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
23rd Oct 2017 3:16pm
23rd Oct 2017 3:16pm
Side
I loved the side of you you hated
I believed
It was fated
But you told me to wait
And I waited
But now I see
You left with my love
But left the side of me
You've always hated
I believed
It was fated
But you told me to wait
And I waited
But now I see
You left with my love
But left the side of me
You've always hated
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LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Sep 2017 1:20am
2nd Sep 2017 1:20am
Wakateru
Watashi no koto shitteru?
Jitsu wa watashi mo
Shiranai
Kedo
Anata to isshou de
Wakatteru to kanjimasu.
--
Do you know about me?
To be honest
Even I don't know
But
When I'm with you
I feel as if I do.
Jitsu wa watashi mo
Shiranai
Kedo
Anata to isshou de
Wakatteru to kanjimasu.
--
Do you know about me?
To be honest
Even I don't know
But
When I'm with you
I feel as if I do.
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LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Sep 2017 1:18am
2nd Sep 2017 1:18am
Lie
If you're living a lie
Then I, too, am a lie.
Feel free to doubt all of life,
All its dimensions, all its strife,
All of poetry
All that you see
But never doubt my love for you
Or your love for me.
Then I, too, am a lie.
Feel free to doubt all of life,
All its dimensions, all its strife,
All of poetry
All that you see
But never doubt my love for you
Or your love for me.
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LOVE POEM
Published
11th Feb 2017 1:09pm
11th Feb 2017 1:09pm
Letter
You left a letter on my desk
Fragrant with your scent,
Blessed with your words,
Touched by your writing,
Stained by your tears
And drenched in the emotions
You left for me
To cherish,
To regret,
To love.
Goodbye.
Fragrant with your scent,
Blessed with your words,
Touched by your writing,
Stained by your tears
And drenched in the emotions
You left for me
To cherish,
To regret,
To love.
Goodbye.
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DARK POEM
Published
28th Jan 2017 2:01am
28th Jan 2017 2:01am
Nothing to nothing
I will never know the scent of flowers
The color of the sun's descent
Nor the worth of the passing hours;
To this nothingness there is no relent
I am the clouds adrift above
That flood the soil with tears
Never to experience the highs of love
Nor refuge from all my fears
Nothing to nothing-
The children of the damned
What more then shall the days bring
Besides Time's defacing hand?
The color of the sun's descent
Nor the worth of the passing hours;
To this nothingness there is no relent
I am the clouds adrift above
That flood the soil with tears
Never to experience the highs of love
Nor refuge from all my fears
Nothing to nothing-
The children of the damned
What more then shall the days bring
Besides Time's defacing hand?
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th Dec 2016 1:48pm
11th Dec 2016 1:48pm
Music
When the dark's hue seems as if it's as black as it could get
Sucking up all prospects of happiness,
And sends your dear memories to a faint, distant past
Deep in oblivion, perhaps never to be remembered,
Emotions remain, like invisible strings of the universe,
Rising up from a dark crevasse when we had least expected it
Brought by the notes of an all too familiar tune
You hummed before the edge of doom.
It's interesting how music can affect us so much.
It plucks on your heart strings,
Makes the soul cry and wish to go back ...
Sucking up all prospects of happiness,
And sends your dear memories to a faint, distant past
Deep in oblivion, perhaps never to be remembered,
Emotions remain, like invisible strings of the universe,
Rising up from a dark crevasse when we had least expected it
Brought by the notes of an all too familiar tune
You hummed before the edge of doom.
It's interesting how music can affect us so much.
It plucks on your heart strings,
Makes the soul cry and wish to go back ...
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th Oct 2016 1:47pm
19th Oct 2016 1:47pm
Well
I shall be waiting beneath a well
Where the ground is always moist
A place the sun cannot touch
And time cannot tell
And for any of those who wish to come,
Leave all things that is of this world;
Bring only dreams and the sky
And all the stars you count at night
And perhaps you may find me
In the darkness there.
Where the ground is always moist
A place the sun cannot touch
And time cannot tell
And for any of those who wish to come,
Leave all things that is of this world;
Bring only dreams and the sky
And all the stars you count at night
And perhaps you may find me
In the darkness there.
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FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
31st Jul 2016 1:10pm
31st Jul 2016 1:10pm
Customer
I woke up with sunlight piercing through the blinds, lying
prone on the bed. She was already sat up against the headrest with
a smoke lit and half a glass of rum.
“You slept well.” She said with a puff of smoke and a satisfied look.
“I did. You?” I asked in reply.
“Not quite. I had a bad dream. I dreamt that I was in some
sort of alley. It was really dark and the air was heavy. This shadowy
figure appeared and stripped me off of my clothes. I was
really scared, I was trembling. It traced my profile with its cold fingertips
and when its...
prone on the bed. She was already sat up against the headrest with
a smoke lit and half a glass of rum.
“You slept well.” She said with a puff of smoke and a satisfied look.
“I did. You?” I asked in reply.
“Not quite. I had a bad dream. I dreamt that I was in some
sort of alley. It was really dark and the air was heavy. This shadowy
figure appeared and stripped me off of my clothes. I was
really scared, I was trembling. It traced my profile with its cold fingertips
and when its...
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LOVE POEM
Published
31st Jul 2016 10:43am
31st Jul 2016 10:43am
Like the rain
Like the rain you came down pouring,
Inexplicably, without prior notice
You printed your name onto the soil
And forced your way into my world
Like the rain you roared your demands,
Never thinking of hiding your emotions;
And cooed when you had calmed down
Giggling at your own wantonness
Like the rain you enveloped me
With your everything, your embrace
Your smile, your breath, your tears
And make me long for you more
Like the rain you leave me painfully
With traces of things I love about you
And the cold wind when you're...
Inexplicably, without prior notice
You printed your name onto the soil
And forced your way into my world
Like the rain you roared your demands,
Never thinking of hiding your emotions;
And cooed when you had calmed down
Giggling at your own wantonness
Like the rain you enveloped me
With your everything, your embrace
Your smile, your breath, your tears
And make me long for you more
Like the rain you leave me painfully
With traces of things I love about you
And the cold wind when you're...
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LOVE POEM
Published
27th Jul 2016 1:14pm
27th Jul 2016 1:14pm
Live in love
If only I could watch the stars burn out
To bask an eternity by your warmth
Without the wistfulness of doubt
And the trouble of the future.
"All will fall into place"
This had always been your belief.
I look at you smile, your pale face
And curse life as you rebuke me.
You are the moon that lights the night
Making even grief seem bearable.
You smile at pain and make things right
In spite of how life lives to wane.
"Please bear the love that keeps me here,
The burden of love's sorrow, and its weight
When I am...
To bask an eternity by your warmth
Without the wistfulness of doubt
And the trouble of the future.
"All will fall into place"
This had always been your belief.
I look at you smile, your pale face
And curse life as you rebuke me.
You are the moon that lights the night
Making even grief seem bearable.
You smile at pain and make things right
In spite of how life lives to wane.
"Please bear the love that keeps me here,
The burden of love's sorrow, and its weight
When I am...
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LOVE POEM
Published
25th May 2016 6:02pm
25th May 2016 6:02pm
A fool on the beach
Walking across the heated sand
Accompanied by the ocean breeze
With the shells in my closed hand
And the coconuts up in the trees
I search the pile for beauty
For the universe to be in a shell
And for naught, these are not for me,
When I know all is not well
To be a fool and not from the heat!
Love is truly life's terrible cheat
Living the way the shore ebbs and flows
And a man being foolish when he knows
Love is the rain when you are in the sea
Rigorous yet gentle as it's known to be.
Pray the current leads you to heart...
Accompanied by the ocean breeze
With the shells in my closed hand
And the coconuts up in the trees
I search the pile for beauty
For the universe to be in a shell
And for naught, these are not for me,
When I know all is not well
To be a fool and not from the heat!
Love is truly life's terrible cheat
Living the way the shore ebbs and flows
And a man being foolish when he knows
Love is the rain when you are in the sea
Rigorous yet gentle as it's known to be.
Pray the current leads you to heart...
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LOVE POEM
Published
25th May 2016 5:48pm
25th May 2016 5:48pm
Kitchen sink
Who is she really?
Could she be the girl I await
Beyond the horizon of fate
Or the girl
Already on the horizon i see
She so easily makes me happy
So easily makes me sad
With every smile so lovely
And every other man she's had
She likes to drink
Her beer frozen
and walk on the sand to think
While I grief for the stolen
Loneliness I once had in the sink
The kitchen sink
Where my cup had lied alone
Which is mine and mine alone to drink
but now I've got more to groan
Who is she...
Could she be the girl I await
Beyond the horizon of fate
Or the girl
Already on the horizon i see
She so easily makes me happy
So easily makes me sad
With every smile so lovely
And every other man she's had
She likes to drink
Her beer frozen
and walk on the sand to think
While I grief for the stolen
Loneliness I once had in the sink
The kitchen sink
Where my cup had lied alone
Which is mine and mine alone to drink
but now I've got more to groan
Who is she...
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