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

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:

Lifeline: 13 11 14 or Crisis Chat

Suicide call back service: 1300 659 467 or online counselling

Samaritans: 135 247

If in immediate danger: 000

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

Also @tonys just read your poem. An absolutely exquisite journey of words. Really powerful imagery, you're incredibly talented! Thank you for sharing 😍💜

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

@tonys

Awesome to hear from you

Awesome poem

Hope you get back on your feet good and proper soon!

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

Hi there lovely clever @tonys 😊💝 Thanks for tagging me into your beautifully written Valentines Day poem. 👍 It really is very very good.

Sorry to hear you are still suffering the effects of COVID. Lets hope it releases its clutches from you soon. ♥

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

To gaze into the eye of the horse is to be granted a glimpse of a tempest that barely tolerates us

@Bunniekins . A special moment. Your dream means something important. I'll bet Smiling gecko or someone knows what dreams mean. I surely don't, but I am glad that much of me is stuck in one.

Thankyou greenpea. I'm so lucky to have you as a friend. Hope you and your "kidults" are as happy as the times will allow. I pinched your word and use it every chance I get.

Played this once but people gave up on it before they got to the words in the song..! Its my go too

Autumn mood song. One day please let me know how the diet is going. Take care friend.

https://youtu.be/Pc3OnSQc48s?si=pq1yq5fmW0UDQ7Uo..

Thankyou for your beautiful words of suport @Jynx @Emelia8 @Oaktree and all the kind souls on Sane . Hope the love you give find a home back in you. tonys..

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

@tonys you are a good friend to pea i care for you alot. when you say you are stuck in a dream me too. i believe our existence is a dream particular to this universe that we live in. i believe there are multiverses. this is just one we inhabit. Im a spiritual person not religious. i have started up with my weight loss routine again as i slacked off for awhile. my health is so bad at the moment i cannot kid myself anymore now no more fattening foods. The song is beautiful, soft and gentle thank you for posting it.

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

Thankyou @ENKELI .. Think your prayers are helping my friend. If even half my prayers for raindrops

for my friends far west are heard, I fear I may have prayed you a deluge. I know only some of the challenges you are facing but good people always find a way through. Your better than good. The oasis of winter will soon be here, That will be our time to recoup, regroup, and take back lost ground.

Take care Enkeli.. tonys.

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

@ENKELI It’s still Thursday!
This is what happens when I wake up at 3:30am.
My mind slid into Friday and Friday hasn’t arrived yet.

G

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

A poetry thread! I just posted my poem in my rambling thread 😅

I've enjoyed skimming through and reading people's poems, thanks for being brave and posting them. I hope I can write again sometime soon 😿

I have another old poem though, here goes...

A Creation

The seams are near invisible

so the whole seems indivisible

an unnatural creation

bearing the form of man

the stitching is immaculate

but repetition cannot inculcate

the promise of normality

from a surgeons steady hands

it’s a blind old sinners trap

to hide the mind’s unholy zap

and survive a while by sophistry

to avoid the fiery brand

But eventually the truth will speak

betray the cause of sallow cheeks

and sunken eyes grown tired

old before their time

The faded form a cause of guilt

the physic takes on psychic wilt

serve penance and feel agony

for no deserv-ed crime

The body’s good, the brain is bad

the tale’s too common to be sad

can but bask in winter’s sun

before returning to the brine

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

Multiverse you say @Bunniekins . Tantalizing concepts you raise my friend.. We are on the cusp of an AI genesis. People

living, loving cruise ship virtual holidays in the safety of a helmet. Our senses convinced its real.

In centuries to come, will the first self aware children be born in that world. It happens now, without

quantum computers each night in the universe of dreams. Are we already the children of our computor generated forefathers. Definatley fertile fields for poetry Greenpea..

Love is such a driving force in collision with an ever more lonely world.

Do minds conjure up scraps for love lonely people to delude them that one more day is worth it, in the search for love. . .

LADY IN PEARLS...

I always did wonder about the lady in pearls

Does she sleep on soft pillows of cloud.

Is the comfort imagined meandering mind

dishevelled drunk mutters aloud.

Rain drops of milk on her meadows of silk

caressing untouchable skin.

Dizzy room dance as we twirl in a trance

Free falling our dances within.

I always did ponder why sweethearts grow fonder

the bottle surrenders to sips.

Did kisses grow sweeter

As we pay by the meter

Nirvana in peach parted lips..

Did I imagine my hands on her hips

Waking hair raking with warm finger tips.

Forbidden hands grasping on mutiny ships.

Or a lie

that I justify

paid for in tips..

Second hand shoppers playing taming of shrews.

Fed to the lions for differing views.

The eye of the oyster first covets the pearls

Abandoned old dolls become dancing show girls..

Disturbed you may be at pearls imposition

Holding her close in a foetal position.

Licked lead paint armpits institutional hell

Adonis of anger holds keys to my cell.

Was lady in pearls

just me in my head.

Better than truth

in a love lonely bed.

But ask your self why

my cold cell as you lock it. 16.2.24

When greeted each morn

Three more pearls in my pocket..

For Greenpea. from tonys mb 1 You gave me the idea mate.

and we thank the world for showing us love in all its wonderful colours. dreams or real.

@Jynx @Glisten @Emelia8 @Acanthiza @ENKELI @Former-Member @TAB n @StuF

@Shaz51 @Historylover @Tilz @Appleblossom @EternalFlower @Meowmy n @Former-Member @Oaktree

and all the beaut sane people sharing ideas and words.

Having a spell in the top paddock. no more poems for a bit. I promise. LoL 🙂

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

@tonys for you tonys. a beautiful song for a beautiful man https://youtu.be/T1m7QpQq-4c?si=Wzur4djHGt_l0qmJ

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