Popular Non-Fiction Prose
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Non-poetic writing including diary extracts, journal entries, letters, essays and art
Popular poems, listed in order of their popularity this month.
DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
13th Nov 2024 8:27am
13th Nov 2024 8:27am
Much Obliged
You know I haven’t written in a collaboration since close to two years ago. I’ve said many times on here I used to do a lot of songwriting with an old buddy until we had a falling out. Then there was getting healthy, and ending the long journey with booze. Then I came here to DU. And started over, took a chance I still could do this thing it is we do. I watch to many mobster movies, I know. lol.
Collaborations are an art form in my opinion. It requires trust and compromise, a certain etiquette that writer’s often possess and share in each other’s company. Because from one...
Collaborations are an art form in my opinion. It requires trust and compromise, a certain etiquette that writer’s often possess and share in each other’s company. Because from one...
#confessional
#prose
113 reads
24 Comments
Her
Poem Published
7th Nov 2024 12:23pm
7th Nov 2024 12:23pm
My Thought for Today: Finding Joy
Finding joy when there doesn’t seem to be a reason to may seem impossible, but to me, it’s becoming a way of life. When I tell people my story it takes a minute. I make sure to prepare them beforehand. Usually I get a head nod and a reassuring smile or an “it’s okay,” while they patiently wait. My deep breath isn’t as audible anymore, but it’s there. When I finish, I make sure to add something positive, such as, “I’m grateful to be where I am,” or “there’s so much more for me to learn,” because those things are the truth. You don’t live through the things I have and the amount of things I...
#happiness
114 reads
12 Comments
Her
Poem Published
6th Nov 2024 11:41am
6th Nov 2024 11:41am
My Thought for Today: Silence Kills
Most often, suffering happens behind closed doors. Whatever the reason, be it depression, anxiety, abuse, neglect, loneliness, shame, serious mental Illness, addiction or addictive behavior, anything that causes a person to suffer is usually difficult for someone to talk about, so reaching out can sometimes feel near impossible. As the suffering builds, the harder it seems to ask for help and can it can become a continuous loop of anguish. The perfect recipe for that one thought to creep in and grab hold. And when that happens the people in your life may not recognize the warning signs. ...
#CallToAction
#LifeChangingMoment
#suicide
102 reads
14 Comments
DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
2nd Nov 2024 8:16am
2nd Nov 2024 8:16am
Backstage (Van Halen)
Welcome Backstage, I’m Damian DeadLove. The year was 1996, September 4th to be precise. I’m watching the MTV awards show for some reason, I’ve never been huge into watching the award’s ceremony. Not even for live performances, mainly because the sound was never great on those shows. In my opinion that is.
Dennis Miller, the comedian, was the host that night. He was ready to announce the next presenter, and I was floored when he uttered the name, Van Halen. “Runnin’ With The Devil” is cued up and I’m waiting for the big reveal. Waiting for the curtain to be pulled back so...
Dennis Miller, the comedian, was the host that night. He was ready to announce the next presenter, and I was floored when he uttered the name, Van Halen. “Runnin’ With The Devil” is cued up and I’m waiting for the big reveal. Waiting for the curtain to be pulled back so...
#music
107 reads
18 Comments
Her
Poem Published
3rd Nov 2024 11:07am
3rd Nov 2024 11:07am
Kink & BDSM: A Glimpse Into Why We Like What We Like
We all have particular sexual ideas that excite us, but most of the time, we think in terms of the specific behaviors. If you dig a little bit deeper though, underneath the behaviors themselves, you can get an interesting window into your erotic psychology – and why you crave the things that you do.
BDSM means bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism. Bondage is all about the art of restraint for erotic purposes. It can refer to actual bondage or alternatively being “bound” to a rule, which is where discipline comes in. Sadism is pleasure from inflicting pain or...
BDSM means bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism. Bondage is all about the art of restraint for erotic purposes. It can refer to actual bondage or alternatively being “bound” to a rule, which is where discipline comes in. Sadism is pleasure from inflicting pain or...
#BDSM
162 reads
21 Comments
Her
Poem Published
2nd Nov 2024 4:48pm
2nd Nov 2024 4:48pm
My Thought for Today: Hardening a C-PTSD Heart
Learning how to harden my heart is an internal battle I’d rather not wage when I have so many others that need attention, but self preservation in the face of danger, perceived or otherwise, tells me that this cracked exterior of the vessel that holds the way I love may need this type of protecting right now.
Trauma will do that. And it doesn’t have to be the blatant kind of trauma that I’ve lived through and I’m working at overcoming. It’s the little but not so little things that get buried but rear their ugly head along this winding road of healing.
It’s the dismissal...
Trauma will do that. And it doesn’t have to be the blatant kind of trauma that I’ve lived through and I’m working at overcoming. It’s the little but not so little things that get buried but rear their ugly head along this winding road of healing.
It’s the dismissal...
#heartbroken
#PTSD
#sadness
111 reads
16 Comments
Her
Poem Published
12th Nov 2024 2:57pm
12th Nov 2024 2:57pm
My Thought For Today: Holding Onto Love Too Tightly Doesn’t Allow Room for Growth
I’m a former plant killer with black thumb, therefore, I had no business having a relationship. I put everything I had into someone else without giving myself the nourishment I required. I smothered those relationships with love. I thought I was doing the right thing. Clearly I wasn’t. My boundaries were blurred.
Through trial and error and through learning more about myself and therefore, more about trauma and C-PTSD, I’ve learned that love needs room to blossom. Fear of abandonment, the reason I clung so tightly, isn’t going to keep someone close. It’s a noose, it traps, it...
Through trial and error and through learning more about myself and therefore, more about trauma and C-PTSD, I’ve learned that love needs room to blossom. Fear of abandonment, the reason I clung so tightly, isn’t going to keep someone close. It’s a noose, it traps, it...
#healing
#love
#relationships
71 reads
10 Comments
Her
Poem Published
8th Nov 2024 1:30pm
8th Nov 2024 1:30pm
My Thought for Today: Green Flags, Red Flags, What About My White Flag?
It’s trendy to talk about green flags and red flags, those obvious and sometimes not so obvious indicators of heathy and unhealthy behaviors in relationships, but I’ve never heard anyone talk about my white flag, how I surrendered my rationale or my instincts, and ended up in toxic relationships or relationships that turned toxic. Maybe if I saw “white flag” it would have helped. Because let’s face it, we’re drawn to words that work.
I’ve surrendered to situations in relationships and the behaviors of others for many reasons, but mostly because my C-PTSD heart and brain didn’t have...
I’ve surrendered to situations in relationships and the behaviors of others for many reasons, but mostly because my C-PTSD heart and brain didn’t have...
#relationships
76 reads
10 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
12th Nov 2024 7:34pm
12th Nov 2024 7:34pm
King Crimson- In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson were an English based Progressive Rock band that formed in London in 1968.
The roots of King Crimson start pre-1969 with the light-weight, pop efforts of Giles, Giles & Fripp. After failing to get any gigs what so ever and receiving a dismal response from anyone who heard them, Pete Giles left. Around the end of 1968 Pete's brother Mike and Robert Fripp conceived King Crimson and added Ian McDonald on reeds, Greg Lake on bass and vocals and lyricist Peter Sinfield, who was McDonald's songwriting partner became the bands fifth member. King Crimson was born.
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The roots of King Crimson start pre-1969 with the light-weight, pop efforts of Giles, Giles & Fripp. After failing to get any gigs what so ever and receiving a dismal response from anyone who heard them, Pete Giles left. Around the end of 1968 Pete's brother Mike and Robert Fripp conceived King Crimson and added Ian McDonald on reeds, Greg Lake on bass and vocals and lyricist Peter Sinfield, who was McDonald's songwriting partner became the bands fifth member. King Crimson was born.
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#historical
#music
#narrative #nonfiction
#narrative #nonfiction
66 reads
10 Comments
Particles_Of_HerII
Poem Published
14th Nov 2024 7:13am
14th Nov 2024 7:13am
Untitl'd, there's no poetry for this
Had told them “keep your paper gods”,
Ive my own ..
whom exfoliates the illusions away
you were the one thing that remain'd constant
in my life .. until you didn't
the moon went fr’m being majestique
to splinter’d then morph’d into symptoms
of something perverted:
all the tale-tell signs of that I'd given away
the Gift of Trust
.. that I lov’d a little too deeply
…simply invest’d a little too much, of myself..
...
Ive my own ..
whom exfoliates the illusions away
you were the one thing that remain'd constant
in my life .. until you didn't
the moon went fr’m being majestique
to splinter’d then morph’d into symptoms
of something perverted:
all the tale-tell signs of that I'd given away
the Gift of Trust
.. that I lov’d a little too deeply
…simply invest’d a little too much, of myself..
...
#LifeChangingMoment
#love
#hurt #rejection
#hurt #rejection
97 reads
Zazzles
Broomie
Broomie
Poem Published
31st Oct 2024 00:10am
31st Oct 2024 00:10am
The Narcissist & The Fool
Please listen while reading. Ty ♥️
Disturbed: Don’t tell me - featuring Ann Wilson https://youtu.be/qDq0iwqnIl0?si=T-nQu-C_Q8QG6S5X
When I say I hate you
I truly mean it
all of you
devils spawn
I sincerely feel it!
YOU ARE TRASH
yet I stay…
The Narcissist & The Fool
some people never leave…
Disturbed: Don’t tell me - featuring Ann Wilson https://youtu.be/qDq0iwqnIl0?si=T-nQu-C_Q8QG6S5X
When I say I hate you
I truly mean it
all of you
devils spawn
I sincerely feel it!
YOU ARE TRASH
yet I stay…
The Narcissist & The Fool
some people never leave…
#sadness
99 reads
12 Comments
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