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
26th Oct 2015 1:12pm
26th Oct 2015 1:12pm
A Dream That Hurts My Soul
I had a dream last night
And I know I understand
The things that happened to me
In that unconscious land
I don’t usually remember the dreams I have at all
It seems they’re lost as soon as I become aware
And are hidden in my heart or soul
Or just vanish in the air
And so I wonder why I kept this one
It confuses and disturbs me and I wish I never kept it in my mind
It was a friend I had from a long long time ago
Who deserted me along the way in my most needful time
We talked for such a long time
And he tried to say that he was...
And I know I understand
The things that happened to me
In that unconscious land
I don’t usually remember the dreams I have at all
It seems they’re lost as soon as I become aware
And are hidden in my heart or soul
Or just vanish in the air
And so I wonder why I kept this one
It confuses and disturbs me and I wish I never kept it in my mind
It was a friend I had from a long long time ago
Who deserted me along the way in my most needful time
We talked for such a long time
And he tried to say that he was...
658 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
22nd Oct 2015 3:33pm
22nd Oct 2015 3:33pm
Coffee and CIgarettes
I wake before the dawn and I’m not too sure of sleep
My eyes are hot and lines of age are etched so deep
Upon a face that lives on smoke and coffee black
There are no dreams that I recall when I look back
And I look far away into the future bleak
No reason there for changing things which I might seek
Just endless nights and days too bright through smoky eyes
I wonder why a change might even come to one as weak as I
And in the days the words won’t come and music dies within my hands
My sharpened instruments of change are changed to things of blunted steel...
My eyes are hot and lines of age are etched so deep
Upon a face that lives on smoke and coffee black
There are no dreams that I recall when I look back
And I look far away into the future bleak
No reason there for changing things which I might seek
Just endless nights and days too bright through smoky eyes
I wonder why a change might even come to one as weak as I
And in the days the words won’t come and music dies within my hands
My sharpened instruments of change are changed to things of blunted steel...
778 reads
5 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
19th Oct 2015 9:11pm
19th Oct 2015 9:11pm
Love Songs
I never tried to write a love song
That didn’t stab you in the heart
There’s always that transgression
That always happens in the dark
And weeping eyes and yelling voices
Tear the love apart
They say write what you know
And I know it all by heart
So I write those things I’ve seen
And felt within the dark
It’s not a happy ending
It’s always kind of stark
But that’s my kind of love song
It tears your soul apart
And who’s around in the end
And who survives all they have seen
It’s the one who’s standing up
And writing...
That didn’t stab you in the heart
There’s always that transgression
That always happens in the dark
And weeping eyes and yelling voices
Tear the love apart
They say write what you know
And I know it all by heart
So I write those things I’ve seen
And felt within the dark
It’s not a happy ending
It’s always kind of stark
But that’s my kind of love song
It tears your soul apart
And who’s around in the end
And who survives all they have seen
It’s the one who’s standing up
And writing...
624 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Oct 2015 10:18pm
17th Oct 2015 10:18pm
The Gambler
Excitement tingles in the dice here in my fist
Another winning streak sings like the sirens sing
Another roll that cannot possibly go wrong
It all hinges on the way these dice will dance and spin
Can’t look Lady Luck straight in the eye
For fear of losing all I’ve won so far
I only glance to see that she’s still right here with me
Dressed up tonight as a brunette that the blind could see
I’ll ride this winning streak because this luck will never wane
I’ll take the chips I’ve won and bet them on the game
I never fear the way the dice will fall...
Another winning streak sings like the sirens sing
Another roll that cannot possibly go wrong
It all hinges on the way these dice will dance and spin
Can’t look Lady Luck straight in the eye
For fear of losing all I’ve won so far
I only glance to see that she’s still right here with me
Dressed up tonight as a brunette that the blind could see
I’ll ride this winning streak because this luck will never wane
I’ll take the chips I’ve won and bet them on the game
I never fear the way the dice will fall...
672 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th Oct 2015 5:29pm
15th Oct 2015 5:29pm
The Game
It’s a natural thing
To fall halfway in love
And hold yourself back just a little
So you don’t get hurt too bad when it ends
We’ve all done it before
After giving our all once before
And having to pick ourselves up
Off of the floor
Love is just a dangerous game
For the emotional are the halfway insane
Can’t ever get too comfortable it seems
Since the pieces keep moving and they’re never the same
I guess you can tell
I’ve spent my share of time down in hell
Been abused by love before
Been asked to use that door
...
To fall halfway in love
And hold yourself back just a little
So you don’t get hurt too bad when it ends
We’ve all done it before
After giving our all once before
And having to pick ourselves up
Off of the floor
Love is just a dangerous game
For the emotional are the halfway insane
Can’t ever get too comfortable it seems
Since the pieces keep moving and they’re never the same
I guess you can tell
I’ve spent my share of time down in hell
Been abused by love before
Been asked to use that door
...
825 reads
10 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
12th Oct 2015 7:24pm
12th Oct 2015 7:24pm
Empty Words
There’s a stumbling block within my mind
Can’t find the right words now
Or sometimes words of any kind
Like a painter who is slowly going blind
And so I sift through all the words within my head
And using touch I try to find the ones that I like the best
I’m just a madman on a madman’s quest
It drives me crazy but the madman turns his eyes up and he’s dead
The ones who had a little talent once before
They’re the ones who always feel it even more
Watching pieces fall away from clutching hands down to the floor
They feel the loss so deep it tears...
Can’t find the right words now
Or sometimes words of any kind
Like a painter who is slowly going blind
And so I sift through all the words within my head
And using touch I try to find the ones that I like the best
I’m just a madman on a madman’s quest
It drives me crazy but the madman turns his eyes up and he’s dead
The ones who had a little talent once before
They’re the ones who always feel it even more
Watching pieces fall away from clutching hands down to the floor
They feel the loss so deep it tears...
730 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2015 4:55pm
2nd Oct 2015 4:55pm
The Night Is So Cold
Words are screamed in the night so dark and filled with hard rain
Thrown in faces in anger and runaway pain
In the morning we’re both crying and sorry for the things that we said
But you can never go back to where you were before in the end
You can never go back there again
The fights come too often now
And the cuts are too close to the bone
The words ring of truth in the dark of the night and the cold of the rain
And it doesn’t matter what we say now
We’ve both hit too close to home
Sometimes it’s better to just turn our heads
And just...
Thrown in faces in anger and runaway pain
In the morning we’re both crying and sorry for the things that we said
But you can never go back to where you were before in the end
You can never go back there again
The fights come too often now
And the cuts are too close to the bone
The words ring of truth in the dark of the night and the cold of the rain
And it doesn’t matter what we say now
We’ve both hit too close to home
Sometimes it’s better to just turn our heads
And just...
806 reads
6 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
28th Sep 2015 10:25pm
28th Sep 2015 10:25pm
The Empty Page
He sits atop his comfy chair
In this place he knows so well
With a sweating glass of amber courage
Close by to his hand
The screen has stayed a daring white
And the words die in his head
Another day of thoughts and drink
Will not bring them to the page
He’s never been this way before
With his fingers in their normal space
They hover above the keys but do not move
As he slowly starts to cry a silent tear rolls down his face
His novels line the walls
And his poetry can dance across the page
But somewhere between his thoughts and fingers...
In this place he knows so well
With a sweating glass of amber courage
Close by to his hand
The screen has stayed a daring white
And the words die in his head
Another day of thoughts and drink
Will not bring them to the page
He’s never been this way before
With his fingers in their normal space
They hover above the keys but do not move
As he slowly starts to cry a silent tear rolls down his face
His novels line the walls
And his poetry can dance across the page
But somewhere between his thoughts and fingers...
871 reads
12 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
25th Sep 2015 2:53pm
25th Sep 2015 2:53pm
The Witch Hunt
The sky in the north
Blazes blue and red
My mind fills with darkness and shades of dread
As the different thinking man is marched away
The time has come for him today
Very soon now his living mind
It will be cold and dead
The witch hunt is filled with fear
As the crops wilt and disappear
And the different among us here
Will be singled out to be taken away
By heads filled with the evil thoughts
That a strange man’s eyes and unkempt beard
Have the power to blight their seeds some way
So the axe is sharpened and the hooded man
Stands...
Blazes blue and red
My mind fills with darkness and shades of dread
As the different thinking man is marched away
The time has come for him today
Very soon now his living mind
It will be cold and dead
The witch hunt is filled with fear
As the crops wilt and disappear
And the different among us here
Will be singled out to be taken away
By heads filled with the evil thoughts
That a strange man’s eyes and unkempt beard
Have the power to blight their seeds some way
So the axe is sharpened and the hooded man
Stands...
709 reads
2 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
20th Sep 2015 11:53pm
20th Sep 2015 11:53pm
Nature's Force
She sees the night sky in a way that I’ll just never see
And pulls me down beside her in the tall grass to tell her tales to me
She comes from magic it seems and I am bound by her spells
Her female alchemy just pulls my heart from me
I can see all that I need to see when I turn to look in her eyes
To know I’ll never need to find another dream
She is all I’ll ever need I know it deep in my heart
And I can only dream she feels the same of me
She’s one of nature’s forces set free and on the loose
A distant storm front that brings the thunder to you...
And pulls me down beside her in the tall grass to tell her tales to me
She comes from magic it seems and I am bound by her spells
Her female alchemy just pulls my heart from me
I can see all that I need to see when I turn to look in her eyes
To know I’ll never need to find another dream
She is all I’ll ever need I know it deep in my heart
And I can only dream she feels the same of me
She’s one of nature’s forces set free and on the loose
A distant storm front that brings the thunder to you...
834 reads
4 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
14th Sep 2015 2:28pm
14th Sep 2015 2:28pm
Of Two Minds
Riff one
Well sometimes I get in my own way
And rip away all my thrills
A Gemini trick of two minds
One who won’t and one who will
*(Oh)
I want to ditch him by the side of the road
I thinks exactly the same as the mind of the other
One on each side of a fence so high
And still trying to smother his brother
*(I don’t know why)
Chorus
Gemini
Geminay I say
Each trying to kill the other
And killing himself along the way
Riff one
I can’t get anywhere when I’m pulling my...
Well sometimes I get in my own way
And rip away all my thrills
A Gemini trick of two minds
One who won’t and one who will
*(Oh)
I want to ditch him by the side of the road
I thinks exactly the same as the mind of the other
One on each side of a fence so high
And still trying to smother his brother
*(I don’t know why)
Chorus
Gemini
Geminay I say
Each trying to kill the other
And killing himself along the way
Riff one
I can’t get anywhere when I’m pulling my...
848 reads
5 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
10th Sep 2015 8:14pm
10th Sep 2015 8:14pm
Heartfelt Feelings
And I still feel like
Like an absolute beginner
Like a man whose found himself lost
In the scary woods of words or phrases
Not sure just what to say
Only knowing it must be said
Or my soul will suffer
And my mind will pale
Into some empty place filled with shadows
And the monsters of stories that should have been told
Just to empty my soul of them
To write them on electric paper
And have them say something at the end
What that is I’m still not sure
I’m just an absolute beginner
And the beginning is the end
Like an absolute beginner
Like a man whose found himself lost
In the scary woods of words or phrases
Not sure just what to say
Only knowing it must be said
Or my soul will suffer
And my mind will pale
Into some empty place filled with shadows
And the monsters of stories that should have been told
Just to empty my soul of them
To write them on electric paper
And have them say something at the end
What that is I’m still not sure
I’m just an absolute beginner
And the beginning is the end
725 reads
3 Comments
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