Submissions by Maple666
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Love can be quiet
Love may be shy and slow it doesn’t like
to parade itself and be on show . It’s
private and it likes to hide in deep pockets
but it’s there amongst all the essentials .
Your wallet , phone and some loose change
better to be prepared than be lost by the lack of a nickel or two , it’s always thinking about you . lt’s often silent it’s not a brass band but if you listen you will hear the heart beats like the summers breeze . Just touching you In a lover’s embrace it’s velvety smooth . It’s discreet and often it’s in disguise wrapped up in Aran double knit scarf...
to parade itself and be on show . It’s
private and it likes to hide in deep pockets
but it’s there amongst all the essentials .
Your wallet , phone and some loose change
better to be prepared than be lost by the lack of a nickel or two , it’s always thinking about you . lt’s often silent it’s not a brass band but if you listen you will hear the heart beats like the summers breeze . Just touching you In a lover’s embrace it’s velvety smooth . It’s discreet and often it’s in disguise wrapped up in Aran double knit scarf...
#love
#romantic
#admiration
#FirstLove
#crush
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FEAR LIES .
Most of her life she felt like she was an
apology a care label sewed into her clothes . I’m not worth a dime and I’m a waste of space and valuable
time .She’s an invisible thread with a needle in her head and how she wanted to embroider her life with art to create embellishment’s of tenderness in various yarns to layer piece by piece and cover every stitch of raw brutal neglect and anticipation of fear creeping every so slowly near with a sickening feeling of her heart beating out of her chest the fight or flight crushing her breath. A back cross stitch of lack of security and...
apology a care label sewed into her clothes . I’m not worth a dime and I’m a waste of space and valuable
time .She’s an invisible thread with a needle in her head and how she wanted to embroider her life with art to create embellishment’s of tenderness in various yarns to layer piece by piece and cover every stitch of raw brutal neglect and anticipation of fear creeping every so slowly near with a sickening feeling of her heart beating out of her chest the fight or flight crushing her breath. A back cross stitch of lack of security and...
#sadness
#childhood
#escape
#DomesticViolence
#manipulation
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Horizontally.
She never bends to accommodate another
Is not that’s it’s a selfish endeavour . She’s done more than her fair share but just as she settles with a sigh of relief she’s at the perfect height at forty five degrees approximately to comprise to give in order to receive , she realised she was parked horizontally on a one way street.
Is not that’s it’s a selfish endeavour . She’s done more than her fair share but just as she settles with a sigh of relief she’s at the perfect height at forty five degrees approximately to comprise to give in order to receive , she realised she was parked horizontally on a one way street.
#relationships
#philosophical
#apathy
#bittersweet
#deception
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FAST LOVE
She can curl her hair and straighten it to , but
she can’t change and be a fool . She’s done that to many times before. She is waiting on the one who will appreciate her for how she is . Old fashioned and maybe that’s the problem living in a world that’s all about the new . Fast food , fast pace of life and fast love and that’s the other problem when she is slow to reveal .Maybe that’s a crime in the world today get the handcuffs and throw the key away . Truth is she doesn’t know anymore. Is she the problem Sometimes that’s how she feels coz nobody seems to want to hold hands and...
she can’t change and be a fool . She’s done that to many times before. She is waiting on the one who will appreciate her for how she is . Old fashioned and maybe that’s the problem living in a world that’s all about the new . Fast food , fast pace of life and fast love and that’s the other problem when she is slow to reveal .Maybe that’s a crime in the world today get the handcuffs and throw the key away . Truth is she doesn’t know anymore. Is she the problem Sometimes that’s how she feels coz nobody seems to want to hold hands and...
#misunderstood
#LifeCycle
#aging
#nostalgia
#dating
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The Last time .
I wish for more don’t we all but previously
when I was all in and not one thought of
what could go wrong you left . No goodbye
No explanations why , no honesty or respect .
You said so many lies the one about cancer
was a new level of deception all to cover up
an affair . I heard six months later you had
married through the grapevine and a child
was on the way . I never heard a thing from
you and since that fiasco I’ve never been
the same . My life changed and trusting is
such a chore and closeness brings me to
a...
when I was all in and not one thought of
what could go wrong you left . No goodbye
No explanations why , no honesty or respect .
You said so many lies the one about cancer
was a new level of deception all to cover up
an affair . I heard six months later you had
married through the grapevine and a child
was on the way . I never heard a thing from
you and since that fiasco I’ve never been
the same . My life changed and trusting is
such a chore and closeness brings me to
a...
#anger
#lies
#betrayal
#bittersweet
#deception
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DANCING WITH THE DEVIL
I sometimes think I am dancing with the devil .We are tripping through the tango now . Lots of missteps and agonising moments of show me how. I swear I hope god politely, cuts in I’m hoping I am listed on his dance card . And takes my arms, and wraps my fingers in his. And whispers so nobody else hears ,don't worry about your feet and the rhythm you're going to be fine.
#kindness
#strength
#courage
#spiritual
#honesty
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Not a Smoking Gun
I’m not a smoking gun you’re depending on, I am hidden in the dark with a pipe trying to smoke
myself out of uncertainty and doubt . You can’t rely on me as I can’t see who I am amongst the clouds and fumes of a double identity .I am strong but oh so weak at times .I’m fear and fearless and sad and happy . I’m a double edged sword . Who doesn’t know whether to wound or defend or surrender . I ‘m am not the odds on bet that becomes an accumulator . I am just one person who has a foot in the past and tentatively trying to find the common ground to take that step into the sun .
myself out of uncertainty and doubt . You can’t rely on me as I can’t see who I am amongst the clouds and fumes of a double identity .I am strong but oh so weak at times .I’m fear and fearless and sad and happy . I’m a double edged sword . Who doesn’t know whether to wound or defend or surrender . I ‘m am not the odds on bet that becomes an accumulator . I am just one person who has a foot in the past and tentatively trying to find the common ground to take that step into the sun .
#happiness
#courage
#honesty
#misunderstood
#hypocrisy
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No Choice
She is dripped
In aqua ink
Waiting for the quill
To inscribe with calligraphic
Letters etched with palpable emotions
I choose you way beyond
The moon light sky
And golden sunsets
I choose you for all you are
Seen and unseen
For your are a mystery
Floating on this earth
Pirouetting with grace
But with a mind of your own
Determined, standing tall
I choose you for I must confess
I have no choice at all .
In aqua ink
Waiting for the quill
To inscribe with calligraphic
Letters etched with palpable emotions
I choose you way beyond
The moon light sky
And golden sunsets
I choose you for all you are
Seen and unseen
For your are a mystery
Floating on this earth
Pirouetting with grace
But with a mind of your own
Determined, standing tall
I choose you for I must confess
I have no choice at all .
#relationships
#lover
#FirstLove
#crush
#obsession
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BATMAN AND ROBIN
I will know when, It's right when I don't go to sleep second guessing his Intentions . It won't be a mystery of the words that fall from his mouth or the intolerable silence,It will found in the effort of actions . The thoughts behind them and I know that takes time and consideration, To think of someone other than yourself. It’s precariously jacked up on trusting someone it’s got pitfalls of the tender kind but it can make you you feel highas a kite floating on serotonins. Dancing freely in the wind, you gonna touch the sky, and that's feeling, words without the work, is just sheer...
#happiness
#support
#FirstLove
#dating
#crush
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TWO RUCKSACKS
I am trippin over myself. I’m backed into
a corner not by myself with all these feelings
and no matter how hard I try I can’t just
skip over them . I’m losing and gaining a
part of myself . I’m going crazy trying to
stop myself and go at the same time . If
I hadn’t been hijacked by fear many moons
ago I would be moving by now . I’m kinda
carrying two ruck sacks on my back and it’s
always the past one that grabs me by the
throat it’s the pain and hurt that screams
It’s a stop sign . Don’t move and I wait
while I shake...
a corner not by myself with all these feelings
and no matter how hard I try I can’t just
skip over them . I’m losing and gaining a
part of myself . I’m going crazy trying to
stop myself and go at the same time . If
I hadn’t been hijacked by fear many moons
ago I would be moving by now . I’m kinda
carrying two ruck sacks on my back and it’s
always the past one that grabs me by the
throat it’s the pain and hurt that screams
It’s a stop sign . Don’t move and I wait
while I shake...
#sadness
#anxiety
#confusion
#disappointment
#fear
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BUT
If I could have told you how I felt with you .
But and that’s the crux that’s crucified
me so much . It’s an almighty stumbling
block . It’s the heart wishing it had vocal
chords and melodies to sing to express
every god dam thing but the mind it’s
not so inclined it’s nudges you with
rationale and it’s ability to make you fool
proof . It’s the lock on the gate although
your heart urges you to find the key .
BUT ……… .
But and that’s the crux that’s crucified
me so much . It’s an almighty stumbling
block . It’s the heart wishing it had vocal
chords and melodies to sing to express
every god dam thing but the mind it’s
not so inclined it’s nudges you with
rationale and it’s ability to make you fool
proof . It’s the lock on the gate although
your heart urges you to find the key .
BUT ……… .
#regret
#heartbroken
#secrets
#escape
#bittersweet
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That’s love
It’s hard loving someone and letting them go . Yes you were their first love and you nurtured them to live . Unapologetic and fiercely independent so they can
stand on their own feet and express themselves and experience their own journey on this earth . It’s letting go that love is truly made up of . A coat embroidered with firsts followed by more . A tailoring of lengthening the material with darts to fit the structure of seconds , thirds and more of its kind . Truly loving another from the top of their head to their toes is found in freedom and choices to find themselves with others...
stand on their own feet and express themselves and experience their own journey on this earth . It’s letting go that love is truly made up of . A coat embroidered with firsts followed by more . A tailoring of lengthening the material with darts to fit the structure of seconds , thirds and more of its kind . Truly loving another from the top of their head to their toes is found in freedom and choices to find themselves with others...
#mother
#children
#childhood
#family
#daughter
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