Submissions by Thesilverymoon (Lauren Brenner)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Well. Um. I’m just your average wannabe poet, standing in front of a bunch of, um, you guys, asking you to read my, errr, poems.
EROTIC POEM
Published
15th Apr 2024 3:31am
15th Apr 2024 3:31am
Jagged Edge
🩵
In
her
dream
one friday
at lunchtime
she carved out
a message to him
written in the sand
beneath the shadow
that captured her breath
floating between jagged rocks
swift and curious he moved his hand
across the top of her thigh, learning the
angles and edges of her shape and skin
following the line of mellowed sunlight
sharpened above the crests of waves
a streamlined net that tossed itself
widely across the ocean’s teeth
sitting beneath the stone walls
pawing...
In
her
dream
one friday
at lunchtime
she carved out
a message to him
written in the sand
beneath the shadow
that captured her breath
floating between jagged rocks
swift and curious he moved his hand
across the top of her thigh, learning the
angles and edges of her shape and skin
following the line of mellowed sunlight
sharpened above the crests of waves
a streamlined net that tossed itself
widely across the ocean’s teeth
sitting beneath the stone walls
pawing...
#lust
#sea
#beach
#lover
#sensual
112 reads
5 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
7th Apr 2024 7:03pm
7th Apr 2024 7:03pm
Birth #1
Eighteen summers back
I forged the silhouette
of a love bird
that chirped
with fledgling strength
Her lyrics and melody
fashioned a layered truth
from the language of stars
And wild mountain flocks
Etched their way through
the heat and pressure of clouds
turning the carbon rocks
into a pool of diamonds
For nine long moons I stretched
Into the shapes of limbs and wings
Fierce and graceful
a baby dragonette grew
deep within my belly
I beckoned the flocks
to...
I forged the silhouette
of a love bird
that chirped
with fledgling strength
Her lyrics and melody
fashioned a layered truth
from the language of stars
And wild mountain flocks
Etched their way through
the heat and pressure of clouds
turning the carbon rocks
into a pool of diamonds
For nine long moons I stretched
Into the shapes of limbs and wings
Fierce and graceful
a baby dragonette grew
deep within my belly
I beckoned the flocks
to...
#birth
#motherhood
79 reads
1 Comment
ANGER POEM
Published
7th Apr 2024 6:43pm
7th Apr 2024 6:43pm
The Britomart Hotel
Hey Bluey from Woolongong
salt-of-the-earth strength
flame breathing dragon
blasting your fire crotch
drifted in from the south
and helped yourself
to a generous
portion
of me
then left
salt-of-the-earth strength
flame breathing dragon
blasting your fire crotch
drifted in from the south
and helped yourself
to a generous
portion
of me
then left
#anxiety
#lover
#confusion #hurt
#confusion #hurt
99 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2024 3:48am
23rd Jan 2024 3:48am
Wtf
When my lover ran off with another lover
What the fuck was she thinking, really?
How could she love me so hard
Then goddammit suddenly leave me
I refused to believe she’d do that to me
She’d told me she loved me
and furiously
I really did feel that she meant it
Truly
But the whole fucking thing filled me with insecurity
I was genuinely concerned for her mental state
Flaky, like a blow up car-yard inflatable soul mate
I’m not sure if she had really planned to leave me
Just straight out impulsive...
What the fuck was she thinking, really?
How could she love me so hard
Then goddammit suddenly leave me
I refused to believe she’d do that to me
She’d told me she loved me
and furiously
I really did feel that she meant it
Truly
But the whole fucking thing filled me with insecurity
I was genuinely concerned for her mental state
Flaky, like a blow up car-yard inflatable soul mate
I’m not sure if she had really planned to leave me
Just straight out impulsive...
#LifeStruggles
#lover
127 reads
5 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
8th Aug 2023 9:28pm
8th Aug 2023 9:28pm
Jangly Bones
On the eve of her death lay a ballad composed
With her mouth wide open
and his eyes closed
From deep velvet mellowed out baritones
He conjured up a love-song
from
her jangly bones
Whittling away on splintered body parts
And the charred remains of her skeleton heart
He played her like wind-chimes made of pearl-string stones
In fresh river water
over her jangly bones
I witnessed him
Rip the bones from her flesh
Even before she’d been laid to rest
And then when she’d not long been buried
I saw...
With her mouth wide open
and his eyes closed
From deep velvet mellowed out baritones
He conjured up a love-song
from
her jangly bones
Whittling away on splintered body parts
And the charred remains of her skeleton heart
He played her like wind-chimes made of pearl-string stones
In fresh river water
over her jangly bones
I witnessed him
Rip the bones from her flesh
Even before she’d been laid to rest
And then when she’d not long been buried
I saw...
#love
#death
#music
195 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
10th Jul 2023 11:21pm
10th Jul 2023 11:21pm
Love and Porcupines
#love
#animals
#PersonalGrowth
89 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
14th May 2023 10:51am
14th May 2023 10:51am
This is a story
This is a story, a tale like no other
Of fragmented memories and desperate lovers
This is a story of life in disguise
A fable of falsehoods, true love and lies
Fear swallows pills
swallows whole
swallows minds
While reason is solid and certain and kind
And the whole damn universe bleeds out in impiety
A freaked out, drugged up crush of anxiety
Make it stop
It hurts
This cocktail of ill-content
A medicated, calculated, screwed up experiment
We swallow you
swallow it
swallow them ...
Of fragmented memories and desperate lovers
This is a story of life in disguise
A fable of falsehoods, true love and lies
Fear swallows pills
swallows whole
swallows minds
While reason is solid and certain and kind
And the whole damn universe bleeds out in impiety
A freaked out, drugged up crush of anxiety
Make it stop
It hurts
This cocktail of ill-content
A medicated, calculated, screwed up experiment
We swallow you
swallow it
swallow them ...
#anxiety
#love
#greed
#poverty
#fear
277 reads
8 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
20th Apr 2023 2:18pm
20th Apr 2023 2:18pm
Josephine
I always loved you Josephine
Eyes as bright as tourmaline
You were the prettiest girl in the room
But made your escape that afternoon
Ascending to the sky in a hot air balloon
I had always meant to meet you that day
At a quarter to two on the tenth of May
A planned rendezvous at the corner cafe
Turns out that due to a tragic delay
You’d later depart in a perilous way
So when I set out to meet my Queen
Franky and Carlo cornered me
They said I had a debt to pay
Then knocked me senseless anyway
You’d waited...
Eyes as bright as tourmaline
You were the prettiest girl in the room
But made your escape that afternoon
Ascending to the sky in a hot air balloon
I had always meant to meet you that day
At a quarter to two on the tenth of May
A planned rendezvous at the corner cafe
Turns out that due to a tragic delay
You’d later depart in a perilous way
So when I set out to meet my Queen
Franky and Carlo cornered me
They said I had a debt to pay
Then knocked me senseless anyway
You’d waited...
#love
#tragedy
180 reads
4 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
14th Apr 2023 10:26am
14th Apr 2023 10:26am
A Saelkie Tale
Drifting out on wind and wave
From the saltine sea to the darkest deep
I saw her rise from an angel grave
Emerged from the deepest Saelkie sleep
When her seal skin shed on the sandy floor
Twas a fiery auburn maiden freed
Her heart was unlocked through an open door
And bound in matrimonial deed
He sought to steal her oily skin
Transforming her to human kind
Then fire and prophecy within
Saw marriage forced by legend’s bind
With her spirit trapped, she could not flee
Away from Celtic mountain lands
Nor...
From the saltine sea to the darkest deep
I saw her rise from an angel grave
Emerged from the deepest Saelkie sleep
When her seal skin shed on the sandy floor
Twas a fiery auburn maiden freed
Her heart was unlocked through an open door
And bound in matrimonial deed
He sought to steal her oily skin
Transforming her to human kind
Then fire and prophecy within
Saw marriage forced by legend’s bind
With her spirit trapped, she could not flee
Away from Celtic mountain lands
Nor...
#love
#sea
#magic #mermaids
#magic #mermaids
160 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Apr 2023 9:27am
14th Apr 2023 9:27am
For Sophia
Hey cancer
Are you in there?
Spreading your tentacles
Getting ready for the massacre
Yeah. FUCK OFF.
And grow a pair
You are not welcome here
I’m going to reach inside
and pull you the fuck outta me
I’m coming to get you
Run and hide
I know it’s hurting
I know you’re in camouflage
So you can stealth spread
All around my liver and bones and brain
Like a big ole cancer goulash stew
Dripping with blood and cells and gristle and pieces of teeth and fluid that shouldn’t be there
I...
Are you in there?
Spreading your tentacles
Getting ready for the massacre
Yeah. FUCK OFF.
And grow a pair
You are not welcome here
I’m going to reach inside
and pull you the fuck outta me
I’m coming to get you
Run and hide
I know it’s hurting
I know you’re in camouflage
So you can stealth spread
All around my liver and bones and brain
Like a big ole cancer goulash stew
Dripping with blood and cells and gristle and pieces of teeth and fluid that shouldn’t be there
I...
#strength
#courage
#LifeChangingMoment #cancer
#LifeChangingMoment #cancer
215 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
14th Apr 2023 00:37am
14th Apr 2023 00:37am
Fear
One day when I lay woke
Staring into night
Fear followed me
She swam her way in to my bedroom
Snaking through the shadows
And blanketed me
With her dark woollen cloak
Fastened with a leather belt
I tried to ignore her
Tossed her back to the corner shadow
But her belt tightened and squeezed over my cheeks like a gag
Cutting into the fleshy angles of my mouth
Summoning a little bitter taste of red
And my mind began to race
With all sorts of misconstrued fabrications and imaginary dread
“I am alone”
“I...
Staring into night
Fear followed me
She swam her way in to my bedroom
Snaking through the shadows
And blanketed me
With her dark woollen cloak
Fastened with a leather belt
I tried to ignore her
Tossed her back to the corner shadow
But her belt tightened and squeezed over my cheeks like a gag
Cutting into the fleshy angles of my mouth
Summoning a little bitter taste of red
And my mind began to race
With all sorts of misconstrued fabrications and imaginary dread
“I am alone”
“I...
#anxiety
#loneliness
#lover #fear
#lover #fear
199 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
31st Mar 2023 11:05pm
31st Mar 2023 11:05pm
Hope
#1
Hope.
According to Wikipedia:
“an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large”
Get yours today.
Hope is on special this week
at the supermarket
$2.99 a kilo
next to the broccoli on aisle four
opposite the donor kidneys
across from the bedpans
And behind the XXL incontinence pads
Hope never runs out.
It’s always in stock from what I’m told ...
Hope.
According to Wikipedia:
“an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large”
Get yours today.
Hope is on special this week
at the supermarket
$2.99 a kilo
next to the broccoli on aisle four
opposite the donor kidneys
across from the bedpans
And behind the XXL incontinence pads
Hope never runs out.
It’s always in stock from what I’m told ...
#love
#hope
#father #death
#father #death
235 reads
4 Comments
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