Observational Poems by Top Critiquers
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poetry about life, society and the natural world
Poems written by Top Critiquers
a_methyste
hlightdroid
hlightdroid
Poem Published
11th Dec 2024 7:59pm
11th Dec 2024 7:59pm
Glomy days
Gloomy days!
The revenge of a distraction.
The promise of a trance.
Underground corridors,
In symmetrical blues.
Drunk heels and corners,
I cannot tell.
I do not understand!?
I do not!
Another distraction.
The verge of a revenge.
A ghost today?
You wish it were true.
Oh! So much!
But it is not.
It is not!
The verge of a distraction!
If only it were real!?
If only you were!
If i could
Escape
It
Gloomy days!
I reach out.
I find it
Another revenge
Cemetry of a...
The revenge of a distraction.
The promise of a trance.
Underground corridors,
In symmetrical blues.
Drunk heels and corners,
I cannot tell.
I do not understand!?
I do not!
Another distraction.
The verge of a revenge.
A ghost today?
You wish it were true.
Oh! So much!
But it is not.
It is not!
The verge of a distraction!
If only it were real!?
If only you were!
If i could
Escape
It
Gloomy days!
I reach out.
I find it
Another revenge
Cemetry of a...
#love
69 reads
4 Comments
Lamjhnsn1
Poem Published
23rd Dec 2024 6:52am
23rd Dec 2024 6:52am
the rabBIT hole
Down into the hollow....
Where no one else will follow.
Where no one else will know.
Somewhere deeper than below.
That's where you'll find me.... grasping!
Within me, my Spiritual self, gasping....
For the real me, & for air....
But time, & again there is nobody, & there is nothing there.
That's when I start to free fall.
That's when I can hear my God, beginning to call.
But I've abandoned "nearly" all control....
Traveling once more, down that same old rabBIT hole.
Down into the...
Where no one else will follow.
Where no one else will know.
Somewhere deeper than below.
That's where you'll find me.... grasping!
Within me, my Spiritual self, gasping....
For the real me, & for air....
But time, & again there is nobody, & there is nothing there.
That's when I start to free fall.
That's when I can hear my God, beginning to call.
But I've abandoned "nearly" all control....
Traveling once more, down that same old rabBIT hole.
Down into the...
#dark
#death
#evil
#suffering
#temptation
92 reads
3 Comments
Grace
IDryad
IDryad
Poem Published
12th Nov 2024 1:23pm
12th Nov 2024 1:23pm
Dark World Within
a fate indescribable in a world in ruins
silence echoes where laughter once peals
grey skies over chaos remnants
in slumbering sleep the world that was
in cities of wandering ghosts
shrouded in clouds and memories
lost as in roads overgrown
nature return in its natural claims
Vibrant gardens replaced by despair
birds song now brittle in decay
seeds of discontent sowed in pathment cracks
roving around without feathers
the night is pierced by no stars
not aglow within ashes
whispers in a world reborn ...
silence echoes where laughter once peals
grey skies over chaos remnants
in slumbering sleep the world that was
in cities of wandering ghosts
shrouded in clouds and memories
lost as in roads overgrown
nature return in its natural claims
Vibrant gardens replaced by despair
birds song now brittle in decay
seeds of discontent sowed in pathment cracks
roving around without feathers
the night is pierced by no stars
not aglow within ashes
whispers in a world reborn ...
#dreams
#ghosts
158 reads
13 Comments
Rew
Poem Published
13th Dec 2024 1:07pm
13th Dec 2024 1:07pm
A Tribute
Is there a finer way to pay tribute
other than the form they have made their own
singing songs to courtly Spinet and Lute
and if wrath grows then blasts of Trumpets blown.
There is great wealth in writes couched in past terms
linked to sleeping blooms where rhyme came of age,
and they in turn looked to their past and yearned
and this, by hap, ere the first paper page?
They build on legends just as Shakespeare did
the one great change lay in that of degree, ...
other than the form they have made their own
singing songs to courtly Spinet and Lute
and if wrath grows then blasts of Trumpets blown.
There is great wealth in writes couched in past terms
linked to sleeping blooms where rhyme came of age,
and they in turn looked to their past and yearned
and this, by hap, ere the first paper page?
They build on legends just as Shakespeare did
the one great change lay in that of degree, ...
#respect
#sonnet
62 reads
5 Comments
Marks
Poem Published
14th Jun 2021 1:22am
14th Jun 2021 1:22am
Delayed peaches
..
High on trees
Peaches getting riper and riper
Blooming without their stones
In this pandemic valley...
To whom will these delayed fruits belong ?
...
High on trees
Peaches getting riper and riper
Blooming without their stones
In this pandemic valley...
To whom will these delayed fruits belong ?
...
#grief
#despair
386 reads
2 Comments
Connotation
Poem Published
6th Jan 2025 4:35am
6th Jan 2025 4:35am
Run to Atonement
What's hewn in stone was removed and stolen,
the tombs of shoulders Azul in focus.
Once moons remold us exhumed in bones of,
some knew the moments confused below dust.
Luck looted ocean's sun hue as golden,
dusk drew a donor blood blue from ozone.
Of spoon and soldier runs wounds of closure,
cut through to open trust due as spoken.
Such roots are lonesome from Cupid's coldest,
unto enrollment some student showman.
Much full of hocus love fools betrothment,
comes duels of jokers spun lucid omen.
...
the tombs of shoulders Azul in focus.
Once moons remold us exhumed in bones of,
some knew the moments confused below dust.
Luck looted ocean's sun hue as golden,
dusk drew a donor blood blue from ozone.
Of spoon and soldier runs wounds of closure,
cut through to open trust due as spoken.
Such roots are lonesome from Cupid's coldest,
unto enrollment some student showman.
Much full of hocus love fools betrothment,
comes duels of jokers spun lucid omen.
...
#humankind
#metaphor
#morality
#rhyming
#spiritual
37 reads
4 Comments
Carpe_Noctem
Poem Published
24th Dec 2024 1:13pm
24th Dec 2024 1:13pm
When the bridge keeps getting burnt
One has to ask
Who the arsonist is
Who the arsonist is
#SelfReflection
#TruthOfLife
51 reads
1 Comment
Adelphina
Poem Published
21st Feb 2024 1:46am
21st Feb 2024 1:46am
Foxes & Wolves
I wondered back then
A long time ago
At fourteen in middle school
A year before the quinceanera I never had
Where I’d be later in life
Everyone my age left middle school
and their teens early
My girlz grew up way too fast
String bikinis
Hickeys on tummies
Laughing in detention
Fights in the restroom
at school or the movie theater
Wasn’t my thing though, never was
I wasn’t scared of fighting
but my mother was a different story
And my friends knew it
They didn’t have to answer to her ...
A long time ago
At fourteen in middle school
A year before the quinceanera I never had
Where I’d be later in life
Everyone my age left middle school
and their teens early
My girlz grew up way too fast
String bikinis
Hickeys on tummies
Laughing in detention
Fights in the restroom
at school or the movie theater
Wasn’t my thing though, never was
I wasn’t scared of fighting
but my mother was a different story
And my friends knew it
They didn’t have to answer to her ...
#confessional
#SelfReflection
#memories #nostalgia
#memories #nostalgia
545 reads
29 Comments
LibraSoul96
Poem Published
12th Apr 2023 10:54pm
12th Apr 2023 10:54pm
Why
Give and take
Take and give
Lose a soul
Gain a soul
Is this what it takes to live in this wretched world?
Take and give
Lose a soul
Gain a soul
Is this what it takes to live in this wretched world?
#confusion
#despair
#denial
579 reads
11 Comments
moon_bather
Poem Published
1st Dec 2024 00:42am
1st Dec 2024 00:42am
The abc's of this life aka bullshit
All boys cry
Doesn’t everyone
Fucking good
Heartbreak I
Just know
Lamenting might
Need others
Perspectives
Query reason
Senseless thoughts
Understanding
Very welcoming
X-rated your
Zeitgeist
Doesn’t everyone
Fucking good
Heartbreak I
Just know
Lamenting might
Need others
Perspectives
Query reason
Senseless thoughts
Understanding
Very welcoming
X-rated your
Zeitgeist
#atheism
#FreeVerse
#morality
#philosophical
#StreamOfConsciousness
79 reads
2 Comments
prometheus5290
Poem Published
17th Nov 2024 12:14pm
17th Nov 2024 12:14pm
The antifederalist papers
Now,
more than ever,
we need local Soulutions
to overcome our national problems.
more than ever,
we need local Soulutions
to overcome our national problems.
#politics
111 reads
5 Comments
darkcloud68
Poem Published
4th Jan 2025 1:01am
4th Jan 2025 1:01am
Skin Talk
In America my skin is my rope, every melinated fiber of it , society stretches it around my throat. My enemies wear hatred like a coat.
My people became a American nightmare floating on a boat. Slavery was only emancipated, in the deceptions written in their quotes.
Burning crosses lighting the images of evil laughing ghost. Moses shouting let my people go, pharaoh said murder, every first born son, so their population would not grow.
My people shouting let freedom ring. And in trees in the summer breeze.Tearful ebony eyes watched freedom swing.
...
My people became a American nightmare floating on a boat. Slavery was only emancipated, in the deceptions written in their quotes.
Burning crosses lighting the images of evil laughing ghost. Moses shouting let my people go, pharaoh said murder, every first born son, so their population would not grow.
My people shouting let freedom ring. And in trees in the summer breeze.Tearful ebony eyes watched freedom swing.
...
#corruption
#freedom
#HumanRights
#ignorance
#inequality
65 reads
2 Comments
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