My original poetry repository (linked below) was getting too long, so I decided to move some of those poems to this new post, and also add some new ones while I was at it…
LOOP (HAIKU)
Maybe this is life
Just a long, endless loop
Maybe that’s okay
DRAMA (HAIKU)
Sometimes drama
Leads to the future
You really need
“KIND” (HAIKU)
They may be “kind,”
But does that really mean,
They’re a good friend?
“COOL” (HAIKU)
Sadly, you can’t do
What they all might say is “cool”
Do what you’re good at
THIS
I could just journal
Or talk to friends or AI
Or family or whoever
Or just consume things
But by doing THIS
I’m taking something
And turning it into
Something else
Something you can see
Something that might help
Help you, AND me
WINTER CAN BE GOOD
Between all the snow shoveling
We pause to gaze upon the beauty
Between frost bite and the wind
We admire our own hats and scarfs
Like nearly all else, winter can be good
With the right perspective in mind
THE SUNSET REMAINS
A land where the sunset now remains
Frozen still, just upon the horizon
A land where the beings no longer age
No longer are they able to bare children
Even the crops have now ceased to grow
All because the creator stopped creating
If only he knew, the RANGE creation entailed
That even a haiku, or other small poem
Or even an unrelated Drabble of some kind
Would have kept his world of fantasy alive
BALANCE (HAIKU)
I have seen things
You have seen other things
So we’re even
LAYERS (HAIKU)
I’m a kid at heart
Yes, even when I act “dark”
Believe it or not
CONNECTION
Don’t need to always talk
Even just small moments
Of the simplest conversations
Can be more than enough
ROB ZOMBIE VS. BOB ROSS
“You don’t really need friends”
Demon? Dark angel? Up to you
“I don’t have time to hate anyone”
Saint? False god? Up to you
POETRY GOAL
To write a poem every day,
Or every other.
Can it not be done?
Only time could tell!
Though I highly doubt…
HINDSIGHT (HAIKU)
I thought that I had
Problems when I was younger
Little did I know…
A DIFFERENT WAY (HAIKU)
I am still productive
Still making the most out of life
In a different way…
BURN
Hands burning to do something else
Voice burning to be someone else
Mind burning to be somewhere else
Eyes burning to see somehow else
Alas, reality burns, just the same…
CHANGE?
Do people really change?
Or just get better at hiding who they are?
Either way, loose things connect
The new you and old you…
KNOW-IT-ALL
If someone calls you a know-it-all
They are probably just insecure
Because they do not know much themselves
Nevertheless, sometimes we must let
Everyone else just think what they want…
But sorry that I know more than you…
LOST TALENT (HAIKU)
A talent gone to waste
Cause of things beyond their control
Their fans are in their head…
SCATTERSHOT
What everyone forgets to say, is that
There’s something beautiful about it all
But all beauty is cursed
So remember the beauty, recreate it
Using the canvas of the sky
Hear the songs that connect the world together
Connect the dots that aren’t really there
I see the old you in there, somewhere
What makes you sad is what makes you great
You sat back as the moment flew by
And now that moment’s gone
So all you can do now is wait
For another moment to come along…
ACID DAMAGE
I only think about one thing now
You say it’s easy to overcome
But tell that to the boy
Who thinks he’s a banana now…
IT TAKES AN OCEAN
See my own eyes reflecting me
Everywhere that I look now
A price worth paying, though
Cause it can take an ocean
Just to make a diamond…
UP & DOWN (HAIKU)
All you do is frown
Cause I know how to go up
And you just go down…
BROODING ARTIST
You can hear her talent thru her sickness
The idiot-genius, still at work
Nothing left now but pencil scratches
And blood curling on the shower floor
I bet you couldn’t understand
Even if you really tried…
“Brooding Artist” ain’t a good look
Not for all of us, at least…
FLAW
Can’t even protect the ones you love
Or the ones who love you…
Can’t even tell you how far I’ve come
But everyone can see who I really am…
Spazzing out to no end…
YOU VS. ME
Who you trying to be? Me?
Well honestly, at this point
You do me better than I do…
JUNKIE (HAIKU)
Nowhere else left to go to
Loving every calorie now
Indifferent to it all…
GUITAR (HAIKU)
Strings older than I know
Coded with rust and odor
All somehow still intact…
RIVER PHOENIX
Trying to stay one step ahead of fate
Learning the rules, just to break them
It’s a shame no one else heard your voice
So get to the core of your mind
To find what you really need
And just keep doing what you do
Cause what does scaring people really get you?
NOW & THEN
Not my place
To make someone feel ashamed
Of who they were
Or who they are now…
And now can I see
Where you were coming from
What you were chasing, and still are…
BAD & GOOD
Thoughts from “bad me”
Only to be refined
By the “good me”
PRESENT (HAIKU)
This is my way
Of letting the world know
That I’m still here
HAIKU (HAKIU)
There’s always a way
To turn something into art
Even three lines works…
ATTENTION (HAIKU)
I still pay attention
More than I had done so, before
Both for better and worse…
BREAKUP
Sometimes people need
To just say goodbye
Before they can grow
I don’t have a choice
But at least the pros
Still outweigh the cons…
LUST OVER LOVE
I swam an ocean to hear with my eyes
And see with my tongue
I crawled around for the wrong reasons
But don’t we all, sometimes?
Who says love is the only thing
We need to think about?
Who says we can’t prioritize
Lust over love?
DIG DEEP
And now I’ve become the very thing
That I said I would never be
And now I gave to work to bring
Myself back to what was still me
Gotta dig deep to dig your way out…
Tune out the voices around
Make sure your feet stay on the ground
Am I losing my way?
Listen to the world that’s all around
Don’t lose your way…
NO NEED
I don’t need you to understand
Cause I don’t care anymore, anyway…
I don’t care if you don’t understand
Cause I don’t need you to anymore, anyway…
MAKE THE MEANING
Five fingers on each hand
For the five years I knew you
Three times I messed up
Three strikes, I’m out
Life won’t give you meaning
You have to make the meaning
Even if it only makes sense to you…
MENTORS (HAIKU)
Find many mentors
Filter out all of their flaws
And combine their strengths…
ONE WING GONE (HAIKU)
One wing gone, still flying high
That part of your brain you can’t shut down
No matter how hard you try
I MAY AGAIN KNOW
When the new you rests
The old you comes back
Passive aggressiveness
Makes you face the consequence
As you long for good feelings again
In the hypothetical future ahead
SKY SHOW
The sky puts on another show
Birds and planes, against the clouds
Passing each other by
Sights that compliment
The soundtrack of life
THE DUALITY OF SURVIVAL (HAIKU)
There are two kinds of survival instinct:
One that makes you wanna preserve your own bloodline,
One that makes you wanna preserve yourself…
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