𝔐𝔯. 𝔐

🇺🇸🇮🇹🇱🇧 47. Dad. Veteran . MBA . Depression . PTSD . Capricorn. Espresso. Cigars. Scotch. Poetry. 2 Published Poetry Books

[𝔐𝔯. 𝔐 @TheSoulShadow]

The moon is proof
you can be broken in phases
and still pull oceans
toward your soul

[𝔐𝔯. 𝔐 @TheSoulShadow]

The beauty of the soul
is not found in the light it carries,
but in the darkness it survives
without becoming

[𝔐𝔯. 𝔐 @TheSoulShadow]

I have carried your silhouette
through entire conversations
without saying a single word

[𝔐𝔯. 𝔐 @TheSoulShadow]

Self-pleasure isn’t desperation.
It’s confidence saying: my joy doesn’t have to wait for permission

[𝔐𝔯. 𝔐 @TheSoulShadow]

Some people are not a chapter you read in daylight.
They are the line you whisper at midnight, the sin you turn into a prayer, the one you hide from the world because the world would call it wrong and your soul calls it home

[𝔐𝔯. 𝔐 @TheSoulShadow]

Your body bends like poetry
every curve a comma
keeping me from the end

[𝔐𝔯. 𝔐 @TheSoulShadow]

Your curves
proof that even desire
has an architecture

[𝔐𝔯. 𝔐 @TheSoulShadow]

Some men chase horizons.
I would rather wander
the geography of you

[𝔐𝔯. 𝔐 @TheSoulShadow]

The moon envied my hands,
for they traced the quiet hills
where your beauty
meets my yearning

[𝔐𝔯. 𝔐 @TheSoulShadow]

We became each other's favorite ruin... you haunting my thoughts,
while I wandered yours

[Brent @brentjlaney]

The long ascent 
To the peak of
Enlightenment 
Requires a slow
Descent into 
The depths of
Madness 

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#FireWriters35

[Whispers @whisperingpoems]

#vss365 #signal
an alley
tucked in the
heart of the city
putrescent
with shadowed secrets

pulp signals
bleed neon glare
a smile like smoke

another soul stripped,
another body undone

and the city smokes
indifferent
apathetic
whispering hunger
through crimson lips
🖤

#ωнιѕρєяѕ

[~𝓜.•*¨*•.¸¸♪ @Steal_MySoul]

hearts compacted
into small rectangles
a thousand connections
just to feel less alone,
to feel something.
presence reduced to
comment threads
& quick replies.
we give away our
undivided attention
for the comfort
of endless reach,
feeds full of everything
& somehow never enough.

as we sit
                alone,
                        together.

~𝓜

[Abby¸¸♪ @alicnwondland]

The taste that lingers deep into the night

[Abby¸¸♪ @alicnwondland]

Carry me to the sea and let me float and watch the sky move and reflect the ocean deep within me

[Quill wanderer @my2centsandme]

Attention becomes abstract
when sought but not received,
Underdogs have to look out for each other,
Contenders wouldn't bother with them.

In the journal of the achievers,
Those coming second are never chronicled,
In a world filled with races,
The winning horse gets the bid.(1/2)

[Bourbon_Psalms @Prison_yard_DMs]

echo

i don't mind influence.
everyone steals fire somewhere.
but some people
don't steal warmth.
they steal shape.
they wear your cadence
like a dead man's coat,
dragging your sentences behind them
hoping someone mistakes the noise
for weight.
suddenly they talk like you.
bleed like you.
rage like you.
all while never having survived
a single thing that made the words necessary.
small people do that.
they climb onto another man's voice
because standing alone
never made a shadow long enough
to be noticed.

[REBELLICCA @rebellicca]

Time didn't take her from you.
It removed your excuses.
You know now that no one else fits the truth of you.
What you felt was never chaos,
But alignment before you were ready.
If you choose truth, it leads you back to her.
If you don’t, the void of her follows you
Everywhere.

[J.W. Atkin @Atkin_Jw]

the ocean doesn't promise answers. just space to think

[Kayjah T. @KayTPoems]

is physical intimacy dead? asking for a friend
give the back of your thighs. warm
tongue to sweet flesh. give your heart,
still bloody. will hold each beat soft. give
open mouth. i'll swallow your calm cries
for more. more. more.

~K.T.

#poetry #kaytpoems #elenaspoetryprompts

[J.W. Atkin @Atkin_Jw]

be kinder. judge less. it's really that simple