Submissions by Heart_of_Stone (Rachela)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
People lie watching love die, yet poetry sometimes tells the truth and at least pretends that love is still alive.
The Death of Memories
The cancerous loss
of death
eating away
destroying
in agonizing slowness
the memories
past
and future
leaving only the emptiness of now
a non existence
dead
and lifeless
choking on the ashes
of angry words
and loving plans
her memories
are now my memories
I weigh their worth
to gift
or sell
or to throw away
parts of her
that are now part of me
the cancer spreading
from her body
to my life
the pain is too much
to cut out each...
of death
eating away
destroying
in agonizing slowness
the memories
past
and future
leaving only the emptiness of now
a non existence
dead
and lifeless
choking on the ashes
of angry words
and loving plans
her memories
are now my memories
I weigh their worth
to gift
or sell
or to throw away
parts of her
that are now part of me
the cancer spreading
from her body
to my life
the pain is too much
to cut out each...
#sadness
#grief
#death
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Me
A naiad
dreaming of magic
hidden in our bed
A harlot
cheap gangsters moll
with cigarettes and beer
A child
gleefully waking
on Christmas day
A warrior
fighting to survive
doing what I must
I cherish and tease
with equal abandon
I scream and shout
like a mastodon in heat
I am your erotic dreams
and your worse nightmares
rolled into one
but at the end of the day
I am just me
tired and in love
and held within your arms
dreaming of magic
hidden in our bed
A harlot
cheap gangsters moll
with cigarettes and beer
A child
gleefully waking
on Christmas day
A warrior
fighting to survive
doing what I must
I cherish and tease
with equal abandon
I scream and shout
like a mastodon in heat
I am your erotic dreams
and your worse nightmares
rolled into one
but at the end of the day
I am just me
tired and in love
and held within your arms
#love
#SelfWorth
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Your Smile
Bathed in fire,
consumed in the pyre
by the heat of a thousand suns
Yet why am I so underdone?
A mushroom cloud rises,
no more surprises
The whole world burning
has always been my yearning
Atoms splitting atoms,
stratum by stratum
Destroying hate
in the blazing light
of the thermonuclear force
of
your smile
consumed in the pyre
by the heat of a thousand suns
Yet why am I so underdone?
A mushroom cloud rises,
no more surprises
The whole world burning
has always been my yearning
Atoms splitting atoms,
stratum by stratum
Destroying hate
in the blazing light
of the thermonuclear force
of
your smile
#happiness
#love
#relationships #gratitude
#relationships #gratitude
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8 Comments
Love is a laundry basket
Emotions turned inside out,
twisted and stretched out of shape
Love disappears like missing socks,
coming apart at the seams
and everything seems too tight
[leave the 'all you can eat' buffet out of this]
But sometimes you fit like broken in jeans,
hugging me in all the right places,
caressing me with out of the dryer warmth
and you smell like fresh sea breezes
So in the very bottom of the laundry basket,
trying to hide beneath the layers,
I find our love crumpled and torn
but clean and renewed,
ready to face another...
twisted and stretched out of shape
Love disappears like missing socks,
coming apart at the seams
and everything seems too tight
[leave the 'all you can eat' buffet out of this]
But sometimes you fit like broken in jeans,
hugging me in all the right places,
caressing me with out of the dryer warmth
and you smell like fresh sea breezes
So in the very bottom of the laundry basket,
trying to hide beneath the layers,
I find our love crumpled and torn
but clean and renewed,
ready to face another...
#love
#rebirth
#satirical
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Goddess, whore, wife, slave
Goddess, whore, wife, slave
useless labels of men's creation
I am none of the above
My path, my fate and doom
are my creations alone
I stand within the storm
and scream
"Is that all you're got?"
as I'm beaten to my knees
Hiding behind a smile and makeup,
this life does not own me
and it never did
My heart and soul are free
And stronger than your fists
Bruises heal in time
as does my hate,
leaving me standing in the storm
I have no need to speak,
it's all...
useless labels of men's creation
I am none of the above
My path, my fate and doom
are my creations alone
I stand within the storm
and scream
"Is that all you're got?"
as I'm beaten to my knees
Hiding behind a smile and makeup,
this life does not own me
and it never did
My heart and soul are free
And stronger than your fists
Bruises heal in time
as does my hate,
leaving me standing in the storm
I have no need to speak,
it's all...
#strength
#TimeHeals
#SelfWorth #DomesticViolence
#SelfWorth #DomesticViolence
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Yard Sale
Vultures circling,
waiting for death,
Smelling the dying of my fight
Wolf packs gathering,
salivating,
sensing weakness,
bringing prey to their knees
Yet I stand within the storm,
protected by my sign
'Yard sale 8 to 2 - no early birds'
Unleashing the horde,
ripping and tearing
Will they see my loving memories,
through the haze of feral greed?
Will the bones of my life,
so carefully displayed,
be gnawed upon once again?
Or will they die,
at the end of the day,
forgotten on Wednesday's
trash...
waiting for death,
Smelling the dying of my fight
Wolf packs gathering,
salivating,
sensing weakness,
bringing prey to their knees
Yet I stand within the storm,
protected by my sign
'Yard sale 8 to 2 - no early birds'
Unleashing the horde,
ripping and tearing
Will they see my loving memories,
through the haze of feral greed?
Will the bones of my life,
so carefully displayed,
be gnawed upon once again?
Or will they die,
at the end of the day,
forgotten on Wednesday's
trash...
#dreams
#death
#memories
315 reads
2 Comments
The Universal Force of Dents
Some days are good
and some are bad
but good or bad they dents
My car has dents as does my ego
even my self esteem
has received a knock or two
In fact, the universe runs on dents
just look at the moon
and the same goes
for solar systems and meteor showers
Where have all the dinos gone
after an asteroid dented the earth
Without a world full of dents,
we would all be velociraptor...
and some are bad
but good or bad they dents
My car has dents as does my ego
even my self esteem
has received a knock or two
In fact, the universe runs on dents
just look at the moon
and the same goes
for solar systems and meteor showers
Where have all the dinos gone
after an asteroid dented the earth
Without a world full of dents,
we would all be velociraptor...
#universe
#satirical
#funny
495 reads
4 Comments
Real or Pretend
Men pretend
within their disguise
to be legends of the past
to be the knight in shining armor
[white charger optional]
often times rusted and bent
Strong and fearless
little boys playing war
but real men don't play these games
thinking this is lame
knowing their true power
is the nobility of spirit
to carry the weight of the world
Walking tall with iron will
my heroes don't wear capes...
within their disguise
to be legends of the past
to be the knight in shining armor
[white charger optional]
often times rusted and bent
Strong and fearless
little boys playing war
but real men don't play these games
thinking this is lame
knowing their true power
is the nobility of spirit
to carry the weight of the world
Walking tall with iron will
my heroes don't wear capes...
#strength
#men
#spiritual #heroic
#spiritual #heroic
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The fingertips of my emotions
Into an ominous quiet
of a world waiting in fear
we are deaf and blind
to the love we can not hear
mute to our desires
that can only be conveyed
by the slow sensual feel
of emotions touching skin
as lust becomes our fingertips
tracing incantations
on the naked canvass
of our souls
of a world waiting in fear
we are deaf and blind
to the love we can not hear
mute to our desires
that can only be conveyed
by the slow sensual feel
of emotions touching skin
as lust becomes our fingertips
tracing incantations
on the naked canvass
of our souls
#love
320 reads
4 Comments
Hold Me Tight with Gentle Hands
Take me with gentle hands
Slow, then fast,
make it last
Hold me on the edge,
that narrow ledge,
bordering insanity
Drive me mad,
Oh! You're so bad,
as I gasp out the last of my sanity
and lose all my vanity
Sweat and musk,
riding your tusk
My body moves of it's volition,
a slow burning ignition
Grinding slowly
Adagio
I'm such a...
Slow, then fast,
make it last
Hold me on the edge,
that narrow ledge,
bordering insanity
Drive me mad,
Oh! You're so bad,
as I gasp out the last of my sanity
and lose all my vanity
Sweat and musk,
riding your tusk
My body moves of it's volition,
a slow burning ignition
Grinding slowly
Adagio
I'm such a...
#lust
#temptation
#passion #orgasm
#passion #orgasm
669 reads
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Pots and Pans are People Too
There are square ones and round ones,
small ones and big ones,
even fat ones and skinny ones
Pots and pans are people too
and seem to be lot like us
The mean ones burn your food
and sear you with a wither gaze
The timid ones seem afraid of flame,
but with some only dents will do
My ex is a perfect example,
oh, but please don't get me...
small ones and big ones,
even fat ones and skinny ones
Pots and pans are people too
and seem to be lot like us
The mean ones burn your food
and sear you with a wither gaze
The timid ones seem afraid of flame,
but with some only dents will do
My ex is a perfect example,
oh, but please don't get me...
#love
#food
#temptation
419 reads
4 Comments
Hibernation is Underrated
hibernation is underrated
buried deep
in an igloo of blankets
hiding from the cold,
my life, my job,
all the hate in the world
cocooned in my queen size cave
I'm not coming out
maybe I'll see you in spring
just look for the signs
as our hearts begin to sing
and love grows after the snow
don't try and wake me
I'm a grizzly with a sore tooth
a wolf caught in a trap ...
buried deep
in an igloo of blankets
hiding from the cold,
my life, my job,
all the hate in the world
cocooned in my queen size cave
I'm not coming out
maybe I'll see you in spring
just look for the signs
as our hearts begin to sing
and love grows after the snow
don't try and wake me
I'm a grizzly with a sore tooth
a wolf caught in a trap ...
#dreams
#winter
#spring
#coffee
#escape
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