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.
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
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Declaration
I am falcon
I am wolf
I am adorned
I am cultivated
I am acrobat
I am muse
I am wanting
I am taken
I am servant
I am true
I am arresting
I am hopeful
I am pushing
I am through
I am protesting
I am cynical
I am learning
I am crude
I am treasured
I am whimsical
I’m intentional
And blue
I am hunting
I’m hysterical
I’m in trouble
I am screwed
I am lustful
I am loving
I am flooded
I am helpless
I am haunted ...
I am wolf
I am adorned
I am cultivated
I am acrobat
I am muse
I am wanting
I am taken
I am servant
I am true
I am arresting
I am hopeful
I am pushing
I am through
I am protesting
I am cynical
I am learning
I am crude
I am treasured
I am whimsical
I’m intentional
And blue
I am hunting
I’m hysterical
I’m in trouble
I am screwed
I am lustful
I am loving
I am flooded
I am helpless
I am haunted ...
#emotions
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Upside out
Welcome to the upside out
Where your head goes tipsy
And your body misbehaves
Leaving your mind to pick up the bits
The very next day
Welcome to the inside down
We’ve all been there once or twice
Riding the merry go round
It’s a crazy ole life
Honestly what are we all waiting for
Open up my creative heart to yours
Blood spirit mind soul
Let’s just go there, all of it, all at once, today, this instant
Let’s seize the day the night the week the whole fucking damn decade
It’s bucketing down again
God that...
Where your head goes tipsy
And your body misbehaves
Leaving your mind to pick up the bits
The very next day
Welcome to the inside down
We’ve all been there once or twice
Riding the merry go round
It’s a crazy ole life
Honestly what are we all waiting for
Open up my creative heart to yours
Blood spirit mind soul
Let’s just go there, all of it, all at once, today, this instant
Let’s seize the day the night the week the whole fucking damn decade
It’s bucketing down again
God that...
#love
#WritingPoetry
#admiration
#passion
#emotions
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2am
It’s 2am
I’m here at your door
About to knock
Not yet
If you would just let me in
I can explain
this random behaviour
Just let me begin
All that I want
is to lie with you, where lucid dreams unveil
Those long forgotten memories
Of fresh and breezy days
What would it take
To bring you closer
A lifetime of snapshots
And six thousand tears
Now everything’s changed
You have forgotten
But I remember
Deeply etched imprints
You forged on my mind
A welcome...
I’m here at your door
About to knock
Not yet
If you would just let me in
I can explain
this random behaviour
Just let me begin
All that I want
is to lie with you, where lucid dreams unveil
Those long forgotten memories
Of fresh and breezy days
What would it take
To bring you closer
A lifetime of snapshots
And six thousand tears
Now everything’s changed
You have forgotten
But I remember
Deeply etched imprints
You forged on my mind
A welcome...
#night
#lover
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Forward
Captured in a framed silhouette by the light of the silverymoon she paused momentarily to tie her shoelaces.
Her body, shivery, shuddering, took it’s next deep breath then softened and warmed as the exhale slipped its way through her lips in a pale white veil.
After a brief furtive glance behind her shoulder, to the shadows of her back story, she continued steadfast on her journey.
Koke
kauneke
pānekeneke
קדימה (kadimah)
Forward…
Traversing the path...
Her body, shivery, shuddering, took it’s next deep breath then softened and warmed as the exhale slipped its way through her lips in a pale white veil.
After a brief furtive glance behind her shoulder, to the shadows of her back story, she continued steadfast on her journey.
Koke
kauneke
pānekeneke
קדימה (kadimah)
Forward…
Traversing the path...
#relationships
#FallingInLove
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The Queen of Hearts
Within the blackened deep of withered night
A clash between the jester and the knave
The queen, blood-stained and crystal satin white
Stands betwixt them, adventurous and brave
Her heart is plainly draped in molten silk
Defying the expectations of her age
She bathes herself in fresh vanilla milk
With scented hints of cinnamon and sage
Her dexterous hand will quickly shift the score
Flouting the scourge of lovers fold
The jester always leaves her wanting more
The knave’s play is dangerous and bold
She hesitates...
A clash between the jester and the knave
The queen, blood-stained and crystal satin white
Stands betwixt them, adventurous and brave
Her heart is plainly draped in molten silk
Defying the expectations of her age
She bathes herself in fresh vanilla milk
With scented hints of cinnamon and sage
Her dexterous hand will quickly shift the score
Flouting the scourge of lovers fold
The jester always leaves her wanting more
The knave’s play is dangerous and bold
She hesitates...
#love
#passion
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My Tahitian Princess
Last night I lay captured
in the body of a Tahitian ice princess
Midnight ink etched in woven patterns
over her golden terracotta skin
Jagged crown of petals and thorn
Wearing a necklace of icicles as sharp as teeth
Heart wide open
Drifting back to sleep
under the mosquito net
in a four post bed
counting the shadows
cast over the flax-woven roof
I dreamt of you
In my dream
I step outside onto diamond black sand
and wade into the sea, fully dressed
Skirt floating over scorched seaweed
and...
in the body of a Tahitian ice princess
Midnight ink etched in woven patterns
over her golden terracotta skin
Jagged crown of petals and thorn
Wearing a necklace of icicles as sharp as teeth
Heart wide open
Drifting back to sleep
under the mosquito net
in a four post bed
counting the shadows
cast over the flax-woven roof
I dreamt of you
In my dream
I step outside onto diamond black sand
and wade into the sea, fully dressed
Skirt floating over scorched seaweed
and...
#happiness
#sea
#FallingInLove #passion
#FallingInLove #passion
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Truth confession
I have a small confession to make
There’s something fairly dangerous at stake
The thing is, if I don’t stop now, well, I’ll tell you what happens
The trajectory moves towards me committing a serious transgression
And whilst it’s evidently you that I pursue
By embracing me, you turn your back on those closest to you
Yet still I advance
Like a painful obsession
I’m longing for you entirely in my possession
Despite it being plainly a reckless indiscretion
I really ought to stop while I’m ahead
But find myself just captivated instead
...
There’s something fairly dangerous at stake
The thing is, if I don’t stop now, well, I’ll tell you what happens
The trajectory moves towards me committing a serious transgression
And whilst it’s evidently you that I pursue
By embracing me, you turn your back on those closest to you
Yet still I advance
Like a painful obsession
I’m longing for you entirely in my possession
Despite it being plainly a reckless indiscretion
I really ought to stop while I’m ahead
But find myself just captivated instead
...
#relationships
#beauty
#admiration
#ForbiddenLove
#obsession
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The colour O
Tangerine star
A blazing burst of flavour
The splash and the squeeze
That blends your flesh with my fruit
I fervently consume the juice
And the juice consumes me
Swallows me whole
Drowning in bleeding juice
Your body
Tart and stringent
Drizzled in sharp nectar
And brimming with untold possibilities
I’m so ready
For
This
A blazing burst of flavour
The splash and the squeeze
That blends your flesh with my fruit
I fervently consume the juice
And the juice consumes me
Swallows me whole
Drowning in bleeding juice
Your body
Tart and stringent
Drizzled in sharp nectar
And brimming with untold possibilities
I’m so ready
For
This
#erotic
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Blood brother
It’s you brother
Whom I remember
Those sparkling blue-sky eyes
Blinking softly at me
Wrinkled smile
I can barely see
I lost you then lost myself
In an agitated and endless sorrow
A dead weight of sad, salty confusion
Blind sided by the circumstances of your own demise
Unbeknownst, you drank from the poison chalice
Then followed
A drowsy suffocating death
Not of your choosing
Your feathered blonde lashes, kid
Resting below the clouds that hide your lids
Asleep despite the chaos of our...
Whom I remember
Those sparkling blue-sky eyes
Blinking softly at me
Wrinkled smile
I can barely see
I lost you then lost myself
In an agitated and endless sorrow
A dead weight of sad, salty confusion
Blind sided by the circumstances of your own demise
Unbeknownst, you drank from the poison chalice
Then followed
A drowsy suffocating death
Not of your choosing
Your feathered blonde lashes, kid
Resting below the clouds that hide your lids
Asleep despite the chaos of our...
#grief
#brother
#death #drugs
#death #drugs
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This is the end of us
This is the end of us as we know it
A stifled choke of a good bye
I never thought it would end this way
We can no longer rely
on the steady familiarity
of burnt toast
and freshly poured coffee
Those stale and rigid patterns
keep us suspended in status quo
Sometimes you just need
to change the trajectory
and steer the ship
And honestly
Staying dormant
is like being buried alive
There’s nothing to stop me
from blending into the wallpaper
Sometimes we cocoon ourselves in...
A stifled choke of a good bye
I never thought it would end this way
We can no longer rely
on the steady familiarity
of burnt toast
and freshly poured coffee
Those stale and rigid patterns
keep us suspended in status quo
Sometimes you just need
to change the trajectory
and steer the ship
And honestly
Staying dormant
is like being buried alive
There’s nothing to stop me
from blending into the wallpaper
Sometimes we cocoon ourselves in...
#relationships
#ImSorry
#forgiveness
#heartbroken
#breakup
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Deep immersion into your physical being
The logical trajectory
Is a flying leap
From the end of the bed
With a steadfast aim
I plunge deep
Into the back of your left eye socket
Piercing through your skull
To reach the innermost caverns of your mind
Then carefully and gently,
I rotate my way down
Through your infraorbital rim
My body is the screw
A right of passage
Into your nasal cavity
It’s not very sexy
Star fishing in your snot
Then jammed in, scissor-splits,
between your tonsils
Guess I...
Is a flying leap
From the end of the bed
With a steadfast aim
I plunge deep
Into the back of your left eye socket
Piercing through your skull
To reach the innermost caverns of your mind
Then carefully and gently,
I rotate my way down
Through your infraorbital rim
My body is the screw
A right of passage
Into your nasal cavity
It’s not very sexy
Star fishing in your snot
Then jammed in, scissor-splits,
between your tonsils
Guess I...
#lover
#obsession
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2 Comments
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