Submissions by MartenHoyle (Vate C. Carmen)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
LOVE POEM
Published
Yesterday 4:04pm
Yesterday 4:04pm
The Flame
The Flame”
Whether I am watching you, far afield,
And if my spirit hovers over yours, concealed,
Just leave me with the candles that you burn,
Convinced that, someday, I will return
To the flame that washes like sunny dew
From the door to the heavens, I now walk through.
I’ll be gone when you take my hand,
To the orchards of the blessed and the dammed.
What grows poison there? I will eat of such fruit
In a peacetime fair and absolute
Beyond the flame that you lay in my hand:
An embrace only you could ever understand. ...
Whether I am watching you, far afield,
And if my spirit hovers over yours, concealed,
Just leave me with the candles that you burn,
Convinced that, someday, I will return
To the flame that washes like sunny dew
From the door to the heavens, I now walk through.
I’ll be gone when you take my hand,
To the orchards of the blessed and the dammed.
What grows poison there? I will eat of such fruit
In a peacetime fair and absolute
Beyond the flame that you lay in my hand:
An embrace only you could ever understand. ...
#grief
#death
#spiritual
#ghosts
#memorial
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
26th Jan 2022 5:16pm
26th Jan 2022 5:16pm
A Song of Solitude
A Song of Solitude”
“.sllaw eht ni sgniht esehT
!meht raeh nac eW
meht raeh nac We
I sing a song of solitude,
While the snow falls,
With the silence imbued—
My voice only ever recalls
Memories of something hopeless.
And what I’m thinking I cannot possess
Is another voice, aside from my own.
But when I listen, I am alone.
What sorrow is mine to view,
Upon the white and upon the green
The crystal of the morning dew
That without one such as you
It seems such beauty never had been.
...
“.sllaw eht ni sgniht esehT
!meht raeh nac eW
meht raeh nac We
I sing a song of solitude,
While the snow falls,
With the silence imbued—
My voice only ever recalls
Memories of something hopeless.
And what I’m thinking I cannot possess
Is another voice, aside from my own.
But when I listen, I am alone.
What sorrow is mine to view,
Upon the white and upon the green
The crystal of the morning dew
That without one such as you
It seems such beauty never had been.
...
#depression
#grief
#heartbroken #death
#heartbroken #death
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
25th Jan 2022 4:48pm
25th Jan 2022 4:48pm
Yesterday
Yesterday”
I cannot say I’ve seen this face before,
Though I’ve looked on it for all my years.
And though I live the hours no more,
Yesterday remains inside my tears.
What I was is not the thing I wish to be
And what I am is only dust and debris.
On the edge of parallels between Now and Then,
I wonder what I would do if I had that time again?
I could not admit that you had fled,
No matter what the tolling of the bell had said.
And when the clouds carried you away,
“I’m so sorry” was all that I could say.
...
I cannot say I’ve seen this face before,
Though I’ve looked on it for all my years.
And though I live the hours no more,
Yesterday remains inside my tears.
What I was is not the thing I wish to be
And what I am is only dust and debris.
On the edge of parallels between Now and Then,
I wonder what I would do if I had that time again?
I could not admit that you had fled,
No matter what the tolling of the bell had said.
And when the clouds carried you away,
“I’m so sorry” was all that I could say.
...
#sadness
#depression
#death #graveyard
#death #graveyard
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LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Jan 2022 9:43pm
22nd Jan 2022 9:43pm
Forgotten Petals of a Wilted Rose
Forgotten Petals of a Wilted Rose”
…eromyna seciov eseht ekat tonnac I
Past the graveyard, lights of distant echoes,
Of the way he moved, through tarns and meadows.
He would stay without lingering—
Fade to black without dwindling.
Some olden wisdom warned me not to trace
With lips of longing his well-masked face.
.elihw a ni uoy nees t'nevaH .regnarts ,olleh lleW
.thgilrats ym era uoY .thgilrats ym era uoY
I could not help but reach and ask
What lies beneath the shadow of his mask:
Forgotten petals of a wilted...
…eromyna seciov eseht ekat tonnac I
Past the graveyard, lights of distant echoes,
Of the way he moved, through tarns and meadows.
He would stay without lingering—
Fade to black without dwindling.
Some olden wisdom warned me not to trace
With lips of longing his well-masked face.
.elihw a ni uoy nees t'nevaH .regnarts ,olleh lleW
.thgilrats ym era uoY .thgilrats ym era uoY
I could not help but reach and ask
What lies beneath the shadow of his mask:
Forgotten petals of a wilted...
#love
#depression
#loneliness #heartbroken
#loneliness #heartbroken
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
21st Jan 2022 5:37pm
21st Jan 2022 5:37pm
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#heartbroken
#breakup
#books
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
20th Jan 2022 5:40pm
20th Jan 2022 5:40pm
Life Flashes Before my Eyes
Life Flashes Before my Eyes”
I watered flowers without seeds,
Given only to dead soil and to weeds.
Now in my eyes, life returns in reverse
And what was only hurts.
I beheld a scenery void of light
From a dreadful, unknown height.
No man or beast could be seen
But in the darkness, there between
The day and night of what was mine
Were the fruits and flowers, and the shrine
Of my hope no man could comprehend,
And the form I swore had been my only friend.
So, I must say goodbye. I see them die anew,
And as...
I watered flowers without seeds,
Given only to dead soil and to weeds.
Now in my eyes, life returns in reverse
And what was only hurts.
I beheld a scenery void of light
From a dreadful, unknown height.
No man or beast could be seen
But in the darkness, there between
The day and night of what was mine
Were the fruits and flowers, and the shrine
Of my hope no man could comprehend,
And the form I swore had been my only friend.
So, I must say goodbye. I see them die anew,
And as...
#anxiety
#love
#depression
#loneliness
#friendship
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
20th Jan 2022 1:35am
20th Jan 2022 1:35am
Ghost
Ghost”
I do not feel a thing.
I can only be imagining
Such a thing as life inside my veins,
As no blood, only the ache, remains.
Behind daylight, my heart is open
With the shadows I have chosen.
I don’t remember if I let them in,
Or if this is the way it’s always been.
Does it feel feverish? This sad oppression
Of my own design? My own repression?
It feels like someone else is beside me.
It feels like my insides move inside me
While I am still. Still and loveless as a stone—
It is a crowded sensation,...
I do not feel a thing.
I can only be imagining
Such a thing as life inside my veins,
As no blood, only the ache, remains.
Behind daylight, my heart is open
With the shadows I have chosen.
I don’t remember if I let them in,
Or if this is the way it’s always been.
Does it feel feverish? This sad oppression
Of my own design? My own repression?
It feels like someone else is beside me.
It feels like my insides move inside me
While I am still. Still and loveless as a stone—
It is a crowded sensation,...
#sadness
#anxiety
#depression
#loneliness
#emptiness
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th Jan 2022 4:38pm
19th Jan 2022 4:38pm
Sepal
Sepal”
My throat is laid bare
Waiting for something new,
Something that I can share,
For a new memory or two.
What I can’t remember that I wish I could,
What I can’t remember that I know I should.
I’m in the silence of feelings I cannot trust,
As though the years have been a lie.
And as they dwindle from embers to dust
I feel like I’m waiting for someone else to die.
Always I cannot speak with so much to say
To the next soul that will leave me someday.
What sentences form from the quietness
Are but a...
My throat is laid bare
Waiting for something new,
Something that I can share,
For a new memory or two.
What I can’t remember that I wish I could,
What I can’t remember that I know I should.
I’m in the silence of feelings I cannot trust,
As though the years have been a lie.
And as they dwindle from embers to dust
I feel like I’m waiting for someone else to die.
Always I cannot speak with so much to say
To the next soul that will leave me someday.
What sentences form from the quietness
Are but a...
#sadness
#anxiety
#depression #loneliness
#depression #loneliness
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LOVE POEM
Published
18th Jan 2022 7:12pm
18th Jan 2022 7:12pm
Sight and Mind
Sight and Mind”
I could hurt you in a moment if I choose,
But for you there is a tear I do not want to lose.
I would rather be the one who is left behind,
While you belong in my heart as well as in my mind.
You have the sun revolving around you—
The stars and spheres surround you.
I wish that time could turn itself on a wheel
So I’d have one last glance, and tell you what I feel.
I know I’m out of mind, I know I am nothing,
And the nothingness I’ve been becoming
Is a guest I welcome as I fall apart
With the whimper...
I could hurt you in a moment if I choose,
But for you there is a tear I do not want to lose.
I would rather be the one who is left behind,
While you belong in my heart as well as in my mind.
You have the sun revolving around you—
The stars and spheres surround you.
I wish that time could turn itself on a wheel
So I’d have one last glance, and tell you what I feel.
I know I’m out of mind, I know I am nothing,
And the nothingness I’ve been becoming
Is a guest I welcome as I fall apart
With the whimper...
#IMissYou
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LOVE POEM
Published
16th Jan 2022 6:31pm
16th Jan 2022 6:31pm
O! Fire of my Fire!
O! Fire of my Fire!”
O! Fire of my Fire! Speak to me in the visions
Of unborn skies in unborn seasons.
Speak of roads where no man has trod.
Sing of prayers that never reach God:
Tell me of questions of an unanswered age,
kiss me as time turns (anew) an unknown page
In tales you never told—that you never knew
But that I shall sing to you.
Tonight is yours, if you only ask, as I implore,
As you walk, beacon of the distant shore.
And all my tears that fade into the sea
I will gather for lovers such as we.
Though many,...
O! Fire of my Fire! Speak to me in the visions
Of unborn skies in unborn seasons.
Speak of roads where no man has trod.
Sing of prayers that never reach God:
Tell me of questions of an unanswered age,
kiss me as time turns (anew) an unknown page
In tales you never told—that you never knew
But that I shall sing to you.
Tonight is yours, if you only ask, as I implore,
As you walk, beacon of the distant shore.
And all my tears that fade into the sea
I will gather for lovers such as we.
Though many,...
#love
#FallingInLove
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LOVE POEM
Published
14th Jan 2022 9:46pm
14th Jan 2022 9:46pm
Alone
Alone”
I remember laying the wreath
On the day I forgot how to breathe.
Petals fell with the rain on your skin.
Somewhere I heard a song begin
And it was if everyone and everything
In that moment waited for you to sing.
I think I’ll keep dying in ways you can’t tell,
Written on my lips, a poison farewell.
I do not want to say goodbye again,
But I can’t bear to miss you anymore.
That is just the way it has been:
Waiting for you on the far side of the door.
I’ve been lost in the morning as if in the dark
On seas...
I remember laying the wreath
On the day I forgot how to breathe.
Petals fell with the rain on your skin.
Somewhere I heard a song begin
And it was if everyone and everything
In that moment waited for you to sing.
I think I’ll keep dying in ways you can’t tell,
Written on my lips, a poison farewell.
I do not want to say goodbye again,
But I can’t bear to miss you anymore.
That is just the way it has been:
Waiting for you on the far side of the door.
I’ve been lost in the morning as if in the dark
On seas...
#depression
#heartbroken
#breakup
#hurt
#emotions
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
13th Jan 2022 2:14am
13th Jan 2022 2:14am
A January Death
A January Death”
What thunder strikes my epitaph?
Someone walked here on my behalf.
It seems there was a man in this place—
But I heard neither his voice nor saw his face.
What poison drink brought about the grief
Of a life so worthy to be so brief?
I do not wish to waste my own despair
On one I’m not sure was ever there.
The years have passed…and was he real?
He fades as all things must fade.
But what time could hope to conceal
The visage and the memory into shade?
As sure as there is flesh upon me
You...
What thunder strikes my epitaph?
Someone walked here on my behalf.
It seems there was a man in this place—
But I heard neither his voice nor saw his face.
What poison drink brought about the grief
Of a life so worthy to be so brief?
I do not wish to waste my own despair
On one I’m not sure was ever there.
The years have passed…and was he real?
He fades as all things must fade.
But what time could hope to conceal
The visage and the memory into shade?
As sure as there is flesh upon me
You...
#death
#anniversary
#IMissYou
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