Ben Palomino

Ben Palomino Jul 2019

Creat me

Take this marble
With it carve out my soul

With chisel in hand
scribe my purpose

Engrave it in gold
Then hide it away

Keep it in the dark
For me to find one day

Ben Palomino Jun 2019

Image in the clouds

Look up to the sky
Do you see
The baby
Cradled in the clouds
Gently rocked by the breeze

The other day the light shined through the clouds and it looked like the silhouette of a baby

Ben Palomino Jun 2019

Loving growing to hate, hating growing to love

I love you
But I think I should tell you
I never thought I could feel this way
Your smile
Your laugh
Your presence
The way you talk to me
I’ve been overwhelmed with emotions
over the years my feelings have changed,
Yet I mean it when I say
I hate you

(Read in reverse)
This was my first attempt at a reverse poem

Ben Palomino Jun 2019

The void

As a child
I spent my time
Staring into the void

Mysterious by nature
And Hallowed by name

I wanted to know its secrets
So I sat studying
The endlessness
Laid out before me

Only to realize
It was doing the same

Been sitting on this one for awhile

Ben Palomino Jun 2019

The feeling of today

(     Let the )
     (   Storm clouds come )
A        B     |         F
    N         L   |           R
         D             I         M     O
|          |             N         E         M
                   D        |
T|                         L      |
H       |           I
E         |             G   |
                        H
                         T

Let the storm clouds come,
And blind me from the light

Ben Palomino Jun 2019

Stress

It’s time
to take this paper
And tie it off around my arm
Until the vein is protruding

With my pen
I’ll penetrate my soul
Letting the ink flow

Allowing it
To erase everything I know
So I can escape the stress

And
reminisce
On the youthful bliss
Of ignorance