Observational Poems
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poetry about life, society and the natural world
Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
19th Oct 2024 10:36pm
19th Oct 2024 10:36pm
cheap hotel room
Its got a comfortable bed
and rustic decor
but the view out my window
is a brick wall
and there's dead cockroaches
scattered across my floor
The complimentary coffee is bad
the shower's temperamental
but the walls of this room are thicc
and I can't hear anyone yelling
or fucking or playing loud music
while I'm trying to sleep
I'm glad I picked up groceries
for breakfast already
because the roach problem
isn't giving me much confidence
about their breakfast menu
and I'm not up for a...
and rustic decor
but the view out my window
is a brick wall
and there's dead cockroaches
scattered across my floor
The complimentary coffee is bad
the shower's temperamental
but the walls of this room are thicc
and I can't hear anyone yelling
or fucking or playing loud music
while I'm trying to sleep
I'm glad I picked up groceries
for breakfast already
because the roach problem
isn't giving me much confidence
about their breakfast menu
and I'm not up for a...
#money
#music
#travel
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Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
19th Oct 2024 10:34pm
19th Oct 2024 10:34pm
shifting states
I'm a deer caught in the headlights again
my insecurities flay me open
and here I am starting fights
where fights don't belong
You meet my fire with more flames
and in seconds we're an inferno
destroying everything
that gets in our way
including each other
until one of us walks away
(usually me)
and we lick our wounds
in the ashes
trying to figure out
what went wrong
It's not our fault
no one taught us how to communicate
but it's our fault we don't fix
the cracks we always...
my insecurities flay me open
and here I am starting fights
where fights don't belong
You meet my fire with more flames
and in seconds we're an inferno
destroying everything
that gets in our way
including each other
until one of us walks away
(usually me)
and we lick our wounds
in the ashes
trying to figure out
what went wrong
It's not our fault
no one taught us how to communicate
but it's our fault we don't fix
the cracks we always...
#conflict
#love
#relationships
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection
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1 Comment
oskar
Poem Published
19th Oct 2024 5:27pm
19th Oct 2024 5:27pm
hurricane
The Hurricane and Florida
The green valley near the blue lake
It sounds like a color combination by a happy incident
it was the weather of the day that made nature
impossible romantic
near the lake where Pink Salmond swam and
silver trout vake, in a cave, the Huldra lived
She was beautiful, but not by a human standard
her pussy hair was so long it covered her body
like a hairy curly suit
Could she sing, not half?
snow on mountain tops melted, and bears woke up
from winter rest, blueberry blued in April
I sensed...
The green valley near the blue lake
It sounds like a color combination by a happy incident
it was the weather of the day that made nature
impossible romantic
near the lake where Pink Salmond swam and
silver trout vake, in a cave, the Huldra lived
She was beautiful, but not by a human standard
her pussy hair was so long it covered her body
like a hairy curly suit
Could she sing, not half?
snow on mountain tops melted, and bears woke up
from winter rest, blueberry blued in April
I sensed...
#admiration
#courage
#forgiveness #gratitude
#forgiveness #gratitude
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0 Comments
BaldyBrown
Poem Published
19th Oct 2024 5:11pm
19th Oct 2024 5:11pm
Amphibian
If I ever find my mind agog in heaven
blind as a frog in an earthen oven
I’d hop my ass back down to earth
And see Jack the Clown for what he’s worth
Could heavens exist in the commotion of a threshold
Would sapiens resist the devotion to what they’ve been sold
Through faith I create those things that brings me to believe
True faith will negate the strings on your wings you can’t perceive
I like the crazy notion that every day is nowadays today
I live this lazy devotion that times are always this way
Push my timid tush up to...
blind as a frog in an earthen oven
I’d hop my ass back down to earth
And see Jack the Clown for what he’s worth
Could heavens exist in the commotion of a threshold
Would sapiens resist the devotion to what they’ve been sold
Through faith I create those things that brings me to believe
True faith will negate the strings on your wings you can’t perceive
I like the crazy notion that every day is nowadays today
I live this lazy devotion that times are always this way
Push my timid tush up to...
#mythology
#philosophical
#TruthOfLife
66 reads
4 Comments
Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
19th Oct 2024 12:05pm
19th Oct 2024 12:05pm
indie folk pop
It's a lullaby
it's a cool summer night breeze
I didn't know I needed
until it skittered across my skin
I'm falling asleep
drinking red bull
feeling like I'm dreaming
in a midnight sky
full of pillow clouds
and a moon full of comfort
The music is a caress
a hand on the back of my neck
telling me everything
is going to be alright
and in this moment
I believe it
it's a cool summer night breeze
I didn't know I needed
until it skittered across my skin
I'm falling asleep
drinking red bull
feeling like I'm dreaming
in a midnight sky
full of pillow clouds
and a moon full of comfort
The music is a caress
a hand on the back of my neck
telling me everything
is going to be alright
and in this moment
I believe it
#meditation
#music
#SelfDiscovery #SelfReflection
#SelfDiscovery #SelfReflection
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PeaceFlpw
Peace Flow
Peace Flow
Poem Published
19th Oct 2024 5:35am
19th Oct 2024 5:35am
Continental Drift("soul tribe")
isolation doesn't have to happen- though unfortunately happens in nature.... for one reason or another- by choice or otherwise due to the state of ones' environment....
you shouldn't have to feel like a "blacksheep" or misunderstood in any way.... you shouldn't have to feel like you'll feel lonely for the rest of your life....
us humans always overcomplicate everything....
you shouldn't have to feel like a "blacksheep" or misunderstood in any way.... you shouldn't have to feel like you'll feel lonely for the rest of your life....
us humans always overcomplicate everything....
#escape
#humankind
#LifeCycle
#loneliness
#misunderstood
118 reads
oldmanG
Poem Published
19th Oct 2024 5:12am
19th Oct 2024 5:12am
Path less Traveled
The path less traveled
Has many veins
Go down in the Brush
Come up rose thorn stuck in my thumb
Dust settles my footprints
Path well worn before me
With tributaries going off
Put my foot down
Make my mark
Choose the path I deserve
Pulsing through the soil
Pop up vegetable
Step over my travails
And my true soul is revealed
Path of redemption
And musical notes
Typhoon of symphony
Some truth mixed in
With some blues
Strap on my...
Has many veins
Go down in the Brush
Come up rose thorn stuck in my thumb
Dust settles my footprints
Path well worn before me
With tributaries going off
Put my foot down
Make my mark
Choose the path I deserve
Pulsing through the soil
Pop up vegetable
Step over my travails
And my true soul is revealed
Path of redemption
And musical notes
Typhoon of symphony
Some truth mixed in
With some blues
Strap on my...
#SelfDiscovery
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bcpoet
Lawrence
Lawrence
Poem Published
19th Oct 2024 2:25am
19th Oct 2024 2:25am
It's a Fact
in my mind, in my bubble
no matter how sublime or subtle
we connect, we interact
without speaking, it's a fact
body language, mind to mind
you to me to you we find
each other when we dare
feelings,thoughts we start to share
resonating to become
more than who we are when one
single personality
I'm in you and you're in me
we connect, we interact
without speaking, it's a fact
no matter how sublime or subtle
we are in each other's bubble...
no matter how sublime or subtle
we connect, we interact
without speaking, it's a fact
body language, mind to mind
you to me to you we find
each other when we dare
feelings,thoughts we start to share
resonating to become
more than who we are when one
single personality
I'm in you and you're in me
we connect, we interact
without speaking, it's a fact
no matter how sublime or subtle
we are in each other's bubble...
#relationships
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Rew
Poem Published
18th Oct 2024 7:43pm
18th Oct 2024 7:43pm
No Going Back!
With its back to the wall the snake attacks
as do dirty rats and desp'rate felons,
as it slowly dawns there's no going back,
And if they think, they know their futures black,
then attack with tooth, nail, claw and venom,
with its back to the wall the snake attacks.
Of self preservation, they have no lack,
and fight and fight till they or danger, gone,
as it slowly dawns there's no going back
They'll squirm, weave and wriggle through any crack
their slipperiness makes up for no brawn
with their back to the wall the snake...
as do dirty rats and desp'rate felons,
as it slowly dawns there's no going back,
And if they think, they know their futures black,
then attack with tooth, nail, claw and venom,
with its back to the wall the snake attacks.
Of self preservation, they have no lack,
and fight and fight till they or danger, gone,
as it slowly dawns there's no going back
They'll squirm, weave and wriggle through any crack
their slipperiness makes up for no brawn
with their back to the wall the snake...
#villanelle
54 reads
5 Comments
Kinkwizard_95
Poem Published
18th Oct 2024 5:37pm
18th Oct 2024 5:37pm
Pot t’ piss in
Ain’t got a pot
T’ piss in
No I ain’t
Nor a bed
Or credit card
To lend
My friend
T’ piss in
No I ain’t
Nor a bed
Or credit card
To lend
My friend
#LifeStruggles
#poverty
54 reads
2 Comments
darkcloud68
Poem Published
18th Oct 2024 4:45pm
18th Oct 2024 4:45pm
Letter To America
Dear America and your illusion of greatness. Your wealth and prosperity and honor and democracy. Has not been built upon these principals and ideals, that you wish others to believe that this country was built upon.
It was built upon a theft of a nation, the blood and sweat of a nation and human degradation. Not on the moral grounds of humanity, yet it was built on the dehumanization of the people you have violently snatched it from.
On the whipped backs of slaves, and on the trail of tears that you have created. What civilization have you given those that you have...
It was built upon a theft of a nation, the blood and sweat of a nation and human degradation. Not on the moral grounds of humanity, yet it was built on the dehumanization of the people you have violently snatched it from.
On the whipped backs of slaves, and on the trail of tears that you have created. What civilization have you given those that you have...
#corruption
#deception
#politics #power
#politics #power
95 reads
1 Comment
adagio
Poem Published
18th Oct 2024 2:47pm
18th Oct 2024 2:47pm
Obsidian Rose - with Everavalon
Imperfect minds envelop the ruse
A purposeful rile to leather the muse
Emptied malign affixed to betray
As the serpents flair, the seasons sway
The corset tethers the spine of malaise
And often measures where darkness plays
A lease of displeasure; the restive defeat
A lilt of pleasure in heaven’s release
As the slipknot rises, the voices will trail
The body goes limber right after the flail
Obsidian rose of porcelain vanity
Under the guise of harlequin insanity
screaming in silence dark notes
Unholy divinity drippin' from...
A purposeful rile to leather the muse
Emptied malign affixed to betray
As the serpents flair, the seasons sway
The corset tethers the spine of malaise
And often measures where darkness plays
A lease of displeasure; the restive defeat
A lilt of pleasure in heaven’s release
As the slipknot rises, the voices will trail
The body goes limber right after the flail
Obsidian rose of porcelain vanity
Under the guise of harlequin insanity
screaming in silence dark notes
Unholy divinity drippin' from...
#collaboration
#philosophical
#WritingPoetry
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5 Comments
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