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Bought a set of glassware Sowed some seeds Was playing a video game Reading a book Why’s wrong with an incomplete set What’s wrong with thinning seedlings out Why do I need to collect all the gems, cross all levels in the game Can’t I skip some pages, chapters, the cover, or footnotes Do the guests arrive in a set of 6 Or they count my glassware How does trying to grow every plant Justify going against natures survival rule Is the goal of the player to have fun or collection of objects Is the book for me to read Or I am for the book to be consumed as a compulsion Is it one trying to reach completion Or a learned pattern, perhaps Fear that cannot let go Why does the weight of one lost Outweighs everything that exists Either anxiety driving to achieve completion Or sadness mourning over the incomplete Whats wrong with acceptance Of everything as it is
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May 10
May 10, 2026 at 3:34 PM UTC
Complete Set
another diurnal marker attained, but no one will be issued a Boy or Girl Scout badge, an unverified few will remark, "this is a day that counts my halftime voyage circulating the sun," but detect no other difference tween day prior, day after, and will let the passing thought, pass into the fibers of their existence, aling with the millions of others that humans create, then let lay, absorbed into their uncountable, uncollected collective but it is the divisor! the median mark of a year, and the world Earth will be however old it be, plus a half, like some of its inhabitants to be X plus a half, is not an indifference, a halved year is better than no more years, a solitary tear still marks the moment of a moment, a refraction pointillism, to reflect a passage so treat it not! with cavalier, but go off and pause, in a quieting places within, and think, I am more, greater than before, and with grace elevated will complete my space occupied on this rotund, robust earth, and be thankful for the embers of oxygen in and ex ha(i)led, greeted, stating this breath next is an opportunity, and will spent it usefully
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Jun 29, 2025
Jun 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM UTC
June nears it completion
Time to have some fun 12 years of school now done Snooze you lose, time choose Workforce calls each must decide Slave to job paycheck career Tanka A form of Haiku Differs in structure 31 syllables Five lines Syllable count 5-7-5-7-7 BLT Websters word of the day challenge May 26 2025 Commemorate Something such as a plaque, statue, or parade is said to commemorate an event, person, etc. When it serves as a memorial; it exist or is done in order to recall the event or person. A person or group commemorate an event, person by doing something special in order to remember and honor the event or person. Footnotes Graduation ceremonies commemorate the moment when child becomes an adult. Two show they had graduated by the school standards. It should represent a competency to college and job placement and training. If college is an ecological step, your diploma is your ticket. To get into college. Representing 12 years of knowledge. (Ok perhaps I’m jaded) Welcome to the rat race I would not want to be young today Nobody wants to work They want everything for free Moral values are gone After 12 years of school, what skills do they have United States have children who graduate without knowing how to read As a nation Our test scores are shameful
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May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025 at 3:50 AM UTC
Graduate’s Commemorate
It is finished! Now, at the end, over the vista of anxiousness, I can sense relief! I can sense more peace and that everything will fall into place. I may still experience bouts of grief, But they won’t consume my face. As I focus on yonder, I can sense this time was yet brief, And as I hold things more lightly, I can revel in the vast wonder of space and My Maker’s trace.
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Apr 12, 2025
Apr 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM UTC
Lent Collection #40 - It is finished!
When you left, the door stood ajar, Unfinished, like a quiet scar. I’ve since repaired it, polished the **** A mark of care, a touch of resolve. So when you pass that open door, Know this— "I’ve completed what you ignored." Now filled with steps I took with care, A grand closing, just for you, "right there."
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Feb 5, 2025
Feb 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM UTC
Restored Door
Old poems not lost but alone, pressed between pages dark and cold. Should I write something new, or Perhaps revive one of these lonesome works of old? Is the old not new if it's never been told? Oh so many pieces Only known by me, From dusky corners of my mind to yellowing pages unseen. Unfinished bits of sentiment, lovelorn lyrics and rhyme. Lost and lonely lines, too good to have never been set down. How long gathering dust and locked away. Before final words Are found.
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Dec 28, 2024
Dec 28, 2024 at 7:15 PM UTC
Old Poems
It was like a perfect storm All the ingredients were there It was like all the pieces had fallen into place Taylor Swift was coming to Dublin for some gigs My niece was a big fan of hers I was a bit of a fan myself, she had some great songs and videos She had just put out a new album and it was called "The Tortured Poets Department" Now I'd once written a funny poem (Electric funeral) and mentioned Taylor in it. So my niece comes down to visit And she asks "What have you been up to Uncle, I haven't seen you in awhile ?" I looked at her a bit weirdly and then said real mysterious like "It happened !" "What happened ?" she asks a bit concerned, "Taylor Swift happened". "What! You mean you were at the concerts". "Well, not quite... kind of". "What do you mean ?" So I explain "I once wrote this funny poem and Taylor Swift was in it, I posted it online It has a lot of views" Then I say "She must have read my poem and then read my other poems. Y'know she has a new album out, you know what she's called it ?" "Yes! she replies "it's called... isn't it called The Tortured Poets Department" "You see!" I say as if it's self evident, "my poems they inspired her new album. So of course when she came to Dublin she wanted to meet me...  I was summoned... to go up and see her backstage I was ushered into her presence She had this lovely friendly welcoming smile just for me And I could feel straightaway there was this... this chemistry, this spark there between the two of us So I said to her "Careful now Taylor, if you ever fell in love with me girl You'd start writing even better songs".
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Aug 19, 2024
Aug 19, 2024 at 11:01 PM UTC
Taylor and me (It's a wind-up)
It was like a perfect storm All the ingredients were there It was like all the pieces had fallen into place Taylor Swift was coming to Dublin for some gigs My niece was a big fan of hers I was a bit of a fan myself, she had some great songs and videos She had just put out a new album and it was called "The Tortured Poets Department" Now I'd once written a funny poem (Electric funeral) and mentioned Taylor in it. So my niece comes down to visit And she asks "What have you been up to Uncle, I haven't seen you in awhile ?" I looked at her a bit weirdly and then said real mysterious like "It happened !" "What happened ?" she asks a bit concerned, "Taylor Swift happened". "What! You mean you were at the concerts". "Well, not quite... kind of". "What do you mean ?" So I explain "I once wrote this funny poem and Taylor Swift was in it, I posted it online It has a lot of views" Then I say "She must have read my poem and then read my other poems. Y'know she has a new album out, you know what she's called it ?" "Yes! she replies "it's called... isn't it called The Tortured Poets Department" "You see!" I say as if it's self evident, "my poems they inspired her new album. So of course when she came to Dublin she wanted to meet me...  I was summoned... to go up and see her backstage I was ushered into her presence She had this lovely friendly welcoming smile just for me And I could feel straightaway there was this... this chemistry, this spark there between the two of us So I said to her "Careful now Taylor, if you ever fell in love with me girl You'd start writing even better songs".
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Laying down upon the grass, Morning Dew caressing my back, I look upon the stars and Manage a smile... I know it's been so long, Since I've heard your voice and song, What I would give to live again, To take me back awhile... A single tear rolls down my cheek, Mind full of words that I can't speak, But every night I take myself Into the past... I remember that sweet taste, Your rugged lips upon my face, And every night I grasp your key And ask god why... When the morning sunrise comes I hear the beating of the drums, The way our hearts would always Sound as one... And when I wake upon the days The very first words I must say As I kiss the gift you gave Are "stay with me..."
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Apr 13, 2023
Apr 13, 2023 at 4:12 PM UTC
Stay with Me...
The petals are already wilting Is their stay really so short? What irony twists is whim but such is life there is no end to a rim The hoops of my own eyes mirrors that of reality itself also that of my own sanity Is it sanity that makes me seek infernal truth? Is it a different sanity that makes others blind? Is it insanity which seeks eternal youth? Is it insane to wish of seeing petals in perfection one last time?
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Nov 3, 2021
Nov 3, 2021 at 5:39 PM UTC
Spring Flowers
Accomplishment Milestones Completion...of a step What does it mean to be done Is there such a thing? Sometimes the moment of doneness passes by                  Invisible Revealed only in hindsight Savor the moments Of completion Accomplishment Being done Even if only of this step The best laid plans can always go awry So celebrate along the way Celebrate the effort The intention The support you receive Doneness as you expected may never come to pass If it does You will more concretely see                                                     all the steps it took to get there Either way We all benefit From celebrating milestones All the steps along the way Whether that means dreaming an idea Or completing a voyage Across a sea Intact
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Sep 1, 2021
Sep 1, 2021 at 8:24 PM UTC
Steps along the way
I  complete myself never needed you to feel complete.
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Dec 8, 2020
Dec 8, 2020 at 6:02 PM UTC
Completion
a cradle of completion; my rubik's cube slowly becomes faded of colors, frayed of stickers, as a twisting time renders it subtle and scrambled, but unendingly unsolvable —my meaning left muddled on the palms of life muddled on the palms of life —my meaning left unendingly unsolvable, subtle and scrambled, but as a twisting time renders it faded of colors, frayed of stickers, my rubik's cube slowly becomes a cradle of completion;
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Aug 3, 2020
Aug 3, 2020 at 11:47 AM UTC
Rubik’s Cube (a reverse poem)
i do not want you to try to complete each missing part of me to make me perfect for you i want you to see me perfectly flawed lost pieces and all and still want to light up my darkest shadows enough to outshine each star in the sky.
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Jun 28, 2020
Jun 28, 2020 at 4:50 AM UTC
s h i n e
Once in a lifetime, if you’re lucky You will stumble upon a human lacking all flaws To you at least, resembling an angel, as if fallen Only to be of service to your prayers, you have let go Of the weights that pulled you below your needs You see them, and the whole world disappears An invisible door open only to you, you follow The footprints they leave every step of the way Arms embracing your deepest wounds, sealing them With the notion of transferring your pain to them Storing every drop of your mind in theirs, merging theirs To the point where you have created a new mind of its own An access point only crossed by the door with keys solely to you both
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Feb 21, 2020
Feb 21, 2020 at 4:21 AM UTC
Open door
I believe in destiny. Sure I may come off as anti love and non committal but give me the chance to back my statements up. I’m anti loving someone when you as a human with a beautiful soul cannot see the lighter aspects of yourself. I’m anti loving another person when you can’t find love in yourself. It’s somewhat painful and distasteful to want to receive a perfectly beating heart and give back uncertainty because you can’t love yourself. I’m non committal because I see it in you. Doubt, fear on what you could find to be true. You shadow these thoughts and let them take over you. You let the past of other people define what you see of me and treat me lesser than them. I’m non committal because your heart is in lust and your soul is charred and blown to dust. I believe in destiny. I believe that in a world exists two or more of our soulmates. I believe each soulmate is for each specific moment and that a specific two are for a more permanent mark. Your first soulmate shows and teaches you exactly what your soul has been crying and screaming for. Your second fulfills that underlying pressure the world has put on you about love. But your second may never come, Your first may never leave. But stay believing in love that is yours and you will be okay. Im anti love and non committal because if you search for these qualities But can never find them in yourself than that toxicity. That is inhaling the green and spreading it to the lungs of another. Have you not seen the love that they are portray? All in it’s broken and incomplete manner. How can I be so trustful when love doesn’t reside within ourselves first?
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May 2, 2019
May 2, 2019 at 7:17 AM UTC
Soulmates
I believe in destiny. Sure I may come off as anti love and non committal but give me the chance to back my statements up. I’m anti loving someone when you as a human with a beautiful soul cannot see the lighter aspects of yourself. I’m anti loving another person when you can’t find love in yourself. It’s somewhat painful and distasteful to want to receive a perfectly beating heart and give back uncertainty because you can’t love yourself. I’m non committal because I see it in you. Doubt, fear on what you could find to be true. You shadow these thoughts and let them take over you. You let the past of other people define what you see of me and treat me lesser than them. I’m non committal because your heart is in lust and your soul is charred and blown to dust. I believe in destiny. I believe that in a world exists two or more of our soulmates. I believe each soulmate is for each specific moment and that a specific two are for a more permanent mark. Your first soulmate shows and teaches you exactly what your soul has been crying and screaming for. Your second fulfills that underlying pressure the world has put on you about love. But your second may never come, Your first may never leave. But stay believing in love that is yours and you will be okay. Im anti love and non committal because if you search for these qualities But can never find them in yourself than that toxicity. That is inhaling the green and spreading it to the lungs of another. Have you not seen the love that they are portray? All in it’s broken and incomplete manner. How can I be so trustful when love doesn’t reside within ourselves first?
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no one should ever need to "complete" anyone; you're already whole on your own- it's just sometimes we need somebody to shine the light on the pieces we thought were missing.
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Jan 13, 2019
Jan 13, 2019 at 2:53 AM UTC
complete
How I feel has never mattered to you, I sit with these feelings and just ponder, How come you never notice when I’m not ok, How does what you feel always trump little ol me, Why do you continuously mistreat and use me, How is any of this okay? If this is the world that you are offering me, I want no parts. I’m good love, enjoy!
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Sep 18, 2018
Sep 18, 2018 at 11:53 AM UTC
Offer Denied