#new poetry community

[rapturepoetry]

i'm never a priority

i'm never someone's reason for waking up

the giver, never the taker

never the taker, always the asker

i ask for time

i ask for patience

i ask for comfort

i'm never a priority

never the taker

never the reason

[alex-a-roman]

Before the lights go out

Let's be lovers for a day, In case we won't make it through the night! At least we'll have a story to hold onto  For when the world ends, We know we're not meant to grow old So maybe let's tell each other words We’ve never heard before, Confess our crimes and taste the sky Before it all comes down, Before the earth is fire and ash, Before the lights go out.

~ A. A. Roman

[adharagranley-writer]

and one day i started listening to a kind of music i never listen to, and one day i started reading about a topic i never thought of before. and one day, i started doing things because of you.

[27paperlilies]

2024 will be a year of wellness. I'm calling it.

I don't need a miracle or vast amounts of luck, just a simple happy year.

2024 will be a time to cleanse all of the muck, the crap that's dragged everyone down will be lifted, this new year spirits will be shifted.

[ninasdrafts]

You see - you’ve done it again. You’ve made it through another year. Whether you’re a fighter who suffers in silence or someone who shares their struggles with the world, you have over a hundred reasons to be proud of yourself. I hope you’ll never stop celebrating your victories, no matter how small they might seem to others. I hope you’ll find the courage to take that last step, to write that letter, to send that text. I hope you will be brave enough to change your life. What are you waiting for? Please don't tell me you're not ready yet. Truth is you will never feel ready enough to take a step out of your comfort zone. Something new will always be scary at first. If 2022 was for slow transformations and growth, 2023 will be about taking the leap. About the big jump - the falling, and the flying. Accept that you deserve something bigger, something better. You've got this.

hi, 2023 / n.j.

[1nn32dem0n5]

she baked me cookies

once a girl has cooked for you just for you she has given you her heart. at the very least say thank you.

[magdamateo]

Oh, sweet love, don’t you see?

All I want is you and me.

Sweet whispered words and a beautiful lie.

Hell, you’ll forever be mine.

[sillypoetproject]

growing up isn’t getting a job

or getting married

or having a kid

growing up is growing into yourself

learning to love yourself for who you are

trying to be better than you were yesterday

be kind and gracious and courteous

you are not the same person you were once upon a time

you are capable of change and growth and love

and you deserve to feel the joy of being kind

[rapturepoetry]

dear rabbit

the blood flows through you like water

there is love in that blood, there is wild

you breathe with the forest and sleep with the moon

your eyes see everything, your ears hear all

did those ears hear my cries for you

did your eyes see my car stop on the side of the road

with your senses did you hear my heart stutter

my chest heave, the howls of pain

with your last breath did my pain match yours

dear rabbit

the love in that blood

did it stop when it spilled on the road

[alex-a-roman]

You can't see it, But you make me smile every day There's nothing I can do, You're so far away In the moonlight We will meet and dance again.

~ A. A. Roman

[kiisuuumii]

@kiisuuumii (or so the tarot says.)

[naeemajusthasthoughts]

Echoes

I think about it all the time the unresponsive fights and all the make believes I had to endure, dissociated from the storm I don't know you anymore. Perhaps in another life when life was much more simpler unimaginative, black and blue undercovered from all that was due, strayed from what was knew it became a life that dewed. There was no other time a tomb filled with all those lies and the grace of a grave that hole was made out of pain, truth and lies. They became my rain leaving out all those harsh thorns its pierced my heart, bleeding the lost cause dry. My faith died that day pushed me away, now, I have to do it all again.

[27paperlilies]

The faces you see in clouds, the pictures you draw from star alignments, are fractals of older wiser giants.

[malencholic-nyx]

As the stars light up the night sky above,

And the moon shines with its gentle love,

I long for the touch of your lips so sweet,

To feel the warmth of your embrace complete.

But it's not just your lips that I desire,

It's the way you make my heart catch fire,

With every gentle kiss on each little mole,

That adorns my skin, a beauty to behold.

On my chin, on my eyelid, and by my ear,

Each one unique, each one so dear,

And the one on my collar bone so fair,

All of them together, make a picture so rare.

So come closer, my love, and feel my heart,

As we share this moment, never to part,

And as you kiss each little mole so divine,

Know that you make me feel like I shine.

For it's not just my moles that make me beautiful,

It's the way you love me, so unconditional,

So hold me tight, and never let go,

As we watch the stars and the moon glow.

–Nyx

[1nn32dem0n5]

it's the little things

I am from east europe and my name can't be pronounced in the midwest so I dumb it down for them but she said it right and that was enough for me

[janthewriter]

The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword

they say that words hold power

and that what you write comes to life.

but what if you tend to write about the

deepest, darkest, horrors

that haunt the furtherest corners of your mind

at the cost of your sanity

are those thoughts that your mind beholds

already well alive

dwelling among us

in the darkness & shadows

begging for our eyes to just simply catch a glance

of the reality around us that already is?

~ j.u.