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.
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
...
819 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...
724 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...
798 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...
863 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...
703 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...
828 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...
841 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
720 reads
3 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
8th Sep 2015 4:55pm
8th Sep 2015 4:55pm
Uncommon Mistakes
Anger brings motion unequal to what’s at stake
Uncommon reactions bring action that leads to uncommon mistakes
Not looking before you leap
Brings you to places you’d rather not see
And anger melts into shaking hands and sweaty feet
You say to yourself what have I done
It’s too late to walk away and too late to run
Your handiwork lays at your feet
In a broken mess of blood and torn up meat
And you’re unable to speak a word in your own defense
How do you put this into words that the others will understand?
Who do you ask for help when you’ve...
Uncommon reactions bring action that leads to uncommon mistakes
Not looking before you leap
Brings you to places you’d rather not see
And anger melts into shaking hands and sweaty feet
You say to yourself what have I done
It’s too late to walk away and too late to run
Your handiwork lays at your feet
In a broken mess of blood and torn up meat
And you’re unable to speak a word in your own defense
How do you put this into words that the others will understand?
Who do you ask for help when you’ve...
636 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
6th Sep 2015 9:33pm
6th Sep 2015 9:33pm
Softer Music
The music is too loud for me in this club
And I feel suddenly old and out of place within its walls
The pounding beat and repetitive music is not my style
And my style is not welcome here
I’ve seen the looks, not hostile but simply questioning
I question myself as I sip my drink
With a plan to leave once the liquid is gone I just look around
At the young men and women as they dance a dance I could never repeat
And scream to be heard above the primal beating of drums and screeching electronics
Then my eyes pass by one look, and return to it in surprise...
And I feel suddenly old and out of place within its walls
The pounding beat and repetitive music is not my style
And my style is not welcome here
I’ve seen the looks, not hostile but simply questioning
I question myself as I sip my drink
With a plan to leave once the liquid is gone I just look around
At the young men and women as they dance a dance I could never repeat
And scream to be heard above the primal beating of drums and screeching electronics
Then my eyes pass by one look, and return to it in surprise...
664 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
3rd Sep 2015 2:37am
3rd Sep 2015 2:37am
The Patient
Doctors lined, impatient rows
To hear my sorry tales of woe
Samples taken or every kind
Mundane or embarrassed they just don’t mind
Such serious countenance to my face
And yet delight in all my aches
The guinea pig I am
The guinea pig I’ll stay
I just endure
I have no say
They care not even a speck at all
That I stay sick while they stand tall
And so the row renews again
While I shrink in and hurt
In life in pain
The guinea pig I am
The guinea pig I'll stay
Until the very end
That painless final day
For I'm just the...
To hear my sorry tales of woe
Samples taken or every kind
Mundane or embarrassed they just don’t mind
Such serious countenance to my face
And yet delight in all my aches
The guinea pig I am
The guinea pig I’ll stay
I just endure
I have no say
They care not even a speck at all
That I stay sick while they stand tall
And so the row renews again
While I shrink in and hurt
In life in pain
The guinea pig I am
The guinea pig I'll stay
Until the very end
That painless final day
For I'm just the...
650 reads
2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
27th Aug 2015 12:00pm
27th Aug 2015 12:00pm
The Course Of Love
She doesn’t seem to mind the unmade bed in my dim room
As we lay down intertwined fully dressed
Though I am lightning quick embarrassed
And forgotten why before the thunder
Her thin print dress seems to wrap her tightly
Clinging to her softly sweating body
Where the paperback novelists call all the right places
I gently stroke the unseen downy peach fuzz of her cheek
While I kiss those soft unadorned lips of pink
In no need of false ruby colors
To showcase their beauty and shape
And a simple brush of my arm across her small and firm breast...
As we lay down intertwined fully dressed
Though I am lightning quick embarrassed
And forgotten why before the thunder
Her thin print dress seems to wrap her tightly
Clinging to her softly sweating body
Where the paperback novelists call all the right places
I gently stroke the unseen downy peach fuzz of her cheek
While I kiss those soft unadorned lips of pink
In no need of false ruby colors
To showcase their beauty and shape
And a simple brush of my arm across her small and firm breast...
908 reads
11 Comments
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