Submissions by shadowsfallsoftly
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Shadows fall softly giving way to night. The blood sings in my veins so violently alive. Here in the shadows I find myself revived. Here dreaming in the darkness with all too open eyes.
EROTIC POEM
Published
24th Jul 2018 7:54am
24th Jul 2018 7:54am
consent
you've seen me naked. Truly naked.
I've jumped into your bed a thousand times.
Slept curled like a sleepy child against your chest but still as my body arches against you your hands around my hips..
you whisper "do you want me?"
"are you ready?"
I thought it was something sultry,
I didn't realize after all this time
you still ask for my consent
I've jumped into your bed a thousand times.
Slept curled like a sleepy child against your chest but still as my body arches against you your hands around my hips..
you whisper "do you want me?"
"are you ready?"
I thought it was something sultry,
I didn't realize after all this time
you still ask for my consent
#sex
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NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
15th Feb 2018 00:58am
15th Feb 2018 00:58am
non fiction essay please be harsh I'm editiing
When a caterpillar turns into a butterfly she splits her skin, wraps herself in a cocoon of spit and settles in for unimaginable pain. She waits in that silken prison each moment stretching, blending into the next, and when she emerges, we ooh and ah and admire her lovely wings never knowing what it costs her. I was twenty three before I knew her agony. Twenty one before I realized that change is painful, screaming, sobbing, into an old t-shirt, trying to catch those vestiges of scent; I knew they couldn't last forever, I knew eventually I would lose even the odor of that old t-shirt that I...
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
31st Dec 2017 8:28am
31st Dec 2017 8:28am
Writers block
I came here to scratch my pen across the page
To find, an old friend
someone I'd forgotten...
a lover, I guess
He's seen me bare
Naked to the skin
Sobbing in a mass of pillows
he knows me
he never calls
just a bruise across my cheek
bleeding ink..
To find, an old friend
someone I'd forgotten...
a lover, I guess
He's seen me bare
Naked to the skin
Sobbing in a mass of pillows
he knows me
he never calls
just a bruise across my cheek
bleeding ink..
673 reads
3 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
1st Jul 2017 6:57am
1st Jul 2017 6:57am
can't think of a name
I feel like a woman
when your eyes rake my skin
one eyebrow quirked approving
and you say
Go put on some clothes
you're grinning
a swat on the butt
as I go inside.
the confidential tone
as you look at a stranger
who's watching me
and say
isn't she sexy
I feel like a woman
debate seems like foreplay
yelling about a point that doesn't matter
until I realize
you did it on purpouse
I feel like a woman
stepping out of the shower
to find you in my bed ...
when your eyes rake my skin
one eyebrow quirked approving
and you say
Go put on some clothes
you're grinning
a swat on the butt
as I go inside.
the confidential tone
as you look at a stranger
who's watching me
and say
isn't she sexy
I feel like a woman
debate seems like foreplay
yelling about a point that doesn't matter
until I realize
you did it on purpouse
I feel like a woman
stepping out of the shower
to find you in my bed ...
590 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Jul 2017 6:43am
1st Jul 2017 6:43am
letter to a lost loved one
Dear Pj,
Day by day your fading
letters to the past
I know that's what you'de want
I've moved on like you asked...
Is it strange my new love knows you
from pictures
and stories that I've told
He doesn't begrudge your memory
the parts of me that he can't hold
Day by day your fading
letters to the past
I know that's what you'de want
I've moved on like you asked...
Is it strange my new love knows you
from pictures
and stories that I've told
He doesn't begrudge your memory
the parts of me that he can't hold
598 reads
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
31st Dec 2016 2:53am
31st Dec 2016 2:53am
death
I miss your calloused hands..
on strings
pulling music from that old guitar
I named jolene
I miss your arms around me
my head tucked into your chest
My safe place..
you were sunshine
you were rest
I wish... Oh god I wish I could wrap these words in lace
but your gone.
oh so gone
there's no way to escape.
I've written death a hundred times.
It came dripping from my pen
in poetry it was romantic
"And so the bloom hath faded from your cheek"
but death
real death is brutal
...
on strings
pulling music from that old guitar
I named jolene
I miss your arms around me
my head tucked into your chest
My safe place..
you were sunshine
you were rest
I wish... Oh god I wish I could wrap these words in lace
but your gone.
oh so gone
there's no way to escape.
I've written death a hundred times.
It came dripping from my pen
in poetry it was romantic
"And so the bloom hath faded from your cheek"
but death
real death is brutal
...
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
31st Dec 2016 2:42am
31st Dec 2016 2:42am
I'm a cam girl.
I'm a Cam Girl.
That annoying pop up porno
yep that's me,
Red pouting lips flaming hair
really, it's easy
just a push up and a pretty smile,
Faking is my job.
interest.
arousal
I can fake it all.
But not for you.
I come home with smeared mascara
my hair in messy waves
I curl up in your arms
No longer a fantasy.
Sometimes, you pull me into bed
and love me,
your hands reminding me
easily of pleasure
something that isn't fake.
you'd think I'de get tired
of filthy words ...
That annoying pop up porno
yep that's me,
Red pouting lips flaming hair
really, it's easy
just a push up and a pretty smile,
Faking is my job.
interest.
arousal
I can fake it all.
But not for you.
I come home with smeared mascara
my hair in messy waves
I curl up in your arms
No longer a fantasy.
Sometimes, you pull me into bed
and love me,
your hands reminding me
easily of pleasure
something that isn't fake.
you'd think I'de get tired
of filthy words ...
586 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
4th Jan 2016 00:55am
4th Jan 2016 00:55am
Alabaster words
I drew the pen searing against my alabaster wrist
and held it there dripping words flowing against
white, white skin
I spoke but no one listens
to a poet's pretty words
they fall in silence
abject silence
echoing through the hurt
this word is broken cracked
a horrid whitewashed thing
who feels
who thinks
who breaths
in this polluted place
the music doesn't resonate
three chords
monkeys plucking strings
and words empty words
no one really sings
we write convoluted sentences
...
and held it there dripping words flowing against
white, white skin
I spoke but no one listens
to a poet's pretty words
they fall in silence
abject silence
echoing through the hurt
this word is broken cracked
a horrid whitewashed thing
who feels
who thinks
who breaths
in this polluted place
the music doesn't resonate
three chords
monkeys plucking strings
and words empty words
no one really sings
we write convoluted sentences
...
809 reads
5 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
10th Dec 2015 9:00pm
10th Dec 2015 9:00pm
Rest in peace My love 2015
Memories of you fall like cherry blossoms from the trees
I try to catch them one by one
I chase them flying on the breeze
They are ripped
From my fingers
The touch of your lips
The sound of your laugh
I try so desperately to hold them
But I cannot have them back
The petals scatter
And lay forlorn upon the ground
Crinkling in the sun
I sob amongst these rotting flowers
And gather them to my face
But they’ve no smell
And of there sweetness I’ve only now a taste
And I am kneeling in the flowers
Sobbing...
I try to catch them one by one
I chase them flying on the breeze
They are ripped
From my fingers
The touch of your lips
The sound of your laugh
I try so desperately to hold them
But I cannot have them back
The petals scatter
And lay forlorn upon the ground
Crinkling in the sun
I sob amongst these rotting flowers
And gather them to my face
But they’ve no smell
And of there sweetness I’ve only now a taste
And I am kneeling in the flowers
Sobbing...
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LOVE POEM
Published
19th Oct 2015 4:14am
19th Oct 2015 4:14am
Nature is my lover
Take my hands and let me guide
you the whisper of silk against the ground
take my hands and let me guide you
to watch the shadows where they dance
Have you ever felt the moonlight kiss your cheek
or a raindrop fall upon your lips
the hands of the wind tangled in your hair?
Let me show you
you the whisper of silk against the ground
take my hands and let me guide you
to watch the shadows where they dance
Have you ever felt the moonlight kiss your cheek
or a raindrop fall upon your lips
the hands of the wind tangled in your hair?
Let me show you
739 reads
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