Runrunrun poems on Hello Poetry

writerReader Feb 2015

i am watching life and
it's running so fast and

it goes up toward the
pure white stars and
the brown dirt

the blue sky

the black night

but i'm melting
burning
freezing

my mind is too tired to sleep
but it's too drunk to run.

#running #life #wishing #wishes #blue #colors #love #longing

Peyton Leigh Stille Apr 2012

Lipstick

I'll wake up in the morning.
Pet my cat.
Step down a few stairs.
Do something.
Do something else.

I'll put lipstick in my eyes
to make them beautiful
and sad.

Or something.

Then I'll cover my head
(I don't want it out in the world)
and cover my waist
(I don't want anybody's hands there)

Duck and Cover
Duck and Cover
Duck and Cover
duckandcoverduckandcoverduckandcover
duckandcoverduckandcover
duckandcover

And I'll put lipstick in my eyes
and lipstick on my waste
and I'll stain those back dimples
with crimson lipstick

And I'll decorate my home
and I'll decorate my soul
in ribbons and bows
(I'll wrap them up really tight this time)

I'll Run In Circles
I'll Run In Circles
I'll Run In Circles
I'll Run In Circles

runrunrunrunrunrun
runrunrunrunrun
runrunrunrun
runrunrun
runrun
run

And I'll laugh
really honestly

CR Mar 2014

The Last Dance

midnight taffeta calves, your mom’s rose-gold
diamond pendant resting between *******
too-long hair tamed, fastened at your nape

this peculiar impasse between pretending you’re
prom-young and you’re midtown-gala-elegant-old
you’re a little both, at twenty-one, and a little
drunk—fourteen-dollar champagne, picklebacks
and the desperate paradoxical preservation of this memory

you can hold your cloud-head up beautiful still
so you hitch your dress
runrunrun behind the Rhodes
crouch down in the thorns with every-elegant-one you love
twenty-one, desperate, ebullient, ****

and ****.

stand up straight again, glowing, sage
check your coat and dance
nobody’s the wiser

B Woods Sep 2010

Manic Sleep

Runrunrun all day long
the blood pumps and heart jumps
Thumpthump
Nonstop this goes
for hours at a time
fueled by coffee and shmigs
seemingly everlasting is
this high, I wish.
While it rolls, I'll pay
the toll through loss.
Time, things, sleep.
I come out exhasuted
missing precious gifts
from loved ones long ago,
a list of work days unending,
bloodshot drooping dog eyes.
I take the pills and crash,
momentarily,
yet find myself awake
soon thereafter,
wondering where'd it
all come from,
and why'd it go
there?

Sergio Gonzalez Sep 2020

Gravity

There’s something in your eyes
That yells out to my soul
I tried to reach perfection
Only to end up on the down low

I missed the point of living life
Living more than material things
More than the chase of hopeless love
Past all the little things

Past the bad moments in life
I tried to find an answer,
To the emptiness in my heart
Sometimes I wish God could talk back to me
But in the good moments
I’d ignore every single advice given to me

We are all alone
But that’s not necessarily bad
It’s in these moments
Where we find the answer
To who we truly are

RunRunRun
To find your peace
Time is a blessing
So use it wisely
I hope you take these words with gravity

#bless #god #wise #eyes #perfection #peace #bad #good #alone #love

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