Submissions by tell_me_wy
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction I write often, but rarely post things anywhere. I don’t know what to make of my writing most days. I tend to write love poems, or racy stuff. Rather, I write racy stuff and occasionally love poems.
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2022 3:46am
23rd Jan 2022 3:46am
Finale
Thunderstorm without,
And all these city lights
Blending neon watercolor:
Kaleidoscopic sight.
The drops, in rhythm,
Tap the pane;
Now and then a thunder crash
Bellows it’s refrain.
I stand alone,
Within this busy home;
A final breath to breathe,
Ere again I must roam.
And all these city lights
Blending neon watercolor:
Kaleidoscopic sight.
The drops, in rhythm,
Tap the pane;
Now and then a thunder crash
Bellows it’s refrain.
I stand alone,
Within this busy home;
A final breath to breathe,
Ere again I must roam.
#grief
#hope
#homelessness
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EROTIC POEM
Published
12th Jan 2022 9:08am
12th Jan 2022 9:08am
Recitation
#lust
#erotic
#lover
#sensual
#passion
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1 Comment
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th Jan 2022 11:33pm
11th Jan 2022 11:33pm
Winter
The room, once white,
now fading gold;
The day, once young,
is growing old.
now fading gold;
The day, once young,
is growing old.
#winter
#night
#sleep
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2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
11th Jan 2022 10:22pm
11th Jan 2022 10:22pm
Torn
Loneliness is in my name;
Longing just to be known.
But such desire seems bring shame,
And I feel it can never be shown.
Longing just to be known.
But such desire seems bring shame,
And I feel it can never be shown.
#depression
#grief
#loneliness
#FeelingLost
#fear
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1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
11th Jan 2022 4:17am
11th Jan 2022 4:17am
Seasons
She dances as the autumn gold
Falling from the trees;
As soft and pure as a new
Breath out of the sea;
Her laughter is a sudden burst
Of warm summer sea breeze;
And shining bright as Christmas lights
Her eyes brim with joie de vivre.
Falling from the trees;
As soft and pure as a new
Breath out of the sea;
Her laughter is a sudden burst
Of warm summer sea breeze;
And shining bright as Christmas lights
Her eyes brim with joie de vivre.
#hope
#beauty
#lover
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3 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
8th Jan 2022 5:01am
8th Jan 2022 5:01am
Character
Beauty is a garden
At the edge of Winter’s whim;
Character is an oak
Undaunted by its wind.
At the edge of Winter’s whim;
Character is an oak
Undaunted by its wind.
#beauty
#winter
#wind
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Dec 2021 6:26am
30th Dec 2021 6:26am
11:11
Some sort of wishy-washy magical mediocrity,
This random set of similar numbers
Grinning on the clock face;
I fall asleep with the lights on,
With liquor in my veins,
And I can’t figure if these are to
Ward off the memories of you
Or bring them back again;
They’ll say
I never knew what love was about.
You rarely
Showered me with grace.
But I suppose
I might break again
Should I see the wonder of your face.
I can never win you back.
My dreams all play in grey.
But, oh! All that I would give ...
This random set of similar numbers
Grinning on the clock face;
I fall asleep with the lights on,
With liquor in my veins,
And I can’t figure if these are to
Ward off the memories of you
Or bring them back again;
They’ll say
I never knew what love was about.
You rarely
Showered me with grace.
But I suppose
I might break again
Should I see the wonder of your face.
I can never win you back.
My dreams all play in grey.
But, oh! All that I would give ...
#love
#grief
#hurt
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LOVE POEM
Published
28th Dec 2021 5:42am
28th Dec 2021 5:42am
Heart
I think I figured out
why I never took you up
on that parting drink:
You’d have walked into that bar,
a shimmer on a storm cloud,
just as beautiful as
every day I had with you.
You’d have smiled awkwardly,
that weird sort of uncertain smile
that I wanted to kiss
again and again.
We’d have talked,
maybe laughed,
maybe hugged,
but at the end we’d go out the door
under the star-flecked sky
and you’d ask me why
and I’d ask you why (but I knew).
I cannot keep what is not mine, ...
why I never took you up
on that parting drink:
You’d have walked into that bar,
a shimmer on a storm cloud,
just as beautiful as
every day I had with you.
You’d have smiled awkwardly,
that weird sort of uncertain smile
that I wanted to kiss
again and again.
We’d have talked,
maybe laughed,
maybe hugged,
but at the end we’d go out the door
under the star-flecked sky
and you’d ask me why
and I’d ask you why (but I knew).
I cannot keep what is not mine, ...
#love
#grief
#heartbroken
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
28th Dec 2021 5:39am
28th Dec 2021 5:39am
Deficit
Watching shadows
slinking along the ceiling:
sleep ever elusive;
Listening to radio secrets
on old headphones;
Recalling the deep scent of
winter woodsmoke
at the edge of childhood;
Too familiar with
that sweet rich tobacco scent,
longing for it like
the last kiss we ever shared;
Staring far into the night,
wondering,
if morning should come,
will there yet be
a place in it for me?
My old soul
will spend these dark hours
whispering irreverent prayers
and ...
slinking along the ceiling:
sleep ever elusive;
Listening to radio secrets
on old headphones;
Recalling the deep scent of
winter woodsmoke
at the edge of childhood;
Too familiar with
that sweet rich tobacco scent,
longing for it like
the last kiss we ever shared;
Staring far into the night,
wondering,
if morning should come,
will there yet be
a place in it for me?
My old soul
will spend these dark hours
whispering irreverent prayers
and ...
#grief
#hope
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EROTIC POEM
Published
11th Dec 2021 11:43am
11th Dec 2021 11:43am
Eve
#love
#sex
#rain #lover
#rain #lover
199 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
25th Nov 2021 1:00pm
25th Nov 2021 1:00pm
Life
Truth be told,
I want someone to hold,
To walk this life with me.
It’s rather lonely.
I want someone to hold,
To walk this life with me.
It’s rather lonely.
#loneliness
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3 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
18th Nov 2021 3:45am
18th Nov 2021 3:45am
Fraud
I scribble these thoughts,
Or fevered dreams,
Or restless nightmares,
For no eyes but mine,
And God’s,
If he blithely looks this way.
These are not sanctioned thoughts
Nor kosher ideas,
There is nothing here
For the willfully banal
But beauty and profanity.
I write because I must;
I cannot not.
I cannot contain myself fully
As an unlit Roman candle on a summer night
Waiting to burn, just to die.
I take handfuls of hand-me-down words
And cast them into unceremonious pieces;
Words better left to the ...
Or fevered dreams,
Or restless nightmares,
For no eyes but mine,
And God’s,
If he blithely looks this way.
These are not sanctioned thoughts
Nor kosher ideas,
There is nothing here
For the willfully banal
But beauty and profanity.
I write because I must;
I cannot not.
I cannot contain myself fully
As an unlit Roman candle on a summer night
Waiting to burn, just to die.
I take handfuls of hand-me-down words
And cast them into unceremonious pieces;
Words better left to the ...
#confessional
#weakness
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