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.
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Aug 2021 2:27am
5th Aug 2021 2:27am
Lake of Stars
You could be 2 hours and 37 minutes
Away
You could be 4 hundred miles
Instead of three blocks
Away
But the next time you’re here
You’ve just got to see the stars
Hear the daytime thunder
Watch the ripples on the lake
Up close
Real close
Fingers trailing the water
Until the storm forces us to leave
Seek shelter
Under the cover of laughter
And we’ll wait
For the skies to clear
So the stars can shine
On those nights
When you aren’t 2 hours and 37 minutes
Away
Away
You could be 4 hundred miles
Instead of three blocks
Away
But the next time you’re here
You’ve just got to see the stars
Hear the daytime thunder
Watch the ripples on the lake
Up close
Real close
Fingers trailing the water
Until the storm forces us to leave
Seek shelter
Under the cover of laughter
And we’ll wait
For the skies to clear
So the stars can shine
On those nights
When you aren’t 2 hours and 37 minutes
Away
#relationships
#romantic
#FallingInLove #crush
#FallingInLove #crush
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LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Aug 2021 3:31am
3rd Aug 2021 3:31am
Just us
I always thought
I was searching for a spark
Kissing all the boys
Holding hands in the park
But I was wrong
Being there tonight
A full moon in the dark
Being lifted off my feet
Right off the sidewalk I think
My head in the clouds
No ladder to climb back down
Touching skin to skin
My hands in yours
Then on your back
Traveling
Like your lips down my neck
But it wasn't a spark
I was seeking in the dark
It was a drowning
That collapsed
Turning everything to dust
Sinking but floating ...
I was searching for a spark
Kissing all the boys
Holding hands in the park
But I was wrong
Being there tonight
A full moon in the dark
Being lifted off my feet
Right off the sidewalk I think
My head in the clouds
No ladder to climb back down
Touching skin to skin
My hands in yours
Then on your back
Traveling
Like your lips down my neck
But it wasn't a spark
I was seeking in the dark
It was a drowning
That collapsed
Turning everything to dust
Sinking but floating ...
#relationships
#romantic
#FallingInLove
#dating
#crush
367 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Aug 2021 3:29am
3rd Aug 2021 3:29am
She Doesn’t Send Me Love Songs Anymore
She used to send me her playlist
Full of songs that hit the spot, just
One or two a day to keep me thinking
Always thinking
Of her
Eventually we’d know all the words
Singing in the car ‘til our throats hurt
Windows down while it was raining
How she loved that
She did
But now, just now
Things have changed I can see
She wont send, won’t send
Those sappy love songs to me
Maybe I’m overthinking
Maybe she’s just busy
But maybe busy
With someone new
Brand new
I used to hang on her words...
Full of songs that hit the spot, just
One or two a day to keep me thinking
Always thinking
Of her
Eventually we’d know all the words
Singing in the car ‘til our throats hurt
Windows down while it was raining
How she loved that
She did
But now, just now
Things have changed I can see
She wont send, won’t send
Those sappy love songs to me
Maybe I’m overthinking
Maybe she’s just busy
But maybe busy
With someone new
Brand new
I used to hang on her words...
#relationships
#honesty
#support #dating
#support #dating
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1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
2nd Aug 2021 1:39am
2nd Aug 2021 1:39am
Sleep Is An Ocean
Sleep is an ocean
Outside miles away
And you call it, beg for it
Then
Suddenly it's morning
The deep bass is calling
Sink or swim
The room is filling
Trombones sing
Soon you'll be out of time
The tides inside
You wonder
Is there freedom in falling when
The rooms spinning
Silence for a moment
Before the drumline starts again
What am I made of
Times up, it's rearranged
Before you choke
You're awake
Spitting out the sea
Everything is back in place
All that's left on this place
Is me
Outside miles away
And you call it, beg for it
Then
Suddenly it's morning
The deep bass is calling
Sink or swim
The room is filling
Trombones sing
Soon you'll be out of time
The tides inside
You wonder
Is there freedom in falling when
The rooms spinning
Silence for a moment
Before the drumline starts again
What am I made of
Times up, it's rearranged
Before you choke
You're awake
Spitting out the sea
Everything is back in place
All that's left on this place
Is me
#anxiety
#insomnia
#nightmares
311 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
2nd Aug 2021 1:39am
2nd Aug 2021 1:39am
PHOSPHENES
You see it when you close your eyes
Harder
Press harder with your eyelids
Maybe press your hands into your eyes
Try that
Push against the thoughts
That are telling you to stop
Push until you see them
The glittery sparkling phosphenes
The lights that let you know
You are still alive
Push out all the darkness
The blackness that hides
beneath your skin
Bring forth all the light things
The bright things
That pulse, a ringing in your ears
Push to forget what you’ve seen
Harder to put it away
Harder until...
Harder
Press harder with your eyelids
Maybe press your hands into your eyes
Try that
Push against the thoughts
That are telling you to stop
Push until you see them
The glittery sparkling phosphenes
The lights that let you know
You are still alive
Push out all the darkness
The blackness that hides
beneath your skin
Bring forth all the light things
The bright things
That pulse, a ringing in your ears
Push to forget what you’ve seen
Harder to put it away
Harder until...
#anxiety
#shame
#frustration #confusion
#frustration #confusion
378 reads
3 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
29th Jul 2021 2:31am
29th Jul 2021 2:31am
The Boneyard
We lay mangled
By some unseen hand
Well, I saw it
I don’t know if you did
Did you see your lion?
I turn my head
I can’t make eye contact
You walk away
Always stronger than I
No one can see what we carry
No one can see what we hold
It is as dark as the darkest night
I know, cliché right?
But really…
Some dark nights offer respite
When the lions don’t come
But some dark nights just let them come
Who’s really in charge?
I can’t raise my arms
I can’t move my legs
So, I surely cannot walk away ...
By some unseen hand
Well, I saw it
I don’t know if you did
Did you see your lion?
I turn my head
I can’t make eye contact
You walk away
Always stronger than I
No one can see what we carry
No one can see what we hold
It is as dark as the darkest night
I know, cliché right?
But really…
Some dark nights offer respite
When the lions don’t come
But some dark nights just let them come
Who’s really in charge?
I can’t raise my arms
I can’t move my legs
So, I surely cannot walk away ...
#secrets
#abuse
#despair
#FeelingLost
#hurt
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5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
29th Jul 2021 2:22am
29th Jul 2021 2:22am
The Storm of Us - Song Lyrics
Broke down
Again
Sitting on the side of the road
I called you but where are you
I just need someplace to go
And where I wanna go is right there
In your arms
And I thought that was what you wanted
Last night in the middle of all the storms
But now I’m lookin at my phone
It’s not ringing, you’re not calling
you’re not home
This was supposed to be our romance
White lights, fast nights
It was supposed to be that once chance
In a lifetime
To get everything we wanted
oo-ooo-oo
everything we wanted
...
Again
Sitting on the side of the road
I called you but where are you
I just need someplace to go
And where I wanna go is right there
In your arms
And I thought that was what you wanted
Last night in the middle of all the storms
But now I’m lookin at my phone
It’s not ringing, you’re not calling
you’re not home
This was supposed to be our romance
White lights, fast nights
It was supposed to be that once chance
In a lifetime
To get everything we wanted
oo-ooo-oo
everything we wanted
...
#sadness
#heartbroken
#disappointment
#emptiness
#bittersweet
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DARK POEM
Published
28th Jan 2020 7:44pm
28th Jan 2020 7:44pm
When I Wake
When I wake
It's like I've been at war
With sleep
There's eyeliner across my cheek
War paint
To match my tangled hair
No longer safely tucked in
Where it belongs
And there's
The ringing in my ears that
Replays the night's fight songs
Of all my years
Of all the struggles
I face in my sleep
And all the fog I wade though
When I get up and walk
Toward the street
Hand on the door, I think
What am I here for
Where am I at
Who am I now
Wait
Hesitate
Go back the way you came
Wake up...
It's like I've been at war
With sleep
There's eyeliner across my cheek
War paint
To match my tangled hair
No longer safely tucked in
Where it belongs
And there's
The ringing in my ears that
Replays the night's fight songs
Of all my years
Of all the struggles
I face in my sleep
And all the fog I wade though
When I get up and walk
Toward the street
Hand on the door, I think
What am I here for
Where am I at
Who am I now
Wait
Hesitate
Go back the way you came
Wake up...
#anxiety
#dark
#war
#sleep
#nightmares
385 reads
1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
28th Jan 2020 7:40pm
28th Jan 2020 7:40pm
Hangman's Curse
Start with a body
A head, two arms, two legs
And inside the body there are bones
38 in each foot
27 in each hand
24 ribs reach around
16 in each wrist
14 in each ankle
10 in each shoulder
10 in each hip
Every time you feel doubt
Every time you feel fear
Every time you feel pain
Every suspicion
That something isn’t right
One breaks
May not seem like much at first
A little pain in the shoulder
A little pain in the knee
We ignore as we get older
Thinking
This happens to everybody...
A head, two arms, two legs
And inside the body there are bones
38 in each foot
27 in each hand
24 ribs reach around
16 in each wrist
14 in each ankle
10 in each shoulder
10 in each hip
Every time you feel doubt
Every time you feel fear
Every time you feel pain
Every suspicion
That something isn’t right
One breaks
May not seem like much at first
A little pain in the shoulder
A little pain in the knee
We ignore as we get older
Thinking
This happens to everybody...
#anxiety
#love
#grief
#death
#LifeStruggles
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0 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Apr 2019 10:03pm
16th Apr 2019 10:03pm
Creekside
I wondered where we were going
When we passed up the way
The way to home
And then we ended up
At the river
Where we used to roam
Crunching pinecones
Filling up pockets
With rocks
Throwing duds into the water
Sink
Skip
Plop
Definitely a dud
And actually if you want the truth
It’s more like a creek
But it filled up our days, our week
Winding between trees
Attempting to cushion scraped knees
When we jumped and jumped
Repeatedly
From the top of Creekside trees
That was in the...
When we passed up the way
The way to home
And then we ended up
At the river
Where we used to roam
Crunching pinecones
Filling up pockets
With rocks
Throwing duds into the water
Sink
Skip
Plop
Definitely a dud
And actually if you want the truth
It’s more like a creek
But it filled up our days, our week
Winding between trees
Attempting to cushion scraped knees
When we jumped and jumped
Repeatedly
From the top of Creekside trees
That was in the...
#loneliness
#family
#death
#nature
#emptiness
407 reads
2 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
8th Jan 2019 3:01pm
8th Jan 2019 3:01pm
Broken Flames
The fire leaps though time and space
To touch my feet and then your face
You will feel it as soon as I
Let it go to run and hide
These are the broken flames
Of my ten year old sight
And as I grow and think and see
You too, will read my thoughts and be
Held captivated, sorrowful and jaded
Wishing you could have taken
Away all the flames have shaded
So now the fire holds steady in your hands
Finding a place that’s soft to land
To burn and pierce the pieces of your soul
As you continue to think and know
About...
To touch my feet and then your face
You will feel it as soon as I
Let it go to run and hide
These are the broken flames
Of my ten year old sight
And as I grow and think and see
You too, will read my thoughts and be
Held captivated, sorrowful and jaded
Wishing you could have taken
Away all the flames have shaded
So now the fire holds steady in your hands
Finding a place that’s soft to land
To burn and pierce the pieces of your soul
As you continue to think and know
About...
#sadness
#anxiety
#loneliness
#heartbroken
#emptiness
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LOVE POEM
Published
19th Dec 2018 4:57pm
19th Dec 2018 4:57pm
Narrow Strips
He will leave streamers in his wake
Where he wants to hold me close
And say,
I was here
And I’ll back away from the closeness
And occupy my mind with something else
Because I just don’t know what to do
With these extra ribbons
That cover up tattered scars
As they wind themselves around
The pieces of my heart
Where he wants to hold me close
And say,
I was here
And I’ll back away from the closeness
And occupy my mind with something else
Because I just don’t know what to do
With these extra ribbons
That cover up tattered scars
As they wind themselves around
The pieces of my heart
#boyfriend
#girlfriend
#romantic
#FallingInLove
#crush
505 reads
2 Comments
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