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Roses are red, violets are blue, here's a poetry thread, from me to you! (TW)

JynxModerator

Roses are red, violets are blue, here's a poetry thread, from me to you! (TW)

TW: Intense themes/potentially triggering content

Hey everyone, there's a few of us around that have spoken about their poetic streak, so I decided to create a space for folks to share their poetry!!

@creative_writer @tonys @tyme @Bow @Birdofparadise8 @ENKELI @Blackbird11 @Snowie @Captain24 @Shaz51 @Glisten @Former-Member @Jacques

Please also tag anyone who might want to have a read, or share some of their own!

You're welcome to share any kind of poems or small pieces of creative writing. Feel free to share some of your darker works if you have them, so long as they still remain within the bounds of the Guidelines, and please include trigger warnings and use spoiler tags as necessary.

Sometimes, this kind of deeper, more vulnerable form of expression can bring up some pretty heavy feelings. If you ever find yourself becoming distressed or dysregulated whilst sharing or reading along, please don't hesitate to reach out to your supports. The SANE line is full of lovely peeps who can sit with you through the darkness (Call 1800 187 263, Mon-Fri 10am-8pm). For out of hours support or for crisis, contact the following:

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It's hard to be vulnerable. But seeing the deeper parts in others can give us the courage to share those deeper, sometimes very raw and emotional parts of ourselves, and see that we're not alone in this wild ride called life. I hope we can learn from each other, become closer and more connected, and find resonance in our shared human experience. I'll kick us off ~

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tonysSenior Contributor

Re: Roses are red, violets are blue, here's a poetry thread, from me to you! (TW)

I love it @ENKELI .. It delves into the waiting that woman endure, while men be men. or the pawns

of men's bidding The waiting of woman has always stirred a force in me. Reminds me of those lines.

Slowly silently distantly gaze.

For silhouette riders in a red sunset haze..

Will things ever change.. Thankyou for taking me back to that place. That time.. tonys..

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MermaidHairSenior Contributor

Re: Roses are red, violets are blue, here's a poetry thread, from me to you! (TW)

I'm going to wrap up my night on the forum by sharing here something I wrote, very nervous to do so!

The Bottleman

You whispered sweet nothings as we gazed over empty seas,

When the dark clouds rolled in I fell to my knees.

You didn't see.

The suffocating thickness of the warm breeze,

The way your deception put me at ease.

We were free.

The remaining blood vessels that refused to freeze,

You had already departed but I begged 'stay with me please?'.

I can't flee.

My breath was taken and replaced with a wheeze,

This heart is just glass for the bottleman to seize.

It's not me.

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tonysSenior Contributor

Re: Living with Loneliness

Still on your park bench, sad letters all around. I think @PeppyPatti the coals you rekindled, have summoned the lonely hearts from afar to seek warmth and share pain.

@Rollon @PeppyPatti and @Oaktree @Appleblossom Families, fathers, youngest sons, daughters estranged,

Break ups n divorce.. Your pains, a whole lot worse than mine. The street has only, competitors..

No real friends and family to mourn

@Dolphin1 15.. and @Lila3 in your secret garden. Your letters captured for me the essence of a kind of salvation that works for some, like us. Thankyou. Loneliness spans all , from this bench,

to the ivory towers that shade it. Sleep found me eventually on your park bench and I woke with

my feelings in my hand.

LONELINESS.

Yesterdays papers down cold empty streets

winters wind whisks paper stands.

Dogs of despair with nothing to bark at

Cold comforts news paper gloved hands.

Flickering neon's protesting the damp

Tattered moths fooled by the false

Icy blue light depraving the night

Psychoses the fear quickened pulse.

A time when as youths

Sweethearts in phone booths

Laughed back that winters death stare .

Old sodden in sin

Keeps raining within

No phone calls

No letters

Despair..

Holed shoes shuffling rings through the grease pools

Down lanes night lovers once walked.

Memories on bar stools

Closed ears to old fools

Bare park bench where secrets one stalked.

Deprived of a chance too crippled to dance

Born from our withdrawal wombs.

She wrapped still born child

In a centre fold smile

Ghosts scarred with rusty spoon wounds.

My one person que

For damper n cold stew

and black coffee left to go cold.

On lonely hearts pages

Ghosts freed from the rages

Now welcomes us into their fold..

Newspapers wrapped around cheap hot meal chips

The oil aglow on our poverty lips

Death notice page races

From cruel winds embraces

Hunger and loneliness carved into faces

Caressed by lost loves finger tips..

And that's what loneliness looks like as a street kid. Thankyou for enduring.

@saturnzoon @cloudcore @StuF @Bunniekins @Glisten @Former-Member @Tilz

@Meowmy @Shaz51 @ENKELI @Historylover @Jynx @Former-Member @Healandlove

@Adge n @Doldip15 thankyou.. and everyone who shares this lonely bench. tonys.. mb1

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JynxModerator

Re: Living with Loneliness

@tonys as requested, here is your piece of poetry relocated in the poetry thread! Let me know if there's any issues. Otherwise, happy Saturday my friend 😁💜

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tonysSenior Contributor

Re: Living with Loneliness

OH Mate... That is so thoughtful of you @Jynx 😊 Didn't think anyone would do that and here it is, in

your hotel.. its rightful place. Even hanging crooked.. just the exact way it should.

Bless ya jynx tonys... We have to keep this place alive hey. You built it , thats the very least we can do. Thanks again friend..

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tonysSenior Contributor

Re: Living with Loneliness

@TAB Jynx moved the loneliness to here for me and I realized I never tagged you bro and you know the street only to well.. Its a bout a quarter way to the standard I'm gunna need to get these creased brows

moved. BUT YOU, gave me a theme n thats all I needed. The morphing of real love, , to grey then to AI love. . . n the fall to real real love again... That's all I needed, . . . n busy fingers are half way through it already ,

I'm gunna mention you and how I got the idea tomorrow , if thats ok, so thankyou very much TAB.. tonys..

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GlistenSenior Contributor

Re: Roses are red, violets are blue, here's a poetry thread, from me to you! (TW)

@Jynx @tonys @MermaidHair @ENKELI @TAB @Birdofparadise8 @creative_writer @scruffypuffball @Oaktree @Former-Member

Has anyone else seen this Canadian poet’s book May I Wear Your Crown?

https://www.instagram.com/chris.t.poetry?igsh=MWRmcHliOW52M29sNQ==

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