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cuff my lips like the bile you keep biting your tongue around wrap up my limbs, painted pink squeezing out the dissonance and defiance, oozing the lengths you scrape my skin sting like last week's argument my throat's too wound to tell you the soft you won't touch burns drenched and tripping over again for every man who's set me on fire to keep his idea of my form alive the sear of distaste like apathy the bones of those who suffocated me with their suffering don't fit inside this body anymore i am bursting, every seam a corner to turn sunlit, anxious, promising watch me rewrite this flesh like a salve watch me reclaim this life like salvation
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Jul 5, 2020
Jul 5, 2020 at 8:15 PM UTC
effeminate
I steal love with the part of my lips, the fall of my chin, the reverence in my temples, // so I scoff with my unblessed prayer, my impossible keeper, my wretched skin, my faultless pleasure, // and grace swoons, puts me back in my place, mutters sin in my mouth, tightens grip in my hips, stokes flame in my skin, // threads pain inside, weaves mind inside, names fear inside, makes more inside, // and I am unfeeling of pardon, unwanting of heaven, ungoverned by god, not bothered, on purpose, not waiting on mercy, // and I stand with the evil, the blind, the kind, the pained and the stained, and steal love with them, because // we are unneeded by hell.
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Dec 10, 2019
Dec 10, 2019 at 9:00 PM UTC
we are love-stealers.
most of my stories i have no name for i cant really express how a title can change the story its like a person with an assigned name and you expect them to live that name for instance, Ashley she is a fun loving blonde or brunet, who loves to party she dresses in ripped jeans and crop tops, that may be a little too short Or Jessica who is the meanest ***** in the school she wears maxi-skirts and sparkly tops, that always accentuate her chest the stereotypes that live in highschools strangle everybody who fits within them even if they aren't them Ashley just wants to be called Ash and wear baggy T-shirts and sweatpants Jessica wants to be called Jess and go by They/them pronouns People should be able to fit on where they want not where they have to to survive
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Dec 5, 2019
Dec 5, 2019 at 10:36 AM UTC
Expectations
Unattached narratives Charlie makes the same face every time they tell a joke they know they probably shouldn’t. They shift their jaw a tiny bit to the left, their eyes to the right. They start to crack a smile, intermittently, but it doesn’t poke through easily. They don’t let anyone know they think they’re funny. But they know. They’ve made this face a lot lately, they seem lighter; they seem fuller. I could watch the same face and hear the same corny joke every day for the rest of my life, and laugh like it was new. I could watch them smile until my eyes burned out. I wanted this to be unattached but I feel their joy in my chest, and I’m so thankful for that. I’m so thankful for this.
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Sep 7, 2019
Sep 7, 2019 at 8:05 PM UTC
Unattached Narratives: One
A women that is Intelligent **** Desirable My True Love Has so much to give A kind heart Misunderstood by most Eyes that mesmerize you Lips that all you want to do is kiss Snuggle and caress to relax her Being there for her At 3am when she can’t sleep Because she matters to me I hope she truly believes I will comfort her Hold her for as long as needed Be there for her forever Because I Love You Until death do us part
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Nov 23, 2018
Nov 23, 2018 at 7:21 PM UTC
SHE