Submissions by Honoria
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
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SELF POEM
Published
6th Jun 2021 4:06am
6th Jun 2021 4:06am
Cheerless
Wandering amidst a vast landscape of solitude and isolation
It’s only in my mind I feel safe.
That in itself is a brain copulation.
I can’t write what I don’t know.
I know discontentment.
An escape from anything real
is a joyful release from this ______.
Everything is even keeled
if I conceal ALL this sadness
O’ the obtuse nerve!
Masquerading behind my façade
of false hope...please look away!
The very last thing I wish...
is to infect anyone else with this
Ugly
It’s only in my mind I feel safe.
That in itself is a brain copulation.
I can’t write what I don’t know.
I know discontentment.
An escape from anything real
is a joyful release from this ______.
Everything is even keeled
if I conceal ALL this sadness
O’ the obtuse nerve!
Masquerading behind my façade
of false hope...please look away!
The very last thing I wish...
is to infect anyone else with this
Ugly
#myself
166 reads
36 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th May 2021 5:50pm
19th May 2021 5:50pm
For Sale!
Love Spells That Work”
Reads the advert.
Only $19.95.
Guaranteed!
•
•
•
•
How much for a divorce spell?
• • • • •
Not that long ago
I’d have paid that and more
Praying it was the answer
So many events can happen
When a wish becomes reality
Consequences have irony
Reflecting on a lonely past
When it was the present
To have seen it as the offering it was
Begs me to ask...
Reads the advert.
Only $19.95.
Guaranteed!
•
•
•
•
How much for a divorce spell?
• • • • •
Not that long ago
I’d have paid that and more
Praying it was the answer
So many events can happen
When a wish becomes reality
Consequences have irony
Reflecting on a lonely past
When it was the present
To have seen it as the offering it was
Begs me to ask...
#SelfReflection
148 reads
22 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
19th May 2021 5:48pm
19th May 2021 5:48pm
Fly Fishing
I’d rather be a fish
with wings.
If I didn’t feel
like swimming
upstream-
I could fly south!
with wings.
If I didn’t feel
like swimming
upstream-
I could fly south!
#escape
#choices
134 reads
16 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
11th May 2021 5:39am
11th May 2021 5:39am
What’s In A Name? Glad You Asked.
Had I the option of selection,
This four syllable monstrosity-
would’ve been a single
diphthong!
Having no choice in the matter,
there is no point in lamentation.
Astonishingly only my family
poked fun at rhyming my
name with a venereal disease.
Fear not!
For I am not damaged
by the unmerciful teasing at the
hands of my wretched siblings.
When they weren’t looking I took
gleeful delight in hiding their toys,
or tossing them out.
Growing into my name I felt it
my duty and...
This four syllable monstrosity-
would’ve been a single
diphthong!
Having no choice in the matter,
there is no point in lamentation.
Astonishingly only my family
poked fun at rhyming my
name with a venereal disease.
Fear not!
For I am not damaged
by the unmerciful teasing at the
hands of my wretched siblings.
When they weren’t looking I took
gleeful delight in hiding their toys,
or tossing them out.
Growing into my name I felt it
my duty and...
#SelfReflection
118 reads
33 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
30th Apr 2021 3:20pm
30th Apr 2021 3:20pm
La Fin
30/30
There’s always an end.
A choice is made to see it coming.
Or not.
Like summer camp for poetry,
Every day for thirty days~
(Thirty...long...days)
I wrote a poem.
Each day!
The hook, it didn’t have to be great.
The bait, it could be about anything.
The lure, was the Trophee at the end.
But!
An extraordinary thing happened.
Along the way
I met and became
acquainted with
other poets
and their
wonderful works.
They...
There’s always an end.
A choice is made to see it coming.
Or not.
Like summer camp for poetry,
Every day for thirty days~
(Thirty...long...days)
I wrote a poem.
Each day!
The hook, it didn’t have to be great.
The bait, it could be about anything.
The lure, was the Trophee at the end.
But!
An extraordinary thing happened.
Along the way
I met and became
acquainted with
other poets
and their
wonderful works.
They...
#friendship
#WritingPoetry
#NaPoWriMo2021
105 reads
29 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
26th Apr 2021 5:16pm
26th Apr 2021 5:16pm
Sleepers Awake*
26/30
Adrift among the shooting stars
Pale moonlight blankets the earth
Gentle dark night offers refuge
Away from searing illumination
Take flight amidst a dreams refuge
Where pain and sorrow go to rest
All is released to heaven for repair
Defeat oppressed chains unlocked
Awake the new day praised
Where hope refreshed sings
Dejection it’s faded grey hues
Are but a memory cleansed
Gratitude for this new day
To amend and forgive again
(52 unique words)
Adrift among the shooting stars
Pale moonlight blankets the earth
Gentle dark night offers refuge
Away from searing illumination
Take flight amidst a dreams refuge
Where pain and sorrow go to rest
All is released to heaven for repair
Defeat oppressed chains unlocked
Awake the new day praised
Where hope refreshed sings
Dejection it’s faded grey hues
Are but a memory cleansed
Gratitude for this new day
To amend and forgive again
(52 unique words)
#hope
#NaPoWriMo2021
115 reads
21 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
24th Apr 2021 4:44pm
24th Apr 2021 4:44pm
Eiderdown Dreams
24/30
Tipping that precipice
of deep
unencumbered
slumber.
Where the earth
falls away
and the astral realm
gently glides
into its place.
All the weight,
of every burthen-
releases
as the soft
billowy comfort
of eiderdown
envelopes
the physical being.
Awash the feeling
of the Milky Way,
beautiful
in its hazy array
of light.
Every star
winking their
welcome
with warm assent.
Dazzling planets,
each in...
Tipping that precipice
of deep
unencumbered
slumber.
Where the earth
falls away
and the astral realm
gently glides
into its place.
All the weight,
of every burthen-
releases
as the soft
billowy comfort
of eiderdown
envelopes
the physical being.
Awash the feeling
of the Milky Way,
beautiful
in its hazy array
of light.
Every star
winking their
welcome
with warm assent.
Dazzling planets,
each in...
#dreams
#sleep
#NaPoWriMo2021
117 reads
21 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
22nd Apr 2021 5:04pm
22nd Apr 2021 5:04pm
It’s Poetry!
22/30
By any other moniker...
Else how can one and all
Get away with random thoughtlings?
Arrested grammatical development.
Peculiar
linear
formatting.
Language-
so steeped in metaphor
As to confound-
the most stalwart of sleuths.
Its fantastical, sobering affects offering release, catharsis-
to all in need of an embrace
no other language might equal.
Will you countermand this theory?
Methinks you won’t.
...
By any other moniker...
Else how can one and all
Get away with random thoughtlings?
Arrested grammatical development.
Peculiar
linear
formatting.
Language-
so steeped in metaphor
As to confound-
the most stalwart of sleuths.
Its fantastical, sobering affects offering release, catharsis-
to all in need of an embrace
no other language might equal.
Will you countermand this theory?
Methinks you won’t.
...
#WritingPoetry
#NaPoWriMo2021
113 reads
25 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
11th Apr 2021 5:19pm
11th Apr 2021 5:19pm
Lonely Pluto
11/30
Poor Pluto.
Stripped of your PLANET status
to Dwarf Planet.
Was it really necessary?
To make such a fuss,
it’s only crime of orbiting.
Being included- but only just.
Always at the outer edges,
sufficiently interesting to be acknowledged-
Not enough to be closer
to the inner circle.
How much I feel for that isolated distance.
Accepted with bias.
Looked down upon by a ski slope nose.
I’m ashamed to not be abundantly pretty...
Almost measuring up
to endless...
Poor Pluto.
Stripped of your PLANET status
to Dwarf Planet.
Was it really necessary?
To make such a fuss,
it’s only crime of orbiting.
Being included- but only just.
Always at the outer edges,
sufficiently interesting to be acknowledged-
Not enough to be closer
to the inner circle.
How much I feel for that isolated distance.
Accepted with bias.
Looked down upon by a ski slope nose.
I’m ashamed to not be abundantly pretty...
Almost measuring up
to endless...
#rejection
#NaPoWriMo2021
132 reads
19 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
9th Apr 2021 5:22pm
9th Apr 2021 5:22pm
Unlikely Affiliation
9/30
A universal anomaly happened
And there we were-
Together in the same classroom.
Sniffing each other out like two feral felines.
Eventually becoming friendly by end of term.
Years went by,
discovery showed so many things we didn’t have in common.
You liked country music.
I didn’t.
You were beautiful.
I was cute.
You loved vanilla.
I liked chocolate.
We both loved horses.
The bonds of this unlikely friendship tightened
and cemented as maturity came
hurtling for both of...
A universal anomaly happened
And there we were-
Together in the same classroom.
Sniffing each other out like two feral felines.
Eventually becoming friendly by end of term.
Years went by,
discovery showed so many things we didn’t have in common.
You liked country music.
I didn’t.
You were beautiful.
I was cute.
You loved vanilla.
I liked chocolate.
We both loved horses.
The bonds of this unlikely friendship tightened
and cemented as maturity came
hurtling for both of...
#BestFriend
#death
#NaPoWriMo2021
156 reads
35 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
6th Apr 2021 5:30am
6th Apr 2021 5:30am
Can’t Last Forever
6/30
The weather.
It can’t last forever.
It has to change.
Change brings change.
Brilliant!
Now we’ll have something to talk about.
You don’t want to discuss atmospheric pressure?
Improbable odds for riveting conversation every time we speak
only makes me want to sew my mouth closed.
Lacking the stimulating
Chit chat you crave
I scour the internet for random topics.
It’s a hopeless activity but
perhaps one of the talking points
will inspire the in depth communication desired.
...
The weather.
It can’t last forever.
It has to change.
Change brings change.
Brilliant!
Now we’ll have something to talk about.
You don’t want to discuss atmospheric pressure?
Improbable odds for riveting conversation every time we speak
only makes me want to sew my mouth closed.
Lacking the stimulating
Chit chat you crave
I scour the internet for random topics.
It’s a hopeless activity but
perhaps one of the talking points
will inspire the in depth communication desired.
...
#anger
#NaPoWriMo2021
138 reads
17 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
2nd Apr 2021 3:48pm
2nd Apr 2021 3:48pm
A Simple Adjective
2/30
A Simple Adjective
I fear you’ll see me vulnerable.
A sentiment for which I can not abide.
The very one you find most attractive.
Is the the very one I will NOT expose to you.
A life time spent mastering this most delicate weakness.
Demolished in the exhale of a sigh.
No! I won’t allow it.
Your pseudo pathos has long ago expired.
Alone I arrive.
Alone I wander.
Alone I depart.
It feels better that way.
Owing nothing at the end.
Preserved and salved by my own...
A Simple Adjective
I fear you’ll see me vulnerable.
A sentiment for which I can not abide.
The very one you find most attractive.
Is the the very one I will NOT expose to you.
A life time spent mastering this most delicate weakness.
Demolished in the exhale of a sigh.
No! I won’t allow it.
Your pseudo pathos has long ago expired.
Alone I arrive.
Alone I wander.
Alone I depart.
It feels better that way.
Owing nothing at the end.
Preserved and salved by my own...
#loneliness
#NaPoWriMo2021
139 reads
37 Comments
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