Submissions by Cobalt
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Hi! I have enjoyed writing for as long as I can remember. Writing has always been in me as a way to purge emotions I suppose. That is when I feel I must write. I focus mainly on poetry and lyrics these days but also enjoy copywriting and story writing.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Feb 2019 10:10pm
28th Feb 2019 10:10pm
Ebb & Flow
Drip!
Ebony tears glide, touch the pane,
Vermillion, Amber, Indigo spiral,
All the truths known,
Disguised and scrawled
Across paper pane.
The lion and the peacock emerge,
Ebony stroke by ebony stroke,
Anguish, pain, beauty, love
Utopia of raw emotion,
Blended perfect,
As the finest spring bouquet,
The pungent sting so real,
Scratches at the core.
Worlds swirl and collide,
Characters align and disappear,
Life imitates art once more,
The transience of the moment,
Flash!
The ink dried...
Ebony tears glide, touch the pane,
Vermillion, Amber, Indigo spiral,
All the truths known,
Disguised and scrawled
Across paper pane.
The lion and the peacock emerge,
Ebony stroke by ebony stroke,
Anguish, pain, beauty, love
Utopia of raw emotion,
Blended perfect,
As the finest spring bouquet,
The pungent sting so real,
Scratches at the core.
Worlds swirl and collide,
Characters align and disappear,
Life imitates art once more,
The transience of the moment,
Flash!
The ink dried...
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
#philosophical
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Feb 2019 10:06pm
10th Feb 2019 10:06pm
Adrift
Daily shuffles,
Smiling laughter,
Piecing the jigsaw,
We drift evermore to shore.
As if tide had drawn,
The insulating blanket,
Away from each confused soul,
We masquerade.
Some persevering better than others,
The peacock vs the peahen,
Until the end,
When once again we smile and giggle.
The game is played,
Pieces fallen into place,
As we drift,
To our eternal bay.
Smiling laughter,
Piecing the jigsaw,
We drift evermore to shore.
As if tide had drawn,
The insulating blanket,
Away from each confused soul,
We masquerade.
Some persevering better than others,
The peacock vs the peahen,
Until the end,
When once again we smile and giggle.
The game is played,
Pieces fallen into place,
As we drift,
To our eternal bay.
#death
#TruthOfLife
#philosophical #SelfDiscovery
#philosophical #SelfDiscovery
432 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Feb 2019 10:32pm
5th Feb 2019 10:32pm
Embers to Ash
Why agitate the embers?
Now turned to ash,
Consumed,
Greyed forever to dust by the demise of the sun.
The hole will never hit the head,
Never heal a close,
Never the bitter stone bite,
Will ache again.
White hot pain severs,
Claws it's path and catches the throat,
But you'll never know,
The damage.
So drift,
Continue my friend,
Make waves where you will,
This boat will never again touch the shore.
For we didn't,
You and I,
Didn't belong,
By each...
Now turned to ash,
Consumed,
Greyed forever to dust by the demise of the sun.
The hole will never hit the head,
Never heal a close,
Never the bitter stone bite,
Will ache again.
White hot pain severs,
Claws it's path and catches the throat,
But you'll never know,
The damage.
So drift,
Continue my friend,
Make waves where you will,
This boat will never again touch the shore.
For we didn't,
You and I,
Didn't belong,
By each...
#love
#relationships
#breakup
#fate
#philosophical
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LOVE POEM
Published
5th Feb 2019 10:18pm
5th Feb 2019 10:18pm
Two souls
In that moment you lit my eyes ablaze,
Sweet face,
The yin to my yang.
I felt that moment,
You belonged,
In my arms, my heart, my home.
In warm chocolate pools
I drowned,
Bathed in delight.
I felt the jolt,
Two souls stolen by cupid,
Irrevocably entwined and released.
In the wild roar we play,
The fire we bask,
Our hearts, we dance.
Our two souls,
Stolen by cupid,
Entranced and released, together.
Sweet face,
The yin to my yang.
I felt that moment,
You belonged,
In my arms, my heart, my home.
In warm chocolate pools
I drowned,
Bathed in delight.
I felt the jolt,
Two souls stolen by cupid,
Irrevocably entwined and released.
In the wild roar we play,
The fire we bask,
Our hearts, we dance.
Our two souls,
Stolen by cupid,
Entranced and released, together.
#love
#friendship
#fate #FallingInLove
#fate #FallingInLove
559 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
31st Jan 2019 5:55pm
31st Jan 2019 5:55pm
Eternal
She didn't expect him,
Dark is the hour, so cold,
Though he rejects the cold,
Of night, of day.
All lies still in the greenness, no sound, no movement,
Out here alone thoughts collide and merge,
Only in time she submerges herself,
Long grasses, small stones.
A universe of small becomings,
A celestial ceiling reigns over her, watching,
Heavens sing down in contemplation,
All that keeps her chained here.
In the depths he moves closer,
Each inch a day too long,
Yet walk in the waves he does,
His shadow...
Dark is the hour, so cold,
Though he rejects the cold,
Of night, of day.
All lies still in the greenness, no sound, no movement,
Out here alone thoughts collide and merge,
Only in time she submerges herself,
Long grasses, small stones.
A universe of small becomings,
A celestial ceiling reigns over her, watching,
Heavens sing down in contemplation,
All that keeps her chained here.
In the depths he moves closer,
Each inch a day too long,
Yet walk in the waves he does,
His shadow...
#love
#breakup
#fate
#patience
#philosophical
511 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
31st Jan 2019 12:27pm
31st Jan 2019 12:27pm
Hello
Where are you now my love?
You with no conscious name,
Blind eyes crust over,
Unseen in the moment,
The bend in the river nears,
This tide is not for you my love,
Please don't despair.
Is she there now?
Or perhaps gone already for dawns delight,
I imagine sweet strawberry locks, belief.
Nestled tight in the crook of an elbow,
She whispers softly into the crease,
As the indigo veil descends.
A world as one. Now severed in two,
You'll learn to bleed once more,
Before your dawns delight.
Please don't...
You with no conscious name,
Blind eyes crust over,
Unseen in the moment,
The bend in the river nears,
This tide is not for you my love,
Please don't despair.
Is she there now?
Or perhaps gone already for dawns delight,
I imagine sweet strawberry locks, belief.
Nestled tight in the crook of an elbow,
She whispers softly into the crease,
As the indigo veil descends.
A world as one. Now severed in two,
You'll learn to bleed once more,
Before your dawns delight.
Please don't...
#love
#relationships
#romantic
#FallingInLove
#philosophical
539 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
30th Jan 2019 9:57pm
30th Jan 2019 9:57pm
What if?
I noticed you today,
For the first time,
Quite possibly the last,
In your tapestry embroidered coat,
Zipped to the collar, warm.
The pattern set fire to my imagination,
Possibilities brought to life,
A path illuminated in the dark,
Yet quickly snuffed out,
As I walked away.
I drifted further,
And pondered all the possibilities,
That never bear fruit,
Perished in the cold,
For we are too afraid.
To set them alight.
And watch paper canvas float into the spring sky,
Too afraid perhaps of...
For the first time,
Quite possibly the last,
In your tapestry embroidered coat,
Zipped to the collar, warm.
The pattern set fire to my imagination,
Possibilities brought to life,
A path illuminated in the dark,
Yet quickly snuffed out,
As I walked away.
I drifted further,
And pondered all the possibilities,
That never bear fruit,
Perished in the cold,
For we are too afraid.
To set them alight.
And watch paper canvas float into the spring sky,
Too afraid perhaps of...
#romantic
#honesty
#admiration
#philosophical
#crush
567 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Jan 2019 9:43pm
30th Jan 2019 9:43pm
Lust
Please,
Don't speak those words so cheaply,
You stain them,
Taint and stamp
an expiration date,
For my heart will weep,
Menstruate all that was.
And stitch together again.
Please,
Just stay and be,
No need for violet fantasies,
I need not know the hour of the sunset,
Not yet,
Just stay and be,
You and I.
And just breathe.
Don't speak those words so cheaply,
You stain them,
Taint and stamp
an expiration date,
For my heart will weep,
Menstruate all that was.
And stitch together again.
Please,
Just stay and be,
No need for violet fantasies,
I need not know the hour of the sunset,
Not yet,
Just stay and be,
You and I.
And just breathe.
#love
#lust
#rejection
#FallingInLove
#FirstLove
714 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
29th Jan 2019 6:17pm
29th Jan 2019 6:17pm
Plague
Why do you plague my depths?
A dark fish,
You harrow these waters,
This lake is mine to keep.
Silver shoals pass,
In fleeting moments,
Yet once again from the depths
you emerge,
Time and time again.
It haunts me,
To watch you pass,
What once was so crystal, so pure,
Now murky, clouded and rancid.
You swim so hurriedly,
In opposite directions,
Frenetic. Life and soul,
Yet you plague mine continuously.
And I wait, til the darkness is gone,
Waters pure again and still,
The...
A dark fish,
You harrow these waters,
This lake is mine to keep.
Silver shoals pass,
In fleeting moments,
Yet once again from the depths
you emerge,
Time and time again.
It haunts me,
To watch you pass,
What once was so crystal, so pure,
Now murky, clouded and rancid.
You swim so hurriedly,
In opposite directions,
Frenetic. Life and soul,
Yet you plague mine continuously.
And I wait, til the darkness is gone,
Waters pure again and still,
The...
#anxiety
#depression
#heartbroken
#breakup
#MovingOn
581 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
28th Jan 2019 9:35pm
28th Jan 2019 9:35pm
Tattooed
The sting drags across the canvas,
Like a bee buzzing continuous,
Bone ravaged,
Ebony pools into virgin skin,
Igniting and merging.
Now one
Stained in time, never again to be pale and pure,
The skin cries in anguish,
Crusted over, the scab of a bloodied lip,
Yet forgotten in time.
Forever a mark made,
An expression, a symbol,
Screaming identity,
The scars you sow and show to the world,
Only the outside
Yet pale, pale to the inside,
A continuous flow,
The pain reflects...
Like a bee buzzing continuous,
Bone ravaged,
Ebony pools into virgin skin,
Igniting and merging.
Now one
Stained in time, never again to be pale and pure,
The skin cries in anguish,
Crusted over, the scab of a bloodied lip,
Yet forgotten in time.
Forever a mark made,
An expression, a symbol,
Screaming identity,
The scars you sow and show to the world,
Only the outside
Yet pale, pale to the inside,
A continuous flow,
The pain reflects...
#loneliness
#LifeStruggles
#confessional #MentalHealth
#confessional #MentalHealth
481 reads
8 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
28th Jan 2019 8:55pm
28th Jan 2019 8:55pm
I wonder
Do you
Do you ever wonder what could be?
Do I
Do I ever cross your mind?
As your jet flashes through my sky
I'm left with these visions
Still misting the panes.
And I wonder
Wonder does she ever look at you like I?
Does her smile catch fire in your eyes?
Do you ever wonder why
Why we let the clouds invade our sky?
Sometimes
Sometimes you fly to me
And for a moment I forget
Rose eyes as I contemplate a life that could've been
But do you ever see my face in hers?
Does she love...
Do you ever wonder what could be?
Do I
Do I ever cross your mind?
As your jet flashes through my sky
I'm left with these visions
Still misting the panes.
And I wonder
Wonder does she ever look at you like I?
Does her smile catch fire in your eyes?
Do you ever wonder why
Why we let the clouds invade our sky?
Sometimes
Sometimes you fly to me
And for a moment I forget
Rose eyes as I contemplate a life that could've been
But do you ever see my face in hers?
Does she love...
#relationships
#memories
#MovingOn
#acceptance
#nostalgia
586 reads
5 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
28th Jan 2019 1:28pm
28th Jan 2019 1:28pm
Searching
I walk amongst the stones,
These pebbles have witnessed an ageing,
Years of change and growth,
Confusion, stress,
Love and angst.
I visit here to be alone,
It is home for me,
A sanctuary of hope,
Love lost and love gained,
And yet I still feel the same.
I search for peace here,
I wait for returns
Which never appear,
I relish in memories,
Years gone by,
Stages within a life,
All interlaced within this tapestry.
This place is home,
To my inner soul,
All that I am
All that I was,...
These pebbles have witnessed an ageing,
Years of change and growth,
Confusion, stress,
Love and angst.
I visit here to be alone,
It is home for me,
A sanctuary of hope,
Love lost and love gained,
And yet I still feel the same.
I search for peace here,
I wait for returns
Which never appear,
I relish in memories,
Years gone by,
Stages within a life,
All interlaced within this tapestry.
This place is home,
To my inner soul,
All that I am
All that I was,...
#relationships
#TimeHeals
#aging
#MovingOn
#nostalgia
528 reads
13 Comments
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