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Joy, it caught me content,
Hopping, smiling.
Overflowing emotion,
Moved,
Restless,
Thoughtful,
Full,
Happy,
Truly, if only for a moment.
I wish it could last,
And perpetuate itself
Consistently,
Continuously.
But, content with the present,
I hold, marked consistently,
A memory present in the future,
A certain present.
Expressing with this simple poem the joy of a happy moment that you know will be marked in memory by its intensity and brevity.
I lose myself in spectral alternatives
Of an uncertain and nonexistent future.
Tormented by inconsistent thoughts,
By inconsistent perspectives
And in the countless possibilities of the horizon.

A feeling that accelerates the chest,
At times paralyzing and tormenting,
Moving in disharmonious rhythms,
Expelling an unmeasured air
From a gasping breath.

I cling to the present
That runs and does not forgive,
Thrives and insists,
Being the only one that resists,
To the past and to the future.
Anxiety before the new and the unexpected.
Bekah Halle Dec 2024
I feel hungover,
Ugly and fat.
(It might be
that I drank last night),
But it is more likely
That's because of
Gluttony.
I'm not chasing
Anything, anyone, anymore.
There's no anxiety,
Is it depression?!
What is this unknown place?
I know to be present,
Which elevates and calms
These feels,
So I'll sit and watch:
The butterflies and bees,
Release this heavy
state till free,
And embrace these sensations
just now, of me.
Happy New Year! May 2025 be the year you desire it to be. Bless you all.
Ma'ya Dec 2024
In the quiet hum of words unsaid,
We walk through memories, softly tread.
The past hangs heavy, yet we smile,
Two souls entangled, if just for a while.

Once, love burned with fierce, bright flame,
Now it flickers, quietly, but still the same.
In each laugh, a quiet feeling rings,
Of a love that once soared on unseen wings.

We are not strangers, yet not the same,
Two hearts tangled in a gentle game.
In silence, we find our truth, unsure,
A bond unspoken, yet still pure.

I watch the way you look at me,
As if you're seeing what used to be.
And I wonder if you feel the pull,
Of what was never fully whole.

In this game, we play with time,
Every word, a soft, quiet rhyme.
Nervous laughter, fleeting glances shared,
A bond unspoken, yet still declared.

Are we friends, or something more?
A love deferred, forever unsure.
But in this moment, we find our place,
In the quiet space where hearts embrace.

So let the past be what it is,
Let the future be a quiet kiss.
For here we stand, just you and me,
In the tangled threads of what might be.
And within the space we left, there was no closure. Years passed, and while our path meets again, old emotions stir. In fear, of losing you again
Lizzie Bevis Dec 2024
How strange it is
That I leave you behind,
Yet you remain the reason
For every dream that I chase.
You are a ghost who walks beside me,
Still alive in my memories and hopes.
Your presence echoes in yesterday's stories,
And shimmers in tomorrow's unmapped stars.
You are the footprints to where my heart has led,
And the distant lights glowing from afar.
Your past flows into my future,
To shape me into who I will become.

©️Lizzie Bevis
Bekah Halle Oct 2024
One step at a time, don’t run ahead or you’ll miss that step?
Contradictions, paradoxes,
we live in a world of being so exposed
But yet, we are all still so hidden,
To ourselves, and to each other.
Trying to predict the future is prized,
Yet, it’s such a cowardly act.
One step at a time is bravery undervalued:
It doesn’t win awards, but you win yourself.
Zywa Dec 2024
Just to get a grip

on what's happening, I say --


out loud: nownownow.
Poem "Omdat het niet mogelijk lijkt tegelijkertijd te bestaan" ("Because it doesn't seem to be possible to exist at the same time", 2022, Maria Barnas)

Collection "Here &Now&"
showyoulove Nov 2024
Lord, help me be open and present
To your will and your love
Even when I only hear silence
Grant my soul peace and my mind calm
As I am before you, open and present
And still, I know you are with me
I know you are near
You are faithful now and always you will be
I will remain faithful to you
It has been thirty-four days on this journey to you
And somehow, I'm still blown away even though I knew
That it could happen that it would happen:
Forty-six days forty-six brand new writings
With twelve days left and Holy week fast approaching
Help me continue to be open and present
That you for this gift that is heaven sent
That you for the trial and transformation of Lent
That you for the preparation and peace of Advent
That you for this daily living
For the breath that you keep giving
For the bread by which we're fed
For the light by which we're led
Thank you for the gifts you bring
Thank you, Lord, for everything
Lord, help me be open and present

Amen
Frank Cavalo Nov 2024
Time has a fickle memory
Such oft it o’erlaps
Deja vu, of the lyric —
That Time itself — entraps.

Devours the page — engorged
‘Til you are paper-forged
Drowned — heady, in pretty epithet,
Losing Time you can’t afford.

You can’t unbind the shackles
For Time has lost the key –
Better to live a fleeting bliss
Than a prolonged misery.
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