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.
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
10th Jul 2023 11:21pm
10th Jul 2023 11:21pm
Love and Porcupines
#love
#animals
#PersonalGrowth
210 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
402 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
294 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
262 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
310 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
280 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
352 reads
4 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
14th Mar 2023 6:18am
14th Mar 2023 6:18am
God
God is the guy you talk to
When you are on the bog
clutching your belly
as the pain grips
and the sweat drips
and you pray for swift recovery
from the pangs of filth and misery
generated from your own pile of shit
God is the guy who tells you outright
“you fucked up”
but you find it hard to ask for redemption
You have royally fucked someone
They didn’t deserve it
And god decides you won’t get away with it
You need to face the consequence
And drown in your own fabicrated defence
God is the boy...
When you are on the bog
clutching your belly
as the pain grips
and the sweat drips
and you pray for swift recovery
from the pangs of filth and misery
generated from your own pile of shit
God is the guy who tells you outright
“you fucked up”
but you find it hard to ask for redemption
You have royally fucked someone
They didn’t deserve it
And god decides you won’t get away with it
You need to face the consequence
And drown in your own fabicrated defence
God is the boy...
#love
#war
#God #suffering
#God #suffering
395 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Mar 2023 11:03pm
9th Mar 2023 11:03pm
These are my reasons
Trust me when I tell you
I don’t want this baby
These are my reasons
I’m not ready
I can’t do it
I don’t want it
I’m too young
I’m too old
We can’t afford it
I’m working
I’m studying
I have round the world tickets
I leave next week
I already have three
I already have four
I have five children already
I’ve never wanted children
The baby is a girl
My family will shun this child
The baby is not a boy
I’m scared of being pregnant
I can’t keep any food...
I don’t want this baby
These are my reasons
I’m not ready
I can’t do it
I don’t want it
I’m too young
I’m too old
We can’t afford it
I’m working
I’m studying
I have round the world tickets
I leave next week
I already have three
I already have four
I have five children already
I’ve never wanted children
The baby is a girl
My family will shun this child
The baby is not a boy
I’m scared of being pregnant
I can’t keep any food...
#LifeStruggles
#pregnancy
212 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Jan 2023 7:54pm
30th Jan 2023 7:54pm
The horse has bolted
The bronze steed
Bright eyed and bristle browed
Waving at the door
Beckoning to you
Desiring of love and affection
He craves your heart and your touch
but also freedom, not containment
He swaggers around the paddock showing off
And gallops waywardly towards you
Then trots blithely away to faraway lands
To drink and laugh and love elsewhere
You attempt to unpick the story
Catching your reflection in the corner of his amber-flecked equine iris
He is in your blind spot
He bolts away and sets you free but ...
Bright eyed and bristle browed
Waving at the door
Beckoning to you
Desiring of love and affection
He craves your heart and your touch
but also freedom, not containment
He swaggers around the paddock showing off
And gallops waywardly towards you
Then trots blithely away to faraway lands
To drink and laugh and love elsewhere
You attempt to unpick the story
Catching your reflection in the corner of his amber-flecked equine iris
He is in your blind spot
He bolts away and sets you free but ...
#love
#relationships
#lover #confusion
#lover #confusion
273 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
13th Jan 2023 7:12pm
13th Jan 2023 7:12pm
Bowl of Cherries
I fell in love with Mr Solitary
He hung his hat by the bed
And declared
I’d rather be alone tonight than with you
I choose solitude instead
I waited
And waited
I fought and cried
I shuddered and dreamt
These are my boundaries
This love is conditional
On you respecting that
He hung up his hat
And declared
That is that
I don’t understand
Can’t you see?
Your unavailability
Is truly hurting me
I need a stable anchor
In a sea of uncertainty
It feels...
He hung his hat by the bed
And declared
I’d rather be alone tonight than with you
I choose solitude instead
I waited
And waited
I fought and cried
I shuddered and dreamt
These are my boundaries
This love is conditional
On you respecting that
He hung up his hat
And declared
That is that
I don’t understand
Can’t you see?
Your unavailability
Is truly hurting me
I need a stable anchor
In a sea of uncertainty
It feels...
#loneliness
#rejection
#relationships #hurt
#relationships #hurt
347 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
28th Dec 2022 8:19am
28th Dec 2022 8:19am
Mr Poly
Mr Poly
You got me real good
Tied up like a carcass
hanging on your every word
I’m at your beck and call
At your request
At your pleasure
You keep me close
but arms length
then reel me in
rope me up
tie me up
cry me up
You fuck with me
you have me
you got me
you promise me love
but it comes conditionally
We reach for each other
We huddle together
We grow
But I just don’t know
I watch you besotted
for the attention of another
Unrequited ...
You got me real good
Tied up like a carcass
hanging on your every word
I’m at your beck and call
At your request
At your pleasure
You keep me close
but arms length
then reel me in
rope me up
tie me up
cry me up
You fuck with me
you have me
you got me
you promise me love
but it comes conditionally
We reach for each other
We huddle together
We grow
But I just don’t know
I watch you besotted
for the attention of another
Unrequited ...
#relationships
#lover
#polyamory #hurt
#polyamory #hurt
412 reads
1 Comment
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