silvery dust in dismal, but now, _they are a rare light in the sky._ I adore things that aren’t mine and so you are, I held an illusion in my desperation, and it wasn’t the universe's fault for sculpting an embodiment of galaxies and stars, such ethereal like you were living in a myth. You can be there and begone or just begone (your mercurial imperative) but this time, I wanted to be left on the traces where you were at.
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Mar 10, 2022
Mar 10, 2022 at 10:41 AM UTC
Moonlight part two
As we take our first breath We are handed a tool Given to us by the creator of the universe It never leaves our hand Although we cannot see it Or feel it We can sense it Some are meant to change people Into better or worse humans Some are meant to carve the world Into the place we love or hate Some are meant to give us hope Which without we would fall Some are meant to teach us What we would never know, other-wise Some are meant to strengthen us To become who we really are Some are meant to save us Before we disappear And some are meant to destroy The better humans we are The world we love The hope we stand upon The knowledge we know And the strength we lean on Which tool is in your grasp?
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Aug 17, 2020
Aug 17, 2020 at 5:14 PM UTC
Some are Meant To...
words scrawled across my skin words that i cant read only feel they carve themselves into my flesh a constant reminder that they are there and i am nowhere and even though i cant take the pain from the words the pain will fade it always does until there are more words to be carved printed into my skin, never to be forgotten but not quite remembered
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Jan 27, 2020
Jan 27, 2020 at 2:37 PM UTC
words
Your words glide Over my Heart like a Skater skates On ice lakes. Slowly you Wear me down; Carve your words Onto my Heart with blades. One time you Will cut through And fall in Through the crack That you made. You will try To climb out, But you are Stuck in the Void with me. Now you'll know Just the harm That a few Words can cause. Can't you tell?
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Oct 22, 2019
Oct 22, 2019 at 3:10 AM UTC
Skate
The uncertainty Is killing me No plan For my path No stone To carve No road To ride Lost at sea No light house to guide me
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May 13, 2019
May 13, 2019 at 1:02 AM UTC
Lost
We're loose associations. Brutality queues the phrases. Reality loses luster, in fallow with boot to daisies . Cowering and embracing our trusted tomes, honing a fruitless joke, that only touches on tones that suit the layman Famous and clueless faces. Racing to rue the cadence. Faking a sweet embrace, for imminent tears, but grew impatient. California coos sooth impostor fits, but it's a syndrome fifty shades dense, and way to thick to fit the staples. In case you were getting wayward; our guiding fables, sentinels that they are, will guard the stables and bark orders, pouring out the spirits and clearing history, with brazen logic. Honestly, I carved a broken heart, instead of tapping the maple, sue me.
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Dec 6, 2018
Dec 6, 2018 at 9:19 PM UTC
I carved a heart.
I want to smile for once, So I pick up the sharp blade And carve it deeper into my cheeks. As the blood trails over my chin and jaw, runs down my neck, Finally, I'm smiling.
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Oct 29, 2017
Oct 29, 2017 at 9:50 AM UTC
I want to smile
i follow the the misty pathway in the hopes that it will lead me to you my internal compass forget true north it only points to you a direction i have carved into my mind like the hearts that teenage lovers carve into trees
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Sep 18, 2017
Sep 18, 2017 at 8:46 PM UTC
carvings
Pieces of you are scattered throughout my life -Your name is embedded in every poem I write- Yet I'm a ghost in yours
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Dec 20, 2016
Dec 20, 2016 at 11:28 PM UTC
One Sided
A New Beginning Before this loves burns out and Before we carve out each others hearts and before we enslave our souls, let us walk to the light let’s start, a new beginning.
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Sep 6, 2016
Sep 6, 2016 at 10:31 PM UTC
A New Beginning
Warm hands Barely touching On top of freedom land Flaming fire in the water He is willing to burn up She is cooling down Conjuring chaos Controlled reaction Tangled mess of thoughts Carve out of beautiful words They are like wind and sea Buried mass of emotions Rubble left after strom A torpedo half explode
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Apr 5, 2016
Apr 5, 2016 at 7:29 PM UTC
Parallel emisson
It's funny that once ink is skinned it's pretty difficult to take it out. It becomes hypodermic and almost eternal. Could it be the same case for the those who hurt you carve a part of their memory deep deep inside your bones and make a wreck of you? I don't know, all that I know is that I want to destroy everything that reminds me of those. -- Eleanor
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Mar 8, 2016
Mar 8, 2016 at 6:10 AM UTC
Ink
Chip away, Piece by piece, At the unrefined granite, Erode each layer, Define it further, Find the perfect contours, The creature within, That lives and breathes, But beneath a prison of rock, And you hold the key, A chisel, Take it away, Chunk by chunk, Reveal the true form, Let its eye see again, Let its fingers reach for the sky, Perfected, Not created, Reduced, From rough stone, To beauty.
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Jan 17, 2015
Jan 17, 2015 at 11:04 AM UTC
Sculpture
I never tell you when I'm crying I never tell you "please don't leave me" I never tell you how empty I feel I never tell you about the pounding in my head, or about the overwhelming urge to talley my sleepless hours into my skin I never tell you about the broken vessels in my eyes from the times I weep so hard I ***** up your absence I so carefully choked down I never tell you how I wish you would give me flowers..they don't have to be fancy.. I never tell you what a fool I am I never tell you about how selfish I really am I never tell you about how badly I want you here; about how lost I am without you I never tell you about how badly I want to dance with you I never tell you how I wish you would tell me I'm beautiful every chance you get I never tell you how when I see you disconnect, I cry and cry and cry I never tell you how I bet you're fine without me I never tell you how I want to spend the best years of my life with you I never tell you how lonely I am I never tell you I never tell you I never tell you I never
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Jul 24, 2014
Jul 24, 2014 at 1:25 AM UTC
I never