Submissions by rubyredheart
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
SELF POEM
Published
24th Nov 2021 6:36am
24th Nov 2021 6:36am
alternate reality—sensing you
I dream in all 5 senses of you.
The colors—
blue and red
your tender eyes
your beating heart and passionate lips
seaside sunset brilliance
The scents—
clean, shower-fresh;
tasty foods; tangerine;
and flowers--lavender and lilac
varies hues of scented roses in a city garden
The tastes—
shared popcorn, counted sushi, big soft pretzels;
a shot of vodka from your mouth--light-headed shock;
a freshly-brushed long minty kiss;
water licked from clean soft skin
The sounds—
rhythmic breathing ...
The colors—
blue and red
your tender eyes
your beating heart and passionate lips
seaside sunset brilliance
The scents—
clean, shower-fresh;
tasty foods; tangerine;
and flowers--lavender and lilac
varies hues of scented roses in a city garden
The tastes—
shared popcorn, counted sushi, big soft pretzels;
a shot of vodka from your mouth--light-headed shock;
a freshly-brushed long minty kiss;
water licked from clean soft skin
The sounds—
rhythmic breathing ...
#memories
310 reads
SELF POEM
Published
24th Nov 2021 6:30am
24th Nov 2021 6:30am
alternate reality—at the start (updated)
There's a bakery at the end of this dead-end street
It has lots of pastries with nothing to eat
I'm hungry so I hold your hand from across the miles
In your distant touch I feel a peace and start to smile
(a missing piece, more missed than missing now)
Let’s turn this dead-end to a through-street somehow
Even pouring concrete is romantic I’ve found
when done together with you…
Decades passed, in review:
I was happy on that journey, now sorry it’s through.
I miss being best friends with you.
It has lots of pastries with nothing to eat
I'm hungry so I hold your hand from across the miles
In your distant touch I feel a peace and start to smile
(a missing piece, more missed than missing now)
Let’s turn this dead-end to a through-street somehow
Even pouring concrete is romantic I’ve found
when done together with you…
Decades passed, in review:
I was happy on that journey, now sorry it’s through.
I miss being best friends with you.
#friendship
#memories
180 reads
ANGER POEM
Published
21st Nov 2021 3:49am
21st Nov 2021 3:49am
Cancer
Evil worm
Morphing flesh and blood of self into self-killers
Cell by cell,
Second by second,
Painful seconds lasting decades
While robbing years in moments.
1.
Devil who turned abuser into the abused,
who stole my Father
replaced him with a fragile husk
of rice-paper skin wracked by pain.
2.
The silent mutant
Sulking for 2 years in quiet hidden growth
Awoke to shout her fears (when finally found)
Violently slicing her badge of womanhood ...
Morphing flesh and blood of self into self-killers
Cell by cell,
Second by second,
Painful seconds lasting decades
While robbing years in moments.
1.
Devil who turned abuser into the abused,
who stole my Father
replaced him with a fragile husk
of rice-paper skin wracked by pain.
2.
The silent mutant
Sulking for 2 years in quiet hidden growth
Awoke to shout her fears (when finally found)
Violently slicing her badge of womanhood ...
#cancer
242 reads
SELF POEM
Published
20th Nov 2021 8:52am
20th Nov 2021 8:52am
Restless
Beyond midnight
Whiskey floods the veins
Unshed tears
Over ashes, these remains
Mourn the dead
Mourn the gone
Mourn the heart once strong
Now wrong
Mourn the squandered past
The empty now
Frozen memory of that final last Farewell
Empty broken words
Promises unkept
Pierced with sword
Of hopes inept
Future aimless fading figure
Letting restless sleep
At last take over
Whiskey floods the veins
Unshed tears
Over ashes, these remains
Mourn the dead
Mourn the gone
Mourn the heart once strong
Now wrong
Mourn the squandered past
The empty now
Frozen memory of that final last Farewell
Empty broken words
Promises unkept
Pierced with sword
Of hopes inept
Future aimless fading figure
Letting restless sleep
At last take over
#emptiness
554 reads
ANGER POEM
Published
12th Nov 2021 4:03am
12th Nov 2021 4:03am
Programmed
They wrote it on my DNA
From my mother’s mother’s mother
And all those aunts and uncles
The deacons, elders, teachers, preachers, leaders
They wrote me wrong:
“He’s weak, so be responsible”
“Don’t cry” “kneel down”
“Listen” “obey” “because I said so”
“sinner” “he died for YOU”
“Thou Shalt Not” … “shalt not” … “shalt not”…
“Be a good girl”, “say ‘sorry’”, “bow and pray”
“OBEY!”
“You must Forgive!!” Forgive, forgive…
(from infant, to girl, to breasts that grew)
Walk the line, speak OUR...
From my mother’s mother’s mother
And all those aunts and uncles
The deacons, elders, teachers, preachers, leaders
They wrote me wrong:
“He’s weak, so be responsible”
“Don’t cry” “kneel down”
“Listen” “obey” “because I said so”
“sinner” “he died for YOU”
“Thou Shalt Not” … “shalt not” … “shalt not”…
“Be a good girl”, “say ‘sorry’”, “bow and pray”
“OBEY!”
“You must Forgive!!” Forgive, forgive…
(from infant, to girl, to breasts that grew)
Walk the line, speak OUR...
#shame
#healing
#religion
539 reads
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Oct 2021 4:19am
30th Oct 2021 4:19am
Taken
flying free at night
twin sharp teeth of white
blood red need, throbbing bleed
ageless faces of eternal longing
blessed bite that brings belonging
fall towards my embrace
melancholy trace trickling from his tongue
naked mouth and I’m undone
Take me all, welcomed fiend
My hate, my love, my in-between
Ravish lips to lips and enter in
Forever hold, embrace of sin
Until I taste of your inferno
Together our memory eternal
twin sharp teeth of white
blood red need, throbbing bleed
ageless faces of eternal longing
blessed bite that brings belonging
fall towards my embrace
melancholy trace trickling from his tongue
naked mouth and I’m undone
Take me all, welcomed fiend
My hate, my love, my in-between
Ravish lips to lips and enter in
Forever hold, embrace of sin
Until I taste of your inferno
Together our memory eternal
#vampires
656 reads
SELF POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2021 1:44am
2nd Oct 2021 1:44am
Plain
Did it again
repeated my sin
Let those feelings take the wheel
Expectations so unreal
Thunderstorm that stole the sun
Fucked up wishes come undone
Days wrapped up in a blurring daze
Shit is scattered, lost, ablaze
…
As havoc’s ashes settle
passion is lost, no color
life has turned lack-luster
the fire has gone
just dullness on & on
Despair, an eternity
of empty
Wrong
repeated my sin
Let those feelings take the wheel
Expectations so unreal
Thunderstorm that stole the sun
Fucked up wishes come undone
Days wrapped up in a blurring daze
Shit is scattered, lost, ablaze
…
As havoc’s ashes settle
passion is lost, no color
life has turned lack-luster
the fire has gone
just dullness on & on
Despair, an eternity
of empty
Wrong
#emptiness
#apathy
298 reads
SELF POEM
Published
20th Sep 2021 7:19am
20th Sep 2021 7:19am
Dead
Sometimes you lose someone before they’re gone.
Sometimes you only really see them as they pass.
Sometimes you miss the simplicity of strong arms lifting a little child
or that sandpaper touch of a scruffy bedtime nuzzle.
Sometimes all the memories, good and bad,
start to fade
until all that is left is a blurry sense,
a desire not to lose any more.
Sometimes what we miss most
is the idea of who might have been.
Sometimes you only really see them as they pass.
Sometimes you miss the simplicity of strong arms lifting a little child
or that sandpaper touch of a scruffy bedtime nuzzle.
Sometimes all the memories, good and bad,
start to fade
until all that is left is a blurry sense,
a desire not to lose any more.
Sometimes what we miss most
is the idea of who might have been.
#grief
#death
195 reads
SELF POEM
Published
16th Sep 2021 6:51am
16th Sep 2021 6:51am
Fever
You are everywhere
You fill my thoughts
With you I WANT
to remove the mask
You wreak sweet havoc in my world
Love for you fevers me
Then,
just when I think I may finally be
immune to your contagion,
my temperature rises again,
as I imagine you inside,
stopping my breath.
I’m am incurably Lovesick
for you
You fill my thoughts
With you I WANT
to remove the mask
You wreak sweet havoc in my world
Love for you fevers me
Then,
just when I think I may finally be
immune to your contagion,
my temperature rises again,
as I imagine you inside,
stopping my breath.
I’m am incurably Lovesick
for you
#vulnerability
201 reads
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Sep 2021 3:57am
10th Sep 2021 3:57am
I stopped to notice
Pleasure came to me today:
A morning walk to school,
A meaningful talk,
That silly thought and giggle
From a five year old boy,
A neighbor’s shy pup
Snuggling against me as we conversed,
An anxiety lightened,
A caring hug,
After-school chatter—it was a good day,
Childish outdoor play—
Such creative creations!
Pleasure poured in measured moments
popping in
between the hum-drum marching minutes of life.
Pleasure waits
Today I recognized its friendly
Peek-a-boo game
And played along
A morning walk to school,
A meaningful talk,
That silly thought and giggle
From a five year old boy,
A neighbor’s shy pup
Snuggling against me as we conversed,
An anxiety lightened,
A caring hug,
After-school chatter—it was a good day,
Childish outdoor play—
Such creative creations!
Pleasure poured in measured moments
popping in
between the hum-drum marching minutes of life.
Pleasure waits
Today I recognized its friendly
Peek-a-boo game
And played along
#happiness
#hope
#gratitude
198 reads
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