Submissions by Lee
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I am. What else it there to say? My likes, dislikes, loves and wishes, mean nothing if I do not acknowledge that I simply am. That I breathe and experience. There is no greater explanation.
Believe me...
Believe me,
Wind blown and broken,
These parts still love to hold the light
And this hand I hang at my side
Longs for you.
Wind blown and broken,
These parts still love to hold the light
And this hand I hang at my side
Longs for you.
618 reads
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Blank
I think I’ll sleep
Away the suspicion
That I’m at fault for the
Empty canvas of my
Heart and lungs.
Blank pages mock
What little comfort
I possess,
They swallow my wholes
And spit them back
Halved and tainted.
So I’ll exist in the black
Behind the uncertainty
Of semi-waking eyes.
Away the suspicion
That I’m at fault for the
Empty canvas of my
Heart and lungs.
Blank pages mock
What little comfort
I possess,
They swallow my wholes
And spit them back
Halved and tainted.
So I’ll exist in the black
Behind the uncertainty
Of semi-waking eyes.
808 reads
6 Comments
Tell me the world stops shaking...
Everything is shattering all over again. Or maybe it’s the walls around the pieces I’ve never been able to put back together that is spilling like a sharp flood into my veins. It is cold with things frozen for far too long, hot with the temper I’ve bound in chains and I just want to rip and scream, beat and destroy. Tears flow instead, helpless trails that do nothing but give away this struggle raging inside. I am smoldering something, fragile and broken, but my fingers shake too much for the finesse that is needed to put the tiny pieces back together.
I am sagging skin of...
I am sagging skin of...
743 reads
2 Comments
Maybe Not So Flightless
I am a bird
With a pen for wings
And ink for feathers
And I’m flying away
Along the face of this page
With a pen for wings
And ink for feathers
And I’m flying away
Along the face of this page
756 reads
7 Comments
Roll Back This...
Roll back this reality,
The skin and bone
That guards my heart,
So that I can see the clock,
The numbers counting down
To our meeting.
The skin and bone
That guards my heart,
So that I can see the clock,
The numbers counting down
To our meeting.
760 reads
4 Comments
Stand Tall...
Stand tall,
stand resolute,
keep your feet rooted
in the layers of earth.
Keep your head high,
but not too high,
just below the embrace of the clouds
so that you can see all the world
so that you can see and wait and know
that I am coming.
stand resolute,
keep your feet rooted
in the layers of earth.
Keep your head high,
but not too high,
just below the embrace of the clouds
so that you can see all the world
so that you can see and wait and know
that I am coming.
663 reads
4 Comments
If I Am...
If I am a dandelion wish,
blow me away
so that I can spend
forevers
granting all that you
long for.
blow me away
so that I can spend
forevers
granting all that you
long for.
858 reads
7 Comments
Round Out These...
Round out these hanging cliffs
with hands that hold me close,
as the yoke
of the sun breaks in the sky
and drips to
Earth
around us.
with hands that hold me close,
as the yoke
of the sun breaks in the sky
and drips to
Earth
around us.
599 reads
4 Comments
You Will Have...
You will have string cheese
hanging from your smile,
and you will laugh
when I fail
from trying to steal
it for myself.
You will keep it away when I ask
with bright, twinkling eyes.
But when I concede,
turn away in acceptance,
you will capture me
and it will not be string cheese
but heaven I taste on your lips.
hanging from your smile,
and you will laugh
when I fail
from trying to steal
it for myself.
You will keep it away when I ask
with bright, twinkling eyes.
But when I concede,
turn away in acceptance,
you will capture me
and it will not be string cheese
but heaven I taste on your lips.
559 reads
2 Comments
I am harboring...
I am harboring
satin
stitches
behind my lips
so that they
don’t spill
Please
as you walk
by.
satin
stitches
behind my lips
so that they
don’t spill
Please
as you walk
by.
666 reads
2 Comments
I breathe...
I
breathe
for the sole reason
that
somewhere out
there,
you do too.
breathe
for the sole reason
that
somewhere out
there,
you do too.
650 reads
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Where The Strength Goes
Tell yourself you’re strong enough times, tell yourself that you’re undefeatable, hard, unbreakable, without weakness, and the words ‘ill start becoming a superpower you never thought could exist. Too bad there’s a part of you that will never buy into the illusion, will never let itself be buried, covered up, and restrained. Too bad it’s the most prominent part about you. It’s all layers of water on top of itself, dark pools open and exposed for the world to see. No matter how many times you autopsy your brain, cut it and snip it and rewire it, that part of you still remains. Sometimes you’ll...
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