Submissions by Styxian
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Don't take for granted that Cupid's arrow is a goddamn arrow...
FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
Today 2:07am
Today 2:07am
Sacrificial Lambs
(This is a condensed excerpt from a longer story)
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...When we moved, during my tenth year, to Miami, I was as nervous as I was intrigued. An actual city. No more rural life. No more green mountains in summer, or snow covered ones in winter, that we would slide down on pieces of cardboard that we could hopefully find.
The day that we first drove in to Miami, my parents tried to warn me; Don't talk to any dark skinned people, just stay away. That's all that they would say about it. No reasonings...
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...When we moved, during my tenth year, to Miami, I was as nervous as I was intrigued. An actual city. No more rural life. No more green mountains in summer, or snow covered ones in winter, that we would slide down on pieces of cardboard that we could hopefully find.
The day that we first drove in to Miami, my parents tried to warn me; Don't talk to any dark skinned people, just stay away. That's all that they would say about it. No reasonings...
#childhood
#philosophical
32 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
24th Nov 2022 1:43pm
24th Nov 2022 1:43pm
Thanks, Giving
Broken lovers
on the side of the bed
on every holiday;
Some reassembly required.
Take what you can re-(it's no) use
and leave the rest
for the next
traveler.
Piercing the darkness
of where you call home
You don't have to fight
that dragon alone.
We can fail together
and then cry separately
once we are done.
They make holidays
out of trial and errors
Celebrate successes
Although the results
took so many losses
Just for this Once
of having a good day.
...
on the side of the bed
on every holiday;
Some reassembly required.
Take what you can re-(it's no) use
and leave the rest
for the next
traveler.
Piercing the darkness
of where you call home
You don't have to fight
that dragon alone.
We can fail together
and then cry separately
once we are done.
They make holidays
out of trial and errors
Celebrate successes
Although the results
took so many losses
Just for this Once
of having a good day.
...
#frustration
#denial
105 reads
14 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Nov 2022 6:05pm
19th Nov 2022 6:05pm
Touch Screen
I caught myself rubbing
the edge of the screen
Just a slight nudging
with my thumb
as if you'd move, or blink.
As if I could slide
your hair away
from your eyes
So I could have
a closer look at you
through this one way mirror
that you offer me.
Does your breath pause,
at the sight of me,
like mine does
at the sight of you?
While your eyes are locked open
and mine flutter, like a moth
wanting to be
on your end of the light.
It's no brighter, or darker,
It's yours, and
that makes...
the edge of the screen
Just a slight nudging
with my thumb
as if you'd move, or blink.
As if I could slide
your hair away
from your eyes
So I could have
a closer look at you
through this one way mirror
that you offer me.
Does your breath pause,
at the sight of me,
like mine does
at the sight of you?
While your eyes are locked open
and mine flutter, like a moth
wanting to be
on your end of the light.
It's no brighter, or darker,
It's yours, and
that makes...
#happiness
#emotions
141 reads
21 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
13th Nov 2022 6:25pm
13th Nov 2022 6:25pm
Rhymes With You
If I could sing, just one song
I would sing it for you
Soothing, so that your eyes close
and allows me to take you
-As my fingers raise
the crescendo of lovenotes
that are no longer just murmurs
My lips would pose
as a promising kiss
on every word that rhymes with you
And my impassioned song, inspired
as my soul lifts me higher
It would reach you, there
inside to where your heart receives
my vocal verses of truth
aloud, and increasingly passionate
Our love song would be on yellow paper
Like...
I would sing it for you
Soothing, so that your eyes close
and allows me to take you
-As my fingers raise
the crescendo of lovenotes
that are no longer just murmurs
My lips would pose
as a promising kiss
on every word that rhymes with you
And my impassioned song, inspired
as my soul lifts me higher
It would reach you, there
inside to where your heart receives
my vocal verses of truth
aloud, and increasingly passionate
Our love song would be on yellow paper
Like...
#happiness
#love
173 reads
14 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Nov 2022 2:18pm
5th Nov 2022 2:18pm
Red Flannel Symphony
#romantic
#respect
#dating
107 reads
21 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Nov 2022 1:50pm
5th Nov 2022 1:50pm
Fara
Was loneliness reason enough
not to build upon my fallen ego
But just to sit fireside, together
while mother nature cursed us outside
It's not as if I was all taker,
I offered, I fed, your hunger
And you, so generous with your breast
where I laid down my weary head
and we dreamt of the ocean
Prisoners, must we retain the shackles
knowing that one day,
rust will eat them away
So late in our winter, arthritic
too late to try mended wings
If we stop to think, such depth
just what could we...
not to build upon my fallen ego
But just to sit fireside, together
while mother nature cursed us outside
It's not as if I was all taker,
I offered, I fed, your hunger
And you, so generous with your breast
where I laid down my weary head
and we dreamt of the ocean
Prisoners, must we retain the shackles
knowing that one day,
rust will eat them away
So late in our winter, arthritic
too late to try mended wings
If we stop to think, such depth
just what could we...
#happiness
#support
128 reads
SELF POEM
Published
2nd Nov 2022 00:40am
2nd Nov 2022 00:40am
"Your Name Goes Here"
Dear "______",
We're going to be okay.
But just in case,
I wrote you this note.
When I'm quiet, it's not to shun you,
I'm just at that place in my head.
I'm not even sure that it's within my brain.
It has it's own space, muffling my ears
and glazing my eyes
-It's all reversed, to outside in.
So I go deaf and blind, to many things,
but it's only temporary.
Doctors try to label it,
but I won't sit my ass in their box.
It's too small.
They can't even see the expanse
of all of my thoughts,...
We're going to be okay.
But just in case,
I wrote you this note.
When I'm quiet, it's not to shun you,
I'm just at that place in my head.
I'm not even sure that it's within my brain.
It has it's own space, muffling my ears
and glazing my eyes
-It's all reversed, to outside in.
So I go deaf and blind, to many things,
but it's only temporary.
Doctors try to label it,
but I won't sit my ass in their box.
It's too small.
They can't even see the expanse
of all of my thoughts,...
#PTSD
#Autism
205 reads
17 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
23rd Oct 2022 3:49pm
23rd Oct 2022 3:49pm
Decreation
He walked callous through the meadow
kicking dandelions out of his way
Several whirled around him
silently protesting
Though unable to impede his aggression
Angry and airborne,
the seeds swirled
Their revenge will be in blanketing him
when he soon slumbers
He chose an older, grimacing tree
one with raking arms that taunted him
In contrast to the welcoming green ground
that soothed his eyes,
inviting him, come lay
Calmly, he removed his coat
Laid it, extending the layers
of earth, shade,...
kicking dandelions out of his way
Several whirled around him
silently protesting
Though unable to impede his aggression
Angry and airborne,
the seeds swirled
Their revenge will be in blanketing him
when he soon slumbers
He chose an older, grimacing tree
one with raking arms that taunted him
In contrast to the welcoming green ground
that soothed his eyes,
inviting him, come lay
Calmly, he removed his coat
Laid it, extending the layers
of earth, shade,...
#dark
#despair
#emptiness
227 reads
26 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Oct 2022 3:18pm
22nd Oct 2022 3:18pm
An L-Shaped Word
one of us will say it's just
to keep away the cold
and the other will quietly nod
in agreement
something we learned before
practiced on others
not even knowing
we've perfected it
look how easy it was
how quick the other
lets those words
lay with us
as we kick those words
to the bottom of the bed
and stuff them into
that bundle, with the
over-heating blanket
this sheet will do
even it has pretense
polyester is the new satin
but we're here to take
anything we can get....
to keep away the cold
and the other will quietly nod
in agreement
something we learned before
practiced on others
not even knowing
we've perfected it
look how easy it was
how quick the other
lets those words
lay with us
as we kick those words
to the bottom of the bed
and stuff them into
that bundle, with the
over-heating blanket
this sheet will do
even it has pretense
polyester is the new satin
but we're here to take
anything we can get....
#lover
193 reads
11 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
10th Oct 2022 1:00pm
10th Oct 2022 1:00pm
Two Knives
the sun is down, and so
it's time, but
she says that she can't
take them off
we go inside, where
the light is kind
yet, still she shades
where her eyes are.
has what she's seen been so cruel
that she wears knives for eyes
she stares, in a defensive posture
ready to shred everything
offered, in front of her
even my hand, half extended;
i sense her tense-ness
and i reach no further
towards her danger.
i pulled flowers from the...
it's time, but
she says that she can't
take them off
we go inside, where
the light is kind
yet, still she shades
where her eyes are.
has what she's seen been so cruel
that she wears knives for eyes
she stares, in a defensive posture
ready to shred everything
offered, in front of her
even my hand, half extended;
i sense her tense-ness
and i reach no further
towards her danger.
i pulled flowers from the...
#frustration
#despair
203 reads
19 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Oct 2022 11:05pm
5th Oct 2022 11:05pm
For A Day
I'd break all the laws of man
I'd be immoral and a thief
I'd steal your kiss on chance
If for a day, you'd love me
I'd claim you were not willing
I'd swear you tried to fight me
I'd forget how passionate we were
If for a day, you loved me
I'd tell the world how cruel
I'd taken you so greedily
I'd bow my head and accept my fate
If for that day, you loved me
I'd be put up for judgement
I'd admit my crime at my hanging
I'd lie forever under a stone
If for one day, you'd love me
I'd stand...
I'd be immoral and a thief
I'd steal your kiss on chance
If for a day, you'd love me
I'd claim you were not willing
I'd swear you tried to fight me
I'd forget how passionate we were
If for a day, you loved me
I'd tell the world how cruel
I'd taken you so greedily
I'd bow my head and accept my fate
If for that day, you loved me
I'd be put up for judgement
I'd admit my crime at my hanging
I'd lie forever under a stone
If for one day, you'd love me
I'd stand...
#happiness
#hope
232 reads
21 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2022 9:27am
2nd Oct 2022 9:27am
Aja Lia
Behold the deepest light, of the tender fire"
-Saint Marco, 1664.
She likes to carry a bible.
I don't judge too harshly.
There's worse things.
As a child, in her home country,
she sold matchsticks by the bundle.
At twelve, they're expected
to sell them door to door,
where the lanterns were kept bedside.
Three dollars American, to them,
was a day's pay like their fathers.
But blue-eyed buyers got a break.
Because a pale-eyed baby...
-Saint Marco, 1664.
She likes to carry a bible.
I don't judge too harshly.
There's worse things.
As a child, in her home country,
she sold matchsticks by the bundle.
At twelve, they're expected
to sell them door to door,
where the lanterns were kept bedside.
Three dollars American, to them,
was a day's pay like their fathers.
But blue-eyed buyers got a break.
Because a pale-eyed baby...
#spiritual
#redemption
#morality
196 reads
20 Comments
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