Submissions by Indie (Miss Indie)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction human, quirky, and dark.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
20th Mar 2020 1:45am
20th Mar 2020 1:45am
On the edge of a hospital car park
I picked up a dying butterfly off the pavement today
and left it in a flower bed
knowing it couldn't understand or appreciate
the reasons why
© Indie Adams 2020
and left it in a flower bed
knowing it couldn't understand or appreciate
the reasons why
© Indie Adams 2020
#death
#philosophical
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th Mar 2020 2:55am
19th Mar 2020 2:55am
Neo[n]-natal
You're fluro in a disco room
only you're not
the neon hues and UV lights
aren't here for a good night out
I've barely slept in days
and there will be little sleep tonight
I ache in places that should be healing
but life has other ideas
I miss the warmth of my bed
and watching you breathe beside me
I miss the overly bassy stereo
playing shit songs from the radio
I miss my kitchen that I can never
keep properly clean
I miss almond milk
and last nights left overs
I miss snuggling on the couch ...
only you're not
the neon hues and UV lights
aren't here for a good night out
I've barely slept in days
and there will be little sleep tonight
I ache in places that should be healing
but life has other ideas
I miss the warmth of my bed
and watching you breathe beside me
I miss the overly bassy stereo
playing shit songs from the radio
I miss my kitchen that I can never
keep properly clean
I miss almond milk
and last nights left overs
I miss snuggling on the couch ...
#children
#family
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SELF POEM
Published
17th Feb 2020 6:59am
17th Feb 2020 6:59am
perinatal depression
The lights flicker in a daytime house
unnoticed by the casual observers
who've never seen the shadows cast on the walls
when the curtains are closed
To look at me you wouldn't know my soul
hasn't seen the sun in days
I'm always fine when you can't see me
I'm the brave face with the masquerade smile
that'll pass for genuine if you don't look to close
and these days no one looks that closely
at my crumbling face to notice me at all
Today I cried myself awake
and tonight I'll cry myself to sleep
without being...
unnoticed by the casual observers
who've never seen the shadows cast on the walls
when the curtains are closed
To look at me you wouldn't know my soul
hasn't seen the sun in days
I'm always fine when you can't see me
I'm the brave face with the masquerade smile
that'll pass for genuine if you don't look to close
and these days no one looks that closely
at my crumbling face to notice me at all
Today I cried myself awake
and tonight I'll cry myself to sleep
without being...
#depression
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
11th Jan 2020 11:25am
11th Jan 2020 11:25am
there might be a story somewhere beneath the rubble
I watch it crumble
hold the fragments in my hands
and bleed with all the things
I can't change
If you'd asked me a year ago
what kind of book my life would be
I'd have told you it's a mystery
full of future adventures
and unknowns
if you asked me now
I'd say it's a tragedy
No one warns you about loss
how it breaks you apart
until there's nothing but dust
on your fingertips
everything you held precious
blown away on the wind
The storm...
maybe...
hold the fragments in my hands
and bleed with all the things
I can't change
If you'd asked me a year ago
what kind of book my life would be
I'd have told you it's a mystery
full of future adventures
and unknowns
if you asked me now
I'd say it's a tragedy
No one warns you about loss
how it breaks you apart
until there's nothing but dust
on your fingertips
everything you held precious
blown away on the wind
The storm...
maybe...
#love
#grief
#family
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LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Dec 2019 11:53pm
22nd Dec 2019 11:53pm
blurred lines and broken glass
I hold the glass shards
in my bloodied hands
that you press further into my flesh
with every backhanded gesture
of comfort that doesn't feel real
when you're down another bottle
and I'm left to cry myself to sleep tonight
How far we have fallen
into this strange abyss
where nothing makes sense
and the things that made you love me
are the things you've learned to hate
in post midnight arguments
where you tell you love me so much
but it would be great if I was less disappointing
And...
in my bloodied hands
that you press further into my flesh
with every backhanded gesture
of comfort that doesn't feel real
when you're down another bottle
and I'm left to cry myself to sleep tonight
How far we have fallen
into this strange abyss
where nothing makes sense
and the things that made you love me
are the things you've learned to hate
in post midnight arguments
where you tell you love me so much
but it would be great if I was less disappointing
And...
#love
#heartbroken
#alcohol
#addiction
#DomesticViolence
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DRUGS POEM
Published
8th Dec 2019 00:22am
8th Dec 2019 00:22am
the message in a bottle you're too drunk to see
I watch you become one
with the bottom of another bottle
my silence expands like eggshells waiting to crack
I stand still and hope the storm
washes over me
leaving nothing more
than yesterday's rain in its wake
I've never felt so alone
sleeping next to the ghost of you
our bodies untouching
as I wake to empty bed sheets
and you wake wherever you passed out
in the predawn light
Between daylight and darkness
you're full of unfulfilled promises
I know better than to...
with the bottom of another bottle
my silence expands like eggshells waiting to crack
I stand still and hope the storm
washes over me
leaving nothing more
than yesterday's rain in its wake
I've never felt so alone
sleeping next to the ghost of you
our bodies untouching
as I wake to empty bed sheets
and you wake wherever you passed out
in the predawn light
Between daylight and darkness
you're full of unfulfilled promises
I know better than to...
#love
#relationships
#heartbroken #alcohol
#heartbroken #alcohol
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
30th Nov 2019 4:19am
30th Nov 2019 4:19am
blood and gun smoke
She stood fearless
temporarily bulletproof
gun smoke lingering
as death awaited her sacrifice
of blood freely given
a one woman army
dying for her homeland
temporarily bulletproof
gun smoke lingering
as death awaited her sacrifice
of blood freely given
a one woman army
dying for her homeland
#war
#death
#sacrifice
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LOVE POEM
Published
29th Oct 2019 11:34pm
29th Oct 2019 11:34pm
opposite sides of the slipstream
There’s never enough time
and I feel selfish for wanting more
I pass you
you pass me
fingertips outstretched
time slips away too quickly
for me to grab your hand
and hold on to the things
that I’m missing
It feels like I’m living
and dying
in the space of each breath
I try not to think about
the gaps that can’t be filled
with silence
and wanting
and waiting
No distraction is too great
to make me forget
the physical ache of longing
knowing I can’t change
the way...
and I feel selfish for wanting more
I pass you
you pass me
fingertips outstretched
time slips away too quickly
for me to grab your hand
and hold on to the things
that I’m missing
It feels like I’m living
and dying
in the space of each breath
I try not to think about
the gaps that can’t be filled
with silence
and wanting
and waiting
No distraction is too great
to make me forget
the physical ache of longing
knowing I can’t change
the way...
#love
#heartbroken
#emotional
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
20th Oct 2019 2:47am
20th Oct 2019 2:47am
I'm not an incubator
My bones melt into the bed sheets
I can’t move without screaming on the inside
Today is a bad day
I feel you moving against the home
I’ve built around you
sometimes I smile
sometimes I can’t sleep with the pain
of your tiny limbs pressing into my walls
with a stubbornness I can’t coerce
into something more sleep worthy
My body is not kind to me on days like these
and I wonder if I am too old for this
Dishes piled high by the sink
we live on salads and...
I can’t move without screaming on the inside
Today is a bad day
I feel you moving against the home
I’ve built around you
sometimes I smile
sometimes I can’t sleep with the pain
of your tiny limbs pressing into my walls
with a stubbornness I can’t coerce
into something more sleep worthy
My body is not kind to me on days like these
and I wonder if I am too old for this
Dishes piled high by the sink
we live on salads and...
#depression
#loneliness
#children #pregnancy
#children #pregnancy
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SELF POEM
Published
18th Sep 2019 2:23am
18th Sep 2019 2:23am
blood and marrow
My bones bloom flowers
without poetry
I no longer have the words
to show you my soul
or explain the way
I have fractured myself
My heart is like an erratic coffee stain
the black mark sinking so indelibly inside
I can't scrub the anxiety from
my consciousness
Coins fall from my hands
in reverse prosperity
that can never fill your cup
and never will
when I have more
than my own bones
to stay alive for
Loneliness is more
than...
without poetry
I no longer have the words
to show you my soul
or explain the way
I have fractured myself
My heart is like an erratic coffee stain
the black mark sinking so indelibly inside
I can't scrub the anxiety from
my consciousness
Coins fall from my hands
in reverse prosperity
that can never fill your cup
and never will
when I have more
than my own bones
to stay alive for
Loneliness is more
than...
#anxiety
#depression
#loneliness #MentalHealth
#loneliness #MentalHealth
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LOVE POEM
Published
14th Jun 2019 4:22pm
14th Jun 2019 4:22pm
words of silence
I imagine we talk in tongues of silence
but I'm not sure you miss my words
the way I miss the space between your thoughts
I'm lonely without you
though my dreams no longer feature you
with your soul stripped bare
You found the sunlight
while I languish
in these melancholy shadows
I keep calling home
'cause there's beauty in the overcast
if you learn to ignore the rain
And I ache with the absence of people
that hold my heart to ransom
unknowing of the way my ribcage creaks their names
when there's...
but I'm not sure you miss my words
the way I miss the space between your thoughts
I'm lonely without you
though my dreams no longer feature you
with your soul stripped bare
You found the sunlight
while I languish
in these melancholy shadows
I keep calling home
'cause there's beauty in the overcast
if you learn to ignore the rain
And I ache with the absence of people
that hold my heart to ransom
unknowing of the way my ribcage creaks their names
when there's...
#love
#heartbroken
#IMissYou
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th May 2019 12:39pm
19th May 2019 12:39pm
how can we escape this?
He uses his words as weapons
to get what he wants
and the bruises they leave
are ones you can't see
and I wish it was as easy
as just walking away
to save you
to save me
from the things that'll still haunt
in a million tomorrows
I've heard words that aren't true
in arguments that are flawed
but it doesn't stop the shaky stutter
of fear in my voice
that can't defend you
that can't defend me
from the war that's raging in his mind
and on his tongue
there was no sense in yesterday's battles ...
to get what he wants
and the bruises they leave
are ones you can't see
and I wish it was as easy
as just walking away
to save you
to save me
from the things that'll still haunt
in a million tomorrows
I've heard words that aren't true
in arguments that are flawed
but it doesn't stop the shaky stutter
of fear in my voice
that can't defend you
that can't defend me
from the war that's raging in his mind
and on his tongue
there was no sense in yesterday's battles ...
#family
#violence
#DomesticViolence
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