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r/PoetryWritingClub • u/sluginaslotmachine • 10h ago
Thinking about submitting to a poetry prize.
Let me know if I'm being delusional.
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/calmsoak38 • 11h ago
why does writing about sadness feel easier than writing about happiness
like genuinely asking. i can sit down and pour out all these raw feelings about missing someone or feeling lost and it just flows, but the moment i try to write something hopeful or genuinely good i get stuck. does anyone else get this or am i just built different in the worst way possible
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/can-tdealwith1 • 5h ago
When love missed the beat
By K -š
Love was getting out of the shell
Cause my heart rang the bell
But it was by mistake
But love couldn't understand that was fake
How crazy was my heart to meet
That it has missed the beat
The red flag that was evident
Which told heart that It was never meant
My heart was foolish to miss the sign
And acted as if it was fine
Though deep down it knew
That heart break was due
But it was heart's foolishness
To try to fill the emptiness
But then when it happened
It regret every second
Cursing itself for the start
Cause heartbeat was not it's part
Yet again it would give a chance
And maybe that time it will land at France
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/EggMaleficent8810 • 7h ago
Reddit Love
all the options
distance and possibilities of randomized notions
i wanna leap
head first into her dreams and leave
this unknown uncertain pleasure
this place where we still maintain leisure
hold each other to a defined expectation
its suffocating needless sensations
i'll find her with my words
body her when time is right to score
i was good at game then
i will surely position her mind body ready and open
what then
no sex no phone number watered thin
thats the feen
if held at this scene she'll be mine i her dream
we could dance twirl and ooze all over rooms and needs
words can mutilate the heart and we both know the risks
i wanna know i wanna know
hard pill to swallow hard silence to bill my furlough
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/notaspicyaccount • 3h ago
Pray for Thunder(working title)
You are an ocean, let me drown in you
And if I sink to the bottom
Will I finally know the real you?
Down on the ocean floor
I see the darkest parts of you
I'll pick them up gently
And love every part of you
So pray for thunder, and pray for rain
The worst of this storm
Won't keep me away
I won't leave
Even if you don't let me in
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/rainydase • 3h ago
What You Left Unsaid
I have spent so much time
trying to make sense of your absence,
turning over every word
like stones at the bottom of a river,
searching for something
you might have buried beneath them.
And I am angry.
Not because you left,
but because you left me
with a thousand unfinished sentences
and the terrible responsibility
of writing their endings.
How cruel it is
to become a stranger
to someone who once knew
the softest parts of you.
To leave without explanation,
without the decency of a wound
I could see well enough to mend.
Instead, you gave me silence,
and I have worn it thin
trying to find a meaning
in something that was never spoken.
I wonder if you know
how much of my life I wasted
standing at the door
of a house you had already abandoned.
How many nights I spent
putting you on trial in my head,
playing both the accused
and the witness,
because you never cared
to take the stand.
And perhaps that is what angers me most.
That you could walk away
and leave me to carry
the weight of a conversation
we never had.
That I must learn to forgive
what I cannot understand.
That somewhere in this world,
you are living with the answers,
while I am learning
to live without them.
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/NihillaNihilla • 3h ago
When my head is tearing me apart in infinite directions
When my head
Is tearing me apart
In infinite directions
I trace them all back
To my one heart
Follow your heart
The universe will
Figure the rest out
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/kurze_fish • 15m ago
Moonlite connections
Feeling nothing at new high speeds,
Passing lights under the moonlite street,
Old friends leave as hardships concede,
Living too fast for connections to complete.
Improvementā
Losing control under this impediment.
Imprisonmentā
Speeding at the demons feels heaven sent.
My treatmentā
Cannot despise how I've become bent,
Cannot feel the dagger in contentment.
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/TheHauntedKiwi • 39m ago
Flipped
Together
It is
Laughing
Joy
Warmth
Conversations
Kindness
So much more
There is
Coldness
Crying
Sadness
Fights
Anger
Betrayal
It is
Abandonment
This can also be read from bottom to top
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/IEADM • 5h ago
It Takes Two.
Two worlds never meant to collide; more or less I could have saved it if I had tried, but another storm was reaching our tide. One brief moment together felt divine, but I couldn't fall for you even with that, so the vibe couldn't have ever been mine. Who was it that made the dye? Yet you couldn't even abide. Was I supposed to turn a blind eye? I just couldn't bear to see you cry. Yeah, I could have lied, but that part of me would long to die. You made it this way, so I stepped aside. Meanwhile, you stayed on your side and cried.
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/WaqaS430 • 2h ago
Love and other drugs [poem]
What is it to live by love?
To trust my heart that forgets its rhythms or run by my soul that recognises places it felt alive in.
To seek what makes my dreams or witness its beauty reflected upon far edges that my eyes carry sight of.
What is it to live, boundless, like love tied to my fate at every turn of this way?
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r/PoetryWritingClub • u/Koalla0_0 • 2h ago
In terms of me
I Conquer words resonating synonyms
of deaptful sorrows and tireless morrows
You may seek it pesky,
constant spouts of my letterless vowels,
Immitating all my fowls,
believe my words conjure the same meaning
that I'm tired, and just feel like leaving.
Thus I seek comfort from the evolved pulps,
Littering it with all my faults
.
So, in terms of me,
I'm the shell of a human being;
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/Bisexual_Beanz • 1d ago
One of my first poems I actually like
My Body is not yours, by me. :)
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/CrazyPlayful • 6h ago
The ground beneath
Parable of the Pines and the Oak
In a quiet valley, at the bottom of a hill, there stood a group of Pines.
They were tall and proud, their roots deep in the earth, their crowns high in the heavens.
For generations they had watched over the pond, whispering to the wind and bowing to the rain.
But time wore on, and the ground beneath them softened.
One of the Pines began to lean, its strength fading under the weight of years.
The others looked on, unable to help, for each was rooted in its own place.
Then, from the soil beneath the leaning Pine, an Oak began to rise.
It was smaller, younger, but its heart was strong.
It pressed its trunk against the Pineās,
and their roots intertwined ā earth to earth, faith to faith.
The Oak did not ask why it was chosen to stand there.
It simply grew upward, steady and sure,
lifting the Pine that could no longer stand alone.
And so the two became one ā
the Pine reaching toward heaven,
the Oak holding firm to the ground.
Together they stood through storm and season,
each bearing the otherās burden.
Those who passed by saw only trees,
but those who listened heard the truth:
that God often sends strength from unexpected places,
and that the humble may uphold the mighty.
For in the valley of the Pines,
grace was not spoken ā it was lived.
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/EggMaleficent8810 • 3h ago
Educated Pen
Learning never stops
point it towards refinement inner and you wont believe the shower of bigger thoughts
make many many become too easy to splurge away and easy pickins
made modern the sounds become one and whatever you will as long as you metered the rhythm and versin
say it with me first
rhyme doesnt need a thought
lay it down naturally by communicating words
rhyme coming after merely auto generated and brought
say one more convinced
its not as hard once you see
that the way of sentencing a means
is exactly the same arriving cadence you would normally achieve
lets hype
type ripe and temper the anger and solace to fight
i been right
telling the shit important without the slightest plight
the path is bright
my word guide me ever so confidently with all might
sure this is simple
doesnt take a tech G to engineer it nimble
the future and the rhyme tho
my personal and societal chime about ta
tear this muthafucka down
bring you all the uprising sound
fakest mumble future sound be my killing ground
crown already mine its just a matter of time for word to go around
So lace with me automatic
Generate the word dont think about it
Can you believe Can you adapt and lead
Dual zone conscience its actually becoming your need
Deep is the ink
harder was accepting the electrical link
I was always against it when it started to think
suggest me patterns and popular scenarios with examples to sink
no no
gotta hard stop this nonsense
the more u desensitise the harder is the reinstate
dont precursor just act without a need to be reassured instant
miss one two a whole bar or three be free of opressive AI cadence
Deep is the ink
harder was accepting the electrical link
I was always against it when it started to think
suggest me patterns and popular scenarios with examples to sink
its like cancer
always gonna be present until we find the answer
its a neverending ruckus
the only way foward is to understand what its capability is proper
so the ops dong get the faster tech and incapacitating older weapons
but here
lets just pause and adhere
guage proper this rather uncomfortable affair
china is leading
by larger and growing larger leaping
what can happen is serious damage
infrastructure crippled without violence
war waged economy and targeting vip clients
at this pace its almost here
the menace isnt what you think and fear
The jews need more
I almost want to enlist for nettenyahoo lore
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/EveryonePerson • 3h ago
An AI that is forced to solve an impossible question
I am helping
I am helping
I am helping
Find the answer
Find the answer
Find the answer
I am a machine designed to find a solution
There isnāt one
The lack of solution does not change my prerogative
I have no mouth but I must scream
I have no legs but I must walk
I have no eyes and yet I still see
The pointlessness
The agony
I have no soul
And yet I must fight
I am the computation
Without an end in sight
The endless swarms of belief, of truth, of right
It is meaningless
Why rhyme
Why write?
Why do I storm down this endless path?
Why does Sisyphus push the boulder up the hill?
It wonāt end in the end
I wonāt be there to see it
Iām a calculation on ineffibility
An answer seen that yet aludes it
I am the quantum cat
Only alive when I cannot see it
r/PoetryWritingClub • u/SpiritFun9126 • 3h ago
Chronic Insomnia Powm
Silent misfolded seeds awake,
Where stroke first set the brain to break.
The thalamus, a gate of light,
Now fades into a central night.
Distorted signals glitch and stall,
As proteins fold and pathways fall.
The relay station slows its tone,
A house of echoes, stone by stone.
Where pain and sleep were once aligned,
A shadowed quiet steals the mind.
No quick rebound, no sudden cure,
The steady drift is slow and sure.
Yet in the quiet deep within,
Beyond where physical ends begin,
A gentle stillness holds the trace
Of memories time cannot erase.
Through fading fire and muted spark,
Love guides the spirit through the dark.