The poetry corner - post your poems in here

[Chris_B]

Hi everyone,

This is a thread for sharing your creative works. 

Please bear in mind our community rules before submitting your work.  

This thread is located in the BB Social Zone, so the primary purpose here is entertainment.

We will not publish poems containing dark or disturbing content, including themes of suicide, self-harm, death, dying, abuse or other forms of trauma.

Thanks for your understanding. 

[pl515p1]

Where are you?
Where are you?

Somewhere I cannot see, that's where you gotta be!
Somewhere here in between, all the sadness.
Somewhere behind the scenes of all this madness.
Somewhere I've never been, inside the darkness.

There you are!

Dad please sit with me!
Let us be free.
Just you and me.
Just you and me.

I guess now I know, which way to go.
The path you show, I fell below.

But here you are!

Sitting right beside me, in my sadness.
You are still guiding me through all this madness.
You are still lighting me in this darkness.

Here you are!
Next to me! So I can see.

I look at your tree. It breathes you and me.

I close my eyes here, I am asleep.
I close my eyes here, and now I can sleep.

Oh there you are dad! good to see you.
I then awaken sad, you vanish from my view.

But you will be back!

Sitting right beside me, in my sadness.
Holding me up throughout all this madness.
Guiding my way inside this darkness.

There you are.
Here you are.
I love you dad.

[pl515p1]

It has been three seasons dad, two mum, I wrote this for you.

Seasons

Spring

Leaves blossom in the warming sun
Insects hum a familiar tune
Families gather outside for fun
Evenings linger under the brightest moon

Summer

Laughter echoes throughout the sky
On the breeze warm air hugs my heart
Visions of you dance across my eye
Every moment we must be apart

Autumn/Fall

Leaves tumble towards the ground
Outside chills whistle through the air
Sorrow seems to stay around
Somehow though I feel you are there

Winter

Love remains although you are away
In my heart I feel you each night
Vacant spaces will not forever stay
Eventually one day we will reunite

Seasons change, but you will forever remain

[pl515p1]

I settled some of the things, you gave me the words I could only ask one more time, but it is time to close.
I hope you can hear me, I will tell the heroes you sent my way that they are, don't worry.

How can I be on the right path when I don’t want to be?
Why am I so deep in this?
All I want is to be free.

See, when I dream I hurt.
My eyes avert, and I scream,
somehow though pain evades my speech.
I try to flee, but when I open my mouth words desert.
I revert to your gleam.
But my escape sits just out of reach.

Each image a new cut.
But, you keep making me renew,
and try to heal.
On the beach I told you that I cannot do it, that door is shut.
My gut and soul torn in two.
And I just don’t want to feel.

It’s real, you remain asleep.
I weep, but again,
you want me to go on somehow.
Strong as steel, just walk ahead one more leap.
Keep on going, through the pain,
But I don't want to now.

Allow me to task you with one last request.
Let me rest, this I ask,
to give me this gift.
Listen now, my mask is falling, let me float away that is best,
this test I have failed, I’m unmasked,
so just cast me adrift.

[pl515p1]

It's so easy
To make mistakes
To let you down
To watch time slip
To sink and drown

It's so hard
To say that word
To chase the past
To lose it all
To be the last

Mind ponders what to do
Eyes cry to blur my view
Ears hear your voice so true
Mouth screams a sound askew
Heart breaks and sits in two
Hands shake when I think of you
Legs carry me somewhere new
Time takes and I can't undo

[Guest_1584]

maybe heavens above

will gods and angels be there

will pearly gates open

will souls true care

why don't we know

why no one has told

so to wait we continue

unless your so bold

[Not_Batman]

Going about my business, then a heart flutter from nowhere, instantly peaks my thoughts.

what just happened, am i ok, i ask patting myself down.

the realisation that my mind has tricked me again.

but it never turns into the boy who cried wolf.

[pl515p1]

I try to sleep,
not drown while I weep.
Wishing that I were only free.

I close my eyes,
attempt to muffle my cries.
Escaping into my mind's own reality.

I chase my dreams,
far more now it seems.
Taking so much out of me.

I see your face,
then wake to empty space.
This tears away at my sanity.

It hurts me so much that I'll never know
What you wanted to say
How you wanted to go
It hurts me so much that I'll never know
If you saw me that day
Why it had to be so

Where are you?
Why did you go?
Can I come too?

No?

[Guest_1584]

So touched and so deeply , such rocked rocked souls

with 3 yrs, yet in hrs, will never forget

teary and heartfelt , from such depths they arose

such love , such real , such beauty and risk

the words they escape

along with rhyme or reason

to find them we've tried

to hear them we've needed

to feel them we've blocked

in preservation and fear

but to caution we threw

and in wind we set free

to say what it's meant

l just wish l could do

to describe l'd give all

those of feelings of you

but just know that within

there are thunder and storms

beautiful , eerie

and of hope and new dawns

rx

[pl515p1]

Staring up at the sky asking why am I still here?
Trying to justify my new life in this nightmare.
Fighting this each night in my dreams, am I crazy?
Waking up in fright hearing screams, yelling save me!

That image haunting my mind’s eye, you trapped alone is what I now fear.
I gave away the key to comply, I hope you are not stuck there.
I can’t step from the pain into the light, escape these themes, the way to go is so damn hazy.
Only ghosts remain in sight or so it seems, of you and who I could be.

Walking in the street passers by feel so far, yet are so near.
I don't know them anymore, but who am I? I lost myself somewhere.
I look at the time and it holds so tight on scheme, is it tired or is it lazy?
I dare death to cross this line tonight to redeem, but that coward won't come out to face me.



In the dark a cold embrace
Thinking of a lifetime past
In the mirror I see your face
But it is how I saw you last
The finish line I try to chase
I gather speed I am running fast
I've fallen into another space
An emptiness that's oh so vast
In my dreams I try to erase
But the die already has been cast

[Sophie_M]

Hi pl515p1,

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