#sting poems on Hello Poetry

Sorelle Aug 12

My head says
"Leave before the floor disappears
Before you wake up
With nothing but splinters
And a mouth full of questions
You already know the answer to"
My heart says
"Wait
He’s just tired
He’s just busy
He’s just trying to find the words"
Hasn’t he had enough time?
“I don’t know”
It’s a language you’ve
Decided to live in
While I’m translating
Myself into nothing
My spine folds in
My ribs start counting the days
Without you in them
I try to remember your voice
Without the hesitation
But all I hear is the pause before
“I don’t know”
I’m holding the door open for
Someone who can’t even
Look at the room
I’m swallowing glass
Calling it patience
And every piece cuts deeper
When I tell myself you’re worth it
My head says
"This isn’t love anymore
This is erosion
This is weathering yourself down
To fit a space that’s already empty"
My heart says
"No
Remember his hands
Remember the way he made the world Small enough to hold
Remember how you’d do it all again"
I think about next week
The way you’ll look at me
And say it again
And my chest will cave
And my eyes will sting
And maybe that’s the last time
Or maybe I’ll let it be another

"I don’t know"

"I don’t know"

"I don’t know"

And it’s killing me that
Neither do you

The war between the head and the heart Has no winner
Only the wreckage of loving someone who Can’t say if they want to stay
-Sorelle

#head #heart #headvsheart #raw #idontknow #sting #cave #hold #world #erosion

Mohsin Ahmad Apr 22

A Kiss

I was crawling, with my swollen leg, towards Her.
She, with a bowl of rice, took me into her arms.
With my puffed belly, I reached the verandah.
My car was waiting for me, with one of its tyres nowhere to be seen.
I looked around for it, worried.
My screams brought Her, running out of the house, to me.
She left me with a four-legged horse in my hands.
She kissed me and wiped away all the Tears.
She said, "My Raja Beta, I thought that Skillful Serpent stung you again."

#kiss #mother #love #affection #enemy #serpent #foe #sting #cry

Kuda Bux Jan 14

I am here waiting for you...

I am here waiting for you
on the soft white sand of father's beach
and in open water, you float
thrashed by the waves

Do you remember your promise
on that fated early morning?
Whipped and judge by the Manta ray
to remember this in the light of day.

I've translated this from a short verse I wrote for a song in a film my wife and I made.

Original text:

Ania ko ga huwat ka nimo
Sa timdas nga baybay ni tatay
Hintunga sa dagat siya maglutaw
sa bawud nakutaw-kutaw

Nanumduman ba nimo imong saad?
Tong higayon sa kaadlawon?
Gilatigo ta sa pagi nga maong gahukom
Nga kita mahinumdom

#sting #ray #manta #jilted #thrashed #by #waves

Àŧùl Dec 2023

A sure day in future

My cute young daughter named Shatakshi
Asks, "Daddy-daddy what's this thingy?"
I, the caring father, with a gasp
Reply, "It is a fire ant that you grasp
And you hold where it has its stingy!"

A limerick for my future daughter, Shatakshi.

Another humorous poem. Another limerick.

HP Poem #1210
©Atul Kaushal

#future #is #daughter #limerick #sting #named #shatakshi

Meandering Words Aug 2023

apology not accepted

in my obliviousness
inadvertent and unintentional
some may say as usual
i disturbed a wasp nest
the heightened bombilation
an anger-pitched droning
unheard somehow
therefore unheeded
until that impolite *****
a warning sting
through t-shirt to torso
followed by a few more
in quick succession
set my legs moving
apologetically away
with hands raised
chastened and contrite
both in supplication
and in order to remove
the offending article
of clothing
the oversensitive wasp
having become trapped within
defensively stinging
as nature directs
to be honest
its overzealous instincts
began to feel
more like spite
than mere survival

#unintentional #oblivious #apology #unforgiven #forgiveness #anger #hurt #wasp #nest #sting

Somewhatdamaged Aug 2022

The Need

Bloom as you have reached your time
Show your beauty as you're born for
Sting with thorns as it is what you need to
Wither as your time has come

Grandmaa used to love flowers, for her...

#bloom #beauty #sting #wither

Maria Etre Mar 2021

Growing Tattoos

I felt the sting of adulthood
tattoo my skin
with colors
of
y
o
u
t
h

#tattoo #youth #grow #fear #adult #sting #feeling