Submissions by rubyredheart
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
21st Feb 2022 4:42pm
21st Feb 2022 4:42pm
Held
Your hug communicates so much
It tells me everything is okay
That I am loved for all of who I am…
mutual embrace
It tells me everything is okay
That I am loved for all of who I am…
mutual embrace
#dreams
444 reads
SELF POEM
Published
21st Feb 2022 2:33am
21st Feb 2022 2:33am
Memories & Moments
The memories of you are so happy. Once again I'm insatiable. I want more. The longing is so strong to keep building memories. Simple things--the belt I wore today reminded me of the giver, a song I listened to took me back to a shared couch. Even a world apart it can happen--walking/blading together, trying to make you laugh just to enjoy the sound, shared drinks, hearing college anecdotes complete with illustrations. Is all this evil? Or is it the craving, the hunger that grows on the memories, that tarnishes the taste and numbs the present moments. Right now, I choose to live in the moment....
#memories
109 reads
SELF POEM
Published
20th Feb 2022 5:31pm
20th Feb 2022 5:31pm
for the heart of you
I would cross the world
to feel your fierce soul enter mine
to have your essence exude & overflow my inner being
I have so long desired to be filled by you.
I would lay the path, stone by stone,
to the home of soothing comfort
resting skin on skin within your firm hold.
Every path would lead to your desires,
that all might be fulfilled
this loneliness of heart banished far away
by our safe embrace of love
In with your denial,
I must resign these wishes to realms of fantasies
Perhaps, we live on together
in some...
to feel your fierce soul enter mine
to have your essence exude & overflow my inner being
I have so long desired to be filled by you.
I would lay the path, stone by stone,
to the home of soothing comfort
resting skin on skin within your firm hold.
Every path would lead to your desires,
that all might be fulfilled
this loneliness of heart banished far away
by our safe embrace of love
In with your denial,
I must resign these wishes to realms of fantasies
Perhaps, we live on together
in some...
#StreamOfConsciousness
191 reads
SELF POEM
Published
20th Feb 2022 4:01am
20th Feb 2022 4:01am
Righting Wrongs
Why do I so often get it wrong?
I got it wrong when I stuck with a sect so long.
I got it wrong when I didn’t live life in the moment,
when I saw relationships with a check-list view
rather than enjoying the journey.
I was wrong to trust the biased voices setting limitations
(“you’d never manage in medicine”)
rather than following my passion.
I got it wrong when I felt I wasn’t adequate or desirable,
when I didn’t believe I couldn’t do better,
when I allowed my voice to be shushed,
when I didn’t expect my heart-needs could be met. ...
I got it wrong when I stuck with a sect so long.
I got it wrong when I didn’t live life in the moment,
when I saw relationships with a check-list view
rather than enjoying the journey.
I was wrong to trust the biased voices setting limitations
(“you’d never manage in medicine”)
rather than following my passion.
I got it wrong when I felt I wasn’t adequate or desirable,
when I didn’t believe I couldn’t do better,
when I allowed my voice to be shushed,
when I didn’t expect my heart-needs could be met. ...
#SelfReflection
100 reads
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Feb 2022 7:54pm
19th Feb 2022 7:54pm
The Gallery
Strolling through the gallery together
We gaze upon each work in awe
Appreciating lines, angles, colors and contrasts
We spend some time in admiration
Of “A Morning in France”
As we stand beneath a rounded tree
(So much majesty in trees)
Our fingers running o’er the bright lavender buds
The growing rows spread out before us
In perfect lines converging
To the sunrise full of glorious shades so bright to highlight
the shadowy silvered clouds.
With a lingering backward glance
we progress to “A Sky Full of Stars” ...
We gaze upon each work in awe
Appreciating lines, angles, colors and contrasts
We spend some time in admiration
Of “A Morning in France”
As we stand beneath a rounded tree
(So much majesty in trees)
Our fingers running o’er the bright lavender buds
The growing rows spread out before us
In perfect lines converging
To the sunrise full of glorious shades so bright to highlight
the shadowy silvered clouds.
With a lingering backward glance
we progress to “A Sky Full of Stars” ...
#art
200 reads
SELF POEM
Published
19th Feb 2022 3:59am
19th Feb 2022 3:59am
Precious
I always manage to prance
with “diamonds on the soles” of my feet
they make this fragile life
a far more fascinating dance.
Once, a long long time ago
someone slipped one in my drink I think—
the diamond I swallowed…
it stayed lodged in my throat to glisten or prick
as I twirl and spin on my jewels.
It serves to remind me of an imaginary different life,
solid as that diamond,
fragile as the crystal glassware shattered on this floor
where I twirl & spin & prance so delicately,
so boldly
“To...
with “diamonds on the soles” of my feet
they make this fragile life
a far more fascinating dance.
Once, a long long time ago
someone slipped one in my drink I think—
the diamond I swallowed…
it stayed lodged in my throat to glisten or prick
as I twirl and spin on my jewels.
It serves to remind me of an imaginary different life,
solid as that diamond,
fragile as the crystal glassware shattered on this floor
where I twirl & spin & prance so delicately,
so boldly
“To...
#dreams
115 reads
SELF POEM
Published
18th Feb 2022 3:22pm
18th Feb 2022 3:22pm
Confession
Beloved, I won’t lie:
Even when you are the devil in my life
of despairing love and loss
tormenting me with hopelessness,
you remain God of All Secret Pleasures in my fantasies.
There you take me to new heights of satisfaction
such as none has yet nor likely ever will.
Today I worshiped at your alter, prayers transporting me into your heaven.
Having met again the god, strength is renewed to endure the Silent Devil.
Even when you are the devil in my life
of despairing love and loss
tormenting me with hopelessness,
you remain God of All Secret Pleasures in my fantasies.
There you take me to new heights of satisfaction
such as none has yet nor likely ever will.
Today I worshiped at your alter, prayers transporting me into your heaven.
Having met again the god, strength is renewed to endure the Silent Devil.
#confessional
316 reads
SELF POEM
Published
18th Feb 2022 00:24am
18th Feb 2022 00:24am
Mental Meanderings
Heart so broken
Emerging from fantasy to face reality & know
You don’t love me anymore
Am I a burden for you to shake free & forget?
…A stray puppy you fed that followed you home
To whine and yap all night on your porch
Ruining your night.
I’m the mistake you fear,
the one you fucked because it seemed a novelty
to crush a bloom but then the scent turned noxious
So you buried it deep…
I’m the land-mine you buried and forgot
& now fear treading down that path
Do not fear.
I will not burst your bubble, won’t...
Emerging from fantasy to face reality & know
You don’t love me anymore
Am I a burden for you to shake free & forget?
…A stray puppy you fed that followed you home
To whine and yap all night on your porch
Ruining your night.
I’m the mistake you fear,
the one you fucked because it seemed a novelty
to crush a bloom but then the scent turned noxious
So you buried it deep…
I’m the land-mine you buried and forgot
& now fear treading down that path
Do not fear.
I will not burst your bubble, won’t...
#confessional
257 reads
SELF POEM
Published
17th Feb 2022 7:37pm
17th Feb 2022 7:37pm
Gone
Knowing you’ve had your last goodbye
When your soul needs more time
Is heart-wrenching.
I needed more time.
I’d only just learned what it was like
to be loved by you when you departed.
I wasn’t ready to say Good-bye.
I don’t think I ever would be…
When your soul needs more time
Is heart-wrenching.
I needed more time.
I’d only just learned what it was like
to be loved by you when you departed.
I wasn’t ready to say Good-bye.
I don’t think I ever would be…
#IMissYou
342 reads
SELF POEM
Published
17th Feb 2022 4:10pm
17th Feb 2022 4:10pm
My Choice
My life, my choice” I’d always say
A strength forgotten in recent days
Reminded now to take it back
The choice to get my thoughts on track
So counting blessings one by one
—I’m deep in love with my 2 sons
—of basic needs we’re well supplied
—true friends, the best prize, by my side
—my mind and body work quite well
Hmm, overall my life is swell.
So hush now thoughts of discontent
Though one most loved is not present
Still this heart WILL find its smile
This day, I’ll live my life with style.
A strength forgotten in recent days
Reminded now to take it back
The choice to get my thoughts on track
So counting blessings one by one
—I’m deep in love with my 2 sons
—of basic needs we’re well supplied
—true friends, the best prize, by my side
—my mind and body work quite well
Hmm, overall my life is swell.
So hush now thoughts of discontent
Though one most loved is not present
Still this heart WILL find its smile
This day, I’ll live my life with style.
#choices
164 reads
SELF POEM
Published
16th Feb 2022 11:34pm
16th Feb 2022 11:34pm
As you wish
What would you wish of me?
Would you have me disappear forever from your sphere?
Would you want me silently, barely present in your farthest periphery?
Would you ask I hush, shush & bury feelings,
pretending?
here again, a little sad & broken, seeing how
unquenchable desire wreaked wreckage
It would thrill me to hear from you
sentiments of love, affection & desire…
But since that cannot be,
I’m content in the friend-zoned
(wishing we could speak as true friends, freely)
This one-sided conversation,...
Would you have me disappear forever from your sphere?
Would you want me silently, barely present in your farthest periphery?
Would you ask I hush, shush & bury feelings,
pretending?
here again, a little sad & broken, seeing how
unquenchable desire wreaked wreckage
It would thrill me to hear from you
sentiments of love, affection & desire…
But since that cannot be,
I’m content in the friend-zoned
(wishing we could speak as true friends, freely)
This one-sided conversation,...
#confusion
222 reads
SELF POEM
Published
16th Feb 2022 7:35pm
16th Feb 2022 7:35pm
Heartbreak Awakening
Again
I’m sorry
It seems each wish of mine
Sent floating on the breeze to cross
This great expanse of space ‘twixt you and me, serves only as another brick to build your wall
& further block me from your life
and love and heart—
my heartbreak
awakening
Again
I’m sorry
It seems each wish of mine
Sent floating on the breeze to cross
This great expanse of space ‘twixt you and me, serves only as another brick to build your wall
& further block me from your life
and love and heart—
my heartbreak
awakening
Again
#heartbroken
#UnrequitedLove
360 reads
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