Lost Poetry

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:28 pm

Poems that I have written throughout the years, sourced from all over the internet where i've left them. Since this site seems to be the only one on the internet that cares about ensuring we have access to our data, i'm migrating them all here ... slowly

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:29 pm

a muse has approached and
withering am I
to the force of their glory
the gales of their shine
an ocean of starlight and
drowning am I
in the depths of their being
the brights of their time
an unfurling story and
immersed am I
between handwritten pages
scrawlings divine

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:35 pm

No crocodile

Here’s my smile
No crocodile
Bite my tongue
I can’t taste
The bile
Risin in my throat
Like my words
conspired
Im
On a mission
And I love it
When you're with me
Excuse my
Formation
All my sick
Regurgitations
A dictionary
Eaten
Heart
Stopped beating
I can’t stop thinking
Bout the way
Your hands be feeling
Round my throat
A guttural choke
What do I say
To your face
Anyway
Here we go
Presenting real slow
These are words
Uncomfortable
Are you available
To maybe
Understand where
I'm coming from

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:49 pm

the following poem is a rendition / parody of the song "She's Always A Woman" by Billy Joel.

He's Always A Man

He won't bear too heavy
A burden aloud
His actions scream over
Life's thunderous clouds
His days may be bleak but
His eyes are so bright
Carrying the world on his back
through the darkest of nights

He won’t tell you no
If you ask with your heart,
He’s always got room
From wherever you are
Unforgivably present
Learns by listening
A reality invoked
He’s more than the man of your dreams

Oh,
He's an independent
You can care all you want
He’s a man of himself
Oh,
There’s no convincing him
He’s got conviction
He knows his own mind

You can build all you want
He's got his own design
No Gods can be found
For he is his own shrine
Just when you think
You might understand
More layers peel back
He's such an onion of a man

Oh,
He's an independent
You can care all you want
He’s a man of himself
Oh,
There’s no convincing him
He’s got conviction
He knows his own mind

Don't get too close
For he is a black hole
All the energy entwined
To become something whole
The process is impressive
The results divine
But the most you can do
Is orbit like a fool
For the universe cares not for
the human concept of time.

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:56 pm

stheen = being seen & seething about it? idk i make up a lot of words in my personal writing & 99% of the time their definition is retained. the other 1%? fck if i know

stheen

You asked me if I was depressed
Because you noticed
I was depressed
And I said no;
I was impressed
That you could see I was a mess.

I felt undressed.

How could you sense
that lately
I’ve been less?
Just not my best,
Not nowhere near it-
and here
your eyes can see it?

Can you feel
The way i'm lacking?
Does this impact
Your opinion?
Do you want me
If i'm hurting?
Do you want to
See me whole?

Or am I something
Incidental?
On your edge,
Incremental?
Truly nothing special
Though you noticed,
That I’m less than more-
And I’m more than less unsure
Is there still an open door?
Was this observation
The start of a rumination
Ending in
The end of this?
I’m not conceding
To write a story
With no meaning-
But you see me and
Now that you see me
Am I ugly to you?

Is this the end
of what could be?
should I leave?
tell me the truth-
Are you infected
can you hear it?
like an ancient chorus
screaming?
did I compromise
the dreamscape?
can you hear
the thoughts that rear
(so I’ve been told)
are borne from fear
(so i've bee told)
thus can’t certainly
be true?

there are no wrong answers
& if there are no wrong answers
do you hate me,
like i do?

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:30 pm

I am the side of bed
Closest to the door
Ready to flee at a moments greatness
Slumbering depths even deeper
Than learning to swim
Tucked against the softest of thems
We are feathers
Eventually we will fly away
Not today
Dreaming is how we do it now.

I am the side of the bed
Farthest from the door
It is dark and quiet In the places you cannot be
We are monsters
Not even in our dreams
Against oblivion and
The warmest of thems beside
I am here
Until I slip away

originally posted on my libraryofcrap on tumblr

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:30 pm

Tight are the wrappings
Compensating for
This fragile placing
Sometimes even weak
But then the pain is gone
I am immobilized

Tight are the wrappings
Around and again
Ending up like the sun
In the orbits of each other
A soft golden cast
You seal with one kiss

Tight are the wrappings
Circumnavigating us
Starting with infinity
A steady repetition
We are without adhesive
Clinging to ourselves

originally posted on my libraryofcrap on tumblr

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:31 pm

Taste me like I swallow you
All at once
Choking on salts
Lingering

Breathe me like I inhale you
With urgent need
For instant life
Salvation

Swim me like I drown in you
Struggling through the truths
Sinking into acceptance
Infatuation

Take me like I accept you
Finding the tides
Standing the storms
Forgiveness

Learn me like I know you
Gauging all depths
Wading all shallows
Existence

Love me like I love you
Without an end in sight
Through every day and night
Forever

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:31 pm

she was built from mountains,
but crumbled;
the sea cried redemption
to be a breaking shore was easier
than standing
in her own shadow.

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:31 pm

A pull in the gut
Down I fall
Backwards
Into the inability to breath
Where the walls are bare
There’s nothing to hold on to
Above your light shines
Into my open void
But I am too cold
Like damp coals on a winter’s eve
The waters between our fire
Faultless ice
I am the hole you cannot fill
A push of the heart
Down I fall

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:31 pm

I am a Queen and I have no people
I am my glory
I am my kingdom
I am my knight in shining armor
The farms, the shops, and even the harbor
Not only a woman but also a place
Hiding a story beneath her face
Take my hand
Wander these lands
I’ll show you where the castle stands

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:32 pm

Call me lady
Dredge up confirmation
Stop from looking back
See forever
The ability to make blood run hot
Take care to show life
Let it show
The air splendid
So unlike the wind
How long we’ve been after beautiful
So wild
Confess to come to leave
Deep breath loose throat
Come with new borrowing to make livable
A new motive for competing in upcoming trials
An old played out dismay
Trying to save by starting up a risk
Look now at the woman who found serenity

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:32 pm

Hilbert Hotel Heart

I live
I love
A paradox
Ever expanding
Ever full
Infinite in vacancies
Check in tonight
No charge

Wander the halls
Forever
Doors ajar less than
Locked
Numbered
Or not
Personally plaque-red
By those residing behind

Duplicate chambers
One after another
Lined up
Orderly and neat
All checked in
Never to leave

An eternity of Solid Oak Doors
Un-breach-able
No matter how hard I knock
Or scream

It’s my hotel
But I have no master key
It’s their liberty
You see
To change the locks on me
Fresh towels by request
Just ring me at the front desk
I’m here

Waiting

Stark studded uniform
A badge of pride
Despite condemning me
Standing always tall
For their beck and call
Every
Any need
The concierge extraordinaire
At my Hilbert Hotel of a Heart

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:33 pm

Robin Hood

I’m drunk on wine
And not feeling life
So he puts on Robin Hood,
You see-
Kisses me a
See you later
And forces me to survive
This life
That I’m just not feeling but
He-
He makes it all alright
With an odeladiodeladiodelaiday
Through netflix played
And a promise
That he’ll stay
With an Odeladiodeladiodelaiday

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Animal Crackers

Animal crackers taste like
All the hugs I
Never wanted
Never got
After
With the will
of a woman
with no will
i stripped
and stole
from myself
That would
Maybe
Love me
Maybe
Unconditionally

And they crunch like
All the unsaid words
curiosity or concern
I never heard
After bearing
still beating
and leaving
still bleeding
my heart on a cold metal table
and then we would watch
as it rotted
away

And they mush like
A confetti cake mix
Or sugar cane pie
Bu with droplets of salt
That soften the sweet
Making it almost as easy to swallow
As the promised normalcy of tomorrow

Animal crackers are the stuffings of comfort

Animal crackers are The crumbs of what was once innocence

Animal crackers are delicious

And as i digest the circus
Lions and tigers roar rages inside of me
A storm of bare bears baring naught but the truth

pawing at my lips

To let slip from the rivers of my soul
the salmon of absolution
And gazing off some sort of high
From above and behind
Taboo bars
Forlorn giraffes
Hang their necks
The gravities between us
Casting their gaze
Permanently down

And buffalo weep
And so do the sheep
And the camels can’t sleep
And the gators can’t eat
For the elephant in the corner is dead.

I ate him.

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Clementine

Citrus fingers
Linger
Along my edges
Caressing
Thick knots of
Unspoken thoughts
Dropped gaze
Lip tickle
Touch and sway
Sun ray
Arms of morning
The grove of
Your embrace

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:35 pm

Bobbing on the salt
Rolling over cold tides
Swaying to the fault
Mid Atlantic wave ride

Wind catch on sails pitched
Course away on cloud nine
Drop wail anchors hitched
Devoid whitecap seas sublime

Romping over decks
Dredging through a storm bright
Mast and lightning wreck
Thunder round a dead night

Telescope horizons
Look for swells of land
Lenses and eyes lying
Hope caught in the sands

Blowing with the winds now
Rocking on a wire
Tumbling over the bow
Starboard downward spiral

Retching into the sea
Rag dolls in the air
Floating towards the bottom
Never seen again

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:36 pm

Death orchestrated,
Chaos burned into a map.
Violent submersion
Of politics and wrath.

Rebellion!
Bled their brothers,
Accidental tragedy becoming,
A hero among them,
Another,
Another.

Rust around the mouths of babes,
Steel rattles silent
Clutched in cold hands
Of the no longer violent
Lives young,
Lives lost,
Lives no longer.

Another,
Another,
Explosion,
Another.

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:36 pm

People Watching

I appreciate the silence of strangers.
They the company of I,
Whether this status is realized or not.
Mostly I dwell unnoticed,
Eyes down
Ears open
Participating in their conversation though my mouth is closed.
Sometimes they give me a glance,
Then another,
Curious for the moment as to why
I am alone.
The moment passes,
Quicker than a snap, and I return to my place,
A millefleur.

They don’t know,
But I am listening.
My gaze cast elsewhere,
An inquisitive expression stretched across my face,
Pen to paper,
They have already forgotten me.

Perhaps they wish to leave me to my work,
I must seem busy,
Scribbling away.
Only when an aspect of my existence shocks,
Horrifies,
Or Calls to them for correction or praise,
Am I acknowledged

A polite exchange,
A smile,
Maybe even a few words,
They melt back into themselves.
Their focus has returned to
Whatever
They don’t notice the attention I pay them,
For their time is so previously invested in
Whatever.

My peripherals are sharper than theirs.
While they perch oblivious,
Happy hens clucking gossip,
Other seemingly meaningless conversation,
If you can so call it.

I take in all the details.

I learn more about them than I would have if I had directly sought the information.

Sometimes,
Rarely,
One will catch on.
One will observe me as I do others.

The watcher,
Watched.

I leave,
As if to rob them from the knowledge of myself.

I wish not
For them to know me as
I know them.

For if one other,
Another observer,
Spyglass embed,
Peering into the mind itself,
What images would reflect in the clear pane of conscious glass?

None I would be pleased with, without doubt.

Let them think I in any way
Other than that.
The masquerade we all strive to preserve melts as the attentive mind fades.
Lax,
Revealed is the truth
Sometimes uglier
Sometimes all the more enticing
Often almost opposite to the glittery facade.

Save me the glitter.
Spare me the glitz.

Don’t even try to hide,
For when you least expect,
When suddenly it seems safe,
When you think no one is watching,
I am.

Remember that time?

No,
You don’t.
I do,
You won’t.
I’m not going to refresh your memory.

It’s better this way,
For both of us.

I will remain silent,
You will continue on.
I will watch,
You will remain unaware.
I will document your every move,
You will be oblivious.
I will revel in this act,
You will continue to act.
I will wait patiently,
You will lower your walls.
I will infiltrate as always,
You will give me what I seek.
I will take it, extravagantly so,
You will never ever know.

I have it,
The map of you,
The documentary
Of all your truths,
The fragment of yourself
That you don’t even know exists.

High I hold it all.
Then I walk away.

lostamongtrees · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **lostamongtrees** on Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:37 pm

At Sea

Alone are we
No happier could I be
At sea

And so it stretched
Forever
Into a blue beyond
The horizon bled into the clouds
Flat bottoms near mimicry of
That level stretch

Reaching
Forming beasts unknown
The clouds did flee
For the stars

We chased midnight
As only the land creature
More at home at sea could
Forgetting yesterday as it set
Upon that infinity blue

Soon the nimbus beasts will toil
Together
Beginning and ending their dance
Simultaneously
It is they
The beasts
Who truly escort the coming of night,
As if the sunset burned them
Melted them
Into the sapphire of sky

Without complaint
These beasts contort in shape
Amassing and
Re-massing
In harmony with the waves below

Or is it the breeze
So soft
As it does whip the forms
That carries narrative of
The cerulean sky

The night may be black
But her sister proves far darker
The Atlantic twinkles back at she
Who watches from above
Daring to catch the stars as they fall

Which pinpricks do shine brighter;
The answer too lost at sea
A question only fools attempt answer,
A question only the moon can answer.

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