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20.7k · Sep 2018
Your Lips
OpenWorldView Sep 2018
Every day and night
my thoughts are on your lips.
That crimson temptation
and source of my life.

They smile in gentle red
and speak with unique truth.

Quench my heart’s fire
with sweet tender kisses
and revive my wilted soul
with dew from cupid’s bow.
10.9k · Dec 2019
city scene
OpenWorldView Dec 2019
neon lights
illuminate the night’s
heavy clouds

while rain muffles
the constant urban humming

pierced by distant sirens
moving slowly
through concrete canyons.
10.2k · Oct 2018
No Reset
OpenWorldView Oct 2018
You mind your steps
   after you've stumbled.
You miss your home
   after you’ve left it.
You value your health
   after you’ve been sick.

But you can’t enjoy life
   after you died.
carpe diem
7.3k · Oct 2018
Imperfection
OpenWorldView Oct 2018
I found you.
Different. Imperfect.

A sad and sickly child
alone in a faceless world.

Bland with naïve thoughts
and clumsy manners.

I found you.
Alike. Perfect.
You are not alone in this world.
3.9k · Nov 2018
Yuri
OpenWorldView Nov 2018
The life of two innocent souls
circling around their destiny.

Uncovering new sensual emotions
while drawing closer with each turn.

A shy curious glance sparkles and
turns into a pair of pounding hearts.

While the first awkward kiss
blooms into a firework of desire.

Yuri is love.
Yuri is life.
An ode to Yuri manga.
3.8k · Jun 2018
Mundane Life
OpenWorldView Jun 2018
Wake
  Wash
    Eat
      Commute
        Work
          Eat
    ­    Work
      Commute
    Eat
  Wash
Sleep
3.8k · Nov 2018
Silent Affinity
OpenWorldView Nov 2018
There she is, standing alone,
waiting, like every day,
with me as her silent shadow.

Silver rain falls in great drops
and a cold breeze gives her shivers
causing me equal agony.

Her raven hair makes the pale skin
shine white, clean like a statue.
A sight which stops everything around.

She looks my way, giving a sign
and her scarlet lips open like flowers
seducing me, making me blush.

But fool, now she’s gone
and I stand alone, waiting,
like every day, for her return.
3.6k · Sep 2018
Picnic
OpenWorldView Sep 2018
Gift me a little of your time
for a meal under blue and green.
Gift me hours of your happiness
for a meal where flowers blossom.
3.5k · Sep 2018
Sparkle
OpenWorldView Sep 2018
I was blinded, stunned,
by a thousand bright suns.

A star so young and charming
raised my spirit to never known highs.

But the sparkle only lasted moments
for my courage descended into night.
3.1k · Jun 2019
Like Raindrops
OpenWorldView Jun 2019
tiny speck of dust
accumulating water
falling from the sky
We are but dust.
2.8k · Jul 2019
What if
OpenWorldView Jul 2019
She came with her friend
wanting an introduction
but I played the clown.
She never asked.

What if
I wouldn't have been
the child I was?
2.5k · Jun 2018
Wallflower
OpenWorldView Jun 2018
Look around you
not with your eyes
but your heart.

Look beyond beauty
in sad and shy faces.

And then imagine
how they could blossom
if truly loved.
2.4k · Oct 2018
Birth
OpenWorldView Oct 2018
A silver moon engulfs a thousand suns
and sheds blue silky light across the land.
The wind plays its howling symphony,
with trees and mountains as instruments.

A cold body awakens from rigid sleep
putting tendons and muscles into motion.
Slowly, but ever faster it moves along
until spirit and body merge – creating life.

Consuming all its resources around
the goal has become a distant dream.
Then a jolt runs through the martyred figure
and it searches in vain for a familiar point.

From the deepest black it is driven,
without its doing and stiff resistance.
It must leave this beloved place
in exchange for coldness and piercing light.

However, all he sees is a giant devouring his body
to the sounds of his first screams.

But instead of terrible pain,
he now looks at the infinite cosmos.
Not with the spirit of an ape,
but that of a god, who experienced his birth, death and re-birth.
2.4k · Sep 2018
Nyx
OpenWorldView Sep 2018
Nyx
You took my hope
to find the right path.

You tormented me
denied me a look at life
to entertain Thanatos.

**** you and your gods
who feed on misery.

You took my life
even before I woke.
2.0k · Aug 2018
My Love
OpenWorldView Aug 2018
Still warm from you, I shiver
because I see you
sleeping next to me
and crave back the night.

But Eos heralds
in her fairest gown
a new day that elevates
nightly passion to a dream.

Your breath is calm
and your ***** hardly moves
when I wake you with kisses
across your silken skin.

You smile for the gods
and I lower my gaze
to elude what robs my senses
but then your lips give life to mine.

Locked in embrace
you whisper fondly – “My Love”.
1.8k · Nov 2021
what remains (10w)
OpenWorldView Nov 2021
the dew of your lips
and butterflies in my stomach
a kiss, my eyes closed
1.7k · Nov 2021
blueprints
OpenWorldView Nov 2021
so many grand plans,
laid out in perfect detail.
life is sobering.
1.7k · Nov 2021
dystopian
OpenWorldView Nov 2021
"you will own nothing
and you will be happy,"
until age thirty.
WEF meets Logan's Run
1.7k · May 2019
Nothing makes sense anymore
OpenWorldView May 2019
We talk about change,
    but expect others to do it.
We talk about fake news,
   but keep reading it.
We talk about democracy,
   but don't listen to the people.
We talk about lies,
   but keep believing them.
We talk about tolerance,
   but suppress opinions.
We talk about human rights,
   but torture and ****.
We talk about privacy,
   but eavesdrop on all communication.  
We talk about freedom,
   but fight endless wars.
We talk about hypocrisy,
   but are the biggest hypocrites.
We talk about so many things,
   but not what really matters.

Stop talking,
   start acting!

Maybe.
Next time you are upset about something, look into the mirror.
1.5k · Sep 2018
Dark Water
OpenWorldView Sep 2018
I was born into light
from a warm and cozy womb.

Raised protected without a fight
in blissful ignorance of impending doom.

The separation made it fonder
and the blue had no bounds.

But I lost the ability to wonder
and life made no more sounds.

Now I am sinking into the abyss
towards
   cold
      dark
         water.
1.5k · Jan 2019
Double Helix
OpenWorldView Jan 2019
O
          U
                  R
                             H
                                        E
                     ­                            A
      Y                                            R
          ­   O                                    T
                        U ­                   S
                                     A
                            R              N
                  ­E                              D
          M                     ­                 M
    E                                         ­    E
    S                                        B
      H         ­                    E
            W              C
                    O
         M                  R
    I                                    K
 ­   N                                          S
        G
       ­        O
                           N
                                         E
Our hearts are meshworks.
You and me becoming one.
1.4k · Jul 2019
beauty
OpenWorldView Jul 2019
she fell from the sky
a graceful unique beauty
then melted away
1.4k · Mar 2019
Hard Liquor
OpenWorldView Mar 2019
My love is hard liquor.
Why are you still sober?
Loving someone more than they love you.
1.4k · Jun 2019
exhausted
OpenWorldView Jun 2019
i love the feeling
this strange and eerie calmness
after lost battle
make your peace
1.3k · Apr 2019
Blush
OpenWorldView Apr 2019
Bereft of words
we sit like fools
across the wooden table.

Eyes swaying shyly
to catch glimpses
of each other.

She turns her head
to hide her flushing cheeks
and rosy curled smile.

Her blooming beauty
stirs hidden butterflies
toward spring blue skies.
First spring love.
1.3k · Apr 2019
Life's a Spoiler
OpenWorldView Apr 2019
Believing this love
is pool of eternal bliss.
Cold heartless teacher.
1.3k · Mar 2019
Precious Scars
OpenWorldView Mar 2019
We tend to hide
our broken self’s
and look ashamed
from obvious flaws.

But what if you change
your point of view?

And wear those cracks
like precious scars.
Not with pride, but
simple confidence.
1.3k · Jan 2019
War broke his will
OpenWorldView Jan 2019
not with bombs
nor with bullets.

War fed his soul
with torn up bodies,
and cut off limbs.

War drowned his senses
with the smell of blood
and rotting flesh.

War broke his will
with man's capacity
for boundless cruelty.
Georg Trakl (1887 - 1914)
1.2k · Apr 2019
Aberration
OpenWorldView Apr 2019
Death should be certain
for time to ensure renewal
by pulling life's curtain.

Be fearful of what lives forever
as hubris clouds its mind
and terror will be its only lever.

We are delirious to fathom creation
of a god without its creators flaws.
Beware of this eternal aberration.
1.2k · Oct 2019
witch
OpenWorldView Oct 2019
pure white innocence
charmed the world with pale beauty.
envy lit the pyre
1.2k · Nov 2019
your poems
OpenWorldView Nov 2019
enchanting whispers
of lost love and new longing
penned with ink and heart
pure magic
thank you
1.2k · Sep 2018
Bequeathed
OpenWorldView Sep 2018
Loneliness wanted to take my life.
And night after night I slept in coffins
which carried my empty soul.

But like a gentle spring breeze
have you quenched evil winter dreams.

Withered leaves became green,
bad turned into good,
tenderness penetrated my pores.

I've reached the highest goal
and find no fear in me.

Death can take me now,
but the soul
belongs to the dearest
who sleeps with me.
1.2k · Oct 2021
"don't let it happen"
OpenWorldView Oct 2021
independent minds
and critical thinkers
led to the gallows
and burnt on stakes.

but without dissent,
valid or not,
there is no progress,
just stagnation.

life is too easy
and people complacent.
numbed by gimmicks
that steal our time.

a downward spiral
of mediocracy ensues.
all leading to a
tyranny of the few
and ****** revolutions
when their lies collapse.
1.2k · Nov 2018
Flush with Love
OpenWorldView Nov 2018
At her first touch,
the flesh scattered
into ethereal fragments,
unchaining an immortal soul.
1.1k · May 2019
"happy"
OpenWorldView May 2019
standing in the rain
facing heaven, arms spread wide
tears invisible
you can't see into
the soul
1.0k · May 2019
Intertwined (Sonnet #1)
OpenWorldView May 2019
Barn swallows zigzag swiftly through the air
hunting for flies beneath a clear blue sky.
Cord grass shelters a little brown marsh hare
frozen by the buzzards long hissing cry.

She sleeps on a quilt sprawled out on the ground
while a light breeze caresses her white skin
and bright sun plays in tune to natures sound
fending off nightmares about horrid sin.

I watch all this from the shadow of hell
as my flesh rots in the dark earth below
and fat maggots feed on my oozing smell
churning meat until next winters cold snow.

Heaven, earth and hell are all intertwined,
but mortals are oblivious and blind.
1.0k · Sep 2018
Blasphemy
OpenWorldView Sep 2018
On the devil's back
I will harvest death.
Even he is not as lifeless
as my existence.

Evil, fear and terror
are the new allies
that stand by my side.

God must cry.
Looking into my eyes
he will recognize himself
and burn the world to the ground.
Wrote that many years ago.
994 · Apr 2020
mood
OpenWorldView Apr 2020
black rose petals fall
a dark veil for our dead
love transcends the loss
love transcends
986 · Jul 2019
Poetry
OpenWorldView Jul 2019
plain written words
bloom within the readers mind
gate into their souls
words
read, thought and felt
a thousandfold
958 · Apr 2019
Hero
OpenWorldView Apr 2019
You can't save the world,
but those closest to your heart
and yourself with it.
Take care of those close to you.
950 · Nov 2019
Silk
OpenWorldView Nov 2019
across time and space
love plays with weightless longing
sadness covers all
Inspired by "Silk"
from "Alessandro Baricco"
932 · Feb 2019
Love
OpenWorldView Feb 2019
Oh, that sweet,
intoxicating feeling.

So, addictive
after one-time use.

I want it
I need it.

That adrenaline,
that dopamine.

You keep the drugs.
You control the dose.

I’m just a desperate ******
who’s in love with you.
882 · Nov 2020
homesick
OpenWorldView Nov 2020
mama and papa
i long for your warm embrace
but you both passed on
I miss you!
852 · Oct 2018
Writing to You
OpenWorldView Oct 2018
Writing to you
  made me endure the boring dailiness.

Writing to you
  made me forget my sorrows for a while.

Writing to you
  was like painting with my heart.

Writing to you
  was like loving you with my words.

I should never have stopped.
837 · Jul 2019
Enough
OpenWorldView Jul 2019
i'm done listening.
you are but a distant voice
drowned out by new hope
815 · Oct 2019
extinguished
OpenWorldView Oct 2019
this little hot spark
ready to ignite the world
fell in its cold sea
799 · Sep 2019
sepals
OpenWorldView Sep 2019
her moist, ruby lips
yielded the sweetest kisses.  
the taste still lingers
797 · Jun 2019
Escape
OpenWorldView Jun 2019
Come with me,
take my hands.
Let's be free
and leave these lands.

We run away,
to escape the norm.
We do not stay
for the storm.

Let's build a home
just you and me.
A place to roam
together - till eternity.
Home is where your heart is.
758 · May 2019
Paint Life
OpenWorldView May 2019
born an empty sheet
traits and external forces
affect your choices

so, death is certain
all the time before the end
is yours to paint green
Try your best.
741 · Jun 2019
caress
OpenWorldView Jun 2019
like slow winter fog
fingers trace without a touch
across her cold skin
slow, tender, journey.
don't wake her.
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