Submissions by Nevermindthegaps
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
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LOVE POEM
Published
23rd May 2024 5:17am
23rd May 2024 5:17am
Cohen’s Voice Sounds like Whiskey Filtered Through Gravel
It's four in the morning, the end of December
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening
I’ve written bygone letters
and had 4am eyes more times than most
even realise
I’ve found it in the echo of steel-caped boots
on asphalt and in the mist of my breath as I wrestle cold wrought iron gates
however December here is an inferno
similar to the one we melted
the neighbours eyes with ...
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening
I’ve written bygone letters
and had 4am eyes more times than most
even realise
I’ve found it in the echo of steel-caped boots
on asphalt and in the mist of my breath as I wrestle cold wrought iron gates
however December here is an inferno
similar to the one we melted
the neighbours eyes with ...
#confusion
#disappointment
#frustration
128 reads
7 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd May 2024 3:43am
23rd May 2024 3:43am
The f**k Am I Trying To Say
I stare at the smoky horizon
there’s charred beauty in the dawn ablaze
beams of light redolent with charcoal
because I have synthesesia
I tried to message you and it whisked
away like this poem
written 20 times and
deleted
twice as many
because I couldn’t make it work
it’s as if there was no tomorrow or past
just a here and now frozen in a bleak tundra
of empty space
trying to figure
out how many ways to apologise
for something I didn’t do
the whiplash is maddening
reminds...
there’s charred beauty in the dawn ablaze
beams of light redolent with charcoal
because I have synthesesia
I tried to message you and it whisked
away like this poem
written 20 times and
deleted
twice as many
because I couldn’t make it work
it’s as if there was no tomorrow or past
just a here and now frozen in a bleak tundra
of empty space
trying to figure
out how many ways to apologise
for something I didn’t do
the whiplash is maddening
reminds...
#hope
121 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
21st May 2024 9:44pm
21st May 2024 9:44pm
Here and Now
There was a snow globe that rested
on a dresser for years
I took it for granted
the flakes fell on a house on a hill
that overlooked a book of poems
I remember the wonder
of its curves and its cold touch on my
calluses
the light refracting off the glass
and your lilting laughter whenever you
would shake it
as if every time the snow buzzed around
its tiny enclosure was the first time you’d seen it
and some how in all of life’s mess
it got lost in the shuffle
and we moved on a little sadder
a little more...
on a dresser for years
I took it for granted
the flakes fell on a house on a hill
that overlooked a book of poems
I remember the wonder
of its curves and its cold touch on my
calluses
the light refracting off the glass
and your lilting laughter whenever you
would shake it
as if every time the snow buzzed around
its tiny enclosure was the first time you’d seen it
and some how in all of life’s mess
it got lost in the shuffle
and we moved on a little sadder
a little more...
#gratitude
#TimeHeals
109 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
20th May 2024 3:48am
20th May 2024 3:48am
We All Have Something We Can’t Get Out
the poem unwritten
sticks in your throat
choking you on the unresolved
because they weren’t there
or they were but they never sat write on the page just double entendres filled with classical lies
that taste like bullshit you’d spoon feed
to ass-kissers and cynics
sprinkled with cliches
that fall from your mind as easy
as “sun dappled dew drops”
to clunk lifeless and forlorn
on A4
reeking of posterity and lingering tobacco
smoke on yellow stained fingers
...
sticks in your throat
choking you on the unresolved
because they weren’t there
or they were but they never sat write on the page just double entendres filled with classical lies
that taste like bullshit you’d spoon feed
to ass-kissers and cynics
sprinkled with cliches
that fall from your mind as easy
as “sun dappled dew drops”
to clunk lifeless and forlorn
on A4
reeking of posterity and lingering tobacco
smoke on yellow stained fingers
...
#dark
#frustration
#philosophical
140 reads
9 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
17th May 2024 7:37am
17th May 2024 7:37am
“No One Can Love Me” She Whispered To The Silence
I write to tear her name from my head
to hammer out a cliche with a near empty
ball point pen that I scratch too hard onto
virgin paper while drinking liquid
courage
use both as a mechanism to nail me here
prevent me running the streets
lowing at the moon
picking daisies
plucking petals with
she loves me
she loves me not
echoing off cracked concrete
her make-up was always done to perfection
she said it was to disguise herself from
the devil when he came looking ...
to hammer out a cliche with a near empty
ball point pen that I scratch too hard onto
virgin paper while drinking liquid
courage
use both as a mechanism to nail me here
prevent me running the streets
lowing at the moon
picking daisies
plucking petals with
she loves me
she loves me not
echoing off cracked concrete
her make-up was always done to perfection
she said it was to disguise herself from
the devil when he came looking ...
#regret
#rejection
#sadness
188 reads
4 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
13th May 2024 11:39pm
13th May 2024 11:39pm
Animosity, Eye-contact, Co-recognition
Where the fuck have you been”
I snap as you wander tipsy through the door
my emotions sliced with rage and relief
you were three hours past the time
you told me you’d be home and I waited
till worry turned to fear
then to all the dark images that happen
when you’re left in gnawing unknowing
images of you being cut up
mixed with images of you flirting
fucking someone else
I project emotions at you as if I’m running
a cinema in a seedy location
and all of the...
I snap as you wander tipsy through the door
my emotions sliced with rage and relief
you were three hours past the time
you told me you’d be home and I waited
till worry turned to fear
then to all the dark images that happen
when you’re left in gnawing unknowing
images of you being cut up
mixed with images of you flirting
fucking someone else
I project emotions at you as if I’m running
a cinema in a seedy location
and all of the...
#bittersweet
#erotic
#redemption
#sensual
#shadows
239 reads
13 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
5th May 2024 9:38pm
5th May 2024 9:38pm
And it’s been a long ass week and I don’t know
It’s been a long week and I don’t know
how to show or where to put all of this
because stoicism
because my words fumble when
when
when I try to speak them into existence
and typing helps me ground the
things that seem to matter that I can’t say
all this rambling is my way of trying to find the way
the route to metaphor
I feel more than i want
and I don’t want to feel any of it
my oldest daughter rang me crying
her decisions have broken the links
between us
she live with feral people
that have...
how to show or where to put all of this
because stoicism
because my words fumble when
when
when I try to speak them into existence
and typing helps me ground the
things that seem to matter that I can’t say
all this rambling is my way of trying to find the way
the route to metaphor
I feel more than i want
and I don’t want to feel any of it
my oldest daughter rang me crying
her decisions have broken the links
between us
she live with feral people
that have...
#brother
#parent
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LOVE POEM
Published
28th Apr 2024 7:34am
28th Apr 2024 7:34am
She has the temerity to be the encompassing stanzas of debauchery and reason
I sink my sorrow and pitiful
heart in the last drink
of the evening
“Fortnight”
warbles in the background
the nails on my fingers torn up
from when we were against the wall
and I gripped the bricks so hard
they tore from the quick
the push me pull me conflicts my torment
her hellfire-lips and marauder gaze
hold me captive
there’s a trashed love letter
crumpled and tear stained pinned to the wall
in some kind of sick offering
to put us both out of our misery
where we can wake each day
grasp at smoke ...
heart in the last drink
of the evening
“Fortnight”
warbles in the background
the nails on my fingers torn up
from when we were against the wall
and I gripped the bricks so hard
they tore from the quick
the push me pull me conflicts my torment
her hellfire-lips and marauder gaze
hold me captive
there’s a trashed love letter
crumpled and tear stained pinned to the wall
in some kind of sick offering
to put us both out of our misery
where we can wake each day
grasp at smoke ...
#bittersweet
#emptiness
#regret
216 reads
2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
27th Apr 2024 2:44pm
27th Apr 2024 2:44pm
Antidotes and Chaos Theory
the answer is no….
the sweat on my brow runs into my eye
the throes of your last cum drip onto my chest
and because my supplication is almost always
self restraint I slip
grab your thighs and flip you
your reaction to wriggle and fight
gets your wrists pinned behind your back
the pressure of my weight
presses you into the mattress
your nipples grind against my chest
and I let you struggle
matching your force with slightly greater
the smirk on my face explains
I’m barely trying ...
the sweat on my brow runs into my eye
the throes of your last cum drip onto my chest
and because my supplication is almost always
self restraint I slip
grab your thighs and flip you
your reaction to wriggle and fight
gets your wrists pinned behind your back
the pressure of my weight
presses you into the mattress
your nipples grind against my chest
and I let you struggle
matching your force with slightly greater
the smirk on my face explains
I’m barely trying ...
#dirty
#passion
#sex
225 reads
2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
25th Apr 2024 8:28pm
25th Apr 2024 8:28pm
Night Shades And Noir
#lover
#orgasm
#temptation
155 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Apr 2024 10:11pm
23rd Apr 2024 10:11pm
7x7
I muttered prayers
to open stars
on meth strained week-with-no-sleep
evenings trying to get some bearing
on what I wanted
stained clothes and icy pavements
melted asphalt in the summer
the stench of it cloying and thick
my own body caked in a miasma
of sweat and unclean
I opened my wrists to scrawl semantics
write to tear the demons of thought from my psyche try to make sense of what I am
where I came from
all the scars
fractures and moments
are a kaleidoscope of broken
that were...
to open stars
on meth strained week-with-no-sleep
evenings trying to get some bearing
on what I wanted
stained clothes and icy pavements
melted asphalt in the summer
the stench of it cloying and thick
my own body caked in a miasma
of sweat and unclean
I opened my wrists to scrawl semantics
write to tear the demons of thought from my psyche try to make sense of what I am
where I came from
all the scars
fractures and moments
are a kaleidoscope of broken
that were...
#confusion
#grief
#regret #shame
#regret #shame
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