Submissions by Van_Alestyne
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I enjoy writing and have no particular style I follow. I am trying to grow and expand my diversity. Feel free to read and critique my work. I would appreciate it.
DRUGS POEM
Published
20th Sep 2013 7:15pm
20th Sep 2013 7:15pm
Addiction
Veins of liquefying ice
Cold they run
In self made rivers
Down to drown the mass
Entrapped for a moment
And forever to remain
Shivers of foreboding premonition
Slivers of memories flash
As from a projection machine
Broken from a lifetime of abuse
Tokens of all lies and truth
And the cleansing begins
From the edge of sanity
To all hell inside
Of life’s catacombs
And to heaven
Oh, such pleasure
All are taken to this heaven
Forever to remain!
Forever or never?
Abatement begins
What is left?
A heart of...
Cold they run
In self made rivers
Down to drown the mass
Entrapped for a moment
And forever to remain
Shivers of foreboding premonition
Slivers of memories flash
As from a projection machine
Broken from a lifetime of abuse
Tokens of all lies and truth
And the cleansing begins
From the edge of sanity
To all hell inside
Of life’s catacombs
And to heaven
Oh, such pleasure
All are taken to this heaven
Forever to remain!
Forever or never?
Abatement begins
What is left?
A heart of...
793 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
17th Sep 2013 7:29pm
17th Sep 2013 7:29pm
Perfection
Golden lights and sporadic flashes of imagined creation
The female form sways sultrily by
An ambiance of expectation hangs heavy in the air
Gorgeous deep eyes hide behind long lashes
Lone individuals are lost in pleasurable sighs
Her face of milk white complexion, beyond compare
Atop her graceful neck
Shines the face of a goddess imagined
None compare with her glorious existence
The hopes and dreams of the mass are wrecked
Her gaze rests upon the upturned countenances of her worshippers
She outweighs any glory they have previously...
The female form sways sultrily by
An ambiance of expectation hangs heavy in the air
Gorgeous deep eyes hide behind long lashes
Lone individuals are lost in pleasurable sighs
Her face of milk white complexion, beyond compare
Atop her graceful neck
Shines the face of a goddess imagined
None compare with her glorious existence
The hopes and dreams of the mass are wrecked
Her gaze rests upon the upturned countenances of her worshippers
She outweighs any glory they have previously...
749 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
15th Sep 2013 8:04pm
15th Sep 2013 8:04pm
This Black Hole
A black hole spreads like a virus
It forces and exudes itself
Through every fiber of my most intimate being
I sit huddled with knees to my chest
A song of melancholic melody plays loudly
As I attempt to drown out my screaming loneliness
The lamp on the table sits in shadows that grow
And this room is much like I am…
Cold, dark, and alone
Demons of my own creation
Hover in every corner
They wait for my eyes to close
My breath to slow
For my consciousness to wane
Death lies in wait for the outward and final compression of my body
As...
It forces and exudes itself
Through every fiber of my most intimate being
I sit huddled with knees to my chest
A song of melancholic melody plays loudly
As I attempt to drown out my screaming loneliness
The lamp on the table sits in shadows that grow
And this room is much like I am…
Cold, dark, and alone
Demons of my own creation
Hover in every corner
They wait for my eyes to close
My breath to slow
For my consciousness to wane
Death lies in wait for the outward and final compression of my body
As...
551 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
15th Sep 2013 5:03pm
15th Sep 2013 5:03pm
Summer Love
Warm rays of a summer love
Morph with passion’s ebb and flow
Petals of soft admiration
Stem from the bond of young hearts
Dances in a flowered field
Followed by nighttime walks in rain
Hand in hand
Skin to skin
Lying under a moon of silver
On a soft bed of green
They exist as though alone in this world
Eyes glisten with deep emotion
They know what they have will last
And yet…
…It is but a summer love
Morph with passion’s ebb and flow
Petals of soft admiration
Stem from the bond of young hearts
Dances in a flowered field
Followed by nighttime walks in rain
Hand in hand
Skin to skin
Lying under a moon of silver
On a soft bed of green
They exist as though alone in this world
Eyes glisten with deep emotion
They know what they have will last
And yet…
…It is but a summer love
697 reads
4 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
8th Sep 2013 4:44pm
8th Sep 2013 4:44pm
The Nightly Ritual
9:30 every night
She arrived
In her bedroom
Concealed by ignorance
She changed her clothes
Her complexion was soft and beautiful pale
9:25PM regular like clockwork
In a tower adjacent to the first
He stood in a dark and musty room
Homeless, his fantasy was her
With binoculars from some previous war
He watched intently never blinking
He imagined her fragrance
Sweet and blossom filled
Pallid light abounded
Causing a holy aura
She never beheld her stalker
Such a clinger to obscurity was he
A pungent odor of...
She arrived
In her bedroom
Concealed by ignorance
She changed her clothes
Her complexion was soft and beautiful pale
9:25PM regular like clockwork
In a tower adjacent to the first
He stood in a dark and musty room
Homeless, his fantasy was her
With binoculars from some previous war
He watched intently never blinking
He imagined her fragrance
Sweet and blossom filled
Pallid light abounded
Causing a holy aura
She never beheld her stalker
Such a clinger to obscurity was he
A pungent odor of...
656 reads
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Sep 2013 10:32pm
7th Sep 2013 10:32pm
Society's Obscenity
Society’s Obscenity
Chilled concrete blocks
Damp from a nighttime of mourning
Talent wasted in ghetto graffiti weep near sidewalks
Sirens blare distant warnings
Society’s obscenity
An un-kept child
Lost amidst five thousand
Tattered and eyes wild
Victim of drug’s induction; never planned
Society’s obscenity
Red lips and a hollow smile
Flaunted in hunger and pain
Death fears such a mile
There is no gain
Society’s obscenity
Grand childhood dreams
Broken from parental degradation
Clothes...
Chilled concrete blocks
Damp from a nighttime of mourning
Talent wasted in ghetto graffiti weep near sidewalks
Sirens blare distant warnings
Society’s obscenity
An un-kept child
Lost amidst five thousand
Tattered and eyes wild
Victim of drug’s induction; never planned
Society’s obscenity
Red lips and a hollow smile
Flaunted in hunger and pain
Death fears such a mile
There is no gain
Society’s obscenity
Grand childhood dreams
Broken from parental degradation
Clothes...
628 reads
0 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
31st Aug 2013 4:27pm
31st Aug 2013 4:27pm
Our lost reality
Delusions
Confusions
We say what we are
Conflicted by every mar
Every tiddle and drop
Of ink is a flop
We lie and let live
Always take, never give
Inflictions of prose
Renditions of death grows
Is life really that wrong?
Is it part of a sad song?
Perhaps our emotions
Have become habitual devotions
Being the constant
Having never lost it
And so we write
Such a sorrowful sight
We commend
And surrender
To sadness of soul
Of our lack of whole
So we exist
Fools dying of a cyst
...
Confusions
We say what we are
Conflicted by every mar
Every tiddle and drop
Of ink is a flop
We lie and let live
Always take, never give
Inflictions of prose
Renditions of death grows
Is life really that wrong?
Is it part of a sad song?
Perhaps our emotions
Have become habitual devotions
Being the constant
Having never lost it
And so we write
Such a sorrowful sight
We commend
And surrender
To sadness of soul
Of our lack of whole
So we exist
Fools dying of a cyst
...
538 reads
0 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
31st Aug 2013 1:08am
31st Aug 2013 1:08am
A Hilltop Scene
Rolling hills of green
Support one girl’s pensive stance
Her eyes search the horizon
And her focus is drawn inward
A slow breeze caresses her hair
Her countenance is glossed with tears
A black bird circles
Dark clouds are gathered overhead
She begins to sing
A song of tragic love
Soft tones
Perfected notes from a flawless voice
Her melody echoes softly from hilltop to valley below
Years of longing had created such desire
Rarely known
Barely known was she amidst her kind
Her song climaxes
She looks to the...
Support one girl’s pensive stance
Her eyes search the horizon
And her focus is drawn inward
A slow breeze caresses her hair
Her countenance is glossed with tears
A black bird circles
Dark clouds are gathered overhead
She begins to sing
A song of tragic love
Soft tones
Perfected notes from a flawless voice
Her melody echoes softly from hilltop to valley below
Years of longing had created such desire
Rarely known
Barely known was she amidst her kind
Her song climaxes
She looks to the...
578 reads
5 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
31st Aug 2013 00:28am
31st Aug 2013 00:28am
This Harsh Reality
Over the horizon
On the shores of a different day
Roses fall to the ground of reality
Petals of emotion wither
Behind in years past
Reality gratifies only the simple of mind
Ecstasy is a drug, inducing bare resignation
Melodies of monotonous fabrication waft on a stale wind
Satisfaction today was buried yesterday
Blatant pain is evidenced by stains of tears
A Broken mind
Ten thousand times cracked
Cracked from lack
Cracked from black
Black hope
Lack of hope
Heads have long since fallen
To a chest
To...
On the shores of a different day
Roses fall to the ground of reality
Petals of emotion wither
Behind in years past
Reality gratifies only the simple of mind
Ecstasy is a drug, inducing bare resignation
Melodies of monotonous fabrication waft on a stale wind
Satisfaction today was buried yesterday
Blatant pain is evidenced by stains of tears
A Broken mind
Ten thousand times cracked
Cracked from lack
Cracked from black
Black hope
Lack of hope
Heads have long since fallen
To a chest
To...
589 reads
2 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
28th Aug 2013 2:20am
28th Aug 2013 2:20am
Ghostly Vengeance
Spider webs hang precariously
Glimpses of grandeur from a past age
Songs hang in the air fantastically
Servants bustle, silver skirts rustle
All ends from one man’s rage
The lives lived herein
Dead and gone in a flash of time
Lacking resolution
Flits of smoke, fits of blood soak
A speechless rhyme
A dozen individuals, two fold
Roam halls meant for the living
Lies not sold, lives not told
A stranger with knife, a hatred of life
Now live these ghosts, unforgiving
What transpired
Occurred two centuries ago...
Glimpses of grandeur from a past age
Songs hang in the air fantastically
Servants bustle, silver skirts rustle
All ends from one man’s rage
The lives lived herein
Dead and gone in a flash of time
Lacking resolution
Flits of smoke, fits of blood soak
A speechless rhyme
A dozen individuals, two fold
Roam halls meant for the living
Lies not sold, lives not told
A stranger with knife, a hatred of life
Now live these ghosts, unforgiving
What transpired
Occurred two centuries ago...
612 reads
3 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
25th Aug 2013 2:06am
25th Aug 2013 2:06am
Raped
Lover:
Oh My Angel
Your perfect downcast face
The world burns with your presence
This, my heart, is your place
Arise; raise your countenance
Oh My Beautiful Angel
Such woes have befallen you
I will heal the sorrow you keep
Inside, Outside, Forever True
The world will see and weep
Transcendence of time is yours
Beloved:
Such sorrow grows like a disease
Malignant it soars throughout all
It started as a seed
This is my end; this is my fall
You could never understand
My chalice...
Oh My Angel
Your perfect downcast face
The world burns with your presence
This, my heart, is your place
Arise; raise your countenance
Oh My Beautiful Angel
Such woes have befallen you
I will heal the sorrow you keep
Inside, Outside, Forever True
The world will see and weep
Transcendence of time is yours
Beloved:
Such sorrow grows like a disease
Malignant it soars throughout all
It started as a seed
This is my end; this is my fall
You could never understand
My chalice...
778 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
23rd Aug 2013 3:07pm
23rd Aug 2013 3:07pm
Split in Two
Split in two
Red gushes downward
Constant yearning
A predefined Life
This agonizing self hatred lingers
An ocean of blue
Ebbs toward
This heart ever burning
A sharpened knife
I see the groping of death’s fingers
Falsehoods and truth
An ever increasing void
A beginning of mourning
For those in this rife
I am condemned in constant anger
I am split
Steel blade
Jagged and dripping
Blood and sinew
Such ecstasy inflicted in self danger
Teeth are grit
Light begins to fade...
Red gushes downward
Constant yearning
A predefined Life
This agonizing self hatred lingers
An ocean of blue
Ebbs toward
This heart ever burning
A sharpened knife
I see the groping of death’s fingers
Falsehoods and truth
An ever increasing void
A beginning of mourning
For those in this rife
I am condemned in constant anger
I am split
Steel blade
Jagged and dripping
Blood and sinew
Such ecstasy inflicted in self danger
Teeth are grit
Light begins to fade...
611 reads
4 Comments
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