Submissions by Rag_Brother
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
DRUGS POEM
Published
22nd Oct 2014 4:08am
22nd Oct 2014 4:08am
Something Mighty
Holding back my breath (until)
Something mighty forces it from my chest
Previously, smoke stirred slow and deep
On its way out drawing forth thoughts suppressed
Something mightier than my
own mind
A foolish decision would be
To ask me anything
I ain’t sober anymore
I’m fucking relentless
Now watch me as I skip to your ears and back
On my way out the door like I'm mighty or something
You’re welcome
Something mighty forces it from my chest
Previously, smoke stirred slow and deep
On its way out drawing forth thoughts suppressed
Something mightier than my
own mind
A foolish decision would be
To ask me anything
I ain’t sober anymore
I’m fucking relentless
Now watch me as I skip to your ears and back
On my way out the door like I'm mighty or something
You’re welcome
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LOVE POEM
Published
15th Oct 2014 2:34am
15th Oct 2014 2:34am
Digital Bitch
Soft arms thrown rough around my neck
I straightened my back to lift her toes off of the ground
Both refused to be the one to pull back
So we stayed like that for a while
I made a mental note to remember her smell
I breathed her in, then immediately forgot
Her hair brushing my face would have bothered me
Had I been inside my body, there
I lowered her slowly back to the earth
But her grasp only tightened as she bent her knees
She hadn’t yet finished
Remembering me
She agreed to wait to open the letter I’d written
Until I was on...
I straightened my back to lift her toes off of the ground
Both refused to be the one to pull back
So we stayed like that for a while
I made a mental note to remember her smell
I breathed her in, then immediately forgot
Her hair brushing my face would have bothered me
Had I been inside my body, there
I lowered her slowly back to the earth
But her grasp only tightened as she bent her knees
She hadn’t yet finished
Remembering me
She agreed to wait to open the letter I’d written
Until I was on...
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SELF POEM
Published
14th Oct 2014 3:38am
14th Oct 2014 3:38am
Second Thought(s)
Clinging to the budging branches
I’m weeping about my current state
But I’d rather be stuck in this tree
Than hanging from it
I couldn’t fall back asleep
Hating that what I hate
Was what brought me to my feet
Daddy turned out alright and I may
The thought following the first
Was the one that changed my mind
She reassured me so eloquently
There was nothing chasing me after all
rather me chasing me
Damn… Fucking epiphanies, man
I’m weeping about my current state
But I’d rather be stuck in this tree
Than hanging from it
I couldn’t fall back asleep
Hating that what I hate
Was what brought me to my feet
Daddy turned out alright and I may
The thought following the first
Was the one that changed my mind
She reassured me so eloquently
There was nothing chasing me after all
rather me chasing me
Damn… Fucking epiphanies, man
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LOVE POEM
Published
10th Oct 2014 00:50am
10th Oct 2014 00:50am
Master-piece
I was in love and incandescent, and
You’re a you-shaped hole in the wall
Like white wine so effervescent
But lacked in flavor as I recall
The tip of my tongue became blunt and numb
From lick-sealing letters, addressed: my love
Breathing hot breath rich with rum
High with haste and drunk thereof
I’m archaic
I’m filthy and calloused
And hard to all but the likes of you
You’re mosaic
Beautiful and balanced
But blind to my heights, of which you outgrew
I used to think that you
Were a pink shaded puzzle piece...
You’re a you-shaped hole in the wall
Like white wine so effervescent
But lacked in flavor as I recall
The tip of my tongue became blunt and numb
From lick-sealing letters, addressed: my love
Breathing hot breath rich with rum
High with haste and drunk thereof
I’m archaic
I’m filthy and calloused
And hard to all but the likes of you
You’re mosaic
Beautiful and balanced
But blind to my heights, of which you outgrew
I used to think that you
Were a pink shaded puzzle piece...
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LOVE POEM
Published
6th Oct 2014 00:13am
6th Oct 2014 00:13am
Imperfect and Lovely
I wish that I could articulate
How insignificant you aren’t
Perhaps I could ease your mind
If I was better at putting one word
Before another
I wish that I could remember everything
I remember now, but
Not much farther back
Like the moment I fell
Or the one after that
I wish that I was a better dancer
Oh, how I’d love to cut
A million rugs with you
Until we’d fall to the ground
We’d be swaying
I wish that I was a better singer
Trill or belt the most beautiful
Songs that could better emulate
Most accurate...
How insignificant you aren’t
Perhaps I could ease your mind
If I was better at putting one word
Before another
I wish that I could remember everything
I remember now, but
Not much farther back
Like the moment I fell
Or the one after that
I wish that I was a better dancer
Oh, how I’d love to cut
A million rugs with you
Until we’d fall to the ground
We’d be swaying
I wish that I was a better singer
Trill or belt the most beautiful
Songs that could better emulate
Most accurate...
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SONG LYRICS
Published
3rd Oct 2014 3:08am
3rd Oct 2014 3:08am
This September (workinprogress)
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EROTIC POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2014 11:53pm
2nd Oct 2014 11:53pm
To 'M' (Wet Pentametrics)
The spit it drips from under my tongue
‘round half ellipse of my lower lip
More munificent than filles de joie
That’s why je reste avec toi
I sift my words through sieve and rid
Free from trite and cannibal kin
Alone in white, dark per candle lit
Skin it twines - think swine in the sky
Drove it deep, too deep, she said
Pentametrics get her wet
Two doves fly whilst I impede from above
It’s fantasy; don’t read into it, love
‘round half ellipse of my lower lip
More munificent than filles de joie
That’s why je reste avec toi
I sift my words through sieve and rid
Free from trite and cannibal kin
Alone in white, dark per candle lit
Skin it twines - think swine in the sky
Drove it deep, too deep, she said
Pentametrics get her wet
Two doves fly whilst I impede from above
It’s fantasy; don’t read into it, love
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SELF POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2014 00:27am
2nd Oct 2014 00:27am
A Few Long Years
If the soles of my boots could bleed, they would
Haven’t stopped walking for almost five years
Long years
Not like the ones when we were younger
From the mountain to the ocean and back
Not a metaphor
Was it painful: each time I left? Sure
I can hear every ‘goodbye’ right now, all jumbled
When I’m old and they ask me
What did you learn?
I’ll say it was the vacant lands that I found more company
Than in the densest of cities where I don’t care to breathe
Don’t let them fool you
Routine is death
Or living-not, rather
It’s...
Haven’t stopped walking for almost five years
Long years
Not like the ones when we were younger
From the mountain to the ocean and back
Not a metaphor
Was it painful: each time I left? Sure
I can hear every ‘goodbye’ right now, all jumbled
When I’m old and they ask me
What did you learn?
I’ll say it was the vacant lands that I found more company
Than in the densest of cities where I don’t care to breathe
Don’t let them fool you
Routine is death
Or living-not, rather
It’s...
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LOVE POEM
Published
1st Oct 2014 4:06am
1st Oct 2014 4:06am
Together Apart
Stuck staring at you through a screen, I
Summoned the audacity to lie plainly
Dispensing with your sentiments
Straight to your heart
Your physical one, ya’ know
Something bona fide would suffice
I have something real for you right here
Missed it; right here now
Alluding to the lie thereof
I won’t, in fact, be around all of the time
But neither will you
Nor are you now
Assuming hasn’t gotten me very far
I have to assume that it will
In a way
I wonder if you finally found me in
A past life
I fucking hope so...
Summoned the audacity to lie plainly
Dispensing with your sentiments
Straight to your heart
Your physical one, ya’ know
Something bona fide would suffice
I have something real for you right here
Missed it; right here now
Alluding to the lie thereof
I won’t, in fact, be around all of the time
But neither will you
Nor are you now
Assuming hasn’t gotten me very far
I have to assume that it will
In a way
I wonder if you finally found me in
A past life
I fucking hope so...
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Oct 2014 1:33am
1st Oct 2014 1:33am
Wake Up
Radio frequency
los-ing
sig-nal
I raise my head slowly
Like static erecting the hair of my arms
You won’t be able to reach me, dear
Because I am currently
Numbing
los-ing
sig-nal
I raise my head slowly
Like static erecting the hair of my arms
You won’t be able to reach me, dear
Because I am currently
Numbing
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LOVE POEM
Published
30th Sep 2014 4:18am
30th Sep 2014 4:18am
Jinx
I gave you
Chance is
Something that you took for
Granted
That I wasn't clear enough
Back then
Really wasn’t that long ago
We got
Lost
In your eyes I
Despair
Not, girl - I won’t always be
Too far
at this point to turn back now...
Chance is
Something that you took for
Granted
That I wasn't clear enough
Back then
Really wasn’t that long ago
We got
Lost
In your eyes I
Despair
Not, girl - I won’t always be
Too far
at this point to turn back now...
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LOVE POEM
Published
30th Sep 2014 3:20am
30th Sep 2014 3:20am
Talking to Myself (you)
I want to let it all out
But I don’t know what I would say
Or who would listen
White noise in a cabaret
I seem to have misplaced my rhythm
Swagger, that is
I used to think that you were everywhere
But now I am questioning that
I’ll deny that I ever had that thought
If you turn out to be real
Exist
Only in my dreams, babe
Welcome to the inside of my head
At the center of a quincunx
It’s a word
look it up
But I don’t know what I would say
Or who would listen
White noise in a cabaret
I seem to have misplaced my rhythm
Swagger, that is
I used to think that you were everywhere
But now I am questioning that
I’ll deny that I ever had that thought
If you turn out to be real
Exist
Only in my dreams, babe
Welcome to the inside of my head
At the center of a quincunx
It’s a word
look it up
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