Poems

various poems

Silence

Serene and peaceful calm I wish I could hold it in my palm Love it and keep it forever Even though it is as fragile as a flower Not all silences last. Cut and shattered they lie,

My Uncle

U were always there for me Never thought you would cease to be Constantly I assumed you would be by my side Love me and hug me when I cried Except from that fateful day,

What is love?

Love is a blooming rose Or even a brief kiss on the nose, Velvet and tender feeling Enveloping me from the floor to the ceiling, Yet I still find love hard to describe. Love is...

Details

I stare at the girl in front of me, Brown hair, green eyes, small nose, freckles pepper her cheeks, I look closer, Lines of worry carved into her flesh around the eyes and mouth,

Have You Ever Felt Like Your Drowning?

Not in water but words and emotions You fight the current and Wherever you turn Dark thoughts and feelings follow you   About how you hate everyone...

Being Human

There's a heaviness in my bones And a sickness in my heart, A sickness from pain and love and war. It's funny how these things make us human But only...

A Walk

Come take a walk with me A walk into my mind Down twisting winding corridors Of things I've left behind. Oh look! there's a toy Battered and bruised...

Belief

I believe we are all a little broken; Some in hearts, Some in minds, Some in souls, Some physically, Some mentally, Some emotionally, Some in every...
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Fall

As October fades I say goodbye to all the fallen leaves, All the colours fading To brown and then Disintegrating to dust. As October fades I say...

A Promise

I want you to make me a promise And I know it will be hard. No one says it will be easy, Nothing good ever is. I want you to make me a promise I know...

My Voice

I open my mouth And I try to speak As I have so much to say. I keep it bottled up All these thoughts left to myself So many feelings that Need to...

Remembrance

Let's walk among the ashes And muddy remains of battles fought And wars lost. I know you see them I know you hear their cries. These phantom soldiers...

Walls

What's that? Who's there? I can barely hear you Over the clamouring of my tears. What's wrong? Don't you see? I built these walls To protect you from...

The Question In My Head

What would I tell my younger self? That is the question in my head. She would be ten So little things on her mind, Not knowing that pain and disaster...
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Ode

This poem is for my family; The ones who gave me life, The ones who kick me down And make me stronger, The ones who help me up And give me hope to go...
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Dear Reader

Isn't it funny how you, Reading this now, Is at a different stage Than the person before and the person after you? Not just by age But life in...

What You Know

What goes on in your mind Day by bleary day? Things to do Or places you have to go to? Do you think of your family Or purposely block them out? Does...

The Girl and the Angel

Let me tell you a tale A tale of a young female. She dreamt of soaring high Oh, how she wanted to fly! She also dreamt of mystic beings Pure with...
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I Wonder...

I wonder if you know That I can see what you don't want to show The dredges of tears Glistening in your eyes, reflecting your fears. How sad you seem...
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The Bully

He didn't leave no note as there was no one to give it to He wondered who would miss him, probably very few. No one cared they always laughed and...

Open Your Eyes

How long did it take you to perfect that smile? How long did it take them to dress you in that style? Is that pose natural; all you? Or is it...
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Everything Changes

Thinking back I can still recall the day I can still remember everything that we had to say I remember how happy she was, all face and smiles I...

Ghosts and Shades

We are all a different wandering ghost This lowly vessel is merely a host What colour is your ghostly shade? Bright blue and all aglow? Sadly this is...

Dreamers

Hold on tight little dreamer you're getting too close to the edge Don't you remember our long ago eternal pledge? That day in the grassy fields one...

The Traveller

I want to be a wandering traveler No place to call my own Except the wilderness and all the world would be my home. I want to explore and walk the...

A Different Day

There you go again, not letting me get a say Just more of the same old just a different day You're so stubborn and are sure you know me and how my...

The Rose

The rose sits on the windowsill gazing way down below Dreaming of all the places it longs to go. The rose dreams of humans; how they speak and all...
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Aging

Why is it we forget more as time goes swiftly by? It's an inevitable process no matter how hard we try. We scrunch our eyes and the gears go round...
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Cherry

Books

I was a book Blank and worn Until I met you. My pages had no plot And no lettering Until I met you. I was pointless And meaningless Until I met you...

Do You?

Do you feel everything or nothing at all? Do you feel broken or completely whole? Do you just hurt to love or love to hurt?

A Backwards Fairytale

Oh poor Cinderella what a to do The poor girl was in an awful stew She tried on the shoe and the shoe didn't fit What a deluded silly twit She only...

A Sad Truth

Hospital cafes and waiting rooms Placed where hope constantly dies and blooms Worry etched on to each and every face But the signs show in a...
Cherry

The Problem with Poets

What makes someone a poet? Does a person even know it? Is it due to having a knack for rhyme Or is it something that develops over time? Does the...

Follies of Childhood

When did broken toys become broken hearts Scattered into so many separate parts? When did a scrape stop being healed with a kiss? When did the...

When I Will Stop Caring

My chest may be closed but my hearts an open door Can't you see all of my feelings spilling out and pooling on to the floor? Everyone says I care way...

Break In

Split me open Bare my soul Every secret I'll tell them all Read me slowly Inside, out But do so gently In the lines Close the pages Take my soul Fix...
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Far Away

I wasn't beautiful Until I met you My eyes didn't shine And my lips didn't smile I was like a balloon Empty and deflated Lost in a breeze Pulling me...

Lightning

Foreword: This is the first poem I ever wrote when I was eleven, almost nine years ago so you've been warned :') Lightning is fast and furious like a...

The Missing Poem

There's a poem waiting deep inside my mind You can try to look but it's something you will never find This poem holds my deepest hopes and fears Many...

Crushing Love

I've been watching you for a while Glimpsing you around town decked in your own style You seem to float and you're so full of grace You're truly...

Monsters

When we are little We are all told that Monsters live under Our beds and we all Feel light banishes Them back to the dark. If we aren't careful They...

Bubblegum

I don't know why But When I think of you I think of bubblegum. Maybe it's because At first you're hard to chew And it takes time to soften your...

Breathe

Whenever I see you You seem to breathe in the world The blue sky and rolling fields Are all gone in the blink of an eye. All the people and all the...

Seeing People

When I think of people I see their body but no face. Where there should be features Is a smooth, blank circle For me, faces don’t make a person. What...

A Corpse Without a Coffin

The earth is cold My body is old No flesh upon my bones I have no pain I can hear the rain Pounding down on my grave My world is dark Worms crawl up...

Surmising Poetry I

Poetry is a random spew of words Vomited from a writers poisoned mind. Once read it seeps into your pores Down your throat And settles in your heart...

Surmising Poetry II

Poetry is a sirens song That lulls in all who Dare to brave its waters, It is not for the faint hearted Or those of weak will. However I have yet To...

Darren Shan Inspired Poem (Contains Spoilers)

Foreword; Darren Shan is one of my fave writers and has been since I was 10. The first book I ever read of his was Cirque Du Freak and I decided to...

The Moon and Stars

You are the moon, And I am the stars. How does one compare The moon to the stars? The moon is greater In size and grace, The stars just shine Until...

Dreams

Sometimes I think you're a dream But then I realize You must be real for I could never Dream someone so perfect

A Haunting

I hear echoes of you in my music And it's almost like you're singing with me Voices out of time but hearts in tune. I imagine seeing you everywhere...

Anxiety

A fist has grabbed my heart again Grips me tighter, increases the pain My heart jumps around, tries to flee But doesn’t know the effect it has on me...

Your Very Own Cyanide

She had a writer in her heart And poetry in her veins She should have been honest from the start But was bound by invisible chains. Her voice never...
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Hold On

You're getting close to the edge Please don't go I'd hate for you to be gone Please step away from the ledge Just hold on Why did you step into the...

Addiction

She craved his attention like a spoilt child And she couldn't help but physically ache If she didn't hear from him. She knew it was ridiculous But...

Funny Things

Isn't it funny How I used to think February was so far away And now it's here Also isn't it funny How I used to think you were so close And now you'...

My Strongest Trait

No , I don't care what you do to me It doesn't matter if you blind me so I can't see Or how you could wear me down over time It's not hard to change...
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Two Opposites

In life You're transparent Completely see through It's not hard for me to read you In life I'm opaque Solid through and through I pity those who try...

A Strange Use of Colour

Imagine if you could drink any shade or colour With no worry as to how it could affect your insides and pallor The colour would change you and how...

Stages of Life

Drinking drinks from boxes and straws Currently oblivious to the worlds flaws There is no work and only play You can’t wait for it to be another day...

Fallen Star

She had universes in her head But only spoke of the stars Left so many things unsaid ... While dreaming of Jupiter and Mars In her head was a point...

The Writer and The Poet

A writer and a poet where having afternoon tea It was in the local park at a quarter to three The poet turned to the writer and said; 'tell me what...

A Thorny Heart

A rose grew in her heart Bright and blood red It was always there from the start And influenced everything she said But over time vines grew Thorns...

Burning Desire

Whenever you touch me I'm blissfully and painfully aware of where your hands are. It's like they are red hot, searing into my flesh and it wont be...

Erosion

Her thoughts were a constant crashing tidal wave that slowly wore away at her mind. By the time the damage was visible too much of her was gone and...

Hide and Seek

When we were together you locked my heart away and I put yours somewhere safe. When we ended I gave your heart back, perfect as the day I got it...

Lovers Roses

You gave your love to me not in an ornate box or a present with a bow. Instead you gave it to me in the form of a rose which grew as your love...

The Ear Worm

I have a very strange thing An ear worm if you will And my head does constantly ring With ideas that refuse to spill The worm provides a plug Keeps...

Butterflies

People are like butterflies; When you finally catch one so radiant and enchanting you dont want to let it go You want it to stay with you forever If...

A Fated Tragedy

Romeo and Juliet were both wed It turns out that neither of them are dead Alas the pair kept screaming and fighting They got violent; punching and...

Kissing You

When you kiss me the world melts away My brain and mouth run out of things to say I am no longer awake, no longer aware All I can focus on is you and...

Misery

My poems are not beautiful. They are not fleeting sighs or made from veins of love and organs of joyous memories. They are unvoiced emotions, lost...

The Room

When The Room first existed Their life had just began Their heart strings were joined and twisted A besotted woman and a man. They brought The Room...

Seasons of Love

Before I met you My life was dark like winter Everything was grey and blue My hope was left to crack and splinter. Once I met you My life lightened...

Soul Speakers

Oh singer speak to my soul Mend the broken pieces, make me whole Tell the story of my life Times of happiness and times of strife Speak to me and...

Happiness

I know that I'm empty inside From all the times gone past when I've wanted to hide But when I see you these hollow smiles become real Because once I...

The Hourglass

Waiting to see you is like watching an hourglass Slow And Agonising Painfully aware of Every second Every grain. Time passes I grow more joyous as...

All That's Left

Ink stained fingers and an ink stained heart You have tore my soul apart I keep on writing things I should say As these words need to escape me in...

Final Moments

When the last breath leaves your lungs And the starlight fades from your eyes In your last flicker of consciousness Will you find me there?

Blank Pages

My brain is always full Words Memories Ideas Emotions The list is endless And yet My page is always blank No words No memories No ideas No ink The...
Cherry

Who You Are

You're the kind of person people write poems about You see universes in raindrops And hold a burning sun in your heart You are everything and nothing...

The Crow

I constantly walk down these winding streets, too long and too wide Yet something walks next to me, stuck by my side Small, black and feathery, a...

Where Were You When the Sky Cried?

Its eyes opened The tears came falling down It cried out in anger A bitter howling sound Its eyes flashed in warning Of the storm that was to come...

One Day

This world will choke me one day And I'll die from its toxic fumes Gases mixed from pain and hatred Slowly spread across the surface Contaminating...

Emptiness

A good time You smile You laugh Are you happy? Home alone You cry You break But are you sad? Still alone Empty Hollow But do you feel? You lack...

Sick and Tired

I'm sick of pain And I'm tired of people hurting again and again ... I'm sick of hate And tired of what we create I'm sick of suffering And tired of...

The Burden of Having a Paper Heart

The girl with a paper heart and stained glass eyes Hopes she never breaks or catches fire She is emotionless and hollow Yet still sees the world in...

Butterfly

I was living life monotonously Crawling forward day by day Until suddenly, I changed I hated everything Formed a cocoon of sadness and self loathing...
Cherry

Decoding

You try to hide Yet your eyes betray you ... I know you hold secrets Deep inside your dark clouds Your sunlight blinds Yet radiates cryptic messages...

Summer Dayze

I barely remember those long days How they passed in a blissful daze Riding our bikes, playing in the park ... Almost instantly the world became dark...

Reaching the End

The sun is setting in your world And soon, will no longer rise again I can't stay until the darkness As the sunset brings me to tears You may soon no...
Cherry

Neglect

Theres dust on the yellowing paper And dry ink in the abandoned pen All the words have become vapour Who knows when they will form again Theres...

Monotony

Reading the same lines once again Have you heard of monotony? You've heard this in your head before Reading the same lines once again A song which is...

How to Write Something Beautiful

'How will I ever write anything beautiful?!' 10 year old me cried Throwing down a pencil And getting teary eyed But how could one so young simply...

The Epitome of a Cliche

As a writer I see darkness in sunshine The world is a bleak mess I've absorbed all I've seen And all I've felt in these past years My soul is stained...

Hollow Words

Does what I say have meaning Does it really matter at all? Do you care what I put on these pages If I rise or if I fall? Are the words like a candle...

Loss of Purpose

The ideas are gone The inks run dry I'm no longer me without a pen The novels written The words are spent I'm lost, a traitor in my own skin This is...

Eternal

There's creaks from the floor There's chills down your spine A sense of foreboding It's the end of your time There's frost in the sill And ice in the...

Entwined Hearts

Let's skip to when you love me When the world just goes away Let's skip to when you love me Onto another day Let's skip to when you love me When the...

A Lovelike Ocean

You were the calm before the storm The day we met the sea was still Beautiful and alluring Something pulled us both into the water Aching and...

Let Me Drown In You

I don't want to catch my breath I want to give it all to you Every molecule of oxygen that escapes my lungs Breathe me in And drown in me

Living With Myself

Here I am, alone with demons again The room devoid of all angels and mortal men No one here to drive away the stares No one listens, no one cares The...

The Best Autumn Days

The ground hardens itself to those who dare walk on its back The dew twinkles and a faint mist rises from the frost Creeping over the distant hills...

Old Magic

Cast your words on me Fill me with chants and rhymes Weave your spells Around my beating heart Bind me in a circle So that I may never leave Carve...

Flourishing

Grow flowers out of your heart Let vines spread through your veins Bring beauty to all you touch Until only love remains

Barricades

Come and forget the world with me Let's lock up all the doors Leave whats done till yesterday Leave memories in the past There's only you and me Let'...

New Writing

Now I've left my sadness behind I can hardly write anymore I try to write of love, my feelings for you Maybe it's because after all these long 24...

2018

Months became eons Never ending An unrelenting whirl of seasons One bleeding into another The line between reality vague and irresolute A cacophony...

Winter Is Here

There's a biting numbing wind That creeps through your skin Soaks down to the marrow of your bones Freezes you to the depths of your soul Sharp and...

Soothing Melodies

Turn the music up louder Quell these racing thoughts in my mind Replace the tremor of my heart With the thrum of bass guitars Liquid voices And...

In the End

When you laugh it's of a life well lived There's joy there Unparalleled Each wrinkle another highway to a far off place Another time Another memory...
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Invisible War

An invisible war I’m constantly fighting Incessantly And never ending A warped version of myself in my head The part of me that’s sick Has always...

To Be a Child Again

When did we lose the joy in insignificance? Things so microscopic Were once mind blowing An expansion of our inner universe and wider perception Same...

Beautiful

Other people In poems Art Etc "You think I'm beautiful With no makeup Tied up greasy hair And sweatpants You see me at my ugliest And still say I'm...
Cherry

How Are You?

A smile How are you? I don't know where to begin Things are different now Things are harder now To say the truth would be socially unacceptable...

Feeling Weird

I feel wrong Off Like waves reaching for the shore Something so close But so far away Something missing Something unknown A glued together porcelain...

Restless in Pieces

My mind is a cemetery Monuments to far away places Ancient crypts leading down to crumbled distant memories Epitaphs to parts of me Posters for the...

Reconnection

Hello old friend It's been nice to run with you again To pass the time away To let the world fall away I'm sorry it's been years I appreciate you...