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10.2k · Oct 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
for

    once,

   i would

love

      to be

         the poem

and

     not

         the poet
1.9k · Oct 2019
Unspoken words
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
Through the forest of trees from your lips

   I can read your unspoken words.

       As each leaf falls

   the view becomes much more clear.

       Words that once reverberated through the forest

   seem as lifeless as the fallen leaves at my feet.

        I await a rush of fresh air

    to stir and animate the dead silence around me.
1.8k · Sep 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
I see many portraits in my visions.
portraits of black sheep in division.

portraits of eyes so deep,
a portrait for ones soul to keep.

portraits of two hearts collided,
a portrait of a life divided.

portraits of wise men citing verse,
a portrait of sage ending in curse.

portraits of shadows with knives,
a portrait of the horned ones as they connive.

portraits of footprints imprinted in the sand,
a portrait of those footprints washed free of this land.

portraits of life and blackness of dieing,
a portrait of some innocence, then crying.

portraits of smiles not to be trusted,
a portrait of a chain all weathered and rusted.

i have many portraits my collection has grew,
a portrait of my life and a visionary portrait of you.
1.6k · Mar 2021
💕Two leather journals💕
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
i found
two old leather journals while cleaning out my old pick-up truck
yesterday

i can't wait
to read the parchment and listen to all
of the things that my heart had once to say

my heart,
it always
listens then
speaks

i swear
at times,
like tears,

i see those
old leather
journals leak

i'd love to
dust them off
down by the
old river
today

sink into
my captain's chair
and allow
my heart
some time
to play
1.2k · Nov 2019
Perfect love
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
Autumn
   my love,

will you
   marry me?

We are
  hand in glove,

I'm on
   bended knee.

I am breathless
  in your
    beauty.

If I were blind,
   you would
    make me see.

Intense
   would be
the love
  we share.

Together
   forever,
a lifelong pair.
1000 · Jul 2021
Poets long to be heard
TheConcretePoet Jul 2021
I write poetry
because
I feel that;
not enough
of you
listen to me
when I speak
as a matter
of fact.

And even
then;
at times,
I feel
as if
I am back
to
square one
again.
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
A physically saturated pluviophile is a soul that craves to intertwine themselves with the very deepest parts of thee.

In the eyes and heart of a pluviophile,
the rain is sunshine on an otherwise grey and cloudy day.

Make no mistake;

I am a pure breed when it comes to being/representing a "pluviophile".

The rain elicits the very deepest part of me without one moment's struggle.

It's a cleansing.
It's an act of purification.
It's a new beginning.

     A feeling of     new skin
and afflictions
  washed away.

A few still moments
  to breathe in
    the roses of
life.

  If you can not
=connect= with a
  "pluviophile"?

You're not
   'all wet'
but rather,
  as dry as the
saharan sand.

Come get
   wet
      with me...
        in
  the
     p
       u
         r
           p
             l
               e
   rain """""""""""
              '''''"""""""
    """""""""""""""

"""""­""""""""""""""""
        ' ' ' '    ' '
           '  '   '
               '
https://youtu.be/TvnYmWpD_T8
897 · Feb 2021
goodbye
TheConcretePoet Feb 2021
i just
stood there
with hands
on my hips

i then folded
my arms across
my chest

i watched her
as she slowly
walked away
from me

heart broken,
in a silent
scream
i exclaimed;

forgive me
if i gawk,
if i stare?

i then
reached up
and slowly
wiped the words:
"I'm yours"
from
my forehead
851 · Feb 2021
💕serenity💕
TheConcretePoet Feb 2021
which
is
stronger?

the
heart
or
the
mind?

we
are
better
served
if
we
love
with
both.
841 · Feb 2020
led zeppelin
TheConcretePoet Feb 2020
in the
days of
my youth.

a young lady
once asked
of me,
to be
"her valentine".

all that
meant in
reality was,
"please
be my
*** slave".

needless
to say
as a
young lad,
i was quite
encourageable.

with her,
i became
a man.
803 · Dec 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
i mean,

  let's be frank
here.

you haven't
   sipped
from me
  in a lifetime.

nor have
  i wanted
or wasted
   my moments
drinking
    in you!

i know
   what we are
and what
   we should do
but....

  just put
more makeup
   on that pig...

but eventually,

  you too
will realize that
  no amount
of makeup
  can pretty
what is ugly.

'Yours and everyone's concrete-poet'
769 · Feb 2020
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Feb 2020
Curtains open,
I allow everything in the world to see inside

Barefoot on the beach
I allow the world upon my feet with every tide

Half past midnight
I allow the moonlight to caress my skin

Once dawn arrives I marvel at the sunrise with a grin

I've slept on many a clouds in my dreams

With the sun as my blanket warming me with every one of its beams

I love the smell of fallen leaves all piled up

Coffee beans and their aroma that fill my cup

The crackle of the fireplace as the snow gently falls upon my face

I love that I have learned that life is not a race

I live it now
I live it at my pace

I have to go now
I have a relationship with my oft' muses that I want to continue to grow

Albeit, slow
703 · Nov 2019
donor✅
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
a
  poet's words
are their
    organs

   that

they
    donate
to

    the world
701 · Nov 2019
unspilled
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
i
wish
that
i
could
tell
you,

like
soured
milk,
so long
overdue.

like
birds
that
fly
south
before
the
snow,

i wish
it
had
flown
from
my lips,
long
long
ago.

like
a
rose
in
full
bloom
and
the
bee
that
buzzes
above,

i'll
have
to
fly
away
in
peace,
just
as
a
graceful
dove.

some
things
can
never
be
spoken,
some
things
can
just
never
be,

some
thoughts
get
treated
as a
lifetime
prisoner,
...

never
to
be
freed.
696 · Aug 2021
Silence speaks
TheConcretePoet Aug 2021
As a summer breeze rushes through the trees:
             Silence speaks

          As the ocean's waves
whisper to the moon to
misbehave:
               Silence speaks

           As nightfall comes and dark is deep
           Earthen creatures take rest and sleep:
               Silence speaks

           As winter's snow falls from the sky
            In piles the angels make merry where they lie:
              Silence speaks

           As autumn's chill brings vibrancy
            In cinnamon rust, in burning orange as leaves 'fall' from the trees:
              Silence speaks

        Even death rains memories so loud
        Like thunder - lightning from a cloud:
             Silence speaks

Đaviđ
TheConcretePoet
💞🙏🏻💞
Silence has never been quiet
Silence is very loud
665 · Oct 2019
A poet's heart
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
I tossed our pictures into the fire....

the symbolism of it all,
almost knocked me from my feet.
654 · Feb 2021
Just for me
TheConcretePoet Feb 2021
You are
a love poem
that I will
keep -
just
for me
597 · Mar 2021
lying in silence
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
the tick

the tock

take that
sound
seriously

that's the
sound of
your life
running away
on the
clock
592 · Dec 2019
Fractured
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
A fractured spirit as a child.
Divorced parents.
A Saturday father.
A jealous mother of happy time spent with our father.
What very little time that was.
For me it was never close to enough.
That precious time was reduced even more.
I missed and needed my daddy.
But mom didn't care, her feelings were clearly more important than a fragile child.
After being dropped off by our father there were times of mental and physical unwanted unnecessary uncomfortableness.
All I wanted was time with my daddy but it became scarce, because our father did not want us subjected to that type of behavior any longer from a jealous woman.
Fractured spirit led to a fractured heart.
Part of my heart was so loving and warm.
The larger part was so cold and so bitter.
Which has led to a fractured tormented soul especially after losing my daddy a few short years ago one March day.
Watching my daddy suffer first hand from stage IV lung cancer opened up old and new wounds.
It fractured my mind.
It fractured my very essence of being.
Why is my existence completely fractured ?
Why was it after watching my father get so abusively tortured by cancer did I and do I feel so broken and unrepairable ?
Perhaps it's because I want the same fate as my daddy and I won't feel whole ever again until I do.
I've never been a truly happy person since my father left us as children.
I've never been whole, ever, and I never will be.
I drag my fractured existence through year after year since my daddy's passing.
Never caring, even a little if I myself was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer
tomorrow.
Selfish?
Perhaps.
But that cold and bitter part of my heart doesn't care much about selfishness.
It only cares about the exhaustive numbing pain it has dragged around for nearly 50 years.
As other layers of guilt with other separate affairs of my fractured heart have been added throughout these painful years, life if I am to be honest, has almost become a nuisance.
Crowds of people I avoid because my cold bitter heart trusts no one.
Outside of my home I venture only because I have to, to support the family I created.
Otherwise my fractured being I would keep in my home away from a world I almost despise and sometimes loathe.
Money does not make me happy.
Love does not make me happy.
Nothing will ever make the bigger piece of my fractured heart happy.
It's north pole cold and it will never be warmed until I suffer as my daddy did and I finally leave this place called Earth that I look at as hell.
I only need to leave my home for one day to realize that this really is hell on earth.
Until I can get away from the ignorance...
the I I I I I ...
the selfishness of just about every human being I encounter everyday I will never be happy.
When I see my daddy's face and Jesus's face is when my fractured heart will become whole once again and when I will finally allow myself to be happy.....at long last.
I can't wait to know even something as simple and taken for granted as being/feeling whole.... I can't wait to know how that feels because I never have.
A whole heart from me would be absolutely angelic.
A heart that Jesus has longed to see whole too, i'm sure of it.
578 · Jan 2020
neodymium magnets
TheConcretePoet Jan 2020
as you
   brush by me,

we attract-

   pull to one
another
   like magnets.

our gravitational
   pull
has me
     rigid
as we....

  

unintentionally/ intentionally
   orbit
one another.

  and like
neodymium
  magnets,

once joined
  together,

it will
  take
heaven....
    to pull
us
    apart.
577 · Nov 2019
the poet'verse
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
as poets,

  we breathe in
the universe.

while others,

   breathe in
themselves.
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
On the night that we met,
like a mid summer's torrent,
I fell for you.

You, bathing in a
full moon's light,
I was powerless
it's true.

Your eyes were
one with the sea,
vast and deep...
I was drowning
    in you.

Arrest me
and take me
to live
in your paradise....
where all that's
left is to
  woo woo woo.
https://youtu.be/Rgg1Yczq4vI
525 · Nov 2019
Seductive replay
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
Yes, I dreamt
   of her
     once.

And that once,
   just wasn't
       enough.
473 · Oct 2019
Oh rose of blue
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
Oh rose of blue,

I've only seen but one, your hue.

You delicately weep the morning dew,

from whence a seed your uniqueness grew,

as did my fascination for you, this much is true.

Oh rose of blue you stand with few,

your petals bathe in tomorrow's sun new,

at night the moon smiles and bays back at you.

Oh rose of blue,

my poem for you has been long overdue.
463 · Aug 2021
Let go
TheConcretePoet Aug 2021
There is
undervalued power
in forgiveness

Dive in


Đaviđ
🙏🏻💞🙏🏻
TheConcretePoet
Free your mind
454 · Nov 2019
fragmented art
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
Pieces
Of
Every
Me
Something that only other poets will understand.
396 · Sep 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
At school cafeteria tables

-social gatherings

-marital couplings.

one's skin color

-ethnicity

-tribal belonging.

we;

regretfully segregate ourselves
out of pure
habit and
comfortability.

audacity and irony
overflows in well versed,
pre rehearsed
denials of
racism.

so i ask;

if we aren't,

why do we not
individually be the breaker of tribal or racial chains?

diversity had long ago peaked my humans are humans interest.

i see no color nor
tribal lines that offend me.

i only see someone that is just like me outwardly and 'hopefully'
just as beautiful inside.
393 · Jul 2021
Ah yes, the wind
TheConcretePoet Jul 2021
She's like the wind;

spontaneous
refreshing
tornadic
and gentle.

I need every gust from her.
I need every whispered breeze from her.

Her gusts make me feel alive.
Her breezes are sensual like full lips on my neck.

Only she can ******* the way that she does.
390 · Nov 2019
U2
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
U2
i still haven't
  found what
i am
   looking for is
much more
   complex,
much more
   profound than
just a few things.

   unrewarding
is a life
  asea that
lives and breathes
  within one's
dreams.

   exhausted;

what i look for
  may not
even exist
   except for
what lies in
  my subconscious
mind.

dubiously
   just living
and seemingly
   wasting time.
388 · Mar 2021
#
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
#
with you

as

my canvas;

i prefer to

paint

by

#number#
370 · Sep 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
Poetry offers
calm for
the lonely
and a
positive perspective
on being
lonesome

Scribe emotions
wrought with
rust and
solitude

Free your
will to
express that
is you
360 · Sep 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
Lust often
calls but,

it's 99.9%
of the
time left
with a
busy signal

i refuse
to answer
a call
from the
wild

i long
to hear
your seductive
lust over
my voicemail

tell me,
tell me
how lust
is love
and how
i am
"simply- robert palmer irresistible"

and how
white snake
asks in
song if,
"is this
love"
https://youtu.be/ujnH4yNqL8E
358 · Sep 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
inhale me
she pleaded,

and I did.

now,

I never
wish to
exhale.
357 · Mar 2021
numbers lie
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
never lose
       yourself
counting
         the quantity
            when all that
            ever matters
                   IS
             the quality
quality stirs
a soul
while numbers
only distance
the goal
353 · Nov 2019
me and, the other me
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
why do
squirrels
try to
cross our
streets
and die?

why is
life seemingly
taken away
in the blink
of an eye?

why do
green leaves
turn yellow,
brownish copper
and reds?

why do i
feel life
so DEEPLY
that sometimes
i would
much rather
be dead?

it's a
balancing act,
wanting to
live
life,
that is.

sanity and
insanity,
God's and
the
grim reaper's
kiss.

my struggle
each day
is as real
as
these words
that with you
i choose
to share.

i'm happy,
i'm unhappy
and...
my poetic
bi polarness,
just doesn't
care.

most of
my days
are toiled
through
and,
few
feel
worth living.

my poetic
verse that
i share
with y'all
is all that
i feel
like giving.

words of
   advice to thee,

never judge
what you
can't see.

they may
be a
soul...
as tortured
and wounded
as me.
342 · Sep 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
Like the innocence of a child,

I just write.
337 · Feb 2021
Attraction
TheConcretePoet Feb 2021
Sight
Hearing
Smell
Taste
Touch
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
born in
the cold
month
of november
rain.

born on
day 24
and
shackled
to life's
chain.

chained
to a
tree
like an
ornamental
dog.

everyday
just
struggling,
to be
seen
through
the fog.

left out,
alone,
to suffer
and die
a slow
death.

he's not
really
sure what
any of
it
meant.

his chains
are now
broken
to stray
from the
tree.

a birthday
gift
to leave
his tortured
existence
behind ...

and at
long last
his
unchained
soul
can
playfully
be free.

from
  life's chain
sadly and
happily
  at long last
   released.
314 · Dec 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
in a
  mirror,

your eyes
  are the

hungry
    language
of love
292 · Dec 2019
delicate beauty
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
you are
a flake
of snow

a feathery
ice crystal

a delicate
sixfold
symmetry
of beauty

a winter
wonderland
is what
you are
286 · Nov 2019
if ever you are lonely
TheConcretePoet Nov 2019
walking away
  from the
sun,
      you will
always have
   company
281 · Aug 2021
Fight
TheConcretePoet Aug 2021
The world
as we know it
is being
swallowed up
by the
fragile
and weak

Cancel this -
cancel that -
the mental
instability
of the
unGodly
freaks

I harken back;
only the
strong survive

Let us not lose
our world
to the weak
while we
are still alive
Stand staunchly like David did

Goliath should have gone an hid
278 · Feb 2021
silent realization
TheConcretePoet Feb 2021
silence
during a
storm
is louder
than any
thunder

nothing more
than past
acquaintances
apparently...
no
wonder

my memory
is steadfast
and keen

actions
of silence,
to harvest,
to glean

much is
learned
from
silence
during
a storm

appearing
in
reality's
form....

quietly in
the dirt,
the silent
present
themselves
as worms

prey for
the birds
watching
from
the trees

in turn,
it's
flipped
script
misery....

there
will now be
absolute
silence
from me

'Yours and everyone's concrete poet'
👷🏻‍♂️
276 · Sep 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
Carry me down into that liquid place again
where we meet without talking, even though
sometimes we're talking, where we laugh
without making a sound, the punchlines
floating off untethered and the corners
of yor mouth tilting up like commas
around some beautiful phrase we don't
have to try to remember. Wedge your knee
between my thighs and slip your fingers
into me again, let them be glazed
with human light and lift them to your lips,
let them tell you what they found.
I'll kneel before the sunset of your skin,
its pale tone beginning to blush, evenly,
every cell inspired to read, pushing toward
that ruddiness of purpose, that sigh.
My hands will wrap around the tendons
of your wrists to hold you here, lowered
over me like clouds before a storm,
the enormous thunder and then the rain.
#sigh
274 · Jul 2021
Simple
TheConcretePoet Jul 2021
Showing and
giving love
costs nothing

Go ahead
and spend it
foolishly


Đaviđ
Don't complicate life.
Simply love.
270 · Sep 2019
Untitled
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
Words
often leave
us hypnotized

their grouped
truth,.
validity
or relevance
to selfishness

words are... ..

couriers of
seduction or
couriers of
war

words describe
seasons they,
they describe
uniquity

words descibe
actions that
have been
left seasons
ago for
dead

words are
unnecessary
as we
plunge into
darkness on
the frills
and lace
of your
bed



"I am just writing....
263 · Mar 2021
Meander
TheConcretePoet Mar 2021
I surrender to feelings of which I crave,
the thoughts of chance and misbehave.
I surrender tears of love and pain,
memories raw, unfiltered, invade my brain.
I surrender now, I have weakened some,
once the might of many, now just one.
I surrender to the inevitable, I see because I must,
my faith and love in you, I trust.
259 · Oct 2019
resembling the moon
TheConcretePoet Oct 2019
privy
to nothing,
inherently
oblivious-
naked,
no clothing.
empty
streets,
eyes of
the night
don't see.
mana
weeps from
the
tortured sky,
its power
creates
a
zoo like
primal cry.
obstacles
animate
and
steal
your breath,
space
confined...
so close
to
death.
as each
cloud falls
it drags
down
the stars,
the moon
and its
craters...
they
mimic
your
scars.
TheConcretePoet Sep 2019
If darkness can get darker,
I've been there.
Not once or twice.
Darkness being midnight,
a pack of wolves surrounded I have dared.
Fear of my own mortality has long been at nil.
I carry two legs of the enormously labored,
and eyes that bare witness to an unwanted hill.
In death I want my spirit to finally lay most perfectly still.
250 · Dec 2019
winds of change
TheConcretePoet Dec 2019
wet are
the
winds of
missing,
of...
sadness.

the winds
speak of
pain,
of
throated
screams.

the winds
blow on
by,
the winds
return
like boomerangs.

these winds
travel
over land
and over
sea.

but
make no
mistake,
these winds
of change
always
make it
back
to me.
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