Submissions by Rayne
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I started writing poetry at 11, and only ever stop when the depth of life drown me, but the words live in secret inside me
SELF POEM
Published
25th Nov 2014 4:59pm
25th Nov 2014 4:59pm
Nameless
There's always a storm
Just below the surface
Where rages breed and form
The infinite well from which my anger spring
So tightly contained
A pebble can start a hurricane
Just below the surface
Where rages breed and form
The infinite well from which my anger spring
So tightly contained
A pebble can start a hurricane
471 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Nov 2014 2:09pm
18th Nov 2014 2:09pm
I'm so frosted
Scarlet red
All around me
And one spot remains untouched
Clear and clean
That open space.
while I’m sitting in a pool of blood.
It’s like I’m a chocolate cake
With a slice missing
Like that somehow means something
Like I’m about to smirk and say
I’m so frosted
I just wish someone told me chocolate bleeds
All around me
And one spot remains untouched
Clear and clean
That open space.
while I’m sitting in a pool of blood.
It’s like I’m a chocolate cake
With a slice missing
Like that somehow means something
Like I’m about to smirk and say
I’m so frosted
I just wish someone told me chocolate bleeds
381 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
12th Nov 2014 9:54am
12th Nov 2014 9:54am
Always
You are so beautiful to me
You step into my space
With the tentativeness
I’ve come to know
Careful
Measured
You step carefully as if you know something we don’t
Your voice, so low and deep
Still calms me as nothing else can
Your swarthy beauty
Seems to fill up all the open space around you
And you measure me with your eyes
As you measure your steps
But when you leave
The echoes of you no longer stay behind
Even though I hold onto the memory;
The sheer beauty that was us
You still come when I call
Always...
You step into my space
With the tentativeness
I’ve come to know
Careful
Measured
You step carefully as if you know something we don’t
Your voice, so low and deep
Still calms me as nothing else can
Your swarthy beauty
Seems to fill up all the open space around you
And you measure me with your eyes
As you measure your steps
But when you leave
The echoes of you no longer stay behind
Even though I hold onto the memory;
The sheer beauty that was us
You still come when I call
Always...
592 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
5th Nov 2014 4:10pm
5th Nov 2014 4:10pm
Scream
I have to scream
Scream and scream and scream until my voice is nothing
Scream until my lips bleed the way my heart does
I have cordoned off this reality
Like it does not exist at all
And I perpetuate this
By hiding the truth
I work and work and work
And wait for the reality of life
To go away
I lie
You ask me how I am
And I lie
It went well
I’m fine
Say fucking what
I don’t have to go through this alone
But I can’t bear for them to know
I don’t think I could handle the crying
I...
Scream and scream and scream until my voice is nothing
Scream until my lips bleed the way my heart does
I have cordoned off this reality
Like it does not exist at all
And I perpetuate this
By hiding the truth
I work and work and work
And wait for the reality of life
To go away
I lie
You ask me how I am
And I lie
It went well
I’m fine
Say fucking what
I don’t have to go through this alone
But I can’t bear for them to know
I don’t think I could handle the crying
I...
337 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
5th Nov 2014 2:53pm
5th Nov 2014 2:53pm
This is my declaration of independence.
381 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Oct 2014 12:15pm
23rd Oct 2014 12:15pm
Blade
You live inside me
A part of me that no longer lives
Yet you do…
You speak to me
Unexpectedly
In ghostly voices you whisper to me
And every time
It’s a brand new blade upon my heart
I’m surprised because I know what you are
And I don’t want you
Yet I love you still
Even though I don’t want to
I do
Even though I know what you are
You’re still a blade upon my heart
A part of me that no longer lives
Yet you do…
You speak to me
Unexpectedly
In ghostly voices you whisper to me
And every time
It’s a brand new blade upon my heart
I’m surprised because I know what you are
And I don’t want you
Yet I love you still
Even though I don’t want to
I do
Even though I know what you are
You’re still a blade upon my heart
426 reads
2 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
9th Oct 2014 4:43pm
9th Oct 2014 4:43pm
Let's go sailing
Hey dad
Let's go sailing
You don't want to work anymore anyway
Hey dad
Let's go sailing
Namibia is just too far away
Vengeance defeats us all even when you think you're winning
Let it go
Hey dad lets go sailing
You can show me the ropes
The world
Live as you've always wanted
Hey dad
Let's go sailing
You don't like people anyway
Good whiskey is now 300 bucks a bottle you say;
Leave sailing for another day
But dad if we go sailing
You won't want to drink anyway.
Let's go sailing
You don't want to work anymore anyway
Hey dad
Let's go sailing
Namibia is just too far away
Vengeance defeats us all even when you think you're winning
Let it go
Hey dad lets go sailing
You can show me the ropes
The world
Live as you've always wanted
Hey dad
Let's go sailing
You don't like people anyway
Good whiskey is now 300 bucks a bottle you say;
Leave sailing for another day
But dad if we go sailing
You won't want to drink anyway.
404 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
9th Oct 2014 9:18am
9th Oct 2014 9:18am
Slave Master
Stop barking at my door, dog
I have no scraps to feed you.
There is no space in this life of mine
For another slave master
I shut you out
Don’t feel alone
You’re not special
This is not about
You
Stop whining at my door, dog.
There is no love inside me
To spare for another
Slave master
I shut you down
Don’t feel alone
I treat you no different
Than anyone else
This is not about
You
Stop following me around, dog.
Nothing will change
My life is filled to the brim
With peace
And...
I have no scraps to feed you.
There is no space in this life of mine
For another slave master
I shut you out
Don’t feel alone
You’re not special
This is not about
You
Stop whining at my door, dog.
There is no love inside me
To spare for another
Slave master
I shut you down
Don’t feel alone
I treat you no different
Than anyone else
This is not about
You
Stop following me around, dog.
Nothing will change
My life is filled to the brim
With peace
And...
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6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
8th Oct 2014 10:46am
8th Oct 2014 10:46am
Competition Submission: Mirror, Mirror
Mirror Mirror
I am naked before you
And still do not make eye contact
Who has the time to dig into themselves?
Not I.
I dress slowly before you,
Knowing what you see is far from perfect
I have scars
So many scars
And each one has a tale
But who has time to reflect and retell?
Not I.
Dressed at last
I sit before you
I look at the stranger and taking my straightener I tame the curls
This is just another day
Another day starting the same way
Shower and getting dressed
Doing my hair
Tweezing and...
I am naked before you
And still do not make eye contact
Who has the time to dig into themselves?
Not I.
I dress slowly before you,
Knowing what you see is far from perfect
I have scars
So many scars
And each one has a tale
But who has time to reflect and retell?
Not I.
Dressed at last
I sit before you
I look at the stranger and taking my straightener I tame the curls
This is just another day
Another day starting the same way
Shower and getting dressed
Doing my hair
Tweezing and...
462 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
7th Oct 2014 2:00pm
7th Oct 2014 2:00pm
and then...
First there was him
Wrecking my soul and controlling my mind
Hollow and broken,
lost and afraid...
Sanity was just a place I couldn't find
Then there was him...
Who crawled into me, as if there was space
my weakness and fear opened that door
and before I knew it
lost and afraid was a good place
that I once lived in
Broken and terrified I found myself alone
in the dark
They came
They tried to tear at me
rip at me.
rip me open...
but dont you see
i was already that
and you can't break something if it just...
Wrecking my soul and controlling my mind
Hollow and broken,
lost and afraid...
Sanity was just a place I couldn't find
Then there was him...
Who crawled into me, as if there was space
my weakness and fear opened that door
and before I knew it
lost and afraid was a good place
that I once lived in
Broken and terrified I found myself alone
in the dark
They came
They tried to tear at me
rip at me.
rip me open...
but dont you see
i was already that
and you can't break something if it just...
456 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
7th Oct 2014 1:53pm
7th Oct 2014 1:53pm
There will be coffee and cookies when it's time...
So there you are
gnawing at me,
crunching my bones for your entertainment.
But I am not there, you see?
I don't feel you gnawing
You gnaw at nothing because I am gone
I hear you
gnashing and biting and chewing on the nothing that you believe exists
and I feel so terribly sad
because I know that means I am moving on from the darkness which still resides in you
and it makes me wish I could reach inside you and help
rip it out because it brings nothing but more darkness
it makes me wish I could help you...
but living in the dark is a...
gnawing at me,
crunching my bones for your entertainment.
But I am not there, you see?
I don't feel you gnawing
You gnaw at nothing because I am gone
I hear you
gnashing and biting and chewing on the nothing that you believe exists
and I feel so terribly sad
because I know that means I am moving on from the darkness which still resides in you
and it makes me wish I could reach inside you and help
rip it out because it brings nothing but more darkness
it makes me wish I could help you...
but living in the dark is a...
331 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
21st Aug 2014 12:06pm
21st Aug 2014 12:06pm
Painting on your wall
I am invisible.
I am a painting that has no meaning at all
Stick me on your wall and forget me
Enjoy me on occasion, look and touch
Then forget me
I am nothing but a painting on your wall
I am a painting that has no meaning at all
Stick me on your wall and forget me
Enjoy me on occasion, look and touch
Then forget me
I am nothing but a painting on your wall
495 reads
8 Comments
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