Observational Poems by Members Last Online
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Poetry about life, society and the natural world
Poems published by members most recently online.
stevenyprince
alysha
alysha
Poem Published
27th Nov 2022 7:46pm
27th Nov 2022 7:46pm
Shades of blues
Everything dies and I know why
Without the contrast
There would be no life
What is home to me?
My bubble upon shifting tides
My rose petal on the sea
My home is in the wind
My place in motion, it's spinning
Possibilities swirling within us
A container of hope rusts
Some temporary relief from fear,
As time will, and all the years disappear
I am still here
Faith is the ground beneath me
The earth that is in me
The stars have made me
Home is always changing
Home is unlayering
Letting go is forever ...
Without the contrast
There would be no life
What is home to me?
My bubble upon shifting tides
My rose petal on the sea
My home is in the wind
My place in motion, it's spinning
Possibilities swirling within us
A container of hope rusts
Some temporary relief from fear,
As time will, and all the years disappear
I am still here
Faith is the ground beneath me
The earth that is in me
The stars have made me
Home is always changing
Home is unlayering
Letting go is forever ...
#love
#death
#earth
#universe
#philosophical
345 reads
1 Comment
Connotation
Poem Published
21st Jan 2025 4:29am
21st Jan 2025 4:29am
Practice Bars 3
Quite pleasing, I have mastered rhyme rooks.
Skies bleeding science after y'all shook.
My feelings, I don't have them all, look.
Like reading, Isaac Asimov books.
Guised greetings might have masked divine crooks.
Dice leading pirates after spines stood.
Try scheming heights we passed in times took.
Price pleading, private passions might push.
Bright beaming binds the blatherskite foot.
Lines weaving lying lavish like hoof.
Wine, wheat, and rice Saturn giant sook.
Rye seedling blight have acid nights cooked.
Prized...
Skies bleeding science after y'all shook.
My feelings, I don't have them all, look.
Like reading, Isaac Asimov books.
Guised greetings might have masked divine crooks.
Dice leading pirates after spines stood.
Try scheming heights we passed in times took.
Price pleading, private passions might push.
Bright beaming binds the blatherskite foot.
Lines weaving lying lavish like hoof.
Wine, wheat, and rice Saturn giant sook.
Rye seedling blight have acid nights cooked.
Prized...
#humankind
#metaphor
#morality
#rhyming
#spiritual
24 reads
0 Comments
sgtvasquezg
G. Vasquez
G. Vasquez
Poem Published
10th Oct 2024 5:02am
10th Oct 2024 5:02am
Picture Texas
Texas Bluebonnet you fill my horizon like the sea.
As you dance and sway in the cool spring breeze.
Mockingbirds sing and woodpeckers peck.
As the horn toad lizard scurries for ants.
Banana spiders weave and cicadas that chirp.
Wild blackberries that taste so delicious it hurts.
Choices of oak, pecan or mesquite as firewood to barbecue meat.
These are just some of the joys that I see.
When I stop and glance at the things around me.
As you dance and sway in the cool spring breeze.
Mockingbirds sing and woodpeckers peck.
As the horn toad lizard scurries for ants.
Banana spiders weave and cicadas that chirp.
Wild blackberries that taste so delicious it hurts.
Choices of oak, pecan or mesquite as firewood to barbecue meat.
These are just some of the joys that I see.
When I stop and glance at the things around me.
#birds
#flowers
#nature #trees
#nature #trees
110 reads
2 Comments
Flowolf
Poem Published
9th Jan 2021 3:35pm
9th Jan 2021 3:35pm
Wallowing In The Mire
Naive ventures bear loss and impede relevancy
As they bewilder true legitimacy with ineptitude
Lurking among the shadows of a weeping abyss
Consumed by an overrun state that won't mend
Unfit is this frailty to tackle many shallow ruins
Misplaced and delusive are these asinine ways
Unhinged nescience resorts to drastic measures
Overlooking the blindness of its hopeless beliefs
Compelled by an astigmatic, insolent callowness
A vagrant stupor of defamed candors lies numb ...
As they bewilder true legitimacy with ineptitude
Lurking among the shadows of a weeping abyss
Consumed by an overrun state that won't mend
Unfit is this frailty to tackle many shallow ruins
Misplaced and delusive are these asinine ways
Unhinged nescience resorts to drastic measures
Overlooking the blindness of its hopeless beliefs
Compelled by an astigmatic, insolent callowness
A vagrant stupor of defamed candors lies numb ...
#despair
#denial
350 reads
2 Comments
Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
14th Jan 2025 9:02pm
14th Jan 2025 9:02pm
I can't tell you it's love
You call me
looking for answers
but wanting reassurances
that your heart beats the right way
and that your boyfriend
isn't a manipulative
semi-violent fucktard
unable to manage his insecurities
I tell you our childhoods
make us colourblind
and that for all the good green days
the red shine brighter
than your eyes (and heart)
can see
I would tell you
you're codependent
but you already know that
and it would make me a hypocrite
There are too many reasons
we stay when...
looking for answers
but wanting reassurances
that your heart beats the right way
and that your boyfriend
isn't a manipulative
semi-violent fucktard
unable to manage his insecurities
I tell you our childhoods
make us colourblind
and that for all the good green days
the red shine brighter
than your eyes (and heart)
can see
I would tell you
you're codependent
but you already know that
and it would make me a hypocrite
There are too many reasons
we stay when...
#abuse
#BestFriend
#DomesticViolence #support
#DomesticViolence #support
94 reads
2 Comments
theflyingkiss
DFlyingKiss
DFlyingKiss
Poem Published
18th Jul 2024 1:00am
18th Jul 2024 1:00am
A Thoughtful Weekend
The weekend dawns with a golden ray,
A break from tasks, a time to play;
With cheerful hearts, we greet the morn,
In joy and laughter, we're reborn,
Two days to breathe, to laugh, to dream,
To plan new strategies, plot our scheme;
For challenges await the week,
But now it's rest and goals we seek,
Enthusiastic minds take flight,
With weekend's glow, our spirits light;
We gather strength, our hopes renew,
For future triumphs, bright and true,
In these short days, we find our cheer,
Embrace the break, let go of fear;
New...
A break from tasks, a time to play;
With cheerful hearts, we greet the morn,
In joy and laughter, we're reborn,
Two days to breathe, to laugh, to dream,
To plan new strategies, plot our scheme;
For challenges await the week,
But now it's rest and goals we seek,
Enthusiastic minds take flight,
With weekend's glow, our spirits light;
We gather strength, our hopes renew,
For future triumphs, bright and true,
In these short days, we find our cheer,
Embrace the break, let go of fear;
New...
#hope
#inspirational
#kindness
#strength
#ThrillSeeking
141 reads
0 Comments
MusicallyMrM
Poem Published
6th Jan 2020 3:27am
6th Jan 2020 3:27am
Reflections (on a Starry Night)
All that new days' coming soon
All that new days' coming soon
Oh how I wonder
It really makes me wonder.....”
…...as I look into the starry night sky
I don't need any other means to see an
errant star fly by. The birth of a new galaxy
or the death of a constellation, light years away
which shall it be?
It makes me wonder, it really makes me wonder.....
….a child is born into this crazy, mixed up world
full of evil, full of good-filled with wonder ...
All that new days' coming soon
Oh how I wonder
It really makes me wonder.....”
…...as I look into the starry night sky
I don't need any other means to see an
errant star fly by. The birth of a new galaxy
or the death of a constellation, light years away
which shall it be?
It makes me wonder, it really makes me wonder.....
….a child is born into this crazy, mixed up world
full of evil, full of good-filled with wonder ...
#love
#dreams
#TruthOfLife
622 reads
1 Comment
APissPoorShaman
Ryszard
Ryszard
Poem Published
7th Nov 2023 11:34pm
7th Nov 2023 11:34pm
The Evolution of Mankind
The next evolution of mankind,
to find our meaning within ourselves and not in nations or flags,
not in sacramental ideals nailed to the walls of another's creed,
not in the pigmentation of our hair, blood or skin.
When will mankind grow up
and stop leaning on the crutches of governments, religion, or greed.
When will we cast off the yoke of our need to be told what to believe.
When will we be free?
to find our meaning within ourselves and not in nations or flags,
not in sacramental ideals nailed to the walls of another's creed,
not in the pigmentation of our hair, blood or skin.
When will mankind grow up
and stop leaning on the crutches of governments, religion, or greed.
When will we cast off the yoke of our need to be told what to believe.
When will we be free?
#identity
#politics
#freedom
#culture
#morality
189 reads
4 Comments
gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
15th Feb 2019 9:43pm
15th Feb 2019 9:43pm
The Arisen Billows
Oh, billowing waves!
The deep shall rise
The brine onto our lips.
The billows shall die
And the tide shall slope
And flux past our ankles.
Oh, the receding current
Shall carry sands of the strand
To the offing.
The deep shall rise
The brine onto our lips.
The billows shall die
And the tide shall slope
And flux past our ankles.
Oh, the receding current
Shall carry sands of the strand
To the offing.
#LifeStruggles
#sea
384 reads
0 Comments
AfterSexDilemma
Poem Published
17th Jan 2025 2:51am
17th Jan 2025 2:51am
I'm Attractive
Running in circles
Shaking my titties
Got you thinking I'm crazy
But I know things
Trying to buy me
But I already got you
I got you!
Running in circles.
Silly you.
I'm attractive
Yeah! Check the nudes!
I'm living in utopia,
Far from you!
Run in circles!
So I can laugh at you.
I bet you think I'm crazy.
For calling you out,
For what you do.
Ill shake my titties.
Then laugh at you.
While you think youre better,
When you don't have a clue.
...
Shaking my titties
Got you thinking I'm crazy
But I know things
Trying to buy me
But I already got you
I got you!
Running in circles.
Silly you.
I'm attractive
Yeah! Check the nudes!
I'm living in utopia,
Far from you!
Run in circles!
So I can laugh at you.
I bet you think I'm crazy.
For calling you out,
For what you do.
Ill shake my titties.
Then laugh at you.
While you think youre better,
When you don't have a clue.
...
#funny
37 reads
7 Comments
toniscales
Lost Girl
Lost Girl
Poem Published
29th Jan 2023 6:05pm
29th Jan 2023 6:05pm
ghosts of Titanic, a gothic
Look, here. Where the longing gets soaked into the lace handkerchiefs. The chandelier lights glimmering across the ocean floor, her slender throat perfumed by rosewater and lavender, the most secret of kisses. Shoes of exquisite crimson while hungry fish swim the icy interiors. All cameos and cuttlefish. How the piano keys tinkled as he licked the velvet lining of her ear. The ladies finger the gold rims of broken dishes clinking in smoke-filled rooms. Nothing to do but waltz all night, all porcelain figurines as they pass breathless from gentleman to gentleman. Their braceleted wrists and...
#dark
#gothic
264 reads
4 Comments
TheOralizer
Poem Published
26th Mar 2024 11:34pm
26th Mar 2024 11:34pm
WHY DO WE NEED LABELS?
#love
#courage
#motivational
#admiration
#emotions
124 reads
9 Comments
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