Submissions by Aurore
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I have been writing poetry and song lyrics since I was 14, but I don't consider myself as anything but a novice, as I simply express my feelings, or intuitive insights as they arise. Poetry is an outlet for self-expression that I otherwise wouldn't have.
SELF POEM
Published
14th Feb 2012 5:45pm
14th Feb 2012 5:45pm
The Edge of the water
Dangerously close to the edge of the water
Scared, if I drown no one will save me
Why did you send something to haunt me?
Why did you send this to drive me crazy?
I cannot think, cannot speak, cannot whisper
I dream in my sleep that I’m diving deeper
Tightening the rope around my neck
Afraid of the water but desperate to get wet
Dipping a toe to sense the outcome
I want to stop this but I just keep going
With each breath my heart beats faster and faster
I want to jump, how long can I last this?
Fascination is drawing at my resistance...
Scared, if I drown no one will save me
Why did you send something to haunt me?
Why did you send this to drive me crazy?
I cannot think, cannot speak, cannot whisper
I dream in my sleep that I’m diving deeper
Tightening the rope around my neck
Afraid of the water but desperate to get wet
Dipping a toe to sense the outcome
I want to stop this but I just keep going
With each breath my heart beats faster and faster
I want to jump, how long can I last this?
Fascination is drawing at my resistance...
685 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
14th Feb 2012 9:30am
14th Feb 2012 9:30am
Naïve
Walk into this room with me, please
I’m not so blind that I can’t see
Naïve and struggling to breathe
But alive enough to still perceive
Take off all your clothes, please
I’m not so dead that I don’t know
Naïve and wishing I could grow
But instead I watch you draw your bow
Please step inside this fold, please
I’m not so weak that you can’t scold
Naïve and fighting to resist
But I have to step inside this tryst
Run away with me, please
I’m so not what the others see
Naïve and you know what I mean
But I have to realise...
I’m not so blind that I can’t see
Naïve and struggling to breathe
But alive enough to still perceive
Take off all your clothes, please
I’m not so dead that I don’t know
Naïve and wishing I could grow
But instead I watch you draw your bow
Please step inside this fold, please
I’m not so weak that you can’t scold
Naïve and fighting to resist
But I have to step inside this tryst
Run away with me, please
I’m so not what the others see
Naïve and you know what I mean
But I have to realise...
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DARK POEM
Published
14th Feb 2012 9:17am
14th Feb 2012 9:17am
Crawling Around
Crawling around, you want me on my back
The dogs are hounding me for all that I lack
Let me touch the gold, mine is not for sale
Let me writhe here in a naked sweat for a while
You should make me sick, but you make me smile
But all you do is defile me
Clawing at the past with a bent persuasion
To be something that I’m not, a deviation
From everything I should want to need to be
Me is not I and she is not me
You should let me go, but you make me grieve
And all you do is decry me
Claiming me, you want my bones
Making me lost, making...
The dogs are hounding me for all that I lack
Let me touch the gold, mine is not for sale
Let me writhe here in a naked sweat for a while
You should make me sick, but you make me smile
But all you do is defile me
Clawing at the past with a bent persuasion
To be something that I’m not, a deviation
From everything I should want to need to be
Me is not I and she is not me
You should let me go, but you make me grieve
And all you do is decry me
Claiming me, you want my bones
Making me lost, making...
729 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
13th Feb 2012 9:19am
13th Feb 2012 9:19am
I am a liar
I can’t take this, can’t take this anymore
I can’t hold in the fire, I can’t wait for the dawn
I can’t stop this desire that burns within my heart
I have to succumb to the aching that’s tearing me apart
I have fallen into the well
I am burning in the flames
I am tired of this world
I am tired of these games
I am tired of the wanting and the waiting and the pain
Of the pushing and the needing and the hunger for the rain
But I can’t stop, though I can’t take this, I can’t take this anymore
Because I have to sate the hunger and I have to close the...
I can’t hold in the fire, I can’t wait for the dawn
I can’t stop this desire that burns within my heart
I have to succumb to the aching that’s tearing me apart
I have fallen into the well
I am burning in the flames
I am tired of this world
I am tired of these games
I am tired of the wanting and the waiting and the pain
Of the pushing and the needing and the hunger for the rain
But I can’t stop, though I can’t take this, I can’t take this anymore
Because I have to sate the hunger and I have to close the...
852 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
13th Feb 2012 9:10am
13th Feb 2012 9:10am
I read my part
I read my part but I forgot my lines
I thought I knew the way but the way was never there and nor was I
I saw the sign but it didn’t seem to matter anymore seeing as there was no destination
I took the gift but it wasn’t for me, maybe it was for someone else
I stayed silent to keep the peace, but all there was, was war and chaos
I left the volcano to simmer in vain, it is not as I left it
I sat and tried not to think but that was all I could do
I waited and waited, for something, for nothing, for anything
I thought I had left the fear but I lived inside it...
I thought I knew the way but the way was never there and nor was I
I saw the sign but it didn’t seem to matter anymore seeing as there was no destination
I took the gift but it wasn’t for me, maybe it was for someone else
I stayed silent to keep the peace, but all there was, was war and chaos
I left the volcano to simmer in vain, it is not as I left it
I sat and tried not to think but that was all I could do
I waited and waited, for something, for nothing, for anything
I thought I had left the fear but I lived inside it...
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1 Comment
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
12th Feb 2012 2:25pm
12th Feb 2012 2:25pm
I would love you to be free
I love you because you’re broken
Because your heart is made of feathers
And I weigh the souls against them
But they never were so light
I love you because you’re mine
And for every lie you’ve spoken
I’ve laid to rest the bitter thoughts
So that you may speak your mind
I love you because you’re perfect
Though you hide inside this error
Every torture you sustain
Need not be a noble venture
I love you because you’re fragile
Because your soul is so beautiful
Yet you hide under a dark cloud
As though you were conjecture...
Because your heart is made of feathers
And I weigh the souls against them
But they never were so light
I love you because you’re mine
And for every lie you’ve spoken
I’ve laid to rest the bitter thoughts
So that you may speak your mind
I love you because you’re perfect
Though you hide inside this error
Every torture you sustain
Need not be a noble venture
I love you because you’re fragile
Because your soul is so beautiful
Yet you hide under a dark cloud
As though you were conjecture...
1143 reads
5 Comments
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