Regular poetry thread
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Regular poetry thread
Regular poetry thread (because I'm tired of not editing my poems)
This is exactly what it sounds like! A thread to post poetry. I'm excited to read all of your work!
submitted by Bluebird
(April 30, 2017 - 8:51 pm)
(April 30, 2017 - 8:51 pm)
You stand atop the mountain
Everything glistens, like it hurts
(Yes, it hurts to exist for them too)
The sun comes up
But soon the light goes down;
As dark monochromatic clouds circle all around;
They seize the colours in their endless sponge
And open the invisible curtains in a deluge;
There's still light, but it's robbed of all its life,
As the waters pour down, never ending
They steal the clarity, the colour;
The focus and the fervour,
Until everything is the same--
Flecked with grey and given a full view
Of nothing but the water here and lighter grey mist elsewhere;
It's somehow calm and even pretty
Despite you being lost and sightless, and the weather being quite dreary.
(October 12, 2021 - 1:01 am)
It feels magical
As the sun streams in,
Casting her golden rays upon
These weathered stones,
Forged millennia ago;
It feels like a breath
Will shatter the illusion,
Scatter the whole structure to dust
And prematurely seal its secrets,
Forevermore;
Carvings lie engraved on every surface,
Vines and spiderwebs carve their way in
And towards the heart of these ruins,
Ever closer to touching history, longing just like me.
What a wonderful ancient magic.
(October 12, 2021 - 10:31 pm)
Watch the sun peak over the horizon
Crawling, clawing it's way up
Yet gliding on so gracefully;
Watch the distant dunes catch fire
And the light pour in relentless
Light a flood, a glowing hot lava-flow;
Watch the winds kick up
And tousle dust and sand
All across this baron land;
Watch as everything falls away
And all you see are bones and ruins towering
Over tilting, shifting golden seas.
(October 12, 2021 - 10:37 pm)
Dark, cold and clammy
It's stifling, it's biting
And yet you're still drenched in sweat
Something pounds hard in your temples
The stagnant air pulsing with silent pressure
And you swear you can hear a clock
Ticking
Ticking
Still ticking
In the empty quietness,
Eyes playing tricks on you with inky spectres
And so you have to struggle
Against a sea throbbing of hands
Pulling you back down, such a far fall
When you get up and step forward
Then suddenly, with a flick of your wrist
And a soft whir, there's light:
And suddenly you can breathe again
When your eyes catch letters that don't yet make words
And a dark board full of the same possibilities.
(October 15, 2021 - 1:09 am)
Lost By Pancake
I have fallen from the sky,
I landed somewhere,
I could not fly,
My friends left me behind.
I was sad,
But then they came,
They were rabbits,
And so tame.
I lost many friends,
And made more,
But I was still lost,
And could not find a door.
Eventually I walked alone,
My friends all forgot about me,
I wished I could have flown,
So I could leave.
I walked and walked,
For days and days and days,
Yet all I did was get more lost,
So I had to sleep on hay.
Are my friends concerened about me?
Was all I could think,
They probably weren't I thought,
As a mink ran past.
Lost for days I have been,
So hungry and thirsty,
When I spotted a den,
I made it my home for it was empty.
I have lived here for so long,
I never miss my friends,
Anymore as I walk along,
Now I am happy,
But I am still lost.
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That is my poem! I hope you like it!
(October 15, 2021 - 6:44 am)
Interesting! I like how it rhymes throughout, despite perhaps a bit forced in certain places. Nice work!
(October 16, 2021 - 2:38 am)
@Jaybells,
Thanks! I tried to stay on my theme the whole time, but someplaces it seemed off theme, so I tried to turn it on theme.
(October 17, 2021 - 11:22 am)
untitled
~
you don’t love me
you love him
and i think somewhere deep down i knew that
but it still hurts
hearing you say it out loud
pretending to be happy for you
when my heart is shattering
i guess it was all platonic
how was it all platonic?
you held my hand on the boardwalk
you looked at me and said brown eyes are your favorite
you held me when i cried
you took my hand and leaned your head on my shoulder
and none of it meant anything
my heart drops when you say his name
wondering if he’ll ask you to dance
i wanted to ask you
i wanted to say so many things but i didn’t and now
it’s too late
i still tell you i love you
but my voice catches on the words
something’s changed
even if you don’t know it
i’d give you my heart but you don’t want it
why would you want it?
why would you want me?
i feel so stupid for thinking you could ever see me how i see you
because you’re golden
and i’m me
but my heart still skips a beat when you walk into the room
forgetting for just a moment the ache in my chest
he doesn’t deserve you
but then again
neither do i
~~~
So yeah long story short the girl I'm in love with has a crush on someone else and I'm sad about it :')
(October 15, 2021 - 9:55 pm)
Oh, this hurts in such a good heartbreaking-story way. IT'S SO GOOD, probably because it feels so personal and captures that small-scale hurt that rocks your world. Oof.
Also, sorry about your situation, mate. I totally get it, having been through something really similar,* and hope you can move on alright. Good luck! *offers virtual hug*
(October 16, 2021 - 2:48 am)
Thank you! *accepts virtual hug* Hopefully I'll get over it soon, but I'm actually going to homecoming with her then she's spending the night at my house, so that should be fun~ Thanks for the support :)
(October 16, 2021 - 1:03 pm)
Oh, this hurts in such a good heartbreaking-story way. IT'S SO GOOD, probably because it feels so personal and captures that small-scale hurt that rocks your world. Oof.
Also, sorry about your situation, mate. I totally get it, having been through something really similar,* and hope you can move on alright. Good luck! *offers virtual hug*
(October 16, 2021 - 2:48 am)
I wished so long ago
To breathe below
The crystal water
that never is hotter.
The water sparkles very bright
Like the stary nights
That I wish to be mine
With all the stars that shine.
The crystal water is not rare
So why do I care
Where it flows
Between farmer hoes.
I wish this lake to be mine
For it is very fine
Though it can never be
I wish to lock it with a key.
The end
(October 17, 2021 - 11:33 am)
I like the idea a lot!
(October 19, 2021 - 9:16 pm)
I was never lost.
I was never found.
I had no cost.
I had no mounds
of money.
I did not want.
I did not wish.
I do not run avaunt.
I do not miss
my sorrows.
The End.
Just a little poem I thought of, I did not intend for it to have a meaning.
(October 17, 2021 - 1:30 pm)
Haiku
I will walk down here,
You will be waiting for me,
We will meet up.
I hope I did it right.
(October 17, 2021 - 2:06 pm)