Submissions by Amalasuntha (hiatus)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
hiatus
Waking up (old)
At three of the clock
I wake and glimpse through the window
I see how the world has been
drawn in pencils,
the coal-grey houses in their
pyramid hats and the paler silhouettes
behind them
where the artist has been kinder
to the light papery sky,
lit with only the promise of sunrise
and the beckoning of day.
I think about how it works.
Why it works that way.
This whole beautiful shaded grey world,
how is it possible?
Before four of the clock
I have completed this poem.
Sentences words phrases
twisted and tumbled...
I wake and glimpse through the window
I see how the world has been
drawn in pencils,
the coal-grey houses in their
pyramid hats and the paler silhouettes
behind them
where the artist has been kinder
to the light papery sky,
lit with only the promise of sunrise
and the beckoning of day.
I think about how it works.
Why it works that way.
This whole beautiful shaded grey world,
how is it possible?
Before four of the clock
I have completed this poem.
Sentences words phrases
twisted and tumbled...
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4 Comments
The Internet
I've had my Google goggles on
Webmistress
Just to see if I could
Get your name
You're very pretty
And I like that you make
Children's TV
But the thing is
You could just as easily
find me
If you had as much
time to waste
It's only nine minutes
past three
Webmistress
Just to see if I could
Get your name
You're very pretty
And I like that you make
Children's TV
But the thing is
You could just as easily
find me
If you had as much
time to waste
It's only nine minutes
past three
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Pick-up lines
F u c k Y o u
Nothing
is going
to help
I alone
am responsible
for my
injuries
(various,
personal)
I am
not worth
your time
Go fuck
someone else
Make
someone else
the victim
of your victimless crime
Nothing
is going
to help
I alone
am responsible
for my
injuries
(various,
personal)
I am
not worth
your time
Go fuck
someone else
Make
someone else
the victim
of your victimless crime
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yeah whatever
burnt butter cupcakes
sugaring my tongue
the t.v is driving me
crazy i hate it
my sister plays death metal
i play at dying
i even suck at poems now
cant punctuate
i can make
burnt butter cupcakes
sugaring my tongue
the t.v is driving me
crazy i hate it
my sister plays death metal
i play at dying
i even suck at poems now
cant punctuate
i can make
burnt butter cupcakes
747 reads
2 Comments
I watch too much Friends
Jellycat
Jellycat
What is the meaning of you
Jellycat
Jellycat
It's all my fauult
Jellycat
Jellycat
Why are you watching me
Jellycat
Jellycat
It's not my fauulllllt
Jellycat
What is the meaning of you
Jellycat
Jellycat
It's all my fauult
Jellycat
Jellycat
Why are you watching me
Jellycat
Jellycat
It's not my fauulllllt
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2 Comments
I see
I see you’ve wrapped the scarf around your arm again
So how did the
Blood get beneath the nail on your middle finger then
We’re walking on sunshine
I know you’re spending time alone with suicidal friends
It’s almost funny
I wonder will you join them in their tragicomic ends
We’re walking on sunshine
Woah-oh
I can hear you scream abuses at the helpless and the strong
You get a kick
From killing animals because you know it’s wrong
We’re walking on sunshine
Woah-oh
Don’t it feel good
You...
So how did the
Blood get beneath the nail on your middle finger then
We’re walking on sunshine
I know you’re spending time alone with suicidal friends
It’s almost funny
I wonder will you join them in their tragicomic ends
We’re walking on sunshine
Woah-oh
I can hear you scream abuses at the helpless and the strong
You get a kick
From killing animals because you know it’s wrong
We’re walking on sunshine
Woah-oh
Don’t it feel good
You...
674 reads
5 Comments
First
i carved it
with a compass point
the little pinkie-nail sized symbol
a chinese letter meaning 'innocent'
on my white, white
inner wrist skin
& then another
meaning 'wolf'
how bloody naïve of me
you see back then
i didn't know
when you scratch subcutaneous fat
you can see the veins
like the stringy red
you pick from chicken fillets
and with the silver point
you can pluck
and poke
and think yourself a master of self-sculpture
but that doesn't matter now ...
with a compass point
the little pinkie-nail sized symbol
a chinese letter meaning 'innocent'
on my white, white
inner wrist skin
& then another
meaning 'wolf'
how bloody naïve of me
you see back then
i didn't know
when you scratch subcutaneous fat
you can see the veins
like the stringy red
you pick from chicken fillets
and with the silver point
you can pluck
and poke
and think yourself a master of self-sculpture
but that doesn't matter now ...
858 reads
7 Comments
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