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girl like me
a girl like me will meet a boy she loves and instead of loving them,
she will think only of the words she will use to describe them,
when she writes a poem that night.
i am not ashamed of my soul that i bear whenever i open it.
a girl like me will write about every person she encounters,
and hope that for some reason they stumble upon it,
and spend the rest of their life wonderi...
Monday 26th December 2022 1:39 pm
he doesn't text me anymore
i think to be unloved is to be damned.
for a while i thought myself damned.
can you really be damned at 16?
i gave him two cigarettes this time,
and offered another two.
he smoked them till the tips of his fingers burned,
i wanted to place them on my lips.
suck them, kiss them, cool them.
i sat across from him, nursing one drink, careful with my teeth and my brow.
he...
Thursday 22nd December 2022 11:37 pm
poets who raise me
oh my stomach! my heart! my chest!
oh it aches, it aches so it does!
forcing pizza down my throat at a table of my enemies and my best friends.
i hurt, i am screaming at them.
my eyes, cant you see the pain in them!
am i not as poetic looking as i seem inside my own head?
i wasnt raised by poets, or ones that believed they were.
i always wished one day i would find an album ...
Tuesday 13th December 2022 8:40 pm
At the Deep Woods
And in the deep woods the creature slowly crept
The snoozing boys deep in slumber continued on how they slept
Even under the chilly blanket of night the creature's spits warm breath
A sound was made when the twig snapped where the creature has stepped
One boy jumped awoke and examines the surrounding in fright
The boy saw only darkness and the glimmering torch they placed
The boy lays once...
Tuesday 13th December 2022 1:41 pm
Sea of Coins
The man sat in the seat of gold
Overlooking nothing and a place once ruled
The clouds surrounds and fright unfolds
Yet, the man stood stern and cold
He reminisced a period where he once king
Once lived as a scholar, a general, and naive
He lacks acceptance and made somebody do his bidding
Causing somebody to grasp his ability to meet death that the man never retrieved
His majesty dropp...
Sunday 11th December 2022 3:03 am
Song of Nil
A tune surrounds the capacious void and the
Fragments of notes encompasses its niches
The volume abloom in shape; loud and announces
Rhythmic flows that proceeds to shatter infringes
Strain of the melodic tune and the lyrical prowess
Tends the ear with musical frisson
Masterpiece beyond sounds, words, and worthy for Aengus
Tranced, like a sailor to a siren and kept bopping on
As the tu...
Friday 9th December 2022 4:38 pm
NOX
The whistle of the wind
And the fate twisted and twined
Under the dark filled with gems
We made love and made other condemns
Mumbling crickets sang their song
And the croaking frogs composed their poem
The endless sky; glimmering yet bright
With you here feelings were delight
The moment and time stood still
And the world was ours to give
Soft tongue and eyes filled with jewel
Is not...
Saturday 3rd December 2022 3:52 am
Square
Room in dark paint with crumbling walls and hollowed holes
Stares back with its glimmering lights from outside
With the lowered ceilings and sound of bellows
A place fit for safe and a place relied
Crusted floor due to dirt, mud, tears, and blood
Rocking floor and the swaying curtains fuels cry of ballad
Burst of sounds made a powerful gust that shattered glass
A sound that makes its poin...
Saturday 3rd December 2022 3:51 am
The Love of Bliss
Us driving in the unending road
Bouquet of puff hanging in my lips
With you here time slowly flowed,
for, I glanced over to see your mischievous glimpse
A day I deliberately squandered
To keep seeing your glimpse among the waning crescent we pondered
Gust flows your curls and pollinates its scents
Drunkenly devoted without a drink ferments
Lost in time, lost in asphalt
With only stars...
Saturday 3rd December 2022 3:45 am
untitled
Dancing in the background of lilac petal
Sapphires surrounds and shined with a vendetta
Gasping the puff of space dust
Walking in thin air, together with the seeping blood lust
Near, yet too far
Celestial bodies barreling towards with no fuss
Words spoken in the pages of grimoire
Unfurled by the curious gust
Synchronized by the effects of cosmic dust
The choreographed pirouette of the...
Saturday 3rd December 2022 3:43 am
untitled
Strumming the strings of fate
Moving in maelstrom against the natural order of destiny
As the strings lengthen, I’m in stalemate
To counter, to flow, or to simply be
I stand in the space of the night
Looking up, stars staring back
Looking back, decisions stand for condign smite
Still seeking for the perfect tune by a mere playwright
Choices have been chosen, Decisions have been decided
...
Saturday 3rd December 2022 3:41 am
Finding the Deep
When the needle pricks your finger.
When you hide under the covers.
When you look under the bed.
When you go down into the basement.
When you dig up the root in the yard.
When you lay someone to rest.
When you drill to find water.
When you mine for gold.
When the sink hole collapses.
When you drop deep inside Krubera.
When Earth cracks in two and you reach t...
Friday 2nd December 2022 9:12 pm
Critical
Imagine freedom being tied
To how far you can run
Be it from a gun,
your mum
Running from expectations
You're acting like a bum
Someone's son
To succumb to banal pleasures
You bum
Experienced pleanty these few years
But yet still
A master of none
The cat has 9 lives
You live to tell one tale
You've been given plenty of opportunities
And yet you fai...
Monday 28th November 2022 10:30 pm
TAINTED
Tainted words are like shadows
Amid your weak sunny days
Tainted dreams are like the mud
On your black patent leather shoes
You cannot walk towards your hope
Having these sorrowful feet
And with a barefaced kind
Of friend hidden on your mind
Tainted whispers are like a curse
With the promises you've broken
Maybe a thousand times
A sudden storm taints the breeze
...
Monday 28th November 2022 7:55 pm
Excess
i)
Living under a veil of uncertainty one tends to spiral
Denial, Trial and Error the child inside is desperate to come home
Errors and false hopes become tendencies eventually
One and all, once together, all get pushed to the periphery
In a cold winter one tends to call the warm home
Layers that seem adequate we love to deem adequate
A covered fire cannot burn
A covered p...
Sunday 27th November 2022 6:08 pm
refusal is slow
I
i'll be honest,
I refuse to love you.
my chest sits in knots
even in this revelation
the would-be butterflies remain trampled
and God knows they fly all around him
im not sure they even had the chance
to cocoon, your slime-gripped words
of small flames devoured their bloom.
No. Yes. No, im not bitter. Im selfish.
I'm greedy with want, a desire-is-me factory of production
I hold ...
Sunday 27th November 2022 4:26 pm
Dreams
If there's a need to
Wake up from a dream
(If i am in one)
I'll simply close my eyes
And will go to sleep
Sunday 20th November 2022 6:48 am
Just a Thought
We grow up with fantasies in our head
"Become more", naturally I said
That is all I want for you and I
It was only borrowed time
They were only doing what was in their heads
It IS worth sharing
But can it be?
What am I becoming?
What have I said?
Can someone share this with me?
Friday 18th November 2022 9:29 pm
It's occurred to me that I really love the kind of things that represent a beautiful but gentle sadness because it feels like the most accurate reflection of real life and it feels the most like home.
Tuesday 15th November 2022 6:27 am
walking
"i know how to walk from here to there"
okay, i muse back,
"so walk through fires with me, walk through"
i cant. i never have been able to.
the places that i walk from are the mouths of cavernous houses.
and from them ive only just realised i can leave.
"i will give you wings and a heart and a lust for the finer things"
good, i need an incentive.
"but you must act upon...
Tuesday 15th November 2022 12:43 am
After All
After all
In the end
If it was all just one long, strange, and pointless trip
Then it was at least interesting
And that's the most important thing in the world.
Friday 11th November 2022 7:57 am
Mind Fog
Maybe something happens
Which propagates a deep unease
That makes you acknowledge the weight in your brain
And reminds you that you're unwell again
Volumous storm clouds roll in and take hold
As well you sit with your feelings inside your head it seems as though a thousand years drift by within yourself
As you wait for the interminable unrest to pass
Lightning strikes and thun...
Tuesday 8th November 2022 9:58 pm
The Bottle
The Bottle
Sometimes it's easy to take comfort from a bottle
Trying to numb or dull the anxiety
A swill of sweet oakey booze to dissolve those feelings one would rather ignore
But eventually, given enough time, and enough drink
One starts to notice that bottle isn't your friend
It doesn't work
It doesn't numb anything
In fact, most of the time, it boils and churns up and c...
Thursday 3rd November 2022 7:12 pm
there's a couple sitting two seats in front
sitting on a train with my head bowed in a quiet mourning for the couple sitting two seats in front.
or really for me.
i mourn for me, me and my love and its cramps.
im in love, im in love and once more im in love.
not with anyone but with everyone, or anyone who'd see it through.
then each time i remember that the only thing i want to be is noticed,
someone can notice that, eve...
Tuesday 1st November 2022 10:35 pm
Ebook out and charting!
It's made the charts at Amazon.co.uk! Top 4, could it rise up more?!
Help a fellow WOL poet out and get your own copy of The Writing Group.
Monday 31st October 2022 12:54 am
Hypnotica
Hypnotica
The girl showed her fangs, most when alone
Her nails grew bigger, clear and they’re cold;
Escort; chaperone.
She showed her fangs when she got him alone
Clawing at skin; she’s ice and she’s cold
Showed her his doors and how they won’t close
Inside the living; curtains and carpets stained with cologne.
Epoxy the vase, stuck on the phone
Shirt into shre...
Saturday 29th October 2022 5:53 pm
Love is Strange
Love is a strange thing isn't it. Many got blessed by the love as it transformed their lives picking them up from bottom and taking them to the heights of the sky. And for some its a curse that only put sorrow and misery in their lives.
Once someone said something very beautiful about love and who loves the most a man or a woman.
By every mistake a man made and woman forgives just adds ...
Thursday 27th October 2022 6:02 am
a player’s skill set
experience is experience of a skill set
to tell of a experience is to tell of a skill set
to tell a tale of a experience is to tell a tale of a skill set
a tale of experience is a tale of a skill set
a skill set is a set of skill
a set of skill is a set of a player’s skill
a player’s skill is a player’s set of skill
to tell a tale is to tell a player’s experience
a player’s experience is...
Monday 17th October 2022 7:02 pm
Wound up with Love
Wound up with Love is Clive Donovan's second collection. A pamphlet published by Lapwing of Belfast in 2022.
A selection of poems all about love and its difficulties. Dedicated "To all the girls"
It is said of this book that wherever you are on your love journey you will find yourself on one of these pages.
Friday 7th October 2022 2:51 pm
More on The Taste of Glass
Richard Palmer for South Magazine, commenting on The Taste of Glass: "[The poet] is both the observer and the observed, trapped on the other side and her real kiss still tastes of glass. The poet adopts a range of personae...ranges widely in scale...tone too..."
Friday 7th October 2022 2:43 pm
The Taste of Glass Reviews
What they said about The Taste of Glass, Clive Donovan's first poetry collection published by Cinnamon Press:
"A treasure trove of sharp insights and fresh ideas" Clifton Redmond for The High Window
"Mighty powerful stuff" Sam Smith ed. The Journal
"Wild and meaningful" Fred Beake
"Poems of nuance and feeling" Robert Garnham
Friday 7th October 2022 2:31 pm
a claim of a universe
the universe is a claim of a claim
the universe is a claim of a stake
to claim the universe is to direct the universe
the future direct the future
the future direct the stake of the future
the stake of the future is the direct of the future
the stake of the future is the stake of a direction
the universe is a direct universe
the universe is a direct claim
science claim science
the dire...
Monday 3rd October 2022 8:15 pm
Mersey Poets bring peace to Palm House
Merseyside poets, singers and musicians are getting together to perform a handful of events inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Organised by Wirral poets Michelle Wright and Barry Woods, the events highlight current conflicts around the world and feature work from their new community anthology ‘Poets for Peace’, which is available to read for free on Facebook.
‘We are u...
Tuesday 27th September 2022 1:43 pm
hear it now!
if you show yourself to me
i will disappear under the vastness of linen filled lines.
i will run through clouded streets until my legs give way.
if you loan yourself to me
the farthest hills out yonder
arent far enough for me.
the distance to be put 'tween us
by me,
must be longer than the wizened vines that grow from your mothers childhood home.
must be wider th...
Friday 23rd September 2022 9:48 pm
sure
i miss the child i was at 17.
i miss 17, i miss missing, i miss loving nothing.
i miss wanting to feel and not being old enough to get it yet.
i miss thinking i was emotionally literate.
im 19.
nineteen.
i am still a baby, a kid, a viriginal chalice not yet ready to be drunk from.
there is no slow down, you crazy child when it comes to me.
my onlookers wince as i choo...
Wednesday 21st September 2022 10:32 pm
big girls don't cry except when it is absolutely not the right time to do so.
am i hungry or has the pit returned.
that stupid fucking pit.
its an eternal loop, circling in and out of itself.
floating dead centre in my gut.
particles of another girl explode and expand out of it,
overcome by this strange girl from the strange world.
i weep on my mothers lap,
i retch over porcelin, patterned.
seeing my sister for the first time in weeks,
she glow...
Monday 19th September 2022 9:32 pm
a tiger vengeance
the eye of the tiger is,
the eye of a vengeance
the eye of the tiger is,
the eye of a clash tiger
the eye of the tiger is,
the lure of a tiger
the eye of the tiger is,
the lure of a vengeance
vengeance is a lure of a vengeance
vengeance is a lure of a tiger
resolution is a lure of resolution
resolution is a lure of a tiger
a tiger resolution is a tiger lure of resolution
a tiger res...
Friday 16th September 2022 8:04 pm
Star-walking
Don't ever say it's over
If we are breathing
Racing to the moonlight
Baby we are speeding
Got you from that heaven
I'll be up even for a 1000 nights
from those days to our years
Be ready we'll be taking flights
Keeping love in this young heart
as I would ever dream of
can't even close my eyes
as this reality is even better than I dreamt of
Like both sides of the sun
scorches and...
Friday 16th September 2022 3:14 pm
don't hmu.
youre a good little girl,
he types.
youre submissive arent you,
he moans, over text.
he expects a beguiled,
blushing emoji in response.
what he gets is three dots and an empty silence so loud he remembers what he is.
a greasy teen (21 years of age).
a lusty manchild looking for another child.
he tells me im a cute and submissive girl,
with luscious milk bags.
...
Wednesday 14th September 2022 12:43 am
I couldn't think of another stanza
curled on a velvet chair
in a darkening room
is a monstorous teen.
outside the blackening,
is a fading pink sky.
the clouds within whisper to shepards,
"Delighted I Hope"
and on the highest grassy hills,
the shepards face eternity.
Friday 9th September 2022 8:08 pm
Remember me
Remember me
for even I'm far away
Keeping our love alive
I'll never fade away
Think of me
Don't let it make u cry
Just a little longer
I promise we'll eventually defy
Feel me
When scared just close ur eyes
I'll always hold u in my heart
I'll make u fly all those skies
Believe in me
I'll be yours in all my lives
for the love we have
Ho...
Friday 9th September 2022 7:36 pm
Dove
It's not living if it's without you, my love
what about this feeling inside,
the warmness coming from a song by that dove.
and if it's not living if it's without you love,
then I'll keep hearing that song
Just from your dove.
*here, dove means heart.
Friday 9th September 2022 7:36 pm
My princess
The feeling of grief is scary,
so do i used to think.
Seems special thinking about her up all
Can't get her out even when I blink.
she keeps the secret in her eyes,
even when she's in a hurricane.
doesn't let's me tangle in those sights,
not giving up in her arcane.
even...
Friday 9th September 2022 7:34 pm
Will you kiss me
Kiss me, will you kiss me,
Under the deep blue night,
Make it long, make it last,
Make it so right.
Embrace me, will you embrace me,
Deep in the moonlight,
Make it strong, make it warm,
Make it so tight.
Stay with me in this moment here,
Please don’t ever leave me,
Your the only girl I’ll ever want,
Yours, I shall eternally be.
Friday 9th September 2022 7:32 pm
I promise
You gave me sunshine,
when I had only rain,
You brought me happiness,
when I only knew pain.
You gave me light,
when darkness filled my world,
You beautified my life,
when you became my girl.
I want to hold you in my arms,
So you can feel my heart beat.
I will embrace you so deeply,
That our two souls shall meet.
I want to kiss you so sweetly,
...Friday 9th September 2022 7:30 pm
Acting
Because In those 10-15 minutes of a scene,
I’m not me.
I'm a completely different person, in a completely different world.
A world that doesn’t really exist.
Then reality hits and you wake up from the dream.
The dream that was so real, and so fake.
And you remember who you “really” are…
Or do you.
Feeling Kinda Lost
Tuesday 23rd August 2022 6:33 am
Memories
The most beautiful part about life are memories.
We can feel them, deep inside our hearts.
See them, right in front of our eyes.
But most importantly…
We can relive them, as many times as we want.
- M
Tuesday 23rd August 2022 6:16 am
in/out
one day I woke up
tired of taking the oxygen in my lungs for granted
so now I breathe
deliberately
and as I breathe
so I live
Sunday 7th August 2022 10:20 am
The Origin of Silence
He came like an ancient prophecy
sparked by the howling of the seasons.
Those who pursued him knew nothing of his arts
They did not see him sewn into the four winds
They did not hear him no matter how loud he sang.
In this time of virus and plague true hunger bares its teeth.
A fierce breaking, a shaking and a flailing
A swooning and a sweating, a cruel fever falling
All ab...
Sunday 7th August 2022 6:39 am
All Day Breakfast
Your bad hours fizz
in a squirming glass,
and as cheery as they
had previously seemed
you require the waitress to
please change these flowers -
they're fake;
this head, please ... this universe ...
Hope the bellowing coffee
can fill you without any serious
danger of overflowing.
Yesterday
you only needed to pin down
the laughing words;
today you're th...
Saturday 6th August 2022 2:36 pm
check yourself
check yourself fool
check your judgement
check yourself by judging yourself
pride yourself by judging yourself
pride yourself by judging your judgement
respect yourself is by judging yourself
respect your pride is by judging your pride
to fool yourself is to check yourself
to fool yourself is to respect yourself
respect is to honor yourself
to honor yourself is to honor your respect
j...
Friday 5th August 2022 7:16 pm
Merseyside Poets Read for Peace
Merseyside poets, singers and musicians have come together to perform a gig for Peace at the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead.
Organised by Wirral poets Michelle Wright and Barry Woods, the event highlighted current conflicts around the world and featured work from their new community anthology ‘Poets for Peace’, which is available to read for free on Facebook.
‘We are uni...
Thursday 4th August 2022 2:29 pm
lost my way
my soft soles patter over the cold slates that make up the maze of halls im scurrying through.
i am on an adventure, a treacherous journey,
to retrieve a single key for a locked door ive been trying to batter down my entire life.
there are others, winding their ways through the spiralling turrets.
sometimes we even fall in unison,
our shoes hitting the same beats, on the same beate...
Thursday 14th July 2022 12:51 am
Inadequate Appetite
Something must be done. I must find the puzzle piece to full my emptiness.
The sound of my mouth quickly eating echoing through my ears. The weight being realised from my shoulders. At last.
Peace.
Hold on. STOP STOP. Why can’t I stop?
My appetite is gone but my pain lingers. As I re-gain awareness I am surrounded by an endless pile of wrappers. Each one symbolising my failure. My lac...
Saturday 2nd July 2022 11:15 pm
bird watching
gracefully i perch on the edge of the bus seat,
so as to convey my feminine, my eyelashes.
each time the doors open my posture rushes to fix itself,
my fringe blown out by my hands running through it.
when i'm most worn out,
on the days when the world is dragging its feet,
when my joints tingle with pins and needles.
to look pretty on the edge of a bus seat is a fufillin...
Saturday 2nd July 2022 10:10 pm
i survived NYC
My brain is leaking out my nose.
leaving an imprint on the soles of my shoes as I walk on,
it splatters,
squelching,
as the birds pitter, patter on,
a minuscule impact behind the larger one.
the sky tilts with me,
f-lling
fall-n
fa-l (how do you spell -alling? i thnik. ha;ve I ‘forgtten’ HO?W t0 write to )
Click
Click
...
Thursday 30th June 2022 3:15 am
WAITING FOR MACCA
WAITING FOR MACCA
'Long tall Sally she's built for speed'
We're waiting for Macca
'She's got everything'
At Glastonbury
'That uncle John needs'
Oldest performer to top the bill
'O babee'
Not long now
'Yeaaaaah babeee'
We just can't wait
'Havin' some fun
Tonight’ !
@David Subacchi
June 2022.
June 2022.
Monday 27th June 2022 5:49 pm
Nishinomiya City Fogs
Expectable tracing
a light spreads a fire
a dark at night
red clouds natural science’s task of decipherment
diagrams expend texts reported by the coast
a snap, a rasp, a chatter on the seabed
Onagas castanet in Ginkgo
precursors foreshock zoology
cumbrous seismisms mackerel skies
the scenery blurs
long hairs in the north in Gamelion
Hinoko rainbow between mountains
black, yellow ...
Friday 24th June 2022 12:20 pm
girls and their nonsense.
floating in that acrid pool of nothingness,
a feather kissed the tip of my nose and whispered softly over my face.
in that moment, decided.
i watch the village of women who surround me each day,
awash with a soft awe at their mossy eyes and woolen hands.
i link arms with the girl i love most on a late night walk,
running from the boy who asked me to give apart of myself.
...
Monday 20th June 2022 3:08 pm
MONUMENTAL
Happy alone although not physically alone
Just two repellent magnets incompatible forces
Fighting to pull closer but no efforts could make the scientifically impossible...possible
Not in those circumstances at that time
The facts were just the facts
Unsigned unwritten laws bound by unspoken pacts
Small print unread but thankfully unsigned
Well technically
Just not sys...
Tuesday 14th June 2022 12:51 am
For ASCGDF:K
after For M by Mikko Harvey
I didn't expect you to leave
red paint on my heart.
Have you ever spoken
without the timbre of your gaze
turning words into molasses?
Well, if not, I think you should try.
Follow my lead:
Emotion tied to twisted words and Pokemon is an odd combination.
I hope you know the melody of my laughter will be found in those words.
Sometimes,...
Sunday 12th June 2022 7:44 pm
Ode to my distraction
after Ode to my Envy by Chen Chen
I'm distracted by those around, meshing their hands with the keys I can't bear to touch.
I'm distracted by the words which won't come to me but scream that poetry is everlasting.
i'm distracted by the fugue state
my eyes have decided to be buried in & remain seated for the show.
I'm distracted by the way I refuse to be elastic, forever hav...
Saturday 11th June 2022 10:21 pm
Confused Dot Com
Just three little questions my dear friends,
I hope you can lend a hand,
Each scenario happened today,
And I still don’t quite understand.
If the square of the hypotenuse,
Is the sum of squares on either side,
How do you get an Articulated lorry,
Through a gate just 10 feet wide.
The calculated arc of a cannonball,
Hits square the castle wall, not the moat,
...
Thursday 9th June 2022 4:36 pm
you know the bliss of evil
i've seen the smallest, tall creatures be eaten alive from the inside.
a quick glance to the left and under the bed will tell you all you need to know.
the festering, rotten bed frame.
assembled by the very thing that chained me onto it for years.
but when i finally broke my own chords, vocal and the ones restraining,
another creature crawled from under the bed and took my place.
...Wednesday 8th June 2022 10:10 pm
the day I decorated one side of my wall
on the day i decorated one side of my wall,
there was a statue that fell with a crash,
and cratered the ground.
a statue whos golden plaque was read aloud to me as a child.
and on the day i decorated one side of my wall,
with the movie quotes,
and the pretty people,
on that day my eyes bruised themselves silly.
my pockets full of hours, and grief.
non violent pu...
Friday 3rd June 2022 11:16 pm
parties are the end of the world.
ive been invited to a party this saturday.
i think i will go,
i think i will get as drunk as i can.
to feel the painful crushing weight of the sunday hangover.
im going to act as if i am in a french film.
i will tell each person a different lie,
tell them something i've made up about myself.
these people dont know me.
dont know me at all.
but whats more lik...
Thursday 2nd June 2022 11:09 pm
immature in elementary
i'm choosing to forget the stick and poke image,
of myself in my head.
my likeness is one i want to be liked.
the stick and poke is immature and elementary.
think your high school aquaintance,
who always wanted a tattoo.
but 15 was still too young.
so they mutilated the innocent skin of their thighs.
the mutliated image of my body, my face, my ugly wretched soul
b...
Thursday 2nd June 2022 3:42 pm
no place unlike my own world
its awfully strange.
i scrapbook pieces of my soul, and mind together.
together on the pages of a lined notebook,
the glue i used melts into the paper and the newspapers i borrowed evaporate.
the news dies, or fades, it disappears.
melted together with the newest form of creative escapism ive decided upon.
there are vibrations under my papercut hands, markered with...
Tuesday 31st May 2022 4:46 pm
star shaped stickers
when i see the girls who match my soft body,
when i see them wear the skirts, the tshirts, you know the ones.
well when i see them, i feel as though i must reach through to the other side
of the screen that seperates and give them a star shaped sticker.
the stickers that, while they got their flowers, we coveted on our walls.
it's awkwardly awkward trying to explain this to anothe...
Sunday 29th May 2022 11:06 pm
a bang trim
to feel as if one has emerged from a cloud of dust each time they wake, has to mean a great deal.
it's what's on your mind, as you duet with the girl on the other side of your headphones.
it must feel like the brightening of the day, the singing of the earliest bird, the sweat after the fight.
at least this is what you think to yourself.
for you it means to be able to run two steps ...
Sunday 29th May 2022 9:29 pm
TEENAGE GIRLS
who wants the teenage girl
sitting on her rustled bedsheets.
stained tshirt, stained tear tracks.
smiling, cooing and ooing at the people on the tv.
blushing when he kisses the girl she wants to be.
or when she sits alone in the cinema, grinning.
toothy smiles, outrageous laughs
too loud even for the rest.
seeing the best film in the world.
then another best film in the world.
co...
Saturday 28th May 2022 10:34 pm
NEVER BEEN KISSED
love feels like cold jealousy.
sitting across from one another.
the table could be worlds and oceans.
i sting with furious stomach churning envy.
snakes and beetles scurrying between my legs.
closed and rotten now i know what i do.
she is so much younger than i,
the times my time was always first,
no longer exists.
she broke a cycle as old as i, and therefor
as old as my time.
...
Saturday 28th May 2022 10:30 pm
I AM! I AM! I AM!
charcoal toothpaste.
teeth whitening strips.
water on a bathroom floor muddied with muttered songs.
cans of who and why on a windowsill.
forehead sweat. made to stick fringes.
quick to anger. founded in a parent not so unlike.
jerking awake. jolting asleep. comfort nul.
calm mornings when the sun alarms.
evil feelings when green and yellow lie dormant.
stuttered uttered eye contac...
Saturday 28th May 2022 10:26 pm
BURNING QUESTION
The tears cannot put out
The burning question of the heart
What a bizarre fire you have
As no one can see your flame
Deep down in your heart
Maybe we should sing a song
To let us not go wrong
Once again with unanswered questions
The lyrics are so stuck in violence
That they are drifting us apart
Deep down in our bleeding heart
The empty space is not big enough
...
Saturday 28th May 2022 1:57 pm
with reckless abandon
in its purest form
the simplest of
possible affirmations
is to be loved in return
in similar manner
the most complex of
probable affirmations
is reciprocating like affection
in conclusion, then,
it seems most apparent
to appreciate with reckless
abandon the air we breathe
for we build tomorrows
on these simplest, most
basic of molecules, our
humble bricks of being
whose...
Monday 18th April 2022 3:38 am
The Coming of a New Age
With every year's end - the advent marks the start of a new day,
as human kind we’re always growing wiser, furthermore, fully face to face with the task of taking baby steps toward a straight forward path —
It’s time to take a stand…
(With that being said: we really need to enjoy such a joyous occasion)
In an effort to boost morale; International Women’s Day should pronounce a two part holiday...
Friday 15th April 2022 8:35 am
heavy headspace
I envy those who experience stillness.
A feeling which my mind is constantly searching for.
My internal monologue throwing my head back and forward and back again.
Blood being ghastly pumped through my aching limbs.
Must keep moving. Must keep moving.
My body a burden I must carry throughout all my days.
My mind a vampire sucking away my essence.
My lungs lost for air.
A...
Saturday 9th April 2022 8:04 pm
Time Will Tell
Is it really a new beginning?
Or just a start to another finish.
I suppose it could be a way to a means.
Or a means to an end.
Or maybe just an ending to another new beginning…
Only time will tell.
Friday 1st April 2022 3:18 pm
A First Poem
Today write a first poem
write a tanka, five
lines: seven five five
seven seven metaphor
let the sun sing and moon moan
Tuesday 22nd March 2022 9:23 pm
Small moments
With one small hand wrapped round my thumb
You gave me a vision of what was to come.
A memory I will hold forever
The smallest grip, but I will remember.
I'd stare at you all day long
In my eyes you could do no wrong.
You would sleep and wriggle on my chest
Out of everything I could do, this was the best.
In no time at all you'd stolen our hearts
And ...
Tuesday 22nd March 2022 12:47 pm
I Wish I Was
I don't want nights to end
I don't want days to begin
And I know I'll spend my entire life
Wishing I was six feet under
Crushed under water pressure
Old blood stains on the stone dirty alley
Bones and grit in places unrecognizable
Picture in the papers
40 words on a daily column
Wooden frame with pretty flowers
Tears of strangers
Hushers and whispers
A wall hang...
Friday 25th February 2022 7:31 pm
Don't Look At Me
Don't look at me
Don't look at me
Don't look at me
Don't look at me
When the bullet's fired
You see the blood
I see that blame
Would you fight back
If the war was within you?
And I lost again
Don't look at me
Don't look at me
Don't look at me
Don't look at me
I don't want
A bed of roses
I just want one that'd never die
And I don't want
The world to lose it
Just not to ...
Friday 25th February 2022 7:13 pm
Burning Ashes
A name and a face,
You had none but still a presence;
Lost in the sea of self justification but still alive, or breathing to say the least.
When the wrong and the right doesn't matter anymore
And when the strong and the weak both lost
I realised the wrongs and the loss and a loss and another one.
A new scar with tick of the clock
Appeared and disappeared but the pai...
Friday 25th February 2022 7:09 pm
Forever Might Take Too Long
Not my thoughts that matter it's just I don't think I have anywhere else to go
It's not regret. It's not complains.
Just thoughts you'll never utter
Everyone's busy getting their life right we stutter getting through the moment
I don't want to believe we're same but since when was it me who decided anything?
What? you think the same too?
Can't be coincide right?
Yeah right.
...
Friday 25th February 2022 7:08 pm
Secrets
If I could see myself from another star
Would everything seem alright?
Secrets I've never kept before
And now they're buried deep inside my heart
Why?
When I sit amongst the other stars
I feel like I'm in a nightmare?
In my room all alone?
Surrounded by clones who doesn't even know how to pretend to like me
Can I control the darkness that's killing me with every breath?
You've told m...
Friday 25th February 2022 7:04 pm
white
Dancing on the white
You,
A side of the world I've never seen
Before you reached out for me
Don't take your eyes off me
As I fly
Black wings and chapped smile
Changes are only what you've already got
I'll stay I'll stay
If you dance with me one last time
Friend or rivals it doesn't matter
As long as we leave for the same world
Was I ever there until you saw me?
Our ways our path...
Friday 25th February 2022 7:02 pm
In Shadows, In Truths
The light from behind hid the flaws in the lines
And the smiles that came looked too much like mine
Don't trust and you won't be betrayed
Don't hope and you won't cry when it's late
But you won't see that far with eyes struck on the ground
Who you saw that day wasn't who I found
Where the sight begins is where the story ends
And where the good side dies is where you find heaven
Who...
Friday 25th February 2022 7:00 pm
Infinity Marathon
My mahogany desk and the bright world beyond,
I reached out my hand for someone to hold on;
Nothing much happened.
And now I'm feeling so alone...
I just wanna go back home.
You don't deserve to die and I don't deserve to decide what you want.
I got a thousand more days to live and the number doesn't decrease no matter how much I count
But now I'm feeling so alone...
I just wanna go ...
Friday 25th February 2022 6:57 pm
Long Lost Troubles
If you're here,
I don't blame you
To forget what
I was thinking.
Is it wrong if
I really miss you
Without knowing
That you're sinking ?
I was afraid,
If I survived
The scars would
Never leave me.
All my blabbing,
Please forgive me.
If I love you
Would you hate me?
Can you say my name with out choking?
"I didn't mean it like that"
"I was just joking "
Every time you spill...
Friday 25th February 2022 6:51 pm
I Love Your Allure
I would never question your narrative— as it be, figuratively.
Cheers to another year: it’s ever clear — our glasses never get drunk.
(for all intents and purposes) spirited twin flames pour out libations to a personal god
No half truths with you.
I idolize your third eyes outlook on life...
Our inner visions - seen to fruition - showcase infinite possibilities
Granted we share the same ...
Tuesday 15th February 2022 4:02 am
Jigsaw
JIGSAW
Brunette. Blonde
Black. Grey
I am auburn.
Hazel. Green
Brown. Blue
I am Grey.
Tabs, blanks
Pockets, sockets
Corners, middles
I am unique.
Flat pieces; four points
Innies and lock
The back
always Grey
Without me, you are not complete
With me, we are replete
A needle in the haystack
melancholic morning
Smea...
Saturday 29th January 2022 8:03 am
Till the end of the line
I have entered this new chapter of my life,
But it feels like the past is not so far behind.
I wish you were here to see the person who I have become today,
I wish you were here to tell me that it was going to be okay.
From seeing each other almost everyday,
To not having spoken to each other for over a year seems like hell.
I wish you were here to get me out of this mess,
...Wednesday 26th January 2022 5:33 pm
Sacrifice
Sacrifice
Readable from her eyes,
Even when she cries.
Possible all lies.
So much love to give
The only reason to live.
How shall she prove
The sacrifice?
She has so much to lose
Every mountain she would move.
Her Sacrifice is the risk she takes.
All her rules and priorities she breaks
To give and give and give
So you can live and live and live.
Some call...
Sunday 23rd January 2022 10:45 pm
I Wrote a Poem for You
I was told to write a poem for you
I understand why, it’s a lovely gift
Provided it’s any good
But you think they’re all good
So you will enjoy the poem I wrote for you
I’m not being arrogant, not at all
My poems aren’t good or lovely
They’re just words that barely connect
No rhyme, no reason, no theme.
I still don’t know if I’m trying
If anyone will think it’s good
...Sunday 2nd January 2022 12:53 pm
This Writer is Not a Poet
I'm a writer not a poet
Sometimes my writing seems like a poem
But that is because I have no control over my self expression
I pour my soul into words
I don't spend time observing the shape they take
Sometimes they might rhyme
Sometimes they might come as stanzas not as paragraphs
But I'm not a poet, I am a writer.
You say but a poet is a writer
I do not dispute that observation
Now co...
Sunday 2nd January 2022 9:51 am
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