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Why. Am. I. Breathing?
Why. Is my heart, beating?

I'm staring at the question
staring back at me.
(Why am I breathing?)

I fog my daze
with smokes and ****.
(Why is my heart beating?)

Why do I have eyes?
All for me to realize.

Tell me once
I'll lose it twice.
(Why do I have eyes?)

My crystal dance -
my only vice.
(For me to realize.)

Why am I moving?
Timelessness is soothing.

Existing as one
time is a maze.
(Why am I still moving?)

I pray I can stay
inside my crystal daze.
(Timelessness is soothing.)

Why is my chest burning?
What is my heart yearning?

Twisted lessons
elysian lies.
(Why is my chest burning?)

Distracted sight
and rooted ties.
(What is my heart yearning?)

Why do my feet itch?
How was my neck bit?

Kisses from the ocean
to the sky above.
(Why do my feet itch?)

Tasted trails of
tasteful love.
(How was my neck bit?)

Embark my empty canvas.
I pray upon the numinous.

New winds need face
for new minds embrace.
(Embark my empty canvas.)

Tuck in my shoelace
for love, I trace.
(And pray upon the numinous.)

Look at me breathing!
Feel my heart beating ?!

I'm staring at the heavens
staring back at me.
(Look at us breathing.)

I clear my gaze
with love and ease.
(Of knowing my heart is beating.)

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brumous:::of.grey.skies.winter.days.filled.with.heavy.clouds.or.fog.winter.cold.sunless.weather.
quaintrelle:::a.woman.who.emphasizes.a.life.of.passion.expressed.through.personal.style.
leisurely.past.times.charm.and.cultivation.of.lifes.pleasures.
elysian:::beautiful.or.creative.divinely.inspired.peaceful.and.perfect.
numinous:::describing.an.experience.that.makes.you.fearful.yet.fascinated.awed.yet.attracted.
the.powerful.personal.feeling.of.being.overwhelmed.and.inspired.
Megan Grace Dec 2012
I want fog and
red ears
that you'll pinch between
your fingers
to keep warm
and a cloud of your
breath
on my face.
brandon nagley May 2015
Bungalow bunkie,
Doth thou awaken or sleep to thy dust you accumulate?

Captious are one's these slothful ciggarrete nights!!!

Electrolight,
Come near that I may feel warmth,
As a child in early birth I seek forane high class milk,
Footlights on stilts do the the actors take high position!!
Not seeking the inefficient,
But the tower of Babel gone lost!!!!

Injurious kirtles are kinless,
Thy best friend is now friend less,
Due to thine own kindness!!!!

Lamb-kin darling,
Canst thou lance these burns to cuts?
For what's missing in the soot?
Lamenting chalice...

A king and a queens palace I'll die to live in,
For a smile and a grin cannot be weighed!!!

Hay/fever will take the fidelity of what's polite!!!

Damoclean of wintergreen,
Do you flatter by ones self?
Or doth thou Get help from dandering blotters!!!!

Intimate plotters of murderer's and lost hopes fun!!!
Chatoyant skin doeth I wish to feel once,
Where thy stage is real_,
No stunts!!!!!

Just reality of cavern lathered seducing!!!!
Gabriel Dorian Dec 2013
For the past few months
Our great nation has experienced great tragedies
But we didn't turn out to be sloths
Though our fates are still bidden

As the brumous weather draws near
A hirareth comes with fear
But the spirit of Christmas gets warmer
The yuletide becomes louder
It's about time to heed this very call
We must stand up for the good of all
It cradles an ambiguous thought
Which the human hear long sought

In this form of literature
I hope to inspire the people of this nation, to understand its nature
And start effecting some changes
To seek out the strangest,
To venture the wilderness of the lost peace & harmony
And restore this country's prosperity

In this season, may we stop all forms of quarrels
For we are no rebels
Of this glorious season
That brings joy to me with a great reason

This Christmas is a grandiose season
Let us stop every kind of treason
Let us set aside all our hard feelings
That has been harboured in our hearts

Let this Christmas be different
Let this be the time when we relent
Let this be the Christmas when we share
Everything that we may share for this season is rare

It's Christmas time
We share not just a dime
Even prayers for our fellowmen
And joy for all men
david mitchell Jan 2019
Lore tells of a cold, brumous island,
thoroughly clad in a dead fog, and silence.
Patrolled by only a few, lonely sirens,
their purrs and songs have long since subsided.
Times of enticing pirates and beguiling pilots
have been traded for times of shyness.
Some opt for quiet nights of gentle crying,
others for anxious hiding.
Lusting creatures, once desirous,
now left forlorn, nearly lifeless.
Obscured, hidden from the horizon,
this island is their asylum.
Rolling green highlands adorn black, craggy bluffs.
Waves crash, vamps weep, fog rolls, and time slows to a stop.
Brumous Apr 2021
I float without meaning,
just my head in the clouds
dreaming
.
.
I'm stressing myself out,
just; to have recognition
that I can do something meaningful
.
.
and to distract me from the eyes of envy
that kills me slowly, oh so slowly
Even though I am far younger
then most people here
.
.
I long for the talents they have
because I am surrounded
by people
whose talents greater than I have
.
.
I take a scroll every day;
and see them
I don't like it;
but
it's okay
.
.
.
"It's alright,"
.
.
Since that's what
I always say
right?
.
.
I feel like a fragment;
either reused as
something greater
or
.
.
.
.
.
I
want to
disappear without
trace; and memories of
the sea along with the sky;
that lacks
its own sense
in
a weird
way


-brumous
I tried writing a poem using one word in mind.
I also tried making it look like a transverse wave.
John Pilgrim Mar 2015
i give up
the sunsets are not warm
the sunrise is not greeting
the moon is not full
the waves no longer crash
the life is no longer living
and the brumous future lay still
unwavering
Despite the interminable distance,
in a brumous and sunny path
Under   a  mysterious  &  transparent condition, alone in his way
He started his journey
He   spent sleepless    night  in  desire  of meeting his destiny
somewhere    in  the    way of   his journey

Sometimes the pouring drop of hopes
where blown   away  by  the blustery winds of despair
And      sometimes the     violently     rushing stream of disrupts drown him
Breathe of  zest sail him athwart
Halt came in his journey he gifted what he has
some   misused  it  &  some   preserved   it
he again started his illimitable journey
with his pals-faith & trust
in the search of new halt

And like this
THE JOURNEY OF LOVE
CONTINUES
Crestfallen, he searches a brumous world
for a part he ripped off her.
She bleeds, forsaken, bereft.

Part of you dies with those you slay.
Carolyn Diana Nov 2020
April bids au revoir
Around the twitching days of fall

Robust of stardust
Ablazes a sun kissed spark
Despite the brumous arrival

Hurtling beneath the cold walls
Yearns the desire of
An atmosphere of your presence

May we march with merry
Inspite of frigus due

Seasons fall and rise
Hope we shall prevail
Roaring alongside thunderstorms

Awaiting summer renascent
27/10/2020
Manya chaudhary Apr 2021
A soul ,
a nefelebata soul
wandering in a brumous day …
with her stiched heart ,
   she heals her wounds with hope ,
she keeps her erlebnisse in a jar ,
   she carries her secrets in scars ..
and she goes on and on ,
  she listen to the dark ,
in the dark she listen her screams …
   she can’t take her cordolium anymore ,
she’s on way to absquatulate…
        she is me ,
   a piece of me died ….

- Manya
Carolyn Diana Nov 2020
3.00 am
I fall to my knees
intoxicated

Cyclone of thoughts
slit open my mind
Am I doomed?
Why am I bequeathed space?

Like wishes that never made it back
are my shooting stars, fallen

It's said past three
the body is vulnerable
and most likely to die

Yet I'm here living dead

Perhaps death is too easy
when compared to starved love

You die daily, unloved

The last time I heard you loved me
was on a bright sunny day
for eleven times straight
I counted
it would last till next summer
You chuckled like everytime

The irony, you mumbled
with no feelings attached

I was at a fair and
you were my merry-go-round  
I came back in circles

The summer days turned to brumous

It's said 'love conquers all'
Maybe ours wasn't love
Maybe we just loved the idea of love
Maybe I'm unloved
because my love is surreal in nature

But does it matter now
since I'm the one falling

Later you pointed I am broken
and said 'Broken can't fix broken'

But aren't we all broken?

I tried to fix you
but you were far from broken
Damaged

Like a broken tape-recorder
you repeated words bye-bye

And when you walked out
you made clear
the space between us do exist  
I wore silence that will echo in time
silence you strapped to my mouth

I have you now in my ripped pages
of an old rusted diary
hidden in the bottom shelf, titled
'The tragic of my fallen stars'

For someone who delighted
in my metaphorical elegies
would you understand if I told

The sun sunk that dusk
never rose the same thereafter.
29/6/2020

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