Submissions by Jadedembers (Starving demons)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I've been writing for a while now and really enjoy it. I hope my writing is relatable and understood. Small significant wounds relentlessly is how these demons die.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Oct 2021 6:35am
8th Oct 2021 6:35am
Rebuild
Abandonment circles overhead
Anger and betrayal whirl above
Loss swirling with the other fears hanging above me
Aware there is more terror but terror seemed to be the shadows of bigger more savage fears that daily threaten to overcome me
Fears influence my behaviors leaving shame in its wake
Shame that I let fear control and rule my day
Helpless as my mind is preyed on by a flock of savage vultures
A threat pestering my mind
Pushing me into brittle depression
Resignation too bleak an end yet still a temptation I nearly...
Anger and betrayal whirl above
Loss swirling with the other fears hanging above me
Aware there is more terror but terror seemed to be the shadows of bigger more savage fears that daily threaten to overcome me
Fears influence my behaviors leaving shame in its wake
Shame that I let fear control and rule my day
Helpless as my mind is preyed on by a flock of savage vultures
A threat pestering my mind
Pushing me into brittle depression
Resignation too bleak an end yet still a temptation I nearly...
#anxiety
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
426 reads
3 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2021 4:55am
2nd Oct 2021 4:55am
Trapped
Love defined through personal connection
Unique like fingerprints
Powerful and wild as if it two wolves building together
Distancing others opinions and disregarding warnings
Only strengthening our connection even if its dangerously creeping towards dark chaos
Red flags are a challenge for us to overcome
Dancing with the demons in each of us
Allowing enemies to stay on the edges of friendships
Safety and safe people an unknown and ambiguous territory
Pain allowing both relief and familiarity
Eerie feelings poking the mind...
Unique like fingerprints
Powerful and wild as if it two wolves building together
Distancing others opinions and disregarding warnings
Only strengthening our connection even if its dangerously creeping towards dark chaos
Red flags are a challenge for us to overcome
Dancing with the demons in each of us
Allowing enemies to stay on the edges of friendships
Safety and safe people an unknown and ambiguous territory
Pain allowing both relief and familiarity
Eerie feelings poking the mind...
#LifeStruggles
#DomesticViolence
#deception
606 reads
5 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2021 4:23am
2nd Oct 2021 4:23am
Lava
A rollercoaster romance
A magic aura about its wild nature
Common ground where those who feel trapped inside emotional suffering finds relief in love, or at least she believes
Aggression waits and paces below the surface
Waits like volcanos do
Waits for an eruption of lava
Lava full of emotional pain, sick thinking, and twisted behavior
Finding power in disrespecting others and
Becoming aggressive until submission becomes reality
Knowing her heart could love and forgive easily because she values such things
Her...
A magic aura about its wild nature
Common ground where those who feel trapped inside emotional suffering finds relief in love, or at least she believes
Aggression waits and paces below the surface
Waits like volcanos do
Waits for an eruption of lava
Lava full of emotional pain, sick thinking, and twisted behavior
Finding power in disrespecting others and
Becoming aggressive until submission becomes reality
Knowing her heart could love and forgive easily because she values such things
Her...
#betrayal
#DomesticViolence
#manipulation
515 reads
6 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
25th Sep 2021 5:29am
25th Sep 2021 5:29am
Pretty Monsters
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#PTSD #philosophical
#PTSD #philosophical
428 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
25th Sep 2021 4:53am
25th Sep 2021 4:53am
The Beast
For years, the monster has pursued me even in my dreams. Now he’s standing before me.” -Melanie Raabe
Silent and inky inside the best
As he weaves his web
Patiently waiting for a beautiful lady to come along and become entangled in his crafty trap
The type of trap that lets me, the beast, project the type of guy she dreams of being with
Such tactful rotten lies
The beast targets insecurity and the need to feel loved and valued
Because it is easy to trick, ensnare and finally destroy the damsel in distress
Savoring breaking those...
Silent and inky inside the best
As he weaves his web
Patiently waiting for a beautiful lady to come along and become entangled in his crafty trap
The type of trap that lets me, the beast, project the type of guy she dreams of being with
Such tactful rotten lies
The beast targets insecurity and the need to feel loved and valued
Because it is easy to trick, ensnare and finally destroy the damsel in distress
Savoring breaking those...
#oppression
#bullying
#MentalHealth #DomesticViolence
#MentalHealth #DomesticViolence
707 reads
2 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
27th Aug 2021 5:11am
27th Aug 2021 5:11am
Missing Posters
Before long you’re missing, Don’t let your heart hide your story. Don’t let your mind hide your story. ‘Cause if y/ou deny others inside it gets harder to move along…” - Sampha
Frightening chaos in a hostile world
A world both public and private
Fighting to stay present… to stay here in these moments
Missing posters following my footsteps
A persistent threat
My voice was captured by my burdened heart
The heavily burdened heart secreting away the words that may set it free
Fear a malignant influence on my behavior
Influencing the...
Frightening chaos in a hostile world
A world both public and private
Fighting to stay present… to stay here in these moments
Missing posters following my footsteps
A persistent threat
My voice was captured by my burdened heart
The heavily burdened heart secreting away the words that may set it free
Fear a malignant influence on my behavior
Influencing the...
#LifeStruggles
#learning
#healing
409 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Aug 2021 4:16am
27th Aug 2021 4:16am
Spiderweb Cacoon
He’d learned over time that any strong emotions on his part would make those, unsettling encounters intensify. Those same shadows had tormented him…” - Chasity Bowlin
His mind crafting spiderwebs
Delicate sensations feel comforting
Cocooning the vulnerable emotions
Mistakingly concealing what makes him human… those emotions
Idiosyncrasies kept close like secrets
Concealed behind silky threads
Cryptic conversations and distant affections for her as well as himself
Empty connections hindered by sticky webs
Pain and discomfort...
His mind crafting spiderwebs
Delicate sensations feel comforting
Cocooning the vulnerable emotions
Mistakingly concealing what makes him human… those emotions
Idiosyncrasies kept close like secrets
Concealed behind silky threads
Cryptic conversations and distant affections for her as well as himself
Empty connections hindered by sticky webs
Pain and discomfort...
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#learning
#SelfReflection
#emotions
401 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
10th Jul 2021 4:20am
10th Jul 2021 4:20am
Cardboard Prince Charming
But after a single blink, the evilness in his soul shined through. … Tension filled the air, the warning deep in my heart. “ - Penelope Sky
Lingering in a cemetery of recollections
Pausing to examine each memory individually
Attempting to understand
How I could have been fooled
How I could have welcomed blindness
Mysteries left to solve
Questions to pursue
Wounds that refuse to be left alone to heal
A plethora of reasons and excuses preventing me from letting go
Tricked and charmed by the cardboard person I thought...
Lingering in a cemetery of recollections
Pausing to examine each memory individually
Attempting to understand
How I could have been fooled
How I could have welcomed blindness
Mysteries left to solve
Questions to pursue
Wounds that refuse to be left alone to heal
A plethora of reasons and excuses preventing me from letting go
Tricked and charmed by the cardboard person I thought...
#anger
#betrayal
#shame #DomesticViolence
#shame #DomesticViolence
456 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
10th Jul 2021 2:50am
10th Jul 2021 2:50am
Predatory Affinities
Perhaps I haunted her as she haunted me.” - Daphne Du Maurier
Brutality caresses her skin
Enjoying the delicate softness
Breathing gently onto the nape of her slender neck
Allowing the wildflower scent in her beautiful hair to
Overwhelm evils sense of smell and
Invade its memory
Sensing her tense moments
Charged with fear and a dirtied arousal
Intoxicating and enchanting
The beast appreciating hunting her
Pursuing control and domination of her spirit …of what makes her who she is
Cancerous and hidden within...
Brutality caresses her skin
Enjoying the delicate softness
Breathing gently onto the nape of her slender neck
Allowing the wildflower scent in her beautiful hair to
Overwhelm evils sense of smell and
Invade its memory
Sensing her tense moments
Charged with fear and a dirtied arousal
Intoxicating and enchanting
The beast appreciating hunting her
Pursuing control and domination of her spirit …of what makes her who she is
Cancerous and hidden within...
#MeToo
#shame
#PTSD #metaphor
#PTSD #metaphor
659 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
26th Jun 2021 2:07am
26th Jun 2021 2:07am
Disrupted Existence
You thought I was mad_ perhaps I was. Perhaps I am.. It doesn’t make for sanity, does it, living with the devil. “ - Daphne Du Maurier
Feeding an abundance of lust
Violence, blood, and gore
Servant to the grave
Living dead horror
Proud of her depravity
Enjoying an obsession with the
Brutality and passion of the
Dark creatures who once frightened her
Proud of the hardening of her skin
Her tough presence organizing support
Exuding a confidence that
Brings comfort inside assertiveness to her in times of...
Feeding an abundance of lust
Violence, blood, and gore
Servant to the grave
Living dead horror
Proud of her depravity
Enjoying an obsession with the
Brutality and passion of the
Dark creatures who once frightened her
Proud of the hardening of her skin
Her tough presence organizing support
Exuding a confidence that
Brings comfort inside assertiveness to her in times of...
#loneliness
#LifeStruggles
#SelfHarm
407 reads
1 Comment
DRUGS POEM
Published
26th Jun 2021 1:05am
26th Jun 2021 1:05am
Demons in the Smoke
The dust settles. The air warms. Spiders spin their webs. No one is there. Darkness hides. Darkness deceives. Darkness is within. Waiting...” - Minette Walters
Clicking the mostly plastic lighter
Heat from the small flame seeping into my chilled skin
The crackle of the devils lettuce filling my lungs with its catatonic smoke
Holding it inside my lugs letting some of it settle into my blood as if its dust
Relaxing smoke becoming spiders creating suffocating cocoons around my agonizing demons
Inhale… hold it until it's kicking to escape… fall in...
Clicking the mostly plastic lighter
Heat from the small flame seeping into my chilled skin
The crackle of the devils lettuce filling my lungs with its catatonic smoke
Holding it inside my lugs letting some of it settle into my blood as if its dust
Relaxing smoke becoming spiders creating suffocating cocoons around my agonizing demons
Inhale… hold it until it's kicking to escape… fall in...
#LifeStruggles
#marijuana
#emotions #weakness
#emotions #weakness
417 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
23rd Apr 2021 7:21am
23rd Apr 2021 7:21am
Eviscerating Mental Illness
A dark uncoiling of something too awful to describe starts in my lower abdomen. " K. L. Slater
Eviscerating what is inside
Humiliating with disrespect at its core
Numbness holding me down
Physical pain only a brief distraction
Dispondent and discarded
Fear of abandonment transforming into a
Cannibalistic monster intent on self destruction
Instability in a prayer of individual violence
Targeting the mind
A perfect fit for invisible hostilities
Camouflaged into delusions
Disturbed justice a...
Eviscerating what is inside
Humiliating with disrespect at its core
Numbness holding me down
Physical pain only a brief distraction
Dispondent and discarded
Fear of abandonment transforming into a
Cannibalistic monster intent on self destruction
Instability in a prayer of individual violence
Targeting the mind
A perfect fit for invisible hostilities
Camouflaged into delusions
Disturbed justice a...
#depression
#dark
#SelfReflection
#PTSD
#SelfWorth
385 reads
10 Comments
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