Poems About Na Po Wri Mo 2022 Seeking Honest Critique
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Thetravelingfairy
Poem Published
27th Apr 2022 3:53pm
27th Apr 2022 3:53pm
Butterfly Tights
i wish i knew how to tell you what’s wrong with me..
your eyes are windows, i can see the questions inside
and they like to stay there, don’t they?
having said that, i am misunderstood
people circle my waking hours like moths to a street lamp
they are attracted
am i selfish for arousing it?
trying to catch me is all the fun
some call it playing “hard to get”
but i just love a good game
and boredom is my enemy.
i scare myself with this brain of mine
trapped in a doll-like body, so
unassuming
so i...
your eyes are windows, i can see the questions inside
and they like to stay there, don’t they?
having said that, i am misunderstood
people circle my waking hours like moths to a street lamp
they are attracted
am i selfish for arousing it?
trying to catch me is all the fun
some call it playing “hard to get”
but i just love a good game
and boredom is my enemy.
i scare myself with this brain of mine
trapped in a doll-like body, so
unassuming
so i...
#dark
#butterfly
#misunderstood
#confusion
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javalini
Poem Published
27th Apr 2022 11:36am
27th Apr 2022 11:36am
SECRET
i am something whispered
i couldn't quite hear
and i am wanting to know
exactly what was said and why
something muttered
in a foreign tongue
with a smirk and a sly look
and giggling and shushing
when i come near
and i can only guess
and check myself
and speculate
with what little i think i heard
and tell myself it's nothing,
it doesn't matter what was said
because i am simply who and what i am
and that, my friend, is that
and it is enough
but it never satisfies
because i want...
i couldn't quite hear
and i am wanting to know
exactly what was said and why
something muttered
in a foreign tongue
with a smirk and a sly look
and giggling and shushing
when i come near
and i can only guess
and check myself
and speculate
with what little i think i heard
and tell myself it's nothing,
it doesn't matter what was said
because i am simply who and what i am
and that, my friend, is that
and it is enough
but it never satisfies
because i want...
#SelfReflection
#SelfDiscovery
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Cipher_O
Poem Published
27th Apr 2022 7:12am
27th Apr 2022 7:12am
Mythologize All
Perception of the world
Is real
Whirling dynamic vortices
In a prismatic jewel
Swirled in energetic forces
Awaiting directional
Conduction
In a consolidation
Of formation & function
Driven by intention
Derived from intense focus of intent
Sent from an internal dimension
To an external dimension
Across veils swaying
Speaking soothe saying
Corridors
&
Doors
Psychonauts
&
Explorers
Magicaeons mythologizing
Selves disguised ...
Is real
Whirling dynamic vortices
In a prismatic jewel
Swirled in energetic forces
Awaiting directional
Conduction
In a consolidation
Of formation & function
Driven by intention
Derived from intense focus of intent
Sent from an internal dimension
To an external dimension
Across veils swaying
Speaking soothe saying
Corridors
&
Doors
Psychonauts
&
Explorers
Magicaeons mythologizing
Selves disguised ...
#shadows
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Wafflenose
Ellie
Ellie
Poem Published
26th Apr 2022 8:51pm
26th Apr 2022 8:51pm
Clickbait
Copy and paste this status
if you care about cancer;
if you think education matters;
if you like animals.
Don't just share: you have to copy and paste
so that the deliberate errors will be reproduced
and this post can be tracked.
Can I find five friends who will re-post this
in solidarity with mental health?
Only 3% will do so: bet it won't be you!
If you care about me, you will do this,
and so, by extension,
if I don't see your post, you obviously don't care.
Write me a phrase about how we first met,
but don't...
if you care about cancer;
if you think education matters;
if you like animals.
Don't just share: you have to copy and paste
so that the deliberate errors will be reproduced
and this post can be tracked.
Can I find five friends who will re-post this
in solidarity with mental health?
Only 3% will do so: bet it won't be you!
If you care about me, you will do this,
and so, by extension,
if I don't see your post, you obviously don't care.
Write me a phrase about how we first met,
but don't...
#identity
#technology
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Sex_on_the_Joe
Joe-D
Joe-D
Poem Published
26th Apr 2022 8:31pm
26th Apr 2022 8:31pm
Soliloquies
She undressed her thoughts
Nonchalantly
In the comfort
of an audience
She was oblivious she had
The deafening pitch
of her vocal parade
Echoed through the ambiance
As if her usher was sad
Tears could be heard
Through the shuffling of her snots
As if the pains of her affliction
Eroded through her diaphragm
Pushing her stomach in knots
She waddled in a crooked way
Her ankle collapsing
Along their inebriated lines
Her phone was bright with envy
As its characters were...
Nonchalantly
In the comfort
of an audience
She was oblivious she had
The deafening pitch
of her vocal parade
Echoed through the ambiance
As if her usher was sad
Tears could be heard
Through the shuffling of her snots
As if the pains of her affliction
Eroded through her diaphragm
Pushing her stomach in knots
She waddled in a crooked way
Her ankle collapsing
Along their inebriated lines
Her phone was bright with envy
As its characters were...
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wallyroo92
Poem Published
26th Apr 2022 3:08pm
26th Apr 2022 3:08pm
Can't Resist
With every single note from that bass line
The groove seems to grow little by little in the heart
That tone hones the rhythm of the soul
It’s hard to resist
There’s times when your mind won’t disagree
Even if the temptation may be a little too much
Giving in and surrendering in whim
One just can’t resist
But I loved to play along to each song
It was my kind of thing whenever it was happening
The music would pull me in because
I couldn’t resist
And looking back, that was a very good year
Diana playing in my...
The groove seems to grow little by little in the heart
That tone hones the rhythm of the soul
It’s hard to resist
There’s times when your mind won’t disagree
Even if the temptation may be a little too much
Giving in and surrendering in whim
One just can’t resist
But I loved to play along to each song
It was my kind of thing whenever it was happening
The music would pull me in because
I couldn’t resist
And looking back, that was a very good year
Diana playing in my...
#love
#temptation
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Thetravelingfairy
Poem Published
26th Apr 2022 1:21pm
26th Apr 2022 1:21pm
erased
i might tear these sheets before the end of this.
another crunched up outpouring of unspoken emotions.
just words, really.
what meanings do they hold? i forget them.
so, they never unfold.
yes, they abandon me, leaving a simple shell of a mentally disturbed woman.
but “she’s already skeletal,” much like my diaries. bare bones slathered in ink.
but oh? some quondam memories, i do recall.
if i zoom in with serpent eyes, and feel the crevices of margin lines..
a faintness of graphite, perfectly sketched.
...
another crunched up outpouring of unspoken emotions.
just words, really.
what meanings do they hold? i forget them.
so, they never unfold.
yes, they abandon me, leaving a simple shell of a mentally disturbed woman.
but “she’s already skeletal,” much like my diaries. bare bones slathered in ink.
but oh? some quondam memories, i do recall.
if i zoom in with serpent eyes, and feel the crevices of margin lines..
a faintness of graphite, perfectly sketched.
...
#memories
#MentalHealth
#WritingPoetry
#emotions
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javalini
Poem Published
26th Apr 2022 12:16pm
26th Apr 2022 12:16pm
TRUTHS
open the book
turn to Isiah 7:10
to Paul's
Letter to the Corinthians
to Revelations 65:17
to Suzuki's page 58
Tao's Chapter 56
Mishna 1:5
open the
heart chakra
hymnal to
number 362
holy, holy, holy
focus
midway
on Nichiren's
Gohonson
chant
devotion
to the Lotus Sutra
cast the spell
for new beginnings
with right intention
when the moon is new
and pray only in
Arabic
at five
specific times
a day ...
turn to Isiah 7:10
to Paul's
Letter to the Corinthians
to Revelations 65:17
to Suzuki's page 58
Tao's Chapter 56
Mishna 1:5
open the
heart chakra
hymnal to
number 362
holy, holy, holy
focus
midway
on Nichiren's
Gohonson
chant
devotion
to the Lotus Sutra
cast the spell
for new beginnings
with right intention
when the moon is new
and pray only in
Arabic
at five
specific times
a day ...
#religion
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Cipher_O
Poem Published
26th Apr 2022 7:09am
26th Apr 2022 7:09am
Fortune & Glory
Slow motion scarlet
Shadow
Outlet
Of
Ink
Silent surreal
Falls
Into wisped
Sands
Of
Unfriendly
Foreign
Lands
Splashed
In the instant
Of an
Eye
Lash
Into fragments
Of crash
Course collision
Suspended
For inspection
Of
Vector
By the inspector
Of memory
Remembering
Worlds
Of death
Dismembered
Endured
&
Embered
Decembered
In ...
Shadow
Outlet
Of
Ink
Silent surreal
Falls
Into wisped
Sands
Of
Unfriendly
Foreign
Lands
Splashed
In the instant
Of an
Eye
Lash
Into fragments
Of crash
Course collision
Suspended
For inspection
Of
Vector
By the inspector
Of memory
Remembering
Worlds
Of death
Dismembered
Endured
&
Embered
Decembered
In ...
#shadows
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Eerie
Poem Published
26th Apr 2022 1:21am
26th Apr 2022 1:21am
Clean-up in Aisle 7
Heart pounding anxiety—
But no mental chaos.
Chemo didn’t knock on my heart,
it burst in like the KoolAid man
with a “fuck you!”.
Ventricular meltdown, seeing stars,
is this the time I cross into
the next dimension: always living
in the space between here and there.
I’d say it’s exhilarating,
but who really wants to cardiac arrest
in the middle of the supermarket.
How embarrassing.
But no mental chaos.
Chemo didn’t knock on my heart,
it burst in like the KoolAid man
with a “fuck you!”.
Ventricular meltdown, seeing stars,
is this the time I cross into
the next dimension: always living
in the space between here and there.
I’d say it’s exhilarating,
but who really wants to cardiac arrest
in the middle of the supermarket.
How embarrassing.
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cabcool
Poem Published
25th Apr 2022 10:23pm
25th Apr 2022 10:23pm
there is a wind
i.
there is a wind that blows
upon my face;
knows none but i her charms
how to embrace,
a cooling font unto
my countenance.
pronto! she saves me from
mal-circumstance.
ii.
there is a wind of change
that shakes the world:
strange marvels that before
the eyes unfold;
stark differences twixt
man and savage beast
fixt by God’s Hand, demeaned
to remnant least.
iii.
there is a wind of rage
that dwarfs the hills;
page after page the tall
green trees it kills.
the thorn bird...
there is a wind that blows
upon my face;
knows none but i her charms
how to embrace,
a cooling font unto
my countenance.
pronto! she saves me from
mal-circumstance.
ii.
there is a wind of change
that shakes the world:
strange marvels that before
the eyes unfold;
stark differences twixt
man and savage beast
fixt by God’s Hand, demeaned
to remnant least.
iii.
there is a wind of rage
that dwarfs the hills;
page after page the tall
green trees it kills.
the thorn bird...
#hope
#storm
#wind
#LifeCycle
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wallyroo92
Poem Published
25th Apr 2022 8:51pm
25th Apr 2022 8:51pm
Fallin'
Fallin’
In love
Can be confusing at times
Depending where in life we are
Depending on the situation
Or what circumstances might be
You can feel like you’re inside an orb of ecstasy
In the middle of commotion that seems like it has no end
At least for me…
But then when the dust settled
I was able to see far and wide
Clear
With a better sense of who I was and where I was going
Alicia’s sound seemed to echo the emotions
The roller coaster
The ups and down in that wild ride
But in the end ...
In love
Can be confusing at times
Depending where in life we are
Depending on the situation
Or what circumstances might be
You can feel like you’re inside an orb of ecstasy
In the middle of commotion that seems like it has no end
At least for me…
But then when the dust settled
I was able to see far and wide
Clear
With a better sense of who I was and where I was going
Alicia’s sound seemed to echo the emotions
The roller coaster
The ups and down in that wild ride
But in the end ...
#love
#FallingInLove
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