Submissions by TCLilly (Tanzen Lilly)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Tanzen Lilly graduated SAIC in 2013 with a BFA. Tanzen is a visual artist, poet, and jewelry maker. Her work focusses on interpreting and illustrating the subconscious mind, as well as occult imagery and topics. Her poetry often explores gothic themes.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th May 2013 4:02am
16th May 2013 4:02am
Something Real
I guess I psyched myself too much.
It was so out of character.
Forcing everyone to lunge forward
Or else they smirked and checked their phones.
Did I alone understand your stumbling words?
(It seemed as if they were never rehearsed.)
It could have been me up on that stage
Enraged, and everyone else was to blame.
Through it all I could only think
I hope to god she has eaten today
No,
That's a lie.
I needed you to stand up straight.
When you gave the last phrase
And shifted back to your...
It was so out of character.
Forcing everyone to lunge forward
Or else they smirked and checked their phones.
Did I alone understand your stumbling words?
(It seemed as if they were never rehearsed.)
It could have been me up on that stage
Enraged, and everyone else was to blame.
Through it all I could only think
I hope to god she has eaten today
No,
That's a lie.
I needed you to stand up straight.
When you gave the last phrase
And shifted back to your...
#friendship
#memories
#support #MentalHealth
#support #MentalHealth
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th May 2013 3:25am
4th May 2013 3:25am
My Dreams
My Dreams
They seam
Like Deja Vu
The more
They come
They leave
Me blue
The more
I yearn
For deeper sleep
The more
They come
The realer still
A world
So real
A deeper hue
Each night
With the closing
Of each eye
I turn the table
Role the die
The world
Where I land
Though strange
Is not new
Tanzen Lilly May 3rd 2013
They seam
Like Deja Vu
The more
They come
They leave
Me blue
The more
I yearn
For deeper sleep
The more
They come
The realer still
A world
So real
A deeper hue
Each night
With the closing
Of each eye
I turn the table
Role the die
The world
Where I land
Though strange
Is not new
Tanzen Lilly May 3rd 2013
#dreams
#sleep
#nightmares
#anxiety
#MentalHealth
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LOVE POEM
Published
3rd May 2013 00:10am
3rd May 2013 00:10am
The Second Poem
The weight of you on my lap
Was no weight at all.
In slumber you sank in,
As I was washed with light.
White light swallowed city clang
And I swear the air around us sang
With the serenade of that city clang.
I awoke when it happened again.
And there we were still laying down
When I wrote a second poem for the one I love.
Tanzen Lilly January 4th 2012
Was no weight at all.
In slumber you sank in,
As I was washed with light.
White light swallowed city clang
And I swear the air around us sang
With the serenade of that city clang.
I awoke when it happened again.
And there we were still laying down
When I wrote a second poem for the one I love.
Tanzen Lilly January 4th 2012
#love
#memories
#city #sleep
#city #sleep
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DARK POEM
Published
10th Apr 2013 11:29pm
10th Apr 2013 11:29pm
Instructions
Cremate my body to hide the scars from God.
Pick a day when it rains enough to soak the earth, but isn't hard enough that you can't stand it.
Sprinkle my ashes over a luscious patch of grass.
Somewhere in the botanic gardens perhaps?
My parents were married there.
Make sure that it rains all day, into the night.
Become as drenched as me, as you watch my ashes dissolve into the earth.
Tell me your secrets. I will be there. I will listen.
I will kiss you for every raindrop that falls upon your body.
Each transgression will melt and...
Pick a day when it rains enough to soak the earth, but isn't hard enough that you can't stand it.
Sprinkle my ashes over a luscious patch of grass.
Somewhere in the botanic gardens perhaps?
My parents were married there.
Make sure that it rains all day, into the night.
Become as drenched as me, as you watch my ashes dissolve into the earth.
Tell me your secrets. I will be there. I will listen.
I will kiss you for every raindrop that falls upon your body.
Each transgression will melt and...
#sadness
#depression
#dark
#death
#suicide
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DARK POEM
Published
26th Mar 2013 00:00am
26th Mar 2013 00:00am
Am I Dead Yet?
Everything I read
Everything I see
Screams at me
It's telling me
Just end it all, throw in the towel.
I should have perished long ago.
Friends come and go,
Family I take or leave,
Dead poets call to me,
Misery loves company.
Those who made the choice
seem fearless to me.
They say
"There's no pain"
"I did my time"
"I made my mark"
Life was a prison and they got out with "proscribed" behavior.
Then there's the media
Television, movies, radio, newspapers,...
Everything I see
Screams at me
It's telling me
Just end it all, throw in the towel.
I should have perished long ago.
Friends come and go,
Family I take or leave,
Dead poets call to me,
Misery loves company.
Those who made the choice
seem fearless to me.
They say
"There's no pain"
"I did my time"
"I made my mark"
Life was a prison and they got out with "proscribed" behavior.
Then there's the media
Television, movies, radio, newspapers,...
#anxiety
#depression
#politics
#death
#MentalHealth
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LOVE POEM
Published
8th Mar 2013 9:58pm
8th Mar 2013 9:58pm
Shadows
Your profile,
a slinking mirage in the night.
A faceless shadow of
all you think is right.
There was nothing in your eyes.
Nothing in your eyes
that made me want to stay
that night.
Tanzen Lilly, Latest Version 2013
a slinking mirage in the night.
A faceless shadow of
all you think is right.
There was nothing in your eyes.
Nothing in your eyes
that made me want to stay
that night.
Tanzen Lilly, Latest Version 2013
#anxiety
#dark
#nightmares
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LOVE POEM
Published
7th Mar 2013 11:56pm
7th Mar 2013 11:56pm
The First Poem
Though I am wrapped around you,
With you,
As you drift in
and around
sleep,
That fickle maiden steals you up,
Yet will have nothing to do with me.
I am left alone with my thoughts.
Alone with the street sounds,
leaking through the blinds.
We stay reluctant to acknowledge the daylight
as it beckons on the other side.
Tanzen Lilly, March 20th 2011
With you,
As you drift in
and around
sleep,
That fickle maiden steals you up,
Yet will have nothing to do with me.
I am left alone with my thoughts.
Alone with the street sounds,
leaking through the blinds.
We stay reluctant to acknowledge the daylight
as it beckons on the other side.
Tanzen Lilly, March 20th 2011
#love
#memories
#sleep
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Feb 2013 3:34am
16th Feb 2013 3:34am
Chi City
Chi City
It seems too easy
You show a different face each day
Think anyone else would forget it
Take comfort in the atmosphere
Air that makes your head clear
Sounds that blur your vision
Make you wonder how you got here
Chi City
I’m bound to you by a thread
My flesh is an extension
Of your tension and your every Breath
Tanzen Lilly, February 13th 2013
It seems too easy
You show a different face each day
Think anyone else would forget it
Take comfort in the atmosphere
Air that makes your head clear
Sounds that blur your vision
Make you wonder how you got here
Chi City
I’m bound to you by a thread
My flesh is an extension
Of your tension and your every Breath
Tanzen Lilly, February 13th 2013
#home
#city
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
20th Jan 2013 5:31am
20th Jan 2013 5:31am
A Memory of Home
the smell of Brooklyn in the rain
laundry steam lifting in the breeze
then falling to earth
to play with the leaves
sipping strong coffee, I indulge in the view
a shower capable of taking away pain
and it seems as real as ever
because I am alone again
Tanzen Lilly, January 19th 2013
laundry steam lifting in the breeze
then falling to earth
to play with the leaves
sipping strong coffee, I indulge in the view
a shower capable of taking away pain
and it seems as real as ever
because I am alone again
Tanzen Lilly, January 19th 2013
#depression
#loneliness
#home #memories
#home #memories
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LOVE POEM
Published
30th Dec 2012 7:39pm
30th Dec 2012 7:39pm
Convictions
I would regret my nature
As I do many actions lost,
But as I sit and reminisce,
I wonder what would be the cost.
Never lose those convictions
You have held your whole life through.
They have helped to shape the man I love.
They are what makes you, you.
Tanzen Lilly, November 24th 2012
As I do many actions lost,
But as I sit and reminisce,
I wonder what would be the cost.
Never lose those convictions
You have held your whole life through.
They have helped to shape the man I love.
They are what makes you, you.
Tanzen Lilly, November 24th 2012
#love
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LOVE POEM
Published
21st Dec 2012 00:32am
21st Dec 2012 00:32am
Rollercoaster
I tell you all the time
You’re such a rollercoaster.
But that’s why people love them so much right?
All the ups and downs…
And I certainly love you.
Tanzen Lilly, January 10th 2012
You’re such a rollercoaster.
But that’s why people love them so much right?
All the ups and downs…
And I certainly love you.
Tanzen Lilly, January 10th 2012
#love
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LOVE POEM
Published
19th Dec 2012 6:28am
19th Dec 2012 6:28am
I Can't Handle It
I can't handle it.
I'm almost bursting at the seams.
Because it seems you remain out of reach.
But there's so much,
And I'm just one.
Without you the whole world just comes undone.
I can't handle it.
Tanzen Lilly, January 10th 2012
I'm almost bursting at the seams.
Because it seems you remain out of reach.
But there's so much,
And I'm just one.
Without you the whole world just comes undone.
I can't handle it.
Tanzen Lilly, January 10th 2012
#love
#lust
#loneliness
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