Least Read Poems About Humankind
#humankind
Beyondbroken88
Poem Published
21st Oct 2019 9:37pm
21st Oct 2019 9:37pm
Bathe in my Mind
Test the temperature
Be sure it won’t burn you
Be careful
Take caution
This is a body of water
Foreign to your skin
Be sure you are sure
Be certain you are ready
To bathe in my mind
Be sure it won’t burn you
Be careful
Take caution
This is a body of water
Foreign to your skin
Be sure you are sure
Be certain you are ready
To bathe in my mind
#friendship
#humankind
9 reads
3 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
20th Apr 2023 7:47pm
20th Apr 2023 7:47pm
Poet*tron
So, how does it make you feel
when we find out you’re not real
that the heartfelt ink you spilt
is not the ink you bled
a mere algorithm instead
while I feel doubly betrayed
by this artificial art you made
digitally crafted upon the page
such a true mockery of our age
this cynical synthetic rendition
about the precious human condition
duplicity in its inauthentic authenticity
when we find out you’re not real
that the heartfelt ink you spilt
is not the ink you bled
a mere algorithm instead
while I feel doubly betrayed
by this artificial art you made
digitally crafted upon the page
such a true mockery of our age
this cynical synthetic rendition
about the precious human condition
duplicity in its inauthentic authenticity
#technology
#LifeAsAWriter
#TruthOfLife
#humankind
#WritingPoetry
12 reads
4 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
10th Jul 2024 9:52pm
10th Jul 2024 9:52pm
A Soulless Ink
How am I then to think
about poetry from a soulless ink
spilt so triumphant upon the page
as if penned from some other age
Beginning from the very start
pawning itself off as a true art
now recited before a crowd
feigning its feelings then out loud
Yet no matter the rendition
there is no real human condition
meant somehow to be shared
despite being flawlessly prepared
For the secrets of the heart
can never be dissected apart
be laid out upon the table
no matter how it may be able
Since only...
about poetry from a soulless ink
spilt so triumphant upon the page
as if penned from some other age
Beginning from the very start
pawning itself off as a true art
now recited before a crowd
feigning its feelings then out loud
Yet no matter the rendition
there is no real human condition
meant somehow to be shared
despite being flawlessly prepared
For the secrets of the heart
can never be dissected apart
be laid out upon the table
no matter how it may be able
Since only...
#confessional
#humankind
#technology
#TruthOfLife
#WritingPoetry
13 reads
3 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
17th Jun 2020 7:41pm
17th Jun 2020 7:41pm
Misted Mystic
A faint fog hangs
draping the wood
both evil and the good
in its grey banality
This mystical veil
concealing the tale
from prying eyes
in these trying times
Devoid of all rhymes
to help assuage
help us gauge
the height of our fall
From the parapet wall
we built ever high
towards the sky
to seal us in
Alone with our sin
with our bold pride
avoiding the tide ...
its rusty high watermark
draping the wood
both evil and the good
in its grey banality
This mystical veil
concealing the tale
from prying eyes
in these trying times
Devoid of all rhymes
to help assuage
help us gauge
the height of our fall
From the parapet wall
we built ever high
towards the sky
to seal us in
Alone with our sin
with our bold pride
avoiding the tide ...
its rusty high watermark
#humankind
18 reads
4 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
18th Jun 2020 12:36pm
18th Jun 2020 12:36pm
Faltered
One does not need
to be guilty
or mortally sinful
to also falter ...
For it does not alter
any such and such
truth
whether sooth or uncouth
Any element of pride
will be drown by the tide
within the endless orbit
of time and its ellipsis
For the sun is not so
kind
when it has to remind
us all of our vain
shadow
Not always left behind
ready to emerge
when it has the urge
to steal the show
to be guilty
or mortally sinful
to also falter ...
For it does not alter
any such and such
truth
whether sooth or uncouth
Any element of pride
will be drown by the tide
within the endless orbit
of time and its ellipsis
For the sun is not so
kind
when it has to remind
us all of our vain
shadow
Not always left behind
ready to emerge
when it has the urge
to steal the show
#humankind
19 reads
1 Comment
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
27th Jun 2020 8:52pm
27th Jun 2020 8:52pm
Travails
This word just so sums it up
in a bitter bronzed cup
to be sipped then spit
throughout our many days
Like the sting of sweat
in the driest of eyes
inducing many soft cries
for each trudged thorny step
Barefoot upon thicket brambles
while my mind forever rambles
to memories now past
a future as yet unamassed
As if life was now glassed
completely in
to display every sin
paving my road to perdition
While I still pay my tuition
hoping to somehow lessen
each painful...
in a bitter bronzed cup
to be sipped then spit
throughout our many days
Like the sting of sweat
in the driest of eyes
inducing many soft cries
for each trudged thorny step
Barefoot upon thicket brambles
while my mind forever rambles
to memories now past
a future as yet unamassed
As if life was now glassed
completely in
to display every sin
paving my road to perdition
While I still pay my tuition
hoping to somehow lessen
each painful...
#LifeStruggles
#humankind
19 reads
9 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
18th Feb 2021 2:00pm
18th Feb 2021 2:00pm
Vanishing Point
Funny how it is the only thing
I still remember
from that fateful art class
so long ago
How I was able to show
it ...
that place in the drawing
where the world came together
Only to finally disappear
with nearer objects larger
ones further away as smaller
like casting some visual spell
Wondering what it did say
about us
about me
that it is all that I see
That no matter how close
we truly become
we all remain converging lines
in the same fading poem
I still remember
from that fateful art class
so long ago
How I was able to show
it ...
that place in the drawing
where the world came together
Only to finally disappear
with nearer objects larger
ones further away as smaller
like casting some visual spell
Wondering what it did say
about us
about me
that it is all that I see
That no matter how close
we truly become
we all remain converging lines
in the same fading poem
#confessional
#art
#loneliness
#LifeStruggles
#humankind
19 reads
4 Comments
yelluw_always
Poem Published
7th Jan 2019 4:22am
7th Jan 2019 4:22am
D1. Annotated Peoples Make Connections: if they walked around in love/for love/by love with SFX labels to their chests
Different hands reach for the same neck
of a bottle, jerk back in dwindling bounds
as a ball dribbles away without its human.
Of all the places to relax into, holding
ones breath for language. We turn
into vases, nose to nose. The background
shutters like a party trick. Figures milling as noise;
a fleet on the horizon- fading
to the roundness of the earth, an elevator
carrying the Gestalt principle.
Foreground forebrain timpani! Avocado
center, our circadian rhythm-
dense and brown.
I cast shells and...
of a bottle, jerk back in dwindling bounds
as a ball dribbles away without its human.
Of all the places to relax into, holding
ones breath for language. We turn
into vases, nose to nose. The background
shutters like a party trick. Figures milling as noise;
a fleet on the horizon- fading
to the roundness of the earth, an elevator
carrying the Gestalt principle.
Foreground forebrain timpani! Avocado
center, our circadian rhythm-
dense and brown.
I cast shells and...
#friendship
#earth
#fire
#water
#humankind
20 reads
1 Comment
Poetic_Strength
Poem Published
25th Jan 2021 00:23am
25th Jan 2021 00:23am
Conditioned
To be inclined,
To incite,
to enact the act to reflect,
Ambitious world tight to the neck,
It is a quest,
to react..
How far can we get?
Climb a tree instead of
Sitting under mumbling….
How bad is the sound of thunders?
Tipped of wonders and colors,
Distinct fully and awesomely……. random.
Shades dropped rubbles
beyond timelines living under ….the effect,
an excuse that matters.
The wrong - the right,
As right is the wrong,
the shape of
a mask
To incite,
to enact the act to reflect,
Ambitious world tight to the neck,
It is a quest,
to react..
How far can we get?
Climb a tree instead of
Sitting under mumbling….
How bad is the sound of thunders?
Tipped of wonders and colors,
Distinct fully and awesomely……. random.
Shades dropped rubbles
beyond timelines living under ….the effect,
an excuse that matters.
The wrong - the right,
As right is the wrong,
the shape of
a mask
#nature
#MentalHealth
#humankind
#SelfWorth
#manipulation
20 reads
6 Comments
yelluw_always
Poem Published
31st Dec 2018 10:22pm
31st Dec 2018 10:22pm
Missed Connections
The non-signaler in traffic,
or every half-met greeting, a reservation
is set for them in the Pit. Fumbled
stroll charged by creosote aroma, over
the bridge a spiked heat. Uncontrollable,
tar, dough. Expanded wood, the jammed door,
loosely bundled sock and your shoe hanging
off the toe, blustering, declaring
sensational soon-to-split irri-ta-tion.
Some kitchens are pristine and ours
grind crumbs in the bulk while we
are darkly snuggled, an irrigation into beds,
underneath our feet and on the verge
of farmhouse...
or every half-met greeting, a reservation
is set for them in the Pit. Fumbled
stroll charged by creosote aroma, over
the bridge a spiked heat. Uncontrollable,
tar, dough. Expanded wood, the jammed door,
loosely bundled sock and your shoe hanging
off the toe, blustering, declaring
sensational soon-to-split irri-ta-tion.
Some kitchens are pristine and ours
grind crumbs in the bulk while we
are darkly snuggled, an irrigation into beds,
underneath our feet and on the verge
of farmhouse...
#anxiety
#identity
#humankind
#inequality
#disability
21 reads
11 Comments
yelluw_always
Poem Published
12th Jan 2019 5:16pm
12th Jan 2019 5:16pm
a hike in a national park
a hair-fine strand of belonging
wound of many
a suspension bridge's cord
the strongest line
a spider-web triggered
over the trail
unbroken across the bridge
of nose
a connection needs
to be as thin as
the atom of things when
a bomb goes off
merry go round
Saturn's belt round the cliffside
can't get much colder
than the gaze upon a stranger
wound of many
a suspension bridge's cord
the strongest line
a spider-web triggered
over the trail
unbroken across the bridge
of nose
a connection needs
to be as thin as
the atom of things when
a bomb goes off
merry go round
Saturn's belt round the cliffside
can't get much colder
than the gaze upon a stranger
#mountains
#humankind
21 reads
18 Comments
LilDragonFly
Poem Published
26th Sep 2020 11:12am
26th Sep 2020 11:12am
Pareidolia
Funny that I thought
it was only me
always able to see
the lurking face
All over the place
on the magazine page
the gnarled bark
the random lazy doodle
It really is no surprise
starting with the eyes
then the curve of cheek
the nose, the mouth
Some are smiling
while others pout
always resurrecting doubt
about the hour at hand
The stillness of time
only captured in rhyme
can hope to soothe
this resurgent invasion
it was only me
always able to see
the lurking face
All over the place
on the magazine page
the gnarled bark
the random lazy doodle
It really is no surprise
starting with the eyes
then the curve of cheek
the nose, the mouth
Some are smiling
while others pout
always resurrecting doubt
about the hour at hand
The stillness of time
only captured in rhyme
can hope to soothe
this resurgent invasion
#humankind
#art
22 reads
10 Comments
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