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Pompadour

Pompadour

Poetry 2013-2014

Just random poems I've written over the years.
  • Just some Somebody.

    He was just a soldier, after all. Just another man who died in the name of war... Wasn't he?

    1 min read
  • Curses

    Look away. ( From the perspective of a psychologically afflicted person)

    1 min read
  • Mischance

    I know I am wrong. But I don't know why. (From the perspective of a murderer)

    2 min read
  • These Places

    Once they were magnificent, now it is but darkness here...

    2 min read
  • Ebony

    A poem on racism. I wrote it three years ago and haven't ever really had the chance to edit it...

    3 min read
  • Luster

    The sky is the limit, or so they say. But the sky itself bends the rules sometimes..,

    2 min read
  • Desperado

    Not one of my best works... but it was one of my "firsties." From the perspective of a criminal.

    1 min read
  • What You've Done

    You've ransacked my mind and left me to fade in this cacophony, this vale of despair....

    2 min read
  • Randomly written short poems

    Yay! There's a short poem contest! But I don't have any short poems. Here's a couple of random ones I jotted down. Review please?

    1 min read
  • Staring at the ceiling

    Wrote this on a whim.

    2 min read
  • It's the way of the world
    2 min read
  • I close my eyes, but whirlpools dance on the rim of my brain

    I wrote this in the middle of the night. So tear it to bits, and do it quick.

    2 min read
  • Speak

    I'm the narrator. And this is how I see things.

    2 min read
  • Seven signs of insanity

    You might be insane. You never really know.

    3 min read
  • When the darkness swoops over

    It's the first time I've gone for romance so it might be cliche, but I don't really know. Review please!

    2 min read
  • Drowning in ten seconds

    "Once I caught a fish alive," but this time, you're the one on the end of the line.

    1 min read
  • Seas within shells

    I redefine renovation, and yet I change nothing for every shell is a home to the sea. (It's pretty rough so I'd like some feedback on this!)

    1 min read
  • You're getting warmer

    This is not a game. Never has been, never will be.

    2 min read
  • Mineralized

    Jet-packs are not illogical. And glass is not a mineral. But we've forgotten, and that's what's sad.

    2 min read
  • And then she flew

    There are so many ways to deal with pain; with the loss of a mother. There are knives, spears and fire. And then there's flying. Always flying.

    2 min read
  • Pineapple Precipice

    The world is like a tropical island. If you ignore the fact that it's dying, that is.

    1 min read
  • Strolls of the solitary

    You are welcome to walk in these woods. But be careful where you tread...

    1 min read
  • The fill in the blank you forgot to fill

    Even the walls don't talk to me...

    2 min read
  • Abstract Seasoning

    If Picasso had painted the seasons...

    2 min read
  • 360° until you die

    Just. Turn. Around.... Please?

    3 min read
  • A million sorry hearts go sailing

    Watch the bombs tear through, it's more than a battered blitz. There's agony inside you, a tarnished heart that flies and flits.

    2 min read
  • Painting melancholy -- two haiku

    My first go at Haikus.

    1 min read
  • Imprism me

    WARNING: Contains imagery overload and possible brain-combustion. Rambles on about the enigma that is language, words and just about everything.

    1 min read
  • Ex.Tempo.Rise.

    If music could dance. If music could quake. My heart's a tattered whirlpool... The music is caging me.

    2 min read
  • Don't fall

    A public service message from Pompadour.

    2 min read
  • Heartache is a spiral staircase

    Metal walls. Wooden faces. Broken hearts.

    2 min read
  • Natural disasters

    Spur of the moment thing. Because those natural disasters are everywhere.

    2 min read
  • Just Gah.

    I need to vent. Or hit something. Hard.

    2 min read
  • Bully Mia

    *coughPUNcough*

    2 min read
  • Cardboarded

    NaPo ~Day Three~

    3 min read
  • i'm hanging onto the silver sky

    rubbish poetry about kites and dying.

    2 min read
  • Swerve [Part One]

    "My conscience shall never leave me." Meet Matthew Bayres, twenty-two, living in a world where human conscience has but one purpose: To exist.

    12 min read
  • 2 0 1 7 | and they will turn her into anarkali

    there is something riveting in the thought of letting convolutions become your envoy

    1 min read
  • if people were stories

    This is what caffeine overdose does to you. >.

    2 min read


When a person tells you you hurt them, you don't get to decide you didn't.
— Louis C. K.