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Does anyone else think that they’re going to die young? I mean, I can dream about a future. A life. I can imagine parts of it, like how my house will have tiles on the stairs to make it look like a piano has vomited on them. Or how the backsplash for the kitchen will be handmade tiles painted by my favorite people. My car will have a stained glass sunroof, the inside of the door will be covered in stickers. The backyard will have a children’s park in it, a treehouse with wood rotting and a slide stolen from the municipal pool. I can imagine the concept of a later version of what my life will look like. But I can’t see what I look like. I can’t see how I will act, I can’t imagine myself. And when someone brings up the future in a conversation, I feel so out of place. I’m not suicidal. I’m not planning on being dead by a certain age. I just don’t think I’ll make it to the retirement home. My legacy will be something to only live thanks to word of tongue. Speech will last one generation. I’m good with kids. Toddlers love me, and I love them. But maybe I’m so good with kids because I’ll never have my own. I don't want to be a mother, not really. Or date any man. Settling down, long-term relationships, date to marry; all these things that I guess just weren't programmed into me. They never were part of me. So maybe I won’t die young. Maybe I’ll just never grow old.
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Jan 26
Jan 26, 2026 at 7:27 PM UTC
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I imagined myself wandering in the clouds of dark memories, I imagined myself journeying to the top of the remains of broken dreams. I imagined myself standing alone amid the lies of surroundings, I imagined myself walking steadily on the wrecked bridge of survival. I imagined myself being watched all the time, I imagined myself being judged all the time. I imagined myself like a puppet for the audience around me, I imagined myself like a door keeper for all the thoughts I have.
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Nov 18, 2025
Nov 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM UTC
I Imagined Myself
~*for M. both a living one, and imagined, too*~ 10/5/25 just woke up and began to work; the muses are cofuse-ed they think when head hits pillow. it is there then the~moment to refill my head with verses glorious, alas, alack, into the sub-subconscious furnace they go to melt, meld or even die iron of ironies; 90% of these words, were adrift in my head when I to bed, "for to be repaired" last night, and only came to be recalled @ 2:34 am when them muses and you guru, woke me to 'get outta bed', and you    who bids me sleep, this clashing arousal, starts engine's cylinders to begin live~composing, stoking and stroking, to awake, create, reassemble and uncover the poetic notions trans~versing my head one-day, someday they will depart, for cleaner, greener Champs-Élysées, where reborn poets speak all languages with equal fluency, eagerly awaiting my spouting in Hindi (already ✅), in Hebrew and any/all dialecticals this god earth ever mothered And there you have it, my FPOTD, dear m., SUNday 10/5  & writ in the city where I am alive in the Den of Writing, where the muses like to hang out with their old companion, until such time they will come to inhabit a younger, well rested, equally restless, a not-my-mine mind <nml>
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Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM UTC
FPOTD: good mid-of night, my beautiful muses, living and imagined
i imagined i kissed the universe yes i think it kissed me back
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Jun 19, 2025
Jun 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM UTC
senryu 25/6/16a
Idle word redemption day. {optional title} Clocking time. Timing coincidence, confident tempus fugit… ever learning, never certain, each lessoning examined conscience temptation, fug-edaboudit, esse, This is the day, laid out in front of time's arrow to be shot thro- ugh-**ing A, okeh, shot…out ra' rough, footballer mind an instance in prayer… patiently ghine ----------- He, if he were you, ignoring nothing, finding quiet time, alone, in an empty house; he would think, being as you were he, I think, rare, quiet, not noiseless, listen the humms, the wind rattling leaves in Live Oaks, needles in Pines, birds whose peeps are playing with my ears, tuning mine to his who hears quiet time slipping by, acknowledging most deafening noise is all in the mind. -------------- Wally Amos, are you still famous? Me, too. Locally. Famous for fine grandchildren, Parent-Teacher Conference confirmed, year after year, fine grandchildren given access to books, and self education, And wicked fast internet/ tutorials for anything solvers of Rubic's cubes, setters of gathering magic what's and ifs, and but then, so that's better, he thinks, this tinker touching each across time, think yourself useful to us all. Amen. ---------------------- Laughing, thinking of shouting, at the floor, I am so intense because I am alive in my own future, the world's a mess, unless, I laugh, and take the good. It is a sunny November day, after the promised latter rain, laughter functions, leaving lines where old faces wrinkle happily, fitting character traits common to old scout squinty perspicacity. ------------------- Bored, in ever after, eh? ¿Made no plans to pursue, when you had time? Well, as a filler word, or is it a feeler a wordwiggle rough through a ra'thought, be may, may be, maybe so, declaratively so said, indeed, thinking beauty be, what if now, is the same time, any instance taken seriously curious wise, from the initial point perceived, taken, held to hold this thought, or hold that thought as self evidently true, having being in minds let be found like live words, in spirit form, as breaths, taken held, to rethink against knowing again what was meant, so long ago, when all words got scrambled, some lost all sense, such be idle, now, set to activate on recognition, off, set which is no longer the case, you know common conscious ness is the use, men-tal chabad of knowledge actioning knowns under the God pledged and sworn to try to tell the truth, the whole truth y nada mas, aliegiantly, in the spirit of Liberty… inspired emperically in poetry IF, Gunga Din allah Tha… just so, says fear was the problem, not knowledge of wonder and adversity, so opposed for honor, as translated good vs evil, to death, staining beguilement, from aha, got it, reason to woe, original curse, sin during developmental stages interesting times first tier burns of what our story says we mustabin, in the dark ages, previous to the internet. [[== jest, so ==]]- eftsoons obsolete or archaic way of saying "soon afterward," ongean magical once more, with feeling.
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Nov 19, 2024
Nov 19, 2024 at 5:10 PM UTC
Tuesday, the next day
Idle word redemption day. {optional title} Clocking time. Timing coincidence, confident tempus fugit… ever learning, never certain, each lessoning examined conscience temptation, fug-edaboudit, esse, This is the day, laid out in front of time's arrow to be shot thro- ugh-**ing A, okeh, shot…out ra' rough, footballer mind an instance in prayer… patiently ghine ----------- He, if he were you, ignoring nothing, finding quiet time, alone, in an empty house; he would think, being as you were he, I think, rare, quiet, not noiseless, listen the humms, the wind rattling leaves in Live Oaks, needles in Pines, birds whose peeps are playing with my ears, tuning mine to his who hears quiet time slipping by, acknowledging most deafening noise is all in the mind. -------------- Wally Amos, are you still famous? Me, too. Locally. Famous for fine grandchildren, Parent-Teacher Conference confirmed, year after year, fine grandchildren given access to books, and self education, And wicked fast internet/ tutorials for anything solvers of Rubic's cubes, setters of gathering magic what's and ifs, and but then, so that's better, he thinks, this tinker touching each across time, think yourself useful to us all. Amen. ---------------------- Laughing, thinking of shouting, at the floor, I am so intense because I am alive in my own future, the world's a mess, unless, I laugh, and take the good. It is a sunny November day, after the promised latter rain, laughter functions, leaving lines where old faces wrinkle happily, fitting character traits common to old scout squinty perspicacity. ------------------- Bored, in ever after, eh? ¿Made no plans to pursue, when you had time? Well, as a filler word, or is it a feeler a wordwiggle rough through a ra'thought, be may, may be, maybe so, declaratively so said, indeed, thinking beauty be, what if now, is the same time, any instance taken seriously curious wise, from the initial point perceived, taken, held to hold this thought, or hold that thought as self evidently true, having being in minds let be found like live words, in spirit form, as breaths, taken held, to rethink against knowing again what was meant, so long ago, when all words got scrambled, some lost all sense, such be idle, now, set to activate on recognition, off, set which is no longer the case, you know common conscious ness is the use, men-tal chabad of knowledge actioning knowns under the God pledged and sworn to try to tell the truth, the whole truth y nada mas, aliegiantly, in the spirit of Liberty… inspired emperically in poetry IF, Gunga Din allah Tha… just so, says fear was the problem, not knowledge of wonder and adversity, so opposed for honor, as translated good vs evil, to death, staining beguilement, from aha, got it, reason to woe, original curse, sin during developmental stages interesting times first tier burns of what our story says we mustabin, in the dark ages, previous to the internet. [[== jest, so ==]]- eftsoons obsolete or archaic way of saying "soon afterward," ongean magical once more, with feeling.
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Doorkeeper, where can I find an attention spanner? Wrenching the nose, brings forth blood, so it don't freeze, yawn and rub eustacy from your wide open heavily hooded eyes Eutopian Earthian Mind Schemes, not dreams, moral equivalency resets/upgrade Free any ostiarius, and find doors open in the realm of curiosity, the bane of short attention, at tenere, eh, stretch the fabric of reality just so far, the bubble we be sayin' wagwan like a password, pops and what is going on, lets any enter, imagining this exclusive, exceptionalist aweformed bubble… when a reader re ads attention tension, pop, the idea that was the weasle, offers a way to say this and get free. An ostiarius, freed from slavery when we read the idle teacher of decolonizing clogged cognitive colons… and the sweet persuaders remind us whose time\ Yours, we took this much attention, but you can still use it, we sorta cloned you.
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Oct 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024 at 9:01 PM UTC
Free the ostiarius,
mind is imagery and we are able to choose what is imagined
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Oct 9, 2024
Oct 9, 2024 at 3:39 PM UTC
haiku 24/10/8
Gnoshit, reco-gnosis, makes one imagine I am, no, know I am one, in the largest ever population of nobodies. I am as anonymous as privacy needs to be, open source, casting pearls to pearl eating entities, noticing taking notice, marking time for recollection, whiling away on missed perceptions correction duty. We, the public entity, did we ever have a republic without slaves, as a we, did we become the people who constituted the distribution of power, to the people, under authorized sanctified known terms? On the border between all languages, the gift of translation, we have t'reason, to trusted reasons why we keep war alive, in season, the bulls all wanna breed, the biggest boasters become kings, let Lyndon tell it, ladies. History records the incident as sometime after 20 Aug 1968. While we replay the audio from the show at Khai Vinh, put the mark anywhere? think wonder the verb, if ever once it all seemed much like now the experience, live at the ********** across the highway. Not many had the exact same experience, but the music is all still played in that order, chance opening a vein unexplored limnal spaces. Playlists with metadata dendrite meandering mods. Did you say you once wrote a book a day, by golly, did you think that you wrote with extreme prejudice, or did you slide each phrase, along the edge, to the hilt, each phaze, phinally spinning luck elucifity, apologize for lies I left believed, as certainly as turbulence mastery leaves lads and lassie's breathless, globally on TV, the most imagined sin, connecting, carnal knowing with dis connected what kind of master would forbid knowledge, start there o man of god, make me believe you know, while you know I got you at the grand jesuture, for all to hear, as all believed the lie about us, let all believe the truth, Job was right, no immortal knows a mortal's ignorance of patience's perfecting function, waiting seems sufferage. Endure until the end, pretend you are attending a judgement. And notice, the remembering use by the accused to account for idle words, with penitent acknowledgment, I was beguiled. That's it, we know, the side the enlightener entertains contains all the luminaries of our culture's global echo intent chabad chata hamartia, principle idea, wisdom's dominion, at the point of first precept, no noise, a twist, to on. Our signal through tomorrow, prepaid.
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Aug 13, 2024
Aug 13, 2024 at 9:15 PM UTC
Golden years luck
Gnoshit, reco-gnosis, makes one imagine I am, no, know I am one, in the largest ever population of nobodies. I am as anonymous as privacy needs to be, open source, casting pearls to pearl eating entities, noticing taking notice, marking time for recollection, whiling away on missed perceptions correction duty. We, the public entity, did we ever have a republic without slaves, as a we, did we become the people who constituted the distribution of power, to the people, under authorized sanctified known terms? On the border between all languages, the gift of translation, we have t'reason, to trusted reasons why we keep war alive, in season, the bulls all wanna breed, the biggest boasters become kings, let Lyndon tell it, ladies. History records the incident as sometime after 20 Aug 1968. While we replay the audio from the show at Khai Vinh, put the mark anywhere? think wonder the verb, if ever once it all seemed much like now the experience, live at the ********** across the highway. Not many had the exact same experience, but the music is all still played in that order, chance opening a vein unexplored limnal spaces. Playlists with metadata dendrite meandering mods. Did you say you once wrote a book a day, by golly, did you think that you wrote with extreme prejudice, or did you slide each phrase, along the edge, to the hilt, each phaze, phinally spinning luck elucifity, apologize for lies I left believed, as certainly as turbulence mastery leaves lads and lassie's breathless, globally on TV, the most imagined sin, connecting, carnal knowing with dis connected what kind of master would forbid knowledge, start there o man of god, make me believe you know, while you know I got you at the grand jesuture, for all to hear, as all believed the lie about us, let all believe the truth, Job was right, no immortal knows a mortal's ignorance of patience's perfecting function, waiting seems sufferage. Endure until the end, pretend you are attending a judgement. And notice, the remembering use by the accused to account for idle words, with penitent acknowledgment, I was beguiled. That's it, we know, the side the enlightener entertains contains all the luminaries of our culture's global echo intent chabad chata hamartia, principle idea, wisdom's dominion, at the point of first precept, no noise, a twist, to on. Our signal through tomorrow, prepaid.
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It was bad as I always imagined Honey no longer tastes sweet All who partake intoxicated Words melted in the midday heat Illusions beyond comprehension Evoking apparitions from a fleeting flashback Fragments claimed in the light of day Painted my world in shades of black I could only watch colors fade Charismatic allure had me paralyzed Energy spent transformed into tears Crossed paths unrecognized Time has not dwindled intensity Feeling depth exceeding all measure Defined by despondent devotion You no longer bring body pleasure I dream a life free from anchors The shadows darkening the air In moonlight images my skin unblemished Make-believe scars were never there
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Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024 at 9:24 PM UTC
As Bad As I Imagined
If we can never sail the ocean We’ll still dream of the sea; all have their own notion, Of what it means to be free.
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Apr 10, 2020
Apr 10, 2020 at 5:34 AM UTC
Sailing
Always before him, ever in his thoughts, always in pretense he imagines you are calling like a mermaid from the deep, and he the sailor in a craft being drawn by your song, to the watery grave below and beyond. He always hopeful, ever dreaming, you wake up at night swim in your dreams, to enter his craft and bed and make love, but upon awakening to morning's song, he finds it's all in his saddened head.
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Jul 16, 2019
Jul 16, 2019 at 12:18 PM UTC
Always Before Him.
I’m painting you a million colors. But none of them will stick. They drip and drop, From the canvas to the floor. Without a face, without a name, Who are you? You’re mine. But I’ll sit here colorblind, And wait for you to come.
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Jan 11, 2019
Jan 11, 2019 at 8:21 PM UTC
Breathing paint
Oceans swell as lifestyle sells The bare and barren truth lurks An imagined Photoshop collage Draws weary as deliveries stop Where are you my dear old friend? The one I knew so well as a child Take me home… to the birds that sing, to the trees that whisper and the flowers that bloom.
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Sep 5, 2017
Sep 5, 2017 at 4:21 AM UTC
Behind The Facade
My role as a poetic scribe is… more than I imagined, or had hoped to do; He qualified me, as one of His spiritual nomads, who digs within the Scriptures, in search of those prized gems- eternal lessons of Godly wisdom. I’m not desiring some stratagem, to con people in turning to Him, but to share my heart’s delight of a solid Faith in Christ; He strengthens me and by His Light guides me forward in Truth; by this gift, I can softly voice my limited understanding of His Love for me; I opt to rejoice, having accepted His sufficiency for my Life; I’m an extension of Today’s New Testament Church, rising up with poetic ascension… while embracing my true identity in Him; by His Grace and Spirit, I’ll write new songs, stories, poems and hymns that will lift… all eyes unto the eternal Godhead.
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Feb 10, 2017
Feb 10, 2017 at 2:13 PM UTC
Poem: More Than I Imagined
let go of the blue constantly hidden and true there are too many hills left to climb leave all the windmills behind let go of the guilt that your heart is too big I know it sees too I'm just a guest visiting borrowing your smile just like glue (mending wings and severed strings petal and root) let go of wet salt it cannot be your fault that you shelter our hopes we come mere vessels weak and effervescent; we leave complete with a soul
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Jan 8, 2017
Jan 8, 2017 at 5:12 AM UTC
Fathom (song lyrics)
I'm not going to deny that I've loved. I've loved everyone I've met & they loved me more or less in return. Every love was different, but none were like hers. I wasn't always easy to love. I fought addictions, pulled all nighters working, & she still loved me unconditionally. She shook hands with my demons, and still wanted to stay. If you have someone that loves you in the midst of your personal hell, cherish them. Anyone could love you, but not everyone loves all of you. - irasol.losari
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May 28, 2016
May 28, 2016 at 5:45 PM UTC
Real & Imagined
**This path of mine the avenue literally miles from nowhere nothing but "trees lakes and pine," the sweet sent of your smooth hair, my heart beating fast, you holding my hands and letting me dream, "aware." Your raspy voice your glittery eyes, I'd fear for nothing, to worry or care, "you'll be good to me" I'm "now your bunny" let me be free before I'm lost for all eternity. It's just this life is So **** short, I'd never imagined a hell that could be worse than never getting to be your sort.**
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May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016 at 4:43 AM UTC
Heartbreak, Despair, The End
I hope these words have found you well Better at least Than when there was a dream of we I'd hate to find That your state is that of mine Haunted endlessly By an imagined existence of you and I
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Apr 2, 2016
Apr 2, 2016 at 4:18 AM UTC
Untitled
God is really so much more than we have ever imagined yet it’s within His imagination we’ve all been fashioned. ______________________________
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Feb 25, 2016
Feb 25, 2016 at 7:30 PM UTC
Simple Observation #230 - God is really so much more....
Have you got it~ gathered together: your thoughts piercing perplexed lonely night wanderings~ marriage, friendship, stylish rings sharing many flowers seen in all throughout your life~ lusts, trusts, broken, misplaced, belongings frail and fragile emotions, tears captured in chalices lean, laughters as stargeezery enthusiasts glee-m~ in memory gathered all of your lovers $$$$$$$$$$ would be the smallest island on earth big enough to put them on to play them all bitter arbiter lonely times and prepare for the unforgettable party!
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Dec 1, 2015
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:25 PM UTC
Not From The First Person's Point of View
Whether we go up to heaven, after we die, or plunge down into hell we're only meant to stay for a limited time, so do some mystics tell. Heaven and hell must surely be the two most familiar otherworldly places about but whether they're real or imagined it's only by experience that we will find out. ____________________________________________________
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Sep 22, 2015
Sep 22, 2015 at 6:59 PM UTC
Quatrain #245 - Whether we go up to heaven.....
I wake up alone It's a cold shock Hands clutching the sheets where a few minutes ago I imagined that familiar warmth His hands scarred from fights and glass Wrists bruised from cuffs "Sorry I didn't get back to you, I was arrested then hospitalized" Gone My hands ache My chest aches "You deserve sweet things" He was wrong
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Aug 28, 2015
Aug 28, 2015 at 10:29 AM UTC
Gone (rough draft)
*"My gracious lord, I may be negligent, foolish and fearful; In every one of these no man is free, But that his negligence, his folly, fear, Among the infinite doings of the world, Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord, If ever I were wilful-negligent, It was my folly; if industriously I play'd the fool, it was my negligence, Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful To do a thing, where I the issue doubted, Where of the execution did cry out Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear Which oft infects the wisest: these, my lord, Are such allow'd infirmities that honesty Is never free of. But, beseech your grace, Be plainer with me; let me know my trespass By its own visage: if I then deny it, 'Tis none of mine."*
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May 9, 2015
May 9, 2015 at 4:13 PM UTC
Shakespearean Stage Scene
*Your hair is like white snow, filling my field of view With this beautiful sky of clouds over our heads, Up and on into forever they shall climb, Bringing our imagined dreams to life we can't forget. You sit upon the grass, your the only thing standing Between loneliness, I feel a stab in my throat, Like I cannot bring to words how I feel (the "M" word) Before you find out what I really want to know. You see, I made this song, it's about our kingdom About you and me, my heart dances, I want to know, Is there any place for this song bird who's sung, If it is caged then where do all the notes go?*
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Apr 14, 2015
Apr 14, 2015 at 7:49 AM UTC
Cynthia's Love Song
I run, Aimless, After a glimpsed illusion. I hide, Hopeless, From an imagined devil. I love, Heartless, But never really realising. I hate, Relentless, And never ending despair. But All An Invented Destiny
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Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015 at 4:37 PM UTC
Invented Destiny