Submissions by PerfumeandTaffy
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
These are my stories...and not everyone is a fan.
DRUGS POEM
Published
22nd Sep 2022 4:44pm
22nd Sep 2022 4:44pm
don't speak of the days after
It’s been 1,732 days.
Do you remember
At your funeral
How I walked with my head down
Afraid if I lifted my eyes
One of your other girls
Sitting in black
Waiting in back,
Observed my lack
Of interest in them
That was at the forefront
Of my mind
I hated them all.
And the night we found you
I looked through your garbages
For used condoms….
why did i do that…..
We finally found your phone
And charged it and it didn’t stop
Dinging
Constantly ringing ...
Do you remember
At your funeral
How I walked with my head down
Afraid if I lifted my eyes
One of your other girls
Sitting in black
Waiting in back,
Observed my lack
Of interest in them
That was at the forefront
Of my mind
I hated them all.
And the night we found you
I looked through your garbages
For used condoms….
why did i do that…..
We finally found your phone
And charged it and it didn’t stop
Dinging
Constantly ringing ...
#death
#heroin
#addiction #healing
#addiction #healing
691 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
21st Sep 2022 4:33am
21st Sep 2022 4:33am
A Married Man: 2
Give me a moment to think it through
On a whim
I would, without a doubt,
Occupy what isn’t mine
And the final repercussion
Won't matter
There are lines (the ones you deny)
I’ve obliterated them all
Discovered caveats
To unadventured roads
All unholy,
And you...
This phantom bait
Lurking in the shadows
Not really there to touch
But always watching
It will go nowhere
After all
Just a eerie wasteland
The thrill of the world is ecstasy
But that world, after all,...
On a whim
I would, without a doubt,
Occupy what isn’t mine
And the final repercussion
Won't matter
There are lines (the ones you deny)
I’ve obliterated them all
Discovered caveats
To unadventured roads
All unholy,
And you...
This phantom bait
Lurking in the shadows
Not really there to touch
But always watching
It will go nowhere
After all
Just a eerie wasteland
The thrill of the world is ecstasy
But that world, after all,...
#loneliness
#UnrequitedLove
#emptiness #ForbiddenLove
#emptiness #ForbiddenLove
421 reads
3 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
20th Sep 2022 6:47pm
20th Sep 2022 6:47pm
A Married Man
#UnrequitedLove
#ForbiddenLove
386 reads
4 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Jun 2021 7:27pm
16th Jun 2021 7:27pm
Just in case you forgot
The average person lives 27,375 days.
Make a chart
And check the boxes.
How many days have you lived so far
And how many days were worth it?
How many days did you lie in bed
Wishing you were perfect?
Or just okay, or just not enough
But you wasted your time
Just thinking.
Another box will be gone today
So when you go to sleep tonight
Remember there’s a box tomorrow
And you need to make it right.
Don’t watch that show
Don’t wallow or weep
Just make this one day...
Make a chart
And check the boxes.
How many days have you lived so far
And how many days were worth it?
How many days did you lie in bed
Wishing you were perfect?
Or just okay, or just not enough
But you wasted your time
Just thinking.
Another box will be gone today
So when you go to sleep tonight
Remember there’s a box tomorrow
And you need to make it right.
Don’t watch that show
Don’t wallow or weep
Just make this one day...
#anxiety
#LifeStruggles
#graveyard #MovingOn
#graveyard #MovingOn
832 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Jun 2021 10:33pm
15th Jun 2021 10:33pm
The Practice of Degradation
One day
He’ll decide he’s done.
And maybe I’ll believe I was different.
Though….
Every touch
Happened before the eyes of a merciful moon,
Who sometimes cast his skin in a somber glow
(the soul keeper of the secret)
And how do I describe
The unearthly bliss....
Smothered by the darkness
Of the witching hour, the dead of night,
All performed in the back of a padded Jeep.
I loved his body
Beyond my own.
And
I’ve been his secret
For years.
All this.
And who...
He’ll decide he’s done.
And maybe I’ll believe I was different.
Though….
Every touch
Happened before the eyes of a merciful moon,
Who sometimes cast his skin in a somber glow
(the soul keeper of the secret)
And how do I describe
The unearthly bliss....
Smothered by the darkness
Of the witching hour, the dead of night,
All performed in the back of a padded Jeep.
I loved his body
Beyond my own.
And
I’ve been his secret
For years.
All this.
And who...
#secrets
#ForbiddenLove
479 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Jun 2021 7:21am
15th Jun 2021 7:21am
Just another f boi poem
I imagine now….
Your slouching among
A myriad of fancy, crystal glasses
Half-filled with whiskey
Cooly blowing out the musk
Of your specialty cigar
Your friends are around you
Slapping your back
Delighted at your laugh.
Maybe she’s with you too….
And what i hate the most
Is I’m thinking of you
In your natural element
And I’m alone in my room
Writing a poem.
Your slouching among
A myriad of fancy, crystal glasses
Half-filled with whiskey
Cooly blowing out the musk
Of your specialty cigar
Your friends are around you
Slapping your back
Delighted at your laugh.
Maybe she’s with you too….
And what i hate the most
Is I’m thinking of you
In your natural element
And I’m alone in my room
Writing a poem.
#loneliness
#relationships
#lover
322 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
15th Jun 2021 7:02am
15th Jun 2021 7:02am
The breasts you paid for....
I had this dream
Of maggots falling out of my bra.
I hastily
Uncinched the clasps
And flung it
Onto the ground.
I stood in horror
As they flooded into hundreds of grisly
Streams, darting through the dirt.
They fled, though not quickly,
Some stuck to the cotton of my bra.
Some satisfied with lounging in piles,
Basking in my warm C cup.
I loathe maggots
But maybe I judge too harsh.
The maggots in my dream
Tried to intervene...
I heard,
A little.
To the disease
Brewing in my...
Of maggots falling out of my bra.
I hastily
Uncinched the clasps
And flung it
Onto the ground.
I stood in horror
As they flooded into hundreds of grisly
Streams, darting through the dirt.
They fled, though not quickly,
Some stuck to the cotton of my bra.
Some satisfied with lounging in piles,
Basking in my warm C cup.
I loathe maggots
But maybe I judge too harsh.
The maggots in my dream
Tried to intervene...
I heard,
A little.
To the disease
Brewing in my...
#heartbroken
#illness
#FeelingLost
629 reads
5 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
4th Dec 2020 7:38am
4th Dec 2020 7:38am
Mirror
She’s observing me.
Bloated, sea-green eyes
Freckled with brownish bits.
Still pretty…
But.
There is more.
Cutting through her face
Are deep-set crevices
Bittered by the rigour
Of many lackluster years.
She’s attentive to the person looking back
Who’s undergoing a reckoning
Filing through
A flurry of anguish
At the lies she must believe
In order to rise from bed
Each day.
Bloated, sea-green eyes
Freckled with brownish bits.
Still pretty…
But.
There is more.
Cutting through her face
Are deep-set crevices
Bittered by the rigour
Of many lackluster years.
She’s attentive to the person looking back
Who’s undergoing a reckoning
Filing through
A flurry of anguish
At the lies she must believe
In order to rise from bed
Each day.
#depression
#aging
#emptiness
555 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
7th Aug 2020 4:18am
7th Aug 2020 4:18am
Regret: Re-gift
Here it comes
Like a snake hiding behind the door.
I’ll miss
The time spent
Unkempt
Moments
Untidy whirlwinds
But i would rather
Go alone
Then fear the intent
Behind your words.
There is anger there
I don’t need to reckon with.
Like a snake hiding behind the door.
I’ll miss
The time spent
Unkempt
Moments
Untidy whirlwinds
But i would rather
Go alone
Then fear the intent
Behind your words.
There is anger there
I don’t need to reckon with.
#sadness
#regret
#breakup
490 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Aug 2020 3:23am
7th Aug 2020 3:23am
It would be boring if it wasn’t so sad
I’ve become immune to these disappointments.
Your arms flail around
In spastic anger
And you scream
And you call me a whore
And you’re life is
Burning down around you....
Well, I’ve done this
Many times before
And the earth never opens
Enough to crack the surface
And the sky still floats
Like an ocean of silk
Beyond us and above us.
If you would stop yelling,
I could hear the obdurate chirps of the magpies
While they dance in the dewy grass behind you.
Tell me again
That...
Your arms flail around
In spastic anger
And you scream
And you call me a whore
And you’re life is
Burning down around you....
Well, I’ve done this
Many times before
And the earth never opens
Enough to crack the surface
And the sky still floats
Like an ocean of silk
Beyond us and above us.
If you would stop yelling,
I could hear the obdurate chirps of the magpies
While they dance in the dewy grass behind you.
Tell me again
That...
#anger
#relationships
#breakup #conflict
#breakup #conflict
435 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Aug 2020 3:48am
4th Aug 2020 3:48am
Ode to everyone’s f**kboi
I know....
It’s a dead cat
In the middle of the room.
You never lied
Never tried
To poison my heart with
Useless emotion
You told me once
“.....I do not reciprocate
............your feelings, dear”
My inconsolable love for you.
Your words were
Stone
Heavy and hard
And I took them in
And I made myself
Understand
But how...
Did you
Still smolder
With feeling?
I saw it in your eyes
Once or twice
And in
The way you
Gripped my...
It’s a dead cat
In the middle of the room.
You never lied
Never tried
To poison my heart with
Useless emotion
You told me once
“.....I do not reciprocate
............your feelings, dear”
My inconsolable love for you.
Your words were
Stone
Heavy and hard
And I took them in
And I made myself
Understand
But how...
Did you
Still smolder
With feeling?
I saw it in your eyes
Once or twice
And in
The way you
Gripped my...
#loneliness
#rejection
#lover
551 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
24th Jul 2020 6:54pm
24th Jul 2020 6:54pm
Strangers
I always hover
On the edge
Never trusting you,
Not all the way,
I’ll never let go
Of the railing.
It’s been years
Of learning
Of constantly yearning
To find another mind
To wed.
It’s not yours.
And maybe that
Mind doesn't exist
Maybe
We all file through the tunnel alone
In this giant world.
I can freely give you my body
But I remain detached.
One of our minds is incomplete
It’s probably mine…..
I don’t think you
Recognize the calamity
On the edge
Never trusting you,
Not all the way,
I’ll never let go
Of the railing.
It’s been years
Of learning
Of constantly yearning
To find another mind
To wed.
It’s not yours.
And maybe that
Mind doesn't exist
Maybe
We all file through the tunnel alone
In this giant world.
I can freely give you my body
But I remain detached.
One of our minds is incomplete
It’s probably mine…..
I don’t think you
Recognize the calamity
#loneliness
#emptiness
#apathy
488 reads
4 Comments
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