Submissions by olablinks (Ola)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
A green writer with the hopes of capturing personal, second-hand and muse-induced experiences in lines of beautifully engraved poetry.
LOVE POEM
Published
15th May 2021 10:10am
15th May 2021 10:10am
BECAUSE OF YOU
Completely inebriated
Fattened
Obese
With bubbling affection
Heart palpitations
Rosy cheeks
Raging hormones
Silly smiles
Stolen kisses
Daydreams in the sun
All because of you
Fattened
Obese
With bubbling affection
Heart palpitations
Rosy cheeks
Raging hormones
Silly smiles
Stolen kisses
Daydreams in the sun
All because of you
#love
#emotions
369 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
28th Jan 2020 9:33am
28th Jan 2020 9:33am
BROKEN PIECES OF GLASS
Many times they float around in my head
Feelings of anger, betrayal and hurt
And I mentally hold my tummy
Wanting to retch this despair out
The centre cannot hold
And my head aches
What can I do to get back my groove
What I can feel cannot be expressed as Coherently or as lucid
As the idea of who I am, should be
I claw desperately at words
I think
I crunch, I grind, I break
I think
I knock, I kick, I scratch
I think
I bang, I screech, I arrghhhh
Like broken pieces of glass
Floating in...
Feelings of anger, betrayal and hurt
And I mentally hold my tummy
Wanting to retch this despair out
The centre cannot hold
And my head aches
What can I do to get back my groove
What I can feel cannot be expressed as Coherently or as lucid
As the idea of who I am, should be
I claw desperately at words
I think
I crunch, I grind, I break
I think
I knock, I kick, I scratch
I think
I bang, I screech, I arrghhhh
Like broken pieces of glass
Floating in...
#despair
#FeelingLost
#suffering
#emptiness
#hurt
352 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
31st Oct 2019 10:29pm
31st Oct 2019 10:29pm
BROKEN
Heart beats
Like a room full of prisoners vying for escape
Pulling and pushing
Heart beats wildly against weak rib cages
The sheer force threatening to pull down the gaol bars..
Heart cracks
Like a mud house in harsh harmattan
Squeaking and squawking
Heart cracks steadily amidst putrid memories
The poignant smell snuffing out beautiful images
Heart breaks
Like a dam forcefully broken
Rushing and gushing
Heart breaks swiftly, emptying its bloody bank
The shatter signalling a painful end!
Like a room full of prisoners vying for escape
Pulling and pushing
Heart beats wildly against weak rib cages
The sheer force threatening to pull down the gaol bars..
Heart cracks
Like a mud house in harsh harmattan
Squeaking and squawking
Heart cracks steadily amidst putrid memories
The poignant smell snuffing out beautiful images
Heart breaks
Like a dam forcefully broken
Rushing and gushing
Heart breaks swiftly, emptying its bloody bank
The shatter signalling a painful end!
#sadness
#heartbroken
#hurt
414 reads
12 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Feb 2019 1:41pm
9th Feb 2019 1:41pm
DAUGHTERS OF CHIMAMANDA
Life for HER seem like a threat
A silent threat of 'don't you dare'!
Just know your place
And play your role
You should clean and cook and serve
And when you are done
The 'other room' awaits
How dare you complain
And raise your voice
Even the good lord made it so
You are nothing but damage control
A balm to ease a man's long woes
Your mother and mothers before her
Understood the need to silently obey
But a little 'school'and here you are
Raising dust and querying the gods
The world surely has...
A silent threat of 'don't you dare'!
Just know your place
And play your role
You should clean and cook and serve
And when you are done
The 'other room' awaits
How dare you complain
And raise your voice
Even the good lord made it so
You are nothing but damage control
A balm to ease a man's long woes
Your mother and mothers before her
Understood the need to silently obey
But a little 'school'and here you are
Raising dust and querying the gods
The world surely has...
#women
#LifeStruggles
393 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
28th Jul 2018 5:34pm
28th Jul 2018 5:34pm
ALMOST SCREWED
It's dark outside
I'm cold inside
Life wants to screw me
Tearing my door off its hinges
And there I lay
Bare and bored
Romancing the notion of faith
and fingering the possibility of hope
I'm cold inside
Life wants to screw me
Tearing my door off its hinges
And there I lay
Bare and bored
Romancing the notion of faith
and fingering the possibility of hope
#hope
#LifeStruggles
#faith
495 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Jul 2018 1:43pm
28th Jul 2018 1:43pm
Small girl, Big God
Our young girls have gone a-whorish
The sense of shame or propriety
Just as dispensable as their under wears
They give themselves new monikers
Reluctant for the tongue to speak
For a morsel of bread
They spread their legs
For every dick
Tom and Harry
They litter the social space
With their filth and shame
And recklessly proclaim
Small girl
Big God
The sense of shame or propriety
Just as dispensable as their under wears
They give themselves new monikers
Reluctant for the tongue to speak
For a morsel of bread
They spread their legs
For every dick
Tom and Harry
They litter the social space
With their filth and shame
And recklessly proclaim
Small girl
Big God
#God
#shame
553 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th Jun 2018 8:14am
11th Jun 2018 8:14am
ZERO COMMENTS
Flashes of my childhood
plagues me now...
every now and then
I play it out
Always changing schools
and starting over
Never getting the chance
to say good bye to newly made friends
before I'm a stranger all alone
in a big ugly school...
I carry this now like a bag of stones
and try to be nice to every new soul
that comes to a place where now i'm but old
I know how it feels to be all alone
and that's why I stalk DU newbies
dropping some sugar in the mentions
where before there were
ZERO COMMENTS.
plagues me now...
every now and then
I play it out
Always changing schools
and starting over
Never getting the chance
to say good bye to newly made friends
before I'm a stranger all alone
in a big ugly school...
I carry this now like a bag of stones
and try to be nice to every new soul
that comes to a place where now i'm but old
I know how it feels to be all alone
and that's why I stalk DU newbies
dropping some sugar in the mentions
where before there were
ZERO COMMENTS.
#love
#learning
475 reads
2 Comments
FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
8th Jun 2018 3:15pm
8th Jun 2018 3:15pm
Two minutes (part two)
We lay there lost in thoughts of our own, it is now the new normal not to share our fears with each other. Not too long ago it was when we shared every raving thought before they were completely formed.
I broke the silence 'I wish.... ' , I needn't say more, she understands what I mean beyond what I've said. We get each other like that. I think I'm not a spineless rat in not wanting this to be over, it is the feeling that my incomplete statement makes complete sense to her that I'll miss, the many looks that carry loaded meanings, the ways she knows me, understands me without...
I broke the silence 'I wish.... ' , I needn't say more, she understands what I mean beyond what I've said. We get each other like that. I think I'm not a spineless rat in not wanting this to be over, it is the feeling that my incomplete statement makes complete sense to her that I'll miss, the many looks that carry loaded meanings, the ways she knows me, understands me without...
#love
#heartbroken
#emotional
493 reads
3 Comments
FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
6th Jun 2018 4:04pm
6th Jun 2018 4:04pm
TWO MINUTES (PART 1)
We struggle to reach a bargain as I wrap my arm around her, she wriggled her body to disentangle herself from my embrace, but I couldn't let go, I held on with all the strength in me, I feel that might be the last time I will get this close. 'No' she said, as I felt her heart beat wildly in her chest, or maybe it was my heart beating erratically, I really cannot tell at this point, I was so far gone. My heart hurt deeply within my chest as I her words echo in my mind. ' I will never kiss you again' she said.
I must look pathetic, I see it in her eyes; the way she looks at me...
I must look pathetic, I see it in her eyes; the way she looks at me...
#sadness
#love
#rejection #emptiness
#rejection #emptiness
488 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Mar 2018 1:25pm
13th Mar 2018 1:25pm
TEMPORARY DEATH
The soothing hands we long for
To ferry us to yonder lands
This gift of divine bliss
We often do not hold dear
This God -made wonder...
The joys it gives a mother
Whose wailing child it's finally claimed
The joy it brings the man
whose back all day has been bent in labour
How we long everyday
to lay to rest life's woes
How we long for sleep; temporary death
A preview of eternal peace
To ferry us to yonder lands
This gift of divine bliss
We often do not hold dear
This God -made wonder...
The joys it gives a mother
Whose wailing child it's finally claimed
The joy it brings the man
whose back all day has been bent in labour
How we long everyday
to lay to rest life's woes
How we long for sleep; temporary death
A preview of eternal peace
#sleep
455 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Jan 2018 9:35am
14th Jan 2018 9:35am
BOUND
CLAUSTROPHOBIC
Locked in a dark tiny room
Groping and grasping...
FREEDOM
Windows of opportunity
Blows open
Climb through and run...
YET
Happiness cannot be found
In the blinding sun rays.
Locked in a dark tiny room
Groping and grasping...
FREEDOM
Windows of opportunity
Blows open
Climb through and run...
YET
Happiness cannot be found
In the blinding sun rays.
525 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
9th Jan 2018 4:09pm
9th Jan 2018 4:09pm
I AM A SURVIVOR
I am a survivor
I have survived the stares of a basilisk
The breath of a dragon
I have survived
The claws of Ceberus
The giant fangs of Medusa
I am a survivor
I have survived the fury of Typhon
I have solved the Sphinx's riddle
I have escaped the captivity of the lone-eyed cyclops
And rode on the wings of the Griffin
I am a survivor
I have survived the stares of a basilisk
The breath of a dragon
I have survived
The claws of Ceberus
The giant fangs of Medusa
I am a survivor
I have survived the fury of Typhon
I have solved the Sphinx's riddle
I have escaped the captivity of the lone-eyed cyclops
And rode on the wings of the Griffin
I am a survivor
#strength
#motivational
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