cabcool
Poem Published
10th Mar 2024 8:39pm
10th Mar 2024 8:39pm
night sadness
Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows.”
—African Proverb
when day tasks are done
and the world is gone
and the sun bows down his head
and the doors are closed
and tight locks imposed
and the atmosphere is dead
my spirit swells within my breast
confined against my will
because the night brings more unrest
than can my fervent quill
transcribe....
—African Proverb
when day tasks are done
and the world is gone
and the sun bows down his head
and the doors are closed
and tight locks imposed
and the atmosphere is dead
my spirit swells within my breast
confined against my will
because the night brings more unrest
than can my fervent quill
transcribe....
#sadness
#loneliness
#night
#emptiness
#nightmares
130 reads
2 Comments
LiamReeduus
LiamReedus
LiamReedus
Poem Published
19th Feb 2024 1:33am
19th Feb 2024 1:33am
Drinking night
Two hundred push ups.
Lift weights til my arms can't no more
Stretch til I can't
Upside down work on core.
Bottle of scotch
Heavy bags til glove tore.
Another bottle.
A few bottles more.
Chin up.
Medicine ball bell flick
Jumping Jack's
Calisthenics
Another bottle
Run til sick
Another bottle
Another to fix.
No one will spar
Guess time to go.
I needed to spar.
Release my soul
I need the pain
Help get back control
Taxi to the hotel
Scotch on the rocks
Sweat...
Lift weights til my arms can't no more
Stretch til I can't
Upside down work on core.
Bottle of scotch
Heavy bags til glove tore.
Another bottle.
A few bottles more.
Chin up.
Medicine ball bell flick
Jumping Jack's
Calisthenics
Another bottle
Run til sick
Another bottle
Another to fix.
No one will spar
Guess time to go.
I needed to spar.
Release my soul
I need the pain
Help get back control
Taxi to the hotel
Scotch on the rocks
Sweat...
#depression
#alcohol
#travel
#nightmares
#weakness
70 reads
1 Comment
fieryangelsouljia
M6rr6g6n
M6rr6g6n
Poem Published
15th Feb 2024 9:47pm
15th Feb 2024 9:47pm
the Feather
Softened and surrounded
bedsheets like a welcome
sorrow that brings me
to sleep
Slumber now, be gentle
nightmares flow
like currents
I'll drown if you
follow their lead
wake me in the blood light,
a moment when the Moon sighs
and watch the tremble
as Her daughter speaks
I'll lay to waste her temple,
words to soak in toluene
burning down the curtains
drawn to keep the monster
from my dreams
Im sorry, I can't hold it-
The wrath that's like a feather
torn from...
bedsheets like a welcome
sorrow that brings me
to sleep
Slumber now, be gentle
nightmares flow
like currents
I'll drown if you
follow their lead
wake me in the blood light,
a moment when the Moon sighs
and watch the tremble
as Her daughter speaks
I'll lay to waste her temple,
words to soak in toluene
burning down the curtains
drawn to keep the monster
from my dreams
Im sorry, I can't hold it-
The wrath that's like a feather
torn from...
#anger
#childhood
#MentalHealth
#PTSD
#nightmares
174 reads
0 Comments
wallyroo92
Bumped 12th Feb 2024 8:57pm
3rd Jul 2019 6:30pm
3rd Jul 2019 6:30pm
Reflections of a Civil War
I didn’t know about politics or the status quo,
I didn’t understand the right versus the left,
All I knew were images shown on the news
Until the war hit close to home
I had never seen so many burning buses
I had never seen so many men somber
I had never seen so many women crying
I had never seen so much blood like that
I had never heard bullets whiz by like that
I had never felt tanks roll by the boulevard
Shaking the streets and passageways
And deafening blasts that stun the soul
I had never seen men on the...
I didn’t understand the right versus the left,
All I knew were images shown on the news
Until the war hit close to home
I had never seen so many burning buses
I had never seen so many men somber
I had never seen so many women crying
I had never seen so much blood like that
I had never heard bullets whiz by like that
I had never felt tanks roll by the boulevard
Shaking the streets and passageways
And deafening blasts that stun the soul
I had never seen men on the...
#war
#SelfReflection
#nightmares
637 reads
2 Comments
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
3rd Feb 2024 2:51pm
3rd Feb 2024 2:51pm
Sorry
He's yelling at me.
Why did you put your clothes in my dresser drawer?
Why?
That's crazy!
It's MY house
Not yours
i'm scared
i think i may have filled up two drawers
maybe three
a red sweater on top in one
but didn't i live with him for a while?
no
right
never
not at all
when he leaves
i'll remove everything
except my shame
that will take a while
Why did you put your clothes in my dresser drawer?
Why?
That's crazy!
It's MY house
Not yours
i'm scared
i think i may have filled up two drawers
maybe three
a red sweater on top in one
but didn't i live with him for a while?
no
right
never
not at all
when he leaves
i'll remove everything
except my shame
that will take a while
#shame
#UnrequitedLove
#nightmares
174 reads
8 Comments
adagio
Poem Published
2nd Feb 2024 5:36pm
2nd Feb 2024 5:36pm
Between Seams
Between seams beyond dreams tiptoeing in life
listening to the death's creeping obituary draped
in a dark piñata filled with a broken heart
moseying on down to Worm Town in a box
wishing I could have been a bit more rigor
before the Big Guy pulled the friggin' trigger
as moths dance in neon's blinking lights
between seams beyond dreams tiptoeing in life
listening to the death's creeping obituary draped
in a dark piñata filled with a broken heart
moseying on down to Worm Town in a box
wishing I could have been a bit more rigor
before the Big Guy pulled the friggin' trigger
as moths dance in neon's blinking lights
between seams beyond dreams tiptoeing in life
#dark
#nightmares
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Diaryofabasketcase
Poem Published
2nd Feb 2024 2:52am
2nd Feb 2024 2:52am
Night Terror
I want to go to sleep now
But my mind wants to play games
It’s really dark, the dogs they bark
No night ever the same
I feel things as they crawl on me
My scalp begins to itch
My clothes no longer comfortable
Up on the bed I sit
I look out into darkness
Hold the covers to my eyes
I feel a finger touch my back
Jump up, let out a cry
The lamp it comes to life
I look around to a bare room
The room is dim and heavy
Almost like a darkness looms
There’s no one here, he’s out of town
Bring...
But my mind wants to play games
It’s really dark, the dogs they bark
No night ever the same
I feel things as they crawl on me
My scalp begins to itch
My clothes no longer comfortable
Up on the bed I sit
I look out into darkness
Hold the covers to my eyes
I feel a finger touch my back
Jump up, let out a cry
The lamp it comes to life
I look around to a bare room
The room is dim and heavy
Almost like a darkness looms
There’s no one here, he’s out of town
Bring...
#dark
#shadows
#silence #nightmares
#silence #nightmares
183 reads
2 Comments
adagio
Poem Published
24th Jan 2024 8:32pm
24th Jan 2024 8:32pm
Trapped In, Do Wah Diddy
Dark poetry is but bending the elbow
with broken pieces of memories past
sewn together in torment's flesh
into the midst of forgotten lore
screaming from a grave's imagination
saying it darkly, saying what a friend
with my Bic pen trapped in...
Do Wah Diddy
with broken pieces of memories past
sewn together in torment's flesh
into the midst of forgotten lore
screaming from a grave's imagination
saying it darkly, saying what a friend
with my Bic pen trapped in...
Do Wah Diddy
#dark
#ghosts
#nightmares
105 reads
0 Comments
WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
18th Jan 2024 9:45am
18th Jan 2024 9:45am
go back to sleep...
when the nightmares fade
and the fog of time settles in
like an old patchwork quilt
scraps of the past stitched together
in some haphazard kinda manner
blanketing history with a groggy me
muffling the internal screams
until I'm finally able to sleep
unsettled...twitchy...a little uneasy...
but desperate for a respite
a moment's unblemished peace
I lay tensed in a compact ball
occupying the least required space
waiting for sandman's call
listening to the erratic thud of my heart
and the unnaturally loud sound of my...
and the fog of time settles in
like an old patchwork quilt
scraps of the past stitched together
in some haphazard kinda manner
blanketing history with a groggy me
muffling the internal screams
until I'm finally able to sleep
unsettled...twitchy...a little uneasy...
but desperate for a respite
a moment's unblemished peace
I lay tensed in a compact ball
occupying the least required space
waiting for sandman's call
listening to the erratic thud of my heart
and the unnaturally loud sound of my...
#confessional
#insomnia
#PTSD #nightmares
#PTSD #nightmares
205 reads
10 Comments
PleasingDragon
Poem Published
14th Jan 2024 4:27pm
14th Jan 2024 4:27pm
The Ghost Within
In the realm of dreams, once more I beheld,
A solitary night, within shadows dwelled.
Amidst the darkness, elusive and light,
It lurked, playing in the veils of the night.
Vanishing before my eyes, a spectral dance,
Reappearing in dreams, a mysterious trance.
Is it mere imagination, a play of the mind,
Or a tangible presence, elusive to find?
In the vast expanse of the universe, I ponder,
Does the spirit exist, in realms yonder?
Yet, perhaps, when my journey finds its end,
The answers unfold, the mysteries transcend.
A solitary night, within shadows dwelled.
Amidst the darkness, elusive and light,
It lurked, playing in the veils of the night.
Vanishing before my eyes, a spectral dance,
Reappearing in dreams, a mysterious trance.
Is it mere imagination, a play of the mind,
Or a tangible presence, elusive to find?
In the vast expanse of the universe, I ponder,
Does the spirit exist, in realms yonder?
Yet, perhaps, when my journey finds its end,
The answers unfold, the mysteries transcend.
#dark
#scary
#ghosts #nightmares
#ghosts #nightmares
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wallyroo92
Bumped 9th Jan 2024 6:14pm
13th Jun 2019 1:47pm
13th Jun 2019 1:47pm
Floods
It’d been raining for days,
Nonstop,
A deluge of epic proportions,
It was night when we heard
That the dam broke,
But in the darkness, there was no escaping it.
Suddenly waves and walls of muddy water
Covered the landscapes and fields,
Like monsters attacking in a dream.
The only thing I could do was run for the hills,
Hoping I could outrun the water’s rage,
But everywhere I ran it surrounded me
Death veiled in a liquid dark form.
Oh father of mine, I feel forsaken,
I’m being chased by nature’s fury
Without...
Nonstop,
A deluge of epic proportions,
It was night when we heard
That the dam broke,
But in the darkness, there was no escaping it.
Suddenly waves and walls of muddy water
Covered the landscapes and fields,
Like monsters attacking in a dream.
The only thing I could do was run for the hills,
Hoping I could outrun the water’s rage,
But everywhere I ran it surrounded me
Death veiled in a liquid dark form.
Oh father of mine, I feel forsaken,
I’m being chased by nature’s fury
Without...
#anxiety
#nightmares
715 reads
4 Comments
poeticdelight
Poem Published
7th Jan 2024 2:10pm
7th Jan 2024 2:10pm
Poetic Addiction
it seems, i desperately write poetry or prose
things that only the mad persons dare compose
for lack of skilled handicraft, its just a cause
escape into sickness, addicted in poetic overdose
armed with a pen, full of inky powder to sniff
if to a certain morbid level, i come to grieve
i get the eager need to then, trace the lines
leave a sad track behind, now,i'm looking fine
poetical addiction has really taken its toll
i look like derwish,in filthy streets i stroll
ironically called "Nabi" for the words i...
things that only the mad persons dare compose
for lack of skilled handicraft, its just a cause
escape into sickness, addicted in poetic overdose
armed with a pen, full of inky powder to sniff
if to a certain morbid level, i come to grieve
i get the eager need to then, trace the lines
leave a sad track behind, now,i'm looking fine
poetical addiction has really taken its toll
i look like derwish,in filthy streets i stroll
ironically called "Nabi" for the words i...
#fate
#nightmares
#dystopian #curse
#dystopian #curse
109 reads
5 Comments
DU Poetry : Poems about Nightmares
