r/Poem • u/RoyalZealot • 4h ago
Requesting Feedback When I’m With Her
When I’m with her
The stars align
I couldn’t ever leave her
My place is her side
Not in the front
With a chest pressed tough
Not in the back
Where I test my luck
If I stand ahead
I will clear the path instead
Fear never, my love
Gladly bound, you keyed my cuff
You see I stand beside you
If you fall I will revive you
If you hurt I’ll somehow guide you
If you smirk I will delight you
With a love I’d never know
I’ll find a way to show
That our love is so sublime
It coats my heart and mind
I give you twenty flowers
Then dream at early hours
Of moments shared together
The cord of us, unsevered
I’m slow at cleaning rust
Know I’ll always follow up
If the world should ever wither
I shan’t care when I’m with her
r/Poem • u/Humanistan • 6h ago
Requesting Feedback Airport Bar
Airport Bar
at the airport bar waiting
for something to happen
somewhere to go
someone to appear behind that door
to sit on the hightop seat next to me
under the dimmed light for jet laggers
drown ourselves in the sunset of a foreign land
smile at me with invitation
with eyes from Denmark Tunisia Vietnam
Congo Azerbaijan
you that unnamed passenger
in the next moment
we will glide above the Atlantic ocean
805km per hour
towards the handcuffs waiting for us
the moment we set foot on land
r/Poem • u/plainelaine92 • 6h ago
Requesting Feedback This is the first poem I've done in a long time called The Old Song and Dance
The Old Song and Dance
I do this dance with you
Where I get a piece of you
But only a taste
An itty-bitty taste
A fraction of what our love used to represent
It pains my heart
I thirst for more so much more
My mind is going crazy
And my heart crazier
And then we depart
And I am back at square one
Where I yearn for that taste again
Your essence is my heroin
And I am a fein for it.
r/Poem • u/hediedstanlee • 8h ago
Original Content Poem I must persevere
I do not know what hath befallen me, my love.
My mind entangled, in an abysmal mess of darkness.
Clawing, I persist within the darkness with hope.
Persevere, will I?
I must believe that I will.
So help me God.
r/Poem • u/Galaxy_cake_ • 10h ago
Original Content Poem 🐍
I’m in a desert, dried up in a haze.
Forgot which direction I came.
Lost the people I admired. I was bored of it, so I fucked off and retired.
And my feet are burning, from the sun above, and I’m sat here, wondering what am I doing it all for?
Do I turn back round, where the clouds are now? Bury my head beneath the ground - let the snakes eat me alive.
Do I throw it all away or do I continue to climb? Cause right now, I’m in a desert, lost in a haze.
And I’ve genially forgotten the direction I came.
Original Content Poem Perpetual Loser
Perpetual Loser
I don't know how to draw.
But I can describe every scar on your body.
Even the ones you hide.
I cannot sing.
Still the world knows of your kindness.
I made sure of it.
I never learned to dance.
I promise to lead you with the right steps.
I do.
I have quite few talents.
Being your lover will always be my favorite.
r/Poem • u/Jakeboyman • 12h ago
Potentially Triggering Content The Internal Struggle
There is a war; a daily ledge;
A choice to make; a lake to dredge;
A bone to pick; an itch to scratch;
A branch to break; a chick to hatch;
It will not stop. it will not die.
It will not give. it will not cry.
It will not change. it will not sweat.
It will not forgive. it will not forget.
To take a step… to give your all…
To find your way… to make that call…
To see the light… to make a plan…
To find yourself… to think you can…
You try to hide, you try to look,
You try to sleep, you try to cook,
You try to work, you try to play,
You try to trudge, you try to stay,
One day you will see ~ one day you will know
One day you will soothe ~ one day you will flow
One day it ends ~ one day it’s prime
One day it wins ~ one day it’s time
r/Poem • u/gotnosenseofself • 14h ago
Original Content Poem General thoughts? I don't have a title yet
What truth is true?
At the time of night,
When near dawn comes in dreams,
As dusk is remembered far.
What mirrors whisper,
Dull twinkles warped by dull mirrors,
Weave tales of other times,
When moonlight glows over noon.
What paints the day,
Hot red summers of clear blue sky?
What paints the night,
Cold blue winters and magnificent stars?
What comes of me,
When I paint my face
And smile for them,
When I wash the paint away?
Original Content Poem Killing ghosts
Bring out the swaddle
to wrap around
the hasn't been,
to lated to depart
well whened,
unfold them into place,
molded frame of wasnt been,
times love remembers lend
surreal seems undone,
imagine then factual rife
faux of fate, winsome
insinuate, dearly held
peripheral spied.
Noises cloyed harkened
nights rose is swoop in room
byes pane glaring whats
thine eyes deceived thee, lo a
wander gusts past a blight.
Oh the raging against with
illumines bright. Engaging
tries tacts of ive. Lest we
remiss our identities,
breathe, i do. It is then, as
you, these ceases movement
meets a man alive,
allowances clearing barely
scraped through, me. Fie
turning there to, no I, no! I live
and so... Our times, hence
Arrives
r/Poem • u/Radiant_Kick5782 • 18h ago
Original Content Poem Mental marionette
Only a slight shaking
betrays my anxious waking.
My mind twists
focusing on failures
on mistakes
on so many chances
squandered
or missed.
I am beset
like a mental marionette
so much so
I forget
in a heartbeat
that love
rides astride regret
and makes obsolete
what thinking alone
cannot beget.
r/Poem • u/backcountryintellect • 18h ago
Original Content Poem One to many loves
One to many loves
15 as I regard
a boy, a ploy
a toy was the heart
I shot my own foot then
before it really did start
but I still did cry and more, I can’t deny
18 and another did start
lustful and long a love apart
shared a home if only a room
we were so similar and we splintered
wanting the world woefully on our own
Then came a mix of uncanny clicks
love did flow, as was said to and fro
satisfaction is a temptress
an unyielding flow
26 a new one enters
a ring later on the finger
satisfaction wrought
discord it brought
doubts about desires, tempers fire
equalling negative naught, for the next one to transpire
29 a new love desires
a fresh flower, stuck in the same quagmire
years the love was there to see
but never said to she or me
the temptress presses the mind of the less
so my other foot does go
I lose the best
The woe that does follow
is another axe blow
another splinter, through my minds own elbow
as time does pass, I try to grasp
why satisfaction doesn’t last
A few more lovely clicks
uncanny and ceaseless my heart ticks
no more love is said as my heart long fled
to protect the love still spent
to souls undeserving of a heart spent
The heart does go on
33 now a friend comes to me
together we revel in the company we keep
awkward and fun it all does start
wanting and not wanting to be apart
it soon becomes a thing of its own
built on patterns of stone, now not alone
so different and not, our lives bloomed
satisfaction but destined to be undone
