#voice poems on Hello Poetry

mace 3d

she grew up with a beach of sand next to lake
i grew up near a beach with jellyfish & sweet salt air; home.

so one day i will take her to where their eyes remind me of

a honeyed landscape of granual sediment,
millions and millions of years of erosion,

just to look soft & warm to the onlooker

the tide pulling in and out. the seagulls flying above, cawing, while a cool, sunny day shines upon the sparkling waters frothing with movement.

her voice is my ocean breeze.

love poem for my partner <3 late april 2024 i believe.

#love #ocean #sand #warm #soft #voice #queer #trans

Elizabeth Squires 6d

Haiku

the oppressor's law
muzzles a dissenting voice
lest it speak of truth

#haiku #freespeech #oppressor #dissenting #voice

Mrs Timetable Apr 12

Bottle

The only cure for me
Is your voice
And
I admire the
Stunning
Bottle
It
Comes
In

The sound of a voice can heal better than printed words

#vocal #voice #singing #speaking #reading #masculine #feminine

else Mar 24

voice

Between your laughs and chatters

Is complete silence, a forlorn face.

How I can make you smile somehow?

There are others who do the magic trick,

But if they sing like songbirds, then I'm a stone.

Why does my voice lie buried within my throat?

#voice #love #relationship #sad #regret

Emm Mar 3

Voice

I'm learning to find my voice again
To learn that I DO have a voice,
and it's not so bad,
and it IS worth to be heard,
Too...
sans pleas,
sans promises,
you just have to believe,
I have to believe...
After all these years being silenced,
Muffled,
Belittled,
Deemed worthless,
My infantile fragile shaky volatile voice,
Now needs to
ROAR.
Hurry, we have an audience,
and yet, still, other voices to compete.
So help me, God.
You guided me here,
so please,
guide me all the way...

#findingyourownvoice #own #voice #truevoice #lifelesson #life #findingyourself #believeinyourself #selfconfidence #confidence

Malia Feb 21

awake ≠ autopilot

i have words inside of me
and i can’t say
any of them.
i don’t even know
what they are.
what happened to my voice?
it feels like it’s been a while
since i had something to say.
living underwater, living like a corpse.
i wake up and then go back to sleep
because “awake” is not “autopilot”.

why am i so tired?

I have been feeling…slow, lately. glitchy. staticky. stagnant.

#awake #autopilot #words #voice #creativity #writersblock #tired #messy

Jeremy Betts Feb 16

~•§•~ Fear it or Not ~•§•~

Death is silent
It has no tongue
It has no voice
For it does not need to speak
Death does not ignore the pleas
It has no ears to hear them
It has no soul to feel them
It is the only inevitable
The only guarantee
It sends no warning
Most likely never see it coming
There is only false hope
A lie we all try to convince ourselves of
But feared or not
Welcomed or not
It comes all the same
Family name, from where you came
It cares not
For no other reason than it needs not care
Arriving to take away what defines the living
It can not be tricked
It can not be bardered with
No heart strings to pull
It hasn't a brain in its skull
It can not decide one way or another
For it is not given an order
It just is
But the same can be said about life
As you can not have one without the other

2024

#death #silent #voice #speak #hear #inevitable #guarantee #warning #false #hope

AE Feb 16

The pain of telling stories

The momentary confines
And the viscosity of this remembering
It sticks to my throat
And I think of ways to love
Beyond the way of words
Beyond the everyday exchange
But to hold on to everything
Past and future in these frail hands
Sew them deep into the leftover stains
From Sunday brunches
And midnight snacks

At ease
You tell me
I listen, I listen, I listen

The pain of telling stories
Clutches onto my chest
I wish I could tell you what hurts
And what doesn't

But I listen, I listen, and listen

#love #listen #stories #heard #voice #hope #pain #ease #difficult

Jellyfish Jan 18

Confronting Voices

The child in me asks
Will we ever find passion
She had big dreams
and was determined to aim for them.

The adult me feels sad
She doesn't know what to say
How do you explain pain,
How do you explain disappointment?

I've been trying to do the inner child work in therapy, but it's really confusing. I find myself always listening to something to avoid the voice.

#inner #child #shadow #work #letter #parent #voice #voices

Jeremy Betts Jan 17

~•§•~ Thoughts Beyond the Boundaries ~•§•~

A man with a hundred faces but nameless with one voice
A thousand thoughts a second but one life to live it, where's the choice
Never found much of a reason to rejoice
Worthless or not worth it, the math's not adding up on this invoice

A million phrases, can't remember faces
Thoughts escape the mind, breaking free of their cages
The visual is heinous, it feels dangerous
I can't explain what's going on but they tell me this is only the beginning stages

Time turns pages but they're all reflective, hold them to the flame, more failure through the ages
Dr Jekyll lost, tossed into the void, annoyed as Mr. Hyde rages
Whatever it is, for everyone else's sake, I hope it's not contagious
Stay cautious

©2024

#voice #names #faces #choice #rejoice #worthless #dangerous #time #failure #contagious