Submissions by Wafflenose (Ellie)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
KALEIDOSCOPE: Poems about life in its glorious technicolour (2022); AWAITING THE DAWN: Poems of hope for life's journey (2023); Both available on Amazon UK, US and Worldwide.
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
6th Aug 2021 10:33pm
6th Aug 2021 10:33pm
Grief
Circling the dawn of middle age,
Many have been loved and lost.
Each life made an impact;
Brought colour, joy and memories.
The greatest loss was the first:
Was I just young and impressionable?
Partly... but after quarter of a century
Some unexpected quiet moments,
Some challenges at work
And the mention of Christingles
Provide dazzling emotional recall.
I am transported back to that moment
And every now and then
Allow myself to feel that shock and pain.
They say that there are stages of grief
And that might be...
Many have been loved and lost.
Each life made an impact;
Brought colour, joy and memories.
The greatest loss was the first:
Was I just young and impressionable?
Partly... but after quarter of a century
Some unexpected quiet moments,
Some challenges at work
And the mention of Christingles
Provide dazzling emotional recall.
I am transported back to that moment
And every now and then
Allow myself to feel that shock and pain.
They say that there are stages of grief
And that might be...
#grief
#death
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1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
6th Aug 2021 2:30pm
6th Aug 2021 2:30pm
Acceptance
Into one moment of consideration
Fly many years of thoughts;
Plans spinning in a whirlpool of
Love, laughter and colourful memories.
From the chaos, fragments of
Forgotten dreams appear.
Small snatches of the past threaten to
Unseat the future.
For still there remains
A desire to go and do, be and see;
A life driven by perpetual rhythm;
A pressing weight of exacting expectation.
Displaced by cool self-awareness,
Distant dreams evaporate,
Leaving in their wake the pursuit of glittering lights
Of a...
Fly many years of thoughts;
Plans spinning in a whirlpool of
Love, laughter and colourful memories.
From the chaos, fragments of
Forgotten dreams appear.
Small snatches of the past threaten to
Unseat the future.
For still there remains
A desire to go and do, be and see;
A life driven by perpetual rhythm;
A pressing weight of exacting expectation.
Displaced by cool self-awareness,
Distant dreams evaporate,
Leaving in their wake the pursuit of glittering lights
Of a...
#LifeGoals
#disability
410 reads
3 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
6th Aug 2021 2:15pm
6th Aug 2021 2:15pm
The Essence of Music
Breath
gave life,
inspired Melody—
soul's language.
Rhythm:
humanity's heartbeat.
gave life,
inspired Melody—
soul's language.
Rhythm:
humanity's heartbeat.
#birth
#music
#humankind
438 reads
5 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
5th Aug 2021 11:05pm
5th Aug 2021 11:05pm
If
If my love were enough...
You would rise with each new dawn
And fly on soundless wings;
Soar high above the earth
Released from Time and Things.
If my love were enough...
We could catch a wave and travel;
Riding on currents, mum and daughter -
To see the beauty and splendour
Of a world beneath the water.
If my love were enough...
You could live in a beautiful palace
Perched high upon a mountain,
Fashioned from the finest gold,
Complete with a sparkling fountain.
If my love were enough...
You...
You would rise with each new dawn
And fly on soundless wings;
Soar high above the earth
Released from Time and Things.
If my love were enough...
We could catch a wave and travel;
Riding on currents, mum and daughter -
To see the beauty and splendour
Of a world beneath the water.
If my love were enough...
You could live in a beautiful palace
Perched high upon a mountain,
Fashioned from the finest gold,
Complete with a sparkling fountain.
If my love were enough...
You...
#love
#motherhood
#dreams #daughter
#dreams #daughter
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4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
5th Aug 2021 11:04pm
5th Aug 2021 11:04pm
The Visitor (2)
Nobody saw you enter
And you didn’t bother to knock.
I don’t know how long you’ve been hiding here,
Though with hindsight, I might have known.
You turned down the volume,
Yet somehow increased the noise.
You dimmed the lights
And filled the air with a strange electric charge.
Dark netting screened out the real world -
It could still be seen, but seemed so far away
With no obvious means of return.
You turned up gravity
And spread treacle all over the floor,
Making it difficult to move.
You interfered with time,
Which...
And you didn’t bother to knock.
I don’t know how long you’ve been hiding here,
Though with hindsight, I might have known.
You turned down the volume,
Yet somehow increased the noise.
You dimmed the lights
And filled the air with a strange electric charge.
Dark netting screened out the real world -
It could still be seen, but seemed so far away
With no obvious means of return.
You turned up gravity
And spread treacle all over the floor,
Making it difficult to move.
You interfered with time,
Which...
#MentalHealth
#SelfDiscovery
542 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Aug 2021 1:57pm
5th Aug 2021 1:57pm
More Than You Know
Year 7 French class:
Pens scrawling busily,
Buzz of chat in the air
And suddenly it hits me -
The teacher's started feeling ill.
She carries on enthusiastically.
I look around -
They're all absorbed in what's being said
Not the way she says it.
Was it a change in tone,
A weariness or false cheer?
She thinks that I don't know
That she's trying to push through,
But I hear.
Wednesday morning break time
Working in a school:
Wearily climbing stairs -
It's going to be a long day.
I quietly push open ...
Pens scrawling busily,
Buzz of chat in the air
And suddenly it hits me -
The teacher's started feeling ill.
She carries on enthusiastically.
I look around -
They're all absorbed in what's being said
Not the way she says it.
Was it a change in tone,
A weariness or false cheer?
She thinks that I don't know
That she's trying to push through,
But I hear.
Wednesday morning break time
Working in a school:
Wearily climbing stairs -
It's going to be a long day.
I quietly push open ...
#relationships
#conflict
#SelfReflection
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3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
5th Aug 2021 1:51pm
5th Aug 2021 1:51pm
Realisation (Or the Seven Ages of Woman)
7 years:
Night waking, legs aching.
Bendy thumbs impress my chums.
"Growing pains".
11 years:
Start to feel sharp pain in heel.
Teachers now see I'm failing P.E.
"Achilles Tendonitis".
12 years:
Dislocating jaw, always sore.
"What do you expect? You're having your teeth rearranged.
And besides, you have a Low Articular Eminence."
14 years:
Nothing can calm searing pain in arm.
"Repetitive Strain Injury."
24 years:
Everything seems to crack; increasing pain in back.
"Well, you're not a...
Night waking, legs aching.
Bendy thumbs impress my chums.
"Growing pains".
11 years:
Start to feel sharp pain in heel.
Teachers now see I'm failing P.E.
"Achilles Tendonitis".
12 years:
Dislocating jaw, always sore.
"What do you expect? You're having your teeth rearranged.
And besides, you have a Low Articular Eminence."
14 years:
Nothing can calm searing pain in arm.
"Repetitive Strain Injury."
24 years:
Everything seems to crack; increasing pain in back.
"Well, you're not a...
#illness
#SelfDiscovery
#disability
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1 Comment
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Aug 2021 10:56pm
4th Aug 2021 10:56pm
Breathe
In... out... in... out.
A reflex. Refresh, relax.
Breathe in clean, cool air.
Breathe in calm. Breathe in light.
Still the crazy cacophony
Of chaotic, cascading thoughts.
From the lucid to the tangled,
Push them out and sit for now
While we reboot.
Make space to be. To rest. To breathe.
Back at the beginning,
I promised to protect you always;
To let nothing hurt you.
Naivety reigned.
How could I keep my word:
You and me against the world?
Your carry the best of us both
Yet I feel a daily ache
For...
A reflex. Refresh, relax.
Breathe in clean, cool air.
Breathe in calm. Breathe in light.
Still the crazy cacophony
Of chaotic, cascading thoughts.
From the lucid to the tangled,
Push them out and sit for now
While we reboot.
Make space to be. To rest. To breathe.
Back at the beginning,
I promised to protect you always;
To let nothing hurt you.
Naivety reigned.
How could I keep my word:
You and me against the world?
Your carry the best of us both
Yet I feel a daily ache
For...
#teens
#motherhood
#suicide #daughter
#suicide #daughter
653 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Aug 2021 10:18pm
4th Aug 2021 10:18pm
Ode to Pollen
You didn't get the memo,
So I'll say it loud and clear:
You do not belong in my airways.
I need them for breathing, not sneezing.
It's hard to concentrate
With the throbbing head,
Intensely itchy eyes
And irritated skin.
Please go somewhere else.
You will not have any luck
Growing plants or trees
Inside my nose.
So I'll say it loud and clear:
You do not belong in my airways.
I need them for breathing, not sneezing.
It's hard to concentrate
With the throbbing head,
Intensely itchy eyes
And irritated skin.
Please go somewhere else.
You will not have any luck
Growing plants or trees
Inside my nose.
#trees
#flowers
#summer #nature
#summer #nature
413 reads
12 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
4th Aug 2021 2:23pm
4th Aug 2021 2:23pm
Identity
Who do you see?
The abled one who can’t
Or the disabled one who can?
Two different sides to
The same contradictory coin.
It all depends on your perspective.
From the vantage point of she
Who looks like one,
Behaves like the other
And aspires to be a superhuman
It is impossible to tell.
The abled one who can’t
Or the disabled one who can?
Two different sides to
The same contradictory coin.
It all depends on your perspective.
From the vantage point of she
Who looks like one,
Behaves like the other
And aspires to be a superhuman
It is impossible to tell.
#identity
#SelfReflection
#disability
510 reads
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Aug 2021 2:15pm
4th Aug 2021 2:15pm
Strength
Trudging along,
Stumbling occasionally;
Wearing troubles like a lead apron.
Weighed down by woes
And weary of this world,
Moving morosely
Without real direction;
Just keep moving
And find somewhere quiet.
Somewhere to think.
At the edge of the woods,
Circling at first,
Then scrambling among gnarled roots
And twisted trunks which form the gateway
To another world.
Down, down, down, gathering pace.
So cool and calm; finally quiet
But buzzing intangibly with life.
Run past a river,
Leaves...
Stumbling occasionally;
Wearing troubles like a lead apron.
Weighed down by woes
And weary of this world,
Moving morosely
Without real direction;
Just keep moving
And find somewhere quiet.
Somewhere to think.
At the edge of the woods,
Circling at first,
Then scrambling among gnarled roots
And twisted trunks which form the gateway
To another world.
Down, down, down, gathering pace.
So cool and calm; finally quiet
But buzzing intangibly with life.
Run past a river,
Leaves...
#forest
#trees
#nature
550 reads
3 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
3rd Aug 2021 8:45pm
3rd Aug 2021 8:45pm
Rescued
Grounded beneath grey waters,
Isolation my companion.
Glimmers of external light shattered
By darkness in my eyes
And despair in my heart.
Suffocating waves thundered overhead.
Restlessness and pain intensified
As sleep was lost.
Escape was inconceivable
With leaden limbs.
Peace enveloped my mind like oxygen.
Night became light.
Earth vibrated with strange colours.
Water glistened on the horizon.
A Presence closer than my being
Questioned my desire to retreat from the terror.
As storm clouds float away, ...
Isolation my companion.
Glimmers of external light shattered
By darkness in my eyes
And despair in my heart.
Suffocating waves thundered overhead.
Restlessness and pain intensified
As sleep was lost.
Escape was inconceivable
With leaden limbs.
Peace enveloped my mind like oxygen.
Night became light.
Earth vibrated with strange colours.
Water glistened on the horizon.
A Presence closer than my being
Questioned my desire to retreat from the terror.
As storm clouds float away, ...
#nature
#faith
#MentalHealth
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4 Comments
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