Submissions by Lilliputian
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Snippets of me.
DARK POEM
Published
25th Dec 2024 9:48pm
25th Dec 2024 9:48pm
My Monster
When the dark hours rang,
I remained inside,
Locked away from the danger,
Breathing behind doors,
As my parents had warned
To be safe,
Embraced in my blanket, I slept.
While claws crept from beneath the bed,
Where my monster hid,
The one my parents had left,
To rest at ease.
I lay engulfed in my sheets,
Waiting for the promised tricks,
That carved out my nightmares.
I remained inside,
Locked away from the danger,
Breathing behind doors,
As my parents had warned
To be safe,
Embraced in my blanket, I slept.
While claws crept from beneath the bed,
Where my monster hid,
The one my parents had left,
To rest at ease.
I lay engulfed in my sheets,
Waiting for the promised tricks,
That carved out my nightmares.
#betrayal
#childhood
#fear #nightmares
#fear #nightmares
124 reads
SELF POEM
Published
24th Dec 2024 9:30pm
24th Dec 2024 9:30pm
Colorless Youth
Wasted twenties being stacked
with the pile of my lost teens,
where the years seemed to slip away.
Adrift on rogue waves of time,
young, subdued and penned
in a colorless youth, looking for a prism
to cast hues on my fading blooms.
with the pile of my lost teens,
where the years seemed to slip away.
Adrift on rogue waves of time,
young, subdued and penned
in a colorless youth, looking for a prism
to cast hues on my fading blooms.
#aging
79 reads
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
24th Dec 2024 2:28pm
24th Dec 2024 2:28pm
Echo
caught in a tangle of dusted words
unheard
fading away in despair
a lingering echo from my mind
pled
don’t leave me behind—
…leave me behind…
…me behind…
…behind…
unheard
fading away in despair
a lingering echo from my mind
pled
don’t leave me behind—
…leave me behind…
…me behind…
…behind…
#silence
#emotions
#vulnerability
81 reads
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
22nd Dec 2024 9:08pm
22nd Dec 2024 9:08pm
Will You?
Ease my pain
and close my eyes.
Feel my heartbeats cease,
drifting to the blue sky.
Will you?
and close my eyes.
Feel my heartbeats cease,
drifting to the blue sky.
Will you?
#peace
66 reads
DARK POEM
Published
22nd Dec 2024 6:30pm
22nd Dec 2024 6:30pm
I Saw My Corpse
I saw it everywhere I went,
Haunting my life,
A lure inviting me
To seek relief.
I saw it dismembered,
Lifeless and broken,
Beneath the big rig,
Lost pieces scattered beyond repair.
I saw it inert,
Drowned, inhaling water,
Pulled down the dark,
Sunken deep, far from saving.
I saw it ashen,
Amidst a red, clotted lake
With a knife held close,
Slipping into slumber, beyond awakening.
I saw it fallen,
From the steep peak
Into the hollow chasm,
Absorbed by the abyss, out of...
Haunting my life,
A lure inviting me
To seek relief.
I saw it dismembered,
Lifeless and broken,
Beneath the big rig,
Lost pieces scattered beyond repair.
I saw it inert,
Drowned, inhaling water,
Pulled down the dark,
Sunken deep, far from saving.
I saw it ashen,
Amidst a red, clotted lake
With a knife held close,
Slipping into slumber, beyond awakening.
I saw it fallen,
From the steep peak
Into the hollow chasm,
Absorbed by the abyss, out of...
#death
73 reads
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Dec 2024 8:30pm
19th Dec 2024 8:30pm
In a Date
In a date with your ghost,
Listening to songs from your playlist,
The hot drink I made went cold
As I stared at the picture I kept.
In a date with you,
Just like I always wished,
I bought us your favorite dessert—
The one I hated the most.
I almost spat my first ever bite,
Tried again and again
To like it the way I liked you,
So I could slowly get used
To the taste of this cheesecake
And your absence’s aftertaste.
Yet the bitter tang still hangs in my throat.
In a date with the unmoving image of you, ...
Listening to songs from your playlist,
The hot drink I made went cold
As I stared at the picture I kept.
In a date with you,
Just like I always wished,
I bought us your favorite dessert—
The one I hated the most.
I almost spat my first ever bite,
Tried again and again
To like it the way I liked you,
So I could slowly get used
To the taste of this cheesecake
And your absence’s aftertaste.
Yet the bitter tang still hangs in my throat.
In a date with the unmoving image of you, ...
#bittersweet
#IMissYou
102 reads
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Dec 2024 7:59pm
18th Dec 2024 7:59pm
Narcissus
Akin to a peacock, prancing gracefully,
With a dazzling allure
That blinded the besotted eyes,
Looking upon them with disdain.
Smitten with his own image,
When the pool cast back his charm,
He pined away, sunken in vanity,
Sprouted the Narcissus flower
From his self-consumed, seedless soul.
With a dazzling allure
That blinded the besotted eyes,
Looking upon them with disdain.
Smitten with his own image,
When the pool cast back his charm,
He pined away, sunken in vanity,
Sprouted the Narcissus flower
From his self-consumed, seedless soul.
#vanity
89 reads
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
17th Dec 2024 9:22pm
17th Dec 2024 9:22pm
Muted No
"say it!"
"no!"
a wail from within screamed,
"yes"
was all my voice could emit.
"no!"
a wail from within screamed,
"yes"
was all my voice could emit.
#conflict
76 reads
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Dec 2024 8:54pm
16th Dec 2024 8:54pm
My Hot Chocolate
Lonesome marched into my room,
where my hot chocolate kept me company,
melting the blues of sorrow
with the sweet taste caressing my tongue,
the warmth from her brown velvet coating my throat,
and her cacao’s aroma embracing me all around.
We sat together, sharing each other’s secrets,
listening to music and watching movies.
My coldness was contagious, permeating her,
and she grew colder with every passing minute,
she lost her glow and wept in my hold.
Yet still, we found comfort in our presence.
That until she was gone, ...
where my hot chocolate kept me company,
melting the blues of sorrow
with the sweet taste caressing my tongue,
the warmth from her brown velvet coating my throat,
and her cacao’s aroma embracing me all around.
We sat together, sharing each other’s secrets,
listening to music and watching movies.
My coldness was contagious, permeating her,
and she grew colder with every passing minute,
she lost her glow and wept in my hold.
Yet still, we found comfort in our presence.
That until she was gone, ...
#bittersweet
105 reads
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
15th Dec 2024 9:23pm
15th Dec 2024 9:23pm
Numbing Air
The days have grown colder
In the middle of December,
The burning sun’s beams
Shivered beneath the chills.
My body has grown frozen,
Ruby frost through my veins woven,
I could feel my bones
Nipped to the marrows.
I’ve grown empty,
The icy wind hollowed me,
Frigid to the core
With nothing but whistles of numbing air.
In the middle of December,
The burning sun’s beams
Shivered beneath the chills.
My body has grown frozen,
Ruby frost through my veins woven,
I could feel my bones
Nipped to the marrows.
I’ve grown empty,
The icy wind hollowed me,
Frigid to the core
With nothing but whistles of numbing air.
#emptiness
77 reads
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
15th Dec 2024 6:29pm
15th Dec 2024 6:29pm
Whisper Me _ with "Adagio"
Whisper me the soft winds of silence echoing pages
of autumn's breath in falling leaves
outside my window view.
The clouds sail in skies of curious blue, as if a
symphony of mysterious harps in torrents,
snowing its passion for clues.
Shrouding the white peaks of soaring mountains,
crowned in fairy veils, watching over
leafless trees in rue.
Embracing the tea of homily-steeping melancholy
beneath the linen of November, wailing lyrics past
due.
of autumn's breath in falling leaves
outside my window view.
The clouds sail in skies of curious blue, as if a
symphony of mysterious harps in torrents,
snowing its passion for clues.
Shrouding the white peaks of soaring mountains,
crowned in fairy veils, watching over
leafless trees in rue.
Embracing the tea of homily-steeping melancholy
beneath the linen of November, wailing lyrics past
due.
#emotions
#nature
#collaboration
95 reads
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SELF POEM
Published
14th Dec 2024 3:17pm
14th Dec 2024 3:17pm
Forlorn
Wandering ghost past faces
A feast for their eyes
Yet still unseen
Forlorn
A feast for their eyes
Yet still unseen
Forlorn
#loneliness
66 reads
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