No One Poems

No one tells you

No one tells you how to smile when your throat closes with every breath behind that smile.

No one tells you how to move forward when the chain around your neck drags you back.

No one tells you how to be positive when your own mind digs into you with horns and a tail.

No one tells you

While time waits for no one

Weighed the risks of indecision
Not choosing one way or the another
~ yet somehow getting nowhere fast


Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025

this is why no one likes you

no one was saying anything to the bully.
some people were laughing uncomfortably
the woman was berating and belittling her six-year-old boy
my four-year-old daughter walked up to her and said,
“This is why no one likes you. You are mean and you are a bully.”
the woman burst into tears and ran home.
Another mother and I made eye contact.
Ashamed

NO ONE

Once again I defer today’s blessing to the Native Nations
I hope someday their wisdom will help us understand…
how we are not the total masters…
but only one part of the land

No one owns the water
No one owns the land
No one owns the ocean
No one owns the sand

These are give by our Mother

The Planet provides for free

Only

No One Knows

As I stand here looking in the mirror at the woman looking back at me, it’s there written in her eyes all the secrets that her mind and heart keeps
It’s written all over the lines on her once beautiful face, the toll that the stress has caused over the years from all of her shame,

no one can rush me

You will have to paint this, you’ll have to clean that
I sit in the sun, soaking it up like a tabby cat
No one can rush me, I’m retired you see
On May 31st, I will be seventy-three.

No One Counts the Bodies Jesus Walked Past

Kensington spreads its legs—
lets the city crawl in,
dripping Xylazine / fentanyl / tranq,
open sore veins
moaning dirty dirges.

False prophets—
all piss and panic—
bark half-lies
through decaying molars,
fingering apathy
for spare change.

You smell it
five blocks before you enter.
The stench tests your soul
before it reaches your throat.
Narcan.
burnt spoons.
street toilet.
Dreams twitch under heat lamps—
larval things
too stubborn to die.

Hope?
Hope’s a half-smoked, laced Newport
balanced

Where No One Waits

I no longer want answers.
I no longer want signs.
only to walk
to the end of this thought
where maybe,
someone,
will light a candle.

and if no one is there,
I will sit there
with all my thoughts
and hold them in my arms,
as a mother holds
the child she can no longer save.

because in the end
the shadow of the One who thinks
is not

No One Comes Looking

I was eight years old the first time I realized,  
no one was coming to save me.  
That I could scream ,
until my throat bled raw,  
cry until my eyes swelled shut,  
beg until my knees bruised-
against the floor,
and still,  
no one would come.  
I learned young that love

No one to tell -Double Swap Quatrain

Sponsor: Joseph May   Contest Name:  The Double Swap  7/7/25


You're not there, there's no one to tell.
Hurry home to tell you, tears swell.
Life's so lonely, miss you my dear.
There's no one to tell, you're not here.

My world was all you, you only.
Miss you my dear, life's so lonely.
Trying to cope, still feeling

No One Understands

How in a twinkle of an eye,
Your life so make a lot of sense.
Now, the world heave a nasty sigh... 
What an atmosphere with such tense!

Insane to ever imagine...
The plain sky once sunny turn loosed,
How wealth to death has no bargain!
Life would have got hade's gut seduced.

The sunny sky soon faded out,
While love just become

No One to Call

he hates his family
They all had restricted his freedom
That’s how he ended up like this
With no one to call or visit-
and share his deepest thoughts with a friend

I won’t say anything or
raise questions on someone's intentions
because that's who this poet is
i made my finest decision to be alone
over the dramatic chaos life brings when I'm

To No One in Particular on the Unofficial HOA, Regarding Chickens: aka Weaponizing a Metaphor

here’s your plaque:
best in uniformity & public shaming.

no rooster crows without committee review.
no similes unless they match the mulch.

you scratch the dirt,
then vote on who gets corn-fed
when there's plenty to go around.

not every poem is a zoning dispute,
and I'm hard pressed to name anyone here
an expert in the field. get over yourselves. 

she left. 
what

No one compares to you

No one compares (to you)

I cry myself to sleep almost every night
since you took my heart away
I try to tell myself... that it's alright
I can live for one more day

Everywhere I go, things remind me of you
the whispers on the breeze,
My sorrow paralyzes, what can I do?
it brings me to my knees

Chorus
There's no solace in

Sometimes, the longing for her overwhelms me, and no one else knows this silent pain

Sometimes, the longing for her overwhelms me, and no one else knows this silent pain,
Most people think my pain is just poetry, just words, images from my wandering mind,
They don't see the battles I fight deep within my soul, where shadows dance on the edge of memories,
Maybe sometimes I lie in poetry because the truth

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