Submissions by EmptyTree
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I do not compose the poems. They come to me on their own accord. I simply jot them down on paper.
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Jul 2018 1:44am
3rd Jul 2018 1:44am
You still scatter my place
Your lingerie
Barren on the ground
Never to be loved again.
The other side of the bed
Is still pushed down.
Drenched in your heady scent.
Coffee stains on the table,
Sheet music scattered
Mixed with my drafts.
A CD is still in its player.
A smile still on my face
And my heart still feels rather
Warm.
My skin still burns.
And my lips lonely.
Tears still fall
But I'm slowly learning how to
Pick up everything
...
Barren on the ground
Never to be loved again.
The other side of the bed
Is still pushed down.
Drenched in your heady scent.
Coffee stains on the table,
Sheet music scattered
Mixed with my drafts.
A CD is still in its player.
A smile still on my face
And my heart still feels rather
Warm.
My skin still burns.
And my lips lonely.
Tears still fall
But I'm slowly learning how to
Pick up everything
...
#acceptance
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LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Jul 2018 1:34am
3rd Jul 2018 1:34am
Untitled-
I just wanted to hold you once
To feel your breath on my neck
The static from our skin
The weight bearing on your shoulders.
To confirm everything that took place
All the sleepless nights together
The anxieties we shared
And the time we sacrificed.
To console the future we missed
Knowing I'll always carry
A piece of you
Wherever I go.
To feel your breath on my neck
The static from our skin
The weight bearing on your shoulders.
To confirm everything that took place
All the sleepless nights together
The anxieties we shared
And the time we sacrificed.
To console the future we missed
Knowing I'll always carry
A piece of you
Wherever I go.
#IMissYou
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LOVE POEM
Published
30th Jun 2018 11:53am
30th Jun 2018 11:53am
Goodnight
When the cold sun rises to greet your blankets
I hope he provides you the warmth that you need.
He'll give you a home for when you get back
After you've seen everything there is to see.
You've seen the darkness of hell on a warm night;
And in the midst of its lights you grow weary.
A smile blesses you as he sleeps
His lips sitting still awaiting you to come home.
His palms are left out in the cold with you
Hinting-and never forcefully-for you to fill the gaps.
He'll never hold you by the neck. ...
I hope he provides you the warmth that you need.
He'll give you a home for when you get back
After you've seen everything there is to see.
You've seen the darkness of hell on a warm night;
And in the midst of its lights you grow weary.
A smile blesses you as he sleeps
His lips sitting still awaiting you to come home.
His palms are left out in the cold with you
Hinting-and never forcefully-for you to fill the gaps.
He'll never hold you by the neck. ...
#love
#lover
#UnrequitedLove #ForbiddenLove
#UnrequitedLove #ForbiddenLove
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LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Jun 2018 00:49am
23rd Jun 2018 00:49am
Cigarette
You pursed me in your lips
Pulled me in with no escape
Held me like a babe
And exhaled me like it was
The only thing you knew
How to do.
Pulled me in with no escape
Held me like a babe
And exhaled me like it was
The only thing you knew
How to do.
#relationships
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LOVE POEM
Published
17th Jun 2018 2:10am
17th Jun 2018 2:10am
She goes like smoke
I'll wake up to the thought of you tinted on my window
The rain crashing down on these lonely nights
The subtle breathing i hear early morning, and
The whispers of my mind reminding me just how much
I'm missing you right now.
You had always been the morning of my days
The rending light against the darkness of sorrow
The neverending mystery of tomorrow
And the only road in this lingering haze
And now, I wake disinterested in the future
With an empty spot on the other side of the bed
The creases still outline your...
The rain crashing down on these lonely nights
The subtle breathing i hear early morning, and
The whispers of my mind reminding me just how much
I'm missing you right now.
You had always been the morning of my days
The rending light against the darkness of sorrow
The neverending mystery of tomorrow
And the only road in this lingering haze
And now, I wake disinterested in the future
With an empty spot on the other side of the bed
The creases still outline your...
#grief
#heartbroken
#breakup #emotional
#breakup #emotional
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LOVE POEM
Published
7th Jun 2018 2:22pm
7th Jun 2018 2:22pm
Taurus everyday
I lost my way when you came
Realizing I never knew I was lost
Not knowing where to go
Before I met you.
You were the bull
And I was the china store.
The plates never knew what hit them
And in a flash
They all fell like comets at night.
I would argue with you.
You were a cat.
You would never stay
But you always came home.
And we would read Rupi Kaur:
You would read a verse, and I would
Intelligibly say her name at the end.
And at the end of the day
When you go - and you...
Realizing I never knew I was lost
Not knowing where to go
Before I met you.
You were the bull
And I was the china store.
The plates never knew what hit them
And in a flash
They all fell like comets at night.
I would argue with you.
You were a cat.
You would never stay
But you always came home.
And we would read Rupi Kaur:
You would read a verse, and I would
Intelligibly say her name at the end.
And at the end of the day
When you go - and you...
#love
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SELF POEM
Published
24th May 2018 1:48pm
24th May 2018 1:48pm
When Impressed
Feed me,
Don't feed the narcissist (me).
Don't feed the narcissist (me).
#myself
#vanity
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LOVE POEM
Published
16th May 2018 4:39pm
16th May 2018 4:39pm
All the words I have left
Smoke permeated the air
As it always does around [me].
I could hear the rain pour
As music blared from their speakers.
I had no right to look into her eyes;
I avoided her gaze,
And I could not possibly attest to
Whatever beauty not meant to be mine
Whatever words I had were left only for me-
Whatever words I had left.
She had her own problems not to be consoled
And she was never meant to be mine.
And I can never write again.
And I ca--.
As it always does around [me].
I could hear the rain pour
As music blared from their speakers.
I had no right to look into her eyes;
I avoided her gaze,
And I could not possibly attest to
Whatever beauty not meant to be mine
Whatever words I had were left only for me-
Whatever words I had left.
She had her own problems not to be consoled
And she was never meant to be mine.
And I can never write again.
And I ca--.
#sadness
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LOVE POEM
Published
30th Mar 2018 3:56pm
30th Mar 2018 3:56pm
The song I'll never get tired of listening to
Let me listen to my one song
I swear I'll never get tired of it
I'll love, and love it long
And I swear I'll never get tired
Let me look at your eyes again
I swear
And I'll love you long
And I swear I'll never
Let me hear your voice once more
And I swear
I swear I'll never get tired.
Call me a fool for who I am
Kick me, push me away and pull me close
So long as you're there
So long as you're here
With me
I'll never get tired.
I swear I'll never get tired of it
I'll love, and love it long
And I swear I'll never get tired
Let me look at your eyes again
I swear
And I'll love you long
And I swear I'll never
Let me hear your voice once more
And I swear
I swear I'll never get tired.
Call me a fool for who I am
Kick me, push me away and pull me close
So long as you're there
So long as you're here
With me
I'll never get tired.
#love
#conflict
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LOVE POEM
Published
12th Mar 2018 4:04pm
12th Mar 2018 4:04pm
Dying star
I worry that when the time comes
When I learn to stand on my own two feet
With the shoes that you've given me
I may forget how to live without you.
I mean, think about it will you,
Now I see that the world is spinning
And I can feel my weight on the ground
But wait, then suddenly, you're not around?
I worry that when, finally, the time comes
And I look back at the grassy barren
I may have to leave your light
That continues a dying star.
And how unfair it is for you and I
That you are to push...
When I learn to stand on my own two feet
With the shoes that you've given me
I may forget how to live without you.
I mean, think about it will you,
Now I see that the world is spinning
And I can feel my weight on the ground
But wait, then suddenly, you're not around?
I worry that when, finally, the time comes
And I look back at the grassy barren
I may have to leave your light
That continues a dying star.
And how unfair it is for you and I
That you are to push...
#sadness
#love
#betrayal
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LOVE POEM
Published
7th Mar 2018 4:26pm
7th Mar 2018 4:26pm
Stay
Whenever i look to sleep
Into short dreams and darkness deep
I look for your silence in the air
Knowing I'll find but nothing there
Hoping my words would reach the beginning
Of whatever vice I'm clearly sinning
Of the beginning of whatever world'd be;
Frost's pasture- for you, and me.
And whenever you say my name I know
The extent of what tracks I'd dare go
And when you stay wherever near
I wouldn't mind staying here.
And I wouldn't mind staying here.
Into short dreams and darkness deep
I look for your silence in the air
Knowing I'll find but nothing there
Hoping my words would reach the beginning
Of whatever vice I'm clearly sinning
Of the beginning of whatever world'd be;
Frost's pasture- for you, and me.
And whenever you say my name I know
The extent of what tracks I'd dare go
And when you stay wherever near
I wouldn't mind staying here.
And I wouldn't mind staying here.
#love
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LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Oct 2017 3:17pm
23rd Oct 2017 3:17pm
Kaze ga kieta
Kyo
Kaze no uta wo
Chiisaku iimashita.
Anata mo
Nani mo ienai kedo
Watashi tokoro kara
Kieta.
--
The wind's song
Was sung quietly today
And you, too,
Though without saying a word
Left me
Where I stood.
Kaze no uta wo
Chiisaku iimashita.
Anata mo
Nani mo ienai kedo
Watashi tokoro kara
Kieta.
--
The wind's song
Was sung quietly today
And you, too,
Though without saying a word
Left me
Where I stood.
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