Submissions by Styxian
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Don't take for granted that Cupid's arrow is a goddamn arrow...
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
8th Jan 2023 2:56pm
8th Jan 2023 2:56pm
Red Peignoir/ Collab with KristinaX
A red peignoir is a summoning torch
I unweave the petals of the brightest roses
Lace from the passion of scarlet drops
A flowing heart, with it's ripe vines.
I get drunk on you watching me,
as I toast to your presence.
My lips summon the wine glass
and I stare into the weakened blood of it
swarming to my mouth.
The web pangs it's melancholy tune
Haunting desires stalking a troubled mind
Weaving strands of your essence on my lips
Consuming them, playing them...
Like a tune best forgotten, if I could.
But...
I unweave the petals of the brightest roses
Lace from the passion of scarlet drops
A flowing heart, with it's ripe vines.
I get drunk on you watching me,
as I toast to your presence.
My lips summon the wine glass
and I stare into the weakened blood of it
swarming to my mouth.
The web pangs it's melancholy tune
Haunting desires stalking a troubled mind
Weaving strands of your essence on my lips
Consuming them, playing them...
Like a tune best forgotten, if I could.
But...
#WritingPoetry
#PowerOfWords
526 reads
14 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
4th Jan 2023 3:28am
4th Jan 2023 3:28am
When You're Small
#dark
#confusion
#denial
609 reads
39 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
31st Dec 2022 11:51pm
31st Dec 2022 11:51pm
Roja
Will daisies do,
to tuck over your ear today?
You don't seem pretentious.
Roses will follow, my love
Deep red ones, like garnets.
I will flick the thorns off
as I wait for you
I will kiss your hand
and then place the flowers
out, in front of me.
Here, here is how
my heart feels now.
All things dark;
I've outlasted them.
They roared, they threatened
until they finally sighed
And I said not one goodbye
to all that unimportance.
You smiled, and a light
I've not seen, shined on me. ...
to tuck over your ear today?
You don't seem pretentious.
Roses will follow, my love
Deep red ones, like garnets.
I will flick the thorns off
as I wait for you
I will kiss your hand
and then place the flowers
out, in front of me.
Here, here is how
my heart feels now.
All things dark;
I've outlasted them.
They roared, they threatened
until they finally sighed
And I said not one goodbye
to all that unimportance.
You smiled, and a light
I've not seen, shined on me. ...
#happiness
#gratitude
#redemption
637 reads
LOVE POEM
Published
18th Dec 2022 11:44pm
18th Dec 2022 11:44pm
Wearing Stripes With Coffee
I know it's just a picture.
The part of my brain that does math
tells me so.
Yet, it's a picture with no subtraction.
Nothing from it can be taken away
from me.
That same part, in my head
that does the bills,
reminds me that nothing
can be added to your picture.
I probably won't gain anything
no matter how I stare at it.
But the part of my brain
that controls what I see,
like when I look through the stripes
of night and dawn;
How the moonlight slashes
between grey trees
as...
The part of my brain that does math
tells me so.
Yet, it's a picture with no subtraction.
Nothing from it can be taken away
from me.
That same part, in my head
that does the bills,
reminds me that nothing
can be added to your picture.
I probably won't gain anything
no matter how I stare at it.
But the part of my brain
that controls what I see,
like when I look through the stripes
of night and dawn;
How the moonlight slashes
between grey trees
as...
#happiness
#admiration
#emotions
752 reads
23 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
14th Dec 2022 2:51am
14th Dec 2022 2:51am
Two Sticks
Yesterday, we were two sticks in the mud
separated by a river
of unfortunate circumstance.
Our feet were buried, ankle high
in the typical muck of life
Both had planned to move, anywhere.
Just so happens, here we are
You there, me here
The river splitting our fates
As we both wonder
what it would be like
standing beside each other.
My morning starts early
my shadow begins to reach
It wavers across the current
But it's the one thing
that the river cannot stop
It's pushed by the...
separated by a river
of unfortunate circumstance.
Our feet were buried, ankle high
in the typical muck of life
Both had planned to move, anywhere.
Just so happens, here we are
You there, me here
The river splitting our fates
As we both wonder
what it would be like
standing beside each other.
My morning starts early
my shadow begins to reach
It wavers across the current
But it's the one thing
that the river cannot stop
It's pushed by the...
#strength
#hope
595 reads
LOVE POEM
Published
12th Dec 2022 00:08am
12th Dec 2022 00:08am
Seru (Winter Garden)
How remarkable you are
in astonishing surroundings
How attractive
So much aglow
in a bed of shadows
A velvet blue spread froths
at its crest
Lace waves lap at your neck
You breathe it forth, then away
Teasing yourself fabricly
and me
Your muddy feet,
but it's simply shade
ebbing as you kick away
-making a frilly splash
of the sheets
As you glow like a great pearl
that I'm prying for,
glimmering head to toe
Nothing else is as immense
as your presence alongside me
In no...
in astonishing surroundings
How attractive
So much aglow
in a bed of shadows
A velvet blue spread froths
at its crest
Lace waves lap at your neck
You breathe it forth, then away
Teasing yourself fabricly
and me
Your muddy feet,
but it's simply shade
ebbing as you kick away
-making a frilly splash
of the sheets
As you glow like a great pearl
that I'm prying for,
glimmering head to toe
Nothing else is as immense
as your presence alongside me
In no...
#happiness
#admiration
592 reads
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Dec 2022 2:35am
3rd Dec 2022 2:35am
Dash
There's a hummingbird in my heart
Yet I'm a tired tree
It won't remain there, I fear
too long.
That rapid flutter I feel
shakes Winter off my limbs
A cold sun takes notice
-Will point the bird
in another direction
Will offer it fresh nectar
as I clasp my wound closed
and cherish the momentum
of what was, even in brevity.
For this while;
Place your shoes upon my chest
so that others will know
inside is taken.
I need more friends, quickly
Just so I can introduce you...
Yet I'm a tired tree
It won't remain there, I fear
too long.
That rapid flutter I feel
shakes Winter off my limbs
A cold sun takes notice
-Will point the bird
in another direction
Will offer it fresh nectar
as I clasp my wound closed
and cherish the momentum
of what was, even in brevity.
For this while;
Place your shoes upon my chest
so that others will know
inside is taken.
I need more friends, quickly
Just so I can introduce you...
#happiness
#inspirational
#admiration
884 reads
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
828 reads
29 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Nov 2022 2:18pm
5th Nov 2022 2:18pm
Red Flannel Symphony
#romantic
#respect
#dating
477 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
524 reads
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
606 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
662 reads
21 Comments
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