Submissions by xthan
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I have come to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.
SELF POEM
Published
27th Oct 2024 9:13am
27th Oct 2024 9:13am
My kind, your kind
For Samhain
I hear words falling in a world
pronouncing them dead,
I watch as proud little letters
slowly burn on this modern soil
as those stay at home humans
setting up tables, their lips firmly
closed, and staying small, keep
on haunting steel and stone as
they passed down all that
once lived through them.
If you wish to believe this skin
was made to roam inside
those limited of spirits
i'm afraid you are mistaken
because my kind is not your kind,
i'm a wide...
I hear words falling in a world
pronouncing them dead,
I watch as proud little letters
slowly burn on this modern soil
as those stay at home humans
setting up tables, their lips firmly
closed, and staying small, keep
on haunting steel and stone as
they passed down all that
once lived through them.
If you wish to believe this skin
was made to roam inside
those limited of spirits
i'm afraid you are mistaken
because my kind is not your kind,
i'm a wide...
#confessional
#culture
#freedom
#LifeStruggles
#tradition
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Oct 2024 11:56am
26th Oct 2024 11:56am
Bending the barrel
I rest my face in my hands
as endless airstrikes,
bombs, and missiles tear
into the ordinary lives
of Palestine,
knowing this country
was the second biggest
arms dealer since
2010 to 2019
most sales going
to the middle east
who are often the
largest buyers,
I won't sit here
like a hypocrite
knowing this
little island
this government
has caused
catastrophe
affecting the
lives of so many
families, and
children,
...
as endless airstrikes,
bombs, and missiles tear
into the ordinary lives
of Palestine,
knowing this country
was the second biggest
arms dealer since
2010 to 2019
most sales going
to the middle east
who are often the
largest buyers,
I won't sit here
like a hypocrite
knowing this
little island
this government
has caused
catastrophe
affecting the
lives of so many
families, and
children,
...
#politics
#corruption
#greed
#HumanRights
#inequality
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1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
20th Oct 2024 9:37pm
20th Oct 2024 9:37pm
18/10/24
I came back to you today
feeling the curls
on the edges of
your pages,
where i've read you
backwards and
forwards
even upside down
hidden away
in my duvet
feeling past tears,
drunk saliva and
faded blood
blotches,
how they've
hardened your
chosen font as
it lays buried in
each paper I
turn over.
I came back to you today
knowing not much
can really console
this strange brain
how it rages daily
on both...
feeling the curls
on the edges of
your pages,
where i've read you
backwards and
forwards
even upside down
hidden away
in my duvet
feeling past tears,
drunk saliva and
faded blood
blotches,
how they've
hardened your
chosen font as
it lays buried in
each paper I
turn over.
I came back to you today
knowing not much
can really console
this strange brain
how it rages daily
on both...
#confessional
#LifeStruggles
133 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
16th Oct 2024 8:17pm
16th Oct 2024 8:17pm
Ode to a little black coat
My arms grew
out of your seams
they cross over
my sides like they
could almost break
I pace concrete sweating
into another day, knowing
eight years of hard wear
is carrying a shipwreck
you were more than
sharp edges, lapels,
silk lining, a scruffy
collar raised up
you soaked up tears
waiting for boys in blue,
said never mind to snot
marks they left over
your shoulders
as they leaned
on you like a pillow,
keeping them warm
with fire you had ...
out of your seams
they cross over
my sides like they
could almost break
I pace concrete sweating
into another day, knowing
eight years of hard wear
is carrying a shipwreck
you were more than
sharp edges, lapels,
silk lining, a scruffy
collar raised up
you soaked up tears
waiting for boys in blue,
said never mind to snot
marks they left over
your shoulders
as they leaned
on you like a pillow,
keeping them warm
with fire you had ...
#LGBT
#transgender
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SELF POEM
Published
16th Aug 2024 11:52am
16th Aug 2024 11:52am
What if wonderland
was the underbelly
of the world alice
thought they knew
the rabbit hole
being the spine
they fell through,
alice watches
a pocketwatch
ticking inside
their ribcage
as tea slowly
pumps around
their blue china
thread veins,
further down
alice greets
a posse of
whispering
flower buds
that bloom slowly
singing golden
afternoon in
their stomach,
spinning around
as their blue and
white clothes
puff inside ...
of the world alice
thought they knew
the rabbit hole
being the spine
they fell through,
alice watches
a pocketwatch
ticking inside
their ribcage
as tea slowly
pumps around
their blue china
thread veins,
further down
alice greets
a posse of
whispering
flower buds
that bloom slowly
singing golden
afternoon in
their stomach,
spinning around
as their blue and
white clothes
puff inside ...
#LGBT
#LifeCycle
#transgender
#symbolism
#evolution
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SELF POEM
Published
16th Aug 2024 9:15am
16th Aug 2024 9:15am
Nirvana
It isn't much
no sounding alarms
aiding my bones
to rise up
the kettle boils,
I step outside into
the garden letting
everything unfold,
if there is a nirvana
it sounds like birdsong
as I close my eyes
inhaling through
my nose,
it looks like the
breaking of a
new day
as song thrush
bares witness to
tears meeting
my beige
patio
it was the most
peaceful song
I have ever
heard.
no sounding alarms
aiding my bones
to rise up
the kettle boils,
I step outside into
the garden letting
everything unfold,
if there is a nirvana
it sounds like birdsong
as I close my eyes
inhaling through
my nose,
it looks like the
breaking of a
new day
as song thrush
bares witness to
tears meeting
my beige
patio
it was the most
peaceful song
I have ever
heard.
#LifeCycle
#morning
#vulnerability
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SELF POEM
Published
16th Aug 2024 00:26am
16th Aug 2024 00:26am
Today I wore the rain
in a sea of
umbrellas.
umbrellas.
#minimalist
#ShortStory
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
15th Aug 2024 1:38pm
15th Aug 2024 1:38pm
If you must sit in that blue hue
I'm here to
remind you
billions of atoms
came smashing
together just
to create you,
ask yourself
what will you
create from
all of this
substance.
remind you
billions of atoms
came smashing
together just
to create you,
ask yourself
what will you
create from
all of this
substance.
#minimalist
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LOVE POEM
Published
14th Aug 2024 6:12pm
14th Aug 2024 6:12pm
I confess this heat is insufferable
the way it bends and breaks us
into leaving things left unspoken
last night, you confessed it would be
infinitely better laying by my side
in this overgrown garden
falling asleep watching the
starry sky in my arms
in that moment, I felt that garden
trying to crawl out of our opposite
signs alive
as air inside my body fans your words
rising up into flames;
from resigning on a split pole
never failing to draw
each other in.
into leaving things left unspoken
last night, you confessed it would be
infinitely better laying by my side
in this overgrown garden
falling asleep watching the
starry sky in my arms
in that moment, I felt that garden
trying to crawl out of our opposite
signs alive
as air inside my body fans your words
rising up into flames;
from resigning on a split pole
never failing to draw
each other in.
#LGBT
#polyamory
#relationships
192 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
13th Aug 2024 9:34pm
13th Aug 2024 9:34pm
The unanswerable
An interesting question
I seem to get asked is:
Do you wear
any other clothes?
you might take this
as somewhat rude
but I always felt
less spoke more
and no, I don't
believe it's due
to age or any
myths we will
often say to
ourselves
I feel life can be
so complicated
so dressing like
it does must have
passed this frame
I have to work with
truth is, I will never
leave without my
sunglasses so
if I forget those I
insist on...
I seem to get asked is:
Do you wear
any other clothes?
you might take this
as somewhat rude
but I always felt
less spoke more
and no, I don't
believe it's due
to age or any
myths we will
often say to
ourselves
I feel life can be
so complicated
so dressing like
it does must have
passed this frame
I have to work with
truth is, I will never
leave without my
sunglasses so
if I forget those I
insist on...
#confessional
#metaphor
#symbolism
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1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Aug 2024 3:34pm
13th Aug 2024 3:34pm
Please write me down with your eyes
note the smile I gift
walking across these
white chlorine tiles,
did you believe I was broken
lost in strange text fonts
covered in hateful lies
does my irony upset you
as my scars dance naked
in broad daylight?
does my small frame offend you
as my body ripples water we
happen to share and glide
does my laughter slice
through your pupils
measured in media
sized ignorance?
please write me down
with your eyes,
my scars will
bare a smile
back at you.
walking across these
white chlorine tiles,
did you believe I was broken
lost in strange text fonts
covered in hateful lies
does my irony upset you
as my scars dance naked
in broad daylight?
does my small frame offend you
as my body ripples water we
happen to share and glide
does my laughter slice
through your pupils
measured in media
sized ignorance?
please write me down
with your eyes,
my scars will
bare a smile
back at you.
#LGBT
#metaphor
#transgender #symbolism
#transgender #symbolism
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
31st Jul 2024 3:54pm
31st Jul 2024 3:54pm
The sign
told me I was ready
to embark on a quest,
that it will be a
lonely adventure
so I should adopt
breathing exercises,
ignore sharp objects
and write it all out
in fine ball pens,
it's been happening
longer than I can
remember.
to embark on a quest,
that it will be a
lonely adventure
so I should adopt
breathing exercises,
ignore sharp objects
and write it all out
in fine ball pens,
it's been happening
longer than I can
remember.
#confessional
#LifeCycle
#metaphor #symbolism
#metaphor #symbolism
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