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i have since learned however that in scientific terms there might be something in the belief that a full moon will impact upon a person's behaviour and can lead to subtle changes of mood and patience not due to spiritual gravitational or mystical effects though but simply because the circadian rhythm can get disrupted by that sudden flood of silvery moonlight known as increased nighttime illumination which can cause some to struggle to fall asleep while others may experience up to thirty percent less deep sleep than they need
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Mar 9
Mar 9, 2026 at 12:01 PM UTC
lunar effect pt2
it makes no sense to someone like me when they say that the pull of the moon at its fullest can make people behave strangely differently erratically seemingly out of nowhere; whether at its fullest or as a mere slither in the night sky the actual moon remains ever-present and unchanged in both mass and gravitational pull the effects of which must remain largely the same regardless of how much is visible and illuminated on any given night
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Mar 9
Mar 9, 2026 at 10:46 AM UTC
lunar effect pt1
First froze the 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩, When the 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘵 climbed too far. Then was it scalded, When the ¹horses came too close. Of course, Most people eschew mythology & learn only from reduced histories. Similar situations such as this, Like Climate Change, We have lived through before as a species. That much is plainly obvious. The kicker is, At least with what's left of those records, There is an implication it was also from us. From how ancestors of ours treated Earth's ecology. But also, How the universe treated us.
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Jul 30, 2025
Jul 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM UTC
Phaethon; Son Of Helios?
There is no darkness. I mean this symbolically, But also quite literally. There is light Constantly all around you, Flowing through you. Spectrums you can see, Spectrums you don't. But are you able to?
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Jul 28, 2025
Jul 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM UTC
Apollo
Think nothing of water which percolates, Liquid evaporates. Such are the forms trapped within themselves, Meaningless rotes. By formlessness corporeal, But with materiality intangible. Forlorn immolation; Condensates re-saturate, only different. Incongruent crystallization; And they say there is change! By factors invariant, But with sums nonconstant. A laugh is a laugh, verbalized or written - It's still the same fundamentally. Tears are tears, dribbled or scribbled - It's still the same in essentiality. By elements unproposed, But with totalities nonexistent.
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May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM UTC
A Fella Named Doctrine, Monroe; On & By The Basis Of The Individual
Fission, fusion. Derision after derision. Creation, destruction. Degredation after degredation. Combination, seperation. Decay after decay. Fusion, fission. Praise after praise. Destruction, creation. Amelioration after amelioration. Splitting, collaboration. Growth after growth. I know only That I know nothing!
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Apr 23, 2025
Apr 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM UTC
Needful Things
You couldn't tell if I was crazy If you were even any sane! And you're not. You couldn't tell if I was sane If you weren't any crazier! But you are! Does it hurt your head to think? Why, let it stop! Does it hurt your chest to breathe? Why, just quit it! Soemone else can do that for you, You can just take the credit! For if the heart should ache You're better off without it! But serious- The cloud tells the rain What is & is not water. Do the falling droplets care? "What are these foreign definitions?" The destination is the same, Their own priorities remain, And perspective is unchanged. These strange properties, Words themselves as elements When strung together by sentence. Is repentance within a reflection? Redemption by sight through a drop of liquid? What grippings within these pensions, What potential within these tensions, What whippings within these conventions. By the accounts of every party attended, What stern material has been cobbled. Yet, poverty is worn stronger. That which itself is as the weather, I think it closer to trinkles Than shine & twinkle. What do the poor pour? What do the bums toast? What do the homeless shower? A buddy of mine Left really only notes. Another was a rotten cheater. I knew one that liked to play with guys, Knew one that liked masks & needles. Comes what? What goes? Who knows. It can't be worse than before, But that's not something you remember. Of course, I mean, not someone you know.
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Apr 17, 2025
Apr 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM UTC
Spitting Into The Sail
i am a literal thinker something not verY useful for a pOet for everyone else writes Using metaphors and Dreamlike language that i dOn't kNow how To replicate Unless i caN somehow teach myself to write like a poet Does i will forEveR be loST in this ethereAl world but at least everyoNe will think i Dont truly mean what i say
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Mar 6, 2025
Mar 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM UTC
Literal Thinker
Plenty, long - it is pitiful. Is it never better than to taste of it? Empty, numb - it is pitiful. Is it naught that is more flavorful? In the living glass of the universe I am a liquid, Drink the drink. By the marsh like mixture of life, Split the iris, Eye to eye. As the electric echo of an echo Waves as expression, I am a particle. I am the light By the gypsum rose grown. I am the order borne out of the primordial. In weaves & webs perennial, I am the pyramid doubled. By the barycenter offset zero, I am without mass & weightless. In the predeterminants of the hypermatrix, I am a bolt of lightning and the thunder. By the storm of the ocean struck, I am a standing wave in motion. Material and immaterial.
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Nov 21, 2024
Nov 21, 2024 at 1:48 PM UTC
Drink The Draught
Anonymous, oblivious To the person kneeling before me. My head spinning, Throbbing, Weakness in the knees. My heart racing, Trembling, Color flushing cheeks. Darkness, heavy scents Intoxicating. Gripping the sheets
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May 18, 2024
May 18, 2024 at 5:54 PM UTC
Drain You
I like ****** the most When they're quiet and know their worth. Them being the only ones To sell themselves out; Set the rate yourself. It'd be a shame Living on your back For but paltry wealth. Small penance too, For fleeting looks and fading health. Not a profession with a pension, Not a career with a penchant for happiness; But if fucking's your passion It's shorter lived in-person than on camera.
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May 15, 2024
May 15, 2024 at 12:21 PM UTC
Husks of Latex
Rain makes me feel safe. I’ve long found home in the storm... Why can’t it just stay?
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Oct 4, 2020
Oct 4, 2020 at 2:12 PM UTC
Runaway home
longing for summer; literally,metaphorically
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Sep 17, 2020
Sep 17, 2020 at 7:47 AM UTC
💛
I miss the rainfall As these short days grow colder I await my love
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Sep 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020 at 9:44 AM UTC
Storms passed
Gift me with song My darling flute-player Gentle stirrings Musical stimuli Rouse the heavens To extraordinary flight Take me to the throes Of immorality and back The jetstream of which Will glisten like gold Upon your sacrificial lips
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Jan 4, 2020
Jan 4, 2020 at 1:49 PM UTC
The Flutist
It is sunny out But I know storms are coming Where are the storm clouds?
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Jun 7, 2019
Jun 7, 2019 at 11:40 AM UTC
A Haiku
It is, I tell you, I promise. It sits on my right, open and barely touched. Pure condensation glittering on the outside Chemical intoxication squatting on the in. Charmingly Silver and a splash of red the colour of an impulsive clown. "Diet" it says, Im not on one. "Coke" it says, Im not on that either. why are you even here?
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Dec 2, 2018
Dec 2, 2018 at 8:24 PM UTC
Its a Diet Coke
Hi [How high is it?] I’m not exactly sure—how tall are you? [I’m about as tall as I’ll ever be—one day soon, I’ll probably start shrinking. I’ve heard that happens when you get older.] Well... [Well, you say? How deep is it?] It’s hard to tell, since I never used it for water. [Deep wells are best—why I still remember the drought of ‘34 and all the trips we made to the neighbor’s well after ours dried up.] I’m sure those were quite the days, but how are you today? [Today? Today I do as I please...so long as I’m pleased to do as I’m suppos’d to.] That sounds like a good strategy. [Thanks. You’re welcome to adopt it—I won’t even charge you for it.] How generous of you. Thanks. You have a good day now, ok? [I hope to, because every day above ground is a good day.]
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Sep 27, 2018
Sep 27, 2018 at 3:42 AM UTC
A conversation with Grandpa
she won't stop crying she says you did her wrong she saw right through your lies but she still chose to play along now she is bruised she sings an irregular song now she is empty because, with all her love, you have gone.
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Sep 16, 2018
Sep 16, 2018 at 6:36 PM UTC
the heart
# "Stop and smell the roses" is an ironic cliché, cause when doing so literally, it is strange? #
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May 20, 2018
May 20, 2018 at 9:35 PM UTC
The Cliché of Smelling Roses
The first odyssey is a difficult one To step out into the blue and hope not to fall But fall you will. Usually fast and quite hard The next time you walk out yonder It’s with more care, but the result is inevitable Sometimes you leap off the cliff. Sometime you inch off of it Sometimes you don’t even see the edge Eventually the landings become easier. Your knees cushion you. Your arms splayed for balance. Is it getting easier? No! Sometimes you hit every outcrop on the way down And land in a broken heap on the shore But you know what You’ll do it again, we all do.
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Feb 13, 2018
Feb 13, 2018 at 11:02 AM UTC
It starts to get easier?
i’m typing this as i’m waiting for you to get back from the bathroom. in the starbucks cozy acoustic music is playing and your mocha frappucino half empty is on the table in front of me. your lips have touched the lid and i don’t want to be that person but i wonder. i wonder how it feels does it know that it’s lucky. can it tell me its secrets how does it do that? get you to open up and let inside the warmth? i’m not jealous. just curious. you should be back any second now. you might walk out back to our cliche little table and ask me what i’m doing what i’m typing so furiously what i’m so passionate about. i will want to say you. i love you right here right now right time right place i won’t though maybe i’ll say “i forgot to finish this paper that’s due at 11:59 tonight” or maybe i’ll say “i just got an urgent email about my political science class tomorrow” or maybe i’ll say “an old elementary school friend just sent me a Facebook message and i need to reply” or. or maybe i’ll say “nothing. nothing more important than our coffee.” maybe i’ll just close my laptop mid-sentence because it’s true. nothing is more importa
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Nov 2, 2017
Nov 2, 2017 at 11:13 PM UTC
more important than our coffee
I'm sick I've got the flu so I let the cat outta the bag I'm feeling bad, so forgive my lack of lyrical display it's caused me lots of dismay So please find it in your hearts to forgive me today I'll be poetic again when I'm better, trust me :)
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Nov 30, 2015
Nov 30, 2015 at 10:21 PM UTC
I'm sick