Submissions by Indie (Miss Indie)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction human, quirky, and dark.
LOVE POEM
Published
17th Jan 2021 10:38am
17th Jan 2021 10:38am
the silence is heavier than the song
We suffer in the silences
our hearts and minds elsewhere
and I wonder where you've gone
as I sit right beside you
my mind lost in some other place
where your secrets hurt less
than the things we aren't saying
I dream of an empty bed
your legs a memory in the bed sheets
and I remember when we'd lie
tangled in each other's limbs
unable to get enough
of each other's skin
Today you haven't kissed me
and my fingers have done nothing more
than graze your arm in faux sympathy
as you complain...
our hearts and minds elsewhere
and I wonder where you've gone
as I sit right beside you
my mind lost in some other place
where your secrets hurt less
than the things we aren't saying
I dream of an empty bed
your legs a memory in the bed sheets
and I remember when we'd lie
tangled in each other's limbs
unable to get enough
of each other's skin
Today you haven't kissed me
and my fingers have done nothing more
than graze your arm in faux sympathy
as you complain...
#love
#relationships
#heartbroken
42 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Dec 2020 6:11am
26th Dec 2020 6:11am
last breaths don't linger
Everyday was the same
until it wasn't
the days grew old without us noticing
until they weren't there at all
She believed in small miracles
no man or god could ever deliver
but we stoked that hope
like a fire that would never die
because without hope
there would be no peace
between the spaces of sleeping
and waking and breathing
There was no better tomorrows
despite our hopeless dreams
time had run out
on the feel good days
were we could sit outside and paint
blow bubbles into the wind ...
until it wasn't
the days grew old without us noticing
until they weren't there at all
She believed in small miracles
no man or god could ever deliver
but we stoked that hope
like a fire that would never die
because without hope
there would be no peace
between the spaces of sleeping
and waking and breathing
There was no better tomorrows
despite our hopeless dreams
time had run out
on the feel good days
were we could sit outside and paint
blow bubbles into the wind ...
#love
#grief
#family
#death
#cancer
46 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Nov 2020 2:07am
16th Nov 2020 2:07am
watercolour Jesus
Water glides across the paper
colour on brush
forms Jesus
holding a teddy bear
I don't know what it means
with death looming over her
perhaps she's looking for comfort
in spirituality
or perhaps I'm reading too much
into questions I don't know how to ask
because I'm too scared
to truly want the answers
This moment is peaceful for her
paint on paper
Jesus holds a teddy bear
unfinished between the pages of a book
Perhaps it's a symbol
or a metaphor
or a hope for miracles
that...
colour on brush
forms Jesus
holding a teddy bear
I don't know what it means
with death looming over her
perhaps she's looking for comfort
in spirituality
or perhaps I'm reading too much
into questions I don't know how to ask
because I'm too scared
to truly want the answers
This moment is peaceful for her
paint on paper
Jesus holds a teddy bear
unfinished between the pages of a book
Perhaps it's a symbol
or a metaphor
or a hope for miracles
that...
#death
#philosophical
#cancer
75 reads
8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Nov 2020 2:52am
9th Nov 2020 2:52am
hangman's C
I watch her live like grains of sand
slipping through your fingers
mixed with shards of glass
and memories of conch shells
broken coral and reddened sun-kissed skin
She's as much a part of you
as the salt and sand you carry
unable to dust your hands free
of the ocean inside you
and I watch the way you drown in it
gasping for breath in the sleepless hours
between her sleeping and waking
knowing that today
could catch her last breath
in its wet hands and drag her soul
out into the sun-bright sea
I...
slipping through your fingers
mixed with shards of glass
and memories of conch shells
broken coral and reddened sun-kissed skin
She's as much a part of you
as the salt and sand you carry
unable to dust your hands free
of the ocean inside you
and I watch the way you drown in it
gasping for breath in the sleepless hours
between her sleeping and waking
knowing that today
could catch her last breath
in its wet hands and drag her soul
out into the sun-bright sea
I...
#love
#family
#death #cancer
#death #cancer
78 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Oct 2020 00:34am
29th Oct 2020 00:34am
breath
There is freedom in this silence
I breathe deep breaths
returning to myself
with each inhale and exhale
I miss you
miss your mind
miss your wit
miss the stupid memes you'd send me
that I didn't understand
but respected that they'd make you
laugh so hard you'd glow with it
I don't miss the weight of your pain
and how you made me a sounding board
you tried to shatter with every rage
I was somehow responsible for
Because you can't make me
something I'm not
and every failure on...
I breathe deep breaths
returning to myself
with each inhale and exhale
I miss you
miss your mind
miss your wit
miss the stupid memes you'd send me
that I didn't understand
but respected that they'd make you
laugh so hard you'd glow with it
I don't miss the weight of your pain
and how you made me a sounding board
you tried to shatter with every rage
I was somehow responsible for
Because you can't make me
something I'm not
and every failure on...
#family
103 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Oct 2020 4:16am
28th Oct 2020 4:16am
red strings of blood
I carry you like a cat caught in a ball of wool
so close, chaotic, untamed
I push and you pull
until I'm too entangled to break free
there are no blades sharp enough
to sever the bonds we love
and the ones we hate
I can't live with you
and I can't live without you
so I try and live between us
and fail us both
when the swords are drawn
tradition and sanity opposite sides
of the same coin we're made from
I carry you like a cat caught in a ball of wool
so close, chaotic, untamed
you push and I pull ...
so close, chaotic, untamed
I push and you pull
until I'm too entangled to break free
there are no blades sharp enough
to sever the bonds we love
and the ones we hate
I can't live with you
and I can't live without you
so I try and live between us
and fail us both
when the swords are drawn
tradition and sanity opposite sides
of the same coin we're made from
I carry you like a cat caught in a ball of wool
so close, chaotic, untamed
you push and I pull ...
#love
#loneliness
#family
68 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
24th Jun 2020 6:43am
24th Jun 2020 6:43am
waiting for tomorrow
You dare big dreams that never come
and not for lack of dreaming
you just can't weave your fingers
into the threads tight enough to hold on
when letting go is so easy
at the end of your fingertips
You tell yourself tomorrow will be better
tomorrow will be closer than today
closer than yesterday
closer than five years, ten years
... fifteen
... you've lost count
The years disappear while you're counting
while you're waiting
while you're dreaming dreams only
in your head
And still you tell...
and not for lack of dreaming
you just can't weave your fingers
into the threads tight enough to hold on
when letting go is so easy
at the end of your fingertips
You tell yourself tomorrow will be better
tomorrow will be closer than today
closer than yesterday
closer than five years, ten years
... fifteen
... you've lost count
The years disappear while you're counting
while you're waiting
while you're dreaming dreams only
in your head
And still you tell...
#identity
#dreams
#LifeStruggles
156 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Jun 2020 4:34am
19th Jun 2020 4:34am
rosy
I blow raspberries on fresh skin
watch the world light up in giggles
Some days it's the simple things
that we need the most
© Indie Adams 2020
watch the world light up in giggles
Some days it's the simple things
that we need the most
© Indie Adams 2020
#love
#children
#motherhood #family
#motherhood #family
154 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
14th Jun 2020 2:15am
14th Jun 2020 2:15am
sunshine
You chase the light
like the shadows are beneath you
your sunshine brightening
the darkness that wears me
like a moonless midnight rain
Sometimes I can forget the cold
in the warmth of your smile
and I live for those moments
fleeting as they are
If I could freeze time for you
I would
and let your love heal
the spaces within me that give way
to the darkness too easily
I need more than what the darkness gives
© Indie Adams 2020
like the shadows are beneath you
your sunshine brightening
the darkness that wears me
like a moonless midnight rain
Sometimes I can forget the cold
in the warmth of your smile
and I live for those moments
fleeting as they are
If I could freeze time for you
I would
and let your love heal
the spaces within me that give way
to the darkness too easily
I need more than what the darkness gives
© Indie Adams 2020
#love
#depression
#children
216 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
7th Jun 2020 9:08am
7th Jun 2020 9:08am
discontent
1.
I hang out laundry at midnight
and cry into the frozen arms of the full moon
frosted grass licking at my feet
and I wonder, how and when
did I climb into this melancholic basin
that finds me in tears
at the turn of every day
unable to let go of the things
that stop me dreaming
when perhaps dreaming is the problem
I can't have it all
2.
"God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference"
If...
I hang out laundry at midnight
and cry into the frozen arms of the full moon
frosted grass licking at my feet
and I wonder, how and when
did I climb into this melancholic basin
that finds me in tears
at the turn of every day
unable to let go of the things
that stop me dreaming
when perhaps dreaming is the problem
I can't have it all
2.
"God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference"
If...
#anxiety
#depression
#loneliness
#dreams
#LifeStruggles
197 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
31st May 2020 1:01am
31st May 2020 1:01am
the crush of it
We worry about money
like worrying it will fix what's wrong
you blame me for what you call frivolous spending
like the holes in my shoes
will make it through the winter
without getting wider
I blame you for your addictions
without saying a word
because I don't need to
when you say what's already unspoken
by my lips
our lives would be easier
if you knew how to stop
We worry about money
like worrying it will fix what's wrong
like worrying will buy us a new bed
one that doesn't have us going to sleep young ...
like worrying it will fix what's wrong
you blame me for what you call frivolous spending
like the holes in my shoes
will make it through the winter
without getting wider
I blame you for your addictions
without saying a word
because I don't need to
when you say what's already unspoken
by my lips
our lives would be easier
if you knew how to stop
We worry about money
like worrying it will fix what's wrong
like worrying will buy us a new bed
one that doesn't have us going to sleep young ...
#anxiety
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#money
#poverty
163 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
26th May 2020 9:33am
26th May 2020 9:33am
small magics
You smile like the world will never end
like this moment is the only moment
worth living for
and some days for me
it is
(C) Indie Adams 2020
like this moment is the only moment
worth living for
and some days for me
it is
(C) Indie Adams 2020
#love
#depression
#children
#motherhood
#family
163 reads
3 Comments
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