Submissions by PerfumeandTaffy
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
These are my stories...and not everyone is a fan.
Secret
Keep it in the cellar
Along with the others
That squirm in agony….
Because despite
Never being free,
They never die
Along with the others
That squirm in agony….
Because despite
Never being free,
They never die
#depression
#loneliness
#secrets
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4 Comments
Oxygen
There are days of fire
When all the pain of living
Surfaces in
Magnificent flames
And all it can do is burn.
When all the pain of living
Surfaces in
Magnificent flames
And all it can do is burn.
#anger
#frustration
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1 Comment
To be candid...
I want to write a poem
That doesn’t sink the soul
But it’s what I know.
Sometimes I'm Scum….
I need this
Murky self-reflection
Self-deprecation
Because I don’t
Have a clue how to
Climb out from here
And if I did
I don’t know where I’d go.
But I don’t really want to
Keep thinking about
All the ways I’m broken
Or how to re-assemble
These pieces that really have
Never really been together
There are a thousand truths
That are unbearable.
And right now ...
That doesn’t sink the soul
But it’s what I know.
Sometimes I'm Scum….
I need this
Murky self-reflection
Self-deprecation
Because I don’t
Have a clue how to
Climb out from here
And if I did
I don’t know where I’d go.
But I don’t really want to
Keep thinking about
All the ways I’m broken
Or how to re-assemble
These pieces that really have
Never really been together
There are a thousand truths
That are unbearable.
And right now ...
#depression
#grief
#hurt
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1 Comment
The world without you
After all,
You did save me
From the words he said
Before he was dead
You walked in
And made me feel
That what he said
Wasn’t actually real.
This is why I think
I love you
And it’s okay now
To let you go.
You welded into shape
The cavity of abuse
From the words he said
Those many nights with you
Heavy with your musk
Bleeding aspirin
I don’t believe in life after death
And this life is
No longer controlled
By those words
You entombed
...
You did save me
From the words he said
Before he was dead
You walked in
And made me feel
That what he said
Wasn’t actually real.
This is why I think
I love you
And it’s okay now
To let you go.
You welded into shape
The cavity of abuse
From the words he said
Those many nights with you
Heavy with your musk
Bleeding aspirin
I don’t believe in life after death
And this life is
No longer controlled
By those words
You entombed
...
#forgiveness
#MovingOn
#emotional
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1 Comment
Just a little sad today
If I wasn’t so afraid
I would find a way
To tell you
How I still sink with doubt
In this dreary world
I wonder
If my name lingers
Even a wisp of of thought
In your crowded mind
I loved loving you
I loved your darkness
And the plumpness of your
Bottom lip.
In the wake of your absence
I am an ocean
Of vulnerability
And in the hazardous blue
I am weak because of you
Fighting to reach the surface
I fear change
But you left anyway
And now I sit in...
I would find a way
To tell you
How I still sink with doubt
In this dreary world
I wonder
If my name lingers
Even a wisp of of thought
In your crowded mind
I loved loving you
I loved your darkness
And the plumpness of your
Bottom lip.
In the wake of your absence
I am an ocean
Of vulnerability
And in the hazardous blue
I am weak because of you
Fighting to reach the surface
I fear change
But you left anyway
And now I sit in...
#depression
#heartbroken
#breakup #emptiness
#breakup #emptiness
588 reads
2 Comments
Fukbois
#relationships
#sex
#betrayal
693 reads
4 Comments
Thou Shalt Not Covet
#lust
#erotic
676 reads
4 Comments
Tundra Skin
You are the skin of a wolf
I followed your blood
Without opening my eyes
You are feral, raw indifference
And I knew I was nothing but prey
That your heart would never move.
You know that I suffer
A body burned
In death’s dreary acid bath
But, in your musk
I found a moment respite
I just wish your teeth
Were less sharp
And your chill had less bite.
I followed your blood
Without opening my eyes
You are feral, raw indifference
And I knew I was nothing but prey
That your heart would never move.
You know that I suffer
A body burned
In death’s dreary acid bath
But, in your musk
I found a moment respite
I just wish your teeth
Were less sharp
And your chill had less bite.
#heartbroken
#breakup
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1 Comment
Being with Alison
I was almost her
Before the bony fingers
Of time
Began to tug my face
Like putty, sinkening
Under merciless groping
Pinching and plying my skin into
Mean, furrowed clefts
She’s beautiful
And when she laughs
Her hair lifts off her breasts
Her eyes search for the vulnerable
And the yearning.
We suffer while
She occupies the space where we all breathe
I feel myself disappear.
I examine with lumbering dread
My hands
As they evaporate
My legs that blur into a vapy...
Before the bony fingers
Of time
Began to tug my face
Like putty, sinkening
Under merciless groping
Pinching and plying my skin into
Mean, furrowed clefts
She’s beautiful
And when she laughs
Her hair lifts off her breasts
Her eyes search for the vulnerable
And the yearning.
We suffer while
She occupies the space where we all breathe
I feel myself disappear.
I examine with lumbering dread
My hands
As they evaporate
My legs that blur into a vapy...
#depression
#loneliness
#aging
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6 Comments
Cemetery
I don’t feel the wind like other people
There is always a touch of sadness
In the way it sighs against my skin.
And even when purple lilac
Lingers in the air
I find myself wishing
It was rather the scent of those I’ve lost.
It’s in the dirt I find my breath
Buried and dark and furrowing
With life undone
And life beginning.
There is always a touch of sadness
In the way it sighs against my skin.
And even when purple lilac
Lingers in the air
I find myself wishing
It was rather the scent of those I’ve lost.
It’s in the dirt I find my breath
Buried and dark and furrowing
With life undone
And life beginning.
#sadness
#regret
#death #graveyard
#death #graveyard
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you can't love a dead gurl
I need to find my voice
And purge my throat
Of all of these poisons
I loved you madly.
But the ravens always
Lurked nearby
And the grave was dug
Before you came.
But please...
Don’t
Try to
Kiss me...
Or come searching
For the splinters
In my eyes.
You unwittingly
Chained my soul
To you
But you are free
From mine.
And purge my throat
Of all of these poisons
I loved you madly.
But the ravens always
Lurked nearby
And the grave was dug
Before you came.
But please...
Don’t
Try to
Kiss me...
Or come searching
For the splinters
In my eyes.
You unwittingly
Chained my soul
To you
But you are free
From mine.
#UnrequitedLove
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1 Comment
In talking with Jack
It’s coming now…..
I feel it at last
Rolling in like the tide
My organs are aching
While my brain lets go of this fog.
He told me your confessions...
Like a swarm of disease
Settling in thick droves
Across the fields;
I heard every word.
And what was it you said exactly?
I am a rat
Littering your basement floor
I am
The odor in the room
That sours the
The breaths you take.
Roll your eyes and tell them…
Tell them how you hate me
They will never know
The...
I feel it at last
Rolling in like the tide
My organs are aching
While my brain lets go of this fog.
He told me your confessions...
Like a swarm of disease
Settling in thick droves
Across the fields;
I heard every word.
And what was it you said exactly?
I am a rat
Littering your basement floor
I am
The odor in the room
That sours the
The breaths you take.
Roll your eyes and tell them…
Tell them how you hate me
They will never know
The...
#lies
#hypocrisy
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5 Comments
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