Hello Poetry

1426°

Twisted Poet

I used to think blue eyes were pretty,
his were not.
his were not cornflower, sapphire, baby, indigo, azure,
or cloudy sky blue.
His were midnight where the light pollution from the city blocks the stars.
Iceberg, squall, hypothermia, eventual death

415°

Barbara R Maxwell

Balancing Act

In the end
Light wins over dark
Love over hate
Goodness over evil
Freedom over oppression
Truth over lies
Integrity over corruption
Right over wrong
Kindness over cruelty
Healing over pain
Love is powerful energy
It can change the world
In an instant
Light up the world
With one small act
It can make a difference

353°

Ash

looking

im looking for a fighter...
im looking for someone to say
love you too
because ive been alone too long now..
and my pain only grows stronger
and my love grows longer

this is what it feels like to be single and looking

#love

343°

Bard

End it

Wish I'd see dead people
Instead of all this evil

332°

Juliana

Best thing

How do I tell him
That he’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me
And that I love him
Cause I really do love him
And have never met anyone like him ever before
When he won’t even talk to me

#love #loss #heartbreak #him

273°

apricot

At my lowest

i wanna scream
and shout
and let it all out

#depressed #bored #angry

257°

Charmour

Touch?

I still remember his hands on me
Touching me everywhere
Everywhere he shouldn't
I still live under the same roof as him
Acting like it never happened
Acting like a loving family
But still I feel his hands on me
I told my mom
She knew everything
Yet nothing ever happened
Yet I sleep crying cuz I feel his hands on me

#childhood #trauma #abused #child #poem

223°

LL

Lover | Haiku

perhaps life is the
spouse and rest is the lover —
my head is our bed

2025/088

#haiku

209°

alex

Our storm

I’m bored now.
I don’t want the calm before the storm
I want the storm,
right now.

break me,
burn me,
do whatever,
I’m ready.

I crave the storm that makes me feel alive again

#love #storm #burn #breaking

198°

Mrs Timetable

YOUs

I want to write
A little poetry book
Fitting in my pocket
To carry with me
With five little poems
One for each finger of your hand
Your hand that led me here
My muse
My blues
My cues
My heart tattoos
My infuse
So I will call it YOUs

I'm gonna do it. Watch me.

#writing #poetry #book #you #muse

196°

The Suzy Berlinsky Happy Show

𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃-𝐁𝐘𝐄 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧! 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐬-𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐲!

187°

Kyla

no revenge

no revenge
only a copy of the poems i wrote of my side of our story
and a bag of the food i’d bought for you
and your hoodie that i was wearing when i ended it
and a lingering sense of loss

because you never asked to read anything i wrote /the hoodie she wore first /and the last, i hope?

#breakup #heartbreak #tears #left #revenge #gift #life

176°

Frances Raeburn

Smile

I am not sure
I ever smiled
at you
I think
I just grimaced
and you caught
the pain

174°

Ryan O'Leary

Scar of David

I closed one eye,(and)
I cried, with the other.

I hid my pain with one,
I saw in tear, a mother!

I am Gaza gazing @ the
I in Israel’s name

I come from a genocide
I land of famine & of maim

159°

Barton D Smock

TODAY A TENDERNESS TOWARD ME HAD ME WELLING

Before you were born you listened to your own unrecorded grief

Diagnosed gods
test weapons

Today a tenderness and so on

154°

ms hitt

calibri

It is beautiful;
was the sky always this blue
and lucid with creme lent away by
the heaven's tears?

It is beautiful;
Were the oceans always this vast
and dark with the mystique of the millennia
chipped away at stone, like a forsaken
mason?

It is beautiful;
Were the peaks and valleys always this detailed
wrinkled with strokes of cosmic paint, ridged like
a sheet of linen?

It is beautiful;
was the sky always as blue as the oceans?
Were the mountains always higher than the waves?
Was the snow always mingling with the clouds?

It is beautiful;
and, what a wonderful world
for us to borrow
for a just moment.

154°

Ειρήνη Κτενίδου

Ψάξε

Κοίτα το τέλος,
εκείνο που δεν έρχεται.

Ψάξε το αύριο,
εκείνο που ήρθε ήδη.

Και την καρδιά σου,
αιώνια που ψάχνει.

149°

Rhiannon Clayton

Stay

If I spread my soul out before you, would you stay, seeing all my light and all my dark?
-Rhia Clay

#light #dark #soul #stay #see #love

149°

Lawrence Hall

"I am Going to Call for a Major Investigation"

Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com
Dispatches for the Colonial Office

                   “I am Going to Call for a Major Investigation…”

                             -Our Red Queen on Truth [sic] Social

In Wonderland a new oppressive conjuration -
His name is Major Investigation
Sent at our screaming queen’s instigation
To drag us all down to her police station

Beginning with Kamala, Oprah, and Bono
For somewhat disapproving of him – oh, no!
The Major will punish their laissez-majesto -
In the name of freedom their heads must go!

(But of course the irony in all this biz
Is that their heads are even larger than his)

135°

Austin Meehan

30

you can be the Hero
or the Villain
it just depends
on what part of yourself
you ****.

134°

Raven Kuhn

Perception

For the first time,
I hold
and
I see you.

Originally a blackout poem.

#love #perception #understanding #kin

130°

Digital Melancholy

Only Your Lips

The air's too dry,
my lips chapped,
but no ordinary balm will do.

Why don't you wear it first,
let it melt into your warmth,
then let me steal it back,

until the taste of your lips
becomes my only addiction.

#addiction #lips #balm #warmth #taste #devotion #craving #intimacy #kiss #longing

128°

Puppy Dog Pisces

Pisces

It’s like swimming through a rainstorm
No thoughts left behind
No wrong turns to guide us
A patient tide unwinds

Your sun is happy magic
Confused and asinine
Puffing through the viscous
It’ll all be fine

But reality eludes you
Always looking in
You blind yourself to comfort
Life does not begin

If only you could see yourself through baby-caring eyes
Maybe then they’d tease and mock you
Maybe then you’d be just fine

#astrology #rhyme

118°

unnamed

Cheap

he did some magic
pulled a quarter from my ear
told me I was cheap!

110°

Dency

What already knows I Am

I'm no longer fighting to be enough.
No longer shrinking to fit small spaces,
Twisting my truth to earn a place.
Iam walking
Towards what already knows Iam light
Toward love that doesn't demand my silence,
Toward peace that doesn't ask me to bleed.

A tender reflection of healing after emotional manipulation.

#love #poetry #lettinggo #pain #self #strength

103°

Salmabanu Hatim

Difference

My grandson will be eighteen this July,
He shares a birthday with Mr.Nelson Mandela on the 18th,
He asked me,"Dadi(granny) what is the difference between you and me
My Love, you are the sunrise,
You have to shine brightly a long way,
Giving your best to life,
Whilst I am the sunset
Retired,
Both beautiful and unique in our own ways.
21/5/2025

94°

Rose

I Will Wait

if roots can wait,
beneath the earth,
for a rain they cannot live without.

and if the stars wait,
lingering in dusk,
just to see the moon once more.

then i,
full of burning ache,
can wait too.

I will wait for you.

I'd wait for him in every lifetime

#yearning #aching #waiting #longing

93°

jan oskar hansen

blues affair

The blues affair

I met her where the light was weakening
an enduring twilight had settled on what
was re-lived in the memory of summer
moving out of the convention, tired leaves
in the soft breeze on its final breath.
We spoke of the past but not of the now
the present didn’t matter.
I saw her as a disappearing holograph
dying in the mist of life lived
past emotions could not awaken
she had gone to a place I could not follow
as her face was erased.

88°

josef

a quaker love poem

my love for you, my friend
becomes incarnate like our lord
where he, doing miracles,
opens our hearts and quakes the foundation

my love for you, like his love
for us, opens my heart to your ethereal beauty
and quakes the very foundation of my self

i take thee, my friend, to be my will

quaker undertones
W

#religious #gay #lgbt #romance #quaker

84°

The Words of My Heart

Deja Vu

Have we met like this before?
You and I
Side by side
It seems we've done this before
A time or two

80°

Cadmus Elissa

Don’t Open

🚪

If your past knocks,
don’t answer.

It’s not here to talk

it’s here to wreck
what took you years
to rebuild.

Let it knock.
Let it wait.
Let it rot.

Just don’t forget:
some doors
are better sealed
forever.

This piece is a reminder that not every return deserves a welcome. The past, especially the parts you’ve outgrown, often carries the power to unravel healing. Strength lies not in revisiting, but in refusing to regress.

#past #wounds #healing #emotional #relapse #poetic #truth #personal #growth #boundaries

80°

ManInBlack

In My Lips Instead

Her lips often leave a mark
       on my cheeks, or in the shoulders
       of my white-clean-shirt,
       and I like it, dearly much..

       but could I have it
       in my lips instead?...

       -ManInBlack

#love #yearning #lips #kiss #romance #short

71°

minx

𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙇𝙀𝘼𝙑𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙈𝙀 𝙄𝙎 𝙇𝙄𝙆𝙀 𝙒𝙃𝙄𝙏𝙉𝙀𝙔 𝙁𝙊𝙍𝘿𝙈𝘼𝙉 𝙇𝙀𝘼𝙑𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙇𝘼𝙉𝘼 𝙇𝘼𝙉𝙂. 𝙄𝙏'𝙎 𝙇𝙄𝙆𝙀 𝘼𝙎𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙈𝙀 𝙏𝙊 𝙒𝘼𝙄𝙏 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝙔𝙊𝙐. 𝙄 𝙒𝙊𝙉'𝙏. 𝙎𝙃𝙀 𝙒𝙊𝙉'𝙏. 𝙒𝙀 𝙉𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍 𝙒𝙄𝙇𝙇. 𝙎𝙃𝙀 𝘿𝙊𝙀𝙎𝙉'𝙏 𝙒𝘼𝙉𝙏 𝙃𝙄𝙈. 𝘾𝙇𝘼𝙍𝙆 𝙆𝙀𝙉𝙏 𝙒𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝘼𝙇𝙒𝘼𝙔𝙎 𝘾𝘼𝙏𝘾𝙃 𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝙎𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙔 𝙀𝙔𝙀𝙎 𝘽𝙀𝘾𝘼𝙐𝙎𝙀 𝙎𝙃𝙀'𝙎 𝘼𝙇𝙒𝘼𝙔𝙎 𝘽𝙀𝙀𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙄𝙍 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀𝙎.

𝐖𝐄 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐍'𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐓.

he's leaving for combat. he's leaving for college.

graduation is tomorrow.

#matias #smallville

69°

Albamaine

Kalo

Kalo gue sih
ya, ga usah ribet-ribet
tadah yang ada
dadah yang ga ada

masih baik loh
yang bawa siuh dan pernah misuh gue kasih gestur

walau tuh kelakuan ga ada tekstur, hambar
tapi nampar, soalnya ngarep
bikin erep-erep pas malem

well, i know that traction means tension
sanction; full of obligation
mild litigation from my conducts of actions
so pick up the pace
or just let me phase
and just erase
ah! you little feeble
your dependency makes me dependent as well

65°

Sean Maloney

Real

It’s real
It always will be
But it will never be

I just can’t let go

65°

Lilly

Medicine cabinet

here we are back again
in front of the medicine cabinet
with a brain full of yearning
and a heart full of sadness
my brain chemically ill making itself yearn for death
my heart full of sadness just wanting it all to stop
the only thing my mind and heart can agree on is that the sadness needs to end
this must be the only way right?
every other way I've tried never work long term
so if not this then what's the answer

#suicide #depression #sad

64°

lizie

poem no. 303

it’s selfish,
but i love
that every word i give you
turns into poetry.

58°

Leanne

Puddle

His words, like honey, stick to me,
Soft and sweet,
He melts my heart into a puddle at his feet.
Each phrase he speaks, a tender, warm glow is formed,
This glow ignites my soul into a gentle swarm.

RL❤️