Submissions by Poetryman
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DRUGS POEM
Published
4th Feb 2023 9:44am
4th Feb 2023 9:44am
Eternity is Cruel
Did you mean to take your life
Or were you just dying to get high?
To rise above the shadows holding you down
Were the memories more than you could bare?
Were your fears a spider web you couldn't share?
I would change everything on the day we met
Would have made you my lover that afternoon
Taken you to my apartment to erase 40 years of pain
All those years of friendship Flushed down the drain
Wouldn't that have been a better path for us
Than the dark road of nods and tears drowning your dreams?
If only I could go back and...
Or were you just dying to get high?
To rise above the shadows holding you down
Were the memories more than you could bare?
Were your fears a spider web you couldn't share?
I would change everything on the day we met
Would have made you my lover that afternoon
Taken you to my apartment to erase 40 years of pain
All those years of friendship Flushed down the drain
Wouldn't that have been a better path for us
Than the dark road of nods and tears drowning your dreams?
If only I could go back and...
#death
40 reads
4 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
12th Sep 2022 1:44am
12th Sep 2022 1:44am
Inspire Life
You inspire my soul in so many ways
Lifting my heart and raising my spirit
No small resurrection occurred through your words
Which alone could have saved my declining life
Breathing breath into my rotting stiff corpse
Aching near broken cold bones
Chattering like skeletons dangling in Winter's winds
Almost pushed me into the afterlife
Until you inspired the essence of whatever was left of lonely old me
To embrace the love you wrapped around my silent heart
Till the beat once again pulsed with warm adrenaline ...
Lifting my heart and raising my spirit
No small resurrection occurred through your words
Which alone could have saved my declining life
Breathing breath into my rotting stiff corpse
Aching near broken cold bones
Chattering like skeletons dangling in Winter's winds
Almost pushed me into the afterlife
Until you inspired the essence of whatever was left of lonely old me
To embrace the love you wrapped around my silent heart
Till the beat once again pulsed with warm adrenaline ...
#inspirational
119 reads
5 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
30th Aug 2022 7:56pm
30th Aug 2022 7:56pm
Ashes to Dust
Your father gave you no grave
Just as he gave you no life
He took my books of poetry
and like you turned them to dust
But still you have a resting place
Where love and warmth give comfort
For you are forever buried deep within my heart
and if I can carry you to Heaven
When my time comes to rise
I will pray to the Lord
I will get right up in his face
I will let him know if he won't let you in
He might as well send me straight to Hell
Where I can shield your light from eternal darkness
Where I can keep the fire from your skin...
Just as he gave you no life
He took my books of poetry
and like you turned them to dust
But still you have a resting place
Where love and warmth give comfort
For you are forever buried deep within my heart
and if I can carry you to Heaven
When my time comes to rise
I will pray to the Lord
I will get right up in his face
I will let him know if he won't let you in
He might as well send me straight to Hell
Where I can shield your light from eternal darkness
Where I can keep the fire from your skin...
#love
#forgiveness
#death
#suicide
#fate
241 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Aug 2022 11:03am
7th Aug 2022 11:03am
I Assumed We Were Friends
Comforting our asses in a tight space
Is it the whole of our asses that seeks a comfortable place or the idividual you and me?
For surely what goes around comes around to stink in one's face.
You and me, thought we knew until all that we knew
was an assumption brought us to a stinky end. One end or two? I assume it's just you. For your fowl mouth eruption was not mine to create.
Left on unequal terms i can only presume, if there's blame to get spread, what comes my way will only get sent back around.
Is it the whole of our asses that seeks a comfortable place or the idividual you and me?
For surely what goes around comes around to stink in one's face.
You and me, thought we knew until all that we knew
was an assumption brought us to a stinky end. One end or two? I assume it's just you. For your fowl mouth eruption was not mine to create.
Left on unequal terms i can only presume, if there's blame to get spread, what comes my way will only get sent back around.
#friendship
144 reads
2 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
2nd Jun 2022 4:48pm
2nd Jun 2022 4:48pm
See Yourself
Sometimes I become deeply emotional about things that I think others do not. I have always felt this way, but more so the older I get. I am having one of those moments right now so I thought I should share while I am emerged in the moment.
This will likely turn off people who are not as emotional as I or who spend far too much time rejecting emotion, but this relates to the current state of the world and as part of this world, I believe you should hear me out.
I hope you have an opinion of yourself and others that is generally positive. Self-esteem is everything, but there is an...
This will likely turn off people who are not as emotional as I or who spend far too much time rejecting emotion, but this relates to the current state of the world and as part of this world, I believe you should hear me out.
I hope you have an opinion of yourself and others that is generally positive. Self-esteem is everything, but there is an...
#SelfWorth
251 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th May 2022 4:31am
5th May 2022 4:31am
I heard it's a man's world
It's a man's world
But it would be nothing
Without a woman or a girl
To rape
Yes it's a man's world
Where you can be guilty of these sins
And be elected to the presidency
Or appointed a Supreme Court Justice
By a fellow rapist in the white house oval oriface...
And if you don't get off your ass and vote
You will have no one but yourself to blame...
No more rights if you're a woman or if you're gay
No more marriage if you are anything other than white and straight
Yes it's a man's world, but only if you're a white man ...
But it would be nothing
Without a woman or a girl
To rape
Yes it's a man's world
Where you can be guilty of these sins
And be elected to the presidency
Or appointed a Supreme Court Justice
By a fellow rapist in the white house oval oriface...
And if you don't get off your ass and vote
You will have no one but yourself to blame...
No more rights if you're a woman or if you're gay
No more marriage if you are anything other than white and straight
Yes it's a man's world, but only if you're a white man ...
#inequality
245 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
28th Apr 2022 6:11pm
28th Apr 2022 6:11pm
Black Hole
Life: a descending spiral
A distant horizon of blazing rays
Lifetimes spent chasing rainbows
Illusions of colorful playgrounds
Flushed in a swirl of time wasted
A minutiae of tsunomic manure
Corked into constipation by pablum
and deception disguised as eternity
All the time the truth promises freedom
Yet can deliver no more than hope
But where is the value in an empty hour glass
Filled with an air of suffocating dreams
Time standing still in a vacuum
Unable to escape the event
of the final horizon I will see
A distant horizon of blazing rays
Lifetimes spent chasing rainbows
Illusions of colorful playgrounds
Flushed in a swirl of time wasted
A minutiae of tsunomic manure
Corked into constipation by pablum
and deception disguised as eternity
All the time the truth promises freedom
Yet can deliver no more than hope
But where is the value in an empty hour glass
Filled with an air of suffocating dreams
Time standing still in a vacuum
Unable to escape the event
of the final horizon I will see
#fate
#karma
163 reads
1 Comment
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
4th Mar 2022 6:50pm
4th Mar 2022 6:50pm
Repetitious Vision
Do you see the beast?
Are your windows still shuttered?
Perhaps believing in peace is not enough
Perhaps believing in something else is the answer
Perhaps you should open your windows
to enlighten your darkened room
Reconsider the seven deadly sins...
Only within and without can you see
Open your WIndows
Are your windows still shuttered?
Perhaps believing in peace is not enough
Perhaps believing in something else is the answer
Perhaps you should open your windows
to enlighten your darkened room
Reconsider the seven deadly sins...
Only within and without can you see
Open your WIndows
#spiritual
190 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Mar 2022 2:37pm
1st Mar 2022 2:37pm
Nometaphor
While Beastly Bear prepares the battlefield
Where arms are gettin' loaded to get blown away
The teller of false prophesies reflects in dejavu
Bleeding replicated lies from his brimstone throne
The other brother slithers silently in hidden trinity
Windows unopened shattered by his breath of fire
Broken by the promises of the hissing liar
Turning back the pages of the chapter you already know
I've lost count how many times I fucking told ya so
Where arms are gettin' loaded to get blown away
The teller of false prophesies reflects in dejavu
Bleeding replicated lies from his brimstone throne
The other brother slithers silently in hidden trinity
Windows unopened shattered by his breath of fire
Broken by the promises of the hissing liar
Turning back the pages of the chapter you already know
I've lost count how many times I fucking told ya so
#apocalypse
181 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
6th Dec 2021 7:28am
6th Dec 2021 7:28am
Crushing an Angel's Wings
Stripping away her feathers
Like plucking a chicken's flight
Uncaring if her heart breaks
or knows the truth, the ruthlessness
With which you walled me off
Does she think it was my choice?
Did you tell her hurtful lies?
I knew you were a monster
When I heard her silent screams
December 4th was your coldest cut
After weeks of torturing two hearts
What have you done to her
After all she has been through
Raping her mind with you sinful rage
For your own failings in her raising
How do I heal the wounds
Done to your...
Like plucking a chicken's flight
Uncaring if her heart breaks
or knows the truth, the ruthlessness
With which you walled me off
Does she think it was my choice?
Did you tell her hurtful lies?
I knew you were a monster
When I heard her silent screams
December 4th was your coldest cut
After weeks of torturing two hearts
What have you done to her
After all she has been through
Raping her mind with you sinful rage
For your own failings in her raising
How do I heal the wounds
Done to your...
#heartbroken
278 reads
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Oct 2021 10:53am
19th Oct 2021 10:53am
Let There Be White
Blotted out emotions
Seeping in the cracks
Dripping into holes
Leaving white spaces
Of a stainless background
Until there is nothing left
but light...
Seeping in the cracks
Dripping into holes
Leaving white spaces
Of a stainless background
Until there is nothing left
but light...
#LifeCycle
247 reads
5 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
10th Oct 2021 4:54pm
10th Oct 2021 4:54pm
Failed Poet
Metaphor upon mystery
Meaning veiled beneath cloaks of mist
Spun in shadowy threads of a story
Re-writing tales of mispercieved history
Worst nightmares realized in clarity
That poetry is simply misunderstood vagueries
of analogies twisted in pretzeline similies
Peeing the metaphorical bed that I made
on a matress of nails piercing flesh where I laid
Yet when the real pain of life becomes too much experience
My heart goes silent and my quill will not drip
Not a drop of ink can express this thing
This monster, this...
Meaning veiled beneath cloaks of mist
Spun in shadowy threads of a story
Re-writing tales of mispercieved history
Worst nightmares realized in clarity
That poetry is simply misunderstood vagueries
of analogies twisted in pretzeline similies
Peeing the metaphorical bed that I made
on a matress of nails piercing flesh where I laid
Yet when the real pain of life becomes too much experience
My heart goes silent and my quill will not drip
Not a drop of ink can express this thing
This monster, this...
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
504 reads
3 Comments
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