Submissions by mantisdeer (Cait)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I'm being authentic. "Jump".. how high? 🙃
alaska
night show with light snow,
a capped mountain with lioness wars
waged between our legs.
i draw back covered in thorns,
they break the skin,
and freckle me with blood.
a singular bloody sword,
an unnecessary dirty word,
alaska
how i've dreamed, how i've remembered.
all that passion,
in books and tv, my childhood weeps
for all i've never seen.
it's not something that can be viewed. it must be felt.
it's cats, and snow. it's harbors, and fishes.
it's my innermost tingling wish,
my unknown lush...
a capped mountain with lioness wars
waged between our legs.
i draw back covered in thorns,
they break the skin,
and freckle me with blood.
a singular bloody sword,
an unnecessary dirty word,
alaska
how i've dreamed, how i've remembered.
all that passion,
in books and tv, my childhood weeps
for all i've never seen.
it's not something that can be viewed. it must be felt.
it's cats, and snow. it's harbors, and fishes.
it's my innermost tingling wish,
my unknown lush...
#sadness
#grief
#loneliness #disappointment
#loneliness #disappointment
219 reads
2 Comments
International Limbo Championship
The love governing my still tapping fingers
Is seeping beneath the carpet and starting to stink.
My carbon monoxide detector warns me of a Hannibal Lecter, in the doorway he lingers,
And I know my days are numbered.
The only console to my council is sucking the bottle dry, another six fly by, the wallpaper is peeling like my mind's smoke addle eye.
When I look down I realize, I've been digging for years, my blackened hands start to tremble. As I drag my gaze upward, I begin to really see.
Each hole hides a body, each body is me.
Is seeping beneath the carpet and starting to stink.
My carbon monoxide detector warns me of a Hannibal Lecter, in the doorway he lingers,
And I know my days are numbered.
The only console to my council is sucking the bottle dry, another six fly by, the wallpaper is peeling like my mind's smoke addle eye.
When I look down I realize, I've been digging for years, my blackened hands start to tremble. As I drag my gaze upward, I begin to really see.
Each hole hides a body, each body is me.
#heartbroken
#hurt
274 reads
3 Comments
i never learn the lesson
touch
brain
say
go.
needy
p
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a
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trust
slip
floor
concuss
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brain
say
go.
needy
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trust
slip
floor
concuss
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#hurt
267 reads
5 Comments
385 reads
1 Comment
289 reads
5 Comments
Nautical Sluice
Whittled, titillated,
demonstrative accolades.
Breaking spades in schools,
flash frying the batter,
lick it faster, see the saw horse whinny.
Double whammy the paddle,
"into the bottle scuttlebutt"
and swim a little harder!
The corporeal ladder
the 'gone but never forgotten,'
I thought then, begat severed head.
Uncle Slaughter, missing driver,
somewhere it shines 'tween hammerhead
spikes, the seaweed soiree,
and muddied sky slice.
demonstrative accolades.
Breaking spades in schools,
flash frying the batter,
lick it faster, see the saw horse whinny.
Double whammy the paddle,
"into the bottle scuttlebutt"
and swim a little harder!
The corporeal ladder
the 'gone but never forgotten,'
I thought then, begat severed head.
Uncle Slaughter, missing driver,
somewhere it shines 'tween hammerhead
spikes, the seaweed soiree,
and muddied sky slice.
#inspirational
#sea
#TruthOfLife
#metaphor
#bittersweet
364 reads
8 Comments
sump pump
Too subservient to notice,
entice me with your ignorance;
semantics,
pull down your pants "it,
just could never happen to me,"
I recognize, I see
inside all the liar's surprise,
it might make you believe
the mold up my sleeve.
My skin makes you crawl,
while I speak sick as you drawl,
"This girl isn't worth it,
a little something.. she might deserve it"
And you'll cut up my mouth,
a little lower is too far south.
The weather, the leather, ...
entice me with your ignorance;
semantics,
pull down your pants "it,
just could never happen to me,"
I recognize, I see
inside all the liar's surprise,
it might make you believe
the mold up my sleeve.
My skin makes you crawl,
while I speak sick as you drawl,
"This girl isn't worth it,
a little something.. she might deserve it"
And you'll cut up my mouth,
a little lower is too far south.
The weather, the leather, ...
#violence
#music
#lyrics #sensual
#lyrics #sensual
387 reads
The Morning After
Things were easy, I was free,
it was like an asphalt ski;
a trip through the lines
that told me you love me.
He broke me inside and smashed apart
every bitter piece of my heart;
left open and unending,
a ruined wretch defending.
I asked you for a picture
a group, you squeezed in,
I kissed your cheek,
and our laughter
was holier than
any church.
No choices, a blame game
who sits on a lame throne.
The one who wins will
never want, an effigy
suture to surify the bone. ...
it was like an asphalt ski;
a trip through the lines
that told me you love me.
He broke me inside and smashed apart
every bitter piece of my heart;
left open and unending,
a ruined wretch defending.
I asked you for a picture
a group, you squeezed in,
I kissed your cheek,
and our laughter
was holier than
any church.
No choices, a blame game
who sits on a lame throne.
The one who wins will
never want, an effigy
suture to surify the bone. ...
#dreams
#loneliness
#heartbroken
#emotional
#hurt
395 reads
9 Comments
Penetration
Sit me down and scold me,
you spit when you yell.
You're never one to hold me,
your forehead vein is telling.
The soft jazz yesterday
is ripped from me.
Raped and bleeding
I stagger back,
concede.
I'm the pea, you cannot sleep,
so you stumble into my body
with your fists;
upheld moans you cannot keep.
The floorboards hold their
secrets, the walls never breathe.
The mess is contained,
because I'm seething on my knees.
you spit when you yell.
You're never one to hold me,
your forehead vein is telling.
The soft jazz yesterday
is ripped from me.
Raped and bleeding
I stagger back,
concede.
I'm the pea, you cannot sleep,
so you stumble into my body
with your fists;
upheld moans you cannot keep.
The floorboards hold their
secrets, the walls never breathe.
The mess is contained,
because I'm seething on my knees.
#loneliness
#TruthOfLife
361 reads
4 Comments
Jason is not hot ( or any "J" name)
Awkward and stiff,
the stuff you returned,
actors guild
factors glide,
the seaside departure
of wrinkled man hide.
A fake incense,
the blow is intense,
nice to a fault,
but something's amiss.
the stuff you returned,
actors guild
factors glide,
the seaside departure
of wrinkled man hide.
A fake incense,
the blow is intense,
nice to a fault,
but something's amiss.
#CallToAction
#PopCulture
247 reads
1 Comment
Absentia
The mental retention
of retinol steroidal injections-
do I detect a note of rejection?
In case we fail the inspection,
and these lesions grow larger,
let's have a lager and creator/daughter
inside outer; it's the upside of being a space otter.
Now, if I seek, will you hide me?
Big voice speak, and ride me?
Of course it's over, under the radon
and up with the breeze.
Shoot me already, this fluff makes me
sneeze.
of retinol steroidal injections-
do I detect a note of rejection?
In case we fail the inspection,
and these lesions grow larger,
let's have a lager and creator/daughter
inside outer; it's the upside of being a space otter.
Now, if I seek, will you hide me?
Big voice speak, and ride me?
Of course it's over, under the radon
and up with the breeze.
Shoot me already, this fluff makes me
sneeze.
#love
#TruthOfLife
#myself #ThrillSeeking
#myself #ThrillSeeking
319 reads
5 Comments
Diagnostic Statistics of Mental Disorders (Abridged)
DSL from the DSM
DMV, and I.C.U.P.
ICP... jokes on me.
HPV: #Metwo, three.
DMV, and I.C.U.P.
ICP... jokes on me.
HPV: #Metwo, three.
#relationships
#Christian
#spiritual
#MentalHealth
#healing
394 reads
4 Comments
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