Non-Fiction Prose by Members Last Online
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Non-poetic writing including diary extracts, journal entries, letters, essays and art
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Sky99
Sky99
Poem Published
16th Jan 2023 8:16am
16th Jan 2023 8:16am
Not him
I'm the one who is ready. let me be the one, let me take the pain. I lived my life let me be the one. he's so young and has so much more to do. why him and not me! I would surely take the sickness from him, let it be me to have the cancer and not my six-year-old son.
#sadness
#heartbroken
#frustration #confusion
#frustration #confusion
325 reads
2 Comments
adagio
Poem Published
10th Jan 2025 11:49pm
10th Jan 2025 11:49pm
Get Off My Plains Of Abraham, You Sick Son Of A bitch
Get Off My Plains Of Abraham, You Sick Son Of A bitch
Don't sucré me if tomorrow comes,
with a dark grammarian in shadows
editing my macabre.
Do re mi fa so, it doesn't pull my strings,
punk'd by Poe and Little Jackdaws.
So fuck you! and "Ring Around the Rosie."
I ain't a doctor, I'm a demented poet.
If I offend, it's because one is disillusioned
and a fool for rot. I ride my own plains of Abraham
and not a satanic jar of Milk Duds. Get a box of
Tide and wash the stains,...
Don't sucré me if tomorrow comes,
with a dark grammarian in shadows
editing my macabre.
Do re mi fa so, it doesn't pull my strings,
punk'd by Poe and Little Jackdaws.
So fuck you! and "Ring Around the Rosie."
I ain't a doctor, I'm a demented poet.
If I offend, it's because one is disillusioned
and a fool for rot. I ride my own plains of Abraham
and not a satanic jar of Milk Duds. Get a box of
Tide and wash the stains,...
#WritingPoetry
84 reads
3 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
22nd Dec 2023 9:19am
22nd Dec 2023 9:19am
A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe (1790)
a book review
This one was a lot more fun than I expected it to be. Ann Radcliffe is one of the earliest Gothic writers, after Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto and before MG Lewis with The Monk (which she denounced as too violent). To my mind she’s a better novelist than either, and although I knew I’d enjoy the atmosphere that she creates, what surprised me on returning to A Sicilian Romance is how much I enjoyed the plot. Her characters are notedly one-dimensional and her storytelling tends towards soap opera, with all its romantic intrigues, near escapes, improbable twists,...
This one was a lot more fun than I expected it to be. Ann Radcliffe is one of the earliest Gothic writers, after Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto and before MG Lewis with The Monk (which she denounced as too violent). To my mind she’s a better novelist than either, and although I knew I’d enjoy the atmosphere that she creates, what surprised me on returning to A Sicilian Romance is how much I enjoyed the plot. Her characters are notedly one-dimensional and her storytelling tends towards soap opera, with all its romantic intrigues, near escapes, improbable twists,...
#books
102 reads
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
Today 1:41am
Today 1:41am
But I Know In My Heart
But I know in my heart that I may always love Josh.
Search and search I may, but seek and seek I do not find.
How safe he made me feel.
How special he made me feel.
His mystery and charm.
His calm and quiet demeanor.
I'll never forget his eyes,
for his eyes had such an intensity like Shadow the Hedgehog.
And I, Maria.
This doesn't mean I have disrespected myself nor it does mean that I have betrayed myself.
Because I know we all have flaws, and his particular flaws are ones I can...
Search and search I may, but seek and seek I do not find.
How safe he made me feel.
How special he made me feel.
His mystery and charm.
His calm and quiet demeanor.
I'll never forget his eyes,
for his eyes had such an intensity like Shadow the Hedgehog.
And I, Maria.
This doesn't mean I have disrespected myself nor it does mean that I have betrayed myself.
Because I know we all have flaws, and his particular flaws are ones I can...
#ForbiddenLove
22 reads
0 Comments
Numer90
Numer0-un0
Numer0-un0
Poem Published
24th Jul 2021 10:12pm
24th Jul 2021 10:12pm
The 'day before yesterday'
Wed, Jul 21
I normally hate decision making days.. When bad things are destined to happen..
On this date..
This death..
I'll remember till my last breathe..
It'll cost me 60 days to eat the dates by sunset..
Here I got subject with so many predicates
When did I write this?..
We only have 'today', 'tomorrow', and 'yesterday'..
But I have another day
So disturbed..
Consciously defaulted..
His name? I asked..
Who? They asked me in return..
The boy. He had a name..
I replied
...
I normally hate decision making days.. When bad things are destined to happen..
On this date..
This death..
I'll remember till my last breathe..
It'll cost me 60 days to eat the dates by sunset..
Here I got subject with so many predicates
When did I write this?..
We only have 'today', 'tomorrow', and 'yesterday'..
But I have another day
So disturbed..
Consciously defaulted..
His name? I asked..
Who? They asked me in return..
The boy. He had a name..
I replied
...
#anxiety
#regret
#loneliness
#heartbroken
#apathy
435 reads
2 Comments
DrunkenWolf
Poem Published
21st Oct 2024 4:39pm
21st Oct 2024 4:39pm
Trees
In green forests of solitude and isolation
When thoughts were so hard to get on
A tree, glistening, raining
Silently, in the dark
Sunlight captures it
Framing beauty
into essence privately seen
In those mere moments
Tempted to defy it,
In worlds that have seemed so cruel
In green forests of solitude and isolation
When thoughts were so hard to get on
A tree, glistening, raining
Silently, in the dark
Sunlight captures it
Framing beauty
into essence privately seen
In those mere moments
Tempted to defy it,
In worlds that have seemed so cruel
In green forests of solitude and isolation
#forest
#narrative
#trees
154 reads
4 Comments
arortiz73
MTP
MTP
Poem Published
4th Apr 2023 2:01am
4th Apr 2023 2:01am
We Bought A Haunted Nursing Home In Iowa
PUBLIC NOTICE:
Cait and I finally bought that haunted house in Waterloo, Iowa (with 200+ murders/deaths) formerly known as The Bonorden Nursing Home;
located at: 1020 West Third Street... 50701.
This house is in a state of suspended decay, fleshed-out as a paranormal escape-room bed & breakfast. We're open to visitors.
We've got cursed objects, horcruxes a plenty, death mirrors galore, dolls with attachments, dybbuk boxes, occult paraphernalia, torture tubs, tainted materials, human remains; stained: books, movies, apparel, furniture, etc!
...
Cait and I finally bought that haunted house in Waterloo, Iowa (with 200+ murders/deaths) formerly known as The Bonorden Nursing Home;
located at: 1020 West Third Street... 50701.
This house is in a state of suspended decay, fleshed-out as a paranormal escape-room bed & breakfast. We're open to visitors.
We've got cursed objects, horcruxes a plenty, death mirrors galore, dolls with attachments, dybbuk boxes, occult paraphernalia, torture tubs, tainted materials, human remains; stained: books, movies, apparel, furniture, etc!
...
#rainbow
#monsters
#unicorns #zombies
#unicorns #zombies
347 reads
6 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
1st Nov 2023 9:33pm
1st Nov 2023 9:33pm
Excogitations...
If the recent events in the middle east answer any lingering questions, such as what exactly does organized religion organize for, then now the answer is clear…they organize for violence.
There is no such thing as a Levantine religion of peace.
Subsequently to this we must wonder what it is about the Levantine oriented beliefs that so virulently promote violence, not only in the middle east, but worldwide.
And the answer to that is the enabling idea of an afterlife, and all the phantasmagorical promises that come with it. Once a rube is conditioned...
There is no such thing as a Levantine religion of peace.
Subsequently to this we must wonder what it is about the Levantine oriented beliefs that so virulently promote violence, not only in the middle east, but worldwide.
And the answer to that is the enabling idea of an afterlife, and all the phantasmagorical promises that come with it. Once a rube is conditioned...
#religion
#TruthOfLife
#philosophical #tradition
#philosophical #tradition
211 reads
0 Comments
AfterSexDilemma
Poem Published
5th Feb 2023 00:18am
5th Feb 2023 00:18am
Bad Rooster
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
Yes I still remember you
Every morning before the sun
I hope you're ready to run
Because your head is mine
No more annoying sunrise
I don't want to know the time
Please stop this hate crime
Deep inside you know you're wrong
Silence is where you don't belong
No more Cock-A-Doodle-Dooing song
Why not chill and smoke a bong?
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
Yes I still remember you
Every morning before the sun
I hope you're ready to run
Yes I still remember you
Every morning before the sun
I hope you're ready to run
Because your head is mine
No more annoying sunrise
I don't want to know the time
Please stop this hate crime
Deep inside you know you're wrong
Silence is where you don't belong
No more Cock-A-Doodle-Dooing song
Why not chill and smoke a bong?
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
Yes I still remember you
Every morning before the sun
I hope you're ready to run
#LifeStruggles
299 reads
4 Comments
darkcloud68
Poem Published
24th Jan 2023 5:57am
24th Jan 2023 5:57am
Friendship
Tonight my thoughts are focus on the meaning of friendship. And what it means to be a friend to someone. I am some what distressed over it. And I will not hide the fact that I am hurt, I seem to attract undeserving friends. I am a very generous person, I am blessed with the ability to turn compassion into active action. Loyalty is a great ability that I manifest in my flesh. My love is enduring sacrificial and binding. Yet my love is met with deception, treachery, my kindness met with greed. My friendship unappreciated. I have no friends I am friends to others, that are not a friend of mine....
#BestFriend
#relationships
#friendship
546 reads
2 Comments
gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
13th Oct 2020 00:25am
13th Oct 2020 00:25am
Winters Lost
Today I saw your pictures. Oh, the memories. I took steps back until I fell into the river, and away it carried me. But I wanted to stay and relive the happiness you brought me all those years ago. Something died in me that winter when you said it was over. The memory remains frozen in place, unchanged. Here I am now, so far away from you, stagnate. I still remember your voice in my ear, and there it lingers, well-tuned, the sweetest music. The howl of that winter’s hell can sometimes overcome it; however, I refuse to allow your music to perish! I miss you. Sure, I’ve moved on, but nothing...
#love
#breakup
#confessional
375 reads
0 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
6th Sep 2023 5:46pm
6th Sep 2023 5:46pm
Complexities Of A Veiled Mind
These next three part series, I will be broadening society’s view of the ideology of what the intellect define as adopting the ideology of dark forces.
No, I am not speaking in regards to claiming the sisterhood of an covenant., self -proclaimed sorceress who practices the powers of Mother Nature elements, emphasizing during universal incantations to arouse the formations of the wind, or one who may perform rituals utilizing the paganism colored conjuring of candles, in addition, who can foresee current/future occurrences to tell the future using tarot cards, or it is simply...
No, I am not speaking in regards to claiming the sisterhood of an covenant., self -proclaimed sorceress who practices the powers of Mother Nature elements, emphasizing during universal incantations to arouse the formations of the wind, or one who may perform rituals utilizing the paganism colored conjuring of candles, in addition, who can foresee current/future occurrences to tell the future using tarot cards, or it is simply...
#peace
#MentalHealth
#humankind
430 reads
11 Comments
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