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Meg Nakarai
Meg Nakarai
Poem Published
Yesterday 00:42am
Yesterday 00:42am
Soliloquy on Love
Dear Self,
You have got to end this nihilistic talk about love. Your former husband is dead as a dodo and he's not going to start beating the shit out of you at any moment. Start talking about constructs of romance. You must start, even if it is worthless when put alongside images of loneliness.
Remember, though, that the greatest love is that which is unrequited. Next would be one that’s unprofessed. You are privileged that yours is both. Yours is the greatest. And thus, even if you quit, you can never lose in this particular battle. Start now, my dear, even though this...
You have got to end this nihilistic talk about love. Your former husband is dead as a dodo and he's not going to start beating the shit out of you at any moment. Start talking about constructs of romance. You must start, even if it is worthless when put alongside images of loneliness.
Remember, though, that the greatest love is that which is unrequited. Next would be one that’s unprofessed. You are privileged that yours is both. Yours is the greatest. And thus, even if you quit, you can never lose in this particular battle. Start now, my dear, even though this...
#love
#SelfDiscovery
19 reads
3 Comments
Ragnar
Poem Published
16th Mar 2019 1:11pm
16th Mar 2019 1:11pm
Chasm
There is a sadistically vicious pain pounding in my chest.
An ache that hurts so much, it is to the point that I cannot swallow.
Why won’t you listen?
Why are you choosing to go down this road?
Why do I care so much that your naive and blind choices are becoming my pain?
Why do you care so little to watch me stifle my rage to the point of suffering, so that I do not day or do something I will later regret, while you selfishly do so much that someday, you will regret.
How do you not see that what you are doing is driving a wedge the size of the Grand Canyon...
An ache that hurts so much, it is to the point that I cannot swallow.
Why won’t you listen?
Why are you choosing to go down this road?
Why do I care so much that your naive and blind choices are becoming my pain?
Why do you care so little to watch me stifle my rage to the point of suffering, so that I do not day or do something I will later regret, while you selfishly do so much that someday, you will regret.
How do you not see that what you are doing is driving a wedge the size of the Grand Canyon...
#relationships
#conflict
#confusion #hurt
#confusion #hurt
51 reads
16 Comments
ClearmindedVillain
Poem Published
14th Mar 2019 8:00pm
14th Mar 2019 8:00pm
Mom’s Pinball Machine
Long days started at the wake of school.
A mind was taken over by the location of the afternoon.
Another bus ride awaited but not home.
Saw these people everyday but still never knew them.
Quiet the boy stood at the machine for hours at a time.
At times there was a path to pace.
Independent young at times activities sparked interest.
Never grasped the concept of art but participated anyways.
Fear of swimming challenged him young.
Did it.
Soaked from the water of the pool he’d return to that pinball machine to wait.
Was there a...
A mind was taken over by the location of the afternoon.
Another bus ride awaited but not home.
Saw these people everyday but still never knew them.
Quiet the boy stood at the machine for hours at a time.
At times there was a path to pace.
Independent young at times activities sparked interest.
Never grasped the concept of art but participated anyways.
Fear of swimming challenged him young.
Did it.
Soaked from the water of the pool he’d return to that pinball machine to wait.
Was there a...
#sadness
#loneliness
26 reads
1 Comment
MukulNagpal
Poem Published
12th Mar 2019 7:57pm
12th Mar 2019 7:57pm
Story to glory
Bored of life, thought I could take a chance
In search of changing things or just my stance
I took a decision, for no reason, with the least precision
Went on a trek,that I used to call a nuisance.
Exaggeration, Life threatening situation, no preparation
With no idea of what would happen
Met some strangers, who could pose some danger
but we ended up being each other's weapon
Filled with zeal, we started
With luggage on back and hope in heart, we departed
No matter the count, if you fall, you shall rise
was the only...
In search of changing things or just my stance
I took a decision, for no reason, with the least precision
Went on a trek,that I used to call a nuisance.
Exaggeration, Life threatening situation, no preparation
With no idea of what would happen
Met some strangers, who could pose some danger
but we ended up being each other's weapon
Filled with zeal, we started
With luggage on back and hope in heart, we departed
No matter the count, if you fall, you shall rise
was the only...
#strength
#snow
#MyInspiration
#learning
#travel
49 reads
0 Comments
AEMelia564
Y
Y
Poem Published
12th Mar 2019 5:04pm
12th Mar 2019 5:04pm
Thou art ( but) a sheep
An unknown destination, a significant being crossed my morning ride
The bus stops at the small terminal, and where usually my eyes meet hills
Now stands a white truck, the blue letters glow in the faint sun
There you are, Ram in your cage,
Two dark coals glow into my soul
I am shaken by the strength of your stare
Once Sumerians crowned you as sentient beings and you were a Bovidae King.
As you grazed fertile green fields where you held masked balls with the ladies ...
The bus stops at the small terminal, and where usually my eyes meet hills
Now stands a white truck, the blue letters glow in the faint sun
There you are, Ram in your cage,
Two dark coals glow into my soul
I am shaken by the strength of your stare
Once Sumerians crowned you as sentient beings and you were a Bovidae King.
As you grazed fertile green fields where you held masked balls with the ladies ...
#animals
#nature
#spiritual
36 reads
5 Comments
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
jade tiger
Poem Published
10th Mar 2019 12:24pm
10th Mar 2019 12:24pm
I’m Gonna Confess
Geoff, I’m gonna confess something to you right here and now, so don’t blame me, but congratulate yourself. I mean that in the best possible way. You know I don’t hold back, you know I haven’t believed in a woman deliberately trying to be mysterious since before you and I met. Like it’s a religion or a cult. And it all turns yeasty like false news because the mystery goes stale after it’s kept shelved and unused for so long, the cow herself forgets, and her milk dries up. But that’s not all that evaporates...
Yeah no I’m okay. You know how I get, and I always...
Yeah no I’m okay. You know how I get, and I always...
#love
#lover
#LifeAsAWriter #LongDistanceRelationship
#LifeAsAWriter #LongDistanceRelationship
99 reads
17 Comments
ElusiveSleepfall
MatthewZ
MatthewZ
Poem Published
8th Mar 2019 11:41pm
8th Mar 2019 11:41pm
Poetry Lessons, By Matthew and Sky. (Oh God!).
Hi Kids,
When Skylander asked me if I could help her with a poem last week, I thought this girl's either crazy, or insane. Come to find out she's a little of both. (But she's also a wicked incredible girl, but don't tell her that, she'll get a big head). Anyway, we thought 'hmmm, we have such a preponderance of poetic power(eliteration, or something like that), that perhaps we should write something together to expose ourselves, and pass this knowledge onto other aspiring poets who don't possess such knowledge, or perhaps have had that knowledge re-possessed by the Federal Government...
When Skylander asked me if I could help her with a poem last week, I thought this girl's either crazy, or insane. Come to find out she's a little of both. (But she's also a wicked incredible girl, but don't tell her that, she'll get a big head). Anyway, we thought 'hmmm, we have such a preponderance of poetic power(eliteration, or something like that), that perhaps we should write something together to expose ourselves, and pass this knowledge onto other aspiring poets who don't possess such knowledge, or perhaps have had that knowledge re-possessed by the Federal Government...
#erotic
#MentalHealth
#threesome
#steampunk
#werewolves
92 reads
45 Comments
eleven_mashariki
Poem Published
8th Mar 2019 12:13pm
8th Mar 2019 12:13pm
SHALOM YEDIDIM
shalom yedidim,
You deserve to be happy.
I never dreamt of a happy life
without you.
But bygones are bygones,
I won't complain.
See, happiness is all I ever wished
for you, for me, for us...
for everyone.
I pray for thee,
dear beloved
with lots of love.
We were never meant to be,
No one compels destiny.
When we had the chance,
we tried.
We'll try again some other day,
maybe.
But for now,
shalom yedidim
You deserve to be happy.
I never dreamt of a happy life
without you.
But bygones are bygones,
I won't complain.
See, happiness is all I ever wished
for you, for me, for us...
for everyone.
I pray for thee,
dear beloved
with lots of love.
We were never meant to be,
No one compels destiny.
When we had the chance,
we tried.
We'll try again some other day,
maybe.
But for now,
shalom yedidim
#happiness
#love
#kindness
#uplifting
#gratitude
19 reads
0 Comments
thewatcher33
Poem Published
4th Mar 2019 6:32am
4th Mar 2019 6:32am
Today Was A Good Day
Like most summer days we would Meetup at around 1 p.m. and hang out all over Brooklyn and Queens. Most days we just drive around looking for anything to get into meet girls ride our bicycles go to the movies the mall Austin just walk around in the city. Marvin it's Jamaican around 6 ft tall very slim and dark. This was his first year in America and his first year in high school. We all could not wait for the summer to start. Especially me I had big plans to DJ and a local Lounge and I was excited. We never really had any tro with the police, sometimes though police officers would approached...
#anxiety
#dark
#despair
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0 Comments
eleven_mashariki
Poem Published
25th Feb 2019 1:31pm
25th Feb 2019 1:31pm
JUST A WORD
Don't you miss beautiful smiles and happiness?
happy moments and joy
Joyful tears and memories
Memories about love
Loving tales and beauty
Beautiful endings from painful beginnings
Beginnings, all over, again.
Don't shed tears again
Not even tears of joy
Love is about giving
So, give but not to every needy soul
Take but not from every hand
Beg but from no man
Appreciate but not always.
Life is a teacher
It depends with what you learn.
Wait for no man
Choose nothing but what's familiar
Life is...
happy moments and joy
Joyful tears and memories
Memories about love
Loving tales and beauty
Beautiful endings from painful beginnings
Beginnings, all over, again.
Don't shed tears again
Not even tears of joy
Love is about giving
So, give but not to every needy soul
Take but not from every hand
Beg but from no man
Appreciate but not always.
Life is a teacher
It depends with what you learn.
Wait for no man
Choose nothing but what's familiar
Life is...
#identity
#LifeCycle
#SelfDiscovery
27 reads
4 Comments
BluntHonestMel
Poem Published
19th Feb 2019 00:36am
19th Feb 2019 00:36am
Mental Patient
A sage in the cage of a newborn
Hell has been lukewarm
Since I remember
Love has been daggers severing my spine
I never thought I would walk again.
My brain outgrew the vessel
Longing for acceptance from Rejects
I always saw a picture of a better world
They still reject
In crim-sin reflection
My decibels so-low my vibration
Was distilled...
A hand full of pills
A pool of blood full of misery
The untrained eye could not see
I’d dip the brush in it and paint
Until my heart pumped air and...
Hell has been lukewarm
Since I remember
Love has been daggers severing my spine
I never thought I would walk again.
My brain outgrew the vessel
Longing for acceptance from Rejects
I always saw a picture of a better world
They still reject
In crim-sin reflection
My decibels so-low my vibration
Was distilled...
A hand full of pills
A pool of blood full of misery
The untrained eye could not see
I’d dip the brush in it and paint
Until my heart pumped air and...
#anxiety
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#peace
#LifeChangingMoment
69 reads
24 Comments
MoonChild96
Poem Published
17th Feb 2019 00:52am
17th Feb 2019 00:52am
People are afraid of what they don't understand
There has been something on my mind for the past couple of days .
The Salem witch trials , We hear about the evil that these woman and the way they used the herbs and fire to determine peoples fate and the chants they screamed into the the night and the way they danced naked in the moonlight . These woman were killed for the faith they had in the earth the moon and stars They were hung in the middle of town square for taking charge of their lives . And in the 1940's Wicca rose again and these woman were pulling cards and lighting candles to warn people of the evil in this world they...
The Salem witch trials , We hear about the evil that these woman and the way they used the herbs and fire to determine peoples fate and the chants they screamed into the the night and the way they danced naked in the moonlight . These woman were killed for the faith they had in the earth the moon and stars They were hung in the middle of town square for taking charge of their lives . And in the 1940's Wicca rose again and these woman were pulling cards and lighting candles to warn people of the evil in this world they...
#witches
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