Submissions by Lilliputian
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Snippets of me.
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
1st Sep 2024 8:45pm
1st Sep 2024 8:45pm
R's Warm Body
Heat rose
Heavy hands
Head in a spin
Heart in a race
Vision hazy
Legs gone wobbly
Body trembling
Stomach growling
R's hunger echoes
For a feast
Heavy hands
Head in a spin
Heart in a race
Vision hazy
Legs gone wobbly
Body trembling
Stomach growling
R's hunger echoes
For a feast
#food
#zombies
188 reads
12 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
1st Sep 2024 6:00pm
1st Sep 2024 6:00pm
Inkwell of Insanity _ with "Adagio"
When writing macabre, one must become
their ghost waiting in escrow avoiding the sun
tides of ice freezing the albacore of their mind
with an inkwell full of insanity's oats
"God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen." The quill
is quicker than your aye.
Amidst the mirth of the intruders
living in the place I once called home,
now, all that’s left is my soul quietly festering
in the cracks of my walls
listening to the incompetent souls
pretending their eventuality is on hold.
their ghost waiting in escrow avoiding the sun
tides of ice freezing the albacore of their mind
with an inkwell full of insanity's oats
"God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen." The quill
is quicker than your aye.
Amidst the mirth of the intruders
living in the place I once called home,
now, all that’s left is my soul quietly festering
in the cracks of my walls
listening to the incompetent souls
pretending their eventuality is on hold.
#collaboration
#dark
#ghosts
144 reads
5 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
31st Aug 2024 11:12pm
31st Aug 2024 11:12pm
Ashes
You’ll find my ashes suffocated there,
under the rug, where you swept
everything, leaving dusty truths
hidden beneath.
I’ll always sense those ashes, lingering
in the darkness, lost in hallucinations,
while you dismiss yourself,
indifferent to the mess I'm left to clean.
under the rug, where you swept
everything, leaving dusty truths
hidden beneath.
I’ll always sense those ashes, lingering
in the darkness, lost in hallucinations,
while you dismiss yourself,
indifferent to the mess I'm left to clean.
#grief
#secrets
132 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
31st Aug 2024 3:19am
31st Aug 2024 3:19am
Bleeding Corpse
Check under your bed,
You’ll find your mask of virtue,
You wear it well as you carry on
Living as if nothing ever happened.
While your victim is drowning
In consequences of your own actions
Ones beyond their control
Consumed by the aftermath.
Go on, smile while you do so,
Savor your coffee, toast,
Eggs, or whatever you're having,
While another decays into ashes.
Perplexed when you drove
That knife into their neck,
Tracing the blade along their body,
A canvas that will forever bleeds. ...
You’ll find your mask of virtue,
You wear it well as you carry on
Living as if nothing ever happened.
While your victim is drowning
In consequences of your own actions
Ones beyond their control
Consumed by the aftermath.
Go on, smile while you do so,
Savor your coffee, toast,
Eggs, or whatever you're having,
While another decays into ashes.
Perplexed when you drove
That knife into their neck,
Tracing the blade along their body,
A canvas that will forever bleeds. ...
#dark
#death
#deception
284 reads
6 Comments
FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
30th Aug 2024 8:53pm
30th Aug 2024 8:53pm
Redneck Hillbilly _ with "Adagio"
We had love and a repossessed single-wide trailer on top of a molehill, formerly a landfill, with wall-to-wall linoleum and a communal outhouse. Our septic tank was boiling over as if ready to roll over where Grandpa was planted in the okra patch. His life revolved around three things, getting food on the table, working and getting drunk. One of his famous sayings was “A fella who ain’t got a job and can’t take care of himself can just go to hell for all I care.”
It was covered by a green froth rising above the town making it impossible to follow the pickleball in flight over...
It was covered by a green froth rising above the town making it impossible to follow the pickleball in flight over...
#collaboration
#funny
#narrative
180 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
30th Aug 2024 3:48pm
30th Aug 2024 3:48pm
Until The Brew Boils _ with "Adagio"
Until the brew starts to boil I hear noise in my head
ransacking the corridors of my mind speaking in my
tongue of mortals who have passed, they whisper
and scream, creating a war only I can witness, a
turmoil that teeters on the edge of hallucination, yet
I know it's no illusion kicking off my shoes as if in a
Pentecostal Church. Tattooed by razor blades
hearing the voices fade away as I tuck my anxiety
into the bottom of my purse next to my cell phone
an attempt to keep them at bay and shut it all down
so I can finally breathe...
ransacking the corridors of my mind speaking in my
tongue of mortals who have passed, they whisper
and scream, creating a war only I can witness, a
turmoil that teeters on the edge of hallucination, yet
I know it's no illusion kicking off my shoes as if in a
Pentecostal Church. Tattooed by razor blades
hearing the voices fade away as I tuck my anxiety
into the bottom of my purse next to my cell phone
an attempt to keep them at bay and shut it all down
so I can finally breathe...
#anxiety
#collaboration
#dark #MentalHealth
#dark #MentalHealth
143 reads
10 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
29th Aug 2024 3:07am
29th Aug 2024 3:07am
Dove
a feather, soft and delicate, floating
lost to the wind
as the breeze takes control
guiding its path
lost to the wind
as the breeze takes control
guiding its path
#vulnerability
132 reads
13 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
28th Aug 2024 4:22am
28th Aug 2024 4:22am
Waiting for the Maytag Man _ with "Adagio"
Like a phantom haunting the edges of its prey,
wandering the hall with a fractured ectoplasm,
creaking floors betray, heralding its presence
with its audacity on the souls of the meek,
like an echo screaming dripping down a drain,
with its claws digging into the flesh
leaving behind a trail of scars, and bleeding within,
listening to hypochondriacs screaming hysteria,
waiting for the Maytag man.
Like a virtuoso of cover, mastering deception,
hiding its corruption beneath a facade,
wandering freely, with a guise of...
wandering the hall with a fractured ectoplasm,
creaking floors betray, heralding its presence
with its audacity on the souls of the meek,
like an echo screaming dripping down a drain,
with its claws digging into the flesh
leaving behind a trail of scars, and bleeding within,
listening to hypochondriacs screaming hysteria,
waiting for the Maytag man.
Like a virtuoso of cover, mastering deception,
hiding its corruption beneath a facade,
wandering freely, with a guise of...
#dark
#deception
#evil #collaboration
#evil #collaboration
192 reads
7 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
27th Aug 2024 10:54pm
27th Aug 2024 10:54pm
The Haunting Chaos
Devoid of life, standing to their roots
In the deepest part of the amygdala,
The remnants of an empty house.
Its decays echoing with silenced screams,
slammed door, shaking the walls,
a warning they’ll collapse,
along with the shards of glass,
scattered all around into fragments,
thundered voices merge through.
All colliding into one symphony of tumult,
a cacophony holding the fury within,
giving shape to a chaotic storm,
leaving behind this eerie silence.
In the deepest part of the amygdala,
The remnants of an empty house.
Its decays echoing with silenced screams,
slammed door, shaking the walls,
a warning they’ll collapse,
along with the shards of glass,
scattered all around into fragments,
thundered voices merge through.
All colliding into one symphony of tumult,
a cacophony holding the fury within,
giving shape to a chaotic storm,
leaving behind this eerie silence.
#dark
#emptiness
#memories #anger
#memories #anger
127 reads
7 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
27th Aug 2024 00:50am
27th Aug 2024 00:50am
Pretend with Me _ with "Adagio"
You could be the clown
And paint a smile on your face
Wide enough to reach your eyes
The same eyes that caress me
Haunting my flesh with their gaze
Coiling tentacles around my bones
Encircling me with needle and thread
And paint a smile on your face
Wide enough to reach your eyes
The same eyes that caress me
Haunting my flesh with their gaze
Coiling tentacles around my bones
Encircling me with needle and thread
#deception
#lies
#manipulation
200 reads
9 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
26th Aug 2024 6:56pm
26th Aug 2024 6:56pm
52-Hertz
I stand there, watching
Like an invisible entity
Corralled by people
A smile on my face barely sticking
To force myself to be equable
I think i look okay
Well, at least i’m not panicking
But, why are they
Looking past me
Strange, i ponder thus
I make more effort
To be enough
to get their attention
Yet it’s not working
My words remain stuck
Rooted to the spot
As i go by
Barely noticed
So i cocoon myself
Into my shell
Barely existing
Hardly remembered
Scarcely wanted...
Like an invisible entity
Corralled by people
A smile on my face barely sticking
To force myself to be equable
I think i look okay
Well, at least i’m not panicking
But, why are they
Looking past me
Strange, i ponder thus
I make more effort
To be enough
to get their attention
Yet it’s not working
My words remain stuck
Rooted to the spot
As i go by
Barely noticed
So i cocoon myself
Into my shell
Barely existing
Hardly remembered
Scarcely wanted...
#anxiety
#loneliness
#silence
162 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
24th Aug 2024 3:59am
24th Aug 2024 3:59am
Myself
I don’t really trust her.
She never keeps her promises true,
As if I'm unworthy of them.
She says promises
Should never be made
If they’re not going to be kept,
Yet she convinces me each time
With empty assurances
To trust her.
How can I when it’s already in tatters?
I don’t really respect her.
She never keeps her boundaries intact,
As if I'm unworthy of that.
She wants to protect me
When they’re crossed
With muted hints,
Yet she lets them be overstepped ...
She never keeps her promises true,
As if I'm unworthy of them.
She says promises
Should never be made
If they’re not going to be kept,
Yet she convinces me each time
With empty assurances
To trust her.
How can I when it’s already in tatters?
I don’t really respect her.
She never keeps her boundaries intact,
As if I'm unworthy of that.
She wants to protect me
When they’re crossed
With muted hints,
Yet she lets them be overstepped ...
#disappointment
#frustration
#SelfWorth #shame
#SelfWorth #shame
196 reads
6 Comments
DU Poetry : Submissions by Lilliputian
