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#overflowing
the body has a limit no one tells you where sadness fills it anyway— lungs, throat, behind the eyes like water rising in a locked room until something breaks and it comes out not pretty, not poetic— just salt and shaking just proof we couldn’t hold it we don’t cry because we’re fragile we cry because we are overflowing
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Mar 23
Mar 23, 2026 at 9:23 PM UTC
Overflowing
For the longest time All I could do was sulk I mired myself in memories Surrounded myself with sorrow I dwelt on each detail Poured over every particle of pain Absence seemed to stretch to the stars Vast as the vacuum of the void I felt that my life was as lonely Feared that my heart was as hollow At some point, something shifted Persistent entropy became perpetual energy I started learning to lean into the light Instead of seeking out the shadows Memory, sorrow, pain, and longing revealed Not just as modes of mourning But as aspects of affection And I realized that the space between us Was not empty, but overflowing With love
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Feb 6
Feb 6, 2026 at 2:43 PM UTC
Overflowing
You touched me You filled me  You stretched me You go so deep when you read me Even deeper when you hurt me Deeper still when you want me My body reminisces on the warmth of you My hands memorized the feel of you My mind is so full of you
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Jan 9, 2025
Jan 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM UTC
Full of You
*a quicksands ******* a trap for sure, but the cozy warmth of the feeling, is muy attractive, and the first step is a ****** sweet curlicue slide into oblivion the more you sink, the sweeter the meat, but when you can’t breathe no more, and the lungs burst, neath the sea of reeee~greeted re|greet, and the pinpoint ***** of light bidding you adieu with a wink, is thinking out aloud “ah those human fools, they drown themselves so willingly…”*
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May 20, 2024
May 20, 2024 at 1:49 PM UTC
Don’t swim in the sea of overflowing regret...
Some is too little, And more is never enough. Your chalice spill, an overflowing cup, You would still moan For a top up
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Jun 26, 2023
Jun 26, 2023 at 6:47 AM UTC
When I'm Off The Juice
In pain I labour and toil for such is the lot of Man The Helper comforts not to take the pain away but overflowing Spirit revealing the ends uplifting the Soul into mysterious realms of Truth, and Beauty, and hidden things
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Mar 21, 2022
Mar 21, 2022 at 9:54 AM UTC
Pain
As you sit to look at your calendar, Something once overflowing, Is now becoming more and more Tauntingly blank. In a place between the end of something And the start of the next thing Stuck in what feels like a hiatus As you sit to look at your calendar, Something once overflowing, Is now becoming more and more Tauntingly blank. In a place between the end of something And the start of the next thing Stuck in what feels like a hiatus Bit by bit, Your calendar starts to fill again This time it fills with things for you You and only you Your calendar, It has more white than before But now the white looks like snow Instead of the ice from before.
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Apr 25, 2021
Apr 25, 2021 at 8:07 AM UTC
Blank Calendar
My cup is far from half empty Overflowing with dicsipline and self love in her highest form To choose self love and self respect over forgivness in shallow hopes.
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Apr 14, 2021
Apr 14, 2021 at 10:52 AM UTC
Overflowing
A prelight; relight. Reviving glow breaks the line! Overflow of Light.
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Jun 26, 2020
Jun 26, 2020 at 3:28 PM UTC
Communing and the Eager Wait
The overflowing sadness, that courses through thy vein. Thy heavy mask, that thou places upon thy face, for thous never-ending show. But thou always ask is it worth it? for is it really worth it?.
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May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020 at 1:55 AM UTC
Is it worth it?
Outside life is in its green glory springs and explodes with gusto. Trees and plants shout with joy irrepressible energy pulls me forward leaps ahead from my dust and darkness and takes me into sky from my fright transforms my darkness into light I thank you life for appearing in my night.   It is in this mixture of shadows and sun that you appear most awesome overflowing running over the fearful edge of my soul.
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Apr 24, 2020
Apr 24, 2020 at 10:39 AM UTC
Green Glory
Darkness flows through life Loved the sun and moon for light Hug the night sky tight
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Feb 28, 2020
Feb 28, 2020 at 8:48 AM UTC
Overflowing (Haiku)
They say our body is compiled of 60% water, and everyone runs around preaching self care but my glass is metaphorically full but physically empty. I can’t stomach another drink and I’m starting to to feel like I’m drowning. I’m overflowing from the inside out.
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May 5, 2019
May 5, 2019 at 9:20 PM UTC
Drink water
My heart is made of delicate glass Understand that it breaks easily The tiniest obstacles in my path Freeze my heartbeat temporarily Other times it feels as if It has not yet pumped blood at all Like red waves building up dammed in Cannot push through my scarred heart's wall Sometimes it is so full it bursts Overflowing love right out of my chest But that bliss also means when it bleeds it hurts Great joy comes with proportionate unhappiness
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Apr 20, 2019
Apr 20, 2019 at 11:56 AM UTC
Heart Of Glass
shadows and silhouettes dancing on the ceiling. blinding blue lights circle the bathroom mirrors stained with purple lipstick. silent vibrations from your phone blocked by the shower’s storm and overflowing sink water. spilled lotion bottles and untouched lemon wicks. wadded tissues colored in colorless tears drowning in puddles of the bathroom tiles. girls’ giggles in the room next, moaning through the right wall, and sad chocolate eyes abandoned behind the shower curtains. wet hair, wet mascara, wet sobs; your sad chocolate eyes trapped in a nightmare.
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Oct 22, 2018
Oct 22, 2018 at 10:41 PM UTC
pools of chocolate pain
I’m floating, Just adrift in feeling, Not fully one thing or another. Except when I’m with you. I get filled up with brightness, So much, it overflows. Spills out of me, And tries to fill the room.
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Oct 19, 2018
Oct 19, 2018 at 12:38 AM UTC
Brightness
To be in the eyes of others, your name on their tongue you can not control whether poison or honey drips from their tongue. Some marker your skin with their opinions, and dissect the capillaries of your life. Examining the intricacy, scrutinizing and doubting the flesh you wear, the work you do, the person you are. Some compliment, support and believe making you feel full; a whole and leave you overflowing with love. It is ironic how some see the same parts of you as light whereas others see it as dark. The best parts of you as the worst and your strength as the lack of you. So dear one, don't let their perceptions poison your intention.
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 5:39 AM UTC
What they say
a small cup’s inside a vat drip by drip I”ve been working on filling up that cup when it is full and overflows then I am done for then the vat and I are one.
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Sep 20, 2018
Sep 20, 2018 at 11:11 AM UTC
small cup
I’m genuinely open-palmed to rain… and that skin of yours falling unto... my whole topography… gently sifting… summer showers from… salacious cumulus seduction… I wonder why there’s no escaping bliss… that indescribably sweet torture of… how good it feels to pull apart those ribs… and rip the last remaining strands of victimization... under the influence of sentient ambrosia… and the rivers break out galloping… splashing pirouettes on river banks… caressing, kissing, caressing, kissing… tenderness and passion… drowning hands tightly clenched, screaming madly… “I want you”…
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Apr 19, 2018
Apr 19, 2018 at 7:41 AM UTC
Splash
I'm Spilling Out Up and Over My Head My Heart Overflowing
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Apr 11, 2018
Apr 11, 2018 at 1:37 PM UTC
Spill
Sometimes          I feel a well                    dug deep          into my heart   I try to stop it but it quickly becomes ocean   and overflows        into great tsunami           rises over all the levees              rushes past dams                                  breaks down tall                    city structures,               edifices crumbling            in its path      all the squid and octopi     skitting forth in wild pulses, tentacles entangled      in doorways and rooves         slipping through narrow                 window-openings                    as they pour ink                        in clouds,                          shifting shapes                           in cephalopod excitement                             while blue whales                             and humpbacks                                breach over bridges,                              phosphorescent jellies                           light up                        the dark streets of                       my arteries                      electric eels illuminate                     the alleyways of                    desolation's thick syrup                      and I cannot stop it even                             if I wanted to,                    these darkened,                      swirling waves I am both floating and flying like a jumping manta ray curling around the ferries bobbing in seahorse iridescence weaving between buses as if they were corals And when the storm subsides, colorful rockpools form, rich in diversity It is there, in between the multicolored ***** and succulent shellfish, in a mermaid's        voluptuous smile and turquoise eye that I see you, so crystal clear                 I could reach out                                     and bring you to me,                                    holding you tight                          until the                 gentle break      of           morning
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Sep 3, 2017
Sep 3, 2017 at 5:31 PM UTC
tsunami
Sometimes          I feel a well                    dug deep          into my heart   I try to stop it but it quickly becomes ocean   and overflows        into great tsunami           rises over all the levees              rushes past dams                                  breaks down tall                    city structures,               edifices crumbling            in its path      all the squid and octopi     skitting forth in wild pulses, tentacles entangled      in doorways and rooves         slipping through narrow                 window-openings                    as they pour ink                        in clouds,                          shifting shapes                           in cephalopod excitement                             while blue whales                             and humpbacks                                breach over bridges,                              phosphorescent jellies                           light up                        the dark streets of                       my arteries                      electric eels illuminate                     the alleyways of                    desolation's thick syrup                      and I cannot stop it even                             if I wanted to,                    these darkened,                      swirling waves I am both floating and flying like a jumping manta ray curling around the ferries bobbing in seahorse iridescence weaving between buses as if they were corals And when the storm subsides, colorful rockpools form, rich in diversity It is there, in between the multicolored ***** and succulent shellfish, in a mermaid's        voluptuous smile and turquoise eye that I see you, so crystal clear                 I could reach out                                     and bring you to me,                                    holding you tight                          until the                 gentle break      of           morning
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I'm a little too Excitable Or at least That's what I'm told Too positive With my glass half full Too happy, too many Smiles, I know I'm too naive Too blind, unaware To know what Life's about I'm too busy Floating on air To remember The pain of the ground You think I don't know The pressure and strain Of the final string Of a splitting rope? I've ripped, I've snapped I have no less pain But one thing I do have Is hope Well my glass isn't half full Its overflowing My rose colored glasses Don't leave my eyes I am not too much Of anything Except too good At finding where hope hides
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Feb 6, 2016
Feb 6, 2016 at 1:07 PM UTC
I'm a Little Too...