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 899ยฐ 
Breann
Today the weather mirrored meโ€”
gray thoughts hung low, heavy and wide.
I lay in bed, heard leaves brush secrets,
heard the wind howl what I hide.

I peeked through blinds, saw flooded walks,
rain pouring like it never ends.
A world soaked through in quiet grief,
no rush to break, no need to mend.

I stepped outsideโ€”my shoes went dark,
each step a soft and sinking sigh.
My hair, once dried from morningโ€™s rinse,
now clung like truths I brushed aside.

Cold traced fingers down my neck,
the air was sharp, the silence loud.
But somehow, soaked and shivering,
it felt like standing in a crowd.

It hasnโ€™t rained in far too longโ€”
just like I havenโ€™t cried for days.
But now the sky and I agree:
we flood in our own sacred ways.
 647ยฐ 
Kai
"Respect your elders!"
"Respect your elders!"
"Respect your elders!"
"Respect your elders!"
"Respect your elders!"
"Respect your elders!"
How about respect my boundaries
Respect your place
Mind your business
Stop cyber stalking me, Ryan
Before I figure out where you are and smack you in the face
NO???? IM NOT GOING TO RESPECT MY ELDERS IF THEY DONT RESPECT ME AND THATS FINAL.
 427ยฐ 
Zahra Ali
Sometimes, it feels like
words have become
extinct dinosaurs,
Like the earth has
already sunk them
deep.
fossilsโ™ก
 426ยฐ 
Shattered
Hearts like mine,
With unspoken words,
Unknown pain,
Unseen tears,
Unheard pleas,
Just dont sit well,
With hearts like yours.
 362ยฐ 
Mel Little
You donโ€™t know

That I trace

Three words

On your back

In every language that I know

So that it sinks into your skin,

So that your soul knows before your ears ever do
 286ยฐ 
A Vryghter
โ€œWhen I die,
return me to nature.
I donโ€™t want to be in a wooden hug,
thatโ€™s as dead as Iโ€™ll be.
I want my hands gripping grass,
and my lungs filling with dirt.

Donโ€™t give me flowers,
if theyโ€™re not planted
on my last blanket.

One day Iโ€™ll die,
until then, Iโ€™ll enjoy
every second of being.โ€

A.V.
When Iโ€™m wrapped in vines, my death will come.
 260ยฐ 
Todd Sommerville
She does this thing
a subtle imperfection.

She puts her hair up,
and lets it spill out
along the edges.

Framing her face in sunlight,
diffused just right,
through locks of gold.

Her eyes smile in unison
with the curve of her lips.

Her blue eyes pierce my soul.

And then she laughs,
the sweetest little laugh.

And my heart is no longer my own.
It's her subtle imperfections that make her perfect to me.
 255ยฐ 
Rebecca
And words
are like birds
that keep flying in my thoughts
and far away.
 253ยฐ 
Germain Nouveau
Fou
Que je sois un fou, qu'on le dise,
Je trouve รงa tout naturel,
Ayant eu ma part de bรชtise
Et commis plus d'une sottise,
Depuis que je suis... temporel.

Je suis un fou, quel avantage,
Madame ! un fou, songez-y bien,
Peut crier... se tromper d'รฉtage,
Vous proposer... le mariage,
On ne lui dira jamais rien,

C'est un fou ; mais lui peut tout dire,
Lรขcher parfois un terme vil,
Dans ce cas le mieux c'est d'en rire,
Se fรขcher serait du dรฉlire,
ร€ quoi cela servirait-il ?

C'est un fou. Si c'est un bonhomme
Laissant les gens ร  leurs mรฉtiers,
Peu contrariant, calme... en somme,
Distinguant un nez d'une pomme,
On lui pardonne volontiers.

Donc, je suis fou, je le rรฉvรจle.
Nous l'avons, Madame, en dormant,
Comme dit l'autre, รฉchappรฉ belle ;
J'aime mieux รชtre un sans cervelle
Que d'รชtre un sage, assurรฉment.

Songez donc ! si j'รฉtais un sage,
Je fuirais les joyeux dรฎners ;
Je n'oserais voir ton corsage ;
J'aurais un triste et long visage
Et des lunettes sur le nez ;

Mais, je ne suis qu'un fou, je danse,
Je tambourine avec mes doigts
Sur la vitre de l'existence.
Qu'on excuse mon insistance,
C'est un fou qu'il faut que je sois !

C'est trop fort, me dit tout le monde,
Qu'est-ce que vous nous chantez lร  ?
Pourquoi donc, partout ร  la ronde,
ร€ la brune comme ร  la blonde,
Parler de la sorte ? - Ah ! voilร  !

Je vais mรชme plus ****, personne
Ne pourra jamais me guรฉrir,
Ni la sagesse qui sermonne,
Ni le bon Dieu, ni la Sorbonne,
Et c'est fou que je veux mourir.

C'est fou que je mourrai du reste,
Mais oui, Madame, j'en suis sรปr,
Et d'abord... de ton moindre geste,
Fou... de ton passage cรฉleste
Qui laisse un parfum de fruit mรปr,

De ton allure alerte et franche,
Oui, fou d'amour, oui, fou d'amour,
Fou de ton sacrรฉ... coup de hanche,
Qui vous fiche au cล“ur la peur... blanche,
Mieux... qu'un roulement de tambour ;

Fou de ton petit pied qui vole
Et que je suivrais n'importe oรน,
Je veux dire... au Ciel ;... ma parole !
J'admire qu'on ne soit pas folle,
Je plains celui qui n'est pas fou.
 239ยฐ 
Carlo C Gomez
It will never return
Every single day a wish sets sail
But nothing ever floats back
The constant churn of the tide
Is a clockwork peril
A nomadic timekeeper
Telling us over and over
And over again
The time has come
To look elsewhere
Inspired by Barbara R Maxwell's poem "The Ocean":
https://hellopoetry.com/poem/5062223/the-ocean/
 212ยฐ 
Pouya
There's a firework inside my head
Pulling me away from tasks
Begging me to rest
Slamming the doors to others

Maybe it's "me time" once again
Just me, and the quiet of being alone
 183ยฐ 
Jimmy silker
Everyone stinks of something
But not all can smell it
Dependant on your olfactory frequency
Is what gives the odour credit


Pitched above or below them
And they inhale in ignorance
But tuned
Right on the money
And they will look at you
Askance.
 172ยฐ 
Srishti
ASK
Ask a hungry man what is food.
Ask a poor what is money.
Ask a jobless what is job.
Ask an orphan what is family.
all their answer will be "LIFE".
all of must thank to god for whatever we got and what we will get.
 162ยฐ 
Malekai
Life must be a joke,
Feelings must be a joke,
Having a good heart must be a joke,
My life must be a joke because everyone one just laughs, stairs, and judges me.

I guess my laugh must be a great Joke.
 158ยฐ 
BTW
Sometimes
10 May 20#*


Sometimes your ache for freedom ,
Takes mine.

Sometimes 2 nickels,
Make a dime
,
Sometimes ,nothing makes any  sense.  
I'm sitting on the fence,

Sometimes.......

Sometimes.
 153ยฐ 
Ryan O'Leary
Can you imagine being
diagโ€™nosed as a baby
     of a porky allergy
      and something
       would happen
          if you made
           up stories
 127ยฐ 
lizie
i feel sick to my stomach
reading words you once wrote
that once belonged to me
my heart is throbbing
 119ยฐ 
Wouter Van Severen
Re-ember.

I remembered,

Warmth, light

In and outside.

Smaller yet bigger

Me

I remembered,

The joy, delight

Looking,

Upside down

Lefter then right

I remembered,

A place so big

With people inside

Caring

for a little sprite.

I remembered

Long ago

Wisdom

Play

It re-embered

The will to go,

And stay.
 97ยฐ 
Gabbro
You and nature get along well,
Blue skies, brown eyes, green thumb.
Have you seen the spirits lately,
Does the river ever ask about me?

Look outside this spring,
See sunlight shine away the winter,
After endless rain,
Dark soil calling new growth.

And if it feels like nature to you as well, lets
Reduce our distance, plant roots again,
Reuse our same old jokes, repeat our favorite dates,
Recycle all this love we have, it can be new and feel the same.
For T
 96ยฐ 
Eve
if i die young, know i died unhappy and lifeโ€™s unfair,
if i grow old and die traditionally,
know i died unhappy and life was a misery

iโ€™d tell you a tale
of all of my lifeโ€™s history
but it would all be derailed and all sound pale
in the words of my mouths contradictory
so iโ€™ll leave you with my frail words for the cemetery;

if i die young, know i died unhappy and lifeโ€™s unfair,
if i grow old and die traditionally,
know i died unhappy and life was a misery

when iโ€™ll die, iโ€™ll die artistically
candle lights, speaking words lyrically
and if youll ask me if i could go back and do it all again, if iโ€™d make a change,
iโ€™d say in a heartbeat
and if i did, i wouldnโ€™t have to repeat

if i die young, know i died unhappy and lifeโ€™s unfair,
if i grow old and die traditionally,
know i died unhappy and life was a misery

for i didnโ€™t do it my way,
i did it lifeโ€™s way
if a decision could have swayed
me in another direction,
i would be happier, in the life of my correction,
that got lost and died with life
while i waited to come back to mine

so if i die young, know i died unhappy and lifeโ€™s unfair,
if i grow old and die traditionally,
know i died unhappy and life was a misery

and to my life, i miss you
and to my cat-child, i miss you
and to my moms eyes, i miss you
and to my sister-child, i miss you
and to what was once mine, i miss you
getting some things off my chest
 92ยฐ 
Sunny
Think about your future, she said
I'm seventeen right now
In five years I'll be twenty-two
My life in five years
Imagine your life in five years
If you continue down this route
She told me it's not a matter of 'if'
It's a matter of 'when'
When it catches up to me
But it won't catch up
I'm seventeen right now
Living my life as I want it to be
 81ยฐ 
Kalliope
2v8
You and your romantic ways, your countless list of reasons, your lovely lilac haze
Shadowed only by your fears there's not a universe where I stay.

Battled me.

And all my disarray
The timing and the distance, my thoughts that force resistance.
My lack of patience sure put up a fight, and mix her with my temper and we'll be here all night.
My fear, always ready to run, pulling me back behind the wall I built, away from the warmth of your sun.
If we matched our armor, and coordinated our attack
Perhaps we could've been on the same side, instead of bleeding back to back


I know you hate that game mode
But I thought the chances were better
 75ยฐ 
Love etc
Iโ€™ve never understood the need to be mercilessly logical.

The need to sit still and listen, to fit into the picture every situation, like a contract you signed off on when you were born.

The first moment, you felt that you were playing by a playbook, and you were loved but then disliked in a flip of a switch.

Molded like a factory product, canโ€™t you see?

Logic is a disease, but the little dreamer was always free.
 65ยฐ 
Axton Mitchell
Tomorrow needs you .
You donโ€™t know what seeds
you will miss out on seeing grow.
You already planted them so,
you
might as well live another day.

See what sprouts pop up in the
warmth of the sun.
Tell me, are you having fun now?

Itโ€™s just the way life goes.
So, please stay a few more days.
A few more always leads to
A few more.
 64ยฐ 
hannah miller
i soar through cherry skies
not a single problem ever reaches my eyes
i am light.
weightless
i revel in the blue eyes that give me flight
they are wings of the purest hue

a love never lost, always stays true.

the wind, it whispers in my ear,
of futures painted,
life without fear.

the world below,
a hazy, distant hum
oh finally, /my/ kingdom come.

and in the soar,
i must sing.
a melody,
that the heavens bring.
 64ยฐ 
Retivia Stevens
Pure white for new beginnings
Purple, royalty
Some orchids bloom in the dark
 64ยฐ 
Migel
every time i close my eyes
itโ€™s you that i see
even if I forever close my eyes
it would be worth it for me
 64ยฐ 
Wise Makafui Afun
When you are lost,
trust in God.
When the road is clear,
still lean on His wisdom.

The winds may rise,
and shadows may fall,
but His light
never fades.

Some days feel like endless night,
yet some nights carry heavenโ€™s glow.
In every season,
His promises remain.

โ€œWith God, all things are possible.โ€
Not just in moments of glory,
but in stillness,
in struggle,
in the unseen grace that grows.

Just trust in God.
 56ยฐ 
Nolan Bucsis
I can't find anything
Meaningful to say
To you
my former self.

And, if life is living the same story
Over and over.
I'd like this one
To end.

I've memorized the script.
The plot is atrocious
And I'm long past dead.

At the curtain call.
 55ยฐ 
Tom D
Cradled in the arms
of Glenda herself
I could sleep
Sleep like I may never wake
or want to
for the rest is needful
and the dreams devine
I could bathe in the comfort
of clover and poppies
at the foot of Emerald City
waiting to hear the good witch tell me
โ€œGood night sweet princeโ€
Sleep
So precious you are
I doubt you no more
 55ยฐ 
Zywa
In narrow alleys,

people cling close together --


escaping the sun.
Collection "Local interest"
 53ยฐ 
Ashi Jain
What a Lovely face,
lovely eyes,
lovely hair,
and an even lovelier smile

Your beauty astounds me
your kindness so vast,
your memories surround me
I am falling steady and fast

I would be lying if I say
You don't give me butterflies
that I light up when I'm you every day
Light up so bright like fireflies

What a lovely face,
lovely eyes,
lovely hair,
and an even lovelier smile
 47ยฐ 
Jhoanne Mae Gonzales
I saw you the first time
Your smile shines the brightest
Second time, your eyes glimmed and so is mine.
We talked for seconds but felt forever.
My eye always wants a glimpse
Heart is racing and I can't hide
This feeling should be kept inside.
 43ยฐ 
South-by-Southwest
The poets dwell
within their Hell
on a Sabbath day
witching hour

Their minds a wreck
Their hands  
of tech
They grind their teeth
in angst

Silence staid
The beds unmade
Searching for who
knows what

Snaps a pencil
It's indefensible
He can't go back
to bed

Quasimodo?
Was he noble ?
Played center for
Notre Dame

Came draft day
He was cast away
Which foot was it
you ask ?

Well the venom's drip
that sank a ship
Manned by mushroom
brained morons

Will be the first
to experience the worst
That trickles down
that piggies leg

"We all live in a yellow submarine"
It's just another "Day in the life"
After all happiness is a
warm warm gun
 41ยฐ 
MetaVerse
$?

Rolls through the valley
A May storm with itchy *****โ€”
What price bonobos?

 41ยฐ 
Cadmus Elissa
Of all the games
we learned to play
with jokes, with rules,
with risk and trust
we never chose
to lie.

But then you did.
And nothing
held.

No knot was tight,
no safe word sure,
no breath between us
true.

A whispered โ€œyesโ€
became a guess,
and touch
a kind of theft.

Now every scene
rewinds itself,
the lines we drew
blurredโ€ฆ

For once a lie
slips past the lips,
nothing
truly grips.
Some wounds donโ€™t bruise. They whisper. A single lie can unravel what a thousand touches built.
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