Submissions by Poetryman
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
44 years of writing poetry... you'd think I'd be famous by now...JJ
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Mar 2025 1:44pm
19th Mar 2025 1:44pm
Deep Underground Poets
14 years sharing my verse
loving some of you in my poems
As friends and lovers
As collaborators washing one another in ink
Spilling blood in the fires of Hell
In the bliss Of ecstacy
Makes Parting ways a torturous death
My heart is breaking for those who will never know
For those I love so dearly, never to share rhymes and lines
If you want collaborate as bards or other arts
Write me at jjpoetryman@gmail.com
Hear my song at https://youtube.com/@jjjohnson4177
Paint the sky with words
As you have painted my heart
So that i...
loving some of you in my poems
As friends and lovers
As collaborators washing one another in ink
Spilling blood in the fires of Hell
In the bliss Of ecstacy
Makes Parting ways a torturous death
My heart is breaking for those who will never know
For those I love so dearly, never to share rhymes and lines
If you want collaborate as bards or other arts
Write me at jjpoetryman@gmail.com
Hear my song at https://youtube.com/@jjjohnson4177
Paint the sky with words
As you have painted my heart
So that i...
#friendship
#love
#sadness #WritingPoetry
#sadness #WritingPoetry
62 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
25th Feb 2025 7:58am
25th Feb 2025 7:58am
Self-Esteem is Everything
Confidence created from success
Molded from self-esteem instilled by parents
With guidance, empathy and wisdom
Once self-esteem transmorphs into pride
It hungers for lessers to bully and control
Others in lessor numbers or perceived inferiors
To lift you above your internal insecurity
Until you realize that letting go of pride
Is the one path to love yourself with self-esteem
You'll never be anything but a shadow of everything
you wished that you could be
Molded from self-esteem instilled by parents
With guidance, empathy and wisdom
Once self-esteem transmorphs into pride
It hungers for lessers to bully and control
Others in lessor numbers or perceived inferiors
To lift you above your internal insecurity
Until you realize that letting go of pride
Is the one path to love yourself with self-esteem
You'll never be anything but a shadow of everything
you wished that you could be
#identity
#SelfWorth
72 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Dec 2024 4:03am
27th Dec 2024 4:03am
A Bigger Tree than Bigotry
#fate
#hate
#karma
#love
#racism
136 reads
4 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
25th Dec 2024 5:27am
25th Dec 2024 5:27am
Ho Ho Ho
Santa, down here! Don't forget me Santa, please, not again!
A bag of coal? Ya gotta be kidding, i don't even have a coal stove...
Merry Christmas to you too, Ho Ho Ho
A bag of coal? Ya gotta be kidding, i don't even have a coal stove...
Merry Christmas to you too, Ho Ho Ho
#Christmas
67 reads
0 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
19th Dec 2024 11:21pm
19th Dec 2024 11:21pm
Merry KKKristmAss Eve
In the still of the night, on KristmAss Eve
I ponder the promises, the secrets they keep
Claiming to be faithful, donning halos too bright
But the truth in dark hearts hides away from the light
Oh, the weight of deceit can break the soul
following the false prophet into a dark hole
Embracing the hate he feels for all unlike him
Nourishing the seeds of prejudice within
While your brains are awash living under autockrracy!
Worshipping the wealthy in unholy oligarchy!
Let all instead bask in the truth, with honor and...
I ponder the promises, the secrets they keep
Claiming to be faithful, donning halos too bright
But the truth in dark hearts hides away from the light
Oh, the weight of deceit can break the soul
following the false prophet into a dark hole
Embracing the hate he feels for all unlike him
Nourishing the seeds of prejudice within
While your brains are awash living under autockrracy!
Worshipping the wealthy in unholy oligarchy!
Let all instead bask in the truth, with honor and...
#Christmas
#dark
#fate #hypocrisy
#fate #hypocrisy
129 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
16th Dec 2024 8:02am
16th Dec 2024 8:02am
May as Well be Dead
I can't remember how to smile
So many years of sadness
Piled upon loneliness
I think, a long time ago, some held me in warm arms
But I think it might just have been a fantasy
I hurt inside so hard I can't tell what is in pain
I think it might be my heart but I don't know
I don't remember what my heart felt like
Some distant echoes, a noise like a drum
But it has faded away beneath a sheet of white noise
The pain only goes away when I fall asleep
When i dream of shadows that surround me in screams
Life is only a gift when it feels...
So many years of sadness
Piled upon loneliness
I think, a long time ago, some held me in warm arms
But I think it might just have been a fantasy
I hurt inside so hard I can't tell what is in pain
I think it might be my heart but I don't know
I don't remember what my heart felt like
Some distant echoes, a noise like a drum
But it has faded away beneath a sheet of white noise
The pain only goes away when I fall asleep
When i dream of shadows that surround me in screams
Life is only a gift when it feels...
#anxiety
#dark
#death #depression
#death #depression
99 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
10th Dec 2024 6:12am
10th Dec 2024 6:12am
CONFESSION
I've heard confession is good for the soul
Though I wonder when it's a stairwell to a bottomless hole
Spiraling downward in rings of loneliness
Where no one will listen to a depressing endless tale
Without a witness to absolve the spirit of a body full of sin
Or anyone to care about your honesty at the fatal end
You may as well keep it to yourself
Bottled up with a cork to seal in secret stealth
How no one cared enough to share
The love you nutured within there
A lifetime of emotion filled with hope
Forever dangling at the end of a...
Though I wonder when it's a stairwell to a bottomless hole
Spiraling downward in rings of loneliness
Where no one will listen to a depressing endless tale
Without a witness to absolve the spirit of a body full of sin
Or anyone to care about your honesty at the fatal end
You may as well keep it to yourself
Bottled up with a cork to seal in secret stealth
How no one cared enough to share
The love you nutured within there
A lifetime of emotion filled with hope
Forever dangling at the end of a...
#depression
#emptiness
#loneliness #sadness
#loneliness #sadness
123 reads
2 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Dec 2024 8:32am
7th Dec 2024 8:32am
Never Too Late
It's never too late, you see the light,
You’re never too old to find what feels right,
Through the whispers of autumn, I wander alone,
Searching for sunshine, a heart to call home.
There’s a spark in the twilight, I feel it grow,
A chance for a lover to steal my soul.
It’s never too late to find love anew,
Somebody to hold, yeah, that’s you,
In the spring of our hearts, we’ll bloom and grow,
With passion and fire, let the love flow.
Oh, the redhead with freckles, a pretty smile,
She lights up my world, makes it...
You’re never too old to find what feels right,
Through the whispers of autumn, I wander alone,
Searching for sunshine, a heart to call home.
There’s a spark in the twilight, I feel it grow,
A chance for a lover to steal my soul.
It’s never too late to find love anew,
Somebody to hold, yeah, that’s you,
In the spring of our hearts, we’ll bloom and grow,
With passion and fire, let the love flow.
Oh, the redhead with freckles, a pretty smile,
She lights up my world, makes it...
#aging
#love
133 reads
3 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
6th Dec 2024 1:34pm
6th Dec 2024 1:34pm
44
#LifeAsAWriter
110 reads
11 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
21st Oct 2024 5:03pm
21st Oct 2024 5:03pm
Scarlett Sunset on the Rise
#dirty
#erotic
#sensual #sex
#sensual #sex
279 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
20th Oct 2024 5:28pm
20th Oct 2024 5:28pm
Abomination Nation - Republipigism
#anger
#hate
#politics #racism
#politics #racism
139 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
12th Oct 2024 2:46pm
12th Oct 2024 2:46pm
you could have had me
#heartbroken
#love
#regret
194 reads
18 Comments
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