Her
Poem Published
Today 5:15pm
Today 5:15pm
Finding Home
Caged birds learn to fly
When wings are unfettered
Escape becomes freedom
Wilderness becomes home
Solitude finds peace
The heart finds happiness
Sleep is soothed
Dreams are realized
And I forgive you
When wings are unfettered
Escape becomes freedom
Wilderness becomes home
Solitude finds peace
The heart finds happiness
Sleep is soothed
Dreams are realized
And I forgive you
#family
#forgiveness
#TimeHeals
24 reads
9 Comments
Nizana
Lauryn
Lauryn
Poem Published
Yesterday 2:47pm
Yesterday 2:47pm
Among Ancestors
In the quiet of rooms of ancestors, she lay naked face down,
a conduit between generations, breathing in the air
captured by walls her grandfather built
before her own mother's birth. Her legs dangled
silky smooth. They gleamed with a doll-like grace.
The boy standing next to the bed remembers the
knitting needles his grandmother once held.
Her body is an hourglass made of porcelain,
a figurine still in silent dance. Her back curves
gracefully, like a sand dune shaped by the wind,
tapering from her broad shoulders made strong...
a conduit between generations, breathing in the air
captured by walls her grandfather built
before her own mother's birth. Her legs dangled
silky smooth. They gleamed with a doll-like grace.
The boy standing next to the bed remembers the
knitting needles his grandmother once held.
Her body is an hourglass made of porcelain,
a figurine still in silent dance. Her back curves
gracefully, like a sand dune shaped by the wind,
tapering from her broad shoulders made strong...
#beauty
#family
#FirstLove #memories
#FirstLove #memories
79 reads
8 Comments
Nic3456
Poem Published
15th Sep 2024 3:30pm
15th Sep 2024 3:30pm
Parents
Parents, oh the ones that care for you?
Parents, oh the ones that are supposed to love you?
Parents, oh yes those ones!
Was there something wrong with me? Where was your love?
Did it go out the window when you hit me?
Did it go out the window when you called me names?
But you love me?
Right?
The comfort you gave me was masked by your anger
The comfort... where?
The mask you put on when people were around
People thought you were great!
Behind closed doors,
The anger...
Towards me, each other...
Parents, oh the ones that are supposed to love you?
Parents, oh yes those ones!
Was there something wrong with me? Where was your love?
Did it go out the window when you hit me?
Did it go out the window when you called me names?
But you love me?
Right?
The comfort you gave me was masked by your anger
The comfort... where?
The mask you put on when people were around
People thought you were great!
Behind closed doors,
The anger...
Towards me, each other...
#anger
#confusion
#family
#father
#mother
30 reads
1 Comment
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
15th Sep 2024 12:10pm
15th Sep 2024 12:10pm
My family
My one regret is the bloodline I derived from
I’m not a pedigree or a monkey’s uncle
My father is a penniless swami
My mother is a peace creep
We live up the river,
near a civil war battle ground
When there is a downwind,
the water has a polluted, toxic smell
There are no fish in these waters
A few years ago, I needed a pair of glasses
Never received them,
No insurance, no money!
My mother bitch slapped me a few times,
thinking that would help straighten my eyes out
Now I have short eyes!
Fuck, she’s dumb.
My...
I’m not a pedigree or a monkey’s uncle
My father is a penniless swami
My mother is a peace creep
We live up the river,
near a civil war battle ground
When there is a downwind,
the water has a polluted, toxic smell
There are no fish in these waters
A few years ago, I needed a pair of glasses
Never received them,
No insurance, no money!
My mother bitch slapped me a few times,
thinking that would help straighten my eyes out
Now I have short eyes!
Fuck, she’s dumb.
My...
#family
#fiction
#poverty #satirical
#poverty #satirical
35 reads
9 Comments
oskar
Poem Published
13th Sep 2024 1:44pm
13th Sep 2024 1:44pm
it is all about children
It is all about children.
I know of a man who can be outspoken at times
he is also very rich, which can be an aber
the struggle to find meaning in life when
you can have all the physical things life offers
To be wealthy is a strain, do try it if you can
the man in mind also has a great sense of
wicket humor, which makes a so very human
He has the idea that people of means should
have as many children as they can
I agree the well-situated can afford to give
children a proper upbringing and a great education
and they...
I know of a man who can be outspoken at times
he is also very rich, which can be an aber
the struggle to find meaning in life when
you can have all the physical things life offers
To be wealthy is a strain, do try it if you can
the man in mind also has a great sense of
wicket humor, which makes a so very human
He has the idea that people of means should
have as many children as they can
I agree the well-situated can afford to give
children a proper upbringing and a great education
and they...
#brother
#childhood
#children
#daughter
#family
27 reads
0 Comments
Lowko
Jimi Tatz
Jimi Tatz
Poem Published
13th Sep 2024 11:42am
13th Sep 2024 11:42am
Gino & Poppy
It was the early 2010s, another pissed up night at the boozer.
A young Gino Corona was spending all of his dosh, like a loser!
He had long hair in a bun, and a wife-beater to show his guns.
Flossing a big chunky chain on his neck, to show his funds.
His wife and his kid at home, would wonder where he might be?
Either way she knew, he would be pissed up, somewhere out of his tree.
In the gritty town of Swansea, it was raw, rough and ready.
They lived in a grotty flat, in the moody streets of Sketty.
Poppy Fiasco was at home, with...
A young Gino Corona was spending all of his dosh, like a loser!
He had long hair in a bun, and a wife-beater to show his guns.
Flossing a big chunky chain on his neck, to show his funds.
His wife and his kid at home, would wonder where he might be?
Either way she knew, he would be pissed up, somewhere out of his tree.
In the gritty town of Swansea, it was raw, rough and ready.
They lived in a grotty flat, in the moody streets of Sketty.
Poppy Fiasco was at home, with...
#family
#fatherhood
#marriage
#memories
#responsibility
43 reads
1 Comment
drone
Poem Published
8th Sep 2024 10:03am
8th Sep 2024 10:03am
Parents
Is it not
Ideas
you wish to show
Is it not
Seeds
You wish to grow
In the barron lands
Where the children weep
for better days
That was promised
By those
Who birthed
A Promise
Ideas
you wish to show
Is it not
Seeds
You wish to grow
In the barron lands
Where the children weep
for better days
That was promised
By those
Who birthed
A Promise
#family
42 reads
0 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
5th Sep 2024 6:44pm
5th Sep 2024 6:44pm
Two Portraits
It has the air of tragedy.
Or maybe I'm too sensitive,
just like my brother said. The pair
of photograph portraits, acquisitive
of dust and filth, atop the air
conditioner inside what was
my brother's teenage room. The left
of her, my stepmother, who died
by suicide now sixteen years ago.
The right of him, my dad,
so newly dead, of cancer in what should
have been his 69th year born.
The both of them now shorn
of influence by death and time,
their worldly goods parcelled.
She in her picture looking up ...
Or maybe I'm too sensitive,
just like my brother said. The pair
of photograph portraits, acquisitive
of dust and filth, atop the air
conditioner inside what was
my brother's teenage room. The left
of her, my stepmother, who died
by suicide now sixteen years ago.
The right of him, my dad,
so newly dead, of cancer in what should
have been his 69th year born.
The both of them now shorn
of influence by death and time,
their worldly goods parcelled.
She in her picture looking up ...
#childhood
#family
#father #parent
#father #parent
52 reads
2 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
4th Sep 2024 11:29am
4th Sep 2024 11:29am
A boy and a gun
She came home from her job
Not a great job, but a job
Her husband has been unemployed for 3 years
Says he's looking for the right job to make a name for himself
They don't have enough money to feed themselves and their 8 year old son
They live in a one room apartment that has a horrible smell coming from the ceiling and the side wall near the closet
They all share the same bed
Mom sleeps in the middle since the boys father has been known to touch him inappropriately
There were numerous verbal & physical fights in the apartment
It was usually...
Not a great job, but a job
Her husband has been unemployed for 3 years
Says he's looking for the right job to make a name for himself
They don't have enough money to feed themselves and their 8 year old son
They live in a one room apartment that has a horrible smell coming from the ceiling and the side wall near the closet
They all share the same bed
Mom sleeps in the middle since the boys father has been known to touch him inappropriately
There were numerous verbal & physical fights in the apartment
It was usually...
#abuse
#DomesticViolence
#family
#poverty
#violence
70 reads
14 Comments
Her
Poem Published
31st Aug 2024 8:24pm
31st Aug 2024 8:24pm
Because Love Always Wins
And there they were
Every person I thought
Wronged me
Every person
I kicked out of my life
Every person
I can’t look in the eye
Each extending a hand
Ashamed
I retreated
Forgiveness
Doesn’t always
Come with a mirror
Thankfully
They turned it away
Understanding
That I can only
Take me in small doses
These days
Upon waking
The family I walked away from
Called
The man I hurt
Texted
The life I thought lost to me
Was returned
Every person I thought
Wronged me
Every person
I kicked out of my life
Every person
I can’t look in the eye
Each extending a hand
Ashamed
I retreated
Forgiveness
Doesn’t always
Come with a mirror
Thankfully
They turned it away
Understanding
That I can only
Take me in small doses
These days
Upon waking
The family I walked away from
Called
The man I hurt
Texted
The life I thought lost to me
Was returned
#family
#forgiveness
#love
#lover
#TimeHeals
146 reads
12 Comments
Louisamay
JaneyBean
JaneyBean
Poem Published
28th Aug 2024 2:12am
28th Aug 2024 2:12am
I want to go home
Take me back to my childhood home
Where the air hits your lungs and the noise fills your head
Let me bask in the warmth of family love
The familiar life and the easy acceptance
Where everyone sounds like me and I can understand them
And I get the nuances and sarcasm the little jokes
Someplace that I can grow old surrounded by peace
And I can look at the fields and flowers and old stone walls
And muse where one day where I would like to be scattered
I’ve had my adventure I’ve seen somewhere new
Now I just want to go home
Where the air hits your lungs and the noise fills your head
Let me bask in the warmth of family love
The familiar life and the easy acceptance
Where everyone sounds like me and I can understand them
And I get the nuances and sarcasm the little jokes
Someplace that I can grow old surrounded by peace
And I can look at the fields and flowers and old stone walls
And muse where one day where I would like to be scattered
I’ve had my adventure I’ve seen somewhere new
Now I just want to go home
#family
#home
#love
#memories
#peace
52 reads
4 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
25th Aug 2024 11:32pm
25th Aug 2024 11:32pm
Gonna slap my pecker
#dirty
#family
#lyrics
#sex
#funny
194 reads
5 Comments
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