Submissions by anna_grin
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
15th Aug 2021 11:36am
15th Aug 2021 11:36am
the debt is on the land
the girl working the bar lost a child
only last week
i am learning how to pour a pint
and make a sex on the beach
i want to change my medication
i want to change my clothes
i want to move away from
my dad has had ankle surgery
only last week
i found his partner’s diary
and took photos of the spite inside
i am ignoring my tinder dates
i am ignoring my washing
i am ignoring the voices
we are all of us blameless
it is the blood thirsty land
who wants back what she gave
with...
only last week
i am learning how to pour a pint
and make a sex on the beach
i want to change my medication
i want to change my clothes
i want to move away from
my dad has had ankle surgery
only last week
i found his partner’s diary
and took photos of the spite inside
i am ignoring my tinder dates
i am ignoring my washing
i am ignoring the voices
we are all of us blameless
it is the blood thirsty land
who wants back what she gave
with...
#LifeCycle
531 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
25th May 2021 3:19pm
25th May 2021 3:19pm
happy birthday to ya
i hope it’s good,
i hope you miss me
fuck knows
i’ll hurt a long time
maybe a lifetime
i hope you’re ok
i hope you’re swimming
fuck knows
i couldn’t hold on
your hand was slipping
i only want to say
happy birthday
happy birthday
happy birthday
i hope you miss me
fuck knows
i’ll hurt a long time
maybe a lifetime
i hope you’re ok
i hope you’re swimming
fuck knows
i couldn’t hold on
your hand was slipping
i only want to say
happy birthday
happy birthday
happy birthday
#birthday
620 reads
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Apr 2021 10:08am
7th Apr 2021 10:08am
thoughts & prayers
read me a fortune
ley me a line
tie me a knot
in your handkerchief
cast me a circle
call my name to the sky
light me a candle
i may be gone away soon
for a while
ley me a line
tie me a knot
in your handkerchief
cast me a circle
call my name to the sky
light me a candle
i may be gone away soon
for a while
#grief
474 reads
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Mar 2021 9:14am
26th Mar 2021 9:14am
king me
and kill the spare: no, i am gracious in victory as defeat. why do we protect him? he is useless. give me a board with two queens. give me a lesbian love story across a battlefield but not with her. you trained her well; what i have can’t be taught like that. you have to be born into conflict. you have to have had your body and trust violated so much you get a headache and wake up someone else, someone with a hard heart, someone with a sixth sense, someone dead already. like the people who did this to you.
all that time i inched my way forward you thought i was just another...
all that time i inched my way forward you thought i was just another...
#fire
420 reads
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Mar 2021 8:45pm
19th Mar 2021 8:45pm
white moves first
it’s unassailable;
and some moves
are unforgivable
but we forgive
just all the same
and when the board is empty
though we each may learn a lesson
it doesn’t matter who has won -
we set it up and play again
and some moves
are unforgivable
but we forgive
just all the same
and when the board is empty
though we each may learn a lesson
it doesn’t matter who has won -
we set it up and play again
#war
562 reads
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Mar 2021 7:52am
19th Mar 2021 7:52am
music
the words
i love you
mean nothing
mean jack shit
the music you gave me hits harder when
i know
what you meant by it
the music
i could give you
doesn’t fit into your playlist
i think
i always knew this
i love you
mean nothing
mean jack shit
the music you gave me hits harder when
i know
what you meant by it
the music
i could give you
doesn’t fit into your playlist
i think
i always knew this
#love
447 reads
LOVE POEM
Published
16th Mar 2021 8:16am
16th Mar 2021 8:16am
im so tempted to tell you how i f**ked your neighbour
i couldn’t help but laugh
as i stepped on the condom packets in the dark
and then i switched the light on and saw the handcuffs
i thought i smelt it on your sofa-
ya know
i let you tell me little lies to keep me happy
you think
you’re a chess grand master
i forgot
exactly where my feelings factor in
to your decisions
and on top of that you called me conservative
huh
i “pretend im very sexual”
bitch you don’t know what i wouldn’t do
cos you never...
as i stepped on the condom packets in the dark
and then i switched the light on and saw the handcuffs
i thought i smelt it on your sofa-
ya know
i let you tell me little lies to keep me happy
you think
you’re a chess grand master
i forgot
exactly where my feelings factor in
to your decisions
and on top of that you called me conservative
huh
i “pretend im very sexual”
bitch you don’t know what i wouldn’t do
cos you never...
#love
416 reads
5 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
14th Mar 2021 10:07pm
14th Mar 2021 10:07pm
im sorry, who?
he flicky the wrong switch
instigate with the wrong bitch
clicky clicky he screenshot the wrong shit
accidentally sent his mum a dick pic
must be sicky his hands are sticky
he sniffy sniffy and licky licky
fuckin hickey thinks he’s slick he
wishes he could fuckin hit me
i could go on but this is bricky
(breakdown)
oh, im sorry
did that not make any fucking sense to you?
my bad
oh, is it? i didn’t know
sorry, it doesn’t rhyme? doesn’t it?
oh well
tell it to your boy slim
(gunshot) ...
instigate with the wrong bitch
clicky clicky he screenshot the wrong shit
accidentally sent his mum a dick pic
must be sicky his hands are sticky
he sniffy sniffy and licky licky
fuckin hickey thinks he’s slick he
wishes he could fuckin hit me
i could go on but this is bricky
(breakdown)
oh, im sorry
did that not make any fucking sense to you?
my bad
oh, is it? i didn’t know
sorry, it doesn’t rhyme? doesn’t it?
oh well
tell it to your boy slim
(gunshot) ...
#rap
763 reads
8 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
6th Mar 2021 2:06pm
6th Mar 2021 2:06pm
bitter herbs
an old dirt-shadowed face lives in my mind
stuffing her mouth with medicine
and a young girl beating her belly with rocks
running laps until she falls down breathless
i see legs akimbo and a ladle thrust inside
i smell the sweat of fever-drugged fear
retching fills the cavern of my memory
and screaming too- and blood- and death
as i pinch a white pill and shove with my thumb
as close to my cervix as i am able
-
i press the call button until they come ...
stuffing her mouth with medicine
and a young girl beating her belly with rocks
running laps until she falls down breathless
i see legs akimbo and a ladle thrust inside
i smell the sweat of fever-drugged fear
retching fills the cavern of my memory
and screaming too- and blood- and death
as i pinch a white pill and shove with my thumb
as close to my cervix as i am able
-
i press the call button until they come ...
#motherhood
414 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Mar 2021 2:42pm
4th Mar 2021 2:42pm
dogwhistle
across the desolate green fields and valleys of Europe
we heard the sound
far louder than a tinnitus
ringing like an air raid siren
like the sound of a police car
an ambulance stuck in traffic
code red on the psych ward
it echoed back to Africa and split the ear bone that fuses underwater
but we are not domestic dogs.
we have the same canines as you
we can and will bite back
and as...
we heard the sound
far louder than a tinnitus
ringing like an air raid siren
like the sound of a police car
an ambulance stuck in traffic
code red on the psych ward
it echoed back to Africa and split the ear bone that fuses underwater
but we are not domestic dogs.
we have the same canines as you
we can and will bite back
and as...
#racism
448 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
22nd Feb 2021 7:52am
22nd Feb 2021 7:52am
white & black
i had a conviction
that if i let myself
i’d live to be old
all things being equal
in your wildest dreams
you never had that
that if i let myself
i’d live to be old
all things being equal
in your wildest dreams
you never had that
#inequality
390 reads
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Feb 2021 7:43pm
20th Feb 2021 7:43pm
set you free (come back to me)
you must know your silence hurts
just as i know it’s what we need
i cannot reasonably expect you to wait
for all three of me to be in sync
and while i get my shit together
i will hope that i impress you for a change
you must know i was thinking of you
every time i fucked someone else
you must know not one can stand next to you
i was afraid of my own jealousy
and not afraid enough of yours
this may make you laugh: at times
it wasn’t me
i did wrong,...
just as i know it’s what we need
i cannot reasonably expect you to wait
for all three of me to be in sync
and while i get my shit together
i will hope that i impress you for a change
you must know i was thinking of you
every time i fucked someone else
you must know not one can stand next to you
i was afraid of my own jealousy
and not afraid enough of yours
this may make you laugh: at times
it wasn’t me
i did wrong,...
#love
476 reads
17 Comments
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