Submissions by Indie (Miss Indie)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
human, quirky, dark.
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
22nd Apr 2025 00:38am
22nd Apr 2025 00:38am
I'll take it like that
I was lying in bed
daydreaming of
parallel worlds
He turned to me
and said
no offence
but I think
you have a gypsy soul
I smiled and said
why would I be offended?
...
I woke up to
a crazy hair day
and I let my curls
do whatever wild thing they wanted
I feel as feral
as my hair today
and I like it
...
I was walking to the bus stop
when she stopped me
to say
she loves my sunglasses
I said they made me think ...
daydreaming of
parallel worlds
He turned to me
and said
no offence
but I think
you have a gypsy soul
I smiled and said
why would I be offended?
...
I woke up to
a crazy hair day
and I let my curls
do whatever wild thing they wanted
I feel as feral
as my hair today
and I like it
...
I was walking to the bus stop
when she stopped me
to say
she loves my sunglasses
I said they made me think ...
#identity
#myself
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
17th Apr 2025 10:35pm
17th Apr 2025 10:35pm
hospital days #2 random thoughts
1. Why do all the triage nurses
have red hair?
2. It took 4 people to hold
my kiddo down just so
they could get blood
into 3 tiny vials
3. Do all canteen coffees
taste like dirt?
4. Trapping an ADHD child
in a small room with a tired parent
while the kiddo gets
their energy back
is a unique kind of hell
5. I haven't showered in 3 days
and my scalp itches
6. Is it possible to get
RSI from playing Minecraft?
7. I let my kid press
all the non-essential...
have red hair?
2. It took 4 people to hold
my kiddo down just so
they could get blood
into 3 tiny vials
3. Do all canteen coffees
taste like dirt?
4. Trapping an ADHD child
in a small room with a tired parent
while the kiddo gets
their energy back
is a unique kind of hell
5. I haven't showered in 3 days
and my scalp itches
6. Is it possible to get
RSI from playing Minecraft?
7. I let my kid press
all the non-essential...
#illness
#LifeStruggles
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
17th Apr 2025 8:24am
17th Apr 2025 8:24am
hospital days #1
Autumn came
while I was in
a temperature controlled
hospital room
with my son
I sit outside
in the cool breeze
in the wrong clothes
and drink a coffee in silence
out here there is no
beeping machines
no children crying
no sleep deprived
stressed out parents
somewhere between
the edge of tears
and ripping the universe in half
My son is sick
but so far no one can tell
us how or why
and we've been working
our way down a list
we call the process
of...
while I was in
a temperature controlled
hospital room
with my son
I sit outside
in the cool breeze
in the wrong clothes
and drink a coffee in silence
out here there is no
beeping machines
no children crying
no sleep deprived
stressed out parents
somewhere between
the edge of tears
and ripping the universe in half
My son is sick
but so far no one can tell
us how or why
and we've been working
our way down a list
we call the process
of...
#anger
#illness
#relationships
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Apr 2025 2:05am
17th Apr 2025 2:05am
the tragedy is not knowing
I read a short poem
about someone who loved
the way men love
and it was like watching
an alien film with English words
because I can't say
with any conviction
that I love the way
men love
All the men in my life
love selfishly
they love controllingly
and manipulatively
they love absently
they love with blocked ears
and closed eyes
they love so neglectfully
they're always surprised
when love leaves them
like they were good men
who were done dirty
by cruel women ...
about someone who loved
the way men love
and it was like watching
an alien film with English words
because I can't say
with any conviction
that I love the way
men love
All the men in my life
love selfishly
they love controllingly
and manipulatively
they love absently
they love with blocked ears
and closed eyes
they love so neglectfully
they're always surprised
when love leaves them
like they were good men
who were done dirty
by cruel women ...
#masculinity
#men
#relationships
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
12th Apr 2025 12:37pm
12th Apr 2025 12:37pm
lightning
Lightning cut through
the grey gloom of the day
like CPR for the soul
...
He said
the flash was God taking photos
She said
that's something her mother would say
I said
she's not poetic enough for that
...
The light was so bright
it lit up my room
through the black out curtains
slapping me back
from the edge of sleep
...
I expect to dream
in electricity
the grey gloom of the day
like CPR for the soul
...
He said
the flash was God taking photos
She said
that's something her mother would say
I said
she's not poetic enough for that
...
The light was so bright
it lit up my room
through the black out curtains
slapping me back
from the edge of sleep
...
I expect to dream
in electricity
#nature
#philosophical
#rain
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Apr 2025 5:57am
10th Apr 2025 5:57am
people watching
I'm eating lunch in the mall
so far I've pissed off
a guy on a laptop
by sitting across from him
in the crowded seating area
and he got up in a huff
like he'd staked a claim
over the whole fucking booth
and I'd overthrown his peace
There's a white guy
at the next table over
dressed in a wool trench coat
over a button up shirt
long pants and boots
he has a collection of
classic literature
with clearance tags
clearly visible
He looks like a cross between
a Mormon
and a...
so far I've pissed off
a guy on a laptop
by sitting across from him
in the crowded seating area
and he got up in a huff
like he'd staked a claim
over the whole fucking booth
and I'd overthrown his peace
There's a white guy
at the next table over
dressed in a wool trench coat
over a button up shirt
long pants and boots
he has a collection of
classic literature
with clearance tags
clearly visible
He looks like a cross between
a Mormon
and a...
#consumerism
#PopCulture
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LOVE POEM
Published
8th Apr 2025 12:05pm
8th Apr 2025 12:05pm
don't shatter the psychedelic sunshine (for JC)
I wish I could paint a world
that belongs just to us
coloured in the hues
of your heartbeat
Your voice rings
like a recording off glass
that shatters and falls silent
I fucking miss you
I hoard memories
like time can't sweep them away
but you're already gone
And I didn't know
I didn't know
time stole you
and no one told me
And I didn't know
missing you could hurt this much
We made our own world
I painted my darkness
into something beautiful ...
that belongs just to us
coloured in the hues
of your heartbeat
Your voice rings
like a recording off glass
that shatters and falls silent
I fucking miss you
I hoard memories
like time can't sweep them away
but you're already gone
And I didn't know
I didn't know
time stole you
and no one told me
And I didn't know
missing you could hurt this much
We made our own world
I painted my darkness
into something beautiful ...
#death
#friendship
#grief
#love
#memorial
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DRUGS POEM
Published
7th Apr 2025 00:10am
7th Apr 2025 00:10am
flayed open
It's one of those weeks
where all I'm left with
is the thoughts in my head
and you fill in the gaps
like flies to a corpse
I miss you
I want you
I hate you
I refuse to need you
but my bones ache
with the weight of your absence
And I keep asking myself
what in the actual fuck
am I doing to myself
letting you let live
rent free in this hell
that supposed to my haven?
I don't need this
I don't need you
but here you are
inside me
all the fucking time ...
where all I'm left with
is the thoughts in my head
and you fill in the gaps
like flies to a corpse
I miss you
I want you
I hate you
I refuse to need you
but my bones ache
with the weight of your absence
And I keep asking myself
what in the actual fuck
am I doing to myself
letting you let live
rent free in this hell
that supposed to my haven?
I don't need this
I don't need you
but here you are
inside me
all the fucking time ...
#addiction
#LifeStruggles
#obsession
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6 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
6th Apr 2025 3:05am
6th Apr 2025 3:05am
egg shells for you
We break porcelain eggshells
leave shards on the floor
slice through the skin of our feet
as we walk around each other
fighters
bloodied and bruised
I hide
you follow
I lock the door
you wait
mouth full of knives
hell is waiting on the other side
I'm the problem
you're the problem
we're the problem
everything is always
someone else fault
We try to speak
but no one is listening
you talk over me
I talk over you
you hate it when I yell
I hate it when...
leave shards on the floor
slice through the skin of our feet
as we walk around each other
fighters
bloodied and bruised
I hide
you follow
I lock the door
you wait
mouth full of knives
hell is waiting on the other side
I'm the problem
you're the problem
we're the problem
everything is always
someone else fault
We try to speak
but no one is listening
you talk over me
I talk over you
you hate it when I yell
I hate it when...
#abuse
#anger
#manipulation #relationships
#manipulation #relationships
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Apr 2025 00:27am
5th Apr 2025 00:27am
mind the drop
Rain turns wood to sponge
I don't notice until the rot gives way
and I
half fall through the decking
Times slows
and then speeds back up
as my hand finds the railing
unintentionally
I breathe hard
my body like jelly
balanced on one trembling leg
as I stare down the two metre drop
that could have taken me
Adrenaline masks the damage
of scratches from ankle to knee
and the way my back twisted
I don't know it yet
but my whole body
will pay for this misstep
...
I don't notice until the rot gives way
and I
half fall through the decking
Times slows
and then speeds back up
as my hand finds the railing
unintentionally
I breathe hard
my body like jelly
balanced on one trembling leg
as I stare down the two metre drop
that could have taken me
Adrenaline masks the damage
of scratches from ankle to knee
and the way my back twisted
I don't know it yet
but my whole body
will pay for this misstep
...
#anxiety
#LifeStruggles
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LOVE POEM
Published
4th Apr 2025 10:26pm
4th Apr 2025 10:26pm
it was never meant to hurt like this
Tell me, tell me
love isn't supposed
to hurt like this
I ache
and tremble
you've become the panic attack
my veins call home
but I'm not a junkie
for this love anymore
I'm not a junkie for you
Or at least that's what
I tell myself
once the shakes start
and I want to rip my skin to shreds
with these prolonged withdrawals
I don't need you, I don't need you
I don't need
...
you
If this is the way we hurt
I don't want it
I will forsake the...
love isn't supposed
to hurt like this
I ache
and tremble
you've become the panic attack
my veins call home
but I'm not a junkie
for this love anymore
I'm not a junkie for you
Or at least that's what
I tell myself
once the shakes start
and I want to rip my skin to shreds
with these prolonged withdrawals
I don't need you, I don't need you
I don't need
...
you
If this is the way we hurt
I don't want it
I will forsake the...
#hurt
#love
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Apr 2025 7:53am
3rd Apr 2025 7:53am
they call the train station crack central (home town observations)
A pigeon was scavenging scraps
along the edge of the drive-thru
while we were waiting in line
for coffee and fries
and I imagined it pecking
on every car door
asking if we had any potato
and salt to spare
The people 'round here
aren't that much different
to that small grey pigeon
scavenging for scraps
and shiny things left on the ground
...
There's a family of shopping trolleys
around the corner from my house
that are filled with molding rubbish
It's only a matter of...
along the edge of the drive-thru
while we were waiting in line
for coffee and fries
and I imagined it pecking
on every car door
asking if we had any potato
and salt to spare
The people 'round here
aren't that much different
to that small grey pigeon
scavenging for scraps
and shiny things left on the ground
...
There's a family of shopping trolleys
around the corner from my house
that are filled with molding rubbish
It's only a matter of...
#addiction
#homelessness
#LifeStruggles #poverty
#LifeStruggles #poverty
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