Submissions by brokentitanium (k.)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I'm just a human living my life, and this is where I spill the stuff I can't say out loud. Sometimes the words arrange themselves nicely, and that's pretty cool.
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Jan 2023 2:41am
26th Jan 2023 2:41am
On Singing
Step up to the mic.
Open the box and let the birds fly.
Don't listen until they've gone.
Open the box and let the birds fly.
Don't listen until they've gone.
#music
#freedom
#SelfDiscovery #emotions
#SelfDiscovery #emotions
54 reads
11 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
21st Jan 2023 1:42am
21st Jan 2023 1:42am
Jungle Eyes (with reading)
#love
#music
#honesty #risk
#honesty #risk
99 reads
10 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
20th Jan 2023 2:23am
20th Jan 2023 2:23am
Elusive
heart always speaking,
body always on the go --
poems? slippery.
body always on the go --
poems? slippery.
#LifeStruggles
#frustration
#WritingPoetry #senryu
#WritingPoetry #senryu
59 reads
10 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
13th Jan 2023 4:16pm
13th Jan 2023 4:16pm
Blindsided
#love
#city
#fire
#music
#passion
126 reads
23 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
22nd Dec 2022 2:54pm
22nd Dec 2022 2:54pm
Insignificant moments
Never actively shunned
but not one of the cool crowd
too many Undesirable friends, perhaps
not invisible
just
irrelevant
*
Late night
always the last girl at the party
still drinking with the drunk guys…
I’m lucky it never went badly.
Unapproachable?
Uninteresting?
Just part of the wallpaper.
*
Arm’s length...
was it all intentional?
Someone once told me I intimidated her.
My ego fist-pumped the air
as my soul wept in solitude.
but not one of the cool crowd
too many Undesirable friends, perhaps
not invisible
just
irrelevant
*
Late night
always the last girl at the party
still drinking with the drunk guys…
I’m lucky it never went badly.
Unapproachable?
Uninteresting?
Just part of the wallpaper.
*
Arm’s length...
was it all intentional?
Someone once told me I intimidated her.
My ego fist-pumped the air
as my soul wept in solitude.
#identity
#memories
#SelfReflection
178 reads
24 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
16th Dec 2022 2:00pm
16th Dec 2022 2:00pm
Toxic
daily dawn breaks with pain
thudding, flooding
this enveloping cocoon of
hair and sheets
the stench of
body, blood and
distress
relentless pounding brain surf
invokes waves of
emotional nausea
urge to purge
bile and words
awakening toxic need
to reach from this cage and
infect other souls
end my isolation
seeking touch for my hurt
If I can't get out
perhaps I'll pull you in
thudding, flooding
this enveloping cocoon of
hair and sheets
the stench of
body, blood and
distress
relentless pounding brain surf
invokes waves of
emotional nausea
urge to purge
bile and words
awakening toxic need
to reach from this cage and
infect other souls
end my isolation
seeking touch for my hurt
If I can't get out
perhaps I'll pull you in
#dark
#illness
#myself #suffering
#myself #suffering
133 reads
18 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
14th Dec 2022 4:06am
14th Dec 2022 4:06am
Jungle Eyes
Come, fall into my eyes
It's a jungle in there...
green with vibrant life,
jewelled dewdrops joyful,
the mischief of monkeys,
full spectrum of secret delights:
your reward for wanting
to fall into my eyes.
Come, fall into my eyes
It's a jungle in there...
green with mean envy,
dank tangled anger,
the prowling of tigers,
dark clawing vulnerabilities:
your punishment for daring
to fall into my eyes.
Come, fall into my eyes
but it's a jungle in there!
Green means go, ...
It's a jungle in there...
green with vibrant life,
jewelled dewdrops joyful,
the mischief of monkeys,
full spectrum of secret delights:
your reward for wanting
to fall into my eyes.
Come, fall into my eyes
It's a jungle in there...
green with mean envy,
dank tangled anger,
the prowling of tigers,
dark clawing vulnerabilities:
your punishment for daring
to fall into my eyes.
Come, fall into my eyes
but it's a jungle in there!
Green means go, ...
#love
#honesty
#acceptance
#hurt
#vulnerability
109 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
11th Dec 2022 6:05pm
11th Dec 2022 6:05pm
Once a muse...
Because you changed me.
Gently,
sometimes violently
Imperceptably,
yet undeniably
Finger-picking the strings of my heart
Splashing colour across my canvas
Lodging phrases in subtext of my mind
and I am
forever
different.
Over time and distance
you inhabit chambers of my heart
where doors never fully close,
because now I see with your eyes
and hear with your ears,
and in the sharing
beauty is closer to complete
and I am closer to whole
and you --
...
Gently,
sometimes violently
Imperceptably,
yet undeniably
Finger-picking the strings of my heart
Splashing colour across my canvas
Lodging phrases in subtext of my mind
and I am
forever
different.
Over time and distance
you inhabit chambers of my heart
where doors never fully close,
because now I see with your eyes
and hear with your ears,
and in the sharing
beauty is closer to complete
and I am closer to whole
and you --
...
#love
#friendship
#MyInspiration
173 reads
15 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
5th Dec 2022 4:00pm
5th Dec 2022 4:00pm
Remote Meltdown
Torture by laptop
smiling meetings
through gritted teeth
Tangled thoughts
So much mud
even caffeine can't dilute
All day upstream
office floor power naps
Can't explain it
he doesn't get it
though I see him try
I'm sorry
I contemplated
how a car crash would feel
failed sobriety
quick shot
under the radar
savouring shame's burn
rinse
repeat
smiling meetings
through gritted teeth
Tangled thoughts
So much mud
even caffeine can't dilute
All day upstream
office floor power naps
Can't explain it
he doesn't get it
though I see him try
I'm sorry
I contemplated
how a car crash would feel
failed sobriety
quick shot
under the radar
savouring shame's burn
rinse
repeat
#dark
#MentalHealth
#job
116 reads
16 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Dec 2022 2:45pm
2nd Dec 2022 2:45pm
In Flight
A typical day
foggy gray
tuned out numbly
seat 14A
A song in my ears
(that one about Smiling)
Cranked up to drown
the sound of liftoff
Up we went
through sombre clouds
To
blue
clarity
And suddenly
I was crying...
I had forgotten
I could expect that.
foggy gray
tuned out numbly
seat 14A
A song in my ears
(that one about Smiling)
Cranked up to drown
the sound of liftoff
Up we went
through sombre clouds
To
blue
clarity
And suddenly
I was crying...
I had forgotten
I could expect that.
#depression
#hope
#uplifting
120 reads
10 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
2nd Dec 2022 2:09pm
2nd Dec 2022 2:09pm
Dream Dive
I dreamed
of a deep black lake
The darkness was enticing -
escape from demands,
a reprieve from
burning
brightness
So I dove headlong
into the inky cold,
Luxuriated in
velvet numbness
and blind acceptance
Down I went
Expecting to find the bottom of me,
to come out the other side
whole
healed
But there was no end to the dark.
No redemption down there.
Just grasping zombie hands
pressing my bruises
massaging my fears
...
of a deep black lake
The darkness was enticing -
escape from demands,
a reprieve from
burning
brightness
So I dove headlong
into the inky cold,
Luxuriated in
velvet numbness
and blind acceptance
Down I went
Expecting to find the bottom of me,
to come out the other side
whole
healed
But there was no end to the dark.
No redemption down there.
Just grasping zombie hands
pressing my bruises
massaging my fears
...
#hope
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth #despair
#MentalHealth #despair
127 reads
10 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Nov 2022 11:12am
25th Nov 2022 11:12am
snakes
#relationships
#family
#funny #art
#funny #art
168 reads
25 Comments
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