Submissions by LunaGreyhawk (Jenn_Leigh)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Maiden, Mother, and Crone dipped in a fine batter of mental chaos, deep-fried golden in reserved backwoods-southern bacon grease.
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Let Me Speak
at death
let me then say,
I have lived;
not well, not poorly
but that I endured;
I experienced
each and every
moment forward
from my awakening,
with eyes thrice opened;
let me shout to the world,
that my palms faced up,
accepting all of that
which could not be
accepted from me,
wether love or apathy;
let me sing that I was
become whole, undone
of sad, abandoned roots
that kept me tethered
to shame and guilt;
so, at death
let me then whisper
I set myself free, at...
let me then say,
I have lived;
not well, not poorly
but that I endured;
I experienced
each and every
moment forward
from my awakening,
with eyes thrice opened;
let me shout to the world,
that my palms faced up,
accepting all of that
which could not be
accepted from me,
wether love or apathy;
let me sing that I was
become whole, undone
of sad, abandoned roots
that kept me tethered
to shame and guilt;
so, at death
let me then whisper
I set myself free, at...
#bipolar
#healing
#MentalHealth
#PersonalGrowth
#SelfDiscovery
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The Way of Love
(With AverageJoe)
If love has a place and way of being
I'm lost in the heaven of your eyes
As laughter fades into soft spun moments
Glances linger, golden as summers day
Shimmer, the warmth of your breath, near
Blurring, melting into a kiss
Parched, I drink of your love-soaked lips,
Your desire drenching me to the bone;
When the cosmos fades, leaving nothing
Save you and I, stranded on hope;
We will spend all of eternity with our limbs
Entwined in healing constellations
Your murmur, Love ...
If love has a place and way of being
I'm lost in the heaven of your eyes
As laughter fades into soft spun moments
Glances linger, golden as summers day
Shimmer, the warmth of your breath, near
Blurring, melting into a kiss
Parched, I drink of your love-soaked lips,
Your desire drenching me to the bone;
When the cosmos fades, leaving nothing
Save you and I, stranded on hope;
We will spend all of eternity with our limbs
Entwined in healing constellations
Your murmur, Love ...
#love
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Random Journal Entry: Mania, Day 34
I feel savage; lonely
in my bubble of mania;
I can’t focus on you,
Or you,
Or me, or them;
I’ll shatter if I do, so it’s
head down, one foot
tripping the other;
yet I manage to land upright
…for now
I’m holding for now
my true self rejoices
at having been set free;
I had no choice
but to take the drugs
that forced her out;
she was ripping my insides
to shreds, crying herself to sleep
in a bed she made;
procrastination is a death dealer;
coming to steal away
whatever you...
in my bubble of mania;
I can’t focus on you,
Or you,
Or me, or them;
I’ll shatter if I do, so it’s
head down, one foot
tripping the other;
yet I manage to land upright
…for now
I’m holding for now
my true self rejoices
at having been set free;
I had no choice
but to take the drugs
that forced her out;
she was ripping my insides
to shreds, crying herself to sleep
in a bed she made;
procrastination is a death dealer;
coming to steal away
whatever you...
#bipolar
#LifeCycle
#MentalHealth
#PersonalGrowth
#SelfDiscovery
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Arcadia
beneath his skilled
and ravishing fingers,
her curves melt into
rainy Sunday mornings
spent helplessly
entangled,
limbs ensconced
in concupiscent poses;
beneath his
luscious weight
she comes untethered,
rising up to taste
the lips of rapture
and ravishing fingers,
her curves melt into
rainy Sunday mornings
spent helplessly
entangled,
limbs ensconced
in concupiscent poses;
beneath his
luscious weight
she comes untethered,
rising up to taste
the lips of rapture
#erotic
#love
#lust
#romantic
#sensual
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Blóm
Flush, my skin blushes
the shade of spring roses;
my fragrant bloom
belongs to the marrow
of your bones,
sweetly flowing deep
along frenzied nerve endings;
there, where my love,
my verdant desire
spills and soothes.
the shade of spring roses;
my fragrant bloom
belongs to the marrow
of your bones,
sweetly flowing deep
along frenzied nerve endings;
there, where my love,
my verdant desire
spills and soothes.
#erotic
#love
#passion #sensual
#passion #sensual
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Limerence
i. infatuation
silver rings on masculine,
slender fingers ~
expertly rolled blunts
between index and middle;
sweatpants, the nice material;
you know what you’re doing,
and you know
how I’m going to respond;
you’re counting on it
ii. crystallization
guttural groanings, soft sighs
follow me home, in the shadows,
long after you’ve kissed my cheek
and pointed me toward the door ~
sometimes shutting it mid-goodbye;
still, my desire burns, unchecked
for...
silver rings on masculine,
slender fingers ~
expertly rolled blunts
between index and middle;
sweatpants, the nice material;
you know what you’re doing,
and you know
how I’m going to respond;
you’re counting on it
ii. crystallization
guttural groanings, soft sighs
follow me home, in the shadows,
long after you’ve kissed my cheek
and pointed me toward the door ~
sometimes shutting it mid-goodbye;
still, my desire burns, unchecked
for...
#bipolar
#MentalHealth
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Dichotomy of an Episode - Savage Comfort
i. dissociation is self-care
if you play down here
in this darkness,
you’ll shiver in the bitter cold
but at least feel safe at last
from the kind of hope and wonder
that does you in every time,
protected from the well-intentioned
who try, with their platitudes
and half-hearted well-wishing,
to drag you out of this place
kicking and screaming
ii. compulsions are a bitch
if you stay long enough,
a savage comfort grows;
planted in the rocky soil,
where shadows have names
and...
if you play down here
in this darkness,
you’ll shiver in the bitter cold
but at least feel safe at last
from the kind of hope and wonder
that does you in every time,
protected from the well-intentioned
who try, with their platitudes
and half-hearted well-wishing,
to drag you out of this place
kicking and screaming
ii. compulsions are a bitch
if you stay long enough,
a savage comfort grows;
planted in the rocky soil,
where shadows have names
and...
#bipolar
#MentalHealth
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Checking In
You came by unannounced,
finding my doorway dark.
You knocked, anyway ~
loudly
and repeatedly,
until I had no choice
but to let you in.
You tell me I look tired ~
am I getting enough sleep?
You don’t wait for an answer,
which is just as well;
I don’t have the one you want.
You definitely don’t want to hear
about the nights I’m laying awake
thinking of all the ways there are
to disappear and be forgotten.
Your animated voice
bounces nervously on...
finding my doorway dark.
You knocked, anyway ~
loudly
and repeatedly,
until I had no choice
but to let you in.
You tell me I look tired ~
am I getting enough sleep?
You don’t wait for an answer,
which is just as well;
I don’t have the one you want.
You definitely don’t want to hear
about the nights I’m laying awake
thinking of all the ways there are
to disappear and be forgotten.
Your animated voice
bounces nervously on...
#bipolar
#confessional
#MentalHealth
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What Then?
and if I met you at our corner,
standing in front of the theater
on the rainiest day of Spring,
what then?
would you remember how
you loved me
hand in hand, eyes locked
once upon a silver screen?
and if I told you that I’ve loved you
since then; heart exposed
naked and shivering
while raindrops raised cold chills
upon my skin;
what then?
would you offer your love at last
…or just your umbrella?
standing in front of the theater
on the rainiest day of Spring,
what then?
would you remember how
you loved me
hand in hand, eyes locked
once upon a silver screen?
and if I told you that I’ve loved you
since then; heart exposed
naked and shivering
while raindrops raised cold chills
upon my skin;
what then?
would you offer your love at last
…or just your umbrella?
#love
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Cloud Kisses
I lie in the grass, longing;
the early sky illuminating
an awakening earth beneath me;
the world presses upon my skin
in bittersweet memory;
I can still taste the pancakes
leftover from breakfast,
can still see your face
peeking through the clouds
to linger but just a moment;
I pull them towards me
to kiss you good morning
with maple syrup breath
and love still alive
the early sky illuminating
an awakening earth beneath me;
the world presses upon my skin
in bittersweet memory;
I can still taste the pancakes
leftover from breakfast,
can still see your face
peeking through the clouds
to linger but just a moment;
I pull them towards me
to kiss you good morning
with maple syrup breath
and love still alive
#love
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Ten Thousand Things Alive
I am ten thousand things alive
hiding from impending death,
my labels carefully folded
inside one cracked vessel;
I am filled to bursting
with classifications
and characteristics,
each gifted to me
every new season
by the woefully color-blind
or deliberately misinformed;
I am ten thousand things alive
but you see only
a small dead-man few;
those who seek
the truth in whole need only
shake my contents together
and pour them into a glass,
then drink me down,
reveling in my...
hiding from impending death,
my labels carefully folded
inside one cracked vessel;
I am filled to bursting
with classifications
and characteristics,
each gifted to me
every new season
by the woefully color-blind
or deliberately misinformed;
I am ten thousand things alive
but you see only
a small dead-man few;
those who seek
the truth in whole need only
shake my contents together
and pour them into a glass,
then drink me down,
reveling in my...
#bipolar
#LifeCycle
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