Submissions by PenneyWyze (Christina Penney)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction I am unsure if I can be labeled "poet, although I aspire to be. I would be truly honored to be among those considered poetic, but it would not have influence over my writing. I write to free myself of the pain, it is essential to my being.
SELF POEM
Published
4th Dec 2019 2:05pm
4th Dec 2019 2:05pm
Poetic Purpose
Paper, so fragile, so delicate
Stronger than anyone I've met
Holding on to all my woes
As on and on and on I go
Pen so steadfast, so rigid
Attentively helping me spill my head
Ready for war, for love, for all
In precision, in chaos, the letters fall
One by one the words are slain
As they are conceived inside my brain
Given life through flowing ink
Eternally into the paper they sink
Thoughts of love, of lust, of woe
Through intricate layers, thoughts unfold
How many pens have I sacrificed
How many...
Stronger than anyone I've met
Holding on to all my woes
As on and on and on I go
Pen so steadfast, so rigid
Attentively helping me spill my head
Ready for war, for love, for all
In precision, in chaos, the letters fall
One by one the words are slain
As they are conceived inside my brain
Given life through flowing ink
Eternally into the paper they sink
Thoughts of love, of lust, of woe
Through intricate layers, thoughts unfold
How many pens have I sacrificed
How many...
#LifeAsAWriter
#myself
#SelfReflection
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DARK POEM
Published
10th Oct 2019 3:29am
10th Oct 2019 3:29am
Plagued
I feel a plague of loneliness
from deep down in my soul.
It seems to want me to forget
so it can take control.
Each one of my memories
that I cherish from inside,
It hunts them down, making them bleed,
until each of them has died.
Inch by inch I feel it creeping
through all the parts of me.
Before long I will start believing
the lies that it's conceived.
Day by day, I feel it growing.
Who I once was begins to blur.
All the while my consciousness knowing
there's little hope for a cure.
I guess I will just...
from deep down in my soul.
It seems to want me to forget
so it can take control.
Each one of my memories
that I cherish from inside,
It hunts them down, making them bleed,
until each of them has died.
Inch by inch I feel it creeping
through all the parts of me.
Before long I will start believing
the lies that it's conceived.
Day by day, I feel it growing.
Who I once was begins to blur.
All the while my consciousness knowing
there's little hope for a cure.
I guess I will just...
#loneliness
#despair
#FeelingLost
#suffering
#FeelingTrapped
130 reads
3 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
10th Oct 2019 3:21am
10th Oct 2019 3:21am
Treading Waters
Swimming in a sea of pain
Doing laps inside a brain
Corrupted by a loneliness
A soul has ever-long repressed
Every time I push through a wave
I consider that in which I gave
To a life of yesterday
With ghosts that linger as they prey
Upon the essence of my soul
Making it impossible to be whole
Here I float, in this abyss
Feeling the cold of the water’s caress
Alone and tossed upon this sea
A fucked up broken entity
Doing laps inside a brain
Corrupted by a loneliness
A soul has ever-long repressed
Every time I push through a wave
I consider that in which I gave
To a life of yesterday
With ghosts that linger as they prey
Upon the essence of my soul
Making it impossible to be whole
Here I float, in this abyss
Feeling the cold of the water’s caress
Alone and tossed upon this sea
A fucked up broken entity
#sadness
#loneliness
#despair
#suffering
#emptiness
70 reads
5 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
7th Oct 2019 8:09pm
7th Oct 2019 8:09pm
The Ying of Yang
I wonder if it would entertain
Were I to tell you a story
A tale of woe and sacrifice
That’s void of hero’s glory
Could you conceive of selflessness
So intense and so extreme
Of stripping yourself of all you love
To carry on with simply being
It would break the world’s heart
Yes they’d fall to their knees
If they’d just stop and listen
To a day in the life of me
I do not ask for your pity
No, don’t pray for my soul
For in addition to this hardship
I’ve felt happiness than none could...
Were I to tell you a story
A tale of woe and sacrifice
That’s void of hero’s glory
Could you conceive of selflessness
So intense and so extreme
Of stripping yourself of all you love
To carry on with simply being
It would break the world’s heart
Yes they’d fall to their knees
If they’d just stop and listen
To a day in the life of me
I do not ask for your pity
No, don’t pray for my soul
For in addition to this hardship
I’ve felt happiness than none could...
#strength
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#SelfReflection
#wisdom
90 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
30th Sep 2019 10:42am
30th Sep 2019 10:42am
If Only
I never could have dreamt up
How misleading this world could be
Or how knotted and twisted that life becomes
Like some eerie and haunting old tree
In my youth, often times, I would marvel
At how strange and amazing life is
Pondering things to which there's no answer
Like the reason in which we exist
I've witnessed it said through the ages
By those who've been both young and old
"If only I could go back, do it over,
While knowing all it is that I know."
My mind becomes plagued with these words
If only......if only,...
How misleading this world could be
Or how knotted and twisted that life becomes
Like some eerie and haunting old tree
In my youth, often times, I would marvel
At how strange and amazing life is
Pondering things to which there's no answer
Like the reason in which we exist
I've witnessed it said through the ages
By those who've been both young and old
"If only I could go back, do it over,
While knowing all it is that I know."
My mind becomes plagued with these words
If only......if only,...
#loneliness
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#humankind
#tragedy
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6 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
30th Sep 2019 6:52am
30th Sep 2019 6:52am
Aborted
Something that had once defined me
Found it suiting to suddenly flee
I'm now lost, trying to find my way
Out of realms of shadow
Into those of the day
Tiptoeing through immeasurable depths
Hiding where unseen beasts have krept
Plunged so deep into
the heart of this pain
I fear that I may have forgotten my name
Found it suiting to suddenly flee
I'm now lost, trying to find my way
Out of realms of shadow
Into those of the day
Tiptoeing through immeasurable depths
Hiding where unseen beasts have krept
Plunged so deep into
the heart of this pain
I fear that I may have forgotten my name
#sadness
#despair
#FeelingLost
#suffering
#FeelingTrapped
90 reads
0 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Sep 2019 6:42pm
19th Sep 2019 6:42pm
The Songbird’s Anthem
I find I am awed.....inspired,
when I hear the caged bird sing.
I believe that to be how she flies,
In mourning, for the death of her wings.
when I hear the caged bird sing.
I believe that to be how she flies,
In mourning, for the death of her wings.
#hope
#LifeStruggles
#nature
#wisdom
#determination
54 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Sep 2019 1:41am
19th Sep 2019 1:41am
Wonderful Bewonderment
There’s something about him...
...or is it what lives inside him?....
...that draws my attention in his direction.
It’s not that I’m hoping to save him...
...he’s just lost and it shows.
Maybe, it’s that we’re both trapped
within the darkness, inside our own minds.
Torn between the angels seeking chaos and the demons seeking peace.
...or is it what lives inside him?....
...that draws my attention in his direction.
It’s not that I’m hoping to save him...
...he’s just lost and it shows.
Maybe, it’s that we’re both trapped
within the darkness, inside our own minds.
Torn between the angels seeking chaos and the demons seeking peace.
#power
#confessional
#mystery #sensual
#mystery #sensual
86 reads
14 Comments
DRUGS POEM
Published
18th Sep 2019 10:56pm
18th Sep 2019 10:56pm
I Am Not An Addict
Spinning, and spinning, I am spiraling down, my feet have envy for the hard, solid ground. I cannot differentiate the earth from the sky. I cannot tell what I feel, if I laugh, or if I cry. Do my eyes lack such focus they've no more ability to see? Perhaps it's not that I need the drugs, perhaps the drugs need me. I do so miss the innocence, the days of remembering "when". I miss the beauty I could once see within my fellow man. I find I'm wishing for the time when I was most free. I feel such longing for the days I felt beauty inside me. Now I'm cast in shadow, in a world I don't belong. A...
#hope
#courage
#addiction
#FeelingLost
#choices
162 reads
5 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
18th Sep 2019 11:35am
18th Sep 2019 11:35am
We’re All Mad Here
Do you think that you would know
if you’d lost your mind?
For if one did go crazy
I’m sure they’d miss the signs.
And if indeed there’s “no one home,
yet all the lights were on”,
could someone still find their voice,
to lift them up with song?
Certainly if I feel perplexed
by the loss of such a thing,
that in itself should then disprove
that which I’m pondering.
So, surely as I’m sitting here,
racking my functional brain,
I must exist inside myself.
There’s no way I am insane.
if you’d lost your mind?
For if one did go crazy
I’m sure they’d miss the signs.
And if indeed there’s “no one home,
yet all the lights were on”,
could someone still find their voice,
to lift them up with song?
Certainly if I feel perplexed
by the loss of such a thing,
that in itself should then disprove
that which I’m pondering.
So, surely as I’m sitting here,
racking my functional brain,
I must exist inside myself.
There’s no way I am insane.
#identity
#MentalHealth
#acceptance #SelfDiscovery
#acceptance #SelfDiscovery
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