Submissions by tasia_arlene (Tasia Arlene)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write from the heart and experience. I see through words and create through feeling. I love dark and raw perspectives. I love the play on words through rhyme and dimension. Create, & cheers.
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Feb 2025 2:31am
19th Feb 2025 2:31am
hands~
I recognize you
So delicately
By the sight of your hands
Memories tease my brain
Of fingertips tracing my every curve
I told you I hated them
So you pulled them closer to you
Tangling us into one
To feel every scar
Caused by prior wounds and broken skin
You loved them
I could never wrap my head around that
To be admired for the things that kept me up at night
Violent depictions for me
Were glimpses that made your voice shake
Hips that fit...
So delicately
By the sight of your hands
Memories tease my brain
Of fingertips tracing my every curve
I told you I hated them
So you pulled them closer to you
Tangling us into one
To feel every scar
Caused by prior wounds and broken skin
You loved them
I could never wrap my head around that
To be admired for the things that kept me up at night
Violent depictions for me
Were glimpses that made your voice shake
Hips that fit...
#hurt
#love
#lust
#memories
#passion
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LOVE POEM
Published
8th Feb 2025 3:44am
8th Feb 2025 3:44am
*Vulnerable*
I struggle to write love poems
It’s easier to rip out my heart and show you how it bleeds
Gripped and dripping down impulsively tattooed arms and dampened sleeves
Staining the shirts of those who are never coming back
But wearing occasionally just to breathe their scent
One last time..
Before washing them in grey and faded memories
It feels dull
And emptiness starts to fill the skull
Biting down on chapped lips in a room of unfamiliar faces
Hoping one of them emanates a purple hue ...
It’s easier to rip out my heart and show you how it bleeds
Gripped and dripping down impulsively tattooed arms and dampened sleeves
Staining the shirts of those who are never coming back
But wearing occasionally just to breathe their scent
One last time..
Before washing them in grey and faded memories
It feels dull
And emptiness starts to fill the skull
Biting down on chapped lips in a room of unfamiliar faces
Hoping one of them emanates a purple hue ...
#heartbroken
#love
#memories
#SelfReflection
#vulnerability
98 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
29th Jan 2025 8:10pm
29th Jan 2025 8:10pm
Cinnamon
You forgot to call me beautiful, again
It’s a slow burn
But what’s new
So absorbed in her, you forgot to notice me
In the dress I bought for you, again
That should be lying on the floor
Begging for anything, just more
A touch of affection
Not a rise of reduction
Maybe direction
Only destruction
Taking everything from my soul
Give me never enough just to let me be whole
Maybe just enough to stick around
Excuses wilting all the roses
That I found
That lie in the sink and I pick apart
When I...
It’s a slow burn
But what’s new
So absorbed in her, you forgot to notice me
In the dress I bought for you, again
That should be lying on the floor
Begging for anything, just more
A touch of affection
Not a rise of reduction
Maybe direction
Only destruction
Taking everything from my soul
Give me never enough just to let me be whole
Maybe just enough to stick around
Excuses wilting all the roses
That I found
That lie in the sink and I pick apart
When I...
#emotions
#heartbroken
#hurt
#relationships
#sadness
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SELF POEM
Published
27th Jan 2025 9:00pm
27th Jan 2025 9:00pm
I hope to see you there
Gentle air fills dying lungs
Under blue skies and bitter chill
Folk tunes playing through blown out speakers
Nervousness fills aching bones
Picking lint off of an expensive sweater without breaking eye contact
How did I get here?
Years of dreaming was never enough
Restlessness and addiction kept me stuck
Until the final push from the one who promised to never let me fall
An open door to the visions that have flooded my brain since adolescence
A bigger view caused for an emotional afternoon
But who am I to...
Under blue skies and bitter chill
Folk tunes playing through blown out speakers
Nervousness fills aching bones
Picking lint off of an expensive sweater without breaking eye contact
How did I get here?
Years of dreaming was never enough
Restlessness and addiction kept me stuck
Until the final push from the one who promised to never let me fall
An open door to the visions that have flooded my brain since adolescence
A bigger view caused for an emotional afternoon
But who am I to...
#choices
#hope
#identity
#mirror
#SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
26th Nov 2024 2:35am
26th Nov 2024 2:35am
Slow Burn
Burning holes
In every photo
And sweater that still smells like you
Leaving behind only ashes and the smell of cigarettes on my finger tips
That pick at my cracked lips
As I watch them ignite the final glimpse of you
Ocean eyes reflecting orange flames
Gripping every last page that wrote the years entangled in memories and growth
And always ended between unwashed sheets
That still smelled like her
A feeling so familiar, yet so far away
With arms around you
Skin to skin
But seeming oceans away
Where I was left...
In every photo
And sweater that still smells like you
Leaving behind only ashes and the smell of cigarettes on my finger tips
That pick at my cracked lips
As I watch them ignite the final glimpse of you
Ocean eyes reflecting orange flames
Gripping every last page that wrote the years entangled in memories and growth
And always ended between unwashed sheets
That still smelled like her
A feeling so familiar, yet so far away
With arms around you
Skin to skin
But seeming oceans away
Where I was left...
#emotional
#grief
#hurt
#love
#prose
113 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
11th Nov 2024 3:17am
11th Nov 2024 3:17am
Dim
Pull away from me
And don’t stop
Until my tears turn to blood and wash me away
With nothing more to give
And everything to take
Like you wanted
That’s what you wanted, right?
When you held me close for only enough time to suck every breath from my lungs
And break every bone in my body
And use it for your shelter
To build the home we started together
For you to shatter every minute that felt tender
Because I could never be her
The one you painted with mirrors
To be reflections of me
Where only you could be free...
And don’t stop
Until my tears turn to blood and wash me away
With nothing more to give
And everything to take
Like you wanted
That’s what you wanted, right?
When you held me close for only enough time to suck every breath from my lungs
And break every bone in my body
And use it for your shelter
To build the home we started together
For you to shatter every minute that felt tender
Because I could never be her
The one you painted with mirrors
To be reflections of me
Where only you could be free...
#betrayal
#hurt
#loneliness
#love
#shame
187 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Jun 2024 3:35am
4th Jun 2024 3:35am
i found the moon
Endless, illuminating visions
Of the stranger that emanates a lavender hue.
Searching every shade, just trying to find you.
Under neon light and crying skies-
It began to intensify.
And to my surprise,
It wasn’t my purple where you reside.
It was me.
And it’s always been you.
Melting my passion and reds,
Into your soft and gentle blues.
Meeting each other’s skin to create a...
Of the stranger that emanates a lavender hue.
Searching every shade, just trying to find you.
Under neon light and crying skies-
It began to intensify.
And to my surprise,
It wasn’t my purple where you reside.
It was me.
And it’s always been you.
Melting my passion and reds,
Into your soft and gentle blues.
Meeting each other’s skin to create a...
#emotions
#hope
#love
#prose
#romantic
375 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
29th May 2024 5:47am
29th May 2024 5:47am
~ hypervigilance ~
I wish someone would have told me that the effortless ability to indulge every fiber of my being into all of those that came my way- would leave me cauterizing my surging wounds.
I wonder if I still would have chosen to be the same temporary home.
Or to love I would have become immune.
Or if I would have chosen to tear the flesh off of the first person who did me wrong with bear hands and wear it over my skin.
Or if I would have so carefully sliced into their chest to grip their rotting heart.
While I watched the blood run down my...
I wonder if I still would have chosen to be the same temporary home.
Or to love I would have become immune.
Or if I would have chosen to tear the flesh off of the first person who did me wrong with bear hands and wear it over my skin.
Or if I would have so carefully sliced into their chest to grip their rotting heart.
While I watched the blood run down my...
#dark
#love
#narrative
#prose
#shadows
212 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
27th Jun 2021 6:09am
27th Jun 2021 6:09am
Currents
Back to the place I once called home
Feeling everything and nothing at all
Seeing my reflection in the water
At the same place we fell in love with each other
Counting the freckles on my shoulder
Skipping heart shaped stones and promising me I’d never feel alone
I haven’t been back since you left me here to die
With broken clouds in your diamond eyes that shine brighter than the sky
The trees don’t seem as green, or so it seems
I’ve started a new life life and maybe that’s why it could be
So entangled in the lights that I’ve forgotten...
Feeling everything and nothing at all
Seeing my reflection in the water
At the same place we fell in love with each other
Counting the freckles on my shoulder
Skipping heart shaped stones and promising me I’d never feel alone
I haven’t been back since you left me here to die
With broken clouds in your diamond eyes that shine brighter than the sky
The trees don’t seem as green, or so it seems
I’ve started a new life life and maybe that’s why it could be
So entangled in the lights that I’ve forgotten...
#love
#nature
#memories
#WritingPoetry
#IMissYou
515 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
24th Jun 2021 9:16am
24th Jun 2021 9:16am
2 am
Quiet night
Full of mind chatter
The stars are getting louder
Consumed with moon light
Another cigarette sounds nice
To help sketch the words in my head
Aided by the leaves in the wind
Is it time to give in?
Why rest when the world is at peace?
Time isn’t real and everything’s at stake
I can see the vibrations in my space
Listening to the blues just fells better
Let me be in this lonely hour
Full of mind chatter
The stars are getting louder
Consumed with moon light
Another cigarette sounds nice
To help sketch the words in my head
Aided by the leaves in the wind
Is it time to give in?
Why rest when the world is at peace?
Time isn’t real and everything’s at stake
I can see the vibrations in my space
Listening to the blues just fells better
Let me be in this lonely hour
#insomnia
#sleep
#SelfReflection
650 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Jun 2021 9:45am
20th Jun 2021 9:45am
Hallucinate
A tab of confusion and a mind full of illusion.
Caused by delusion from the most perfect human.
Who leaves me fuming, my mind moving, and my garden blooming.
The growing fear of loosing an existence so pure makes me resistant…
To be persistent and trusting my gut that I have what it takes.
To pour every ounce of my being in to eyes that shine of honey lakes.
That drown my soul and swallow me whole.
Dripping colors from your pores and electric vibrations from behind closed doors.
I can’t grasp on to anything but the reflections of your...
Caused by delusion from the most perfect human.
Who leaves me fuming, my mind moving, and my garden blooming.
The growing fear of loosing an existence so pure makes me resistant…
To be persistent and trusting my gut that I have what it takes.
To pour every ounce of my being in to eyes that shine of honey lakes.
That drown my soul and swallow me whole.
Dripping colors from your pores and electric vibrations from behind closed doors.
I can’t grasp on to anything but the reflections of your...
#love
#romantic
#dreams
#drugs
#prose
469 reads
1 Comment
DRUGS POEM
Published
18th Apr 2021 11:55pm
18th Apr 2021 11:55pm
Scribe
It’s 3 am and I’m finally giving in.
I’ve been staring out my window, watching the rain. Through foggy glass and worse brain.
Every drop on this beautiful fucking window pain.
Clean and pure, no detour, a new beginning- this house is pulling at my core.
I wasn’t ready for this kind of love, this kind of growth, this kind of hope.
It’s only been a week, but I’m asking you to look through my jokes and see that, friends... I’m weak.
I’m reaching out for help but I don’t know how to explain myself.
The odds aren’t in my favor, I’m tasting a dangerous...
I’ve been staring out my window, watching the rain. Through foggy glass and worse brain.
Every drop on this beautiful fucking window pain.
Clean and pure, no detour, a new beginning- this house is pulling at my core.
I wasn’t ready for this kind of love, this kind of growth, this kind of hope.
It’s only been a week, but I’m asking you to look through my jokes and see that, friends... I’m weak.
I’m reaching out for help but I don’t know how to explain myself.
The odds aren’t in my favor, I’m tasting a dangerous...
#sadness
#anxiety
#addiction
#LifeCycle
#hurt
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1 Comment
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