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 Jan 2016 arcane
Aaron Conway
like sunshine through the rain,
so, is the
gorgeous
light,
of
her
dark
sultry night,
beauty none other
than the stars,
warm wispers fill the air,
a tear drops from her eye
 Jan 2016 arcane
Hedonic Nihilist
her first love was mary jane
she would've loved me, too,
if i was easy to wrap up,
put in her mouth and swallow

if i could make her shiver
in the warm, Florida sun
and sweat in the
cold decembrist moon

if i could cause the coughs
Within her swallow lungs
The dreams she clung too so desperately
I am not easy to roll up



his first love was ******
he wanted me too, too much
i didn’t want to be the blood
in his veins, the life

when ****** ***** the life
out of you, you **** the life
out of it, the weekends that
it wished for:

become empty syringes
on the floors of
cheap motels and
Honda Civics.



his first love was codeine
i want to float too, i say
you cannot, he says
i sink into the abyss i create

i used to have so many colors, i say
no response, he fades away, the
colors of the night, the reds,
are all i start to know

he said to **** the sadness out
of naive girls they have to lose their skin
codeine, codeine, codeine–my God,
was all he ever said



my first love was Dead
no sympathy, no remorse, no hearse
the urn was blue, the ashes gray as cigarette ash
the preacher sighs, again

it could’ve been you, he says
**** right, it could’ve been me;
in that urn, it could’ve been me
my first love is Dead
 Jan 2016 arcane
Eriko
sometimes the howling of the wind
under the starry winter sky
must be the rush of dreams
that dances in our sleep
they travel far, they travel wide  
they howl maybe because
they are no longer for us to keep
infatuated by the obsession
of a better reality
 Jan 2016 arcane
Lia
bad news:
 Jan 2016 arcane
Lia
i seem to have abandoned poetic metaphor
in favor of basic simple boring complaints
easily & fully understood; no secrets from me
good news: no need for a translator
 Jan 2016 arcane
pc
Matchmaker
 Jan 2016 arcane
pc
Oh, darling!
But your demons
match with mine.

/pc
 Jan 2016 arcane
Madeline Frosh
it was like when i saw you i could finally breathe,
and i let go of the breath i was holding in my whole life
my lungs escaping the cages they were trapped inside
like butterflies exploding from my chest
 Jan 2016 arcane
Remus
Innocent
 Jan 2016 arcane
Remus
I left you.

Of course you don't
realize that.

We were two puzzle pieces,
but we wouldn't fit;
you can't shove two things
together and hope for the
best.

We fought all the time
and I never cried,
you were the one that always
did that.

Correct me if I'm wrong,
but opposites don't always
attract.

In science they may,
but with people
they don't.

We were opposites,
I was calm
and you were the storm.

I was brave
and you were a coward
that hid behind closed doors.

Two people can't be together
if they can't stand each other.

I couldn't stand you.

The fond way you stared
at me made me sick.

And the way you screamed
made me *****.

I hated you and you loved me.

There was a point in time
where we were both
madly in love,
but then I stopped.

When and Where?
I don't know.

I am manipulative
and you are innocent.

These kinds of things never work.
 Dec 2015 arcane
glassea
i used to think that ceilings
were placed to protect us from the sky
but now i'm left wondering
whether they protect the sky from us
title from an emily dickinson poem.
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