Submissions by xthan
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Hello you're talking to the Judas Hotline, how can I resolve your toddlerisms today?
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Mar 2025 12:13pm
13th Mar 2025 12:13pm
It was never beautiful
not even for a moment
if you believe otherwise, you are living
in sheltered nature under the illusion
you are living.
It arrives without permission, you will go on trips, you will have experiences, you will read poems, you will meet other creatures who walk this earth and realise how little you
are living life at all.
The nest is dangerous, if you do not learn to fly you will only meet death without knowing life's little pleasures, don't decorate your pain by stuffing it with flowers, don't hang
from branches out of...
if you believe otherwise, you are living
in sheltered nature under the illusion
you are living.
It arrives without permission, you will go on trips, you will have experiences, you will read poems, you will meet other creatures who walk this earth and realise how little you
are living life at all.
The nest is dangerous, if you do not learn to fly you will only meet death without knowing life's little pleasures, don't decorate your pain by stuffing it with flowers, don't hang
from branches out of...
#DeepUndergroundPoetry
222 reads
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
12th Mar 2025 12:48pm
12th Mar 2025 12:48pm
The hardest box to leave
is the one
you placed
your soul in
you placed
your soul in
#LifeCycle
#minimalist
200 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Mar 2025 1:31pm
9th Mar 2025 1:31pm
Six word story
too many oopsies
not enough daisies
not enough daisies
#minimalist
#SixWordStory
#unicorns
198 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
8th Mar 2025 12:36pm
8th Mar 2025 12:36pm
In short
you're many
experiences
in a short
space of
time,
that's why
your fingers
tremble to
pin them
down.
experiences
in a short
space of
time,
that's why
your fingers
tremble to
pin them
down.
#minimalist
167 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Mar 2025 2:16pm
5th Mar 2025 2:16pm
Fangs
It was sickening having to
look straight in their eyes
no lights were on, dead
to everything in existence,
known eyes like that before
and they never leave you
alone afterwards.
All I had was an insolated room,
they couldn't unlock their side
of the door only my keys could,
if was alone, in that small room,
I couldn't bare to think what my
hands could have, would
have done.
I imagine something along
the lines of tearing limbs away,
crumbling them down like dust
wings...
look straight in their eyes
no lights were on, dead
to everything in existence,
known eyes like that before
and they never leave you
alone afterwards.
All I had was an insolated room,
they couldn't unlock their side
of the door only my keys could,
if was alone, in that small room,
I couldn't bare to think what my
hands could have, would
have done.
I imagine something along
the lines of tearing limbs away,
crumbling them down like dust
wings...
#abuse
#anger
#LGBT #transgender
#LGBT #transgender
132 reads
0 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Mar 2025 8:34pm
2nd Mar 2025 8:34pm
Do you feel uncomfortable?
When you were young
you would fly away
so what has changed?
if their words cannot
stuff your eardrums
like cotton wool
as your chest begins
screaming back up
into your throat,
let those wings
beat seamlessly
back & forth
once again.
you would fly away
so what has changed?
if their words cannot
stuff your eardrums
like cotton wool
as your chest begins
screaming back up
into your throat,
let those wings
beat seamlessly
back & forth
once again.
#birds
#nature
148 reads
0 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Feb 2025 8:43pm
28th Feb 2025 8:43pm
real vermin
ask for votes
while stealing
crumbs off
your lips.
while stealing
crumbs off
your lips.
#minimalist
161 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Feb 2025 11:34am
25th Feb 2025 11:34am
Western gaze
he saw crowds
of westerners
thought the gods
answered to his
prayer songs,
he thought about
better days fast
approaching
how he didn't
know, how he
didn't realise
they could sell
dreams faster
than refunds.
of westerners
thought the gods
answered to his
prayer songs,
he thought about
better days fast
approaching
how he didn't
know, how he
didn't realise
they could sell
dreams faster
than refunds.
#minimalist
129 reads
0 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Feb 2025 11:14am
24th Feb 2025 11:14am
Out on these lands
lets pretend
it's easy to face
sharpening ears
listening out for
every breath
they take,
lets pretend
it's easy to
swallow
when it
could be
their last
inhale.
it's easy to face
sharpening ears
listening out for
every breath
they take,
lets pretend
it's easy to
swallow
when it
could be
their last
inhale.
#LifeCycle
#minimalist
#homelessness #suicide
#homelessness #suicide
198 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Feb 2025 11:53pm
18th Feb 2025 11:53pm
Tale of the grandmother stone
It's a harsh time
trying to be kind
and fall back in
love with your
own flesh,
for years I did
my best trying
to get away
from mine
then I was gifted
grandmother stone,
she takes her time
crafting away at
everything I fail
to see in myself
as I fall asleep
with her tucked
inside my pillow,
so I gave her
to my sibling
sometime ago
because she
embraces a
familiar kind
of storm,
I cried tears
of joy seeing ...
trying to be kind
and fall back in
love with your
own flesh,
for years I did
my best trying
to get away
from mine
then I was gifted
grandmother stone,
she takes her time
crafting away at
everything I fail
to see in myself
as I fall asleep
with her tucked
inside my pillow,
so I gave her
to my sibling
sometime ago
because she
embraces a
familiar kind
of storm,
I cried tears
of joy seeing ...
#family
#MentalHealth
#relationships
163 reads
EROTIC POEM
Published
18th Feb 2025 7:02pm
18th Feb 2025 7:02pm
six word story
we're all
mysteries
underneath
bed covers
mysteries
underneath
bed covers
#minimalist
#SixWordStory
256 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
16th Feb 2025 12:04pm
16th Feb 2025 12:04pm
My secret weapon is a teaspoon
today demanded
I take myself apart,
scrub out my insides
then polish them
let everything shine
all the way through.
I wasn't about
polished matter
while sleeping
on floorboards
in broken down
factories turned
into squats,
occupying worn
out sofas left in
crowded council
flat drug dosses.
I can shave carrot
skins down with
an edge of a
teaspoon
because my hands
could not behave
themselves around
anything resembling
sharp...
I take myself apart,
scrub out my insides
then polish them
let everything shine
all the way through.
I wasn't about
polished matter
while sleeping
on floorboards
in broken down
factories turned
into squats,
occupying worn
out sofas left in
crowded council
flat drug dosses.
I can shave carrot
skins down with
an edge of a
teaspoon
because my hands
could not behave
themselves around
anything resembling
sharp...
#LifeCycle
#courage
#hope
162 reads
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