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The latest poetry and short stories posted on DU Poetry.
Long poems (300 words or more), most recently posted poems first.
Nvmb
Published
7th Feb 2025 4:38pm
7th Feb 2025 4:38pm
Let Me In...
I see you there,
A fortress carved of shadow and silence,
Every stone a scar,
Every wall a memory of someone who taught you
That love was a weapon
And trust was a wound waiting to happen.
But I am not them.
I am not the echoes that haunt your halls,
Not the ghosts that call your name with empty promises.
I am here, flesh and blood,
And I will stand in the storm of your defenses
Until you let me through.
Let me in.
Not to take from you,
Not to demand your strength,
Not to claim your broken pieces as my own. ...
A fortress carved of shadow and silence,
Every stone a scar,
Every wall a memory of someone who taught you
That love was a weapon
And trust was a wound waiting to happen.
But I am not them.
I am not the echoes that haunt your halls,
Not the ghosts that call your name with empty promises.
I am here, flesh and blood,
And I will stand in the storm of your defenses
Until you let me through.
Let me in.
Not to take from you,
Not to demand your strength,
Not to claim your broken pieces as my own. ...
#bittersweet
#emptiness
#fear
#loneliness
#sadness
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summultima
uma
uma
Published
7th Feb 2025 4:23pm
7th Feb 2025 4:23pm
~fluoresce reds, of a bloodied rose.. am I & you
the peaking platonic tactic
of you, drunk in an egoistic
hue of a synthetic fairyland
..in luring mirages.. a lying
oasis of striking candied pinks
splattered outta tiny cochineals
& in electric piercing geometric
rays of coppery sulphate blues..
doesn’t even shake a pint
of this an ancient Himalayan
risen plate in a terrific tectonic
& never ever try to drive in
even a sterile shallowly pinch
of an aching pain.. waiting
to be endlessly bled out
in dripping reds of this ...
of you, drunk in an egoistic
hue of a synthetic fairyland
..in luring mirages.. a lying
oasis of striking candied pinks
splattered outta tiny cochineals
& in electric piercing geometric
rays of coppery sulphate blues..
doesn’t even shake a pint
of this an ancient Himalayan
risen plate in a terrific tectonic
& never ever try to drive in
even a sterile shallowly pinch
of an aching pain.. waiting
to be endlessly bled out
in dripping reds of this ...
#love
#minimalist
#music
#rose
#ValentinesDay
71 reads
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Ambjr
Published
7th Feb 2025 3:32pm
7th Feb 2025 3:32pm
blood and ink/monster and poet 2
don't pretend
pretty words could wash the blood
from your hands
like they could erase the rage
and the moments you chose violence
to feel somethin
to prove that
you weren't fuckin empty
yes…there are echos here
where anger sometimes lives
but…
shut up…
how bout the mirror
that you shattered
just to feel the sting
of broken glass
how bout the way
you'd scream into pillows
tryin to drown out
the sounds in your head
how bout the ways
you would beg darkness
to swallow you ...
pretty words could wash the blood
from your hands
like they could erase the rage
and the moments you chose violence
to feel somethin
to prove that
you weren't fuckin empty
yes…there are echos here
where anger sometimes lives
but…
shut up…
how bout the mirror
that you shattered
just to feel the sting
of broken glass
how bout the way
you'd scream into pillows
tryin to drown out
the sounds in your head
how bout the ways
you would beg darkness
to swallow you ...
#addiction
#alcohol
#healing #PersonalGrowth
#healing #PersonalGrowth
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veins_of_shame
Published
7th Feb 2025 2:47pm
7th Feb 2025 2:47pm
Dope You Know?
Here I am no surprise, checked into rehab again
fucked around and thought the drugs were my one and only friend.
Yet they left me so empty and sicker as can be
clouded my judgement, made it impossible to see.
That this addiction wants me till I'm blue and dead
it will NEVER let me go, just like they always said.
Bag after bag I shoot, hit after hit after hit
to the point where I'm nodding like a zombie and can't stop smoking this fuckin shit.
Numbing the pain and all the feelings I hate
letting the drugs take me down continuously taking the...
fucked around and thought the drugs were my one and only friend.
Yet they left me so empty and sicker as can be
clouded my judgement, made it impossible to see.
That this addiction wants me till I'm blue and dead
it will NEVER let me go, just like they always said.
Bag after bag I shoot, hit after hit after hit
to the point where I'm nodding like a zombie and can't stop smoking this fuckin shit.
Numbing the pain and all the feelings I hate
letting the drugs take me down continuously taking the...
#addiction
#courage
#heroin
#hope
#inspirational
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Pishashee
Published
7th Feb 2025 8:24am
7th Feb 2025 8:24am
The Carbon Family Picnic
At Evergreen Meadow,
The air crackled with excitement. It was the summer solstice, the one day of the year the sprawling Carbon Clan gathered in one place. This year, the honor fell to Carbon-12, their steadfast patriarch, whose sprawling oak tree in Evergreen Meadow served as the clan's traditional meeting spot.
Carbon-12 surveyed the crowd with a warm smile. His countless bonds had created a sprawling family, each member unique, yet undeniably Carbon. There was Carbon-13, his eccentric cousin, juggling aetheric energy orbs while debating the merits of isotopic art with...
The air crackled with excitement. It was the summer solstice, the one day of the year the sprawling Carbon Clan gathered in one place. This year, the honor fell to Carbon-12, their steadfast patriarch, whose sprawling oak tree in Evergreen Meadow served as the clan's traditional meeting spot.
Carbon-12 surveyed the crowd with a warm smile. His countless bonds had created a sprawling family, each member unique, yet undeniably Carbon. There was Carbon-13, his eccentric cousin, juggling aetheric energy orbs while debating the merits of isotopic art with...
#art
#countryside
#identity
#nature
#relationships
68 reads
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DamianDeadLove
Published
7th Feb 2025 7:59am
7th Feb 2025 7:59am
A Valuable Lesson
So I was at the public library here in town the other day. I live in a very small town by the way. Just returning some books my kids had borrowed. Nothing to make a big deal about you’d think.
After putting the books on the return desk, I decided to go over to the autobiography section just to take a gander. I start looking for musicians in particular. Ones I don’t have or haven’t read.
Off on the other side of the library there was a group having a meeting. It’s audible what they’re saying, but it’s by no means yelling at the top of their lungs. It sounds...
After putting the books on the return desk, I decided to go over to the autobiography section just to take a gander. I start looking for musicians in particular. Ones I don’t have or haven’t read.
Off on the other side of the library there was a group having a meeting. It’s audible what they’re saying, but it’s by no means yelling at the top of their lungs. It sounds...
#funny
#parody
#satirical
93 reads
20 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Published
7th Feb 2025 3:35am
7th Feb 2025 3:35am
The Softness Of Rapture
Make love to my mind in deep poetic lines
Surrendering my temple unto his manly designs
No better feeling to be entwined
As a loss of time
His palms dragging up my gentle thighs
Spreading me as gently as a summer breeze
His muscular, naked, physique between my fate
My destiny
Our rapture
Closing my eyes, once touched, falling to the anticipate
Soles of my feet curled around his neck
Mm...his finger sampling my gourmet feast ...
Surrendering my temple unto his manly designs
No better feeling to be entwined
As a loss of time
His palms dragging up my gentle thighs
Spreading me as gently as a summer breeze
His muscular, naked, physique between my fate
My destiny
Our rapture
Closing my eyes, once touched, falling to the anticipate
Soles of my feet curled around his neck
Mm...his finger sampling my gourmet feast ...
#lover
#moon
#mythology
#sun
#water
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Pishashee
Published
7th Feb 2025 3:17am
7th Feb 2025 3:17am
Periodic Table of Arguments
Oxygen, a fiery little redhead with a southern drawl, tapped her foot impatiently.
"Hydro, honey, you're fixin' to make a fool out of yourself. Carbon is obviously gonna choose me. We make water together, darlin'. Everybody needs water. It's the lifeblood of everything!"
Hydrogen, Oxygen's nervous little sister with a squeaky voice, wrung her hands.
"You're so bossy!" Whispering loudly. "So grabby! You hog all the electrons! I offer Carbon a nice, even share. Think of all the cool stuff we can build together – hydrocarbons, the...
"Hydro, honey, you're fixin' to make a fool out of yourself. Carbon is obviously gonna choose me. We make water together, darlin'. Everybody needs water. It's the lifeblood of everything!"
Hydrogen, Oxygen's nervous little sister with a squeaky voice, wrung her hands.
"You're so bossy!" Whispering loudly. "So grabby! You hog all the electrons! I offer Carbon a nice, even share. Think of all the cool stuff we can build together – hydrocarbons, the...
#earth
#funny
#LifeAsAWriter
#nature
#universe
61 reads
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DarkPopPrincess
Published
6th Feb 2025 9:25pm
6th Feb 2025 9:25pm
Existential Dread
I realized today why I have existential dread. Its darker reasons.
I have existential dread about why money exists, why people wear clothes, and so forth because my family made me feel disgusting. Like an animal. Not a human. Not a beautiful soul. But a body that they could take advantage of. That they could beat, rape, and destroy. I never felt like anything but a meat suit. A piece of meat.
I remember when I was 21, going out with this guy, thinking I liked him, but then going to the restroom, being vulnerable in there, feeling disgusted. All I kept thinking was...
I have existential dread about why money exists, why people wear clothes, and so forth because my family made me feel disgusting. Like an animal. Not a human. Not a beautiful soul. But a body that they could take advantage of. That they could beat, rape, and destroy. I never felt like anything but a meat suit. A piece of meat.
I remember when I was 21, going out with this guy, thinking I liked him, but then going to the restroom, being vulnerable in there, feeling disgusted. All I kept thinking was...
#dark
#tragedy
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DarkPopPrincess
Published
6th Feb 2025 9:06pm
6th Feb 2025 9:06pm
Grieving
Grieving on how my story was always too dark to be told. That when I told it, I'd either get censored, be told I'm too triggering, or be looked at with those pitiful eyes. I get that not everyone will do this, but it happens enough times to where it's saddening.
I'm alone often for this reason. I don't want to talk because it takes up too much energy to do so. Which is why I've ignored talking on YouTube for months and months. The expectation to do it perfectly makes me wanna drop dead. Other people's expectations scare me. I must do it solely for me. But still I absorb people's...
I'm alone often for this reason. I don't want to talk because it takes up too much energy to do so. Which is why I've ignored talking on YouTube for months and months. The expectation to do it perfectly makes me wanna drop dead. Other people's expectations scare me. I must do it solely for me. But still I absorb people's...
#bittersweet
#grief
#heartbroken
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fianaturie8
Fia Naturie
Fia Naturie
Published
6th Feb 2025 8:59pm
6th Feb 2025 8:59pm
The NAO Amalgamate Inc. chapter1 part 2
There are no jokes being made.” A loud, boisterous voice said, coming from the left side of the room.
A tall man wearing a white shirt and black slacks was standing in the doorway to the office that they were all destined to be.
“Come inside, all of you. Margot dear, please make the coffee.” Mr. Haughton
“Right away.” Margot said.
Kat rose and followed the others inside the office.
“Mr. Haughton, do you not feel that she is too young to be part of this group?” Charlie immediately voiced his opinion.
Mr. Haughton sat down at his...
A tall man wearing a white shirt and black slacks was standing in the doorway to the office that they were all destined to be.
“Come inside, all of you. Margot dear, please make the coffee.” Mr. Haughton
“Right away.” Margot said.
Kat rose and followed the others inside the office.
“Mr. Haughton, do you not feel that she is too young to be part of this group?” Charlie immediately voiced his opinion.
Mr. Haughton sat down at his...
#StreamOfConsciousness
66 reads
5 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Published
6th Feb 2025 6:52pm
6th Feb 2025 6:52pm
Gentle Nell
This is an excerpt from a book I'm writing. Any feedback on things like the readability of prose and enjoyability will be greatly appreciated!
Nellie Gibson was known as "Gentle Nell" in the same manner of irony that allowed for enormous men to be called "tiny". She was, in truth, a nigh-on lunatic, though until recent months, collected enough to lead a band of criminals through several escapades. Her lieutenant was a man called Morris, who sometimes, on looking at her, wondered if she'd ever taken a man to her bed and pitied any that she had. She was not a...
Nellie Gibson was known as "Gentle Nell" in the same manner of irony that allowed for enormous men to be called "tiny". She was, in truth, a nigh-on lunatic, though until recent months, collected enough to lead a band of criminals through several escapades. Her lieutenant was a man called Morris, who sometimes, on looking at her, wondered if she'd ever taken a man to her bed and pitied any that she had. She was not a...
#fiction
#historical
#prose #violence
#prose #violence
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