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#detour
My child You may feel lost But it's only a detour Follow my signs Then you will know Where you are
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May 4, 2025
May 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM UTC
Not lost
Life points in all directions, Each road is different. Some roads we travel, we often choose to blame. Why blame the path we’re taking? It’s a product of our choices. You can’t change the way you get there; the destination is yours alone. You pick every turn. You take every detour. Sometimes darkened, and sometimes light. But this road, the road you choose to go down, was made just for you. Imagine, a straight flat road. There would be nothing fun to do. This road is full of valleys, and sometimes the highest peaks. It might scare you to keep traveling on. But know that this road doesn’t define you, Or make you who you are. It’s who’s traveling this road with you that helps you when you feel you can’t go on. So life Points in all directions; never judge or show any shame. This person on this different path, may be experiencing the same.
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Jan 29, 2025
Jan 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM UTC
The road you chose
Left is right... ...Because right is left... Except how does one or the other directional scenarios fair against the opposing opposites (that is themselves when conjoining as one "unifying whole")? Both directional options are just supposed to detour (each other) one way or the other (while seemingly going around each other again and again through countless twists and turns operable for success)! While also maximizing a different route, altogether! It's what makes paving a simulated pathway (so too speak) in order to free up space for the simulated pathway to give a better instruction manual about which way to properly (the next time around) carve my "simulated pathway"?! PS... ("Which way"...) ...Is NO truer stated governing way!
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Aug 3, 2020
Aug 3, 2020 at 7:36 PM UTC
Left is right... ...And right is left...
My heart went missing for days. For how long, I couldn’t remember. I’m sure it followed the long and jagged road of my past. And as it slowly trying to collect the pieces of important memories, it thought I had left behind, my heart was led to a dead end and a huge road sign. Wrong way. I’m now patiently waiting for my heart to come back soon. I hope it can remember its way home.
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Oct 22, 2019
Oct 22, 2019 at 8:52 AM UTC
Road Sign
The meaning of chaos is a ”Disordered State” Topsy and Turvy and somewhat irate If your life is in chaos, it's by your own choice Why did you pick it, you do have a voice To be in that state takes its toll, I am sure To come out of your chaos, will take a detour Go ahead and try it, you may be suprised Life without chaos is what is advised Brian Hill - # 236
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Sep 20, 2019
Sep 20, 2019 at 9:10 AM UTC
Chaos...!
Take me inside you is what he pleaded She took him to the guided tour of her heart instead, enroute he met the grieving edges, the bruised corners and the blood spilling plastered walls Dreaded and bewildered he left only to disappear smilingly she locked her heart thinking about his unkept words;
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Apr 9, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 at 7:27 AM UTC
Detour Heart
There is no passable route to the eventual soulless rite skidded floors, frozen painted walls enclosed in jupiter's rail embossed in eyelids tail contradictional theory off the Savannah 101 piroutting our own soul writing off our own role state of devastation lifted off the barley field stuck in a time warp the sky has been waiting and turning and rolling tired of never ending doubt flung towards the soul aghast with how it ends the kingdom never arrives but with face full of joy, you rob everything off us.
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Nov 6, 2017
Nov 6, 2017 at 10:37 AM UTC
Detour
I see you have walked away in short notice, Nice to know how much I worth to you. Just another easy target, Another girl in the list, Another heart to play with. I shouldn't have let you in in the first place, I should have known we are just a detour off the main road. { e.i }
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Aug 17, 2017
Aug 17, 2017 at 11:54 AM UTC
Hurt
Avoiding Detour Pretend Ignore Silence the Truth And ignore The lie
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Jun 22, 2017
Jun 22, 2017 at 7:59 AM UTC
Absence
Somewhere on the way I lost me, you lost you, but We found each other
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Oct 30, 2016
Oct 30, 2016 at 11:19 PM UTC
Detour (Haiku #26)
Sometimes I wonder if you’re better off without me, If the miles between us set you free. I was holding you back, dragging you down. Yes, you’re definitely better off without me around. From a distance, I’ve watched you spread your wings and fly, Do things you wouldn’t have dared to try. By now.. I’m almost certain, by now I’m almost sure, That me leaving you behind was your cure. T.11.I
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Apr 30, 2016
Apr 30, 2016 at 3:52 PM UTC
Distance
I'm looking for a hailstorm to run blindfolded through For the sake of refief A psychosomatic firing squad to save me from this six by three square feet of dirt that you have left me I now drag behind myself I have taken this earth and sculpted it in your likeness I am Pygmalion praying to the moon for love but instead I get rain and as the picture of Her and perfect summers falls apart like mud through my finger I clasp and grasp and gasp and when the rain stops I am left on my knees in the mud praying with open hands my skin is baptized so clean my scars shine Now as the pieces of a heart are returned to us twisted and unwanted and rearranged like a Rubix cube by the hands of past lovers who we knew too fast and promised so much but didn't care enough to figure out our combinations or to hold the secrets contained or the dreams cradled in this human-sized box I guess no one thought to tell them that if you plan to be a past lover return what you have found just as you have found it and walk backwards that the image of you walking away from me may not haunt me in the mornings and I can make believe you are returning to me at night but even the stars rearrange themselves destiny can be rewritten let what remains of my days be it's pages in an infinite number of realities I am still happy with you in an infinite number of realities I am tragic without you but in this reality I may be happy without you I'm kicking open my wardrobe and cleaning it out of all the shadows I'm putting on a new jacket, a new hat but I'm keeping my old shoes for I will not forsake the path all the roads that once only led to you now lead from you thank you for the detour I'm looking for new hands to run through forests with new arms in which to build a home in a girl to jump on bed sheets with and a shoe box in an attic to bury you in For this heart will grow and one day I will see through an unbroken stained-glass window you were just another piece of me
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Jan 16, 2016
Jan 16, 2016 at 4:50 PM UTC
Detour
I'm looking for a hailstorm to run blindfolded through For the sake of refief A psychosomatic firing squad to save me from this six by three square feet of dirt that you have left me I now drag behind myself I have taken this earth and sculpted it in your likeness I am Pygmalion praying to the moon for love but instead I get rain and as the picture of Her and perfect summers falls apart like mud through my finger I clasp and grasp and gasp and when the rain stops I am left on my knees in the mud praying with open hands my skin is baptized so clean my scars shine Now as the pieces of a heart are returned to us twisted and unwanted and rearranged like a Rubix cube by the hands of past lovers who we knew too fast and promised so much but didn't care enough to figure out our combinations or to hold the secrets contained or the dreams cradled in this human-sized box I guess no one thought to tell them that if you plan to be a past lover return what you have found just as you have found it and walk backwards that the image of you walking away from me may not haunt me in the mornings and I can make believe you are returning to me at night but even the stars rearrange themselves destiny can be rewritten let what remains of my days be it's pages in an infinite number of realities I am still happy with you in an infinite number of realities I am tragic without you but in this reality I may be happy without you I'm kicking open my wardrobe and cleaning it out of all the shadows I'm putting on a new jacket, a new hat but I'm keeping my old shoes for I will not forsake the path all the roads that once only led to you now lead from you thank you for the detour I'm looking for new hands to run through forests with new arms in which to build a home in a girl to jump on bed sheets with and a shoe box in an attic to bury you in For this heart will grow and one day I will see through an unbroken stained-glass window you were just another piece of me
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*Baby, let's take a detour Just drive and I'd ride shotgun In an old Chevy truck, maybe Feel the water kiss our toes The sea breeze cold While you put your arms around me Sea gulls flocking free We'd drive again for a while Turn on the radio, baby And sing and sing and sing Like we rule this world Find a cheap motel Maybe talk about the universe And laugh about silly things Until sleep devour us Then in the morning When it's still pitch black We'd watch the stars disappear From the sky And maybe, baby, we'd just fall in love.*
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Sep 13, 2015
Sep 13, 2015 at 12:15 AM UTC
Maybe, Baby
perhaps we had fallen asleep on the train ride There- now mountains rise where there once were skyscrapers. an ocean floats where the ground once stood. it almost looks to me like a ghost town till i catch a glimpse of bright orange shoes thumping up and down the road- crunching on the gravel- flashing by like neon lights. my breath clouds up my vision and the world outside looks much colder. stepping outside, we are born again. perhaps we had fallen asleep on the train ride There- this is not There. yet Here- wherever this may be- i find my eyes piercing through frosted glass, adrenaline coursing through my lungs like a shot of caffeine delivered straight to my brain. i know now we are lost. and still, I need no map to pave the way home. it is Here- where the soles that wander next to mine are as familiar as the ground is not.
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 5:31 AM UTC
in transit
I had been assured God had a shrewd way Of testing the sour That paths would continue to cross 'Til I was able at last To resolve The implicit matters Between us. Time had passed -- But Time between goodbye And the heart that says Bon voyage A second is eternal I would wake up in the morning Better each day Though still in mourning. I was holding onto nothing Kept replaying the last thing It was clear in my head But when I saw you What I felt More shock Than what I thought was left. Maybe I had to see you This last time To ferret out Why you were never mine I was glozing over Excuses I never got When all along It was I Who could call the shots. Maybe I had to see you One last time A proper goodbye After the one You were not able to Provide -- For me to identify And I was certain I could never live Without your shadow. God made me take this detour However I was now sure It was the right path For me to come out Victorious.
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Jun 18, 2014
Jun 18, 2014 at 6:54 AM UTC
Detour