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.
LOVE POEM
Published
6th Dec 2022 1:29am
6th Dec 2022 1:29am
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
234 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Dec 2022 6:36am
3rd Dec 2022 6:36am
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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FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
2nd Dec 2022 10:42pm
2nd Dec 2022 10:42pm
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
338 reads
1 Comment
STORY POEM
Published
16th Nov 2022 8:52pm
16th Nov 2022 8:52pm
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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LOVE POEM
Published
9th Oct 2022 9:07pm
9th Oct 2022 9:07pm
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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LOVE POEM
Published
5th Jun 2022 12:07pm
5th Jun 2022 12:07pm
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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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
3rd Jun 2022 6:24am
3rd Jun 2022 6:24am
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
374 reads
3 Comments
DRUGS POEM
Published
23rd May 2022 11:42am
23rd May 2022 11:42am
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
414 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
18th Mar 2022 6:53pm
18th Mar 2022 6:53pm
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
483 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
13th Dec 2021 7:47pm
13th Dec 2021 7:47pm
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 should catapult...
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 should catapult...
#lover
#obsession
389 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
27th Nov 2021 9:21am
27th Nov 2021 9:21am
Psycho texter (With a big imagination)
For the love of god
That was the worst rejection ever
Please don’t let me do that again, NEVER
I really created an epic smashup
All of it was essentially made up
What, with my stupid unsolicited text messages
And the candid confessions
The incessant spamming
And night time obsessions
A trailblazing dogs breakfast
of imagined transgressions
I laid it all bare not thinking of the repercussions
In my mind I’d imagined a bone fide connection, full of possibilities
But both of us have partners, children and...
That was the worst rejection ever
Please don’t let me do that again, NEVER
I really created an epic smashup
All of it was essentially made up
What, with my stupid unsolicited text messages
And the candid confessions
The incessant spamming
And night time obsessions
A trailblazing dogs breakfast
of imagined transgressions
I laid it all bare not thinking of the repercussions
In my mind I’d imagined a bone fide connection, full of possibilities
But both of us have partners, children and...
#regret
#rejection
#betrayal #shame
#betrayal #shame
488 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
23rd Nov 2021 9:44am
23rd Nov 2021 9:44am
Bed of Glass
To rest upon
A bed of glass
I’d scarcely lay my cheek
While blades of shard and thorn
Razor sharp and caustic
Precise in their motive
Tear my flesh
And twist my bone
Entangled
With a restless spirit
Wandering
Craving
Begging
To possess
That which evades me
A bed of glass
I’d scarcely lay my cheek
While blades of shard and thorn
Razor sharp and caustic
Precise in their motive
Tear my flesh
And twist my bone
Entangled
With a restless spirit
Wandering
Craving
Begging
To possess
That which evades me
#love
#secrets
#ForbiddenLove
#passion
#hurt
494 reads
2 Comments
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