Submissions by PurpuraBuho
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I have been wearing the ocean all day.
When Confined
Sometimes I get trapped in a memory
that isn't kind
Like I am in a windowless room
with no source of light
I'm surrounded by echoes
of voices from my past
And I cover my ears
but it never lasts
The voices crawl through
the creases and cracks
The lights inside me dims
and my vision turns black
I forget what sunlight feels like
I forget what is it is to dance
I forget that life is beautiful
I forget that this will pass
So if you find yourself trapped
in a room similar to mine
Reach your...
that isn't kind
Like I am in a windowless room
with no source of light
I'm surrounded by echoes
of voices from my past
And I cover my ears
but it never lasts
The voices crawl through
the creases and cracks
The lights inside me dims
and my vision turns black
I forget what sunlight feels like
I forget what is it is to dance
I forget that life is beautiful
I forget that this will pass
So if you find yourself trapped
in a room similar to mine
Reach your...
#anxiety
#depression
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Unhappy 101
"You're right I'm sorry, I won't bring it up again"
When all that I said is
That I wanted to be respected like a friend
"nevermind it doesn't matter"
but I cried myself to sleep for weeks
if you keep punching holes into a cup
of course, it's empty after it leaks
"you're right, I'm sorry, I should have brought it up before"
"this is all my fault"
but I don't want to feel like this anymore
trying so hard to be "easy"
to not need and to not want
to pretend that all of my...
When all that I said is
That I wanted to be respected like a friend
"nevermind it doesn't matter"
but I cried myself to sleep for weeks
if you keep punching holes into a cup
of course, it's empty after it leaks
"you're right, I'm sorry, I should have brought it up before"
"this is all my fault"
but I don't want to feel like this anymore
trying so hard to be "easy"
to not need and to not want
to pretend that all of my...
#sadness
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10 Comments
Great Void
Did you know that
black holes don't just appear
out of nowhere
They don't just materialize out of thin air
Every black hole was once
a massive star
that collapsed in on itself
Isn't it sad and kind of fascinating
how something once brilliant and vibrant
can be so suddenly extinguished
How in an instant
a star that once pierced the darkness
becomes the darkness
Then again I understand
because I have gone through
this process may times
I've been a star beaming with light
I've been on fire
I've been the...
black holes don't just appear
out of nowhere
They don't just materialize out of thin air
Every black hole was once
a massive star
that collapsed in on itself
Isn't it sad and kind of fascinating
how something once brilliant and vibrant
can be so suddenly extinguished
How in an instant
a star that once pierced the darkness
becomes the darkness
Then again I understand
because I have gone through
this process may times
I've been a star beaming with light
I've been on fire
I've been the...
#bittersweet
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Sustain Yourself
Everyone clings to life in different ways.
Me?
One day at a time.
Some days grisly and grim,
in the cruelest weather,
holding on to every drop of rain.
Disheartened by reasoning of ignoble notions.
my concept of wherewithal;
shattering shivers of smithereens.
Other days graceful and agile,
blooming beneath the blazing sun.
Gasconading my extravagant colors;
that lives inside of me,
crevices shimmering with gold
that buttresses me continuously.
Serenity will always be on the horizon
and euphoria...
Me?
One day at a time.
Some days grisly and grim,
in the cruelest weather,
holding on to every drop of rain.
Disheartened by reasoning of ignoble notions.
my concept of wherewithal;
shattering shivers of smithereens.
Other days graceful and agile,
blooming beneath the blazing sun.
Gasconading my extravagant colors;
that lives inside of me,
crevices shimmering with gold
that buttresses me continuously.
Serenity will always be on the horizon
and euphoria...
#strength
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astophysical grief
Every time I said I wanted to die
I meant I am willing to do anything to live.
Build a new home atop a dust cloud and
stick a straw into a buried tarn on Pluto
and get merry on weightlessness,
creating new asterisms,
walking the tightrope between
uncharted celestial bodies.
existing bodiless, a shadow in reverse.
a smudge of luminescence made by
the iniquity I escaped.
But no one really wants to die,
they want relief,
and they believe they will never find it in this world.
that belief could be right or wrong.
you need...
I meant I am willing to do anything to live.
Build a new home atop a dust cloud and
stick a straw into a buried tarn on Pluto
and get merry on weightlessness,
creating new asterisms,
walking the tightrope between
uncharted celestial bodies.
existing bodiless, a shadow in reverse.
a smudge of luminescence made by
the iniquity I escaped.
But no one really wants to die,
they want relief,
and they believe they will never find it in this world.
that belief could be right or wrong.
you need...
#depression
#grief
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Remember the why?
Why
the
fuck
am
I
here
for
then?! '
as the demons of dreams, comes to educate you if you are brave enough to look into those dark recesses of the brain....
the
fuck
am
I
here
for
then?! '
as the demons of dreams, comes to educate you if you are brave enough to look into those dark recesses of the brain....
#dreams
#nightmares
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Untitled
He sucked at the air like
it had suddenly become thick
and was now almost too difficult to draw in.
He became deaf to my pleas to stop,
rapidly back-tracking on my
previously tough stance;
But by then it was irreversible.
Nearly suffocating
Choking out weak cries
while gasping for air,
An act of violence to the body
and soul of the victim,
to their spirit,
to their enduring sense of
self-worth and esteem.
It is an act of power,
of cold indifference a form of evil.
This time I won’t let it be
an...
it had suddenly become thick
and was now almost too difficult to draw in.
He became deaf to my pleas to stop,
rapidly back-tracking on my
previously tough stance;
But by then it was irreversible.
Nearly suffocating
Choking out weak cries
while gasping for air,
An act of violence to the body
and soul of the victim,
to their spirit,
to their enduring sense of
self-worth and esteem.
It is an act of power,
of cold indifference a form of evil.
This time I won’t let it be
an...
#abuse
#MentalHealth
#hurt
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Cosmically Vast
My words fail me,
I comprehend so much more
than can ever be explained,
that sense of love that hits
me in a nanosecond,
that's when my emotional intelligence
leaps far beyond that
which speech can ever accomplish.
That's when I feel safe with you,
love you for as "forever"
as we are and will be.
And it's that love that wakes me,
shows me my best self,
opens such wide vistas
of imagination and
reality combined.
I comprehend so much more
than can ever be explained,
that sense of love that hits
me in a nanosecond,
that's when my emotional intelligence
leaps far beyond that
which speech can ever accomplish.
That's when I feel safe with you,
love you for as "forever"
as we are and will be.
And it's that love that wakes me,
shows me my best self,
opens such wide vistas
of imagination and
reality combined.
#happiness
#love
#gratitude
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Clemency
Your compassion was the overpass,
it just took time to
trust my avoirdupois to it.
You extended succor
and stayed while I showed
you the scars, the mess, the fear.
You let me come close,
let me hide,
let me return without shame.
Every time I thought you
had enough there was
only patience I never
felt I had earned.
it just took time to
trust my avoirdupois to it.
You extended succor
and stayed while I showed
you the scars, the mess, the fear.
You let me come close,
let me hide,
let me return without shame.
Every time I thought you
had enough there was
only patience I never
felt I had earned.
#relationships
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Papery
I feel ardently raw today;
like there is no skin
over my pain
and the ramshackle
wind makes it bleed.
like there is no skin
over my pain
and the ramshackle
wind makes it bleed.
#hurt
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Rimy
The white-blues and silvers
of wintry dreams swirled in the sky above.
The frigid air has a way of
keeping me in the moment.
Breaths rise in puffs,
arms hugs me tightly
and there is a dawdle to my movements;
making my atoms shiver;
letting it rob the last whispers
of heat from my very bones.
I feel it wash over my skin,
again and again,
only to be met by the
beat of my heart,
again and again
of wintry dreams swirled in the sky above.
The frigid air has a way of
keeping me in the moment.
Breaths rise in puffs,
arms hugs me tightly
and there is a dawdle to my movements;
making my atoms shiver;
letting it rob the last whispers
of heat from my very bones.
I feel it wash over my skin,
again and again,
only to be met by the
beat of my heart,
again and again
#winter
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Fleefle
Welkin's sunlit glitter wafted down
to bring our world to a new shine.
Respectively,
as if formed by an artisan,
august for their simplicity.
Dancing in the wintry air,
water in its most artistic form.
Crystal obeisance as
the air is their stage and
they were born to command it.
The newly clothed trees rose
as white fairy-tale beings
in a wintry landscape,
for the pearl-grey clouds
had bequeathed a bounty of snow
for earth to
become a fresh new page.
to bring our world to a new shine.
Respectively,
as if formed by an artisan,
august for their simplicity.
Dancing in the wintry air,
water in its most artistic form.
Crystal obeisance as
the air is their stage and
they were born to command it.
The newly clothed trees rose
as white fairy-tale beings
in a wintry landscape,
for the pearl-grey clouds
had bequeathed a bounty of snow
for earth to
become a fresh new page.
#snow
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