Regular poetry thread

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Regular poetry thread

Regular poetry thread (because I'm tired of not editing my poems)

This is exactly what it sounds like! A thread to post poetry. I'm excited to read all of your work!

submitted by Bluebird
(April 30, 2017 - 8:51 pm)

You stand atop the mountain

Everything glistens, like it hurts

(Yes, it hurts to exist for them too)

The sun comes up

But soon the light goes down;

As dark monochromatic clouds circle all around;

They seize the colours in their endless sponge

And open the invisible curtains in a deluge;

There's still light, but it's robbed of all its life,

As the waters pour down, never ending

They steal the clarity, the colour;

The focus and the fervour,

Until everything is the same--

Flecked with grey and given a full view

Of nothing but the water here and lighter grey mist elsewhere;

It's somehow calm and even pretty

Despite you being lost and sightless, and the weather being quite dreary.

submitted by Jaybells, age Obscure, Lost in a Thought
(October 12, 2021 - 1:01 am)

It feels magical

As the sun streams in,

Casting her golden rays upon

These weathered stones,

Forged millennia ago;

 

It feels like a breath

Will shatter the illusion,

Scatter the whole structure to dust 

And prematurely seal its secrets,

Forevermore;

 

Carvings lie engraved on every surface,

Vines and spiderwebs carve their way in

And towards the heart of these ruins,

Ever closer to touching history, longing just like me.

What a wonderful ancient magic. 

submitted by Jaybells, age Obscure, Lost in the Universe
(October 12, 2021 - 10:31 pm)

Watch the sun peak over the horizon

Crawling, clawing it's way up

Yet gliding on so gracefully;

 

Watch the distant dunes catch fire

And the light pour in relentless

Light a flood, a glowing hot lava-flow;

 

Watch the winds kick up

And tousle dust and sand

All across this baron land;

 

Watch as everything falls away

And all you see are bones and ruins towering

Over tilting, shifting golden seas.

submitted by Jaybells, age Obscure, Lost in the Universe
(October 12, 2021 - 10:37 pm)

Dark, cold and clammy

It's stifling, it's biting

And yet you're still drenched in sweat

Something pounds hard in your temples

The stagnant air pulsing with silent pressure

And you swear you can hear a clock

Ticking

Ticking

Still ticking 

In the empty quietness,

Eyes playing tricks on you with inky spectres

And so you have to struggle

Against a sea throbbing of hands

Pulling you back down, such a far fall

When you get up and step forward 

Then suddenly, with a flick of your wrist

And a soft whir, there's light:

And suddenly you can breathe again

When your eyes catch letters that don't yet make words

And a dark board full of the same possibilities. 

submitted by Jaybells, age Obscure, Lost in the Universe
(October 15, 2021 - 1:09 am)

Lost  By Pancake

 

I have fallen from the sky,

I landed somewhere,

I could not fly,

My friends left me behind.

 

I was sad,

But then they came,

They were rabbits,

And so tame.

 

I lost many friends,

And made more,

But I was still lost,

And could not find a door.

 

Eventually I walked alone,

My friends all forgot about me,

I wished I could have flown,

So I could leave.

 

I walked and walked,

For days and days and days,

Yet all I did was get more lost,

So I had to sleep on hay.

 

Are my friends concerened about me?

Was all I could think,

They probably weren't I thought,

As a mink ran past.

 

Lost for days I have been,

So hungry and thirsty,

When I spotted a den,

I made it my home for it was empty.

 

I have lived here for so long,

I never miss my friends,

Anymore as I walk along,

Now I am happy,

But I am still lost.

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That is my poem! I hope you like it! 

submitted by Pancake, age No clue, River Lake
(October 15, 2021 - 6:44 am)

Interesting! I like how it rhymes throughout, despite perhaps a bit forced in certain places. Nice work!

submitted by Jaybells, age Obscure, Lost in the Universe
(October 16, 2021 - 2:38 am)

@Jaybells,

Thanks! I tried to stay on my theme the whole time, but someplaces it seemed off theme, so I tried to turn it on theme. 

submitted by Pancake, age No clue, River Lake
(October 17, 2021 - 11:22 am)

untitled

~

you don’t love me

you love him

and i think somewhere deep down i knew that

but it still hurts

hearing you say it out loud

pretending to be happy for you

when my heart is shattering

i guess it was all platonic 

how was it all platonic?

you held my hand on the boardwalk

you looked at me and said brown eyes are your favorite

you held me when i cried

you took my hand and leaned your head on my shoulder

and none of it meant anything

my heart drops when you say his name

wondering if he’ll ask you to dance

i wanted to ask you

i wanted to say so many things but i didn’t and now

it’s too late

i still tell you i love you

but my voice catches on the words

something’s changed

even if you don’t know it

i’d give you my heart but you don’t want it

why would you want it?

why would you want me?

i feel so stupid for thinking you could ever see me how i see you

because you’re golden

and i’m me

but my heart still skips a beat when you walk into the room

forgetting for just a moment the ache in my chest

he doesn’t deserve you

but then again

neither do i

~~~

So yeah long story short the girl I'm in love with has a crush on someone else and I'm sad about it :')

submitted by Quill, she/they
(October 15, 2021 - 9:55 pm)

Oh, this hurts in such a good heartbreaking-story way. IT'S SO GOOD, probably because it feels so personal and captures that small-scale hurt that rocks your world. Oof.

Also, sorry about your situation, mate. I totally get it, having been through something really similar,* and hope you can move on alright. Good luck! *offers virtual hug*

submitted by Jaybells@Quill, age Obscure, Lost in the Universe
(October 16, 2021 - 2:48 am)

Thank you! *accepts virtual hug* Hopefully I'll get over it soon, but I'm actually going to homecoming with her then she's spending the night at my house, so that should be fun~ Thanks for the support :)

submitted by Quill@Jaybells
(October 16, 2021 - 1:03 pm)

Oh, this hurts in such a good heartbreaking-story way. IT'S SO GOOD, probably because it feels so personal and captures that small-scale hurt that rocks your world. Oof.

Also, sorry about your situation, mate. I totally get it, having been through something really similar,* and hope you can move on alright. Good luck! *offers virtual hug*

submitted by Jaybells@Quill, age Obscure, Lost in the Universe
(October 16, 2021 - 2:48 am)

I wished so long ago

To breathe below

The crystal water

that never is hotter.

 

The water sparkles very bright

Like the stary nights

That I wish to be mine

With all the stars that shine.

 

The crystal water is not rare

So why do I care

Where it flows

Between farmer hoes.

 

I wish this lake to be mine

For it is very fine

Though it can never be

I wish to lock it with a key.

The end 

submitted by Pancake, age No clue, River Lake
(October 17, 2021 - 11:33 am)

I like the idea a lot!

submitted by Jaybells, age Obscure, Lost in the Universe
(October 19, 2021 - 9:16 pm)

I was never lost.

I was never found.

I had no cost.

I had no mounds

of money.

 

I did not want.

I did not wish.

I do not run avaunt.

I do not miss

my sorrows.

 

The End.

 

Just a little poem I thought of, I did not intend for it to have a meaning. 

submitted by Pancake, age No clue, River Lake
(October 17, 2021 - 1:30 pm)

Haiku

 

I will walk down here,

You will be waiting for me,

We will meet up.

 

I hope I did it right. 

submitted by Pancake, age No clue, River Lake
(October 17, 2021 - 2:06 pm)