Observational Poems Seeking Friendly Advice
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Poetry about life, society and the natural world
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nightbirdblue
Poem Published
25th Mar 2025 10:23pm
25th Mar 2025 10:23pm
Goodbye DUP
It’s been almost 8 years since I joined DU.
It’s been almost 8 years since I left my abusive ex-husband.
I had been living with him for 8 years before finding this site.
Finding DU was finding my voice, a voice that had been silenced for so long. I was being tortured, suffering, suicidal, and on the verge of relapsing with self-harm.
The community here saw my pain bleeding onto the page, and you came to support and uplift me. More than that, you all saw my potential, and encouraged me to overcome great feats.
There will never be another...
It’s been almost 8 years since I left my abusive ex-husband.
I had been living with him for 8 years before finding this site.
Finding DU was finding my voice, a voice that had been silenced for so long. I was being tortured, suffering, suicidal, and on the verge of relapsing with self-harm.
The community here saw my pain bleeding onto the page, and you came to support and uplift me. More than that, you all saw my potential, and encouraged me to overcome great feats.
There will never be another...
#DeepUndergroundPoetry
#FeelingLost
#grief
#identity
#nostalgia
121 reads
4 Comments
Connotation
Poem Published
25th Mar 2025 6:20pm
25th Mar 2025 6:20pm
Canonical Benediction
Canonical benediction.
Methodical, mysticism.
Denominal repetition.
Historical, jingoism.
Phenomenal mechanism.
Remarkable, inquisition.
Personable exhibition.
Demonstrable, disposition.
Impossible definition.
Ironical, syllogism.
Unsolvable requisition.
Unstoppable, symbolism.
Apocryphal exposition.
Performable, imposition.
Hierarchical expedition.
Illogical, inconsistent.
Deplorable centralism....
Methodical, mysticism.
Denominal repetition.
Historical, jingoism.
Phenomenal mechanism.
Remarkable, inquisition.
Personable exhibition.
Demonstrable, disposition.
Impossible definition.
Ironical, syllogism.
Unsolvable requisition.
Unstoppable, symbolism.
Apocryphal exposition.
Performable, imposition.
Hierarchical expedition.
Illogical, inconsistent.
Deplorable centralism....
#humankind
#metaphor
#morality
#rhyming
#spiritual
67 reads
2 Comments
oskar
Poem Published
25th Mar 2025 1:15pm
25th Mar 2025 1:15pm
brutish Trump meek Musk
Brutish Trump, Meek Musk?
Trump comes across as a brute and scares people off the middle usually nice middle-class people who do not what it is like working on a building site or spending years at sea with men appear ruffian but mostly, is a braggadocio and as such nothing to be alarmed over in Trump’s case he is not likely to start a war with China, Russia or Iran Trump likes powerful autocrats, he respects as much as he hates effeminate Macron also Starmer
With his perfect modulations, yet sits cross-legged when speaking to Trump who is not in the habit of showing the heels of his...
Trump comes across as a brute and scares people off the middle usually nice middle-class people who do not what it is like working on a building site or spending years at sea with men appear ruffian but mostly, is a braggadocio and as such nothing to be alarmed over in Trump’s case he is not likely to start a war with China, Russia or Iran Trump likes powerful autocrats, he respects as much as he hates effeminate Macron also Starmer
With his perfect modulations, yet sits cross-legged when speaking to Trump who is not in the habit of showing the heels of his...
#hope
#kindness
#love
42 reads
0 Comments
missjem56
Poem Published
25th Mar 2025 1:05am
25th Mar 2025 1:05am
f**k Knows?
Watched a docu
On ancient Rome
In which
A battle scene occured
Where the word
Fucking was used
Approximately
Fifteen hundred years
Before entering
Any known languages
History versus
Dramatic effect.....
by Jemia
On ancient Rome
In which
A battle scene occured
Where the word
Fucking was used
Approximately
Fifteen hundred years
Before entering
Any known languages
History versus
Dramatic effect.....
by Jemia
#deception
#historical
#honesty
66 reads
0 Comments
WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
24th Mar 2025 7:59pm
24th Mar 2025 7:59pm
well to the abyss
wind howling through darkness
...is nothing to the scream
...of hunger in the veins
{careful now...}
neck taut...
and eyes narrowed
seeking the delicious scent of prey
{she's dangerous...}
blood simmers beneath the surface
as she waits...
crouched...
beside rugged stones
{ohhh beware...}
where shadows conceal...
...and water shrouds
every leach and aquatic beast avoids her gaze
hers...
is a caress too terrible to bear
{try to fight it...}
she lowers...
...is nothing to the scream
...of hunger in the veins
{careful now...}
neck taut...
and eyes narrowed
seeking the delicious scent of prey
{she's dangerous...}
blood simmers beneath the surface
as she waits...
crouched...
beside rugged stones
{ohhh beware...}
where shadows conceal...
...and water shrouds
every leach and aquatic beast avoids her gaze
hers...
is a caress too terrible to bear
{try to fight it...}
she lowers...
#greed
#humankind
139 reads
6 Comments
oskar
Poem Published
24th Mar 2025 3:25pm
24th Mar 2025 3:25pm
Syria's Christians and Haiti
Syria’s Christians and Haiti
The first Christian church was built in Syrian, as I write this the horror is killing them the new death cult regime in Syria, a cult we give money to, and not mentioned by Western media as Israel continues to bomb Gaza to their hearts content This is only possible when the bombs are free of charge courtesy of the USA
On the home front, we read about erectile dysfunction, no they are telling me who thought
my own problems were caused by the old age
Haiti, the sad state is in the news again, last time
I was there, Papa Doc, was in...
The first Christian church was built in Syrian, as I write this the horror is killing them the new death cult regime in Syria, a cult we give money to, and not mentioned by Western media as Israel continues to bomb Gaza to their hearts content This is only possible when the bombs are free of charge courtesy of the USA
On the home front, we read about erectile dysfunction, no they are telling me who thought
my own problems were caused by the old age
Haiti, the sad state is in the news again, last time
I was there, Papa Doc, was in...
#admiration
#courage
#emotions
#forgiveness
#gratitude
51 reads
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missjem56
Poem Published
23rd Mar 2025 5:36pm
23rd Mar 2025 5:36pm
Dumbfounded
I sometimes have
Truly terrible dystopean dreams
Where nothing, no longer
Seems, what it seems
A myriad hells
All rolled into one
The nuclear aftermath
Blotted out the sun
Mutually Assured Destruction
Was as MAD as it sounded
Yet still the buttons were pressed
Which left the world dumbfounded
Sadly, the sabre rattling long passed
Destiny
Defined as not if, but when
And so, they bombed one another
Again, and again, and again....
by Jemia
Truly terrible dystopean dreams
Where nothing, no longer
Seems, what it seems
A myriad hells
All rolled into one
The nuclear aftermath
Blotted out the sun
Mutually Assured Destruction
Was as MAD as it sounded
Yet still the buttons were pressed
Which left the world dumbfounded
Sadly, the sabre rattling long passed
Destiny
Defined as not if, but when
And so, they bombed one another
Again, and again, and again....
by Jemia
#apocalypse
#humankind
#sadness #war
#sadness #war
63 reads
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rksingh
Poem Published
23rd Mar 2025 7:58am
23rd Mar 2025 7:58am
CULTURE
Together
exploring meaning
of staying
together 43 years --
a poet's madness:
in the park
seeing the green in her eyes
joy wells up:
she feels the silver blue
the leaves breathing her touch
Saturday lunch
at Bhuddha's bar --
my second beer bottle
they deprive in Bihar
transgressing old culture
myriad lines
in the hollow of my palms
joined in prayer
prepossessing humor
cynically exchanged
in the bright sun
my dark shadow
parts company
under the banyan ...
exploring meaning
of staying
together 43 years --
a poet's madness:
in the park
seeing the green in her eyes
joy wells up:
she feels the silver blue
the leaves breathing her touch
Saturday lunch
at Bhuddha's bar --
my second beer bottle
they deprive in Bihar
transgressing old culture
myriad lines
in the hollow of my palms
joined in prayer
prepossessing humor
cynically exchanged
in the bright sun
my dark shadow
parts company
under the banyan ...
#aging
#LookingForLove
#marriage #passion
#marriage #passion
88 reads
3 Comments
Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
21st Mar 2025 3:29am
21st Mar 2025 3:29am
if it feels like...
I read a poem
by one of my favourite poets
Home
It made me think of you
it made me want to cry
it reminded me of all the
wrongness
in my life
and how there is nothing
I can do to make it right
I have never
and will never
feel like I'm enough
because I never have been
for anyone that's
claimed to love me
I am always the wrong thing
and you can't tell me otherwise
when your actions have neon lights
and your words have lost their voice
in this limbo of...
by one of my favourite poets
Home
It made me think of you
it made me want to cry
it reminded me of all the
wrongness
in my life
and how there is nothing
I can do to make it right
I have never
and will never
feel like I'm enough
because I never have been
for anyone that's
claimed to love me
I am always the wrong thing
and you can't tell me otherwise
when your actions have neon lights
and your words have lost their voice
in this limbo of...
#family
#LifeStruggles
#UnrequitedLove
141 reads
8 Comments
musht_e_ghubaar
Arsh
Arsh
Poem Published
21st Mar 2025 1:13am
21st Mar 2025 1:13am
Desire
Desire's another name is kiss
always yearning more
one is never enough,
You progress to more kisses,
each one turning into a star,
A constellation forms,
milky way was born from desire.
Arshad
always yearning more
one is never enough,
You progress to more kisses,
each one turning into a star,
A constellation forms,
milky way was born from desire.
Arshad
#astronomy
#girlfriend
#love
#lust
#passion
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Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
20th Mar 2025 11:25pm
20th Mar 2025 11:25pm
a little bit of magick
My son begged me
to buy him a wand
and was so disappointed
when he realised
he couldn't do real magic
he tried to turn me
invisible
and it obviously didn't work
It didn't stop him from trying
various spells
for three days
as I tried to explain
that pretend is fine
while offering him
a different kind of magic
waving the wand over his head
and proclaiming
that "buddy, is beautiful and clever"
and asking him if that spell
made feel beautiful and clever
and...
to buy him a wand
and was so disappointed
when he realised
he couldn't do real magic
he tried to turn me
invisible
and it obviously didn't work
It didn't stop him from trying
various spells
for three days
as I tried to explain
that pretend is fine
while offering him
a different kind of magic
waving the wand over his head
and proclaiming
that "buddy, is beautiful and clever"
and asking him if that spell
made feel beautiful and clever
and...
#childhood
#children
#magic
83 reads
4 Comments
missjem56
Poem Published
20th Mar 2025 5:51pm
20th Mar 2025 5:51pm
Going Apeshit!
Archaic arcadian ancestors
Dwelt within their arcady
(This whilst in the OED
on Archimedes Screw!)
I also found Arcane
A secret known to a few
Accidentally rediscovered
In London Zoo
Within the monkey cage
Where-in was placed
Darwins loo!
by Jemia
Dwelt within their arcady
(This whilst in the OED
on Archimedes Screw!)
I also found Arcane
A secret known to a few
Accidentally rediscovered
In London Zoo
Within the monkey cage
Where-in was placed
Darwins loo!
by Jemia
#funny
#philosophical
#satirical #surreal
#satirical #surreal
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0 Comments
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