forum POEMS post 'em here my friends!

Started February 07, 2019 by @ember-chan-will-never-forget-you

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Considering the plum-colored silk
She has thoughts so quiet
Not even the dream-flies can hear them
Gold spider lilies glitter knowingly in the folds.

@Young-Dusty gorgeous.

Ahhh thanks fam! Kinda forgot I posted that one lol. Glad you like it! XD

Idk if this is the right thread for this, but I tried my hand at erasure poetry last night. I'm not really much of a poet, but I'm kinda happy with the results

Oh, I really like it. Erasure poetry is always fun, in my opinion. Good job.

Thanks :D

I will try to refrain from spamming this chat but I made another erasure poem. This one is from the poem "Boots" by Rudyard Kipling. I wanted to see if I could take something really dark and turn it into something more positive and uplifting.

You did a good job. It is most certainly uplifting.

I agree! Nice work! ^^

so i
coughed up something
one line spoilered for tw of suicide

~

Survival.
How does one survive
In this broken world
Full of death

and suffering?

It's simple,
You see
You don't.
You keep on plunging
Forward
And forward
No matter the costs.
And eventually
You learn
How to
Survive

The end
is near.
The year
is nearly over.

Let us
Look forward
To a new beginning

Things have gone wrong
Left and right
And everyone keeps dying
Left and right
But the new year
Has something more for us in store
Many things
Many good things
They come
In the dead of the night

And so to survive
We must
For that is the only option left.
We must
Survive.

_{this currently has 200+ notes on my tumblr I'm gonna cry no one every reblogs my stuff}

holy fuck that hit deep
i actually
really needed that??

lowkey if i had your tumblr i would 100% reblog
dont mind the fact that i also rarely go on it except when i'm bored and remember it exists

For real tho, short but sweet and very thought-provoking! Awesome work @Starfast !

short bit on being cold all the time. slight tw for blood/gore?

cheating with monsters

i want you to hurt like how you tore her apart.
i hope you think about how badly you fucked up
scarring them time and time again
the burning lock on my necklace
symbolized our bond and turned to
represent your betrayal.
the butterflies are coming to life;
fluttering off the can like they have
some business being here.
i hate butterflies.

Dangggg some real good stuff in here lately! @PunsAndShips , I don't think any of your latest poems need a fancy format since they're already so thought-provoking and unique–but I know how you feel about wanting to polish up appearances a bit XD
I tried my hand at something more image-like a couple days ago and it's very messy and simple, but lemme see if I can share it here:

New Year's Resolutions

jsiahiajjbjidhiq i just realized this thread exists, so here's a poem based off of a dream i had-

we all fall down

i can feel your body turn to dust as you lay in my arms
like a vampire fading away in the wake of the afternoon sun
your ashes are the last thing of yours i will feel
before i completely forget who you are, before you fade from my memory entirely

with a thud, i fall onto my knees
the gray sand-like substance slipping between my fingers
it should have been me
i had imagined you'd be the one to survive

constant trial and error, they always said to us
but if an irreversible error occurs, what's the point of the trial?
if no more trials can be brought upon after the first error, why even try it in the first place?
i see no difference between trial and error; both lead to disaster

i begin to think about the past
how you, had you acted a little different, could have changed our future, and the same goes for me
it should have been me…
i had imagined we'd be the ones to survive

@Young-Dusty thank you, and I love your poem too. It looks simple but there's a lot of stuff in not a lot of words:)

@probablypolnareff that sounds like a crazy dream, and your poem is super cool !

@probablypolnareff that sounds like a crazy dream, and your poem is super cool !

you're right, it was a crazy dream- and thanks !

@Young-Dusty thank you, and I love your poem too. It looks simple but there's a lot of stuff in not a lot of words:)

Thanks! Yeah some thinking went into that one XD

@probablypolnareff i really enjoyed that bit– 'before i completely forget who you are, before you fade from my memory entirely.' terrified of losing my memory and i hate forgetting parts of my dream because too-often they seem like theyre trying to tell me something. i hate dreaming, knowing I'll forget.

now that im thinking about dreams i've remembered a poem/ entry i hurriedly wrote after a dream that seemed rather lynchian. not a terribly composed thing but i'm glad i got it out.

woah look at that i figured out how to write another poem
and i formatted it bc yes

and uh
its more of a personal one
just me spilling out feelings-