Submissions by EmmalineMilady
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
If I have been given any gift in life, it is my words. I have been writing since I can remember and probably even before then. Written expression is how I keep my sanity in an insane world.
LOVE POEM
Published
12th Sep 2017 3:03pm
12th Sep 2017 3:03pm
Unexpected Delivery
You are so busy slamming doors
Afraid of who might just walk in
You isolate yourself from feeling
Perceiving your losses as a win
And most of the time it works
Solicitors move on when they’re ignored
But me? I’m perfectly fine to wait
Like a package at your door.
I will only come inside
When it is you who takes me there
But be mindful what you hold is fragile
So, handle me with care.
I am very strong but gentle
I can lift you up and hold you there
Everything that is and all that I am
Will always be yours...
Afraid of who might just walk in
You isolate yourself from feeling
Perceiving your losses as a win
And most of the time it works
Solicitors move on when they’re ignored
But me? I’m perfectly fine to wait
Like a package at your door.
I will only come inside
When it is you who takes me there
But be mindful what you hold is fragile
So, handle me with care.
I am very strong but gentle
I can lift you up and hold you there
Everything that is and all that I am
Will always be yours...
#anger
#love
#regret
#dark
#relationships
690 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Sep 2017 7:52pm
8th Sep 2017 7:52pm
Narcissistic Heartstrings
You’d be really pretty
If you lost a little bit of weight
Started counting your calories,
Watched what you ate.
I’m just trying to help you.
Why can’t you see???
Stop taking it so personally
And blaming your insecurities on me.
She is a really good person.
You should try to be more like her.
She is beautiful inside and out.
Just like I once thought you were.
No, we are just friends.
You are bat shit crazy to think otherwise.
How could you stay with me if you think that?
Hold your nose while I...
If you lost a little bit of weight
Started counting your calories,
Watched what you ate.
I’m just trying to help you.
Why can’t you see???
Stop taking it so personally
And blaming your insecurities on me.
She is a really good person.
You should try to be more like her.
She is beautiful inside and out.
Just like I once thought you were.
No, we are just friends.
You are bat shit crazy to think otherwise.
How could you stay with me if you think that?
Hold your nose while I...
#LifeAsAWriter
1096 reads
19 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Sep 2017 3:58pm
8th Sep 2017 3:58pm
Falsifications of Hope
I don’t want to be neglected
This is not at all what I expected
You lifted me up over the world so high
I felt protected, so I spread my wings to fly
But then you threw me to the ground
Left me with my head spinning around
All I had wanted was to love you
You said you felt the same way too
A connection made by the cosmic universe
It’s liars like you that make love feel cursed
But silly me, I waited for you.
Just thought you had some things to do
I was so sure that you would come
Hope started fading as I became numb
The day...
This is not at all what I expected
You lifted me up over the world so high
I felt protected, so I spread my wings to fly
But then you threw me to the ground
Left me with my head spinning around
All I had wanted was to love you
You said you felt the same way too
A connection made by the cosmic universe
It’s liars like you that make love feel cursed
But silly me, I waited for you.
Just thought you had some things to do
I was so sure that you would come
Hope started fading as I became numb
The day...
#heartbroken
#lies
#disappointment
710 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Sep 2017 4:29pm
1st Sep 2017 4:29pm
My Aurora Borealis
I feel a sadness and I know that it is not my own.
These feelings are different and speak the unknown.
I wish I knew you, the one reaching out to my heart.
I look around trying to find who it is falling apart.
Sweet, sweet, darling, I long to help you be okay.
Keep giving your pain to me. I will take it away.
Your tears fill my eyes and I take a deep breath
I exhale slowly and shiver from a touch of death.
What is worse than to be alone and alive both the same?
Introverted emotions move between love and shame.
Your heart is so heavy, let...
These feelings are different and speak the unknown.
I wish I knew you, the one reaching out to my heart.
I look around trying to find who it is falling apart.
Sweet, sweet, darling, I long to help you be okay.
Keep giving your pain to me. I will take it away.
Your tears fill my eyes and I take a deep breath
I exhale slowly and shiver from a touch of death.
What is worse than to be alone and alive both the same?
Introverted emotions move between love and shame.
Your heart is so heavy, let...
#love
#birds
#SelfDiscovery
#healing
#spiritual
1004 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Aug 2017 8:21pm
30th Aug 2017 8:21pm
Intangible Love
I mourn you, intangible love
You were warm sand
Slipping right through my fingers
Every grain an opportunity lost
I can see you
I can feel you
But I can never hold on to you for very long
You morph
Constantly shapeshifting
Beneath my feet, always something new
Collisions of water and earth
A taste of salty bitterness
Bursts of winds whip through my hair
Senses remain on high alert
Reminders of certainty
It is there
All around me
In the distance dancing on the water
Crystal sparks of hope
Enticing...
You were warm sand
Slipping right through my fingers
Every grain an opportunity lost
I can see you
I can feel you
But I can never hold on to you for very long
You morph
Constantly shapeshifting
Beneath my feet, always something new
Collisions of water and earth
A taste of salty bitterness
Bursts of winds whip through my hair
Senses remain on high alert
Reminders of certainty
It is there
All around me
In the distance dancing on the water
Crystal sparks of hope
Enticing...
#love
#hope
#dreams
#spiritual
#LookingForLove
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0 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
30th Aug 2017 3:44pm
30th Aug 2017 3:44pm
Becoming the Fire
He had never spoken to me
Or whispered my name
But I knew his voice
Like the wind from the rain
And I felt his calling
My body trembled at the thought
He knew all that I was
And everything I was not.
I could feel him softly caressing me
In the corners of my mind
My head ached in reaction
Afraid of what he might find
My chest felt heavy & tightened
It got harder and harder to breathe
As I thought of all the places
He had been inside of me
I brushed my fingertips across my lips
I swear his presence was...
Or whispered my name
But I knew his voice
Like the wind from the rain
And I felt his calling
My body trembled at the thought
He knew all that I was
And everything I was not.
I could feel him softly caressing me
In the corners of my mind
My head ached in reaction
Afraid of what he might find
My chest felt heavy & tightened
It got harder and harder to breathe
As I thought of all the places
He had been inside of me
I brushed my fingertips across my lips
I swear his presence was...
#PopCulture
1296 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
29th Aug 2017 7:55pm
29th Aug 2017 7:55pm
Alienation of Affection
Rip my heart wide open
Take from me what you will
I have been numb for so, so long
I’ve forgotten how to feel
Then you moved something inside of me
Deep and raw and new
Now I’m stuck contemplating
And I don’t know what to do.
I’ve tried to walk away.
I’ve wanted to shut you out.
Go back to the way it was before
I ever found you out.
I’ve never needed anyone
No one’s ever touched my heart
Or invaded the privacies of my mind
While dissecting and picking me apart
So, I lay there listening to your symphonies ...
Take from me what you will
I have been numb for so, so long
I’ve forgotten how to feel
Then you moved something inside of me
Deep and raw and new
Now I’m stuck contemplating
And I don’t know what to do.
I’ve tried to walk away.
I’ve wanted to shut you out.
Go back to the way it was before
I ever found you out.
I’ve never needed anyone
No one’s ever touched my heart
Or invaded the privacies of my mind
While dissecting and picking me apart
So, I lay there listening to your symphonies ...
#heartbroken
782 reads
4 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
29th Aug 2017 6:54pm
29th Aug 2017 6:54pm
Nostalgia
Nostalgia is infectious like a disease of whimsical fantasies that wisp through the mind leaving behind a faded reality. In that alternate reality, the bad vanishes (just as it does in death) and only the good remains. That is until only the bad does the same. Colors change under different lights, as do people and self-preservation is a necessity vital to the health of your core being.
#love
#strength
#courage
#crush
#determination
560 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
25th Aug 2017 3:08pm
25th Aug 2017 3:08pm
Hindsight
For a fleeting moment, I thought I saw it there
In your eyes, there was hope but I was unaware
There was danger that also lingered sweetly behind
Looking into those crystal blue eyes, I was so blind.
Retrospect is painful but a necessary truth
Adulthood does nothing but take away our youth
I’ve learned that love is intangible and anyone who disagrees
Has never wept a thousand tears while dropped on their knees
And I bet they’ve never been so broken that it’s hard to breathe
They’ve never wished for numbness to blanket their grief
They’ve...
In your eyes, there was hope but I was unaware
There was danger that also lingered sweetly behind
Looking into those crystal blue eyes, I was so blind.
Retrospect is painful but a necessary truth
Adulthood does nothing but take away our youth
I’ve learned that love is intangible and anyone who disagrees
Has never wept a thousand tears while dropped on their knees
And I bet they’ve never been so broken that it’s hard to breathe
They’ve never wished for numbness to blanket their grief
They’ve...
#regret
#dark
#LifeStruggles
799 reads
5 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Aug 2017 9:08pm
23rd Aug 2017 9:08pm
Awakening
My soul heard you in the distance before my ears did;
Giddy and nervous but without reservations, like a little kid
Anticipation for a reconnection of long long ago
Another life, another place, perhaps. I don’t even know.
There is really no need to explain. It’s okay to just be.
There is a moment of lucidity when you are finally free.
When you are not alone and you are not lost in dreams
Ethereal beams of light start bursting through the seams.
Whatever souls are made of, I'm sure ours must be the same.
Intertwined through divinity but called by...
Giddy and nervous but without reservations, like a little kid
Anticipation for a reconnection of long long ago
Another life, another place, perhaps. I don’t even know.
There is really no need to explain. It’s okay to just be.
There is a moment of lucidity when you are finally free.
When you are not alone and you are not lost in dreams
Ethereal beams of light start bursting through the seams.
Whatever souls are made of, I'm sure ours must be the same.
Intertwined through divinity but called by...
#love
#uplifting
#gratitude
#respect
#metaphor
894 reads
11 Comments
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