That's the lot so far folks. And I'm going to use this thread to post any new poems I write in the future! Thanks for reading any or all of them and please let me know your thoughts x
My most recent poem! A little more of an upbeat note following the last one ^^
STAR GARDEN
In the garden
by the lillies
and the roses
‘neath the willow
near the posies;
potted planets,
constellations,
blooming matter,
soul plantations.
Worldly oak trees,
naive saplings
share their roots
just...
Enjoy your daily dose of angst in this one hahaha
ECHO
I breathe in a stone,
hear it rattle and
scrape on bone.
I am alone.
My eyes; empty spaces
looking upon empty spaces
from within empty spaces
and I am alone.
Hollow morning, evening, night.
So what’s the point? Why do I fight?
When all I...
This one is a favourite of mine. I wrote it for my mum, in honour of all the joy she's brought into my life and the hard work it took.
TREES
A brittle, browning orchard
held their twisted roots,
clutched within our soil
among fallen leaves and fruits.
The pungent stench of rot and death...
Not a super cheerful topic but writing this one down was very cathartic at the time. I was also quite proud of the rhyming scheme here when I wrote it ^^
BLISS
A plume of stark black mist
congested in my head,
turned red at sight of fair,
blue branched wrist.
And my gut would twist
with a...
This is the first poem I completed in my adult life! It's a long one, I knew that much when I wrote it. In my next few poems I put some work into being more concise but I'd hate to cut anything out of this one now when I felt at the time it was completed :)
JOY
In rosy youth the sun that shone...
So I've got precisely zero experience with poetry outside of the few pieces I've written myself. I enjoy poetry but until pretty recently it was something I struggled with. My writing is all completely self-taught and I took a while to get a grasp of the flow that poetry needed, nor could I have...