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#sisyphus
We are the only animals who die twice- once when the life ends once in the panic that it meant nothing. The second death is the expensive one. Seminars. Retreats. Spiritual shops A man in linen who has aligned his chakras with your credit card. What is the purpose of a chair ? The chair did not volunteer. It was a tree once - indifferent, magnificent, Soaking blissfully in the rain. No destiny. No calling. Just lively woods and the slow romance with soil and light. Then came the man with an axe .. And the audacity of purpose. You will hold our tired weight and be grateful for the meaning. The fish has no ambition to garnish your plate. It was busy being a fish, a flickering soul in the deep, complete in itself, requiring no narrative. The river does not dream of turbines. To light your lamps or Charge your car. It simply flows. Gods punished sisyphus, with eternal, futile labor - rolling a boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down It was his assigned purpose. I tell Sisyphus, “put the boulder down” Not because the gods command it. Not because a podcast asked to manifest the climb. Put it down because it is heavy and you are tired And that is reason enough the only kind of reason that was ever real.
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Mar 7
Mar 7, 2026 at 7:42 PM UTC
Purpose
I've tried - so many times, so many countless times, so many relentless times. . . . to become nothing. My first step is always my next. The last. My resolve is stripped by the cold, waking light of morning. frozen morning iris, scourging courage. and my courage - becomes something of a charcoal. Black, brittle, burning in my heart - where my failure runs.
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Oct 11, 2025
Oct 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM UTC
"What's happening to me?"
sometimes i promise, it is only sometimes i would like to be in pain and not the kind where it's tearing at your skin or the steady thrum of a headache no, i need it to be loud and sharp as if there were jagged edges worming their way into me through me burrowing into my lungs so i hesitate to take a breath even though it is essential for my survival a pain so desperate, so consuming that i contemplate giving in no, i should call it what it is giving up i want it to leave hollow graves shallow graves in my bones where the blood will pool mixing in with whatever anguish and despair i have collected i have lived with stored within me because i never knew where else to keep it i could never find another empty house and my pages were leaking ink and so giving in to that pain those jagged edges is the only possible release i can think of the only justification for abandoning the acceptance of the absurd the only way i will feel past the futility of sunken days and soulless eyes
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Aug 10, 2025
Aug 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM UTC
i would like to be in pain
A prisoner of my own desire, balancing the slippery slope. “This time I’ll be better” I say - Unknowing of what lies ahead. Weeks go by, the urge returns. I must do something fun, something to numb the pain. And now - the snake eats its tail.
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Jun 11, 2025
Jun 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM UTC
Slippery slope
History moves in vicious circles, Like vultures circling the dead, Your path appears forward, But the past is a thread. Try as you might, try with all sight, The path circles, dipping in swing, Keep yourself close, the pieces tight, The vultures come, their darkness to bring. Run, for you are prey, The light may call, but you’re the serenade, Forge your paper path, As one always does, in the shade. But history moves in vicious circles, And the vultures circle you, Caught in the dance of fate, In a relentless loop, forever true.
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Jun 9, 2025
Jun 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM UTC
Tread of the ******
sisyphus wished someone stopped him. delicate hands that held hard or hardened hands that held softly. stopping him - but that’s nightmare to him. so he wakes when the night strips naked and pushes the rock up again. he then races down hoping this time he is trampled, that his eternal love ends him. he doesn’t make it before the rock. again. maybe next time, i go down under you **** me head first with all of yourself i will die into you
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May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM UTC
sisyphus’s nightmare and dream
Uphill battles may be ahead, but they are also behind us. Do not follow Sisyphus’s footsteps. Reach your goals and be complete.
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Mar 7, 2025
Mar 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM UTC
22/4 "New Beginnings"
Human life moves fast shows things, words, convinces It shows things that are not created, but about what is created in the heart No healthy person will say And even when life is sad Don't lose hope, because it's very tedious anyway Everything is falling apart You're lying on the ground, you're in despair Suddenly a ray of sunshine appears, Drivetrain like in a sports car Engine straight from the sky It's coming back, and you want to change it, present it like a bestseller, Put it on a distant shelf, away from light, eyes of the gaze for old memories And when you see yourself in the mirror after grayness and indifference... You bet something... It's love, faith, hope -Happiness at last, faith at last, As if my punishment had passed, you thought not seeing your reflection that you have already seen, reflections from the mirror of childhood. It's faith Not only old memories will remain
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Jan 14, 2025
Jan 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM UTC
Transience
i feel like the weight of my world is on my shoulders, a self-inflicted Atlas curse. my actions are coming back to knock me down and crush my resolve. i'm so close. so close to getting everything fixed. and i push the boulder up the hill as Sisyphus did. but every time i near the zenith, i make one small misstep, and everything slips from my hands, rolling me flat again. mere assignments feel like labours of Hercules, impossible trials, with the intent of divine punishment. if i slay the Hydra, will i pass english class?
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Jan 9, 2025
Jan 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM UTC
catching a break feels like a myth
Is a boulder wedged Betwixt thy chest Bearing weight Of moving – beyond Dost thou push against The peak of unrest An unmoving Sought to abscond Accursed encumberment – Zeus, come urgent! Trade distant For the fond That feeling lost To pebble tossed, Skipped Across shallow pond Do you even care for Did you ever – more – Stop to think Or consider at all What precipitates – The flood – the rain – Is the same which Prompted the roll For I have no brake So, to break – my fate – Is what remains To break my fall Now all I hope for Is coming – war – To bleed me Dry and dull Passion – passed Regiment – collapsed Atop sword Of your own recruit And yet I stand Hand in hand With fallen Soldiers – resolute For I am leg-bound, Surface-drowned, By pit Of fruitless pursuit A victim still To down-turned hill And resolution Most astute The storm is done But not the burden That drums – A thunderous applause A wound that heals Still yet conceals Heart held Together by gauze Bless me – rid Thine Sisyphus – Of that stone-still Chore you bore Why must I carry What once was merry Now bruised, Shattered and sore?
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Nov 24, 2024
Nov 24, 2024 at 5:33 AM UTC
Stone Unturning
Ombudsmen mental role play settling as difference does, across time, toy whistles turn into notes that evoke tears. We are the winners, we with eyes and ears that hear, or minds that may imagine doing anything at all. You know. No living thing desires death, must I **** the mobs I help manifest, must I un believe a lie? Comfort the weak. Pay the comforters well, as you would pay your father, to do that work for you, and your father will joyfully be used that way. Think. Old people feeling useless, while others feel useless because they are comfort objects in need of comforting. Good news. You can do this. You can encourage me, I am weak, I need comfort, and, and, and comforting me will comfort you. I am poor and always with you. I am as I am, I make a way for rich men to get through the eye of a needle. I sit upon the dragon horde, helpless, not hopeless My kind of Adamkind, we keep hope alive, we are with you always, help us help you love yourself, help us be happy, we will remain poor, we can stand the weight of all that can be known, poor ain't bad when enough's enough, which, truth be told, is true. Waves tuned perfectly never crash. Light waves in light, see. We simple love simplicity. --- pretenders contending for the use me, use me, put me in coach, let me bat, coach, let me preach, pastor, let me teach, post initiate no vitiated soul. lost it's breath in the race to the grave woke up on a time when this story found iron feet anchored in red clay claiming to making all the rusty dust as that rock rolls this way, can we imagine a happy ever after page that we all are on? who asked? weavenoname is a rule in this game. The riddle being: who was that masked man? The answer being wrong again, I thought I already knew this potentially perhaps, haps being the essence of any state of happiness while standing, scientifically under knowing good and evil understanding mistranslation, willful, then ignorant sacred undefined undefines sacrifice, the act of sacred making, As knowledge branches over time and under ground to soil having life in time for now to function, finally, for goodness sakes… Ai t ia is blaming your cause on word effects… leaving secrets to hint at for the knowing of the landmarks our sapiens sapiens megalithicus ancestors left as weforms in full agreement belearned to turn phi wise pi men t'al time trix, hell to learn, hell to pay, watch t'al slow's time tells a patient story stood upon this very time, at this very point, post happyeverafter. My bubble, my reality ified at my lief and leisure expanded ever after and has yet to pop... - reviewed six years later and called - here, then and now, same person, - six years more experienced, no wiser/
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Jun 8, 2024
Jun 8, 2024 at 12:11 PM UTC
The Problem with Winning
Ombudsmen mental role play settling as difference does, across time, toy whistles turn into notes that evoke tears. We are the winners, we with eyes and ears that hear, or minds that may imagine doing anything at all. You know. No living thing desires death, must I **** the mobs I help manifest, must I un believe a lie? Comfort the weak. Pay the comforters well, as you would pay your father, to do that work for you, and your father will joyfully be used that way. Think. Old people feeling useless, while others feel useless because they are comfort objects in need of comforting. Good news. You can do this. You can encourage me, I am weak, I need comfort, and, and, and comforting me will comfort you. I am poor and always with you. I am as I am, I make a way for rich men to get through the eye of a needle. I sit upon the dragon horde, helpless, not hopeless My kind of Adamkind, we keep hope alive, we are with you always, help us help you love yourself, help us be happy, we will remain poor, we can stand the weight of all that can be known, poor ain't bad when enough's enough, which, truth be told, is true. Waves tuned perfectly never crash. Light waves in light, see. We simple love simplicity. --- pretenders contending for the use me, use me, put me in coach, let me bat, coach, let me preach, pastor, let me teach, post initiate no vitiated soul. lost it's breath in the race to the grave woke up on a time when this story found iron feet anchored in red clay claiming to making all the rusty dust as that rock rolls this way, can we imagine a happy ever after page that we all are on? who asked? weavenoname is a rule in this game. The riddle being: who was that masked man? The answer being wrong again, I thought I already knew this potentially perhaps, haps being the essence of any state of happiness while standing, scientifically under knowing good and evil understanding mistranslation, willful, then ignorant sacred undefined undefines sacrifice, the act of sacred making, As knowledge branches over time and under ground to soil having life in time for now to function, finally, for goodness sakes… Ai t ia is blaming your cause on word effects… leaving secrets to hint at for the knowing of the landmarks our sapiens sapiens megalithicus ancestors left as weforms in full agreement belearned to turn phi wise pi men t'al time trix, hell to learn, hell to pay, watch t'al slow's time tells a patient story stood upon this very time, at this very point, post happyeverafter. My bubble, my reality ified at my lief and leisure expanded ever after and has yet to pop... - reviewed six years later and called - here, then and now, same person, - six years more experienced, no wiser/
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You want to drown yourself in the ocean but it’s hard when you already know how to swim. You don’t need the strength of an Olympian to haul boulders to the top of the hill. They roll back down anyway and your shoulders ******* hurt.
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Dec 19, 2023
Dec 19, 2023 at 8:58 AM UTC
Sisyphus
19/08/2023 Hapless who strain, voice and words for people, hapless who drill thinking it's lethal, this folly encourages, the ethos of silence, on paper, counterfeit order stands, while hastened thoughts simmer in a cauldron of violence. If I catch sight of you with a pavulon vial, I'll behead you for cheating, engage, fight me, draw the trenchant blade, low profiled, distant, and shallow, instead of laughter from the coffin. Pull out your prosthetic faith, before hissing Christ swallows the descending heaven prospect. Give me an authentic shoot-out, where you bleed till death, give me a duel, light up a matchstick, entourage with a black powder keg. On a formica table, you roll the dice if you lose, whip yourself, and one archangel dies. If I lose, tie a bangalore around filthy neck, and my words of nonsense will meet a disgusted hail marrow crusade. Where I challenged, pleasingly conforming chains, we'll answer who follows a pale reflection of faith. So pick up the glove before it taints, silence isn't priceless, words foreshadow the pain, one has to die for the other's blemishes, deception, venom, or vain. Unholster courage, gas me the rage, ignite the fire, matchstick awaits, assume the form of a neophyte, bare cognition flickers, just hold my iron-branded hand, till clash finds muffled eyes, and clots reach one of our brains. Just hold my hand, the dice will turn into Pontius Pilate's pointing finger, whose candle fades, just hold my hand, one ends up shrouded in blasphemy cloak, anointed pariah, yet authentic instead. Or end up like Sisyphus, with a bespoken boulder-like cross, bland, spineless, stripped of sense.
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Oct 22, 2023
Oct 22, 2023 at 1:02 PM UTC
Private Auto-da-fé
19/08/2023 Hapless who strain, voice and words for people, hapless who drill thinking it's lethal, this folly encourages, the ethos of silence, on paper, counterfeit order stands, while hastened thoughts simmer in a cauldron of violence. If I catch sight of you with a pavulon vial, I'll behead you for cheating, engage, fight me, draw the trenchant blade, low profiled, distant, and shallow, instead of laughter from the coffin. Pull out your prosthetic faith, before hissing Christ swallows the descending heaven prospect. Give me an authentic shoot-out, where you bleed till death, give me a duel, light up a matchstick, entourage with a black powder keg. On a formica table, you roll the dice if you lose, whip yourself, and one archangel dies. If I lose, tie a bangalore around filthy neck, and my words of nonsense will meet a disgusted hail marrow crusade. Where I challenged, pleasingly conforming chains, we'll answer who follows a pale reflection of faith. So pick up the glove before it taints, silence isn't priceless, words foreshadow the pain, one has to die for the other's blemishes, deception, venom, or vain. Unholster courage, gas me the rage, ignite the fire, matchstick awaits, assume the form of a neophyte, bare cognition flickers, just hold my iron-branded hand, till clash finds muffled eyes, and clots reach one of our brains. Just hold my hand, the dice will turn into Pontius Pilate's pointing finger, whose candle fades, just hold my hand, one ends up shrouded in blasphemy cloak, anointed pariah, yet authentic instead. Or end up like Sisyphus, with a bespoken boulder-like cross, bland, spineless, stripped of sense.
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Sisyphus finally at rest Finds himself restless It is better to desire Than to have.
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Sep 13, 2023
Sep 13, 2023 at 3:04 PM UTC
Rolling Stone
In all my strength as a child I was a pebble in someone else's shoe and the boulder he rolled every day.
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Nov 21, 2021
Nov 21, 2021 at 11:56 PM UTC
Vignette of Fatherhood
He pushed the weight of the world To the top of the milky way And he leaned, and he sighed As the world rolled away He put the globe on his shoulders As he prepared to climb again He shrugged and it shuddered Spreading fear to little men Igby! Igby, my boy! I feel it coming down on me! This pressure, this weight! Why can I not be free? Some weights are corporeal Like the dumbbells at the barbell Tabs overflowing, drinks and meals These simple weights are easy to quell Then there are the really heavy ones The ones no eyes can see The ones that drag us down to earth That make it hard to flee Our words and obligations All form a lofty load We are all carrying something Along our personal roads And our roads, they go forever But, to where? No one knows...
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Jun 10, 2021
Jun 10, 2021 at 2:42 PM UTC
The Weight
The sunflower reaches up: Tall and proud Vainly striving to reach the sky: A Sisyphean task. For the wind batters; Bruises as it nears. Faces forced to bow. Stems snapped like broken backs. Nevertheless, they still believe. Winter comes: a forced retreat. Petals wither and fall. Reduced, reused, recycled. No longer of interest To bees, birds and we Who only see the first Flush of beauty. Returned unto the soil.
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Sep 24, 2020
Sep 24, 2020 at 7:44 AM UTC
The Sunflower as Sisyphus
For every second step was erroneous, I thought I'd reach a new height of understa………. Then I'd decline to a lower point of where I was before. Never gaining enough elevation to see past the predicament I find myself causally stepping forth upon.. Felling like Sisyphus, always trying to gain a truth only to find out that a step could make me fall more than before. Only wanting to climb this ladder of life, but deceit and snakes keep me from gaining ground... Life is a ladder and some runs are always precarious, do we step lightly, or do we tread upon the next to only find that it was the broken one..
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Apr 17, 2020
Apr 17, 2020 at 4:46 PM UTC
Life Is A Ladder We Falter
A low rumble in the distance The ground trembles and turns My knees betray me The earth quakes The rumble grows louder A dust cloud draws near A cacophony of hooves and heavy snorts I blink, and they’re upon me A stampede of hogs Trampling me Stamping me down I contort I cry out I bleed Mangled, through swollen eyes I watch the mob reach the horizon I’m left broken Tattered, bruised And coated in slime I snap back to consciousness, and I’m sitting up in my bed. That’s the third time tonight, I think to myself. It’s dark, so I listen. A powerful snore echoes beside me. My drooling, snot-faced daughter has snuck into my room again. I wipe her excretions from my shoulder and scoop her up. Navigating the dark, circumventing the tissue-laden floor, Taking extra care not to startle the guinea pig this time, I clean and cover her up, then gently kiss her forehead. I linger and brush her hair aside. Snorting loudly, she turns. With ballerina grace, I tiptoe over Barbie Dolls. In the kitchen, the dishes overflow from the day before. Cleaning till I’m exhausted, I ascend the stairs to my room. A familiar rumble fills the hallway. The hooves crushing my ribs. On my side of the bed, my daughter in a drool-filled, snotty puddle. These dishes are getting done tonight, I think as I scoop her back up.
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Mar 5, 2020
Mar 5, 2020 at 6:50 PM UTC
Sisyphus
One must imagine Sisyphus ripped. Shoulders like Boulders. Quads like God's. He was literally doing Olympian training!
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Mar 2, 2020
Mar 2, 2020 at 6:21 PM UTC
Sisyphus
No matter how much strength of yours is kept It always comes back down to whom you know For every time you think you are adept The caws of meritocracy doth crow Americans have dreamt in dreams of gold High hopes upheld with promises of clout By working hard there’s fortune to behold Lest lack of means cause gatekeepers to doubt Yes, push that rubble up the sacred hill To watch it fall and tumble to the depths For all eternity it is your will To pay with sweat and blood for all your debts Perhaps if only there were something more To lifting destitution from the floor
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Nov 29, 2019
Nov 29, 2019 at 10:52 PM UTC
Ode to Sisyphus
My heart is a stone Rolling slowly uphill At an easy, steady pace They say life's not a race They say you're never alone But it's all just useless, I know Gravity grips hard with each step This treacherous slope grows steep And helpless, I sow what I've reaped As I plummet back to the valley below Pulled two directions by my heart beguiled I climb, fall, climb, fall, climb and fall again Still longing for you, for those days long gone And still trying like hell to get past this, move on My feeble heart forever stuck in this Sisyphean trial
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Aug 23, 2019
Aug 23, 2019 at 1:03 AM UTC
Sisyphean