Submissions by thinlane
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I just wander through my mind and pick up what's lying around on any given day. I'm not a trained poet but I enjoy writing nonetheless. It seems like a good way to drain the demons in my head in a constructive manner.
SELF POEM
Published
3rd Dec 2019 4:46am
3rd Dec 2019 4:46am
Bone Weary
I'm feeling bone deep weariness
Which is not to say that I'm tired
Though I am that as well
I simply feel an overwhelming lassitude
That runs to the core of my being
It seems to make simple joy and happiness
Something that takes a lot of energy
Weariness sucks the life out of me
I simply have no idea what that cause is
And the simple act of wondering about it makes me feel
Even more weary
I don't see any end to this feeling
Since I don't understand it
So I just thought I'd tell you all about it
In case you wonder why I...
Which is not to say that I'm tired
Though I am that as well
I simply feel an overwhelming lassitude
That runs to the core of my being
It seems to make simple joy and happiness
Something that takes a lot of energy
Weariness sucks the life out of me
I simply have no idea what that cause is
And the simple act of wondering about it makes me feel
Even more weary
I don't see any end to this feeling
Since I don't understand it
So I just thought I'd tell you all about it
In case you wonder why I...
#confessional
495 reads
4 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
28th Nov 2019 9:50pm
28th Nov 2019 9:50pm
Loving
Sensation lingers like a touch of flame
Seeming to burn within my animal brain
Carnal intentions in my fingertips
Bring your heart and thoughts to a fever pitch
Instinct alone can guide the scene from here
We've played these games a thousand times or more
Fingers and tongues with touches oh so light
Your skin begins to sear
With a single touch I feel your urgency
Your sweat dewed face a marvel to see
The heat from within burns at a thousand degrees
And a strangled cry escapes your throat just for me
Constant contact...
Seeming to burn within my animal brain
Carnal intentions in my fingertips
Bring your heart and thoughts to a fever pitch
Instinct alone can guide the scene from here
We've played these games a thousand times or more
Fingers and tongues with touches oh so light
Your skin begins to sear
With a single touch I feel your urgency
Your sweat dewed face a marvel to see
The heat from within burns at a thousand degrees
And a strangled cry escapes your throat just for me
Constant contact...
#lover
#passion
787 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
26th Nov 2019 10:20pm
26th Nov 2019 10:20pm
My Day
I want to write about my day
But the activities so trivial don't seem worth the time
Pointless electronic dithering
And senseless solo card playing
Fill hours of time with nary a thought used
Just whiling away the times of my life
While outside life really goes by
My day
So boring and uneventful
Seems like so many before
And I wonder if this is now my life
Housebound and weak, barely even here anymore
It's a blow to the ego to find you've become
Just a boring old guy
Spending time as though there were an endless supply ...
But the activities so trivial don't seem worth the time
Pointless electronic dithering
And senseless solo card playing
Fill hours of time with nary a thought used
Just whiling away the times of my life
While outside life really goes by
My day
So boring and uneventful
Seems like so many before
And I wonder if this is now my life
Housebound and weak, barely even here anymore
It's a blow to the ego to find you've become
Just a boring old guy
Spending time as though there were an endless supply ...
#emptiness
#boredom
352 reads
1 Comment
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
10th Oct 2019 11:07am
10th Oct 2019 11:07am
Time Stand Still
All of the hours I've spent
All of the days that have gone
Wondering where the time went
There are wrinkles around my eyes
Coffee grows cold as my breath steams around me
The nights grow increasingly long
Waiting for light seems a full time job
Insomniacs round the world working beside me
Time seems incredibly slow in the nighttime
The days go flashing on by
The winter winds wait round the corner from me
Stealing the warmth in a seasonal crime
The lines in my face grow increasingly deep
Time like a thief in...
All of the days that have gone
Wondering where the time went
There are wrinkles around my eyes
Coffee grows cold as my breath steams around me
The nights grow increasingly long
Waiting for light seems a full time job
Insomniacs round the world working beside me
Time seems incredibly slow in the nighttime
The days go flashing on by
The winter winds wait round the corner from me
Stealing the warmth in a seasonal crime
The lines in my face grow increasingly deep
Time like a thief in...
#LifeCycle
#aging
438 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
5th Oct 2019 4:07pm
5th Oct 2019 4:07pm
Heart Like A Well
My heart like a well
Replenished daily with fresh loves
And new wants
But deep down it's a cold
And icy darkness
Where the past heartaches are stored up
And brought up by the bucketful
When I dip way down deep for a drink
A paradoxical thing
With both love and hate on different strata
Never to mix
But always available if you drop the bucket down
Deep enough
Replenished daily with fresh loves
And new wants
But deep down it's a cold
And icy darkness
Where the past heartaches are stored up
And brought up by the bucketful
When I dip way down deep for a drink
A paradoxical thing
With both love and hate on different strata
Never to mix
But always available if you drop the bucket down
Deep enough
#love
#hate
485 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
7th Aug 2019 5:33pm
7th Aug 2019 5:33pm
The Wildest Of Thoughts
The monitor is the only light in the room
And the darkness around me feels right
As I try to release the dark thoughts inside my mind
Wishing I had a greater talent to find the words
To express the feelings that float up from my unconscious
But my meagre attempts will have to suffice
Since the feelings must come out
Black thoughts have invaded my mind of late
As deeply disturbing as any I have ever known
And I want to vent them away from my soul
Before they must come out in blood
It's an opening of the floodgates to keep the dam from...
And the darkness around me feels right
As I try to release the dark thoughts inside my mind
Wishing I had a greater talent to find the words
To express the feelings that float up from my unconscious
But my meagre attempts will have to suffice
Since the feelings must come out
Black thoughts have invaded my mind of late
As deeply disturbing as any I have ever known
And I want to vent them away from my soul
Before they must come out in blood
It's an opening of the floodgates to keep the dam from...
#dark
#MentalHealth
366 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Jul 2019 5:48pm
10th Jul 2019 5:48pm
Shopping
Looking around myself this morning
A grocery store fairly bereft of people
All counting pennies as prices rise so high
Going broke as they try to feed their families
My basket mostly empty still empties my own wallet
Fun times in Toronto today
A grocery store fairly bereft of people
All counting pennies as prices rise so high
Going broke as they try to feed their families
My basket mostly empty still empties my own wallet
Fun times in Toronto today
#city
#food
436 reads
SELF POEM
Published
28th May 2019 11:24pm
28th May 2019 11:24pm
Live Through This
Breathing barely enough air to keep my head up
Unable to stand without the firefly spots of dizziness
Dancing around my eyes and threatening to take me away
Fearful that my time is at an end and wishing for more
Whirling lights and sirens fill my eyes and ears
And faces swim into view with questions I can't answer
Mechanical lungs take over for the flesh and push air into
My withering body
And I can only moan and cry out in pain
Fear is a real animal on the prowl inside my mind
Taking it's meals out of my thoughts and roaring in my ears ...
Unable to stand without the firefly spots of dizziness
Dancing around my eyes and threatening to take me away
Fearful that my time is at an end and wishing for more
Whirling lights and sirens fill my eyes and ears
And faces swim into view with questions I can't answer
Mechanical lungs take over for the flesh and push air into
My withering body
And I can only moan and cry out in pain
Fear is a real animal on the prowl inside my mind
Taking it's meals out of my thoughts and roaring in my ears ...
#illness
#despair
467 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
16th May 2019 4:13pm
16th May 2019 4:13pm
In The Darkness
Such a long time in the dark
Searching for a light that doesn't really exist
Trying desperately to keep head above water
And mind whole and unbroken
Dragged down by daily worries and anxieties
That take your mood and dive bomb it
Into oblivion
Still fighting but starting to realize that it is a
Losing battle that I fight
And with the realization comes a deep sense of doom
What does the future hold
Where do I go from here
I'm lost in my own mind and feeling like I'm being pulled
Into a deep dark place where the light cannot...
Searching for a light that doesn't really exist
Trying desperately to keep head above water
And mind whole and unbroken
Dragged down by daily worries and anxieties
That take your mood and dive bomb it
Into oblivion
Still fighting but starting to realize that it is a
Losing battle that I fight
And with the realization comes a deep sense of doom
What does the future hold
Where do I go from here
I'm lost in my own mind and feeling like I'm being pulled
Into a deep dark place where the light cannot...
#anxiety
#dark
#despair
418 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
16th Apr 2019 4:59pm
16th Apr 2019 4:59pm
Yesterday Today
I think I've lived this day before
It seems so strangely familiar
Like yesterday has come back to visit again
And I'm living on repeat
And when I think about this life
All my days seem quite the same
I see the same things and hear the same sounds
I've heard them all a hundred times
My little world goes round and round
I only know the day has changed
When I smoke
Outside of course
One of the shunned in rain or shine
The weather tells me that the day is different
Once back inside the time loop is all the more apparent ...
It seems so strangely familiar
Like yesterday has come back to visit again
And I'm living on repeat
And when I think about this life
All my days seem quite the same
I see the same things and hear the same sounds
I've heard them all a hundred times
My little world goes round and round
I only know the day has changed
When I smoke
Outside of course
One of the shunned in rain or shine
The weather tells me that the day is different
Once back inside the time loop is all the more apparent ...
#confusion
#boredom
393 reads
0 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
11th Mar 2019 12:22pm
11th Mar 2019 12:22pm
The Storm Of The Lonesome
The Storm Of the Lonesome
Waves lap at the shoreline in double time cadence
There's a storm on the horizon and it's pushing onto land
Bringing cold rain and a black fascination
To a desolate land where the people hurry and huddle into their cloaks
Some walk with eyes cast down
Oblivious of the slow moving maelstrom
The freshening breeze blows onto faces framed with greasy hair
And dirty hands wipe stains onto faces filled with tears
A sudden roar of thunder tells those who are still about
That they are too late to...
Waves lap at the shoreline in double time cadence
There's a storm on the horizon and it's pushing onto land
Bringing cold rain and a black fascination
To a desolate land where the people hurry and huddle into their cloaks
Some walk with eyes cast down
Oblivious of the slow moving maelstrom
The freshening breeze blows onto faces framed with greasy hair
And dirty hands wipe stains onto faces filled with tears
A sudden roar of thunder tells those who are still about
That they are too late to...
#despair
#FeelingLost
#suffering
390 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
23rd Feb 2019 3:59pm
23rd Feb 2019 3:59pm
Statistic In Waiting
Growing tired of the pain
And the dark thoughts running through my mind
Need a break from reality
Some Geministic duality
Just a change of pace to give me some peace
Too many things on my mind
Too many hours of empty time
Got lost on the road of life somehow
And I need to find my way home
Got nothing to do but sit here and think
And that's a bad thing with me
Got nothing but time on my hands
Just standing here wasting away in front of my eyes
And I need to find a little peace of mind
Can't keep thinking...
And the dark thoughts running through my mind
Need a break from reality
Some Geministic duality
Just a change of pace to give me some peace
Too many things on my mind
Too many hours of empty time
Got lost on the road of life somehow
And I need to find my way home
Got nothing to do but sit here and think
And that's a bad thing with me
Got nothing but time on my hands
Just standing here wasting away in front of my eyes
And I need to find a little peace of mind
Can't keep thinking...
#dark
#despair
380 reads
3 Comments
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