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Decembre Apr 8
I cannot tell
Whether my thoughts
Of you,
Are compulsive,
Or something
That I cannot help

Are they sweet signs
Of care and devotion,
Or something
That I’ve taught myself?
You#2
Decembre Apr 14
Round and round it goes
A fish in its paradise
Contained in a jar.
>**>
Diamond sprinkles shine
On nature’s disrupted glass
Life sprung from the pond.
Another 2-word prompt for haiku. Both are about a fish
Decembre Mar 30
I'm not sure I understand
Or ever truly will
The distinction between 'just' love, and romance
What is it really,
That makes a friend or a lover?
Decembre Apr 9
How queer the sparrow looks,
Flapping through the air.
A flash of brown, a muted sound,
Near, far off, and there.

Quick they hide among the leaves,
They neither jump nor twitch.
Behind the threads a spider weaves,
They utter no cry or pitch.

And so our little sparrow sits
There on a crooked tree.
Among the colours where it fits
And where we cannot see.
Just some fun thing I wrote when bored. Messing around with writing a rhyming poem as quickly as I could. For some reason the infamous Sparrow came to mind as a subject. I love how you can cycle past a bush and suddenly a whole swarm of them will fly off (or sometimes into), startled, while before you could hardly see them.
Decembre Apr 2
If I were a painter
I would capture your likeness
When sat under yellow light
Playing games at the table
Or bathed in the flickering glow
Of a campfire underneath the night’s sky
Your skin a playing field
For different shades of red
So I might remember
With perfect clarity
Your contour that I could see
Sitting opposite of you
Just a description of a scene from a late night moment around the campfire. I love the light from fire! I truly wish I could paint something like that. Lighting makes something seem so alive. And a campfire creates this moving and warm--almost exclusive--sort of scene. Because the world around the fire is covered in darkness.
Decembre Apr 14
Last night I dreamt
Of music
And theatre
Front row seats

I could see
Every expression
Every fake tear
Every barely hidden laugh
Like I was in on the joke

There were some others
Too, I think
People I knew
People I loved

Together we smiled
There, in the front
Upon plush red seats
Numbers 88
To 91

Until suddenly
BOOM!
The air ripped me apart
Only a second of realisation
Before that world was gone
Basically imagine the bomb-test scene from Oppenheimer. The dead quiet before the sound hits.
I for the life of me can't remember what preceded this part of the dream--something weird I'm sure--but I remember it ended with a bomb that legit felt so realistic (well...as far as I can imagine) I could feel the vibrations of the hit. I didn't even have time to be scared in the dream. No waking up with a sudden lurch either. It was just
BAM
****
gone, and I was awake.
For a few seconds after waking I briefly considered the idea some people believe that "dreams are glimpses of alternate universes". Had some version of me just died? Ridiculous, but I entertained it the way you entertain daydreams.
I mourned a little for imaginary me.
It made me think of the scary times we live in. Things could change, just like that. Things are changing.
Decembre Mar 22
Never must man judge
What eyes have not seen,
What’s to the soul unknown

What do your words mean, petit?
Little one so free,
Of hardship never sown
Decembre Apr 20
Luister daar aan de deur
Gefluister, gemompel, geritsel
Wat is dat?
Sssst, wees still.

Verroer geen vin, wacht
Smachtend, naar geluid
Op de mat
Zonder dat je wat zeggen wil.

Je hoort, bent
Een soort van
Blind.

Gespannen, tot
Je plots dan
Vindt

Wat je zocht, zo stil voor was
Dat een tocht, te horen was.

Luistervink.
This is something I wrote a whiiiile back. It's in dutch. Luistervink translates as Eavesdropper.
Sometimes I cope
By imagining you
To be perfect
And that if you were there
All would be fine

I’m not sure why
But I make myself
Believe
You#6
Decembre Apr 9
Graffiti artworks
Adorn grey and lifeless walls
Halt me in my haste.
Decembre Mar 29
There’s nothing so soft makes me cower
As the ticking of a midnight clock
In this still and quiet hour

I sit, enveloped in the thickest dark
Comfortable and all alone
Upon my mind this echo leaves its mark

I’m free to contemplate without the noise
Of day’s loud vibrant life
I'm left to think of choice

Were it for this soft sound to leave my ear
Then I'd face true solitude
Not sure if that would a bane, or dear

Oh! For true silence, yet I daren’t mock
The quiet ticking of a midnight clock
Staying up much too late, as usual.
Decembre Apr 11
If there were no words
For our identities
(If we were just
People, and only that)
Would it still matter
Who is attracted to who?
Or would it just be
A meeting of souls?
Decembre Mar 30
I cannot romanticise the fact
That I have no clue what I mean
My thoughts are an uncoordinated scramble
Here this
That
Something else
Something something
Something with meaning
Elusive words I pass through like mist
It is cloudy in my mind
I itch to knock on a door
And have it be Clarity who opens
But I only ever stand on the threshold
My feet glued to the ground
As a voice calls “come in!”
It feels so immature when I can't find words to say what I mean.
Decembre Apr 11
This too will once pass
These silver tears of sorrow
I shall call it ‘end’.
---
Old framed picture wall
Dust on long forgotten shelves
I shall call it ‘time’.
Written for a 2-word haiku prompt
Decembre Mar 20
The way that we perceive the world
‘s entirely depended upon
The way we wish it to be perceived,
and what glasses we don
Though from time to time,
we do not realise which we wear
Or we might forget at all
that they are even there
And then we think that what we see,
is clear as day and true
Discounting other eyes that view
the world not as we do
Decembre Apr 24
I think that sometimes
I nod my head too quickly
It’s not that I disagree,
But I answer
Before I’ve attempted to make up my mind.
Decembre Mar 31
Perhaps when I
Warn myself
Of unrealistic fantasies and dreams
I forget that there
Is such a thing
As unrealistic nightmares
Too
Decembre Apr 12
I am selfish in the fact
That I want you to talk to me
About anything
So that I might feel closer to you
Instead of wanting you
To just be
You#8
Decembre Apr 7
Fragrant soil. Soft wind.
Glowing grass on golden days
Brings a peace of mind.
Decembre Mar 27
I tend
to make things
much more complicated
than they need to be.
Until I’ve gotten myself
stuck in a web
that has no spider.
Decembre Apr 12
On dreary days
When the sky is grey
And the light is white
My state of mind
Is mine to choose.
To wallow or to waver
Or to cherish and to savour.

But on days when warmth
Seeps into my skin
And I’m pleasantly glowing;
With tiredness seeping out
I can only be at peace.
Decembre Apr 22
Stickers on the wall
They are my memories
Of nearly forgotten times
That made me happy.

(a childhood spend
with a good friend
together we made this memorial
but that was years ago)

I’ll never take them off
‘Cause they would take the wall with them.
Decembre Apr 8
City sound. Distant cars
Neon light and cigarettes
A comforting haze.
Decembre Apr 4
Flowers in a sea of grey
Know that they will bloom
Even on the most barren land,
Or the direst circumstance
Life finds a way.
I've been taking photo's of flowers with the city as a background. I love the sense of spring time it gives. The city becomes fresh, because there is still some green between all that grey
Decembre Apr 19
Sometimes
I need words
To understand
What I feel

(And sometimes
I want to be told
Only to remember
I know what I feel after all
Or at least I know
That it’s not that)
Process of elimination is a good place to start when lost, I think
You
Decembre Mar 29
You
Why is it
that whenever I pretend to love,
or try to think of
how it would look,
I see you?

— The End —