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Jun 2019 · 125
Cursed
Elle Jun 2019
The curse you've set upon me
Summoned through a blade
Words you have stitched into stone with ****** fingernails
The conditions of my soul
This is what you have bestowed upon me
Not hymns or hydrangeas
Not a cradle or a kiss
But words that bury me beneath a opaque myth
From me you will receive no benediction
No utterance of a prayer
No- All you will receive from me is varying hues of hell
Jun 2019 · 159
Grey
Elle Jun 2019
To be alone with him is to be alone with myself
He floats like a wisp of fog in the corners of my eyes
Asking where to go next
An impenetrable fog that manifests and multiples
I'm slightly unnerved when I see what else he veils
The dock past the brook
The edges of the corn field
The ends of my fingers
And all that I know
His season of fog after springtime
Breathes still
As I stare, transfixed
He trickles from the places he has possessed
Slithers up my spine, over my shoulder blade
And I inhale
Jun 2019 · 889
No Matter
Elle Jun 2019
We slept on the spare couch
A half remembered dream that I have bled for
My eyes drenched in slumberous salt
Dewy eyelids threaten to close
And yet we chase sleep into the desert
With bells dragging behind our backs
To have rest rob our pockets
A tsunami in the grave
A half remembered dream of rooftop travels and serenades
Hushed giggles in the dark
This dream that I have suffered and died for
A dream I have given my life for
Starts to fade anyway
Jun 2019 · 122
Supposed
Elle Jun 2019
It is there - in a poem I have yet to write
Hiding under the bed
It shares my spheres of sorrow
Fragrant and unsaid
It is there - my story to utter
Underneath the brush
Spoken from my unconscious mind
Constrained, pithy and lush
Jun 2019 · 174
Borrowed
Elle Jun 2019
Sorrow stings my borrowed eyes, for now they are dark blue
Rage and lust woven into my borrowed world
A world that has love too
Forgetting my impermanence, I beg for more borrowed time
I wonder, I search and I feel through this world
This world I long to call mine
Jun 2019 · 209
A Dance
Elle Jun 2019
I sway with the trees through my window
Ivy climbs up the bark
I play with the leaves through my window
A wind gusts through the night

Branches pick me up and play with my curls
They giggle and set me down
The trees have taken me from my window
Soot and sap covers my gown

I look back up at my window
The ivy has shallowed my room
Their leaves and poison look down through my window
Singing their gleeful tunes

I try to climb back to my window
The forest plants me in the ground
I sway with the trees staring up at my window
My window... my window...
May 2019 · 122
Far From Here
Elle May 2019
Over there, past the valleys of knowledge
Far from the seamstresses gaze
Where night and day are letters
Written on a page
The host drew in a sharp breath
That dispelled the arching trees
Nothing shook the dream of death
Not even the sight of the seas
May 2019 · 124
A Morning
Elle May 2019
Early between the dawn and sunrise
A house within the woods
Ancient creaking floorboards
Stilted brotherhoods
A sparrow begins its song of shade
A mahogany table chipping dried blood
A faint and resonant snoring
A day before the flood
May 2019 · 129
Untitled
Elle May 2019
How I began to uncoil my love from you
like bits of a cloud dissolving into daylight
the ombré from a dark blue sky to baby blue
the gentle ***** from palm to wrist
May 2019 · 128
Another Life
Elle May 2019
Far from the shoreline
There was a moment your hand was in mine
My mind is weighed down by the thought of it
I bear an untouched story
A story of emerald that longed to be scarlet
A story of fire that thirsts for rain
My hand can hardly write of it
I close my eyes and hear an echoing of the sweetest song
A song that belongs to another world
A world where emerald turns to scarlet
And fire has its fill of rain
May 2019 · 124
A Dream
Elle May 2019
Soft spoken and cloudy
You remind me of a dream I've been trying to forget
A dream that begs to be remembered
That pounded its iron fists on my collapsed chest
And yet you flutter and glide amid the space where flesh used to be
Gently and quietly you pass
I try not to hold it against you
But the resemblance is too striking
The sunlight beamed off of your hair
Before the rot began
May 2019 · 153
Torn
Elle May 2019
You lay in the battlefield of a Great War
Again and again
Reintroducing yourself as the rubble leaves scars on your cheeks
As your palms splinter and cleave
Those you have lost
Those who have lost you
There's snow piling on your lashes like powdered sugar
It is something you've written with a song in mind
A testimony, A prophecy
But if you were to squeeze your black eyes open
You'd see your red door, tire swing and toy box
May 2019 · 207
Light and Dark
Elle May 2019
It stays dark
Even in the light, it stays dark
It encapsulates you and me
And you and me
Until light tumbles upon us again
It gets so bright that the world turns to milk
And we are forced to bow to the sun
But it stays dark still
May 2019 · 118
A Poem
Elle May 2019
I felt a poem within me that desperately clawed at my throat
But each word dissipated as I opened my mouth to speak.
May 2019 · 113
One Night
Elle May 2019
I stepped out onto the grass
A rustling of leaves
A drip, drip, drip that slowed to a silence
He watched me
Watched beneath a weeping willow as the branches danced with the howling of the wind
My hands, small
I was just a girl, only knew the dangers of lions, tigers and bears
Who else could I have been?
May 2019 · 116
A Place to Hide
Elle May 2019
When you showed yourself to me, you expected fog to fall upon your shoulders, to disembody your definition.
As I was lolled into slumber, the sun shone upon your snowy bones. And the soil on which I laid threatened to rise me skyward on the back of silver grass and swaying wind.
You kept me anchored to a tree that smelled of jasmine and moonlight. You led my eyes once again to your skin which was flashing recognition. There, in the space around me- the song of a sparrow, a garden, a weeping and a whisper.
I went down, down, down into the fire.
I floated into the golden light and chose the snow that rested between them.
May 2019 · 99
A Name
Elle May 2019
I've lost my name far away amongst the trees.
It's intertwined with the thorns and poison.
The hazy purple moonlight that was once coated in plastic and paper, whose name I struggled to remember, now watches every movement and tells its friends of my mistakes.
That moonlight that was once deliciously hushed and tranquil becomes vaguely unnerving. I pray for it to rush into a sunrise so I can retrieve my name
A name that belongs only to me
A name that will tell them who I am
May 2019 · 335
All That There is
Elle May 2019
The storm howled and growled and demanded to disperse pieces of us across the horizon. It felt like the last breezes from the Garden of Eden.

Suddenly, I was grinded into dust and you were melted into rain.
As I fell, I learned to feel. It felt like a life all at once.

My dust was everywhere and I was the dust.
The storm shoved me in all different directions but I was still whole.

I touched the ground.

I now know the wind as if he were my own lungs.
I know the sun as if she were my hands.
Know the ocean as if it were my own tears
And know your rain as if you were my own soul.

But I still miss you.

Now whenever it rains, I feel it again, the feeling of learning to feel.
I soak you up. I can't tell the difference between you and me.
It's messy and we turn into mud but we bask in it.

Once the sun comes again, I feel you evaporate from me.
I hold onto you until it feels like a drought.
I've always wondered what it feels like for you to rise back up to the clouds.

After a few of your rainy days, I hear the echo of muffled words.
A few more, I feel the bluest of blue poems tearing through me, towards the sun.

Day after day, it blooms and rises closer to the clouds, your home.
And when you fall, I feel the petals open just a bit more.

As the blue sinks its roots into me, I weaken.
You seem to be falling less and less, only dripping to make a sound.

Although we no longer have the words, the words we use are as if they are spoken from the lips of God.

I hear the howling and growling again.

What was I before the storm?
May 2019 · 135
You
Elle May 2019
You
It's in the ballot beneath your brow
It's in the breathless chorus you sing
The agonized clarity of thought and expression
And the night that you bring

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