#suddenly
the couch didn’t creak
until your elbow brushed mine
not loudly,
just enough to shift the air.
your shoulder found a hollow
I didn’t know I carried,
and suddenly
the room felt smaller
but not cramped.
we didn’t speak,
but something aligned
like pages pressed
without folding.
Nov 11, 2025
Nov 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM UTC
I dislike returning to this hellish place
From first step inside I sense my pulse race
I start for one second to turn around
Love and concern have my presence bound
Everything in building looms like my worst nightmare
Instead I try to focus on the one for which I care
Like puzzle I ponder pieces of the past
If I did things different would your breath have ended as fast?
My whole life was spared by the reapers dark dose
Heard whisper call but it never came too close
Water came surging suddenly in sinking your soul to sleep
Would have swam to rescue you but the sea was already too deep
Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM UTC
Trapped in flesh encasing the soul
wrapped in cancerous crust
residue of empty fleeting oppressive
carnal thoughts and pleasures
Slowly bound as a fly in a web
Small grains of poison neverending droplets of rain
harmless attractions
Unseen the process
clearly seen the results
Many of these to be trapped in
many pleasures build houses
of pain many webs much poison and a lot of rain
Many days become many
years What is out of sight
still weakens spirit and mind
All experienced in the body
the flesh imprisoning the soul
Trapped in this flesh encasing the soul
a chrysalis in putrid
cancerous crust
SUDDENLY birthed as a New Creation of
spirit and mind made whole
Not perfect but whole
Escaping as a fly from the ensnaring web
one grain of sand small compared to mountain
Small steps of faith
unseen the process
clearly seen the results
Many cocoons to transform
in many steps of faith to
take many webs to avoid
many webs to escape
Much poison to grow
immune to much rain
many days
All experienced
in the body
the metamorphosis of
the soul.
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM UTC
You turned up suddenly in my life.
I wasn’t expected at all.
You was so determined and daring.
You hold me tightly in whole.
You understood what to do,
What I wanted and dreamed about.
Even though you knew me a bit,
You knew what I needed just now.
And unnoticed, in a half whisper,
You appeared beside me
As the rustle of leaves, the wind sound.
I don’t know how it could be.
It’s like you are on “Replay”
All day long till it’s dark.
When the night comes and I fall asleep,
You are with me stark!
Feb 1, 2025
Feb 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM UTC
Does it always go this way
I mean you suddenly text
outta the blue
after you threw our friendship away
You erased me , blocked me
Shattered me
Yet here you text
and I can't walk away
I can't ignore
I want to trust you
I want to believe you
feel sorry
or you actually realize
our meaning to each other
Who am , I kidding
**** here , I go again
don't you dare
play me !!!
it will be you hurting
this , I promise you !!
© Jennifer L DeLong 🦏4/3/2021
Apr 5, 2021
Apr 5, 2021 at 5:20 AM UTC
A part of me feels
like we weren’t supposed
to come across one another.
It’s like the breeze
made us crash into
each other’s arms
on that windy
afternoon in the
park.
- force of nature.
Aug 2, 2020
Aug 2, 2020 at 8:01 PM UTC
She was my everything until she said I ment nothing to her
Like a passage in a dream remembered
Being that the best are forgotten and relearned like lessons from our past
She had scared my heart and that will last
Shes a stranger to me now just as she wanted it
Like an old book urning to be read but forbidden to be opened
Lonely thoughts of an emptied heart are all that's left
How sad is it to be broken and not repaired
Jan 1, 2020
Jan 1, 2020 at 11:22 PM UTC
:::::
This afternoon gets warmer by the hour,
weird, sweaty, sere ground.....no water,
not even a shy wind to blow a feather
an unwanted restrain....very much, a tether
senses seem numbed.....unaware,
:::::
suddenly,
clouds part....in a flick of a finger,
a bolt of lightning.....then, roars the thunder
sweet energy cracks in a simple quiver
:::::
tap ruptures........rain pours
releasing scent of sweet petrichor
withered soil and rain unite
nourishing roses...yellow, pink, white
soul is sparked....instantly inspired
::::::
suddenly,
eyes and mind are drunk, yet, they concur
bulging with ideas and images without blur
all are energized by the miraculous rainwater
:::::
suddenly,
behind the wet bushes, an open mic unfolds,
frogs' croaks alternate with lizards' call...behold,
up the trees, crickets, katydids sing relentlessly
ahhh, a kind wind....it's a bit colder...finally
:::::
where sun dips, and beyond...amidst a cold
dark, a slam poetry session is live, where the bold
ones hiss, shriek, or sing in monotones...no rules,
all do their thing at the same time.......like fools.
:::::
rain has stopped, folks are out, taking it easy
............mosquitoes are ever ready
this night.....could really be ****** :)
:::::
Sally
© Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
October 6, 2018---
Apr 16, 2019
Apr 16, 2019 at 8:53 PM UTC
There is a sheep
Playing in the court
That is wide
He jumps happily
He feels funny
He sings loudly
But suddenly
He felt lonely
He goes immediately
To search for friendly
He walks shortly
He walks straightly
He walks unlikely
Till he finds them
They are great
They are like him
Sheep and goats'
He invites them
They get hesitated
He says obviously
The court is wide
The plants are great
They are green
Who wants happy?
Must live there
Who wants heaven?
Must go yonder
They look at faces
Why don't they go?
Why don't they do"
The effort to get more
To make their life happy
They deal with themselves
with honest and funny
feeling at inner
with the sense of satisfy
of the sense of ready
to thank their God truly
They are all going happily
Sep 15, 2018
Sep 15, 2018 at 11:32 PM UTC
i finally remembered what it was
to feel happy and content
instead of just "not sad"
the sun comes around more often
sticks around longer
it paints my world in colors more beautiful
than those it gives the sky because suddenly,
when my friends laugh , i can too
and i am loud again
and instead of walking, i skip
suddenly, instead of dreading the day,
i wake up to moments full of potential
and i worry less about every single thing i do
suddenly, being with people
is as invigorating as it used to be
once upon a time ago.
of course, the rain will come again
and the sun will leave with summer
and it is then, especially, that i will hurt again
but suddenly, i have hope.
Mar 30, 2018
Mar 30, 2018 at 7:03 PM UTC
suddenly the world is beautiful
suddenly the world looks wonderful
suddenly the world sings with delight
suddenly the world has skies so bright
it's all because we've
found love my dear
and our shared love
shall always endear
in divine devotion
our hearts shall stay
with an accord so
glowing of day
suddenly the world has a closeness
suddenly the world shows such happiness
suddenly the world dances in perfect time
suddenly the world gifts a lasting chime
forever our love
shall be so lush
in each and every
season of lovely blush
darling our love
was meant to be
a combination
of such blissful lee
suddenly the world speaks of harmony
suddenly the world is a symphony
suddenly the world feels so ideal
suddenly the world has a starry appeal
Feb 21, 2018
Feb 21, 2018 at 3:59 AM UTC
I right thousands of letters.
But only “u” hurts me a lot.
It tears me apart every time it pops.
But all I can do is just write it down,
To keep my alphabet complete.
For me to learn how to move on.
Nov 7, 2017
Nov 7, 2017 at 3:53 AM UTC
Suddenly
I saw you months ago but I was too busy chasing the past
Keep on blaming myself for losing something that I wish would've last
I lost interest to everything, broke down and worst, I thought I wanted to die
But thank goodness I was snapped and brought back to my sanity
Through God, family and closest friends, I slowly healed
Till now I know Im a working progress
So when new year's came, new perspective came as well
And you're one of them
On a cold day of January, I saw you on a different light
Now you're all I think about
...
Jan 28, 2018
Jan 28, 2018 at 4:50 AM UTC
There's a lot,
Passing between,
You and me,
Suddenly.
There's a lot,
Passing between,
You and me,
Suddenly.
Though we are separate now,
On different lands...
But we have walked along,
Holding hands...
There's a lot,
Passing between,
You and me,
Suddenly...
Though we are distant now,
So far away...
But we have moved along,
Hips in sway...
There's a lot,
Passing between,
You and me,
Suddenly...
May 25, 2017
May 25, 2017 at 9:30 AM UTC
I saw your neck line.
I felt a wind
Being blown to my chest,
We were in a crowd when
Suddenly,
We were the only ones there;
The earth stood still
and for a moment I thought
I could hear my own breath.
Mar 31, 2016
Mar 31, 2016 at 2:07 AM UTC
couples spill from Cornucopia
caught, clutched, crunching
onto pavement as they slam
and the gravel ground scrunching
the force of their sudden landing
holes burnt through atmospheric rubble
new age, new kids, new scorn
a five-thousand-decade struggle
and singles sprout subtly
sporting secular ideals
throwing nuclear doubts and partitions
jealousy: frozen frosted steel
hearts in half and searching
they thaw eventually to the sway
the hallowed pairs light up red strings
to help them on their way
Nov 2, 2015
Nov 2, 2015 at 5:57 AM UTC
We all have to grow up some day
Get a job,
Earn money,
All that jazz.
It's funny,
Because it comes sooner
And more quickly,
Way scarier
Than some of us realise.
It dawns on us
Like a tidal wave on an unsuspecting village,
Or hurricane that didn't show on the radar.
Just think,
Everyone grows up.
Even if we don't want to.
Jul 25, 2015
Jul 25, 2015 at 11:28 AM UTC
I can’t help wondering
if he showed up suddenly
and walked right up to me
would I have anything to say?
Would he look on adoringly
when it ended so horribly?
Or is it only me
left feeling this way?
Jun 19, 2015
Jun 19, 2015 at 2:32 PM UTC
Let me feel it
For I feel so numb
Let me hate me
For being a dumb
Let me hold you
While you don't hold me back
Let me suffer
Since I deserve the pain
Let me be with you
Even you're with her
Let me stay
Until I will
Until I can
Let me LOVE you
Though it's over. Forever
Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 11:56 AM UTC
You fly,
When your high.
Because if you die...
I will only know that you made a big lie,
For that you would quit.
Because of your whit!
**But you need to realise,
That in order to rise.
You need to be wise.**
Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 12:14 PM UTC