My Poem “Breaking Habits”

Like the needle of a record player
when a vinyl album reaches it's conclusion,
in life people can feel like they have been
thrown out of a groove that they have been in
when they reach the ultimate end
of a particular revolution or cycle...
it can be jarring, it can be hard to find your place again...
it can be worrying, it can be like finding yourself
driving down a highway and then drifting
out of your lane.

Over time everybody naturally picks up habits
that come to define them and sustain them...
over time everybody exhibits new attitudes
and new mannerisms that are noticeable
to every observer of human behaviour...
over time everybody starts doing things
that they probably shouldn't do
because they are motivated more
by what their heart, rather than their head, is telling them...
over time everybody does things
that might feel like déjà vu moments
of similar instances that might have happened before.

Over time old myths always become replaced
by new myths with new names and new faces...
things we used to do and people we used to see
and interact with every day
over time become replaced
by new things and by new people
who we become familiar with...
what and who people think are bad for us
is always open to interpretation
and sometimes it can take some time
to realize that like a bottle of pop
a relationship has lost its fizz...
we are all habitual by nature -
from our psychology to our biology -
which is why it is not surprising
that we do the same things over and over again;
but sometimes, for your own good,
you have to do something
that might once have felt impossible:
you have to stop doing
some things you have been doing
and you have to change the life
that you have been living
by breaking some of your
most definable good and bad habits.

A Poem A Day #287: The Dissimulation of Birds

“The Dissimulation of Birds” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Eternal Boy’ which was published in 2015 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet

My Poem “When you’re not looking for it”

It's amazing what you can find...
it's amazing what can find you...
it's amazing what can happen
when it is the right time...
it's amazing what mysteries people can answer
without even a single clue...
it's amazing what is sometimes
created "by accident"...
it's amazing what the light of a sunrise
can present as an opportunity...
it's amazing what perfection
can be found within the different...
it's amazing what can inspire words of poetry...
it's amazing what can grow
where you wouldn't think it could...
it's amazing what someone can do with so little...
it's amazing what strength of character
can manifest itself within someone
during a natural disaster, like a flood...
it's amazing what with time, patience
and perseverance can be revealed...
it's amazing what can be generated
from a single idea on a piece of paper...
it's amazing what and who overtime
can become memorialised within a myth...
it's amazing what people can be motivated
to do by a deep sense of loss and fear...
it's amazing who or what sometimes
makes their presence known to you
when you are not looking for them or it.

A Poem A Day #286: Warmth

“Warmth” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Eternal Boy’ which was published in 2015 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet

A Poem A Day #285: Eye-catching

“Eye-catching” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Eternal Boy’ which was published in 2015 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet

A Poem A Day #284: Smile

“Smile” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Eternal Boy’ which was published in 2015 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet

A Poem A Day #283: World Wide Watcher

“World Wide Watcher” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Eternal Boy’ which was published in 2015 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet

A Poem A Day #282: The Lost Notebook

“The Lost Notebook” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Eternal Boy’ which was published in 2015 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet

My Poem “What was”

I will never forget what was;
I will never forget us;
I wish everything hadn't ended
the way that we did;
I wish everything could go back
to how it used to be;
I will always think of you
and I will always miss every hug,
every kiss, and everything that we did;
I hope that I see you on the other side -
perhaps then we can pick up where we left off
before we lost what we had
and everything was taken away from us
and became a memory of what was.

A Poem A Day #281: Take Away

“Take Away” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Eternal Boy’ which was published in 2015 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet