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nikkimoe
Published
Today 4:11am
Today 4:11am
Sycophants
Fake people
infect things
like a disease,
noses so brown
watch out when
they sneeze.
infect things
like a disease,
noses so brown
watch out when
they sneeze.
#LifeStruggles
5 reads
2 Comments
Vferry
Published
Today 3:45am
Today 3:45am
Knocking Words
Words gentle knock on the mind’s tide
Pushing new salt on old wounds
Currents that crash into the past
In the rhythm of a serenity prayer
Never fully free or forgiven
The tide breaks hard on old shells
Making small splinters of yourself
Always present, ready to cut, ready to hurt
The words within the tide’s knock
Drag you beyond the horizon
Or seat you safely on the shore
To watch the sunset into your past
The tide faithfully comes regardless
Always knocking on the shores of your mind
Pushing new salt on old wounds
Currents that crash into the past
In the rhythm of a serenity prayer
Never fully free or forgiven
The tide breaks hard on old shells
Making small splinters of yourself
Always present, ready to cut, ready to hurt
The words within the tide’s knock
Drag you beyond the horizon
Or seat you safely on the shore
To watch the sunset into your past
The tide faithfully comes regardless
Always knocking on the shores of your mind
#strength
#courage
#alcohol
#addiction
#healing
6 reads
1 Comment
buddydog
Published
Today 3:34am
Today 3:34am
A Flower In A Lapel
People are living in fear
Laid-off from a crisis they say
Terror in the streets, just outside their door
Some may think the end is near
Propaganda is all the news
Those who are right are wrong
Those who are wrong are right
Don’t judge until you walked in their shoes
A positive test can be such a task
Fourteen days in the hole
Locked in a political prison
With nothing but just a masque
Teachers no longer inspire or pray
A hand over heart is a penalty in the game
Systemic racism is just the walking dead ...
Laid-off from a crisis they say
Terror in the streets, just outside their door
Some may think the end is near
Propaganda is all the news
Those who are right are wrong
Those who are wrong are right
Don’t judge until you walked in their shoes
A positive test can be such a task
Fourteen days in the hole
Locked in a political prison
With nothing but just a masque
Teachers no longer inspire or pray
A hand over heart is a penalty in the game
Systemic racism is just the walking dead ...
#LifeStruggles
5 reads
1 Comment
Duncan
Published
Today 3:32am
Today 3:32am
(Nasturtium)
少し苦い
キンレンカ
珍味ですね?
sukoshi nigai
kinrenka
chinmidesu ne?
it's a bit bitter
nasturtium
delicacy, no?
(Kirenka is actually water cress but it is the translation I have for nasturtium.)
キンレンカ
珍味ですね?
sukoshi nigai
kinrenka
chinmidesu ne?
it's a bit bitter
nasturtium
delicacy, no?
(Kirenka is actually water cress but it is the translation I have for nasturtium.)
#flowers
#nature
#food
1 read
0 Comments
ravibabygirl
Published
Today 3:24am
Today 3:24am
i need to step back
i need some time to breathe
i just want to fly away and leave
all that has happened today is overwhelming
it drained me
getting messages after messages
to say this say that to another person
I'm sorry I can't continue this
you two need to talk this out I'm exhausted
I think certain times I can pick on different energy
sometimes it's so draining
i feel anxiety elevated
i don't want to blame my friend
they don't know how I have these triggers
i just need to just take a break
I need some balance ...
i just want to fly away and leave
all that has happened today is overwhelming
it drained me
getting messages after messages
to say this say that to another person
I'm sorry I can't continue this
you two need to talk this out I'm exhausted
I think certain times I can pick on different energy
sometimes it's so draining
i feel anxiety elevated
i don't want to blame my friend
they don't know how I have these triggers
i just need to just take a break
I need some balance ...
#anxiety
#frustration
5 reads
0 Comments
ELIAS11
Published
Today 3:23am
Today 3:23am
Wouldn't That Be Novel...
Do you think I can break free from this mental cell where my eyes are pinned open but my mind is deep asleep
Self sealed
Things were getting a little wild
Why do all the bad things make me smile
Everything toxic is so out of style
I keep on staring and I can't even see
Whatever it is left inside of me
I've carried the eyes of a feral child
A torn disguise well worn and used
A wild youth with a blow torch mouth
Is certainly not easily diffused
Twenty years past my mind is bruised
Lynched and cynched like a fistful of sand
But my...
Self sealed
Things were getting a little wild
Why do all the bad things make me smile
Everything toxic is so out of style
I keep on staring and I can't even see
Whatever it is left inside of me
I've carried the eyes of a feral child
A torn disguise well worn and used
A wild youth with a blow torch mouth
Is certainly not easily diffused
Twenty years past my mind is bruised
Lynched and cynched like a fistful of sand
But my...
#death
#fire
#WritingPoetry
#LifeCycle
#SelfReflection
5 reads
0 Comments
Eerie
Published
Today 2:31am
Today 2:31am
Left Brain Analysis of Creation
Left brain analysis of creation
Strips away from the center of my heart
The bleeding artists’ brush, replaced with a chart
That rambles on about numbered equation,
Stealing my time, my inner essence of life-
Bringing into sharp relief the bitter strife
Betwixt left side and right, a dead sensation
Eating its fill of half-formed canvas, smeared
By obligation, to which I’ve adhered
To lackluster forms, banal translation
Of artist by analytical mind,
Leaving me dry and perhaps less refined-
To drown in pools of artistic stagnation.
Strips away from the center of my heart
The bleeding artists’ brush, replaced with a chart
That rambles on about numbered equation,
Stealing my time, my inner essence of life-
Bringing into sharp relief the bitter strife
Betwixt left side and right, a dead sensation
Eating its fill of half-formed canvas, smeared
By obligation, to which I’ve adhered
To lackluster forms, banal translation
Of artist by analytical mind,
Leaving me dry and perhaps less refined-
To drown in pools of artistic stagnation.
#frustration
#art
#responsibility #WilliamButlerYeats
#responsibility #WilliamButlerYeats
18 reads
4 Comments
zenithquasar77
Marcus cooke
Marcus cooke
Published
Today 2:29am
Today 2:29am
5. Acceptance
There is blood
There are Tears
There is much regret.
I must accept
That this was
Always the way.
Through the chapters
Of this storied life
I must learn to accept
The outcomes
That out weigh
The hopes and dreams
Of a otherwise sunny day.
I take the hands away
From my crippled freind
And realise my
Conscience is intact
I can deny everything!
I'm forever
staring into blind eyes.
There are Tears
There is much regret.
I must accept
That this was
Always the way.
Through the chapters
Of this storied life
I must learn to accept
The outcomes
That out weigh
The hopes and dreams
Of a otherwise sunny day.
I take the hands away
From my crippled freind
And realise my
Conscience is intact
I can deny everything!
I'm forever
staring into blind eyes.
#forgiveness
#TimeHeals
#MovingOn
#acceptance
#healing
7 reads
0 Comments
anvinvil
Anvillan
Anvillan
Published
Today 2:23am
Today 2:23am
Lost Goodbye...
When war kills, people vanish, tears fall,
their bodies become part of drifting souls.
Those left never know how or where to say goodbye.
their bodies become part of drifting souls.
Those left never know how or where to say goodbye.
#LifeChangingMoment
7 reads
0 Comments
TheGiftedOne
Published
Today 1:52am
Today 1:52am
A Quick Fix
I'm feeling very weak.
My hurt is at it's peak.
Pills in my mouth.
As my life goes south.
Feeling nothing inside.
Open long and wide.
Numb away my pain.
Stare into the rain.
Throwing away my humanity.
Losing all of my sanity.
It's far worse without it.
I'm not mentally fit.
They linger and haunt.
The voices laugh and taunt.
But at the end of the day.
I can't go on this way.
My hurt is at it's peak.
Pills in my mouth.
As my life goes south.
Feeling nothing inside.
Open long and wide.
Numb away my pain.
Stare into the rain.
Throwing away my humanity.
Losing all of my sanity.
It's far worse without it.
I'm not mentally fit.
They linger and haunt.
The voices laugh and taunt.
But at the end of the day.
I can't go on this way.
#sadness
#anxiety
#dark
#confusion
#despair
15 reads
3 Comments
DevineDewDrops
Published
Today 1:49am
Today 1:49am
Love
Love is a permitting force across the universe
It’s not tucked away in somebody’s personal purse
The sky it fills the earth it immersed
It reigns supreme and quenches every thirst
When you lose your love say it ain’t so
It only expressed itself through somebody you know
The trees it feeds, the flowers it grows
Long after you’re gone it continues to flow
When the love you’ve had has turned inverse
When the link of two hands have been dispersed
The aching of your heart now turns to thirst
Love will be to you as a wet-nurse
I has...
It’s not tucked away in somebody’s personal purse
The sky it fills the earth it immersed
It reigns supreme and quenches every thirst
When you lose your love say it ain’t so
It only expressed itself through somebody you know
The trees it feeds, the flowers it grows
Long after you’re gone it continues to flow
When the love you’ve had has turned inverse
When the link of two hands have been dispersed
The aching of your heart now turns to thirst
Love will be to you as a wet-nurse
I has...
#love
11 reads
0 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Published
Today 1:16am
Today 1:16am
and as for me
whatever kills me in the end
it undoubtedly is
it undoubtedly is
#boredom
10 reads
2 Comments
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