Submissions by Adelphina
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I have been writing for years. Finally ready to share my 15 year journey. Does not have to be pretty but has to be honest!
Faceless
Lying here on
the sand again.
Dark all around
but I can hear the water
crashing down.
I'm no longer an ocean wave.
No more push or pull.
Trying hard to remember
everything I forgot.
But just like the moon
you're faceless now.
Never thought you'd fade.
So glad you stayed
away from me.
No longer a memory.
Your power dissolved so fast.
Like a shooting star
about to blast.
Trying hard to remember
everything I forgot ...
the sand again.
Dark all around
but I can hear the water
crashing down.
I'm no longer an ocean wave.
No more push or pull.
Trying hard to remember
everything I forgot.
But just like the moon
you're faceless now.
Never thought you'd fade.
So glad you stayed
away from me.
No longer a memory.
Your power dissolved so fast.
Like a shooting star
about to blast.
Trying hard to remember
everything I forgot ...
#love
#relationships
#breakup #LifeChangingMoment
#breakup #LifeChangingMoment
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Sunset
You made me rise the other day.
Listening to all the lies.
Man, I got better things to do
than listen to you.
Wanted to scream like a jet
but instead I'll fade out like
golden sunset.
I won't be dragged through
the mud again.
Got bloody nails dragging myself out.
This time it's crystal clear
what you're all about.
When you were hanging with
a snake. I knew then.
Didn't have to count to ten.
All the misspoken words
taken out of context.
Exaggerated emotions
were used like swords ...
Listening to all the lies.
Man, I got better things to do
than listen to you.
Wanted to scream like a jet
but instead I'll fade out like
golden sunset.
I won't be dragged through
the mud again.
Got bloody nails dragging myself out.
This time it's crystal clear
what you're all about.
When you were hanging with
a snake. I knew then.
Didn't have to count to ten.
All the misspoken words
taken out of context.
Exaggerated emotions
were used like swords ...
#friendship
#betrayal
#uplifting
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10 Comments
Lava Adrenaline
I'm sleeping in a comfortable slumber
wrapped tight in my silk comforter.
I feel my heart pound and begin
to race and I know
she just shot me up again
with Lava Adrenaline.
My muse is here.
Uninvited.
At the worse time.
But it makes no difference.
My brain has now morphed
into a floating mass of volcanic activity.
Waiting to be spelled, arranged,
erased, and replaced with this burst
of molten activity.
I feel it course down my neck
through my veins.
It swirls...
wrapped tight in my silk comforter.
I feel my heart pound and begin
to race and I know
she just shot me up again
with Lava Adrenaline.
My muse is here.
Uninvited.
At the worse time.
But it makes no difference.
My brain has now morphed
into a floating mass of volcanic activity.
Waiting to be spelled, arranged,
erased, and replaced with this burst
of molten activity.
I feel it course down my neck
through my veins.
It swirls...
#motivational
#inspirational
504 reads
14 Comments
Deadline
I'm looking around.
Trying to leave this town.
This place isn't safe.
He should take my place.
He keeps checking his watch.
Got left behind
for a deadline.
Why am I left here?
This wasn't the deal.
Won't wait for me.
Won't wait for you.
I don't know what to do.
I can't get through.
This is a mess.
You tore up the test
and threw it in my face.
This place isn't safe.
At the dead line.
That's where I'll be
waiting at the dead line.
Won't wait for me.
Won't wait for you.
Keep checking...
Trying to leave this town.
This place isn't safe.
He should take my place.
He keeps checking his watch.
Got left behind
for a deadline.
Why am I left here?
This wasn't the deal.
Won't wait for me.
Won't wait for you.
I don't know what to do.
I can't get through.
This is a mess.
You tore up the test
and threw it in my face.
This place isn't safe.
At the dead line.
That's where I'll be
waiting at the dead line.
Won't wait for me.
Won't wait for you.
Keep checking...
#anger
#politics
#corruption
#power
#vulnerability
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7 Comments
Evolution Revolution
It's a dark night
and I'm hanging in air.
Like an eagle being still
anticipating a kill.
But this monster named fear
has his claws sunk into my back.
I need to break them off
it will turn my spirit black.
It's time to move my wings.
Shred into a flaming phoenix
to melt its claws.
Time to glide around mountains and
light up this onyx black sky.
Time to breath in pure fresh air.
I don't want this feeling to die.
I look ahead and see
flashes of silver lightning waiting for me.
Time to challenge myself again ...
and I'm hanging in air.
Like an eagle being still
anticipating a kill.
But this monster named fear
has his claws sunk into my back.
I need to break them off
it will turn my spirit black.
It's time to move my wings.
Shred into a flaming phoenix
to melt its claws.
Time to glide around mountains and
light up this onyx black sky.
Time to breath in pure fresh air.
I don't want this feeling to die.
I look ahead and see
flashes of silver lightning waiting for me.
Time to challenge myself again ...
#anxiety
#courage
#LifeChangingMoment
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10 Comments
Quicksand
Should I take a taxi.
Maybe the subway.
No, I want to fly my way home.
So, take the tubes out of my mouth.
Slip the needle from my vein.
It won't take away my pain.
God take my hand.
Pull me out.
Quicksand.
Don't try and rescue me.
Don't drag me down.
I want to fly in the sky.
Go round and round.
Don't pull me back to
the ground.
They keep tugging on me.
I just want to be free.
This is hell.
Just an empty shell.
So, take the tubes from my mouth.
Slip the needle from my vein.
It won't take...
Maybe the subway.
No, I want to fly my way home.
So, take the tubes out of my mouth.
Slip the needle from my vein.
It won't take away my pain.
God take my hand.
Pull me out.
Quicksand.
Don't try and rescue me.
Don't drag me down.
I want to fly in the sky.
Go round and round.
Don't pull me back to
the ground.
They keep tugging on me.
I just want to be free.
This is hell.
Just an empty shell.
So, take the tubes from my mouth.
Slip the needle from my vein.
It won't take...
#death
#God
#honesty #choices
#honesty #choices
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