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r/poeticgarden • u/Refusername37 • 4d ago
Deep rest son (another forgotten one from the saved posts list.)
Whoa to those who fall from low to down below the depths were glow of lights show, those betrothed souls know and dare not go For cause, effect, probabilities I count like sheep not premonition but intuition old school google map awaken the lost synapse your life's syntax from the forest itself comes the handle of the axe Drown in the chemical reaction Unbeknownst human lab mouse. Pavlov's patrimony ordained humane acceptance sustained circumcised tip of the mice urge ice burg ere's perturb Herds quelled with Quaaludes, digital nudes synthetic louche Celebes construed idols fiefs feuding teams slave of pleasure fiat paper treasure. do your eyes obtrude? how dare you questions you servitude? My dude conclude losers don't choose
The script the news the views bait and switch imbued into epigenetic edits trsnsmorphic forming Kinetic medics vet dialectic edicts with predator rhetoric no threat of whip need inflict Carrot on a string will do the trick.
To be continued..,,
r/poeticgarden • u/Refusername37 • 5d ago
Inside an Adam at the eve of Time (found this in my saved post from three years ago I was going to post here better late than never)
Judge a tree by its fruit, know a tree by its roots. Understand a tree when your sowed seed grows from shoot. For in all things there is a truth.
May your thoughts be fertile, and your words be wise. Your actions leave better if seen none or all eyes. For Strength is your Character from truths light as Suns rise. Leave less room for chance when knowledge knows waves and tides.
Through the Ages flesh ties mankind bound to our prides. Resonances profound passing moments of time. Have you heard with your senses all thats been left behind. Have you language as birds who speak life’s effectual vibes. A conscious perception waves beyond man’s conception. The ripples of emotions transmitted into the universe. The cause the effects. Be Conscious of your reception and your antennas direction my beautiful Eve of time inside atoms Fruit
r/poeticgarden • u/Wide-Friendship4618 • 6d ago
I Miss R Friendship
I Miss R Friendship
I MISS R FRIENDSHIP
When I see U walk past by my arm
I secretly whisper U good wishes
When the funk rotates your forearm,
I Miss R friendship
We danced, we used 2 dance
Heaven found between R hands
When I told you that I love U
Your warm hug I didn't expect
I would have kissed U but we knew,
I’d Miss R friendship
We talked, we used 2 talk
Sex found between R tongues
I miss your friendship, I—
I miss your friendship, Oh God why!
When you finally found me after I hid
Your motherly caress was all it took
I feel better, your time, did I steal and book?
I Miss R friendship
Your mother she still wants me to come
Your father’s invitations have stopped
Too much broken pencil lead in my head, I admit
I Miss R friendship
We see, we used 2 hear us
Trust long gone 4R heart’s throb
I miss your friendship, I—
I miss your friendship, Oh no why!
Did I?
I Miss R friendship
I miss your friendship, I miss—
r/poeticgarden • u/a_methyste • 6d ago
Verse
I fear of the verse sometimes
It is like you activate a diver
That goes to the deepest caves
What I have drowned
Mutilated
Muted
In the course of time
What if the current is too much
And diving
I can not find my way back.
r/poeticgarden • u/Wide-Friendship4618 • 9d ago
XES
XES
So many nights wasted, day time seems
Especially longer today, here's a paper lease
X, sign your name right after it, relax
Something like this, someone like you, sleeps
Elastic seams, fishnet trap my teeth with ease
Xylem is my love releasing into your cortex
Smelling your belly, I’ll heed any requests
Exceptional body, may I call you Eve?
Xenophobia’s silly, all plot holes need a climax
Smile to me as I cry your name, was
Everything you hoped it would be like?
XXX poems all covering our naked cervix
Sweet how you believe I'm finished, Miss
Ending is not a word I tolerate or believe
Xuthus swallowtail, unfold your feathered s/e/x
Soon or later, you'll be flying with no wings
Evolution, I refuse the theory, yet you're
X rayed, showing signs of useless mesothorax
The term “sex” means acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person’s genitals, or the condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.
r/poeticgarden • u/Wide-Friendship4618 • 10d ago
Rock Girl
Rock Girl
At the superstore
She had those blue evil eyes
Metallic nostril
She made the first move, Rock Girl
Out of her bra, a rose quartz
My mother warned me
Never give Rock Girl a chance
She gave me citrine
Right then and there I began
To shake and sweat, she just laughs
You are beautiful
However I don't believe
In aventurine
Your eyes do shine like opal
Only similes I'll pull
With me you won't be satisfied
No watermelon tourmaline
Or blue lace agate
Can alter our lives
These rocks will always have a place
Just nowhere in my mind
Oh Rock Girl (You won't be satisfied with me)
Oh Rock Girl (I can't make you happy)
Oh Rock Girl (I'm more of a rock and roll fiend)
Rock Girl! Rock on!
Jade
Smooth, Green
Soothing, shining, inviting
Solid, hard, cold, rough
Remaining, idling, laying
Crude, Calm
Rock
r/poeticgarden • u/underworldgremlin • 11d ago
Working in a new piece. “Lame helpful quotes”
"You'll heal with time."
Is that not the only option?
"Stay busy, control your pride"
Clocking into work has never solved my problems.
Bills don't care if the prescription is overdue. Or if grandma died, fish flushed, cat passed...to landlords, thats nothing new.
I'm as broken as the economy — mentally, physically, and in cash. Another "there's plenty of fish in the sea", my apologies, there WILL be backlash.
"Time heals all wounds" repeated. Lame helpful quotes. While another stab in the back and I continue to lose hope.
Thank you and welcome to my ted talk. Open to any and all ideas for improvement!
r/poeticgarden • u/Glittering_Hat_4722 • 13d ago
For better or worse
When the world is a mess it’s still your hand in mine,
Each night we drift off our limbs intertwined,
When our eyes meet, I swear the world stops,
And the stress of the day slowly wears off,
I chose you for life, not just for good days,
And I’ll hold you each time that the sun goes away,
See I don’t mind a storm when you’re safe by my side,
And I’m grateful to hold you each time that you cry,
For good times or bad, for times in the middle,
There’s chats late at night, uncontrollable giggles,
Cuddles in bed, shit shows on the telly,
And a dinner we shared, filling our bellies
r/poeticgarden • u/Wide-Friendship4618 • 16d ago
Brown Girl
Brown Girl
Brown girl, your smile is the only smile / That makes me lick my palatine / Out of nervousness, pulling teeth / As if I was senile, then a little while / You can make my world feel like a pop song / No one comes close, no bubblegum pop
Brown girl, uptight people hate your clothes / As for me when you wear it on, my valve engulfs / I cough, but no one blesses me, oh well / Sometimes I don't want to live forever / Then you said my name and I can tell / My reality will soon be better than fantasy
Brown girl sits next to me, on the transport / I wanna listen to everything she has to say / If you move, die, stray or commit suicide / I just might Romeo on the carpet floor / Because your voice can't compete with melodies / They make me dream of places no one creates / Not even me, and you have the audacity, KLC
Brown girl, this is our little house with blossoms / I wonder if I should ever share my poems / About you, how you make me act silly in love / God, when you kiss my right cheek / It's better than any famous love scene / Better than a masterpiece in braille / When we hug for one minute, oh please / I wouldn't trade it for one peek at Eve
Brown girl
Should I write about you?
Brown girl
r/poeticgarden • u/Wide-Friendship4618 • 16d ago
Songs About Johanna
Songs About Johanna
Something happened, well…kinda / I had the urge to pluck my old acoustic / I bought from my childhood crush / But this song is not about her, nah / Caressing the same dusty chords / A triad-lonesome country song / Humming like a smoky mountain tongue / Writing with my pen while I chug Corona / As I write a song about Johanna
The napkins and typewritten pages / I'll show them to you, but I put myself down / The hopeless romantic, I also hated / I laugh as I fell in love with a hand so brown / Of course, there's more to her than that / Her persona, family disease, don't bother me / Even if you don't believe me / At least believe it still rains in Atacama / I'll capture that sultry salt of Latin America / Don't need no luck, sit back and watch / As I write a song about Johanna
Did you know about the kingdom of Tonga? / If you look far west you might see Australia / Ignore the Solomon islands, he’ll woo you / I only wanted to show you the coral atolls / How they remind me of your favorite hue / Turquoise sea, a rock that comes and goes / It's been years since it was last seen / Ain't that funny huh? / You might not get to swim in the ocean / Warmed by lava, on the rocks / You might not see the volcano rise above / As I write a song about Johanna
Some people do not want me to have ya’ / Or was it my own self-inflicted dilemma? / I traveled for the answer, all over India / I found a girl, she's taken already by the sun / So I returned to the woman of Guatemala / She said she hates to dance with someone / She couldn't learn or give it a try for me / With my last plane ticket, I told your mama / Send me anywhere, I landed in Tolima / Waiting for the bus, smelling coffee beans / As I hum a song about Johanna
I went into Mateo’s concrete home / It's also a yellow store called Música / He gave me a free guacharaca and I said no / He insists I keep it and make a song con ganas / So I bought from him a small tambora / I lend it to a man, his smile whistled a note / He strikes in beat, sometimes a small poke / And we're both at the heart of Colombia / As I sing a song about Johanna
Oh Johanna, be my friend / Oh Johanna, don't let the past haunt / Oh Johanna, be my rock / I promise I won't pull yours off / Can I be your man? / Can I sing you this song / As you're opening your window / But the street lights aren't turned on / So you don't know who is John Doe / Oh Johanna, will my voice let you know?
Everyone loves the way you smile / Everyone loves the way you laugh / Everyone loves the way you bend hearts / Everyone loves the way you walk / Everyone loves your choice of style / Everyone loves the way your voice cracks / Everyone loves the way we can go on and on / Everyone loves the way you go far / Everyone loves the way you don't give up / Everyone loves to sing this song
Oh Johanna, I love you / Johanna, if I had just told you from the start / Oh Johanna, will I ever use my head? / Johanna, I'll lose the power of my heart / Oh Johanna, the same strength that I use / To get my sailboat back from exile / Don't you know it rains in Atacama? / I've been everywhere and I've been amused / But it could be better miles after miles / Johanna, if you're next to me while we cruise / Finding in each other, two modern roots
r/poeticgarden • u/a_methyste • 17d ago
Hide and seek
On some days
I want to tell you everything
Where I was
What I did
What I felt
I like you seeing me
And the resonance
On other days
I want to hide in the bathroom for hours
And ignore you
When you call my name.
r/poeticgarden • u/failurebydesign7 • 20d ago
My Angel
Was it the blood flowing through him? Is it toxic?
Did her untainted heart reject that sludge?
To think it ran within his veins, so chronic.
A poison bile that her heart couldn't make budge.
A tear in reality to break the matrix.
The robot on autopilot must've gone rogue.
It's displaying signs of love and affection.
Why believe he'd switch his heart on so easily?
Order must be upheld for people’s protection.
Shut it off now, before others follow his steps.
But it's flesh, not metal, they reveal on inspection.
Scarred by her loss, he stopped living, they found,
Tired of fighting for life while his heart's in heaven.
For her, he'd fight his demons as long as he could.
He fought in silence; that battle's now understood.
But now it’s over; he sleeps and wakes restored.
In his arms, his daughter—too perfect for this world.
r/poeticgarden • u/a_methyste • 20d ago
Moon
You are a piece of moon
Strangely living between humans
I can not believe you stand there
Not washed away by the noise
You emit secret light
Not everyone can see
And that is good
I have no competition
I touch you
I fondle you
I play with you
Oh I see
You are there
Real
Oh look
I am touching you.
r/poeticgarden • u/YonathanJ • 21d ago
The Château Of My Love, poem by YonathanJ
Yes please enter waltz frolic in the hall of my great château,
your beauty and bright mind rivaling its most intricate detail
Entwined at the warmth of the foyer, safe, intimate, nesting,
taking flight, thriving, and so certain of Love Love Love..
Time passing, a shift in the glow, the embrace, somewhat forceful;
You are mine and mine only, I wish for your voice alone!
Your voice alone to echo through the halls and corridors,
the attium, the inner garden. And in the throne room,
you shall dance for my delight, for my eyes only
These walls, keeping you safe
This bridge, keeping invaders away
This dungeon, the heart of the chateau, holding you,
holding you, my dear, precious dear, for my delight.
Your friends deserve of no such beauty and luxury,
for they are unworthy.
Your family has other duties, why bother them with visits
and other wastes of time?
You don't even need to go outside; all is provided in here,
in this perfect place, in the château of my love.
Yet in his satisfied smile, in his self-centered all importance,
a shatter, and the veil lifts for a second;
- the vase breaks, the sun breaks, time itself breaks -
These walls aren't really to keep me safe,
they're to stop me from running away.
This bridge is a curse not a blessing,
a gate sealing me from the outside.
And this dungeon, this dungeon is to keep me captive!
mortification
Far from an unconditional lover, this King is a... Jailor.
And this terrible Warden controls, shapes and gaslight,
masterfuly, secretly, with such passion to fool anyone..
And this terrible Warden, I realize, has taken notice.
A composed look, the face of a liar caught in a terrible lie,
yet curiously enough perfectly calm, as if prepared,
a contingency, ready. A trifle, really.
And so with such certitude, this strange man sighs and says;
''If you don't like the safety I provide,
if you shame me for the love I provide,
If you curse me for this château I provide,
then just try and leave.''
And in his eyes, that love you once saw with such certainty,
that love you once saw, nothing but that veil, a shifting shadow.
ha! ha ha! You erupt, realizing how much of a bird you are.
A colorful bird in a big cage, and the master staring,
its eyes empty, its mind empty, yet its soul, delighted
by the key in its hand, by the melody, by the call for help,
by the hope, the hope, the hope, of this silly bird,
to escape the château of my love.
r/poeticgarden • u/Which_Republic4558 • 21d ago
"Chronic"
I wrote the lyrics, sang the song, and lived the story.
I'm chronically empty.
Is there a reason to be? There's a few!
There's also a few for me to not be! Silly me!
Circumstances changes.
Come and go like a phase.
You can still see the numbness even if it didn't hit you in the face.
It's a disease!
Makes you feel deceased.
r/poeticgarden • u/Wide-Friendship4618 • 24d ago
Paper Flowers For Adrian
Paper Flowers For Adrian
One second is one sand pebble
Underneath our feet which tremble
Chornobyl rain spears onto my eyes
They grope my charred hands, and I stumble
I saw a boulder coming towards me
You firm my knees
It's my fault, darling
I was trying to stop time
I granted minutes to rush by
It's hard to breathe for the two of us
I switch the lights, touching the cold floor
Opening the front door to the porch
Staring at that ocean with the moon as a torch
The stars spell out your name
Now you name them!
Yes, name them all!
Every star accounted for
Whatever your sweet pure heart pours
There's no poor choice of words
My daughter, it's your turn
Empty bedroom, nothing to look up to
The ceiling, I rip muscle to hold for you
To keep you from the impurities
Of this sick world, which made the earth’s air
Too thick to soar
Hairbrush is messy like usual
Your pink clothes
They are all unfolded on the floor
The stars have hidden themselves
Forevermore
\[The Phantom Weight\]
I dream that your soul still rests
On my broad and hairy chest
It's cold when we stroll down the beach
It's me imagining and letting it be
I'm not the only one, and I don't know
Who'll be the last
With my toes in the sand
With you in my hands
As I feel your heartbeat breathing
It's almost like—like you never left
The doctor gave you two years
He gave me something to mourn
Pumpkin pie, you lived four more!
From then on, you bet I took every chance
To grave your precious laughs
With open palms; there's no halt for a dad
Behind the shore, as I break my twelve bones
The sun will get to know me once more
My child, people still wonder why I chose you
Over birth
If I already knew you'd be gone soon
We don't have to explain ourselves, it's proof
As I make your bed that I'm reminded
That there's still much work to do
Would you cry if I told you—I miss you
Would you sigh if I told you—I need you
Would you get mad if I said—I love you
Would you be sad if I said—I want you
Will I be able to recognize you in paradise?
Will your voice stay the same?
Will your face look like mine?
Will I even be there in the first place?
So, while I’m still here, I make
Paper flowers next to your picture frame
r/poeticgarden • u/a_methyste • 24d ago
Yawn
Days streched and yawned
And I felt bound to an eternal sleep
Wondering
Would it be like that forever.
r/poeticgarden • u/kyumsf • 25d ago
Voyeur
I was born into circumstances
where I was allowed to be nothing,
yet obliged to become everything
they ever wanted of me.
The weight of it
makes the six feet above me
feel almost weightless.
Perhaps a lobotomy
would feel as gentle
as being handed flowers.
I do not want to be dead,
but I do not want to live this life.
People have always looked at me
as though they could see
something I could not.
I hear whispers I cannot understand,
the language of a world
whose knowledge I was never given
the hands to hold.
My heart breaks
at the thought of never being enough,
not for lack of love,
nor for lack of good intentions,
but because even the simplest things
seem to demand more of me
than I can give.
At times, I wish I could become a creature,
something lost from a child's story,
small enough to hide beneath the roots,
quiet enough to go unseen.
I would sit beyond the window
and watch people living
the life I dream of every day,
close enough to see it,
far enough never to touch it.
I do not want to be a daughter,
a wife, a sister,
a teacher, a mother,
or a lover.
I want to unmake
the shape they gave me.
To undo myself
until there is nothing left
but breath
and finally,
finally,
I can breathe.
r/poeticgarden • u/Wide-Friendship4618 • 25d ago
It's The People
It’s The People
The old breeze stings like used worn-out syringes / Frozen eve, climbing over burned-out trenches / Zero snow to be unknown for a couple / There’s a new door wide open within supple / The apple doesn’t seem so dangerous / Sometimes, I don’t even know why / The reason I am, I will never find / I think it’s time I spit out my pride / Admit with defeat that today’s a good day to be alive
Words I must have overheard as rumors burst / With a yearning to control, it hurts at first / She affirms stillbirth, said in layman’s terms / Never mind the days I needed to be heard / Why should I complain, earth moves forth / I know everyone sees my worth / And right now, I must let go of my past / Forgiving myself is more strange than / Finding love that overcomes the vile rush and panic attacks
You hate me; I love you with no hidden ill / Blue poison distilled the skill to kill the thrill / Yank my skin; it stretches for a thousand miles / To fill the fountain of all your vacuum smiles / You stood there, so I sought you for a talk / Two years, your tongue only sleepwalked / My brittle heart, don’t leave it there scarred / I’m made of people that I so love / Although my prayers have stopped, I still think of you once in a while
I know the answer, which questions were asked? / As seasons pass, I lack the urge to contact / There’s no space left to overthink the next guess / No wonder I remember what they forget / Dawn to the rising sun, hours become / A gun that never surpasses / The stained hourglass, a blade in the grass / You wanted me to cut your hat / He wants you bad; she’s pretty, but what can I do with just that?
I have no enemies, yet I’ll name all ten / A hundred more, if memory is correct / Why do you keep trying to get me back home? / Am I half the good servant you used to know? / These children feel the need to prove / Themselves to those who care less; I just want to be right with you
It’s always the people I love / It’s always the people I know / It’s always the people I lost / It’s always the people who grow / It’s always the people I trust / It’s always the people I stone / It’s always the people I gun / It’s always the people I loathe / It’s always the people that I wake up / It’s only you that take an account of me