Submissions by PhantomPhace
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
looking for words for what cannot be said
LOVE POEM
Published
13th May 2019 2:35pm
13th May 2019 2:35pm
Bright Star
Bright star that lit up my sky
Like nothing else in the universe –
We are not pressed for distance or time,
But bested by my cowardice.
Bright star, the only one,
The chance was before me but now you’re gone
And my retribution to feel our tie
Severed and watch you shoot out of my sky.
Bright star, now across the universe,
Never to be felt again.
Oh bright star, I had the chance
Over and over again.
But bright star, I was too human,
And your light the rarest gift from above.
Oh, bright star, I failed the...
Like nothing else in the universe –
We are not pressed for distance or time,
But bested by my cowardice.
Bright star, the only one,
The chance was before me but now you’re gone
And my retribution to feel our tie
Severed and watch you shoot out of my sky.
Bright star, now across the universe,
Never to be felt again.
Oh bright star, I had the chance
Over and over again.
But bright star, I was too human,
And your light the rarest gift from above.
Oh, bright star, I failed the...
#love
#heartbroken
#fate
512 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
12th May 2019 8:54pm
12th May 2019 8:54pm
I feel just like an orange
I feel just like an orange
Cut abruptly in half and left
To let the juices drip out,
Like a wound open to the air;
The other half whisked away
And now the fibers hanging out
Yearn to retouch their fray.
I feel like my heart’s contained material
Was unwound and sits now in disarray
A mass hanging right before me
That can’t figure out how to rearrange.
A ball, suspended, waiting to fall,
The first half of a thought,
And this feeling is so strange.
It’s identical, what is and what’s not
From thin air form...
Cut abruptly in half and left
To let the juices drip out,
Like a wound open to the air;
The other half whisked away
And now the fibers hanging out
Yearn to retouch their fray.
I feel like my heart’s contained material
Was unwound and sits now in disarray
A mass hanging right before me
That can’t figure out how to rearrange.
A ball, suspended, waiting to fall,
The first half of a thought,
And this feeling is so strange.
It’s identical, what is and what’s not
From thin air form...
#love
#heartbroken
412 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
12th May 2019 8:48pm
12th May 2019 8:48pm
Sea of Stars
I am in a sea of stars
In a forever cerulean sky.
No matter where I am in the back of my mind
A memory is burned inside,
And this memory is but a state
Of forever being openhearted.
It took one good crack for me to break;
Now there’s love in everybody’s face.
This sky is the permanent background
Of that vast expanse behind the veil;
It’s a narrow tunnel ’tween the worlds
But the space out and in is the same.
And neither can contain
This feeling that’s reflected
In the everpresent starlight;
These stars will forever...
In a forever cerulean sky.
No matter where I am in the back of my mind
A memory is burned inside,
And this memory is but a state
Of forever being openhearted.
It took one good crack for me to break;
Now there’s love in everybody’s face.
This sky is the permanent background
Of that vast expanse behind the veil;
It’s a narrow tunnel ’tween the worlds
But the space out and in is the same.
And neither can contain
This feeling that’s reflected
In the everpresent starlight;
These stars will forever...
#love
#universe
#stars #lover
#stars #lover
425 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
10th May 2019 3:27pm
10th May 2019 3:27pm
Merry-Go-Round
In the universe of my mind I have a mission,
And for so long deeper inside I’ve been slipping
One foot on the ledge of the worlds’ divide
But once and for all I must let go and take the fall
Without threads, and do my work
And only then can I return
But I ask myself
Will it still be here
When I get back?
Will the world disappear?
Faces and names may change but I
Feel independent of the wheel
The faces and names that exist outside
Are the game and the fantasy in me is real.
For months you will not see me ’round
Wonder...
And for so long deeper inside I’ve been slipping
One foot on the ledge of the worlds’ divide
But once and for all I must let go and take the fall
Without threads, and do my work
And only then can I return
But I ask myself
Will it still be here
When I get back?
Will the world disappear?
Faces and names may change but I
Feel independent of the wheel
The faces and names that exist outside
Are the game and the fantasy in me is real.
For months you will not see me ’round
Wonder...
#loneliness
#LifeStruggles
#art
395 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
10th May 2019 3:19pm
10th May 2019 3:19pm
I'm working so hard to forget you
I’m working so hard to forget you
’Cause it just isn’t happening.
I’ve been a fool to predict the twists
That turn opposite to my feeling.
It seems I’m the worst prophet
When it comes to my own life.
On solid ground one second
’Til I look down and see but air,
Falling, grab at all around –
’Til I realize I’m on solid ground.
My friends are but ghosts, and from ghosts form friends.
Out of thin air, foundations; walls to thin air.
It’s the magic of the world: from the void, back into.
And I am but half, and half, unglued. ...
’Cause it just isn’t happening.
I’ve been a fool to predict the twists
That turn opposite to my feeling.
It seems I’m the worst prophet
When it comes to my own life.
On solid ground one second
’Til I look down and see but air,
Falling, grab at all around –
’Til I realize I’m on solid ground.
My friends are but ghosts, and from ghosts form friends.
Out of thin air, foundations; walls to thin air.
It’s the magic of the world: from the void, back into.
And I am but half, and half, unglued. ...
#heartbroken
#atheism
#God #SelfDiscovery
#God #SelfDiscovery
383 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th May 2019 10:40am
8th May 2019 10:40am
Gnawing Teeth
Back and forth
Back and forth
In between
I’m pretty cool
I’m a fool
I cover it up
I’m hard to read
And I’m messed up
I think you’re way above me on
A throne and I’m the lowly one
The lonely one
But I turn around
And seem like ice but I wake up screaming
In my head
I’m crazy; I will lay in bed
And blame me
For what I don’t got
And build up
Problems, problems, walls
To then tear down
My hormones ebb and flow on their own
When they’re fast I find myself alone
Frustrated, want to be...
Back and forth
In between
I’m pretty cool
I’m a fool
I cover it up
I’m hard to read
And I’m messed up
I think you’re way above me on
A throne and I’m the lowly one
The lonely one
But I turn around
And seem like ice but I wake up screaming
In my head
I’m crazy; I will lay in bed
And blame me
For what I don’t got
And build up
Problems, problems, walls
To then tear down
My hormones ebb and flow on their own
When they’re fast I find myself alone
Frustrated, want to be...
#love
#rejection
323 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
8th May 2019 10:38am
8th May 2019 10:38am
My Terrain
All my life is spent sucking the poison out of my mind,
Dismantling the walls I put up on the ground,
Weaving through them in search of what’s not there to find;
One year I build it, the next tear it down.
Over the flat plains beneath the ink sky
Is the limitless ever-deep ocean of stars
And the same love and wonder you catch in another’s eye,
Needing never to travel way out there.
On our flat, wide terrain we build mazes, settle hazes,
A haze that blocks the clear, bright sun
That makes everything simple; but we complicate ...
Dismantling the walls I put up on the ground,
Weaving through them in search of what’s not there to find;
One year I build it, the next tear it down.
Over the flat plains beneath the ink sky
Is the limitless ever-deep ocean of stars
And the same love and wonder you catch in another’s eye,
Needing never to travel way out there.
On our flat, wide terrain we build mazes, settle hazes,
A haze that blocks the clear, bright sun
That makes everything simple; but we complicate ...
#rebirth
#myself
#LifeCycle
362 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th May 2019 1:11am
8th May 2019 1:11am
Dear Mentor, Kick Me In the Ass
I can’t fall in love, cause I just lose myself,
My self-esteem goes down the drain and I back up against the wall.
For several months after I won’t say anything at all.
And when I get over it, I’m myself again.
And you seem to like me then,
When I don’t care anymore,
Only when I am not bound to you,
But if I don’t keep guard
I will take a leap of faith and then fall flat onto the floor…
So I’ve got to keep a guard around my heart
And all those feelings,
Well they pick up and stop like the wind.
I will be a vessel and just let them...
My self-esteem goes down the drain and I back up against the wall.
For several months after I won’t say anything at all.
And when I get over it, I’m myself again.
And you seem to like me then,
When I don’t care anymore,
Only when I am not bound to you,
But if I don’t keep guard
I will take a leap of faith and then fall flat onto the floor…
So I’ve got to keep a guard around my heart
And all those feelings,
Well they pick up and stop like the wind.
I will be a vessel and just let them...
#anxiety
#love
#SelfHarm #FirstLove
#SelfHarm #FirstLove
496 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th May 2019 1:08am
8th May 2019 1:08am
Stay With Me Forever
Stay with me forever, even when you aren’t here.
Our moments precious few together, I hold so dear.
As we traverse this world so vast (though they say it’s so small)
I hope the distance of our bodies makes no difference at all.
For you’ve touched a recess of memories too deep to intrude
With a cold hand, or any length time interlude.
Some seem to be threaded, though poles apart;
I couldn’t help it, but I’ll gladly accept you having my heart.
I hope that we’re such and stay always connected,
And I pray that one day when I least expect it
In the...
Our moments precious few together, I hold so dear.
As we traverse this world so vast (though they say it’s so small)
I hope the distance of our bodies makes no difference at all.
For you’ve touched a recess of memories too deep to intrude
With a cold hand, or any length time interlude.
Some seem to be threaded, though poles apart;
I couldn’t help it, but I’ll gladly accept you having my heart.
I hope that we’re such and stay always connected,
And I pray that one day when I least expect it
In the...
#love
#FirstLove
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
6th May 2019 12:01pm
6th May 2019 12:01pm
Rant 01
Would an early beheading have been healthier?
It is useless to wonder now.
Going around again, I catalog my experiences within human possibility
which still contains the shattering of entire kingdoms
and the reluctant acceptance of mild, apathetic bonds.
Years can pass in this emptiness, which isn't,
which goes by whatever name we give.
There can be no emptiness even if
all that remains is the witness to see.
Free with beheading
I grow another head,
I think.
So it seems.
Will I fill it with fairytales?
A...
It is useless to wonder now.
Going around again, I catalog my experiences within human possibility
which still contains the shattering of entire kingdoms
and the reluctant acceptance of mild, apathetic bonds.
Years can pass in this emptiness, which isn't,
which goes by whatever name we give.
There can be no emptiness even if
all that remains is the witness to see.
Free with beheading
I grow another head,
I think.
So it seems.
Will I fill it with fairytales?
A...
#atheism
#religion
#TruthOfLife #anger
#TruthOfLife #anger
452 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
5th May 2019 10:49pm
5th May 2019 10:49pm
Realism
I’ve gotta be real, I’ve gotta be real,
All those stupid thoughts I’ve gotta ignore.
I said I’ve gotta be real, think about tangible things
Like T.V. shows and who’s at fault for what and God I don’t even care
But I’ll pretend, and throw my stupid thoughts away,
About doors and emotions and theoretical crap
That’s invisible to the tangible.
I said it’s time to grow up and these childish things drop.
I’ve gotta be real, I’ve gotta be real
’Cause I’m living out of this world.
Time to put on makeup when I want to be noticed
And stop...
All those stupid thoughts I’ve gotta ignore.
I said I’ve gotta be real, think about tangible things
Like T.V. shows and who’s at fault for what and God I don’t even care
But I’ll pretend, and throw my stupid thoughts away,
About doors and emotions and theoretical crap
That’s invisible to the tangible.
I said it’s time to grow up and these childish things drop.
I’ve gotta be real, I’ve gotta be real
’Cause I’m living out of this world.
Time to put on makeup when I want to be noticed
And stop...
#identity
#shame
#suffering
441 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th May 2019 10:48pm
5th May 2019 10:48pm
These Dark Hours
Do I trust?
The hours alone
When I set myself aside and wait
For next time,
Dependent still
On random thrill,
Uncertain of water cupped in my hand.
Empty and bare
Once stone turns to air,
Once brilliant stars
Fade to yesterday
As I fly through the night
In the cosmos black
Worrying it won’t come by my way.
Weaned off of candy,
I forget the supply;
Stopped in my tracks,
Will I ever get off of my
Feet again?
Lost sight of the brightness
As it disappears into a memory again.
I lived the...
The hours alone
When I set myself aside and wait
For next time,
Dependent still
On random thrill,
Uncertain of water cupped in my hand.
Empty and bare
Once stone turns to air,
Once brilliant stars
Fade to yesterday
As I fly through the night
In the cosmos black
Worrying it won’t come by my way.
Weaned off of candy,
I forget the supply;
Stopped in my tracks,
Will I ever get off of my
Feet again?
Lost sight of the brightness
As it disappears into a memory again.
I lived the...
#love
#loneliness
#emptiness #SelfWorth
#emptiness #SelfWorth
469 reads
4 Comments
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