Observational Poems Seeking Friendly Advice
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poetry about life, society and the natural world
Friendly feedback has been requested for these poems.
Starlit_Rose
Poem Published
9th Jan 2025 6:28am
9th Jan 2025 6:28am
And it begins...
And it begins, a cosmic mistake,
of stars and worlds born from dust.
What was once nothing,
now is nothing with meaning.
The nothingness created into something,
by our zealous obsessed minds.
It gives me solace to know
that your something means nothing.
A hint of jealousy from my nothingness,
that doesn't want to feel alone.
So now as we dance with the already,
I grieve the soon to be.
As you smell the red of roses,
I feel the thorns they carry.
Without mourning stars, ...
of stars and worlds born from dust.
What was once nothing,
now is nothing with meaning.
The nothingness created into something,
by our zealous obsessed minds.
It gives me solace to know
that your something means nothing.
A hint of jealousy from my nothingness,
that doesn't want to feel alone.
So now as we dance with the already,
I grieve the soon to be.
As you smell the red of roses,
I feel the thorns they carry.
Without mourning stars, ...
#myself
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adagio
Poem Published
9th Jan 2025 1:52am
9th Jan 2025 1:52am
Leeches
Hideous leeches with narcissistic mirrors
puppets on strings caught in a crossfire
expecting immunity to their insanity
beyond the shadows and house of clay
showing their colors cheating in life
hearing echoes of grandiosity caught
in a crossfire, gumming Cheetos
puppets on strings caught in a crossfire
expecting immunity to their insanity
beyond the shadows and house of clay
showing their colors cheating in life
hearing echoes of grandiosity caught
in a crossfire, gumming Cheetos
#dark
#emptiness
#hypocrisy #loneliness
#hypocrisy #loneliness
123 reads
5 Comments
adagio
Poem Published
8th Jan 2025 9:20pm
8th Jan 2025 9:20pm
Wheels Fell Off
The night the wheels fell off and now the wings
of flying monkeys chasing shadows on the edge
of Gothmn City thinking he was Batman as stars
blinked neon with the air thick as his whiskers
gasping from his mind's abyss adrift in chaos
weaving tales of obscenity without thought
as he unravels the night the wheels fell off
of flying monkeys chasing shadows on the edge
of Gothmn City thinking he was Batman as stars
blinked neon with the air thick as his whiskers
gasping from his mind's abyss adrift in chaos
weaving tales of obscenity without thought
as he unravels the night the wheels fell off
#dark
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6 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
8th Jan 2025 7:18am
8th Jan 2025 7:18am
A Thousand Years From Forever (Fourteen)
The Golden Palace
The Royal Supreme King’s Bedchambers
Into The Darkness
Queen Persephone
Hades
My Queen, it is time for you and I to go on sentimental journey through the phrases of time
Once you open your eyes to the other side
Do you think you can rule a nation, Light Bearer of the righteous and be a Guardian to the meek
We are everywhere, the Waterloo, our prowess does not reach
I shall get you, Light Bearer you will come to bow down to Hades, our Lord
Where you will be given the...
The Royal Supreme King’s Bedchambers
Into The Darkness
Queen Persephone
Hades
My Queen, it is time for you and I to go on sentimental journey through the phrases of time
Once you open your eyes to the other side
Do you think you can rule a nation, Light Bearer of the righteous and be a Guardian to the meek
We are everywhere, the Waterloo, our prowess does not reach
I shall get you, Light Bearer you will come to bow down to Hades, our Lord
Where you will be given the...
#evolution
#mythology
#rebirth #water
#rebirth #water
180 reads
1 Comment
thewatcher33
Poem Published
8th Jan 2025 5:32am
8th Jan 2025 5:32am
IT COULD ALL BE SO SIMPLE, BUT SPIRITUALITY MAKES IT HARD!
What Is Spirituality?
Spirituality is a broad concept with room for many perspectives. It includes a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves, and it typically involves a search for meaning in life. As such, it is a universal human experience. People may describe a spiritual experience as sacred or transcendent or simply a deep sense of aliveness and interconnectedness.
Do Everyone Experience Spirituality?
While most people would consider spirituality a universal human experience, not everyone actively engages with or experiences it in the same way, meaning...
Spirituality is a broad concept with room for many perspectives. It includes a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves, and it typically involves a search for meaning in life. As such, it is a universal human experience. People may describe a spiritual experience as sacred or transcendent or simply a deep sense of aliveness and interconnectedness.
Do Everyone Experience Spirituality?
While most people would consider spirituality a universal human experience, not everyone actively engages with or experiences it in the same way, meaning...
#spiritual
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1 Comment
Baredsoul
Poem Published
8th Jan 2025 4:23am
8th Jan 2025 4:23am
Time
She’s an elusive mistress
You can never find her
She runs away from you so very fast
leaving you looking ahead only to find you wish you could go back
Pain and joy intertwined like silk threads
Flittering and flashing randomly
You’re left wanting more
She’ll never give it to you
Your dance with her is brief
Savour it.
Time
You can never find her
She runs away from you so very fast
leaving you looking ahead only to find you wish you could go back
Pain and joy intertwined like silk threads
Flittering and flashing randomly
You’re left wanting more
She’ll never give it to you
Your dance with her is brief
Savour it.
Time
#LifeCycle
#nostalgia
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backdeckbenny
Poem Published
8th Jan 2025 1:27am
8th Jan 2025 1:27am
The End is Nigh.
A dystopian future is at our door
Facts on Facebook checked no more
Open the sewer let the clowns speak
Lies and deceipt will reach a new peak.
Orwell was prescient with the Ministry of Truth.
Bradbury knew the temperature at which books burned.
And Huxley foresaw a society off their tits on Soma, subdued, placated and duped.
The genies of Zuckerberg,Musk,Trump and countless others cannot be put back in the bottle.
Disinformation is the new truth.
Facts on Facebook checked no more
Open the sewer let the clowns speak
Lies and deceipt will reach a new peak.
Orwell was prescient with the Ministry of Truth.
Bradbury knew the temperature at which books burned.
And Huxley foresaw a society off their tits on Soma, subdued, placated and duped.
The genies of Zuckerberg,Musk,Trump and countless others cannot be put back in the bottle.
Disinformation is the new truth.
#betrayal
#lies
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Her
Poem Published
7th Jan 2025 10:06pm
7th Jan 2025 10:06pm
These Days - A Collaboration With WillowsWhimsies
Where are the real souls
Unafraid to be themselves
Scarred and raw with honest words
Why are hands more often open
Than hearts and minds
More willing to take than share
What happened to unapologetic truth
Finding joy in less than more
Opening windows rather than closing doors
Who said it was okay
To make emotions unavailable
In the name of not getting hurt
I’d give my next heartbeat
To receive true sincerity
But it seems these days that’s a rarity
Unafraid to be themselves
Scarred and raw with honest words
Why are hands more often open
Than hearts and minds
More willing to take than share
What happened to unapologetic truth
Finding joy in less than more
Opening windows rather than closing doors
Who said it was okay
To make emotions unavailable
In the name of not getting hurt
I’d give my next heartbeat
To receive true sincerity
But it seems these days that’s a rarity
#disappointment
#frustration
#greed
#hypocrisy
#lies
136 reads
14 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
7th Jan 2025 8:41pm
7th Jan 2025 8:41pm
On Courage
It has little to do with bravery
or fear
or rugged badassery
It’s the letting go
laying down
that fuckit moment
in a set jaw
when inaction feels more dangerous
than meeting a tiger of terror
***
Faced with the option of
being torn to obstinate shreds
left for dead
or
languishing in the rot of regret
agonizing endlessly over what ifs
I’ll take the tiger
.
or fear
or rugged badassery
It’s the letting go
laying down
that fuckit moment
in a set jaw
when inaction feels more dangerous
than meeting a tiger of terror
***
Faced with the option of
being torn to obstinate shreds
left for dead
or
languishing in the rot of regret
agonizing endlessly over what ifs
I’ll take the tiger
.
#courage
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15 Comments
Inverted_poet29
Poem Published
7th Jan 2025 7:14pm
7th Jan 2025 7:14pm
A Picture in Words
They say a picture’s worth a thousand tales,
But what if the brush in your hand fails?
If canvas stays blank, colors don’t appear,
Yet your mind holds visions, vivid and clear.
With words as your palette, you start to create,
Each phrase a stroke, shaping fate,
You paint with whispers, you draw with sound,
In the listener’s heart, your art is found.
A thousand words, they say, a picture might be,
But what if your words set the soul free?
Each sentence a color, each line a hue,
Crafting a masterpiece, unique...
But what if the brush in your hand fails?
If canvas stays blank, colors don’t appear,
Yet your mind holds visions, vivid and clear.
With words as your palette, you start to create,
Each phrase a stroke, shaping fate,
You paint with whispers, you draw with sound,
In the listener’s heart, your art is found.
A thousand words, they say, a picture might be,
But what if your words set the soul free?
Each sentence a color, each line a hue,
Crafting a masterpiece, unique...
#emotions
#happiness
#love
#passion
#WritingPoetry
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oskar
Poem Published
7th Jan 2025 5:23pm
7th Jan 2025 5:23pm
the Gotham man
the Gotham man
He is so wealthy, perhaps the richest man
In the world, he enjoyed his lucre and sired
A dozen of male and female children
He has reached middle age, and his youth has
Gone the body, no longer as elastic as before
He has realized, as many men before him
that
Life has a time limit
Great wealth is also power speaks; we listen when
A rich man voices his opinion he has thrown
himself into body politics, perhaps confusing
Opinions as truth
The problem is he has yet to learn the language
Of diplomacy and is...
He is so wealthy, perhaps the richest man
In the world, he enjoyed his lucre and sired
A dozen of male and female children
He has reached middle age, and his youth has
Gone the body, no longer as elastic as before
He has realized, as many men before him
that
Life has a time limit
Great wealth is also power speaks; we listen when
A rich man voices his opinion he has thrown
himself into body politics, perhaps confusing
Opinions as truth
The problem is he has yet to learn the language
Of diplomacy and is...
#admiration
#courage
#emotions #forgiveness
#emotions #forgiveness
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backdeckbenny
Poem Published
7th Jan 2025 1:31am
7th Jan 2025 1:31am
Cumulus
Today the clouds borrowed the sun.
It was their turn to shine.
It was their turn to shine.
#universe
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