Submissions by cunnias
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
LOVE POEM
Published
13th Jul 2016 4:06pm
13th Jul 2016 4:06pm
Stranded (rewrite)
We were like the boats afloat the surface of liquid so cool it calmed each caress, and the bodies in sync to the rhythm of words lulling each limb together in motion like sleep, so effortless paddling was with your steady hands, so secure in your grips, so carefree, so careless, yes your hands grew careless with the line and I spoke and you jumped and we drifted but you disregarded the line I kept throwing to salvage the words that severed our soothing sync, and you caressed the sinking line before you swam like a fish in flight terrified of what our rhythm in mind and motion had come to...
581 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Jul 2016 4:04pm
13th Jul 2016 4:04pm
Pinks to Blues
a mesh of mangled
tongues, thrashing
like forks, jabbing
like words
cutting into the main course,
ripping apart each
piece, slowly
tearing away at pink
flesh bandaged by compliments
only to be re-torn,
eating away at
the I do’s
the I love you’s
until the sun sinks
from pinks to blues
to blackened hues
tongues, thrashing
like forks, jabbing
like words
cutting into the main course,
ripping apart each
piece, slowly
tearing away at pink
flesh bandaged by compliments
only to be re-torn,
eating away at
the I do’s
the I love you’s
until the sun sinks
from pinks to blues
to blackened hues
512 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Apr 2016 6:52pm
10th Apr 2016 6:52pm
Past Petals
Walking the uneven brick past
blooming buds engrossed in morning light chatter
befriend sleepy eyes there after.
Radiant sinner allures and fingers
flowered deceit. Twirling in white her petal skirt
masking madness.
Walking blind they admire, straight through
the blooms always forgetting
to smell the groomed buds awaiting the bell’s ball.
blooming buds engrossed in morning light chatter
befriend sleepy eyes there after.
Radiant sinner allures and fingers
flowered deceit. Twirling in white her petal skirt
masking madness.
Walking blind they admire, straight through
the blooms always forgetting
to smell the groomed buds awaiting the bell’s ball.
571 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Apr 2016 6:36pm
10th Apr 2016 6:36pm
Sunken Lungs
collapsed lungs sunken,
quivering to the sound
of each breath
caving in as
blackened bones
quivering to the sound
of a straggling breath
choking
a truth of peril
too hard to swallow
and every inhale
of each breath
a permeating deterioration
saturating the cotton dress,
masking sores swollen
to stillness
where wandering eyes
caving in as
the skin of grotesqueness
grows as breaths fade
to a milky existence
never to be unseen
by the few
feeling the grips ...
quivering to the sound
of each breath
caving in as
blackened bones
quivering to the sound
of a straggling breath
choking
a truth of peril
too hard to swallow
and every inhale
of each breath
a permeating deterioration
saturating the cotton dress,
masking sores swollen
to stillness
where wandering eyes
caving in as
the skin of grotesqueness
grows as breaths fade
to a milky existence
never to be unseen
by the few
feeling the grips ...
605 reads
0 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Apr 2016 6:11am
10th Apr 2016 6:11am
out to dry
a wanton wind
whirls
like broken waves
thrashing
as clashing clothes
pinned like soldiers,
shoulders hunched
to heads
hanging
from a loose
type rope, twisted
like turned necks
of paper dolls
weight
less
in the wind
whirls
like broken waves
thrashing
as clashing clothes
pinned like soldiers,
shoulders hunched
to heads
hanging
from a loose
type rope, twisted
like turned necks
of paper dolls
weight
less
in the wind
560 reads
1 Comment
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
10th Apr 2016 5:45am
10th Apr 2016 5:45am
Rifting
Unsettling is the strain of your ears splitting as your roof rifts and the shingles begin to drop one by one onto the floor around you, and you try to pick them up with your kid gloves but then you finger shattered glass and you panic thinking of how you almost sat down in defeat but you didn’t because your house is still strong, and the foundation is still there so there’s no need to worry, because mum is there and so is dad, and they’ll always be right there by the bay window; the one where the sun shines in and the colors of mum’s face dance like rainbows because dad loves her too much to...
605 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
6th Jan 2016 5:21am
6th Jan 2016 5:21am
Stranded
Amends, fallen
Through like a dropped
Line- a word never
Formed, quite possibly
Never attempted
I uttered, stuttered
While you- avoided
The line- stuck stranded
Between my words and
Your wishes
Won’t you just cut-
Me, reel it in or drop it-
So I may float, once
More sole captain
To my own smile
But until you-
My consciousness floats,
Rotting affections and leaking
Hope- until I- stutter
A sunken smile
Through like a dropped
Line- a word never
Formed, quite possibly
Never attempted
I uttered, stuttered
While you- avoided
The line- stuck stranded
Between my words and
Your wishes
Won’t you just cut-
Me, reel it in or drop it-
So I may float, once
More sole captain
To my own smile
But until you-
My consciousness floats,
Rotting affections and leaking
Hope- until I- stutter
A sunken smile
550 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Dec 2015 5:27am
17th Dec 2015 5:27am
Transience
She gleaned her last
Breath of sea salt, its
Misty tides undulating
Across her eyes-
She tried snatching
Its transient sense
Of fullness- a vibrancy,
A feeling of life she knew
She could neither
Emulate nor possess.
Breath of sea salt, its
Misty tides undulating
Across her eyes-
She tried snatching
Its transient sense
Of fullness- a vibrancy,
A feeling of life she knew
She could neither
Emulate nor possess.
601 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
13th Dec 2015 9:09pm
13th Dec 2015 9:09pm
Hollowed
A hollow tree I hung,
Rocking pleasantly, softly
To the smooth throngs of insanity,
And there it coaxed
Below me, weighing-
Swaying, softly dozing
Off to sleep,
My mind rocking-
And there I hung, hollow
Rocking pleasantly, softly
To the smooth throngs of insanity,
And there it coaxed
Below me, weighing-
Swaying, softly dozing
Off to sleep,
My mind rocking-
And there I hung, hollow
682 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
13th Dec 2015 9:05pm
13th Dec 2015 9:05pm
The Rattle
I pulled the chain
Towing the ball-
It rattled- silently
Stirring warm breaths
of morning's sight-
Blind passions blinked
Twice- watched me
Tow along, tugging
At the ball to roll more
Intently- as if-
He said the ball will
Itself roll, so why tug?
The weight is burdened
As I trudge- into the dark-
Feeling the strain
I carried a key- once
The ball rolled with ease,
Pulling but following I-
Cannot break the chain, for fear
Of losing the rattle
Towing the ball-
It rattled- silently
Stirring warm breaths
of morning's sight-
Blind passions blinked
Twice- watched me
Tow along, tugging
At the ball to roll more
Intently- as if-
He said the ball will
Itself roll, so why tug?
The weight is burdened
As I trudge- into the dark-
Feeling the strain
I carried a key- once
The ball rolled with ease,
Pulling but following I-
Cannot break the chain, for fear
Of losing the rattle
649 reads
1 Comment
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
21st Nov 2015 5:35am
21st Nov 2015 5:35am
Flown
Let the birds cry out
For I have flown,
Falling to the ground-
Hear the chilling of my wings
Frozen to the heart of
My breast- we
Fell heavily bereft-
And so don't pick me
Up but let us suffer
As one, the air is crisp
As the night is near,
And I will be gone-
Flown, flown home
For I have flown,
Falling to the ground-
Hear the chilling of my wings
Frozen to the heart of
My breast- we
Fell heavily bereft-
And so don't pick me
Up but let us suffer
As one, the air is crisp
As the night is near,
And I will be gone-
Flown, flown home
615 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
20th Feb 2015 3:50pm
20th Feb 2015 3:50pm
Blackened Light
If life is a rose
Then never let me wilt away,
As I bloom a short while
I’ll be black by the day
On my last summer’s night
As a fall breeze blew by,
My first petal dropped
Greeting fate with a sigh
I look’d upon the moon
As my last source of light
And the mem’ries flooded in
And away like a kite
The smallest petal fell
By the foot of a babe,
Where the mem’ries began
And the sunken footprints stayed
The light was growing shorter
As the footprints grew and aged
They joined another pair now,
Entwined...
Then never let me wilt away,
As I bloom a short while
I’ll be black by the day
On my last summer’s night
As a fall breeze blew by,
My first petal dropped
Greeting fate with a sigh
I look’d upon the moon
As my last source of light
And the mem’ries flooded in
And away like a kite
The smallest petal fell
By the foot of a babe,
Where the mem’ries began
And the sunken footprints stayed
The light was growing shorter
As the footprints grew and aged
They joined another pair now,
Entwined...
655 reads
2 Comments
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