Submissions by jenjames
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
thought i was done with heartbreak...then came you...
SELF POEM
Published
20th Feb 2019 12:33pm
20th Feb 2019 12:33pm
Living in Grey
Interesting is this new feeling
This desire to be gray
Not wanting to understand life
Wishing my subconscious would just fade way
In a world of black and white
I couldn't get hurt
Decisions were easy either it is or it isn't
Yes or no
Indecisiveness wasn't allowed
Yet in this gray I can lie to myself
I can deny my beauty and my self-worth
I can draw on a smile and I can pretend I am happy
In my own denial bubble
I can wrap my arms around him and fake it
As I scream out his name
I can deny the visions of him doing to me...
This desire to be gray
Not wanting to understand life
Wishing my subconscious would just fade way
In a world of black and white
I couldn't get hurt
Decisions were easy either it is or it isn't
Yes or no
Indecisiveness wasn't allowed
Yet in this gray I can lie to myself
I can deny my beauty and my self-worth
I can draw on a smile and I can pretend I am happy
In my own denial bubble
I can wrap my arms around him and fake it
As I scream out his name
I can deny the visions of him doing to me...
#identity
#confessional
#TruthOfLife
#myself
#SelfReflection
365 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
17th Feb 2019 10:50am
17th Feb 2019 10:50am
i see god
I see god in the simple things
Clouds in the sky
Change of directions in a flock of birds
I see creation in
The way they flap their wings
I see god in the
In the seasons changing
The color of the leaves
In the temperature change from
Warm to cool
I feel it
In the nights breeze
I see god in the simple things
So I don’t need someone preaching to me
On how I should live and who I should be
It’s in grained in me
In my heart
In my soul
It was written in my genetic code ...
Clouds in the sky
Change of directions in a flock of birds
I see creation in
The way they flap their wings
I see god in the
In the seasons changing
The color of the leaves
In the temperature change from
Warm to cool
I feel it
In the nights breeze
I see god in the simple things
So I don’t need someone preaching to me
On how I should live and who I should be
It’s in grained in me
In my heart
In my soul
It was written in my genetic code ...
#spiritual
#TruthOfLife
#honesty
#SelfReflection
#philosophical
650 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
16th Feb 2019 9:18pm
16th Feb 2019 9:18pm
Phoenix
Up against all odds
Just like a phoenix triumphant
I’m reborn from ashes
Just like a phoenix triumphant
I’m reborn from ashes
#identity
#TruthOfLife
#myself #SelfReflection
#myself #SelfReflection
311 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
10th Feb 2019 1:37am
10th Feb 2019 1:37am
They say us Cali Chicks
They say us Cali Chicks are fake
We sometimey, nonchalant, boogie
and
many other mean names
They say we always trying to get at a man’s coin
Pluck outta here
Every Cali Chick I know make their own
We hustle for ours we all got side gigs
Hustle hustle hustle hard
In Cali
It’s the only way you can afford to live
They say we aren’t real
We from the land of fantasies
La La Land
where everyone gets to be
EXACTLY
WHO
THEY
WANT
TO
BE
We...
We sometimey, nonchalant, boogie
and
many other mean names
They say we always trying to get at a man’s coin
Pluck outta here
Every Cali Chick I know make their own
We hustle for ours we all got side gigs
Hustle hustle hustle hard
In Cali
It’s the only way you can afford to live
They say we aren’t real
We from the land of fantasies
La La Land
where everyone gets to be
EXACTLY
WHO
THEY
WANT
TO
BE
We...
#identity
#LifeStruggles
#myself #SelfReflection
#myself #SelfReflection
340 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
10th Feb 2019 1:20am
10th Feb 2019 1:20am
I WOKE UP LIKE THIS!!!
I WOKE UP LIKE THIS!!!
Alone in my bed
Damn what was his name?
We whined and grind
Did a two stepped,
a couple of line dances
And the Cha-cha-cha
I Twerk’d then dropped it
Milly Rock’d and Cocked it
As he
Leaned Back
watching me
I WOKE UP LIKE THIS!!!
DAMN! WHAT WAS HIS NAME?
Face swollen
Lips engorged
Stained
With crimson residue
Bobby pins got my hair matted
My dreads tangled
Mascara smeared,
Eyelashes crooked
What the fuck!!
Who the fuck opened the window!...
Alone in my bed
Damn what was his name?
We whined and grind
Did a two stepped,
a couple of line dances
And the Cha-cha-cha
I Twerk’d then dropped it
Milly Rock’d and Cocked it
As he
Leaned Back
watching me
I WOKE UP LIKE THIS!!!
DAMN! WHAT WAS HIS NAME?
Face swollen
Lips engorged
Stained
With crimson residue
Bobby pins got my hair matted
My dreads tangled
Mascara smeared,
Eyelashes crooked
What the fuck!!
Who the fuck opened the window!...
#identity
#LifeStruggles
#funny
353 reads
9 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
9th Feb 2019 9:49am
9th Feb 2019 9:49am
Heed my words
Don't even want to acknowledge
What this is that I feel
So I am going to burst my own lil bubble
Or whatever the fuck
this shit is
Got me all in my feelings
Ready to do reckless shit
Just to prove to myself
I got some control
I don't need you
Damn it
Taking baby steps
I’m trying to open up
Struggling to let anyone in
cause I’m stuck on you...
FUCK!
Don't worry this ain't gone be no
Woe is me
I'm not the type to stay attached
When clearly there is no need
Although...
What this is that I feel
So I am going to burst my own lil bubble
Or whatever the fuck
this shit is
Got me all in my feelings
Ready to do reckless shit
Just to prove to myself
I got some control
I don't need you
Damn it
Taking baby steps
I’m trying to open up
Struggling to let anyone in
cause I’m stuck on you...
FUCK!
Don't worry this ain't gone be no
Woe is me
I'm not the type to stay attached
When clearly there is no need
Although...
#honesty
#hypocrisy
#SelfWorth
417 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Feb 2019 3:57am
6th Feb 2019 3:57am
Penemue
They say, of us poets
We're a quirky bunch
Always got a notebook
Jotting shit down
I've heard, Poets live to write
The smell of lead and ink
Gives them a high
She said, she fell in love
With a poet hopelessly and couldn’t understand
Why he wrote obsessively
Yet his feelings,
He never shred
He said,
I heard a poetess spit
She hit me with some of that
erotic shit
Her voice was sultry, word play was sick ...
We're a quirky bunch
Always got a notebook
Jotting shit down
I've heard, Poets live to write
The smell of lead and ink
Gives them a high
She said, she fell in love
With a poet hopelessly and couldn’t understand
Why he wrote obsessively
Yet his feelings,
He never shred
He said,
I heard a poetess spit
She hit me with some of that
erotic shit
Her voice was sultry, word play was sick ...
#lies
#identity
#funny
#honesty
#SelfReflection
390 reads
9 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2019 00:34am
23rd Jan 2019 00:34am
"Words Mean Things"
Words mean things”~ Crissle West (Samuel R Delany)
We poets use words to connect
And even though you may not mean to entice
Sometimes it’s just what you get
But it’s up to you to not lead anyone on
You’re marked as taken on your profile
Yet still they persist, all in your inbox
Thinking the words you scribed
Could somehow be about them
Been of fan of yours for quite sometime
They’ve read every poem that you’ve posted
You are truly humbled
As they quote you one of your lines
HYPED
The fact that someone else...
We poets use words to connect
And even though you may not mean to entice
Sometimes it’s just what you get
But it’s up to you to not lead anyone on
You’re marked as taken on your profile
Yet still they persist, all in your inbox
Thinking the words you scribed
Could somehow be about them
Been of fan of yours for quite sometime
They’ve read every poem that you’ve posted
You are truly humbled
As they quote you one of your lines
HYPED
The fact that someone else...
#relationships
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
#UnrequitedLove
#SelfReflection
481 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
19th Jan 2019 5:28pm
19th Jan 2019 5:28pm
He’s in love with my alter ego
He’s in love with my alter ego
I’m just the stand in
He parades me around for show
Ya see,
I am a good girl
with the manners and the degree
The debutante he takes home
To meet the family
I know he likes her more,
Because she is more fun
She likes Anime,
MMA,
Guns
and
Threesomes
She takes it in her bum
She swallows every load
Loves the taste of his
Cum
You know the type
Your regular
Whore next door!
She’s in to bondage and asphyxiation
He...
I’m just the stand in
He parades me around for show
Ya see,
I am a good girl
with the manners and the degree
The debutante he takes home
To meet the family
I know he likes her more,
Because she is more fun
She likes Anime,
MMA,
Guns
and
Threesomes
She takes it in her bum
She swallows every load
Loves the taste of his
Cum
You know the type
Your regular
Whore next door!
She’s in to bondage and asphyxiation
He...
#love
#funny
#SelfReflection #SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection #SelfDiscovery
347 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
14th Jan 2019 6:47pm
14th Jan 2019 6:47pm
QUEEN
Q.uietly
U.niquely
E.loquently
E.ffortlessly
N.ecessary
U.niquely
E.loquently
E.ffortlessly
N.ecessary
#identity
#myself
#SelfReflection #SelfWorth
#SelfReflection #SelfWorth
312 reads
8 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
14th Jan 2019 6:32pm
14th Jan 2019 6:32pm
Real Soon
YOU
Invited me to the party with your ex’s
And wonder why I act so damn
Disrespectful
Don’t want me to cause a scene
Don’t want me to bring out that bitch
We both know
I
AM
ITCHING
TO
BE
So you ask me to calm my vixen
Don’t be a
“Diva”
he says. Seriously? I am a lady always
However, these hoes are,
“MAD DISRESPECTFUL”
And this shit got me all kinds of
FUCKED UP
Gone make we lose my
West Coast cool
Get it together love
Our this little
"get...
Invited me to the party with your ex’s
And wonder why I act so damn
Disrespectful
Don’t want me to cause a scene
Don’t want me to bring out that bitch
We both know
I
AM
ITCHING
TO
BE
So you ask me to calm my vixen
Don’t be a
“Diva”
he says. Seriously? I am a lady always
However, these hoes are,
“MAD DISRESPECTFUL”
And this shit got me all kinds of
FUCKED UP
Gone make we lose my
West Coast cool
Get it together love
Our this little
"get...
#anger
#relationships
#LifeStruggles #funny
#LifeStruggles #funny
370 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
3rd Dec 2018 7:56am
3rd Dec 2018 7:56am
No Respect
I am fundamentally
Your
Foundation
The sole reason your thoughts
Center
A never ending torrent
Fueling your
ego
Yet,
you keep me
Always
Right outside my comfort zone
Never wanting me to get
“To comfortable”
I’m secure,
Yet never secured
I get fingered, but
Banged
Prepubescent interactions solely…
Keeping me at a distance
You know that long distance love type of thang
Similes and metaphors
Roll off your...
Your
Foundation
The sole reason your thoughts
Center
A never ending torrent
Fueling your
ego
Yet,
you keep me
Always
Right outside my comfort zone
Never wanting me to get
“To comfortable”
I’m secure,
Yet never secured
I get fingered, but
Banged
Prepubescent interactions solely…
Keeping me at a distance
You know that long distance love type of thang
Similes and metaphors
Roll off your...
#identity
#LifeChangingMoment
#myself #SelfReflection
#myself #SelfReflection
514 reads
5 Comments
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