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#weeds
She plants weeds in Her garden and waters them everyday, that's easier than pulling them out- wouldn't you say? She wants to grow flowers in Her garden, but they’d get overthrown- by the weeds in Her life that've already been sown. That’s what She believes, what Her life has shown, so why try again when She already “knows” -the outcome.
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Mar 5
Mar 5, 2026 at 12:53 AM UTC
Sown Down Weeds
Now we are no longer weeds uprooted and bereft, we can conquer this old clearing chastened for its brazen wildness, break through crusted soil into the earth we were kept from and leap into the sun's arms and onto the fingers of our poisoners, who will once again relish us and anoint their mouths with good poison, their happiness kept in tinctures of promises, labelled with a thousand names, their sorrows boiled away into creamy concentrate, shrooming sluggishly onto the powdery ceiling, forgotten along with old asbestos and dreams that are hard to reach. May they lie sprawled at the dim window before our emerald field, content with what they've grown. Now we are no longer weeds, The dew tends lovingly to our unkempt mane.
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Jan 15
Jan 15, 2026 at 4:58 AM UTC
The Hidden Crop
Lawn grows with vigor If it's fed the proper way Or weeds take over
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Dec 30, 2025
Dec 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM UTC
Grass
The weeds in our garden Grew as fast as the pile Of your unreplied letters
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Mar 17, 2025
Mar 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM UTC
Unreplied letters
History has always had your back. Society will always stab you in it. Let heads roll low on the ground, While you hold your head high. Might doesn’t ever make right. The strongest among us are always those with naught but compassion and kindness growing in their hearts. Weeds, they will always grow back. Society will tell you that there is no difference between strength and will. History tells us that will is stronger.
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Mar 7, 2025
Mar 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM UTC
74/12 "Willflower"
Crystal tears, Make up a diamond sea, Where on the golden shores, Glass roses grow. But I picked the green weeds instead.
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Jan 10, 2025
Jan 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM UTC
Natural
Powdered concrete broken down, Rocks show on the barren ground. Tiny particles of dust and sand, The dirt is rich in this poor land. But you see a **** poke from a crack— That's just a sign of beauty, new growth pushing concrete back. The **** bares a sight of simple charm, The sweetest daisy, growing strong, green leaves for arms. The beauty this daisy possesses shows such grace; It shines upon her yellow florets, her face. What beauty comes from something walked on, Something that's kicked and never looked upon! This beautiful daisy, not only a new birth from the ground, Shows signs of a new beginning and joy all around.
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Dec 8, 2024
Dec 8, 2024 at 2:21 PM UTC
The Sweetest Daisy
The weeds in our garden Grew as fast as the pile Of your unreplied letters
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Sep 13, 2024
Sep 13, 2024 at 7:38 PM UTC
Unreplied letters
seeds fluff the air agents of a nuisance **** ;                          'the city' warns faded ladybirds thrive aggressors from a foreign land ;                                'the city' warns
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Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024 at 11:43 PM UTC
01111 00011 (companion pair)
I am pulling weeds from the garden and I want to scream "there is nothing wrong with you there is nothing wrong with you there is nothing wrong you" I am replacing you with something beautiful and hard to maintain because I value appearances more than growth There is nothing wrong with dandelions i swear, please do not develop a complex, I just cannot love you unless someone else does My father spent years weeding me and trust me it gets easier it hurts less if you learn to hate yourself the same way There is nothing wrong with you I just have to do this he is coming over later and he might remember he doesn't love me if he sees you here There is nothing wrong with you but I will **** you still Like my father Commended for everything I grow in the wake of what I **** There is nothing wrong with you I scream but I will throw you away and you will wonder what is wrong with you anyway He told me I have room to grow before hugging me goodbye There is nothing wrong with you he said I just don't want you here
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Jun 24, 2023
Jun 24, 2023 at 5:15 PM UTC
Under a green thumb
I pluck the weeds out of my head every season, All the bad, the negative thoughts, the unhealthy habits, so the flowers have room to grow. Until the next season, when the weeds regrow and I must pluck them again. I grab the base, pulling up the roots, Without roots, they won’t grow back. They do.
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Apr 12, 2022
Apr 12, 2022 at 3:26 PM UTC
Weeding
Weeds in the garden tend to grow all by themselves the way of nature _____________
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Mar 19, 2022
Mar 19, 2022 at 8:46 AM UTC
Haiku #11 - Weeds
My lonely field no one to accompany, there are weeds growing high up till my chin. I am barefoot, walking around aimlessly my feet are bleeding many pebbles beneath my feet I am searching for the sun hiding behind the clouds the colours are sepia black, brown, yellow soon there is rain pouring over my face the scene goes muddy then moon follows and the night conquers and till when it is dawn I am long gone. *a walk in my field, a walk into my life it is how it is stay where you are scenery is not pretty*.
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Mar 30, 2021
Mar 30, 2021 at 12:54 PM UTC
a walk into
A single flower Blooms among the tangled weeds Beauty in the mess
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Mar 17, 2021
Mar 17, 2021 at 10:40 AM UTC
Untitled
Why am I so quick to crave death? When things get difficult And my world spins I haven't truly suffered Not nearly enough Even so My body aches to be still To stop entirely I crave the silence and peace That comes with a grave Despite this I persist Like a **** through the sidewalk cracks Ever growing Craving the sunlight
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Mar 6, 2021
Mar 6, 2021 at 3:03 AM UTC
Craving
i'll raise an electric fence around the gods up there in mountains and ivory towers and they'll all wear shock collars too i'll spread peanut butter on bread and send it to them through the mail i'll write them letters from the lower world saying that 'time really isn't a bother anymore because apples rot in home baked pies down here' i'll reach through my own tainted build up of corrosive discharge and pull a petal from the flower of life to eat in front of them with a coffee toothed smile i'll throw weeds over palisades into groomed gardens i'll **** on the flaming sword spinning like i do outside heavenly gates i'll put AA batteries on my ******* and force feed the north star until it bursts i'll stain the glass in windows extolling failures and shining blunders under vaulted ceilings i'll be nothing less than the imperfect son of an imperfect man and an imperfect woman-- human all too human after all
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Mar 5, 2021
Mar 5, 2021 at 10:46 AM UTC
Nietzsche niche
Wildflower, you Were no fresh spring rose, scented Instead, a dry ****
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Jan 28, 2021
Jan 28, 2021 at 6:51 AM UTC
weeds
You can be a small flower in life. You may struggle to bloom. To settle your roots. To have the perfect position for the sunshine. What you really need to do is **** your garden. Your field. Then, and only then, open your petals as wide and beautiful that they can go. And just bloom. Sometimes all we need is to empty those holding us back, only then in order to rise. To rise to the sun.
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Jul 18, 2020
Jul 18, 2020 at 4:16 AM UTC
Rise in life ^
Tend the flowers in your heart. Mend them. Give them time to sow. Allow them to grow.
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Jul 12, 2020
Jul 12, 2020 at 12:32 PM UTC
Patience is a virtue.
A tree stares in disbelief at an axe with an unsharpened edge Unsure if its fate is to be beaten rather than chopped to death before giving birth to tables and chairs A pavement recoils in disgust that weeds and not roses sprout from its crevices Indignant at the unfairness of it all Even the pictures painted by words scrawled on anguished walls seem to have something to say While I’m lost in thought on a park bench trying to make sense of masked lockdown/murdering/rioting days
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Jul 4, 2020
Jul 4, 2020 at 7:56 AM UTC
Observations During Lunchtime
My garden is only full of Black Nightshades, It is what I am made of. A flower that is considered a **** An invasive species. Am I invasive in the way I talk, Loud and commanding? Am I invasive in the way I care, About all species? Tell me,  Am I poisonous to the tongue? Is the way I scream and sob about the world's odious ways invasive? Would you like me to be voiceless? Tell me, Are the way my words hit your skin prickled with hatred and toxicity? Is the way my tear hits the soil a sign that I’m delicate? Tell me, Do the ways that my stems reach for the sun seem invasive?  That I crowd and push, The way my garden stands tall. On guard and at attention. Tell me, When the poison drips down your throat, Is it as invasive as your thoughts? As invasive as you thought I would be? Is my garden not your idea of picture-perfect? Cut clean and full of color, Bright blues and pinks? Is the way I present myself poisonous, Is it invasive to your existence? My garden is not here to be pretty, It is here to be hurt but not hardened by the world. The changing season and brutal weather will not sway my roots. I’m here to grow,  Even if it seems invasive.
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Jul 1, 2020
Jul 1, 2020 at 6:55 PM UTC
Poison Berries
Pretty weeds growing from the cracks of the ground.
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Jun 23, 2020
Jun 23, 2020 at 3:31 AM UTC
Pretty Weeds.