Submissions by Grace (IDryad)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
SELF POEM
Published
29th Dec 2011 10:53pm
29th Dec 2011 10:53pm
Alzheimer's
Trapped within the room
where I am
Knowing but not knowing
where I am going
Trapped within thoughts
Inarticulated through words
having thousands of opinions
just bubbling beneath but no vents
Trapped within memories
so sweet and tender
memories that tear one's heart asunder
Never knowing which one comes before the other
Spirit trapped within a cowl
With full knowledge of then and now
But waiting for decay to kill the prison
Once loved and cherish as a vessel of the soul
And that is my fear
Although the years...
where I am
Knowing but not knowing
where I am going
Trapped within thoughts
Inarticulated through words
having thousands of opinions
just bubbling beneath but no vents
Trapped within memories
so sweet and tender
memories that tear one's heart asunder
Never knowing which one comes before the other
Spirit trapped within a cowl
With full knowledge of then and now
But waiting for decay to kill the prison
Once loved and cherish as a vessel of the soul
And that is my fear
Although the years...
768 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
28th Dec 2011 3:10pm
28th Dec 2011 3:10pm
Worst feeling
Loving him
Pining for him
Getting poo-faced drunk
and still loving him
Loving him
wanting him
Losing him
to another woman
Crying for him
Laying in the gloom
lost in daydream
in a padded room
worst feeling
is just a feeling
inside this body
of a none-entity
Pining for him
Getting poo-faced drunk
and still loving him
Loving him
wanting him
Losing him
to another woman
Crying for him
Laying in the gloom
lost in daydream
in a padded room
worst feeling
is just a feeling
inside this body
of a none-entity
831 reads
13 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Dec 2011 00:08am
26th Dec 2011 00:08am
Love's Labour
Love's labour
Lost within the walls
of Ignorance
You think its over
even as I start to ponder
about the band
that bind
Love's Labour
My entreaties fall on deaf ear
You are blind as a wall
even as un-hearing
as a marauding troll
under the bridge of waking nightmares
Your scream of anger
of righteous rage
Fills the space of my heart
pokes out the eyes of my love
Kicks the bricks
and rend the universe of my life
Love's labour
lost in the infantile scream
of a lover's spurned
or so you...
Lost within the walls
of Ignorance
You think its over
even as I start to ponder
about the band
that bind
Love's Labour
My entreaties fall on deaf ear
You are blind as a wall
even as un-hearing
as a marauding troll
under the bridge of waking nightmares
Your scream of anger
of righteous rage
Fills the space of my heart
pokes out the eyes of my love
Kicks the bricks
and rend the universe of my life
Love's labour
lost in the infantile scream
of a lover's spurned
or so you...
750 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
25th Dec 2011 11:48pm
25th Dec 2011 11:48pm
Phantasmagorical consummation (In collaboration with diddi)
Eyes meeting across the room
entangled and entwined in another
realm, a world, our own our playground
where no other existence nor life matter
Feeling your breath mingling with mine
Your soul, your spirits your needs in your arms
A melting together, a fusion of bodies
In the very soul of wants
I see you like the notes of a song
We're with two people
so I know that it's wrong
My senses beating
with a lust very strong
My mind speaks to you
like my eyes are a tongue
A breath, a...
entangled and entwined in another
realm, a world, our own our playground
where no other existence nor life matter
Feeling your breath mingling with mine
Your soul, your spirits your needs in your arms
A melting together, a fusion of bodies
In the very soul of wants
I see you like the notes of a song
We're with two people
so I know that it's wrong
My senses beating
with a lust very strong
My mind speaks to you
like my eyes are a tongue
A breath, a...
783 reads
7 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
24th Dec 2011 5:18pm
24th Dec 2011 5:18pm
Thirteen
Bubbles on the rim
of a beer glass
popping one by one
the world grows a little dim
the rim on my lips
I swallow all at once
the music sounds abrasive
the noise too loud
my throat seems too parched
down it goes the lovely liquid
the bottles swim
in golden liquid
the stars are twinkling
my mind goes languid
who cares, I am thirteen now
who cares, I am a big girl
I say to myself
as I walk out of the bar
cold air hit me
gasping I breath
open my mouth wide to inhale
instead I explode
in...
of a beer glass
popping one by one
the world grows a little dim
the rim on my lips
I swallow all at once
the music sounds abrasive
the noise too loud
my throat seems too parched
down it goes the lovely liquid
the bottles swim
in golden liquid
the stars are twinkling
my mind goes languid
who cares, I am thirteen now
who cares, I am a big girl
I say to myself
as I walk out of the bar
cold air hit me
gasping I breath
open my mouth wide to inhale
instead I explode
in...
797 reads
11 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
24th Dec 2011 7:36am
24th Dec 2011 7:36am
End time
The world will stand still
there will be no noise
there will be no air
the sun will not shine
the moon will be high up there
still, in its grey glory
From the east the rustle of angels wing
will be heard while from the west anger trumpets
the south shall be quiet
as is the North
War
from the east silent death from the air
set free from a laboratory
from the west, trumpets of missiles, raining fire and iron
set free with human fury
War will triumph
and humankind will lose...
there will be no noise
there will be no air
the sun will not shine
the moon will be high up there
still, in its grey glory
From the east the rustle of angels wing
will be heard while from the west anger trumpets
the south shall be quiet
as is the North
War
from the east silent death from the air
set free from a laboratory
from the west, trumpets of missiles, raining fire and iron
set free with human fury
War will triumph
and humankind will lose...
1071 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Dec 2011 9:56pm
23rd Dec 2011 9:56pm
Vigil
Abyss dark in the heart of mine
Looking in towards far infinity
of perpetual hurt in a bleeding heart
Dirges still toll through the passage of time
Heart's love held in captivity
of dark minds, feelings and thoughts
Looking still, and lost in time
Of endless waiting in this grassy glade
This land where darkness perpetual
reigns, and embrace the bloom
of unspoken words, unshared
Contained within this broken shell
Sighs rendered unto indifference
Tears unshed unshared shimmer
On eyes forever vigilant, watching ...
Looking in towards far infinity
of perpetual hurt in a bleeding heart
Dirges still toll through the passage of time
Heart's love held in captivity
of dark minds, feelings and thoughts
Looking still, and lost in time
Of endless waiting in this grassy glade
This land where darkness perpetual
reigns, and embrace the bloom
of unspoken words, unshared
Contained within this broken shell
Sighs rendered unto indifference
Tears unshed unshared shimmer
On eyes forever vigilant, watching ...
880 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Dec 2011 00:47am
22nd Dec 2011 00:47am
Euthanasia
Wife, where are you
Can you see me?
I can’t see you
Please come nearer
Hold me my darling
Let me die in your arms
My woman, my wife, my friend
Help me I want to go quickly
Out of that door
The door that swirls darkly
Inviting me away out of here
To a land, perhaps Eden
I just want to go
Allow me to leave now
I have done my part
I lived my life
I have sowed
I have reaped
I have multiplied
I have worshipped
I have blasphemed
And now I want to go
Leave this tired husk ...
Can you see me?
I can’t see you
Please come nearer
Hold me my darling
Let me die in your arms
My woman, my wife, my friend
Help me I want to go quickly
Out of that door
The door that swirls darkly
Inviting me away out of here
To a land, perhaps Eden
I just want to go
Allow me to leave now
I have done my part
I lived my life
I have sowed
I have reaped
I have multiplied
I have worshipped
I have blasphemed
And now I want to go
Leave this tired husk ...
858 reads
9 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Dec 2011 00:36am
22nd Dec 2011 00:36am
Journey
I stood with you at the Tower of Babel
Looking towards the sky
We stood, proud of the rubbles
that now stood symmetrical
towards heavens
The blasphemed God thundered
In Babylon, once more we stood together
Loving the decadence of living
Drinking waters of ether
Shrieking against the gods
Until they answered
By the Ziggurats, towards the sky
They seemed to claw
Holding your hands once more
No lesson learned from before
The gods destroyed some more
You spoke in Unknown Tongues
Voices of Heaven
Shrouded in...
Looking towards the sky
We stood, proud of the rubbles
that now stood symmetrical
towards heavens
The blasphemed God thundered
In Babylon, once more we stood together
Loving the decadence of living
Drinking waters of ether
Shrieking against the gods
Until they answered
By the Ziggurats, towards the sky
They seemed to claw
Holding your hands once more
No lesson learned from before
The gods destroyed some more
You spoke in Unknown Tongues
Voices of Heaven
Shrouded in...
769 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Dec 2011 1:47pm
20th Dec 2011 1:47pm
In Maya (a collaboration with diddi)
Fragmented body of a lonely soul
drifting in zones of level unknown
Uncharted by man yet souls do know
it well, the images here and beyond
where troubled hearts
traverse unaccompanied, alone
we are one in seeking
and the same to seek
There I meander, watching you
the meaning of my existence
In limbo I'm lumbered
in life I chose another
now I await the slumber
for us to be together
my love we float the feathered
petal skies through clouds forever
bodies die but love endeavours
forgive my...
drifting in zones of level unknown
Uncharted by man yet souls do know
it well, the images here and beyond
where troubled hearts
traverse unaccompanied, alone
we are one in seeking
and the same to seek
There I meander, watching you
the meaning of my existence
In limbo I'm lumbered
in life I chose another
now I await the slumber
for us to be together
my love we float the feathered
petal skies through clouds forever
bodies die but love endeavours
forgive my...
982 reads
15 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
19th Dec 2011 11:55pm
19th Dec 2011 11:55pm
I am...
I am...
laughter in the air
a child at the beach
a girl at the bar
a boy with a cigarette
a man with his dreams
a woman with her desires
I am...
existing in this world
a reflection in the mirror
a shadow on the wall
a midnight gasp of horror
a little girl's doll
a bereaved wife's sorrow
a husband's last regret
I am mere words
without which I am
nothing
but a huddled figure in a padded room
catching imagined swirling letters
circling my head.
laughter in the air
a child at the beach
a girl at the bar
a boy with a cigarette
a man with his dreams
a woman with her desires
I am...
existing in this world
a reflection in the mirror
a shadow on the wall
a midnight gasp of horror
a little girl's doll
a bereaved wife's sorrow
a husband's last regret
I am mere words
without which I am
nothing
but a huddled figure in a padded room
catching imagined swirling letters
circling my head.
1105 reads
20 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Dec 2011 10:01pm
19th Dec 2011 10:01pm
One Phone Call (a collaboration with diddi)
I remember the night
the phone call ended
my soul descended
my spirit dismembered ,
I heard it alright
the voice of another
I felt like a nothing
cast aside
right after you lied
I think inside I died ,
I remember that night .
I heard the the throaty laughter
the satisfied purr
Of another from your bed
That sound stabbed
my heart a thousand times
as it echo and re-echoed
within the walls of my soul
I remember your sighs
after the loving
The laughter that was yours.
You thought
you put...
the phone call ended
my soul descended
my spirit dismembered ,
I heard it alright
the voice of another
I felt like a nothing
cast aside
right after you lied
I think inside I died ,
I remember that night .
I heard the the throaty laughter
the satisfied purr
Of another from your bed
That sound stabbed
my heart a thousand times
as it echo and re-echoed
within the walls of my soul
I remember your sighs
after the loving
The laughter that was yours.
You thought
you put...
905 reads
8 Comments
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