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
4th Aug 2015 8:38pm
4th Aug 2015 8:38pm
The Cold Deep Water
I’m not an absolute beginner
But I feel newborn sometimes
When the situation calls for more than I have
Like now, when I’m
Swimming in deep water
Filled with sharks with bright teeth
I’ve got nothing to hold me above the water
Except my failing strength
And my will to live
Will it be enough until the test is through?
Or will I drown in this deep water
Like many have done before me
Unable to keep up with the ones who know the way
To stay high in the deep
While I begin to falter
And wait for the first tearing teeth
To take me down...
But I feel newborn sometimes
When the situation calls for more than I have
Like now, when I’m
Swimming in deep water
Filled with sharks with bright teeth
I’ve got nothing to hold me above the water
Except my failing strength
And my will to live
Will it be enough until the test is through?
Or will I drown in this deep water
Like many have done before me
Unable to keep up with the ones who know the way
To stay high in the deep
While I begin to falter
And wait for the first tearing teeth
To take me down...
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LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Aug 2015 10:30pm
2nd Aug 2015 10:30pm
Night Dance
Angela dances alone in the night
As the shadows start slowly to slip away
Her window is open to let in the breeze
That tousles her hair in the faint growing light
As slow as a river that ambles along with no rain
The music plays just in her head
She dreams of a man that once danced her the night through
Who whispered he loved and danced away all her pain
Now the shadows have crept away from the new day
The breeze begins to warm up in the light
Another hot day has begun as the birds stir awake
Angela hums to her mind’s inner music and prays
A...
As the shadows start slowly to slip away
Her window is open to let in the breeze
That tousles her hair in the faint growing light
As slow as a river that ambles along with no rain
The music plays just in her head
She dreams of a man that once danced her the night through
Who whispered he loved and danced away all her pain
Now the shadows have crept away from the new day
The breeze begins to warm up in the light
Another hot day has begun as the birds stir awake
Angela hums to her mind’s inner music and prays
A...
574 reads
1 Comment
SONG LYRICS
Published
28th Jul 2015 12:56pm
28th Jul 2015 12:56pm
The Madman
It’s a newspaper story by a maniac
Who’s pissed he not paid as where he thinks he’s at
About some Muslim or queer who’s just standing there
Like who, me? Caught in the spotlight glare
So what will he write when tomorrow comes?
And who’ll be the target of his poison tongue?
And the editor rubs his hands in happy glee
Because the maniac has the best fucking numbers that he’s ever seen
There are those who will hate you if you are different than you or me
As though personal choices are a social fear
It’s like being alive with opinon makes you a...
Who’s pissed he not paid as where he thinks he’s at
About some Muslim or queer who’s just standing there
Like who, me? Caught in the spotlight glare
So what will he write when tomorrow comes?
And who’ll be the target of his poison tongue?
And the editor rubs his hands in happy glee
Because the maniac has the best fucking numbers that he’s ever seen
There are those who will hate you if you are different than you or me
As though personal choices are a social fear
It’s like being alive with opinon makes you a...
765 reads
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SONG LYRICS
Published
22nd Jul 2015 3:12pm
22nd Jul 2015 3:12pm
New Emotion
I’ve been down before this
I’ve been up in the stars with happiness
But I’ve never felt anything
Like this before
I’ve been dumped and picked up
I’ve been loved and hated before
But there’s no memory of feeling
So up in the air before
It’s a new emotion
It doesn’t have a name on my list
I just know that I like it
I like to feel like this
Lost in the middle
Not sure what’s up
And what is down
It’s looked confusing to me all the days
Of the week
I’m not sure of anything
Anymore
This is different...
I’ve been up in the stars with happiness
But I’ve never felt anything
Like this before
I’ve been dumped and picked up
I’ve been loved and hated before
But there’s no memory of feeling
So up in the air before
It’s a new emotion
It doesn’t have a name on my list
I just know that I like it
I like to feel like this
Lost in the middle
Not sure what’s up
And what is down
It’s looked confusing to me all the days
Of the week
I’m not sure of anything
Anymore
This is different...
722 reads
2 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
20th Jul 2015 1:34am
20th Jul 2015 1:34am
The Lonely
She walks into the bar that night
A dirty blonde beauty never seen there before
And every guy and some women as well
Want to see her golden beauty in the pale moonlight
In their minds they would dance in the light from the stars
And marvel at her unblemished skin
But they remain in their seats
They fear her rejection so they sit in fantasy but afar
If only they knew
Her loneliness deep within
As she longs for the words of an offer to dance
A human touch on her skin
She hates the way her looks keep her lonely
Since it keeps her...
A dirty blonde beauty never seen there before
And every guy and some women as well
Want to see her golden beauty in the pale moonlight
In their minds they would dance in the light from the stars
And marvel at her unblemished skin
But they remain in their seats
They fear her rejection so they sit in fantasy but afar
If only they knew
Her loneliness deep within
As she longs for the words of an offer to dance
A human touch on her skin
She hates the way her looks keep her lonely
Since it keeps her...
755 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
14th Jul 2015 10:58pm
14th Jul 2015 10:58pm
The end of the World
I wonder sometimes about the end of the world
Will some madman finally say screw it and push their red button?
Or will a rock the size of a mountain let’s say
Come out of the sky and throw us into that kind of nuclear winter?
If either is coming I hope I’m at ground zero
I don’t think I’d make a very good caveman
I can’t breathe so I can’t run
And I can’t run anyway because my back is filled with pain
I can’t catch the last of the dinners
Here kitty kitty
No thanks, hit me with your best shot
Send my molecules out into space, higher than gravity’s...
Will some madman finally say screw it and push their red button?
Or will a rock the size of a mountain let’s say
Come out of the sky and throw us into that kind of nuclear winter?
If either is coming I hope I’m at ground zero
I don’t think I’d make a very good caveman
I can’t breathe so I can’t run
And I can’t run anyway because my back is filled with pain
I can’t catch the last of the dinners
Here kitty kitty
No thanks, hit me with your best shot
Send my molecules out into space, higher than gravity’s...
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SONG LYRICS
Published
12th Jul 2015 6:44pm
12th Jul 2015 6:44pm
White Room
White Room
There’s a white room
In my small place
Nobody goes in there
I don’t know who did
The white paint job
And I don’t really care
It fills me up with fear
The white room in my small place
I feel like a little kid at the horror show
My fingers cover my face
Oh the white room
With the door closed tight
I just don’t understand
Why it’s there at all
In my small place
I try to get it out of my head
Is it the goodness I left behind?
Is it my happier days?
Is it the home of my...
There’s a white room
In my small place
Nobody goes in there
I don’t know who did
The white paint job
And I don’t really care
It fills me up with fear
The white room in my small place
I feel like a little kid at the horror show
My fingers cover my face
Oh the white room
With the door closed tight
I just don’t understand
Why it’s there at all
In my small place
I try to get it out of my head
Is it the goodness I left behind?
Is it my happier days?
Is it the home of my...
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th Jul 2015 10:15pm
11th Jul 2015 10:15pm
Absolute
ABSOLUTE
It’s absolute
There’s no way around it
You have to fight
Or you’re gonna feel this way
Lost in space
Between your ears
Always down
It’s no way to live your life
But the devil will get his due
He’s deep inside of you
Having a grand old time
While you just suffer, through the days and years
It’s convoluted
There’s no way to deny it
Lost in your time
It’s the way you live your life
The angels share is due its own time
Don’t stand and stare
Get on with your life
Fight like hell and...
It’s absolute
There’s no way around it
You have to fight
Or you’re gonna feel this way
Lost in space
Between your ears
Always down
It’s no way to live your life
But the devil will get his due
He’s deep inside of you
Having a grand old time
While you just suffer, through the days and years
It’s convoluted
There’s no way to deny it
Lost in your time
It’s the way you live your life
The angels share is due its own time
Don’t stand and stare
Get on with your life
Fight like hell and...
567 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
1st Jul 2015 6:48pm
1st Jul 2015 6:48pm
The Way It Is
The Way It Is
Deep in the far back past
It seems I’m failing
Making the good times last
It’s what I’m trying
Right on the tip of my memory
But I can’t recall that far back
Way in the darkest past
I’m making my way far back
Making those dark times last
I have no problem
Right on the tip of my tongue
And I can see it all
Why is it that I can’t see?
The happiest memories
I fall into all I’ve been
Except a happier man
Is it the preponderance?
Of all of the things I’ve seen
Washed out visions of...
Deep in the far back past
It seems I’m failing
Making the good times last
It’s what I’m trying
Right on the tip of my memory
But I can’t recall that far back
Way in the darkest past
I’m making my way far back
Making those dark times last
I have no problem
Right on the tip of my tongue
And I can see it all
Why is it that I can’t see?
The happiest memories
I fall into all I’ve been
Except a happier man
Is it the preponderance?
Of all of the things I’ve seen
Washed out visions of...
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FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
24th Jun 2015 2:51pm
24th Jun 2015 2:51pm
Chapter One of work in progress
The gym was empty and hollow sounding and had been empty for countless months, put out of commission by the fire that had ravaged the upper floor of the school. Straining sunlight tried to penetrate the row of grimy windows that lined the top of the south facing wall but the light was diffuse and weak by the time it hit the court. The thinly shadowed image of tall trees danced on the faded floor bringing movement to the stillness of the room. Basketball hoops were still strung with tired looking yellow rope but were wound up tight against the walls on their brackets, far out of reach of even...
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SELF POEM
Published
17th Jun 2015 3:27pm
17th Jun 2015 3:27pm
Feels Like Being Dead
Features like wax that I can mold in my hands
Confidence beneath my fingertips
Time always melts it back to itself
And fear always takes its rightful place
Contempt and pointing fingers
If I show weakness
Pariah among the confident
I mold and remold or just walk away
Cause when I’m out and about
And dealing with you
Trying to live a normal life
I can’t let my true face out
My features like wax that I must mold every day
Or hide inside
And pace the day away
And hope you haven’t seen my melting pride
It’s a hell of a way to live...
Confidence beneath my fingertips
Time always melts it back to itself
And fear always takes its rightful place
Contempt and pointing fingers
If I show weakness
Pariah among the confident
I mold and remold or just walk away
Cause when I’m out and about
And dealing with you
Trying to live a normal life
I can’t let my true face out
My features like wax that I must mold every day
Or hide inside
And pace the day away
And hope you haven’t seen my melting pride
It’s a hell of a way to live...
636 reads
0 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
11th Jun 2015 2:29am
11th Jun 2015 2:29am
Black and White
Seeing the world today not in colour
But in just black and white
Emotions released on a breath or a word
Have no shades, only wisps in the night
All the colours have been taken from me
Any sunrise is just shadow and light
And the thoughts that I have for you
Are deadened by this lack of sight
Is it me who's been changed?
Had my sight rearranged?
Or perhaps just a wish sent by others
Or is it you who's been lost?
In this limitless grey
Gone from glorious colour to a low and dark cloud
Sensing the world today
In...
But in just black and white
Emotions released on a breath or a word
Have no shades, only wisps in the night
All the colours have been taken from me
Any sunrise is just shadow and light
And the thoughts that I have for you
Are deadened by this lack of sight
Is it me who's been changed?
Had my sight rearranged?
Or perhaps just a wish sent by others
Or is it you who's been lost?
In this limitless grey
Gone from glorious colour to a low and dark cloud
Sensing the world today
In...
644 reads
0 Comments
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