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.
Grounding
We are what we remember. " - Emily Dickinson
A gentleman's pocket watch ticking away the moments
A ladies perfume left in the air... In the sheets
A complex taste of recollections and emotions
A slideshow of terror repeatedly interrupting
A tentative exploration of another's skin
Grounding constantly to keep the
Hellions from twisting my past with my present
Creating A horrifying wild fire in the
Intricate parts of who you are
Molded and influenced by recollections
Parts of life lived however reluctantly at...
A gentleman's pocket watch ticking away the moments
A ladies perfume left in the air... In the sheets
A complex taste of recollections and emotions
A slideshow of terror repeatedly interrupting
A tentative exploration of another's skin
Grounding constantly to keep the
Hellions from twisting my past with my present
Creating A horrifying wild fire in the
Intricate parts of who you are
Molded and influenced by recollections
Parts of life lived however reluctantly at...
#SelfHarm
#SelfReflection
#PTSD #SelfWorth
#PTSD #SelfWorth
343 reads
4 Comments
Hearts
Hearts are not always beautiful creatures: haunted by monsters, living inside cages, trapped inside walls, torn apart both by demons and hands they believed loved them. " - A. Doyal
Nebulous monsters that cannot be pinned down with a name
Cat like eyes and sharpened sinister grins
Prowling its caged up beautiful hearts
Murcurial creatures with the capacity for
Both horror and beauty
Serendipitous gothic romance between complex creatures
Living inside cages made from
The stories we believe about who we are
The walls cushioned...
Nebulous monsters that cannot be pinned down with a name
Cat like eyes and sharpened sinister grins
Prowling its caged up beautiful hearts
Murcurial creatures with the capacity for
Both horror and beauty
Serendipitous gothic romance between complex creatures
Living inside cages made from
The stories we believe about who we are
The walls cushioned...
#LifeStruggles
#SelfReflection
523 reads
2 Comments
Inner Hell
She feared the things she wanted, and wanted the things she feared. "
- Minette Walters
His genesis came from my inner hell
Horror given life
His shadows anchoring themselves to my ankles
My demons playing for control
Villains originating buried in my wounds
Burrowed in the depths of a putrid pit
like scavenging maggots
Seeking more and more death
A pursuit of agony on an endless loop
Sanity running out of time
Cracks like spiderwebs claiming its meal
Exposing my personal hell again and again ...
- Minette Walters
His genesis came from my inner hell
Horror given life
His shadows anchoring themselves to my ankles
My demons playing for control
Villains originating buried in my wounds
Burrowed in the depths of a putrid pit
like scavenging maggots
Seeking more and more death
A pursuit of agony on an endless loop
Sanity running out of time
Cracks like spiderwebs claiming its meal
Exposing my personal hell again and again ...
#SelfHarm
#MentalHealth
#FeelingLost
#choices
#SelfWorth
418 reads
2 Comments
Pulled Apart
At least God's mercy is better than that of these monsters..." - Bram Stoker
Hushed sorrowful prayers
Placed on the wings of a
Graceful black survivor
A pet crow guided by hell
Love letters from hell
Ripping into my mind
Leaving jagged deep slices
Blood and gore leaking into present moments
Hushed sorrowful prayers
Whispered by personal demons
A spoken soundtrack to
Twisted terrifying nightmares
Love letters from hell
Sickened and tattered by the
Poisoned words and trauma filled...
Hushed sorrowful prayers
Placed on the wings of a
Graceful black survivor
A pet crow guided by hell
Love letters from hell
Ripping into my mind
Leaving jagged deep slices
Blood and gore leaking into present moments
Hushed sorrowful prayers
Whispered by personal demons
A spoken soundtrack to
Twisted terrifying nightmares
Love letters from hell
Sickened and tattered by the
Poisoned words and trauma filled...
#depression
#addiction
#hell #suffering
#hell #suffering
333 reads
4 Comments
Pinecones
... he knew he would face something inside himself that had been there for fifteen years, something dark and violent and troubling."
- Richard Montanari
The swirls on the bottom of a pinecone have
Captivated his tumultuous layers of
Shame and guilt and self- devaluation
All with eyes connected to the cement
How could he have bent his knee and
Lowered his greasy head
Surrendering to his dark compulsions
But then how could he not have given in
His perversions have grown into being gloomy and violent
Troubled inner...
- Richard Montanari
The swirls on the bottom of a pinecone have
Captivated his tumultuous layers of
Shame and guilt and self- devaluation
All with eyes connected to the cement
How could he have bent his knee and
Lowered his greasy head
Surrendering to his dark compulsions
But then how could he not have given in
His perversions have grown into being gloomy and violent
Troubled inner...
#LifeStruggles
#philosophical
#morality #curse
#morality #curse
360 reads
4 Comments
Hollow Points
His auras held monsters. " - Richard Montanari
Hollow points litter the path as if they were breadcrumbs leading the way through the nightmares
The woods silent in suspense
Pregnant anticipation of terror
Hollowed out empathy a sanctuary
Rotting paradise hidden underneath a farse
A charming dellusion of grandiosity
Hollow points scattered like rose pedals on black satin sheets
It's deathly vows whispered cold against my skin
Unfocused gaze as pain racks my existence
He cherished the violence
It was the only...
Hollow points litter the path as if they were breadcrumbs leading the way through the nightmares
The woods silent in suspense
Pregnant anticipation of terror
Hollowed out empathy a sanctuary
Rotting paradise hidden underneath a farse
A charming dellusion of grandiosity
Hollow points scattered like rose pedals on black satin sheets
It's deathly vows whispered cold against my skin
Unfocused gaze as pain racks my existence
He cherished the violence
It was the only...
#anger
#heartbroken
#shame
#despair
#DomesticViolence
416 reads
4 Comments
The Dragon
When something is for you there is a villain inside you that won't let it go. " - Trent Shelton
The Dragon curls up with its treasure and
Keys to doors that lead to
Success, love and happiness
Hope is fragile like butterfly wings
Paper thin and colorful
Change appearing in various ways
It, this captivity, threatens to break me down
Inside a place I keep attempting to leave
Hope is known to be as fragile as wings
Building up a tempest of emotion
A gale that strengthens with
Desire to dwell on inner...
The Dragon curls up with its treasure and
Keys to doors that lead to
Success, love and happiness
Hope is fragile like butterfly wings
Paper thin and colorful
Change appearing in various ways
It, this captivity, threatens to break me down
Inside a place I keep attempting to leave
Hope is known to be as fragile as wings
Building up a tempest of emotion
A gale that strengthens with
Desire to dwell on inner...
#LifeStruggles
#SelfReflection
328 reads
2 Comments
The Shadow of My Demons
When the light was gone, the monsters come out." - Penelope Sky
The walls of this personal maze are
Reinforced and armed to keep me
Dangerously safe and alone within the
Abyssal crypt of this mind
Complacent with isolation
Dwelling for too long in the
Shadows of my demons
Provoking a perception of asylum within the
Nightmare playing out in the heart of the maze
Light once used to poke through at times
Blinding with its intensity
Perhaps that is why it was snuffed out by the
Jagged razor sharp teeth of...
The walls of this personal maze are
Reinforced and armed to keep me
Dangerously safe and alone within the
Abyssal crypt of this mind
Complacent with isolation
Dwelling for too long in the
Shadows of my demons
Provoking a perception of asylum within the
Nightmare playing out in the heart of the maze
Light once used to poke through at times
Blinding with its intensity
Perhaps that is why it was snuffed out by the
Jagged razor sharp teeth of...
#strength
#LifeStruggles
#SelfReflection
467 reads
6 Comments
Kindred
...the proof was in the feeling she gave him." - Koren Zailckas
His heart reached out to hers
Inside the shadow of heartbreak
It's a hope to connect and mend the wounds
Inflicted by those we once would've bled for
Defeated and forced to submit the king of my customized hell
Bound by my demons in flesh, bone and blood
Lead to impulsive and dangerous behaviours to cope and survive
His heart reached out to hers
Inside the shadow of heartbreak
It's a hope to connect and mend the wounds
Inflicted by...
His heart reached out to hers
Inside the shadow of heartbreak
It's a hope to connect and mend the wounds
Inflicted by those we once would've bled for
Defeated and forced to submit the king of my customized hell
Bound by my demons in flesh, bone and blood
Lead to impulsive and dangerous behaviours to cope and survive
His heart reached out to hers
Inside the shadow of heartbreak
It's a hope to connect and mend the wounds
Inflicted by...
#hope
#TimeHeals
542 reads
4 Comments
Black Hole
And I have still other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into lambless monsters of pain. " - Vladimir Nabokov
The horrors that she kept attempting to conceal
To bury in the darkest black hole
To keep its existence contained in nightmares
But because they have been burried in the dark and
Secrecy is a way of life it has become a wild enraged creature
A savage animal intent on being heard
Striking against the uncomfortable confines
A rage simmering in the wild creatures blood
Like any rage it has...
The horrors that she kept attempting to conceal
To bury in the darkest black hole
To keep its existence contained in nightmares
But because they have been burried in the dark and
Secrecy is a way of life it has become a wild enraged creature
A savage animal intent on being heard
Striking against the uncomfortable confines
A rage simmering in the wild creatures blood
Like any rage it has...
#secrets
#betrayal
#DomesticViolence
#manipulation
#deception
908 reads
9 Comments
Tumor
...the hidden tumor of an unspeakable passion. " - Vladimir Nobokov
The monster shakes
With need to feed a
Unspeakable passion obscured with secrecy
A vice that is willingly submitted to constantly
The lines defining him as a person
Blurred until they aren't seen anymore
This is when he choose to be a monster
Acquiring thread made of perversion and lies
Forming a charming human facade
Stitching in the lies and trickery
Securing it to rotting revolting skin
Bloated with toxic gas
Obscuring the difference...
The monster shakes
With need to feed a
Unspeakable passion obscured with secrecy
A vice that is willingly submitted to constantly
The lines defining him as a person
Blurred until they aren't seen anymore
This is when he choose to be a monster
Acquiring thread made of perversion and lies
Forming a charming human facade
Stitching in the lies and trickery
Securing it to rotting revolting skin
Bloated with toxic gas
Obscuring the difference...
#abuse
#oppression
#illness
374 reads
4 Comments
Underneath Headstones
Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a he'll within me, which nothing could extinguish. "- Mary Shelly
Hell is caged inside its padded cell
Whispering threats of freedom
but then a
eruption of emotions
influencing feelings of anguish and despair
Constant presence in the shadows
Ambiguious andd unnerving with predatory attention
A multitude of emotions
Kept underneath headstones
In the damp dark earth
Rooted within me
Kept alive in some respect
Spiraling deeper into...
Hell is caged inside its padded cell
Whispering threats of freedom
but then a
eruption of emotions
influencing feelings of anguish and despair
Constant presence in the shadows
Ambiguious andd unnerving with predatory attention
A multitude of emotions
Kept underneath headstones
In the damp dark earth
Rooted within me
Kept alive in some respect
Spiraling deeper into...
#dark
#LifeStruggles
#emotions
333 reads
4 Comments
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