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517 · Nov 2021
Wildly
Grace E Nov 2021
My darling, I love you
Simply because I want to love you.
I yearn for the best in regards to you.
And if I can in any way, ease your situation,
Or make you happy, then I will. Because,
With abandon and reckless honesty, I love you.
I love you wildly.
516 · Feb 2019
Dormant
Grace E Feb 2019
She was
A dormant volcano
Rumbling with untapped power
Long over-due
Waiting, seething
Quaking
512 · Apr 2019
Goodbye
Grace E Apr 2019
Your presence started to feel
Imposing, violating almost
Too close, suffocating
Your quirks were
Irritating, no longer charming
You lost your power over me
You lost me
Some people are like oil & water. They just ain’t mixing...
510 · Mar 2022
PTSD
Grace E Mar 2022
P ain that keeps me up at night
T orturous memories that won’t leave my head
S adistic people from long ago still haunt me
D emons of the past crawl in my bed
505 · Apr 2019
Bad Gardener
Grace E Apr 2019
You want perfection,
But aren’t willing to put in the work
To achieve it.
You get upset and say
“You’re burning down my paradise.”
But “your paradise” is dry enough to burn
Because you haven’t watered it.
All in all
You’re a bad gardener.
499 · Mar 2023
Roots
Grace E Mar 2023
I come from fabrics pinned to clothes lines, flapping like white flags, surrendering to the warm evening breeze.
I come from piping hot cups of Earl grey tea, served with milk and sugar.
I come from gentle springs, harsh winters, jovial summers and delicious autumns.
Humble roots, but they are deep
498 · Aug 2022
Gold Coins
Grace E Aug 2022
He lit his cigar
And held it thoughtfully in his lips
The tip blazed
His eyes glowed amber red
The dark room
Filled with hazy smoke
He’s a dragon
Guarding his gold coins
486 · Dec 2023
Eve
Grace E Dec 2023
Eve
Hints of Eve exist in me
Whispers slither in my ear
And I am enticed again
By a deceiver
481 · Feb 2021
Superficial
Grace E Feb 2021
He’s so handsome it’s almost imposing
He is so good looking it’s a near act of violence
But I know, if I was blind and I could only hear him speak
His personality would have slim to no power over me
481 · Apr 2019
Victorious
Grace E Apr 2019
I sit and twiddle my fingers.
Trying to grasp for words,
That will accurately convey
My story.

For many years,
I developed dependency,
On people, parties,  pleasures
For quick, yellow bursts of dopamine.

Escape.
I own a gory past to say the least,
Some details too painful
To divulge in their fullness.

I finally faced myself.
I finally sat down with my past
And I finally stared it
In its ugly face

Radio silence, for days
Tears of the years
Spilled from my heart to my bathroom floor, for days and days.

I traced each repressed memory
Like one who cuts themselves
Would trace their scars
Internal scars are even worse sometimes...

I sat with myself
No distractions, no noise, no friends to talk to, just me, myself and our thoughts.
I screamed to the air.

I was utterly naked,
In front of my deepest pains.
Utterly exposed to the elements.
The fire lapped at my heart.

Finally, the sun rose
And spilled light into my veins
As the weight fell off
I changed my name.

“Who I was.”
Changed to
“Who I am.”

“What I’ve done.”
Changed to
“What I will become.”

“Wanderer”
Changed to
“Warrior.”

And

“Victim”
Changed to
“Victorious.”
457 · Oct 2020
Love Wins
Grace E Oct 2020
The term “love wins” is true,
Though gravely misused.
The worldly kind of love,
Which is often the attached definition to this term, never truly wins.
This love, which is ****** in nature,
Only leaves it’s participants more empty, and loveless than before.
****** love, when abused and mishandled, taken outside of its intended context, leaves you more empty, drained, used, and void of TRUE love than before you engaged in it.
You will never feel completely fulfilled with only ****** love, and how sad, to base your entire identity on how you like to have ***. How empty a life, to march under a flag of your selfish, ****** preference, rather than something truly meaningful.

Love wins, yes He does. love wins, because Jesus Christ, who was love in flesh, won, when He died on the cross and paid for the sin of the entire world. Including the ****** sin mentioned above. Love wins, when you ask Him into your heart, and believe in Him as your savior, the one who made the weighty payment for your soul, so you could spend forever in the presence of God, where the Bible says, there is “fullness of joy and pleasure forevermore.” Don’t chase fleeting pleasure, that lasts only for a moments at a ****** ******. Choose pleasure that nourishes your soul, gives life to you spirit, opens your eyes to perceive the kingdom of God. Choose that. Choose Jesus. Choose love.
Love wins.
446 · Sep 2019
Goodbye
Grace E Sep 2019
We made a promise to each other
And sealed our covenant with a kiss
Looking back now,
I never thought we’d come to this
433 · Oct 2019
Is It Time?
Grace E Oct 2019
Can a broken heart fully mend?
A shattered soul, fully heal?
Can one learn to not break, but bend?
And let old wounds finally seal?
Can words of torment ever be fully erased?
Tattoos they left in your spirit, made gone?
Can the image they painted of you, debased,
Ever be turned to right, from wrong.
Can forgiveness ever be found?
The years of pain melt away with the sun?
Or is it all too much to take back now?
Is it time to let go? To move on?
433 · Mar 2019
Unsolvable
Grace E Mar 2019
US= -stability+-(past baggage^2-coherent communication)
——————————————————
                Intense mutual attraction



...remains unsolved
We’ve been married 3 years and still haven’t figured it out yet.
428 · Nov 2022
Deep-ression
Grace E Nov 2022
Guttural depths enclose me.
The vast expanse, like a tomb.
I am surrounded on every side by dark waters.
The endlessness is suffocating.
The immensity, my prison.
The deep, my grave.
423 · Apr 2019
Question For Fellow Poets:
Grace E Apr 2019
What is a quote that is very meaningful, impactful or defining to you in your life?
I’m interested to know :)
418 · Dec 2023
The Only One
Grace E Dec 2023
It’s been a matter of years now,
Each day stretches out slowly,
But I feel like I met you yesterday.
I can recall your smell,
The shape of you has been etched into my heart.
Your imprint lasting forever in its spongy composition.
You’re the only one I loved.
You’re the only one I love.
You will forever be my love.
It’s painful to except it,
But you are.
415 · Apr 2019
Fun Idea...
Grace E Apr 2019
Do you know what your name means?
How would you write a poem describing your name? :)
I’ll shine a sun on whoever writes a poem about their name :) Just leave me a message letting me know you wrote one, Incase I don’t see it on the feed.

What’s is a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. :)
402 · Mar 2019
When Warriors Fall in Love
Grace E Mar 2019
we come together
broken from the fight
& dance in the ashes
of our incinerated paradise
We profess our mutual adoration
We resurrect together
Then after we tear down
We rebuild something better
when two warriors fall in love, war is bound to happen.
402 · Jan 2019
in love with an earth sign
Grace E Jan 2019
You’re a shade of brilliant earth
I, a hue of sapphire sea
O, the gravitational pull
A pale pink philosophy
The relentless ebb and flow
that exists between you and me

You’re a refining element
I, here to fufill your wishes
The night brings soft caresses
And chamomile kisses
Rolling in our white sheets
In a passion so delicious
401 · Mar 2019
My King
Grace E Mar 2019
the light drips in through
narrow slats of our curtains
he rolls out of bed
another day of toiling
i see him slip off his pajamas
and pull his work pants on
he sees himself as nothing,
but i see a mighty man
girding himself with a belt
his shirt, a breastplate
his work boots, comparable to the caligae of Roman soldiers
his hat, a warriors helmet
and in this moment as
this humble knight stands before my bedside
i can only think
“other women can keep their prince charmings. I have found a true king.”
399 · Apr 2019
Happy Place
Grace E Apr 2019
She wiggles her toes into the warm sand
And breathes with the tide
The earth exhales water
And then inhales it again
In deep long intervals
The blinding white sun
Reflects off her oily skin
Drenched in sun screen
That smells like a careless summer
Her hair tussled from the breeze
Drying her salty wet hair
She smells like vanilla, coconuts and California
This is her happy place
395 · Feb 2019
Conqueror
Grace E Feb 2019
Attack me with
Force
And I’ll conquer you
With my peace
395 · Jun 2021
Intoxicated
Grace E Jun 2021
To say my heart beats faster when you come close
Would be a wild understatement
You make the foundations of my soul quake
You make tremors happen in the part of me that is immaterial
You have the power to move me
A presence that animates me
I’m both frightened of you
And drunk on you
I am utterly enchanted
Sublimely suffocated
Intrinsically intoxicated by you
391 · Feb 2019
Atomic
Grace E Feb 2019
Your love was like
An atomic blast in my heart
I wasn’t expecting that kind of power
Nor that kind of destruction
388 · Mar 2019
Ballet
Grace E Mar 2019
Pointed toes
Touch the stage of life
The curtain opens
       Silence
Delectable first step
The wind section of the orechestea ushers me in
I am the music
I am the audience
I am the dancer
All in one moment
Second step
Anxiety
The brass section barges into my being
I am the brass
Stomping with elegance
Storming with poise
I am the storm
I am the victim being flung around by wind and by brass
And silence
Twirl
Flow
Ethereal skirt twill above my ankles
Passion and hate
Love and peace
Caught in the spot light
Beaming on stage
Chasing me like a criminal
Caught in a pursuit
I am the criminal
I am the law
Black. White.
Torture. Pleasure
Sailing through gravity
Land
Step
Raise a trembling hand to the light
Bow
386 · Mar 2019
Let it Out
Grace E Mar 2019
The truth is like a lion
You don’t need to defend it
You simply, let it out of its cage
And it’ll handle business just fine
376 · Jan 2019
Porcelain Doll
Grace E Jan 2019
She was your fragile porcelain doll
You broke her
Panicking
You tried to glue her back together
But she was already shattered
Saying “sorry” doesn’t make broken pieces miraculously fix themselves.
368 · Nov 2021
Not a Mind Reader
Grace E Nov 2021
I wish I could just read your mind
And know exactly what you feel for me
352 · Feb 2022
While You’re Here
Grace E Feb 2022
I know I can’t keep you..
But I’m going to enjoy every second while you’re here.
349 · Jun 2021
Hungry
Grace E Jun 2021
Your hands are full of violence
Your mind is filled with rage
Your glance is like a hungry lion
Pacing in its cage
347 · Jun 2021
Sweet Dreams
Grace E Jun 2021
Reality and fantasy intersected
Like a dream
A sweet vision of the night
When the stars rose
You were there…
I swear I could touch you
Feel your breath
Caress your face
It was just an illusion
A trick my heart played
You were never here to stay
And when I woke
You were gone
345 · Feb 2019
When you kissed me
Grace E Feb 2019
When you kissed me
Gravity lost its restraints
My feet dangling above the ground
Elated, transcendent
The clock wasn’t ticking
The earth wasn’t rotating
Length, depth, height
Were memories
Every dimensional fundamental ceased
When you kissed me
343 · Jan 2021
Perspective
Grace E Jan 2021
Sometimes, the only difference between the hero and the villain, is perspective.
339 · Apr 2019
The Preacher & the Poet
Grace E Apr 2019
Two souls, convicted indeed
Two worlds apart
Yet both with an incessant need
To be heard,
To be blatantly understood
One, too black & white
One, too metaphorical for their own good
Opposites attract,
As astranged as they may seem
The preacher needs the parables
That the poet can dream
The poet needs the truth
On which they can expand
They are like two different instruments
Playing for the same band
This was inspired by CS Lewis, who was a great book writer/preacher who married a poetic woman. And Billy Graham who was also a preacher/book writer who married a woman who wrote beautiful  poetry. It makes me hopeful for my marriage. Because I am a very poetic soul and my husband is very “straight and narrow“ yet we utterly adore each other. We seem to have a similar dynamic to these.
329 · Jun 2019
Woman
Grace E Jun 2019
She’s a woman rich in wisdom
Doused in the subtle mystery of femininity
Never trying to be a mans equal,
Because she would never dare take off her crown
Made to do everything a man cannot do
327 · Jan 2019
Jasmin and Grace
Grace E Jan 2019
The two women in his life

One had long black hair

One had long red hair

One he kicked out of the car during an argument

The other was the one kicking him out

One he lived with

One he married

One he left behind

One left him behind

The first was named Jasmin, like the flower or the oil. A name found in gardens and hung over arches

The other named Grace, notes of eternity laced her name. The softness of a ballet dancer intertwined in a single syllable

He should’ve stayed with the flower. I believe she loved him more
324 · Jan 2019
The Garden
Grace E Jan 2019
I am my loves garden
I am his secret enclosure
He comes to me by morning
The dew is yet fresh on the earth
He comes to his garden
He seeks my tenderness
Take and eat my sweet fruits
Drink the nectar of my blooms
He refreshes himself
By the droplets on my leaves
O, my love, my love
O, my groom
322 · Sep 2019
Freedom
Grace E Sep 2019
Dance in the dawning sun light
Feel the cool grass blades between bare toes
Today, you are free
317 · Sep 2022
Persuasion
Grace E Sep 2022
Your persuasion is mysterious
Your power is an anomaly
I can’t find the reason you compel me so
You just burn for things
And it makes me want to burn like you do
316 · Sep 2022
Change
Grace E Sep 2022
Change.
The tide, turn and test of time
The twists and turns we encounter.
Sometimes change comes silently, slowly and unannounced.
As in corrosion, decay, the quiet shift from one generation to the next.
Sometimes change comes harshly, abrasively and all at once.
And we must adapt quickly or die quickly.
Whether it culminates slowly or crashes all at once.
We must never fear it, but expect it.
And accept it is apart of being alive.
315 · Jun 2019
Canyons
Grace E Jun 2019
Drive with me
Hold my hand tight
I’m about to put my foot down
And we’re gonna disappear into the night
No cares no worries
No eyes to see or know
What I’m gonna do to you
When we park in a deserted canyon road
Kiss me deep, kiss me true
Kiss beneath the wavy blue
Empty sky, what will we find
Come with me
and I’ll blow your mind
314 · Jan 2019
My Muse. My Love
Grace E Jan 2019
You are my muse, my love
My contemplation,
My reflection,
My meditation,
My wound & ointment
My problem & resolution
My brooding & laughter
My daydream & reality
My night & day
I need you
In every way
314 · Jul 2019
SMILE!!!
Grace E Jul 2019
I have woven into me, an inherent sadness. One that drills my mind and weakens my bones..
I have a notion, I’ll end up the family tragedy
You know the one.
The one that everyone says
“but she was always smiling.”
313 · Jun 2019
Cashmere Summer
Grace E Jun 2019
Sun dipped kisses
‘Neath a summer sky
A honeysuckle’s scent
Gently wafting by
You look so handsome
In your Wednesday’s best
My eyes dance under your gaze
In my soft pink dress
Picking wildflowers
In the dimming light
You kiss my hand
Under the cashmere twilight
310 · Apr 2019
Dear, Mr. Big & Bad
Grace E Apr 2019
You tried to intimidate me...
With threats so ominous and impending
But dear,
I’ve tread depths of hell,
People twice my age, haven’t glanced at.
I’ve gone to the lowest places of humanity.
Witnessed cruelty so ******,
Been hurt in ways, so mind altering.
My natural bend, is a dark one.
My default setting, is a hardend one.
So believe me when I say,
I’ve fought to become the woman I am.
I’ve fought for my life of normality.
And to have a home, husband and a cat,
Is more than what I ever thought my lot in this life would be.
These precious pieces of paradise I would give my life for in a second.
Defend to my dying breath just to keep them.
So darling believe me when I say
I’ve seen scary.
And you aren’t it.
You don’t have his smile...
And I am not intimidated by you.
303 · Apr 2019
A fighting chance
Grace E Apr 2019
The beautiful warrior
Arranged her hair
And painted her lips cherry red
Her battle paint
She’s ready
303 · Oct 2019
Cowardly Lion
Grace E Oct 2019
Only a truly weak man would try to prove his strength by hurting a woman.
Men that hurt women need some real men to show up and beat the sh*t out of him :)
300 · Feb 2021
A Sweet Love
Grace E Feb 2021
Suddenly I get it
A certain sweet love made me see
It’s nothing that I can quite describe
It’s something special you do to me

I’m perplexed
You’re so self-controlled, yet so raw
I just can’t name what it is
A genuine je ne sais quoi

I’d never give myself away
But I have deep feelings, it’s true
You are so very different
Make a girl want to cook and clean for you
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