Popular Observational Poems
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Poetry about life, society and the natural world
Popular poems, listed in order of their popularity this month.
Ahavati
Poem Published
10th Feb 2020 2:03pm
10th Feb 2020 2:03pm
mas·cu·lin·i·ty
Visual entry. . .
#kindness
#men
#humankind
#gratitude
#masculinity
187 reads
42 Comments
Ahavati
Poem Published
3rd Feb 2020 3:33pm
3rd Feb 2020 3:33pm
The Old Dog
( After Stevie Smith )
The sun-warmed porch,
its faded wood absorbing heat
under this arthritic skeleton—
once a conqueror of meadows
and dawn hunting parties.
I listen to my mistress
praise cardinals in winter
with a neighbor, again;
O! how pretty in snow!
You know—
it’s a deceased loved one,
visiting us now!
I curl up, unseen,
forgotten in age, think. . .
Ah! to be admired again—
a conquistador of duck
fox, and...
The sun-warmed porch,
its faded wood absorbing heat
under this arthritic skeleton—
once a conqueror of meadows
and dawn hunting parties.
I listen to my mistress
praise cardinals in winter
with a neighbor, again;
O! how pretty in snow!
You know—
it’s a deceased loved one,
visiting us now!
I curl up, unseen,
forgotten in age, think. . .
Ah! to be admired again—
a conquistador of duck
fox, and...
#dreams
#dogs
#animals #birds
#animals #birds
219 reads
36 Comments
DanielChristensen
Poem Published
10th Feb 2020 2:32am
10th Feb 2020 2:32am
For Ethan
A single, thin
Cloud
Draws
A lambent
Brow,
Across the
Moon
Empty bottles
Chitter
Before a barback's
Broom,
Echoing, somewhere,
Beyond
View
70's rock
Spills its
Bawdy
Throat,
Onto the
Avenues
Spirit,
In subtle,
Profound,
Frenetic
Vibration
I feel,
All around
And
Everything
Your open
Hand,
Reaching
Across
Cloud
Draws
A lambent
Brow,
Across the
Moon
Empty bottles
Chitter
Before a barback's
Broom,
Echoing, somewhere,
Beyond
View
70's rock
Spills its
Bawdy
Throat,
Onto the
Avenues
Spirit,
In subtle,
Profound,
Frenetic
Vibration
I feel,
All around
And
Everything
Your open
Hand,
Reaching
Across
#friendship
#admiration
#minimalist
129 reads
18 Comments
NewBeginnings
Poem Published
15th Feb 2020 6:50pm
15th Feb 2020 6:50pm
On Selflessness
What if true selflessness doesn’t exist?
When you do something out of the kindness of your heart,
Does it not give you a good feeling inside?
A rush of dopamine, perhaps?
A dose of oxytocin?
The happy chemicals
that flood your brain,
Could put a smile on anyone’s face!
So, when you do something out of the kindness of your heart,
Is it really an act of selflessness?
Or is it the chemical reward you chase?
So, you want to save the planet, do you?
Is it because you really care
about the planet?
Or is it because you...
When you do something out of the kindness of your heart,
Does it not give you a good feeling inside?
A rush of dopamine, perhaps?
A dose of oxytocin?
The happy chemicals
that flood your brain,
Could put a smile on anyone’s face!
So, when you do something out of the kindness of your heart,
Is it really an act of selflessness?
Or is it the chemical reward you chase?
So, you want to save the planet, do you?
Is it because you really care
about the planet?
Or is it because you...
#kindness
#honesty
#humankind
#confusion
#philosophical
100 reads
13 Comments
Ahavati
Poem Published
2nd Feb 2020 1:25am
2nd Feb 2020 1:25am
As if it already is—
If your fate is to drown, you can choke
on a teaspoon of water ~ Jewish Proverb
Conversely, if your fate is to succeed
slipping in dog shit at the right moment
can lead to victory
The Cosmos is mercurial—
beautiful, but mischievous;
honest only over the long-term—
in short, seems a procurer
manhandling a whore
It never forgets to balance—
creates infinite ways to resurrect
a traveler with a karmic surplus;
or,...
on a teaspoon of water ~ Jewish Proverb
Conversely, if your fate is to succeed
slipping in dog shit at the right moment
can lead to victory
The Cosmos is mercurial—
beautiful, but mischievous;
honest only over the long-term—
in short, seems a procurer
manhandling a whore
It never forgets to balance—
creates infinite ways to resurrect
a traveler with a karmic surplus;
or,...
#hope
#politics
#universe
#HumanRights
#morality
198 reads
21 Comments
Josh
Poem Published
30th Jan 2020 4:28pm
30th Jan 2020 4:28pm
Simulator Failure
Eventually when he thought the real-time was right
he scanned her heart into the computer
to manipulate through latest programmes
the bits he thought that didn’t suit her
trouble came when he vainly tried to scan it back
the rest of her baulked at the altered heart
and said “we want the original back complete
for we are one, despite our different parts”
“too late for that” he said “I did the job
original copy is long since gone
besides it’s now so much better
and better can’t ever be wrong”.
The rest of...
he scanned her heart into the computer
to manipulate through latest programmes
the bits he thought that didn’t suit her
trouble came when he vainly tried to scan it back
the rest of her baulked at the altered heart
and said “we want the original back complete
for we are one, despite our different parts”
“too late for that” he said “I did the job
original copy is long since gone
besides it’s now so much better
and better can’t ever be wrong”.
The rest of...
#dark
#relationships
#betrayal
#technology
#philosophical
131 reads
27 Comments
NewBeginnings
Poem Published
9th Feb 2020 11:37pm
9th Feb 2020 11:37pm
Truth Be Told
I really feel the need to get away from consumerism and materialism. From the wealthy corporations, busy cities, and billionaires; the fast food industries, tech giants, and pharmaceutical companies that rule this country
—perhaps, even the world. Away from this destructive machine that humanity has created... And the restless blur of a society that never sleeps.
We are supposedly "the greatest country on Earth", yet we are divided more than ever; and clearly the system that we have in place is broken, yet the mad maestros continue to conduct this cacophony of sound right...
—perhaps, even the world. Away from this destructive machine that humanity has created... And the restless blur of a society that never sleeps.
We are supposedly "the greatest country on Earth", yet we are divided more than ever; and clearly the system that we have in place is broken, yet the mad maestros continue to conduct this cacophony of sound right...
#politics
#MentalHealth
#consumerism
#HumanRights
#philosophical
114 reads
12 Comments
Sky_dancer
Poem Published
12th Feb 2020 2:04pm
12th Feb 2020 2:04pm
Apocalypse How
They're scorching the earth,
theres nowhere to run,
they're blaming the skies;
We know it's all wrong.
They're filling the air
with chemical tails,
making it pretty
with cyanide trails.
They're taking us down
The old rule of thumb
Divide and then conquer
Then two become one
They're rounding us up
With dazzling lights
Like moths to the flame;
We want to ignite
By keeping us fat
And docile and scared
As rivers of poison
Are troughs for the herd
The higher...
theres nowhere to run,
they're blaming the skies;
We know it's all wrong.
They're filling the air
with chemical tails,
making it pretty
with cyanide trails.
They're taking us down
The old rule of thumb
Divide and then conquer
Then two become one
They're rounding us up
With dazzling lights
Like moths to the flame;
We want to ignite
By keeping us fat
And docile and scared
As rivers of poison
Are troughs for the herd
The higher...
#apocalypse
101 reads
17 Comments
Josh
Poem Published
7th Feb 2020 11:07pm
7th Feb 2020 11:07pm
Dancing Queen
The queen, so happy, had fourteen children
seven sons and daughters had she
she looked at them all, said “let’s have a ball
I wonder how best that can be?”
The seven daughters stood in a circle
and round and round and round they danced
the queen thought “fair, but they’re getting nowhere
repeating they cannot advance”.
The seven sons stood straight in a line
they marched up and down, up and down
the queen thought “O.K, but where is the play
the fun of a night on the town?
The queen considered, and placed...
seven sons and daughters had she
she looked at them all, said “let’s have a ball
I wonder how best that can be?”
The seven daughters stood in a circle
and round and round and round they danced
the queen thought “fair, but they’re getting nowhere
repeating they cannot advance”.
The seven sons stood straight in a line
they marched up and down, up and down
the queen thought “O.K, but where is the play
the fun of a night on the town?
The queen considered, and placed...
#children
#family
#TruthOfLife #evolution
#TruthOfLife #evolution
82 reads
30 Comments
_shadoe_
Poem Published
30th Jan 2020 10:57pm
30th Jan 2020 10:57pm
stain'd glass city iii
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every red from 100 to oh shit
somewhere where the land is flat & dead
fire ripe
& scatter'd limbs, accusatory fingertip missiles point east;
eyes up
mouth downturn'd
a private storm in skulls crack'd like sun-warm asphalt: -
tinder
husks ov uproot'd saplings
wrapp'd in the white arms ov polyester vampires
sponging the sidewalk with shread'd tongues to stall the wilt
{ii}
belch'd from the snarling beast, fed to bursting with eucalyptus & iron
& the pollock-esque...
every red from 100 to oh shit
somewhere where the land is flat & dead
fire ripe
& scatter'd limbs, accusatory fingertip missiles point east;
eyes up
mouth downturn'd
a private storm in skulls crack'd like sun-warm asphalt: -
tinder
husks ov uproot'd saplings
wrapp'd in the white arms ov polyester vampires
sponging the sidewalk with shread'd tongues to stall the wilt
{ii}
belch'd from the snarling beast, fed to bursting with eucalyptus & iron
& the pollock-esque...
#dark
108 reads
14 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
12th Feb 2020 1:22pm
12th Feb 2020 1:22pm
Poeta
How vast its power
to bend vacant space
shunt embittered time
in whispered wispy rhyme
Ferried here so swift
to longing ears
calming fears
balming scars unhealed
With much revealed
by what is penned
more by all that is not
within its ciphered verse
Locked in meter
stitched in stanzas
such elegant runes
these cryptic dunes
Unforeseen
all to be gleaned
from this soothing still
undiscovered realm
to bend vacant space
shunt embittered time
in whispered wispy rhyme
Ferried here so swift
to longing ears
calming fears
balming scars unhealed
With much revealed
by what is penned
more by all that is not
within its ciphered verse
Locked in meter
stitched in stanzas
such elegant runes
these cryptic dunes
Unforeseen
all to be gleaned
from this soothing still
undiscovered realm
#WritingPoetry
#art
78 reads
12 Comments
Ahavati
Poem Published
20th Feb 2020 10:51pm
20th Feb 2020 10:51pm
Small planets
Beyond the window
fat snow flakes are falling
through barren pin oaks
As squirrels burrowed in dusk
I nest amid poetry—
but, unlike squirrels
I shan't be sleeping. . .
~
fat snow flakes are falling
through barren pin oaks
As squirrels burrowed in dusk
I nest amid poetry—
but, unlike squirrels
I shan't be sleeping. . .
~
#winter
#snow
#spiritual
#LifeAsAWriter
#philosophical
81 reads
22 Comments
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