Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
13th Jan 2025 3:15pm
13th Jan 2025 3:15pm
Like an Echo
"She should be like a town clock — keep time and observe regularity. She should not, however, like a town clock, speak so loudly that all the town may hear her.
She should be like a snail — prudent, and keep within her own house.
She should not be like a snail — carry all she has upon her back.
She should be like an echo — speak when spoken to.
But she should not be like an echo — determined always to have the last word." - "Three Wifely Virtues", The Australian Woman's Mirror, 24/02/1925
A snail slimes across a leaf,
Its hearth and...
She should be like a snail — prudent, and keep within her own house.
She should not be like a snail — carry all she has upon her back.
She should be like an echo — speak when spoken to.
But she should not be like an echo — determined always to have the last word." - "Three Wifely Virtues", The Australian Woman's Mirror, 24/02/1925
A snail slimes across a leaf,
Its hearth and...
#abuse
#feminism
#historical #marriage
#historical #marriage
135 reads
2 Comments
eightmore
Poem Published
13th Jan 2025 9:29am
13th Jan 2025 9:29am
When I Was Naked
#love
#marriage
#sex
284 reads
4 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
11th Jan 2025 6:57pm
11th Jan 2025 6:57pm
The Poison Bride
When the famous poetess passed out in her mashed potatoes on Christmas Eve, 1978, her husband rolled his eyes and her two children carried on glumly chewing. It was a semi-regular performance, the passing out act. George wondered how he'd ended up marrying the silly bitch.
Once on a literary tour, they'd been besieged by girls who seemed to regard him with envy for having such unfettered access to their mentally unstable idol. He'd happily switch places with any of them, or the middle-aged sad-sack men who worried at her ankles at luncheons. Two years ago, she'd had a brief...
Once on a literary tour, they'd been besieged by girls who seemed to regard him with envy for having such unfettered access to their mentally unstable idol. He'd happily switch places with any of them, or the middle-aged sad-sack men who worried at her ankles at luncheons. Two years ago, she'd had a brief...
#death
#marriage
#ShortStory #violence
#ShortStory #violence
90 reads
3 Comments
Green_Arrow
Poem Published
10th Jan 2025 11:40am
10th Jan 2025 11:40am
Don't Worry. We Really Do Have An Open Marriage.
Kendra woke up at
Two AM with a pain
in her head and found
herself to be naked
before some chick
said "You must be
my husband's date."
Two AM with a pain
in her head and found
herself to be naked
before some chick
said "You must be
my husband's date."
#fiction
#FreeVerse
#lover
#marriage
#sex
132 reads
0 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
5th Jan 2025 12:58pm
5th Jan 2025 12:58pm
I heard she's happier now
A husband & wife living in Philadelphia had been married for over 25 years. He faithfully visited his wife in the hospital everyday, where she laid in a coma for several months in 1999 with little hope for recovery. Distraught over the loss of his longtime companion, the husband committed suicide in their home. Hours later, his wife woke up!
#illness
#love
#marriage
#ShortStory
#suicide
92 reads
13 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
5th Jan 2025 12:55pm
5th Jan 2025 12:55pm
Beer & Murder
During the 2000's a severe winter storm kept temperatures in the 20's and thousands of homes in Southern Texas, without power for several days. It was perhaps a combination of cabin fever and alcohol that led one woman to shoot her 71 year old husband to death in the kitchen of their home. He gave her a can of warm beer. It had occurred to neither one of them to chill a six-pack on the back porch!
#alcohol
#death
#marriage
#ShortStory
#winter
68 reads
9 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
3rd Jan 2025 9:19pm
3rd Jan 2025 9:19pm
Don't need your spouse to cum
#emptiness
#loneliness
#marriage #orgasm
#marriage #orgasm
140 reads
6 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
3rd Jan 2025 00:52am
3rd Jan 2025 00:52am
I deserved ‘em
my wife is the best person I’ve ever known,
but she’s got her faults
are as slight as a thoughtless word here or there
are a few that hit home
but she’s got her faults
are as slight as a thoughtless word here or there
are a few that hit home
#marriage
#relationships
75 reads
1 Comment
mebo
Poem Published
31st Dec 2024 3:28pm
31st Dec 2024 3:28pm
The Never-Never Mate
The Never-Never mate I've missed is this:
Grey fog soft swaddling rolling orchard hills,
Yellow-brown apple overlooked
The Fall blessing field mice,
Wet orange leaves .
Salt foam sliding like a veil, lifted,
Falling, rising falling over rolling blue deep,
No horizon.
Heat shimmer dragonfly wing glinting,
Tilting in the wink of a golden, blue-eyed dog.
My Never-Was Mate
He is the coffee fleck of Showy Milkweed seed,
Borne cloudward over the valley
On vanilla silkwing steed.
He is a...
Grey fog soft swaddling rolling orchard hills,
Yellow-brown apple overlooked
The Fall blessing field mice,
Wet orange leaves .
Salt foam sliding like a veil, lifted,
Falling, rising falling over rolling blue deep,
No horizon.
Heat shimmer dragonfly wing glinting,
Tilting in the wink of a golden, blue-eyed dog.
My Never-Was Mate
He is the coffee fleck of Showy Milkweed seed,
Borne cloudward over the valley
On vanilla silkwing steed.
He is a...
#loneliness
#marriage
#nature
#SelfDiscovery
#spiritual
96 reads
0 Comments
Solomon_Song
Poem Published
23rd Dec 2024 7:30am
23rd Dec 2024 7:30am
O KAMA SUTRA
O Kama Sutra, be our guide:
teach us how man and woman 'ride',
all those positions known to you -
open them up within our view,
positions that are BEST for US
to achieve the best coitus!
So help this husband and his wife
best consummate their married life,
its pages we together read,
to follow where your wise words lead....
teach us how man and woman 'ride',
all those positions known to you -
open them up within our view,
positions that are BEST for US
to achieve the best coitus!
So help this husband and his wife
best consummate their married life,
its pages we together read,
to follow where your wise words lead....
#marriage
#sex
203 reads
2 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
13th Dec 2024 3:51pm
13th Dec 2024 3:51pm
GET OUT OF MY LIFE
Let's take a moment to analyze, as we reflect upon the uncrossing, of our history and life 💖 together. 🤔 For sure I have been very grateful enough to know when it's over and done , between us but yet I truly wonder is it really over between us. 🤨. For it is true that we have so much history together, it would be a shame to watch it go away and never truly return. 😔 Yet I know it would be best for me and you, being that we are always fighting and arguing back to back and going at each other like cats and dogs. 🤨 Almost to the point of no return from...
#BestFriend
#friendship
#LifeCycle
#lover
#marriage
133 reads
0 Comments
sgtvasquezg
G. Vasquez
G. Vasquez
Poem Published
11th Dec 2024 4:52pm
11th Dec 2024 4:52pm
Marriage Life
I'm use to spending my days in bad weather.
Hot, cold, sleet, snow, whiteouts it didn't matter.
Pushing myself to the limits because I hated to see you sick.
Who would have thought that the moments away would be the reason that we'd eventually split.
Thank God you made it through and now the kids are grown.
The only down fall is I'm sitting at this table eating breakfast all alone.
When just 10 years ago I was singing to a different tune.
I can't say I hate you because yes I understand you, even though sometimes I wish it wasn't true.
On the outside...
Hot, cold, sleet, snow, whiteouts it didn't matter.
Pushing myself to the limits because I hated to see you sick.
Who would have thought that the moments away would be the reason that we'd eventually split.
Thank God you made it through and now the kids are grown.
The only down fall is I'm sitting at this table eating breakfast all alone.
When just 10 years ago I was singing to a different tune.
I can't say I hate you because yes I understand you, even though sometimes I wish it wasn't true.
On the outside...
#husband
#love
#marriage
#separation
#wife
121 reads
0 Comments
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