Submissions by Chiyo (Miss Chi)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ~ Plutarch So let me speak to those who care to listen ...
Everybody's Got A Poem
A father's poem
designed to justify wrong
Mistaken for love
A mother's poem
Designed for meek excuses
Having turned away
A daughter's poem
Designed for paying for sins
Never committed
A lover's poem
Designed to heal the broken
Like balm on cracked lips
designed to justify wrong
Mistaken for love
A mother's poem
Designed for meek excuses
Having turned away
A daughter's poem
Designed for paying for sins
Never committed
A lover's poem
Designed to heal the broken
Like balm on cracked lips
521 reads
14 Comments
Licit Theft
Not against the law
Is breaking somebody's heart
Stealing it either
Is breaking somebody's heart
Stealing it either
#sadness
#anger
#UnrequitedLove
#obsession
#bittersweet
409 reads
4 Comments
No Season for Love
Winter is coming
Autumn's gold gets blown away
Coldness bears your name
Autumn's gold gets blown away
Coldness bears your name
#lover
448 reads
8 Comments
She
Nobody's lover
Just a wild-growing flower
Fading fast when picked
Just a wild-growing flower
Fading fast when picked
531 reads
18 Comments
Get lost!
Missing compassion
A crime never forgiven
Never forgotten
A crime never forgiven
Never forgotten
471 reads
10 Comments
LIFE
He came to me
not to bid me good night
but to expunge the spark of my life
To live in fear
rather than faith
makes a child grow inwards
When hands don't caress
but claw at skin and hurt
you learn how to hide within yourself
My body is mine
too terrorized to articulate
a child's fundamental right of inviolacy
When I chose to stay from harm
although it meant punishment
the healthier alternative was mine
When a mother
chooses to look the other way
which way remains for a daughter ...
not to bid me good night
but to expunge the spark of my life
To live in fear
rather than faith
makes a child grow inwards
When hands don't caress
but claw at skin and hurt
you learn how to hide within yourself
My body is mine
too terrorized to articulate
a child's fundamental right of inviolacy
When I chose to stay from harm
although it meant punishment
the healthier alternative was mine
When a mother
chooses to look the other way
which way remains for a daughter ...
590 reads
16 Comments
BIRTH
Coming into this world
you need to be greeted
with open arms
When those arms won't unfold
in time to catch you
your fall will be infinite
When you fall
you either shatter
or just become as strong as many
Having gotten strong
You may piece yourself together again
in which way depends on yourself
Fuck those who fail their kids ...
you need to be greeted
with open arms
When those arms won't unfold
in time to catch you
your fall will be infinite
When you fall
you either shatter
or just become as strong as many
Having gotten strong
You may piece yourself together again
in which way depends on yourself
Fuck those who fail their kids ...
564 reads
6 Comments
Illusions
Girdle of roses
Tightly twined 'round brittle hearts
Thorns' stinging kisses
Tightly twined 'round brittle hearts
Thorns' stinging kisses
540 reads
14 Comments
Always
You won't let me go
Shared breaths and vows in hushed tones
One foot on my heart
Shared breaths and vows in hushed tones
One foot on my heart
617 reads
18 Comments
Gone
What's life else than clouds
Racing across deep blue skies
Then gone on the wind
Racing across deep blue skies
Then gone on the wind
571 reads
8 Comments
One day - maybe
Will we ever cease
Coupling heaven and abyss
Though we're poles apart
Coupling heaven and abyss
Though we're poles apart
898 reads
23 Comments
The way I am
I’m not sorry for using my heart as a trap.
Once you’ve been caught it’ll never set you free.
It’s exciting to hear you beg and cry for attention.
But won’t let you go until I’m bored with you.
I’m not sorry for you getting lost within my magic triangle.
The murky Venus trap devours you greedily.
How you struggle to escape that vortex of desire.
Will swallow you whole and spit out the bits and pieces.
I’m not sorry for turning words into knives.
The blades are going to mutilate each word of yours.
My fun is watching you...
Once you’ve been caught it’ll never set you free.
It’s exciting to hear you beg and cry for attention.
But won’t let you go until I’m bored with you.
I’m not sorry for you getting lost within my magic triangle.
The murky Venus trap devours you greedily.
How you struggle to escape that vortex of desire.
Will swallow you whole and spit out the bits and pieces.
I’m not sorry for turning words into knives.
The blades are going to mutilate each word of yours.
My fun is watching you...
733 reads
16 Comments
DU Poetry : Submissions by Chiyo (Miss Chi)