Submissions by Kasai
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I wouldn't say I'm an inexperienced poet, but staying in the lines has never been one of my strong points. 😊
Ghost town of my screams
My screams are loose
And I've been chasing them
Through an abandoned ghost town
Which has no name
They reverberate pain
Bouncing madly from here to there
A shadow among the fading ghosts
Blending in among the rot
Nothing else lives here
Nothing that can be called living
Only phantom gunshots and jagged
Bullet ridden remnants of splintered wood
I must stop searching
This is the perfect place for
Unwanted screams to claim sanctuary
Among the boneyard of rubble and ruin
I chose to set them free
So my soul can...
And I've been chasing them
Through an abandoned ghost town
Which has no name
They reverberate pain
Bouncing madly from here to there
A shadow among the fading ghosts
Blending in among the rot
Nothing else lives here
Nothing that can be called living
Only phantom gunshots and jagged
Bullet ridden remnants of splintered wood
I must stop searching
This is the perfect place for
Unwanted screams to claim sanctuary
Among the boneyard of rubble and ruin
I chose to set them free
So my soul can...
653 reads
14 Comments
Speak of a place far away
I thought I heard those
Voices in my head again
But it was just the soft
Creaking of my own chair
Sometimes that happens
When the quiet starts to
Saturate my faded thoughts
And my mind drifts too far away
I wonder about those voices
About who they might belong to
Are they mine or do they
Belong to some other poor soul
I can never quite understand
Those faint, insistent whispers
But they are still words and
Their meanings are lost to me
Voices in my head again
But it was just the soft
Creaking of my own chair
Sometimes that happens
When the quiet starts to
Saturate my faded thoughts
And my mind drifts too far away
I wonder about those voices
About who they might belong to
Are they mine or do they
Belong to some other poor soul
I can never quite understand
Those faint, insistent whispers
But they are still words and
Their meanings are lost to me
645 reads
12 Comments
Perigee of my bondage
Not only do your fingerprints
Stain my imperfect skin
They remain inside me
An afterimage burnt upon my heart
Men are too tough for tears
So I cry them for both of us
I sit by your chair while you read
And rub your hand across my salty cheek
Shared coffee at midnight
Flavored with the spirits of Ireland
Warm our lonely hearts and hands
A table for two,reservations for one
When I hold you close at night
I taste your sadness while you sleep
It makes my soft heart restless
So I whisper pretty things into your dreams
...
Stain my imperfect skin
They remain inside me
An afterimage burnt upon my heart
Men are too tough for tears
So I cry them for both of us
I sit by your chair while you read
And rub your hand across my salty cheek
Shared coffee at midnight
Flavored with the spirits of Ireland
Warm our lonely hearts and hands
A table for two,reservations for one
When I hold you close at night
I taste your sadness while you sleep
It makes my soft heart restless
So I whisper pretty things into your dreams
...
917 reads
20 Comments
Harlot,my heart
We waded through
The yellow river
Made love beneath the
Shade of hawthorn trees
Upon a bed dew (and don't)
You chased me
Across the ancient stones
Of three rocks and found me
We hunted with the moon
And danced to coyote's song
I lead you into
The demented mouth
Of my inferno
Your hand in mine
We walked in flame
Behind the prisms
Of feldgrau eyes
You brought me from
My darkest place
And captured me in verse
You are my outlaw lover
Tracing the scar of my riven...
The yellow river
Made love beneath the
Shade of hawthorn trees
Upon a bed dew (and don't)
You chased me
Across the ancient stones
Of three rocks and found me
We hunted with the moon
And danced to coyote's song
I lead you into
The demented mouth
Of my inferno
Your hand in mine
We walked in flame
Behind the prisms
Of feldgrau eyes
You brought me from
My darkest place
And captured me in verse
You are my outlaw lover
Tracing the scar of my riven...
802 reads
18 Comments
Via Dolorosa
I didn't make
Myself love you
I don't like to cry
You are too far away
To see my tears
When the sky
Stretches it's fingers
I know it touches you
We blow with the wind
And fall as rain
A soldier of night
And a backseat beauty
Were not meant to dance
So we chase the sun
And catch hidden rainbows
Your voice is silent
I cannot hear you speak
So I keep you within
The plain black lines
Of a broken hearted love poem
Myself love you
I don't like to cry
You are too far away
To see my tears
When the sky
Stretches it's fingers
I know it touches you
We blow with the wind
And fall as rain
A soldier of night
And a backseat beauty
Were not meant to dance
So we chase the sun
And catch hidden rainbows
Your voice is silent
I cannot hear you speak
So I keep you within
The plain black lines
Of a broken hearted love poem
924 reads
17 Comments
Justify my love
My sanctuary lies
Within the very fabric
Of that which binds
My ruined heart
Restricted by finely
Woven linen and flax
My unclad body is hobbled
And I cry for you
I crave pain
And cry out for the
Burning embers of passion
That bring me release
Filthy and broken
You found me wanting
You bound me in 'corde de soie'
And covered me in lotus blooms
Your words are
Flame upon my cheek
I burn in their carnal rapture
I bathe in the ash
Within the very fabric
Of that which binds
My ruined heart
Restricted by finely
Woven linen and flax
My unclad body is hobbled
And I cry for you
I crave pain
And cry out for the
Burning embers of passion
That bring me release
Filthy and broken
You found me wanting
You bound me in 'corde de soie'
And covered me in lotus blooms
Your words are
Flame upon my cheek
I burn in their carnal rapture
I bathe in the ash
720 reads
12 Comments
This heart hunts wild
I gaze out the window
To the swaying pines
Lost in ash can thoughts
There is only quiet on the breeze
A silver owl hanging
From a long,silver chain
Cast's rainbows on my skin
When the sun shines through it's eyes
The sky is not blue
But an odd shade of melancholy
For some reason it looks sad
And I share in it's lament
I seek my thoughts
Trying to draw them out
But they hide in the trees,camouflaged
I can see them stir in the tall grass
I know what I must do
My weapon is dull and forgotten
So I hone it...
To the swaying pines
Lost in ash can thoughts
There is only quiet on the breeze
A silver owl hanging
From a long,silver chain
Cast's rainbows on my skin
When the sun shines through it's eyes
The sky is not blue
But an odd shade of melancholy
For some reason it looks sad
And I share in it's lament
I seek my thoughts
Trying to draw them out
But they hide in the trees,camouflaged
I can see them stir in the tall grass
I know what I must do
My weapon is dull and forgotten
So I hone it...
840 reads
26 Comments
Seed of hope
In the cold, dusty
Corners of my thoughts
I weep for squandered years
They abash my patch welded heart
My soul is voiceless
Silence falls from my tongue
And soothes me with captive rain
It leaves me fractured and strips me bare
I birth you freely
My demented,erratic child
I cradle you gently with flame
I shield your eyes with gilded glass
Stunted by your anguish
You remain small and whispered
Envious of wilting cherry blossoms
And swaddled by serendipity's ghost
I lay you down
I leave you in the shade...
Corners of my thoughts
I weep for squandered years
They abash my patch welded heart
My soul is voiceless
Silence falls from my tongue
And soothes me with captive rain
It leaves me fractured and strips me bare
I birth you freely
My demented,erratic child
I cradle you gently with flame
I shield your eyes with gilded glass
Stunted by your anguish
You remain small and whispered
Envious of wilting cherry blossoms
And swaddled by serendipity's ghost
I lay you down
I leave you in the shade...
843 reads
18 Comments
He breaks me like the rain
He comes with his sheepdog eyes
his brown eyes, I can't resist
hits me with his bad boy pout
he's tricky, he wants to be kissed
I write odes to his savage lust
his jackhammer rips me apart
he's a man too tough for tears
they linger in my heart
his hair is wetly tousled
there's a snarl on his lip
his chest is inked with sailor girls
and a dragon on his hip
He has a purple heart
And eats me with a silver tongue
he strands me in his secret garden
the weeds he walks among
...
his brown eyes, I can't resist
hits me with his bad boy pout
he's tricky, he wants to be kissed
I write odes to his savage lust
his jackhammer rips me apart
he's a man too tough for tears
they linger in my heart
his hair is wetly tousled
there's a snarl on his lip
his chest is inked with sailor girls
and a dragon on his hip
He has a purple heart
And eats me with a silver tongue
he strands me in his secret garden
the weeds he walks among
...
1102 reads
22 Comments
I'm Nobody
I get stuck in the dark sometimes
I don't like the dark
I can't find my words
And it's too black to see the door
The batteries in my flashlight are dead
And each candle I light
Gets gently snuffed out
By a nonexistant breeze
No light in a dark place
Is just......emptiness
That emptiness is what
Makes it so quiet
I don't like the dark
I can't find my words
And it's too black to see the door
The batteries in my flashlight are dead
And each candle I light
Gets gently snuffed out
By a nonexistant breeze
No light in a dark place
Is just......emptiness
That emptiness is what
Makes it so quiet
888 reads
21 Comments
Heavenly Bodies
Like the earth
My lover is the
liquid fire barrier
That contains the core
Of my universe
When the sun
Is wicked and the sky
Is so blue it hurts
His breath whispers
Me tantric rain
Not even the
Pines can refuse the
Sunkissed rythym dancing
Within his hidden
Fragile heart
He is the tide
Longing to walk among
The living of earth
Meager grains of sand
His only reward
Sun and moon weep
For him from two
horizons of one sky
Untouched,ever wanting ...
My lover is the
liquid fire barrier
That contains the core
Of my universe
When the sun
Is wicked and the sky
Is so blue it hurts
His breath whispers
Me tantric rain
Not even the
Pines can refuse the
Sunkissed rythym dancing
Within his hidden
Fragile heart
He is the tide
Longing to walk among
The living of earth
Meager grains of sand
His only reward
Sun and moon weep
For him from two
horizons of one sky
Untouched,ever wanting ...
898 reads
24 Comments
Daughter of Icarus
In her winsomeness
In her sadness
she flew too close
To the sun
But something so
Stunning, so shattering
Was not meant to be
Endured by flesh
It scorches,burns itself out
Leaving remnants Of obsidian embers
And a dark,starstruck truth.
Stripped of all and
Naked to vengeful realities
She captures her missing piece
It completes her
Reunited,beauty and beast
Wreck the painted sky
And burn to an eternal
Dance of living flame
In her...
In her sadness
she flew too close
To the sun
But something so
Stunning, so shattering
Was not meant to be
Endured by flesh
It scorches,burns itself out
Leaving remnants Of obsidian embers
And a dark,starstruck truth.
Stripped of all and
Naked to vengeful realities
She captures her missing piece
It completes her
Reunited,beauty and beast
Wreck the painted sky
And burn to an eternal
Dance of living flame
In her...
902 reads
10 Comments
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