Poems About Emptiness by Top Critiquers
#emptiness
Poems about emptiness by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
deadwolf
Poem Published
12th Feb 2024 12:57pm
12th Feb 2024 12:57pm
How Can I tell You
How can I tell you,
how I am
When you ask, “How are you”
or
“How has it been”
When everything often feels dark around me,
There is no easy answer for it,
If I were to answer truthfully,
honestly about everything,
Your mind would be raped,
Afraid to ask me ever again
So, I put forth mine best smile
The only smile I can muster,
Sayin, “alright”
Before quickly turning the subject to you,
And how you have been
So we do not need to talk about me;
Indeed, still waters can run deep
```~~~... ... ...~~~``` ...
how I am
When you ask, “How are you”
or
“How has it been”
When everything often feels dark around me,
There is no easy answer for it,
If I were to answer truthfully,
honestly about everything,
Your mind would be raped,
Afraid to ask me ever again
So, I put forth mine best smile
The only smile I can muster,
Sayin, “alright”
Before quickly turning the subject to you,
And how you have been
So we do not need to talk about me;
Indeed, still waters can run deep
```~~~... ... ...~~~``` ...
#love
#dark
#emptiness
175 reads
5 Comments
monovox128
Poem Published
18th Apr 2024 5:26am
18th Apr 2024 5:26am
THE LONELY ONE
The lonely person often walks unnoticed
with unsteady step and eyes unfocused,
failing to keep pace within the crowd.
An approach of reluctance to everything,
like a crutch under the arm that stings,
maintaining balance amidst turbulence.
Seeing, yet, did not recognize nor care,
as if that person was as normal as you,
beneath the shrouded cloak they wear.
Loneliness can feed on pure isolation,
depression its friend, little is noticed,
there's signals, a lack of communication.
Loneliness has its very own...
with unsteady step and eyes unfocused,
failing to keep pace within the crowd.
An approach of reluctance to everything,
like a crutch under the arm that stings,
maintaining balance amidst turbulence.
Seeing, yet, did not recognize nor care,
as if that person was as normal as you,
beneath the shrouded cloak they wear.
Loneliness can feed on pure isolation,
depression its friend, little is noticed,
there's signals, a lack of communication.
Loneliness has its very own...
#bittersweet
#emptiness
#hope
#loneliness
#rejection
58 reads
11 Comments
Grace
IDryad
IDryad
Poem Published
14th Aug 2023 10:59am
14th Aug 2023 10:59am
A Starkness
One fallen, a likeness left behind
on ironed paper or screen
taunting one that still lives
as if one could die in far off land
there's no song in poetry
no rest from constant thoughts
no words carved intricate enough
to measure breaths of life exhaled
there's power in thoughts
Yet stuck in one place
one cannot gather beauty
in alphabets strung together like a pearl necklace
so one ponder on what could be
or the results of actions not taken
the mask of faces in smiles
rictus on face still alive.
on ironed paper or screen
taunting one that still lives
as if one could die in far off land
there's no song in poetry
no rest from constant thoughts
no words carved intricate enough
to measure breaths of life exhaled
there's power in thoughts
Yet stuck in one place
one cannot gather beauty
in alphabets strung together like a pearl necklace
so one ponder on what could be
or the results of actions not taken
the mask of faces in smiles
rictus on face still alive.
#despair
#denial
#emptiness
103 reads
4 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
28th Sep 2022 10:04pm
28th Sep 2022 10:04pm
Beating Up Dead Horses
So you want to beat this dead horse till you’re all hoarse?
Go ahead and be my guest
I thought this case was closed but I guess you forgot so…
Get it off your chest
again
and
again
I mean it’s exhausting watching you go around in circles
Let alone the isolation, it’s becoming quite the predicament
You’re slowly putting yourself in loneliness unknowingly
And when you find all the emptiness it’ll be your detriment
Perhaps you’re not ready to let go of the hate and hurt ...
Go ahead and be my guest
I thought this case was closed but I guess you forgot so…
Get it off your chest
again
and
again
I mean it’s exhausting watching you go around in circles
Let alone the isolation, it’s becoming quite the predicament
You’re slowly putting yourself in loneliness unknowingly
And when you find all the emptiness it’ll be your detriment
Perhaps you’re not ready to let go of the hate and hurt ...
#sadness
#hope
#emptiness #apathy
#emptiness #apathy
249 reads
2 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
26th Jul 2022 4:49am
26th Jul 2022 4:49am
Reflection,
It's reciprocity's mirror
Of alternate realities
Which gives the glance that guarantees
To make this dear life clearer,
And the portal between the two
Is the wavelet surface ripple
Showing, like a participle,
What we should or should not do.
But if to this a man is blind
His soul will ever steep in hate
And his definition most unkind
Of what is, and, what is not great.
It's the golden rule to unbind
Great apes from an unkind fate!
Of alternate realities
Which gives the glance that guarantees
To make this dear life clearer,
And the portal between the two
Is the wavelet surface ripple
Showing, like a participle,
What we should or should not do.
But if to this a man is blind
His soul will ever steep in hate
And his definition most unkind
Of what is, and, what is not great.
It's the golden rule to unbind
Great apes from an unkind fate!
#MentalHealth
#learning
#emptiness #fear
#emptiness #fear
224 reads
3 Comments
Kinkwizard_95
Poem Published
5th Mar 2024 8:03am
5th Mar 2024 8:03am
I can’t cope, no joke
I feel lost, worn down
Smushed into the ground
It’s impossible to turn
This frown upside down
I feel scared and afraid
Running around a maze
Swept up in the madness
Beginning to fade
I’m exhausted, I feel heavy
Like I’m ready
To be buried
Can’t this shit end already?
No hope or dope
Will realign the scope
Of feeling as though
I can actually cope
Smushed into the ground
It’s impossible to turn
This frown upside down
I feel scared and afraid
Running around a maze
Swept up in the madness
Beginning to fade
I’m exhausted, I feel heavy
Like I’m ready
To be buried
Can’t this shit end already?
No hope or dope
Will realign the scope
Of feeling as though
I can actually cope
#LifeStruggles
#confessional
#despair
#FeelingLost
#emptiness
167 reads
5 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
25th Sep 2023 2:13am
25th Sep 2023 2:13am
Black Hole Heart
My black hole heart
will suck in every ounce of love you give
and still be
empty
Once your acts of kindness
cross my event horizon
no matter how monumental your efforts
they will be crushed by the gravity of my need
into an infinitesimal
meaningless
speck
until you are
ultimately
frustrated to tears
and leave me
bereft
.
will suck in every ounce of love you give
and still be
empty
Once your acts of kindness
cross my event horizon
no matter how monumental your efforts
they will be crushed by the gravity of my need
into an infinitesimal
meaningless
speck
until you are
ultimately
frustrated to tears
and leave me
bereft
.
#shame
#myself
#despair #emptiness
#despair #emptiness
381 reads
12 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
22nd Sep 2018 3:08am
22nd Sep 2018 3:08am
Remembering The Sky
ER CRITICAL CARE TRAUMA UNIT A
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11:34 am
09-21-18
Chaos of deafening screams
Reality has fled, left with only daydreams
Here I stand in mental confusion
Tears of disillusion
God help me please
Souls dropping today to their knees
Anyone have a tissue
Blood, guts, no glory, no wishes
As a nurse, is my existence mended into someone else’s pain
Last breath, last rites, never to feel or see the rain
God, I look to you each and every day
People have love, faith, yet, for the...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11:34 am
09-21-18
Chaos of deafening screams
Reality has fled, left with only daydreams
Here I stand in mental confusion
Tears of disillusion
God help me please
Souls dropping today to their knees
Anyone have a tissue
Blood, guts, no glory, no wishes
As a nurse, is my existence mended into someone else’s pain
Last breath, last rites, never to feel or see the rain
God, I look to you each and every day
People have love, faith, yet, for the...
#sadness
#despair
#emptiness #apathy
#emptiness #apathy
899 reads
5 Comments
KristinaX
Poem Published
11th Apr 2024 2:30am
11th Apr 2024 2:30am
Architecture of suffering
The darkness is thickening...
And the darkness craves bodies...
The world is filled with fragments of desires.
In the incomprehensibility of sinful thoughts
There is a limit assigned to purity...
The point of no return happens early...
Canvases of bodies...
With strokes of words - subjects of secrets,
Drowning in the pulsation of hidden moments
And the foreignness of a crumpled dream...
Dreams are cut... nightmares
To the touch...
And the darkness craves bodies...
The world is filled with fragments of desires.
In the incomprehensibility of sinful thoughts
There is a limit assigned to purity...
The point of no return happens early...
Canvases of bodies...
With strokes of words - subjects of secrets,
Drowning in the pulsation of hidden moments
And the foreignness of a crumpled dream...
Dreams are cut... nightmares
To the touch...
#dark
#secrets
#suffering
#emptiness
#BDSM
204 reads
37 Comments
adagio
Poem Published
Yesterday 1:43am
Yesterday 1:43am
Of Madness and Saffron - with Grace
In the labyrinth of my mind echoing footsteps
rebelling against the lords of insanity
dark academia from Mozart to Beethoven
like skulls with candles and ravens with keys
as your flesh becomes the rapture of my love
with decadent essence of madness and saffron
listening to the echoes of your steps
walking away on sludge towards wisdom light
against cacophonous sounds of dark protest
stay with me says lustful inky darkness
rains of blackness no velvety softness
and you drown in soul-searing loving
of the insidious kind.
rebelling against the lords of insanity
dark academia from Mozart to Beethoven
like skulls with candles and ravens with keys
as your flesh becomes the rapture of my love
with decadent essence of madness and saffron
listening to the echoes of your steps
walking away on sludge towards wisdom light
against cacophonous sounds of dark protest
stay with me says lustful inky darkness
rains of blackness no velvety softness
and you drown in soul-searing loving
of the insidious kind.
#anger
#collaboration
#dark #emptiness
#dark #emptiness
50 reads
6 Comments
buddhakitty
Poem Published
16th Sep 2023 11:44pm
16th Sep 2023 11:44pm
we all endure suffering in different ways
poaching a couple of
eggs
heavy butter on the
toast
orange juice poured
staring at fork on the
table
the terrible disease of
waiting
an ache in every
bite
a war in every
thought
turn off the chance
of any miracle like
the...
eggs
heavy butter on the
toast
orange juice poured
staring at fork on the
table
the terrible disease of
waiting
an ache in every
bite
a war in every
thought
turn off the chance
of any miracle like
the...
#emptiness
124 reads
10 Comments
CasketSharpe
Poem Published
30th Jul 2021 6:24am
30th Jul 2021 6:24am
Mr. Killa Stank Stank (Knife Sleep)
#dark
#humankind
#frustration #emptiness
#frustration #emptiness
393 reads
9 Comments
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