Submissions by rubyredheart
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
LOVE POEM
Published
Yesterday 11:30pm
Yesterday 11:30pm
Love’s Cage
Not passionate and beautiful this love
But entangling hearts the same
Indeed the sentiment and bonds are stronger
Than romantic dreams beloved by poets
This heart is bound by 4
Two of need and birth and blood
One of time and habit
…of life together lived.
Next to these most robust fetters
Encaging heart, love and desire
How can ribbons of romantic rapture
Dare compete?
Yet those gentle ties of tenderness
Persist
unbreakable because
“Now these three remain:
faith, hope, and love—
but the greatest of...
But entangling hearts the same
Indeed the sentiment and bonds are stronger
Than romantic dreams beloved by poets
This heart is bound by 4
Two of need and birth and blood
One of time and habit
…of life together lived.
Next to these most robust fetters
Encaging heart, love and desire
How can ribbons of romantic rapture
Dare compete?
Yet those gentle ties of tenderness
Persist
unbreakable because
“Now these three remain:
faith, hope, and love—
but the greatest of...
#love
#family
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0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
Yesterday 4:03am
Yesterday 4:03am
As I see it
Would you believe
That serious selfie judged too dour by some
Is among my favorites?
Your eyes are such a deep
Eternal
Dusky Blue
Your lips are in the shape I remember so well
When you were reminded of our imminent end
Your scruffy chin invites
My stroking fingers
To draw closer
Touch and hold…
Your hair, so shower fresh…
This snapshot captures
so much of you
I love
All I see is
You
That serious selfie judged too dour by some
Is among my favorites?
Your eyes are such a deep
Eternal
Dusky Blue
Your lips are in the shape I remember so well
When you were reminded of our imminent end
Your scruffy chin invites
My stroking fingers
To draw closer
Touch and hold…
Your hair, so shower fresh…
This snapshot captures
so much of you
I love
All I see is
You
#love
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4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
27th Jan 2022 6:13pm
27th Jan 2022 6:13pm
Unsaid…again
Does it pain him THAT much
To give a fucking compliment?
Or maybe it’s just that
his best friend’s gorgeous wife
And her opinions
Matter more?
It’s one thing to say he’s bad with words
But when the words
are floating in the air between
To so stubbornly resist…
What does that say?
It says he doesn’t think it’s worth
TRYING
It says he doesn’t care
Enough
It is so exhausting
When the knife
Stabs
Daily
With the unspoken
and the unheard
To give a fucking compliment?
Or maybe it’s just that
his best friend’s gorgeous wife
And her opinions
Matter more?
It’s one thing to say he’s bad with words
But when the words
are floating in the air between
To so stubbornly resist…
What does that say?
It says he doesn’t think it’s worth
TRYING
It says he doesn’t care
Enough
It is so exhausting
When the knife
Stabs
Daily
With the unspoken
and the unheard
#hurt
26 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
27th Jan 2022 4:47pm
27th Jan 2022 4:47pm
By This Haze Bewildered
Searching
Scouting
For that elusive hAwK
Through Spires in the fog
Despair…for all that’s visible
Jagged points of shadow
In this earth-bound cloud
Of chilly grayish gloom
Has this beloved bird
Flown
Leaving me to blindly grasp
And cry
At shadows
In the haze?
Scouting
For that elusive hAwK
Through Spires in the fog
Despair…for all that’s visible
Jagged points of shadow
In this earth-bound cloud
Of chilly grayish gloom
Has this beloved bird
Flown
Leaving me to blindly grasp
And cry
At shadows
In the haze?
#confusion
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2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
27th Jan 2022 7:25am
27th Jan 2022 7:25am
I ask
Though you take
All else
Please don’t steal
My hope
of
Someday
All else
Please don’t steal
My hope
of
Someday
#hope
37 reads
7 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
27th Jan 2022 7:07am
27th Jan 2022 7:07am
on After Life
Tonight I tasted tears
Dealing with the death
In silence
Susurrating through my soul
Salty water
Touching tongue
As I mourn
This final absence
Memories emerge as living
Re-enactments
Of together
ness
That cannot be
Replaced
And all I want
Is to go back…
to …”Stay in this moment
Go where it’s flowing”
Back to when
you were “what you want to be
Right here with me”
My heart breaks again
Daily
In the mourning
This persistence of memory
This death
This absence
….
Dealing with the death
In silence
Susurrating through my soul
Salty water
Touching tongue
As I mourn
This final absence
Memories emerge as living
Re-enactments
Of together
ness
That cannot be
Replaced
And all I want
Is to go back…
to …”Stay in this moment
Go where it’s flowing”
Back to when
you were “what you want to be
Right here with me”
My heart breaks again
Daily
In the mourning
This persistence of memory
This death
This absence
….
#grief
#death
#memories
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LOVE POEM
Published
26th Jan 2022 4:30pm
26th Jan 2022 4:30pm
Whipping girl
Are you aching
Let me share your pain
Are you bleeding through
I’ll be your tourniquet
Is a bullet lodged
Driving you insane
Although I’m squeamish
I will extract it
And suture up the gaping hole
Are you suffering
From those worst blows only emotions
Strike
Turning you into
your Worst enemy
Let me be your shield
I’d be bludgeoned for you
Let me take it all
I’ll be your whipping girl
Let me share your pain
Are you bleeding through
I’ll be your tourniquet
Is a bullet lodged
Driving you insane
Although I’m squeamish
I will extract it
And suture up the gaping hole
Are you suffering
From those worst blows only emotions
Strike
Turning you into
your Worst enemy
Let me be your shield
I’d be bludgeoned for you
Let me take it all
I’ll be your whipping girl
#love
#hurt
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5 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
25th Jan 2022 6:38am
25th Jan 2022 6:38am
Silence
Children should be seen, not heard”
Into this shushing world
the silent sister was born
Quietly tortured by her silent acceptance
As welts formed on a half-drowned brother
‘Till finally when the boy was tossed
Like a floppy doll
She quietly rode away
Away from that silent house
Towards the education that
Silently
Spoke of freedom
Eventually
Her festering roots budded
across a silent continent
Yet the silence
(“Like a cancer” grew)
She never knew
How to speak
Words of heart & mind ...
Into this shushing world
the silent sister was born
Quietly tortured by her silent acceptance
As welts formed on a half-drowned brother
‘Till finally when the boy was tossed
Like a floppy doll
She quietly rode away
Away from that silent house
Towards the education that
Silently
Spoke of freedom
Eventually
Her festering roots budded
across a silent continent
Yet the silence
(“Like a cancer” grew)
She never knew
How to speak
Words of heart & mind ...
#silence
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2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
25th Jan 2022 3:42am
25th Jan 2022 3:42am
Reality Smacks Hard
Like 35 degrees and fog
After sunny and 85°…
Like a full house of cluttered chilly rooms
After a clean lanai sunset…
Like gazing down an abysmal fall
Finding the safety-bar broken
After the ride of my life
On this roller-coaster of you…
Like communication breakthrough
Only to awake and find love fled…
Like despair
After hope had bloomed…
Like monotonous repetition of years
Punctuated by stressors
After a taste of heaven.
Yes, reality
Smacks hardest
Just when the wings have strengthened
For flight
After sunny and 85°…
Like a full house of cluttered chilly rooms
After a clean lanai sunset…
Like gazing down an abysmal fall
Finding the safety-bar broken
After the ride of my life
On this roller-coaster of you…
Like communication breakthrough
Only to awake and find love fled…
Like despair
After hope had bloomed…
Like monotonous repetition of years
Punctuated by stressors
After a taste of heaven.
Yes, reality
Smacks hardest
Just when the wings have strengthened
For flight
#LifeStruggles
#disappointment
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SELF POEM
Published
24th Jan 2022 9:25pm
24th Jan 2022 9:25pm
Truth in the Tales
Dad, you were such a conflict.
An Artist—but you missed metaphor.
Poetry was senseless
In the strange web of your head.
Yet you wove poetry into your stories
And life.
Oh, What a yarn-weaver you were!
What was true and what was tallest
Tale?
I’ll never know.
Your two little girls eagerly begging
For a story
Didn’t care.
In that, you were an amazing dad!
(Let’s skip the angry bits today)
Most who knew you kept you high
On a ridiculous pedestal—
Unreasonable placement for
An Adrenaline...
An Artist—but you missed metaphor.
Poetry was senseless
In the strange web of your head.
Yet you wove poetry into your stories
And life.
Oh, What a yarn-weaver you were!
What was true and what was tallest
Tale?
I’ll never know.
Your two little girls eagerly begging
For a story
Didn’t care.
In that, you were an amazing dad!
(Let’s skip the angry bits today)
Most who knew you kept you high
On a ridiculous pedestal—
Unreasonable placement for
An Adrenaline...
#family
#confessional
#memories #honesty
#memories #honesty
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2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
24th Jan 2022 5:22pm
24th Jan 2022 5:22pm
Counting the ways
I hear you
Say sans words
“I care”
I feel you
Hold me
Touchlessly
A whisper:
“I’d be there
If I could”
In your quiet, distant, absent
Presence
I feel your comfort
As a gentle brush of wind
On my tear-dampened cheek
For this
I am thankful
…still lucky to have had you
To miss
Say sans words
“I care”
I feel you
Hold me
Touchlessly
A whisper:
“I’d be there
If I could”
In your quiet, distant, absent
Presence
I feel your comfort
As a gentle brush of wind
On my tear-dampened cheek
For this
I am thankful
…still lucky to have had you
To miss
#love
#friendship
#gratitude #IMissYou
#gratitude #IMissYou
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SELF POEM
Published
24th Jan 2022 5:17am
24th Jan 2022 5:17am
Equation
What do you do
When you’re stuck in a rut
19 years in the making?
What do you do
When more important
hearts
Than yours
Are on the line?
What do you do
When the logic piles up
against
your emptiness
Saying “buck up,
Buttercup,
And deal”?
What do you do
When all the reasons cry,
“STAY”
In this prison for your heart?
What do you do
When the counselors repeat
Well-meaning aphorisms
For “irrational thoughts”
Dismissing your truths
As ridiculous?
What do you do
When you...
When you’re stuck in a rut
19 years in the making?
What do you do
When more important
hearts
Than yours
Are on the line?
What do you do
When the logic piles up
against
your emptiness
Saying “buck up,
Buttercup,
And deal”?
What do you do
When all the reasons cry,
“STAY”
In this prison for your heart?
What do you do
When the counselors repeat
Well-meaning aphorisms
For “irrational thoughts”
Dismissing your truths
As ridiculous?
What do you do
When you...
#sadness
#hope
#dreams #emptiness
#dreams #emptiness
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