Submissions by DreamIllusions
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
When I put the pen to paper or the hands to keys - I feel as if I'm in a fever until all the thoughts make it out - only then I can breathe.
SELF POEM
Published
19th Jul 2018 9:41pm
19th Jul 2018 9:41pm
Escape Artist
I stomped in rain puddles
In my bathing suit
While mother watched from the living room window
Windows that didn't quite shut tight and the wind blew in
I purposefully fell out of the backyard tree
Landing just right so I wouldn't break an arm, leg or knee
Mother world come running every time, without fail
She was dependable like that
I brought a snake in from the garden
I thought my neighbors jigsaw puzzles were the best
I fed my turtles roly-polys from our yard
It would seem I had a happy childhood
But I was a escape artist ...
In my bathing suit
While mother watched from the living room window
Windows that didn't quite shut tight and the wind blew in
I purposefully fell out of the backyard tree
Landing just right so I wouldn't break an arm, leg or knee
Mother world come running every time, without fail
She was dependable like that
I brought a snake in from the garden
I thought my neighbors jigsaw puzzles were the best
I fed my turtles roly-polys from our yard
It would seem I had a happy childhood
But I was a escape artist ...
#sadness
#anxiety
#grief
#dark
#frustration
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LOVE POEM
Published
5th Jun 2018 3:39pm
5th Jun 2018 3:39pm
Where will we be when the fog lifts
It's creeping in, slowly at first
Tendrils curling around my vision
Pulling you in deeper
In closer
Keeping pace with my running
Lifting me off my feet
And I don't know where am
only where I've been
And I don't know what I need
Only what I've had
It's taking over, heartbeat quickening
Smoke stacks rising up from the water and the woods
Taking you further
Diving longer
Keeping pace with my breathing
Taking away my air
And I don't know where am
only where I've been
And I don't know what I...
Tendrils curling around my vision
Pulling you in deeper
In closer
Keeping pace with my running
Lifting me off my feet
And I don't know where am
only where I've been
And I don't know what I need
Only what I've had
It's taking over, heartbeat quickening
Smoke stacks rising up from the water and the woods
Taking you further
Diving longer
Keeping pace with my breathing
Taking away my air
And I don't know where am
only where I've been
And I don't know what I...
#love
#lust
#hope
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EROTIC POEM
Published
4th Jun 2018 9:29pm
4th Jun 2018 9:29pm
Heat Between
I can pass a thousand
People on the streets
People in the crowds
I can make eye contact
Pause, wait, reflect
Blue, green and brown
And never know the pull
I can stay in the shadows
Beneath my painted lashes
I can inhale and exhale
A breeze on my lips
And be drawn only to the few
I can walk through voices so loud
People laughing
People talking
I can push past all these bodies
Without an expansion of want
Without a shortness of breath
And never feel the pull
I can stay inside a...
People on the streets
People in the crowds
I can make eye contact
Pause, wait, reflect
Blue, green and brown
And never know the pull
I can stay in the shadows
Beneath my painted lashes
I can inhale and exhale
A breeze on my lips
And be drawn only to the few
I can walk through voices so loud
People laughing
People talking
I can push past all these bodies
Without an expansion of want
Without a shortness of breath
And never feel the pull
I can stay inside a...
#lust
#lover
#FallingInLove #ForbiddenLove
#FallingInLove #ForbiddenLove
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EROTIC POEM
Published
3rd Jun 2018 3:36pm
3rd Jun 2018 3:36pm
Bells of Temptation
I'm around your head now
Hanging on the back side
Waiting
Pull the trigger now
Burn away my skin
Force me to be inside you're ocean
Push me to the brink
Those bells will ring
It won't sound the same
Those bells won't keep
Along with the same
Cast along your vibrant life
Listen for the bells to ring
I'm in your mirror now
Familiar light behind you
Shining
Turn around now
Torch my fingers, just the tips
Pull your anchor just far enough
Push me to the edge
Those bells will ring ...
Hanging on the back side
Waiting
Pull the trigger now
Burn away my skin
Force me to be inside you're ocean
Push me to the brink
Those bells will ring
It won't sound the same
Those bells won't keep
Along with the same
Cast along your vibrant life
Listen for the bells to ring
I'm in your mirror now
Familiar light behind you
Shining
Turn around now
Torch my fingers, just the tips
Pull your anchor just far enough
Push me to the edge
Those bells will ring ...
#lust
#erotic
#lover #sensual
#lover #sensual
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EROTIC POEM
Published
3rd Jun 2018 3:35pm
3rd Jun 2018 3:35pm
Mr Dangerous
He was formed of want and desire
Someone willing to take that higher
He appeared in flesh and bone
If only on the other side, he lay prone
I couldn’t touch, not yet, not yet
Even though I’m drawn by something quite
Invisible
But so real, so convincing, so full of life
He’s Mr Dangerous, full of fire
He was molded out of what could be
Someone, out there, wild and free
He showed his face, he showed his eyes
And into my mind he fed a surprise
I could have and I could take, but not yet, not yet
Take a look and don’t...
Someone willing to take that higher
He appeared in flesh and bone
If only on the other side, he lay prone
I couldn’t touch, not yet, not yet
Even though I’m drawn by something quite
Invisible
But so real, so convincing, so full of life
He’s Mr Dangerous, full of fire
He was molded out of what could be
Someone, out there, wild and free
He showed his face, he showed his eyes
And into my mind he fed a surprise
I could have and I could take, but not yet, not yet
Take a look and don’t...
#lust
#erotic
#lover #sensual
#lover #sensual
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LOVE POEM
Published
24th May 2018 2:34pm
24th May 2018 2:34pm
Enigmatically Magnetic
Your eyes have a built in echo
With the clarity of a cloudless day
It's as unexplainable as the mist
that emanates when you breathe.
A hemorrhage of emotions
Scrolling out in wisps
Curling like tendrils of wet hair
In the spaces where shadows lie.
I cannot fathom what they hold
Or why it is they pulse with depth
I only know that they do.
What larger ambitions lie there
Tied with hope and lodged inside my head
I cannot pull them free
The entanglement of the start and stop of heartbeats
that catch in my whispered breath...
With the clarity of a cloudless day
It's as unexplainable as the mist
that emanates when you breathe.
A hemorrhage of emotions
Scrolling out in wisps
Curling like tendrils of wet hair
In the spaces where shadows lie.
I cannot fathom what they hold
Or why it is they pulse with depth
I only know that they do.
What larger ambitions lie there
Tied with hope and lodged inside my head
I cannot pull them free
The entanglement of the start and stop of heartbeats
that catch in my whispered breath...
#lust
#hope
#relationships
#inspirational
#lover
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LOVE POEM
Published
24th May 2018 2:31pm
24th May 2018 2:31pm
Summer in May
By May the mosquitos have already bitten
Taken the blood of the sweetest young
This is their honey, their sugar, their life
Passengers on unwilling hosts
By June will I remember your face
Were you distracted or were you focused
Did you want to taste the honey, the sugar, the life
Or leave it at that like anonymous boats
By July it’s possible that all I’ll feel is the heat
Sliding down my back like an invisible eel
I’ll sip at the edge of the lake, honey, sugar...
Taken the blood of the sweetest young
This is their honey, their sugar, their life
Passengers on unwilling hosts
By June will I remember your face
Were you distracted or were you focused
Did you want to taste the honey, the sugar, the life
Or leave it at that like anonymous boats
By July it’s possible that all I’ll feel is the heat
Sliding down my back like an invisible eel
I’ll sip at the edge of the lake, honey, sugar...
#boyfriend
#relationships
#romantic #honesty
#romantic #honesty
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SELF POEM
Published
16th May 2018 3:32pm
16th May 2018 3:32pm
Move Among the Days
Like rubber carcasses scattered on the road
My pieces lay strewn about, coals gone cold
Those broken tire bits peeled away from something larger
In a way reminiscent of my layers although sharper
I’ll reach them though invisible
With my eyes so disguisable
And pluck up the embers one by one
Until they are one and burning like the sun
I’ll move around accordingly
Just like you think I should be
In and out of Monday through Sunday
Repeating patterns of sleep, eat, go and stay
But
Like discarded gumballs, the flavor no one likes ...
My pieces lay strewn about, coals gone cold
Those broken tire bits peeled away from something larger
In a way reminiscent of my layers although sharper
I’ll reach them though invisible
With my eyes so disguisable
And pluck up the embers one by one
Until they are one and burning like the sun
I’ll move around accordingly
Just like you think I should be
In and out of Monday through Sunday
Repeating patterns of sleep, eat, go and stay
But
Like discarded gumballs, the flavor no one likes ...
#mirror
#memories
#myself #FeelingLost
#myself #FeelingLost
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LOVE POEM
Published
7th May 2018 10:52pm
7th May 2018 10:52pm
Phantom Heart
I’ll pretend you can hear me
But it’s no good
Because I know you can’t
You’ve already moved on, checked out
You’re just a shadow mimicking the motions
Swimming long and deep in my oceans
Of words
You’re just a phantom heart
That I can put away or place where I want
But I know when we’re face to face
There’s bound to be a wild one
A wild heart, a wild moment, a wild start
Before you tuck it away again
Away so deep and so far
From your body parts
I’ll sing a song for you
But it’s no good
Because I...
But it’s no good
Because I know you can’t
You’ve already moved on, checked out
You’re just a shadow mimicking the motions
Swimming long and deep in my oceans
Of words
You’re just a phantom heart
That I can put away or place where I want
But I know when we’re face to face
There’s bound to be a wild one
A wild heart, a wild moment, a wild start
Before you tuck it away again
Away so deep and so far
From your body parts
I’ll sing a song for you
But it’s no good
Because I...
#rejection
#heartbroken
#conflict #escape
#conflict #escape
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EROTIC POEM
Published
28th Apr 2018 3:51pm
28th Apr 2018 3:51pm
Strangely Dark
And the house is strangely dark
Even the wind outside has calmed, the trees standing still
There are no noises from within, just a glow through the darkness
I fumble for the light but it does not come on
My heartbeat quickens as I try to look around
But the house is strangely dark
Then the wind outside picks up
First just a tap tapping from the maple tree, then growing
As if there’s a whirlwind right outside my door
And I wish I wasn’t alone
Because the house is strangely dark
So I step with trepidation, taking the only weapon I can find ...
Even the wind outside has calmed, the trees standing still
There are no noises from within, just a glow through the darkness
I fumble for the light but it does not come on
My heartbeat quickens as I try to look around
But the house is strangely dark
Then the wind outside picks up
First just a tap tapping from the maple tree, then growing
As if there’s a whirlwind right outside my door
And I wish I wasn’t alone
Because the house is strangely dark
So I step with trepidation, taking the only weapon I can find ...
#girlfriend
#relationships
#romantic #FallingInLove
#romantic #FallingInLove
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SELF POEM
Published
28th Apr 2018 3:45pm
28th Apr 2018 3:45pm
When I Had Many Names
I was restless
I was weary
I was cold and I was tired
I was hungry
I was famished
I was his and he was mine
When I had many names
My hands were fists
My feet were fast
My eyes and mind wanted to close
My voice had no speech
My world had no motive
My body and soul were not my own
When I had many names
I would run
I would hide
I would be found again and again
I would cry
I would laugh
I would be played with again and again
When I had many names
I was relentless
I was...
I was weary
I was cold and I was tired
I was hungry
I was famished
I was his and he was mine
When I had many names
My hands were fists
My feet were fast
My eyes and mind wanted to close
My voice had no speech
My world had no motive
My body and soul were not my own
When I had many names
I would run
I would hide
I would be found again and again
I would cry
I would laugh
I would be played with again and again
When I had many names
I was relentless
I was...
#anxiety
#grief
#shame
#frustration
#confusion
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LOVE POEM
Published
27th Apr 2018 11:33pm
27th Apr 2018 11:33pm
Half a World Away
He's right here but he wants space
Space within this place
She wants to touch but she's half a world away
Half a world away
How can we all just carry on
Haunted by what's not here, what's gone
Carried away by the dawn
Trapped within my own head
Spinning stories into thread
Searching for what's going on
Like why, to him and her
Have I been drawn
And why
Must things be the way they are
Like being inside a snow jar
He's right here but he wants space
Space within this place
She wants to touch but...
Space within this place
She wants to touch but she's half a world away
Half a world away
How can we all just carry on
Haunted by what's not here, what's gone
Carried away by the dawn
Trapped within my own head
Spinning stories into thread
Searching for what's going on
Like why, to him and her
Have I been drawn
And why
Must things be the way they are
Like being inside a snow jar
He's right here but he wants space
Space within this place
She wants to touch but...
#boyfriend
#girlfriend
#relationships
#honesty
#FallingInLove
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