Long Non-Fiction Prose
Non-poetic writing including diary extracts, journal entries, letters, essays and art - Long poems (300 words or more), most recently posted poems first.
shadow_starzzz
Poem Published
Today 10:04am
Today 10:04am
Differences
I do but I don’t.
That should be my mantra where trust is concerned.
And it got me to thinking, what are we, as humans, if we cannot stand completely bare, and expose ourselves wholly ?
I don’t mean our bodies, I mean our inner selves, which consist of the most fragile and intimate portions within our self, the portions that make up who we are, below the mask that each of us wear.
It’s all about heart & soul. However, there’s a downside to being naked, psychologically & emotionally. that is.
Yet, there's...
That should be my mantra where trust is concerned.
And it got me to thinking, what are we, as humans, if we cannot stand completely bare, and expose ourselves wholly ?
I don’t mean our bodies, I mean our inner selves, which consist of the most fragile and intimate portions within our self, the portions that make up who we are, below the mask that each of us wear.
It’s all about heart & soul. However, there’s a downside to being naked, psychologically & emotionally. that is.
Yet, there's...
#TimeHeals
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shadow_starzzz
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:30am
Yesterday 5:30am
Life, has a way of f**king us all... in the end !
I met him in law school, well before life tainted his perception. By the time he became registered on the bar to practice, he was a different man.
Who, he was then, is who I cherished the most.
Simplicity, was the undercurrent before ego dictated and drove his love for expensive tastes. You can’t buy love, no matter how much you lust for it.
You can’t rescue a whore, and turn her into a lady. However, he pursued her with such persistence that it fractured our friendship.
Greed, has a way of making a...
#BestFriend
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darkblue
Poem Published
23rd Apr 2018 5:47am
23rd Apr 2018 5:47am
this is what I do, incase you ever wondered
A child is a child, until they see the world for what it is. Yes growing up is not easy, but for some, it is hell.
I was born between a drunk and a con artist, both joined together by the love of greed. One used me as a punch bag, the other a way of making money through others sexual sadism.
I knew how to give head before I could even spell it. I learned to cope with life by self-harming and poetry.
I created worlds for me to escape into, characters I could become. Friends who lived inside my head, which protected me during abuse of any kind.
I learned words could be used...
I was born between a drunk and a con artist, both joined together by the love of greed. One used me as a punch bag, the other a way of making money through others sexual sadism.
I knew how to give head before I could even spell it. I learned to cope with life by self-harming and poetry.
I created worlds for me to escape into, characters I could become. Friends who lived inside my head, which protected me during abuse of any kind.
I learned words could be used...
#identity
#SelfHarm
#myself #SelfReflection
#myself #SelfReflection
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Spiltsunsets_XVII
Poem Published
22nd Apr 2018 1:27am
22nd Apr 2018 1:27am
dying an inch away from the crescendo of gods;
#love
#erotic
#LifeCycle
#aging
#respect
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shadow_starzzz
Poem Published
21st Apr 2018 00:47am
21st Apr 2018 00:47am
Another one bites the dust...
It took me a while to understand what you were doing to me, and it wasn't until just recently that I understood the absence of ones touch, and how much I craved everything you couldn't bring yourself to be, for me.
Presence, has very little weight without the other senses being tapped, simultaneously.
It made me wonder why I channeled my never ending hope, respect and trust into you ?
As if you were the only decent man on the planet that blinded me from seeing the goodness within the depths of any other.
Love, means nothing without those core elements underpinning...
Presence, has very little weight without the other senses being tapped, simultaneously.
It made me wonder why I channeled my never ending hope, respect and trust into you ?
As if you were the only decent man on the planet that blinded me from seeing the goodness within the depths of any other.
Love, means nothing without those core elements underpinning...
#betrayal
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personanongrata
Poem Published
20th Apr 2018 5:13pm
20th Apr 2018 5:13pm
I have nothing to say
So what am I supposed to do right now?
Forget and delete everything that I have felt with you?
The spiral tried to get me in its grief and victimhood but no.
I saw you in me.
I saw that part of me that was screaming for attention. And the way I have been treating it, is the same with yours towards me. This is a mirroring reflection...My freedom and purity wants to be embodied in me but I am running away from them.
What the fuck am I saying?
This is rediculous. I'm brainwashed and naive.
There is no such thing as true love.
Then I say, this is all...
Forget and delete everything that I have felt with you?
The spiral tried to get me in its grief and victimhood but no.
I saw you in me.
I saw that part of me that was screaming for attention. And the way I have been treating it, is the same with yours towards me. This is a mirroring reflection...My freedom and purity wants to be embodied in me but I am running away from them.
What the fuck am I saying?
This is rediculous. I'm brainwashed and naive.
There is no such thing as true love.
Then I say, this is all...
#rejection
#SelfReflection
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darkblue
Poem Published
18th Apr 2018 6:07pm
18th Apr 2018 6:07pm
a monster thought on fa fa fa fashion
We have been poisoned in world by the likes of the Media, Fashion and marketing.
Mankind thinks of nothing but money by showing images of what society wants to be normal.
Skinny with perfect teeth and nice hair .Even the image of woman has become a sort of “silent, no thoughts but desirable to man” image in the Media.
Look how we suffer, how we judge ourselves on-our bodies, shut ourselves away.
Yes I have an illness, yes I locked myself away and struggle with it but it is made worse by our thoughts of being judged bothers.
We question if we are perfect for others. ...
Mankind thinks of nothing but money by showing images of what society wants to be normal.
Skinny with perfect teeth and nice hair .Even the image of woman has become a sort of “silent, no thoughts but desirable to man” image in the Media.
Look how we suffer, how we judge ourselves on-our bodies, shut ourselves away.
Yes I have an illness, yes I locked myself away and struggle with it but it is made worse by our thoughts of being judged bothers.
We question if we are perfect for others. ...
#depression
#LifeStruggles
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darkblue
Poem Published
16th Apr 2018 3:57pm
16th Apr 2018 3:57pm
unheard , un read and
Unheard
I have been diagnosed with many things, by many Doctors some just as excuses to move me on, some just nodded as I talk, not understanding me.
So let me begin, let me try to explain what it is like being in my head and the gaps the NHS let me fall through, fail me and add to my problems.
I am 48, I have mental health issues, of some kind for 39 years. Abused as a child, living with a mentally unfit mother and a alcoholic abusive father, I was labelled a problem child at school, disruptive, cheeky and as one teacher put it “a basket case in the making”.
I was bullied...
I have been diagnosed with many things, by many Doctors some just as excuses to move me on, some just nodded as I talk, not understanding me.
So let me begin, let me try to explain what it is like being in my head and the gaps the NHS let me fall through, fail me and add to my problems.
I am 48, I have mental health issues, of some kind for 39 years. Abused as a child, living with a mentally unfit mother and a alcoholic abusive father, I was labelled a problem child at school, disruptive, cheeky and as one teacher put it “a basket case in the making”.
I was bullied...
#depression
#dark
#heartbroken
#death
#MentalHealth
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Kaywrites
Poem Published
12th Apr 2018 1:26am
12th Apr 2018 1:26am
No longer quiet
I'm told to keep my mouth closed but I'm going to open it and speak the truth 🗣 my most precious gift was took by a man , a man who supposed to keep and protect me from those kinds of things ...my dad he molested me at the ages 8-10 buut I finally spoke up and everybody turned against me said I'm lying or I'm just jealous sooo while we in court I told them everything was lie so I could make everyone else happy so last year (2017) I actually decided to go through with it and tell the truth because why should I have to walk around with the stress and being disgusted with myself and...
#anger
#identity
#abuse #MeToo
#abuse #MeToo
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Hiddenlistener
Austin2002
Austin2002
Poem Published
11th Apr 2018 11:34pm
11th Apr 2018 11:34pm
do what you want
You know what to do anymore what do you want me to do do you actually want me to leave if you do tell me all I've ever asked for was for you to be honest all I ever ask for sick of being broken you've had my life in your hands but chose not to throw me away what purpose do you have for me if you wanted me gone I would already be be honest with yourself with me and with everyone else you said it's hard how is it hard to say what you want we all got our wants and we all got our needs I'm asking you what you want what do you expect me to do your sister said leave my sister alone but before that...
#sadness
#anxiety
#loneliness
#confessional
#confusion
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shadow_starzzz
Poem Published
10th Apr 2018 12:44pm
10th Apr 2018 12:44pm
Anointed
What you see in me, intersects with the wilderness that lies within you as the memories we made on that dirt road leaves me lost in the depths of you.
I don't doubt my feelings for you, however, it's amusing to witness you chasing fragments of your past.
You trigger my insecurities, and I find peace within myself at the flick of a switch.
I don't want to let go, but self preservation takes precedence over sufferance.
I love you, however, there's only so much self sacrifice that one can perform before depletion enters the room like an elephant.
I don’t want to compete...
I don't doubt my feelings for you, however, it's amusing to witness you chasing fragments of your past.
You trigger my insecurities, and I find peace within myself at the flick of a switch.
I don't want to let go, but self preservation takes precedence over sufferance.
I love you, however, there's only so much self sacrifice that one can perform before depletion enters the room like an elephant.
I don’t want to compete...
#forgiveness
#inspirational
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samael
Poem Published
10th Apr 2018 12:31pm
10th Apr 2018 12:31pm
TPW
TPW-Totally psychopathic wrestling Knoxville,Tennessee: middle/high school years revisited,scars far from healed,and the best goddamned undocumented teenage wrestling promotion in east Tennessee"
My brother told me his friends we're doing backyard wrestling after school one day after picking him up.
i thought to myself "that sounds killer!"
my mind flooded with 8th grader ideas.
we rolled up in a beat up red 89' Astro van
to the back of the K-mart off North Broadway.
trash and hobo encampments as far as the eyes could see
running along the polluted creek...
My brother told me his friends we're doing backyard wrestling after school one day after picking him up.
i thought to myself "that sounds killer!"
my mind flooded with 8th grader ideas.
we rolled up in a beat up red 89' Astro van
to the back of the K-mart off North Broadway.
trash and hobo encampments as far as the eyes could see
running along the polluted creek...
#identity
#motivational
#SelfHarm #uplifting
#SelfHarm #uplifting
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