Submissions by Thepunkpoet (Michelle Chelley Rice)

Grant a Wish"




This life plowed me like a mack truck

But frankly my dear I don't give a fukk

I'm no survivor I'm a goddamn warrior

To brutality & misery I'm no foreigner


Bring it on BIG guy that lives upstairs

I can take whatever you give in pairs

I have no fear of fire & eternal brimstone

I'll gargle & swallow your spilling crimson


You think you can plague me like Job?

Your sorry ass will swing by the rope

Think my knees have fell...

Sublime Rhyme"



I untangle the words woven in my mind

Carefully placed in poetic versed lines

My stanzas in symmetrical Morse code

It's therapy while in self destruct mode


Poetically speaking I'm a hurricane

Poems always clotting inside my brain

At times it feels like I am going insane

Do I try to stop this loaded freight train?


Speeding through space of lagging time

Every last thought I've chiseled to refine

I construct light into the darkest beauty ...

Even Shadows Have Pride"


Trapped by darkness inside
Even the shadows have pride
A true testament of this life
Knowing that it cuts like a knife

I don't fear what stays hidden
So many years ago I was bitten
I find much comfort in the dark side
If you ask me someone fukking lied

When a hanging moon brightly glows
The witching hour consumes my soul
Buried very deeply within the shade
Is the pull of ebony that will knot fade

So when late evening begins falling
It will be the night hunter whose...