Submissions by Thetravelingfairy
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Come sail my ocean and we'll drown togetherA delicately dainty quill, doused in the darker depths of my heart
SELF POEM
Published
Today 8:30pm
Today 8:30pm
The Looking Glass
I walk a familiar hall, to a claustrophobic velvet room
There she hangs upon a nail, and nothing else
The space is dark, but blurred outlines escape
She must hold bookshelves of memories
And pictures of the past
This antique looking glass
I dare not ask for a previous snapshot of myself.
.. I told her not to
Can’t you see her standing there?
A jailed little girl separated by nothing but a fragile frame
I don’t know her name
But I seem to mimic her
Or is she mimicking me?
A border of reality and reminiscence...
There she hangs upon a nail, and nothing else
The space is dark, but blurred outlines escape
She must hold bookshelves of memories
And pictures of the past
This antique looking glass
I dare not ask for a previous snapshot of myself.
.. I told her not to
Can’t you see her standing there?
A jailed little girl separated by nothing but a fragile frame
I don’t know her name
But I seem to mimic her
Or is she mimicking me?
A border of reality and reminiscence...
#childhood
#mirror
#SelfReflection
#denial
#NaPoWriMo2024
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1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
14th Apr 2024 10:48pm
14th Apr 2024 10:48pm
Obstinate Patterns
Beware, his eyes
Dissociated, I can’t resist
Oh… the deep, spellbinding indigo
Those waters run deep, like my own scars that outline abused veins
No tears, only oceans
He summons waves that drag my ankles into another world
His world, familiar
I know the place as if it were my own
What a life to live
In shadowed swells
It’s not that I can’t tread water
There’s treasure in the trenches
I could never dive there again
So I wait on a sandy shore of uncertainty
I could dance with fate elsewhere
But destiny...
Dissociated, I can’t resist
Oh… the deep, spellbinding indigo
Those waters run deep, like my own scars that outline abused veins
No tears, only oceans
He summons waves that drag my ankles into another world
His world, familiar
I know the place as if it were my own
What a life to live
In shadowed swells
It’s not that I can’t tread water
There’s treasure in the trenches
I could never dive there again
So I wait on a sandy shore of uncertainty
I could dance with fate elsewhere
But destiny...
#love
#relationships
#abuse
#SelfWorth
#NaPoWriMo2024
51 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
7th Apr 2024 00:19am
7th Apr 2024 00:19am
Splitting
She has an aura, it blows peace into the air
Recall the moment you step out into the spring dawn, after yesterday’s rain
Inhale… exhale out, you are grounded.
She exudes the essence of that very spring.
You can’t help but feel the attraction of her presence.
She is magnetic. Magical.
A walking daydream, in fair skin
Then,
Without a formal notice,
She is the storm that might’ve hit the day before, to drown your delightful morning.
Well, she wound back time, somehow.
She is destruction in passive, and sometimes assertive motion ...
Recall the moment you step out into the spring dawn, after yesterday’s rain
Inhale… exhale out, you are grounded.
She exudes the essence of that very spring.
You can’t help but feel the attraction of her presence.
She is magnetic. Magical.
A walking daydream, in fair skin
Then,
Without a formal notice,
She is the storm that might’ve hit the day before, to drown your delightful morning.
Well, she wound back time, somehow.
She is destruction in passive, and sometimes assertive motion ...
#anger
#MentalHealth
#confusion
#emotional
#NaPoWriMo2024
64 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
6th Apr 2024 5:56pm
6th Apr 2024 5:56pm
Watching the Ivy Grow
I know the nature of your mind
Obsessive planning, minutes gained and hours trashed
My name gets lost in traffic
But nevermind the flowers, chocolates, or intricately scripted card
There’s an old, old house I recall
We used to pass it by
Perfect cobble walls, and cedar planks saturated with the scent of abandonment
It is a familiar smell we both know
I want to see a smile slip because I’m funny
I crave afternoons and evenings of an embrace that speaks skin to skin “you are safe now”
.. Even breathing next to you would be enough for me
So...
Obsessive planning, minutes gained and hours trashed
My name gets lost in traffic
But nevermind the flowers, chocolates, or intricately scripted card
There’s an old, old house I recall
We used to pass it by
Perfect cobble walls, and cedar planks saturated with the scent of abandonment
It is a familiar smell we both know
I want to see a smile slip because I’m funny
I crave afternoons and evenings of an embrace that speaks skin to skin “you are safe now”
.. Even breathing next to you would be enough for me
So...
#love
#relationships
#motivational
#IMissYou
#NaPoWriMo2024
84 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
5th Apr 2024 11:18pm
5th Apr 2024 11:18pm
My Own Tear Tracks
I have managed to step outside
Numb skin waking to a March morning
My eyes troubled, still
Pupils dilate and constrict at a heartbeat tempo
That changes time signatures
Measure by grueling measure
I don’t notice music
I’d been curled too long
Paralyzed and voiceless, from that accursed drink
Still wearing off, I think
There are potholes in my mind
Of moments felt, moments seen,
Some I heard still whispering
And I’m sure there’s more that I’m missing
But it is a feeling buried inside
Spiking my senses ...
Numb skin waking to a March morning
My eyes troubled, still
Pupils dilate and constrict at a heartbeat tempo
That changes time signatures
Measure by grueling measure
I don’t notice music
I’d been curled too long
Paralyzed and voiceless, from that accursed drink
Still wearing off, I think
There are potholes in my mind
Of moments felt, moments seen,
Some I heard still whispering
And I’m sure there’s more that I’m missing
But it is a feeling buried inside
Spiking my senses ...
#abuse
#alcohol
#confusion
#manipulation
#NaPoWriMo2024
78 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
3rd Apr 2024 7:01pm
3rd Apr 2024 7:01pm
Bitter Tenderness
At a loss, I toss to dust
Even my skin abandoned these hollow bones
And I’ve crushed the skull, under
Vengeful feet
That since have lost all sensitivity
To the elements
To people
.. Myself
Look at me! I am a memory in a mind
Whose mind?
Tell me, did their lips release my essence
On a tongue of bitter tenderness?
Why can’t this soul be warmed, swaddled
Into an eternal daydream?
I really thought I meant something
Whose mind is in question?
It could be my own that haunts me
And as I reach my final cell
I...
Even my skin abandoned these hollow bones
And I’ve crushed the skull, under
Vengeful feet
That since have lost all sensitivity
To the elements
To people
.. Myself
Look at me! I am a memory in a mind
Whose mind?
Tell me, did their lips release my essence
On a tongue of bitter tenderness?
Why can’t this soul be warmed, swaddled
Into an eternal daydream?
I really thought I meant something
Whose mind is in question?
It could be my own that haunts me
And as I reach my final cell
I...
#motivational
#LifeChangingMoment
#hurt
#determination
#NaPoWriMo2024
65 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Apr 2023 11:40pm
30th Apr 2023 11:40pm
codependency
does every sin need a savior?
or our sun require the moon?
did the earth marry gravity to spin?
i don’t care then, if my mind buries your name
in its memorial graveyard
go ahead, see if i care
try me, test me
i don’t need to win
you belong here, we don’t need a
how, why, or when
independence is a friend
too bad for you, then
if a matchbox could speak, it would
over how many times you’ve set ablaze
those entitled, sappy letters
before crucifying them to your fireplace
and you’ve burned more than paper ...
or our sun require the moon?
did the earth marry gravity to spin?
i don’t care then, if my mind buries your name
in its memorial graveyard
go ahead, see if i care
try me, test me
i don’t need to win
you belong here, we don’t need a
how, why, or when
independence is a friend
too bad for you, then
if a matchbox could speak, it would
over how many times you’ve set ablaze
those entitled, sappy letters
before crucifying them to your fireplace
and you’ve burned more than paper ...
#love
#breakup
#abuse
#manipulation
#NaPoWriMo2023
293 reads
1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
29th Apr 2023 11:01pm
29th Apr 2023 11:01pm
Black Ocean
transcended crystalline azul
into polluted tidal waves
swept from golden treasure
i dug to find
glassy shards pin me
seaweed jails my body
i could fight the current
do you feel it? life is changing
it shape-shifts
like this black ocean
that feels so far from blue
but if this selfish water sends my
porcelain silhouette towards
the color
..some call it heaven
i would rather sink, than swim.
into polluted tidal waves
swept from golden treasure
i dug to find
glassy shards pin me
seaweed jails my body
i could fight the current
do you feel it? life is changing
it shape-shifts
like this black ocean
that feels so far from blue
but if this selfish water sends my
porcelain silhouette towards
the color
..some call it heaven
i would rather sink, than swim.
#dark
#LifeStruggles
#sea
#learning
#NaPoWriMo2023
182 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
18th Apr 2023 7:17pm
18th Apr 2023 7:17pm
ghost
i heard you, for you were a whisper
that tricked my ear
a mirage, for you were just out of reach
i never could catch you
and yes, your image emerged when i least expected it
our paths crossed many times
you were a crystalline reflection
not that of a mirror
mirrors break
but a face trapped in a wave
in the stillness of a lake, manipulated by the elements
distorted by my hand
but it never goes away, not fully
and now i wish you’d leave, but the moon
doesn’t cease its chasing
and last i checked, the stars...
that tricked my ear
a mirage, for you were just out of reach
i never could catch you
and yes, your image emerged when i least expected it
our paths crossed many times
you were a crystalline reflection
not that of a mirror
mirrors break
but a face trapped in a wave
in the stillness of a lake, manipulated by the elements
distorted by my hand
but it never goes away, not fully
and now i wish you’d leave, but the moon
doesn’t cease its chasing
and last i checked, the stars...
#relationships
#confusion
#manipulation
#deception
#NaPoWriMo2023
217 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
14th Apr 2023 1:16am
14th Apr 2023 1:16am
skyline
let me in
why don’t you?
i want to show you how to
play those chords on your guitar
so we may make music together
let’s let go, for a little while
what do you say?
the world is our playground
and i chase fireflies still
so chase me
and push me on that swing that views the city skyline
so we can count the lights
and laugh at our inside jokes
there’s a million lovers down there
but i am yours
and our time is now
do you understand?
why don’t you?
i want to show you how to
play those chords on your guitar
so we may make music together
let’s let go, for a little while
what do you say?
the world is our playground
and i chase fireflies still
so chase me
and push me on that swing that views the city skyline
so we can count the lights
and laugh at our inside jokes
there’s a million lovers down there
but i am yours
and our time is now
do you understand?
#love
#boyfriend
#lover
#FallingInLove
#NaPoWriMo2023
316 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
12th Apr 2023 4:43pm
12th Apr 2023 4:43pm
arrested development
to be held again
oh, if only
swaddled, swooned,
and rocked to sleep
too fast it went
i blinked
years of lonely tears
abandonment
crying in a corner
while others took one’s hand
perhaps i was missed?
invisible back then
to eyes of those who cradle tenderly
love the children, beyond their own..
for if they saw, surely they’d sit beside me?
they don’t expect you to understand it then
but oh, if i only knew
the schemes, miserable reality
turns sour with time
the kids who suffer hell blindly ...
oh, if only
swaddled, swooned,
and rocked to sleep
too fast it went
i blinked
years of lonely tears
abandonment
crying in a corner
while others took one’s hand
perhaps i was missed?
invisible back then
to eyes of those who cradle tenderly
love the children, beyond their own..
for if they saw, surely they’d sit beside me?
they don’t expect you to understand it then
but oh, if i only knew
the schemes, miserable reality
turns sour with time
the kids who suffer hell blindly ...
#childhood
#abuse
#TruthOfLife
#manipulation
#NaPoWriMo2023
215 reads
2 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Apr 2023 00:13am
7th Apr 2023 00:13am
saving grace
maybe it’s a person
maybe it’s a fuzzy blanket that you own
it could be a pet, who fancies your lap
it may even be song you blast
..or sing
find it, savor it, save it
it keeps you warm
when your mind goes cold
it illuminates the darkness
that’s got you in a chokehold
can’t break free?
try a latte, or a cup of tea
it’s not always human
perhaps it’s a place
a grin
or the look of your own handwriting piercing a new notebook page
sometimes it’s just sitting and existing
when a day won’t let you do...
maybe it’s a fuzzy blanket that you own
it could be a pet, who fancies your lap
it may even be song you blast
..or sing
find it, savor it, save it
it keeps you warm
when your mind goes cold
it illuminates the darkness
that’s got you in a chokehold
can’t break free?
try a latte, or a cup of tea
it’s not always human
perhaps it’s a place
a grin
or the look of your own handwriting piercing a new notebook page
sometimes it’s just sitting and existing
when a day won’t let you do...
#motivational
#uplifting
#support
#determination
#NaPoWriMo2023
275 reads
5 Comments
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