Submissions by Van_Alestyne
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I enjoy writing and have no particular style I follow. I am trying to grow and expand my diversity. Feel free to read and critique my work. I would appreciate it.
Secret lust
The Scent of you
Ascends my mind high
To the mountain tops
Of the curves of your breasts
Silk smooth skin
Beneath my touch
Awakens deep desires within
Like pleasure of sin
I indulge a while
The red of your lips
The sway of perfect hips
Intoxicates
Flooding warmth until
This brazen lust
Over your perfection
Betrays the secrecy
In which I beheld you from afar
Our eyes meet
I am undone
Ascends my mind high
To the mountain tops
Of the curves of your breasts
Silk smooth skin
Beneath my touch
Awakens deep desires within
Like pleasure of sin
I indulge a while
The red of your lips
The sway of perfect hips
Intoxicates
Flooding warmth until
This brazen lust
Over your perfection
Betrays the secrecy
In which I beheld you from afar
Our eyes meet
I am undone
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Dying Destiny
Dwindling coals
Of crimson life
Lie abed cold Ashes
Demure
Obscurity presides
Forgetfulness resides
And embraces
With emaciated arms
Starved
Carved
From hatred
Destiny beckoned
Promising fruition
Of deep yearnings
But the enchantment of distraction
Enticement alluringly won
Attention from this lost
Soul
Whole
Full
No more
Gore
Sings a song of wailing precedence
Hollow mind
Dying heart
Be its residence
Sanctity of unadulterated destiny is dead
Of crimson life
Lie abed cold Ashes
Demure
Obscurity presides
Forgetfulness resides
And embraces
With emaciated arms
Starved
Carved
From hatred
Destiny beckoned
Promising fruition
Of deep yearnings
But the enchantment of distraction
Enticement alluringly won
Attention from this lost
Soul
Whole
Full
No more
Gore
Sings a song of wailing precedence
Hollow mind
Dying heart
Be its residence
Sanctity of unadulterated destiny is dead
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Crimson Love
Sacrifice of love
Crimson flow
Showers on stark white floors
Pooling
Pulling life
Lulling strife
And beauty begins to fade
From colored cheeks
To pale white skin
Snake skin
Snake scales fall
Heralding deaths call
The pool steadily grows
White masked surgeons
Frenzy
Fools
Cries
Sighs against sleep
Desirous and deep
Two newborn screams
Twins
Woman shudders and shakes
Pale deathly pale
Death knocks
I can barely stand
This horrible
Crimson love
Crimson flow
Showers on stark white floors
Pooling
Pulling life
Lulling strife
And beauty begins to fade
From colored cheeks
To pale white skin
Snake skin
Snake scales fall
Heralding deaths call
The pool steadily grows
White masked surgeons
Frenzy
Fools
Cries
Sighs against sleep
Desirous and deep
Two newborn screams
Twins
Woman shudders and shakes
Pale deathly pale
Death knocks
I can barely stand
This horrible
Crimson love
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Sleep
Soothing nighttime slumber
Surrounded by childhood dreams
Night is peaceful black
Careening, a fan circles
Repetitively knocking its casing
The song of today is gone
Wisps of fond remembrance
Dance like fairies of imagination
Sweaty faces glisten under moonlight
Smiles meander coupled with consternation
They dream
Of wonders and creations
The world awaits
Dawn will soon shine
But for now, sweet sleep embraces them
Surrounded by childhood dreams
Night is peaceful black
Careening, a fan circles
Repetitively knocking its casing
The song of today is gone
Wisps of fond remembrance
Dance like fairies of imagination
Sweaty faces glisten under moonlight
Smiles meander coupled with consternation
They dream
Of wonders and creations
The world awaits
Dawn will soon shine
But for now, sweet sleep embraces them
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Comatose Corpse
An aura of thin, un-breathable air accentuates
The simple stagnant solitude
Like locks of long, louse infested hair
Drape disarranged over dying shoulders
Time travels by
Leaving untouched the corpse
Shrouded by shields of silence
Only disturbed by the growth of water deprived moss
Stains of soil and succubus lust
Streak from head down
Like ancient artifacts articulate their age
With weathered and wind driven forces
Kneeling knave of yesteryear
Shriveled mummy of natures creation
Beautiful beyond burnished stone...
The simple stagnant solitude
Like locks of long, louse infested hair
Drape disarranged over dying shoulders
Time travels by
Leaving untouched the corpse
Shrouded by shields of silence
Only disturbed by the growth of water deprived moss
Stains of soil and succubus lust
Streak from head down
Like ancient artifacts articulate their age
With weathered and wind driven forces
Kneeling knave of yesteryear
Shriveled mummy of natures creation
Beautiful beyond burnished stone...
63 reads
2 Comments
Stuck in a rut
This equanimity
Threatens to die
Visions of conflicting equality
Vie for this hearts cry
I am torn from within
Hidden sin
Each promise relief
But deliver a dead wreath
Graced with ornaments
Of putrid scents
Of reality as it is
Finest
Due to an eternity of practice
I am the fool playing the wisest
Disappointment
Continued desire rent
In two
Pullings to prove
Truth not even there
For the sake of what?
Stuck in a rut
Threatens to die
Visions of conflicting equality
Vie for this hearts cry
I am torn from within
Hidden sin
Each promise relief
But deliver a dead wreath
Graced with ornaments
Of putrid scents
Of reality as it is
Finest
Due to an eternity of practice
I am the fool playing the wisest
Disappointment
Continued desire rent
In two
Pullings to prove
Truth not even there
For the sake of what?
Stuck in a rut
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Addiction
Veins of liquefying ice
Cold they run
In self made rivers
Down to drown the mass
Entrapped for a moment
And forever to remain
Shivers of foreboding premonition
Slivers of memories flash
As from a projection machine
Broken from a lifetime of abuse
Tokens of all lies and truth
And the cleansing begins
From the edge of sanity
To all hell inside
Of life’s catacombs
And to heaven
Oh, such pleasure
All are taken to this heaven
Forever to remain!
Forever or never?
Abatement begins
What is left?
A heart of...
Cold they run
In self made rivers
Down to drown the mass
Entrapped for a moment
And forever to remain
Shivers of foreboding premonition
Slivers of memories flash
As from a projection machine
Broken from a lifetime of abuse
Tokens of all lies and truth
And the cleansing begins
From the edge of sanity
To all hell inside
Of life’s catacombs
And to heaven
Oh, such pleasure
All are taken to this heaven
Forever to remain!
Forever or never?
Abatement begins
What is left?
A heart of...
131 reads
2 Comments
Perfection
Golden lights and sporadic flashes of imagined creation
The female form sways sultrily by
An ambiance of expectation hangs heavy in the air
Gorgeous deep eyes hide behind long lashes
Lone individuals are lost in pleasurable sighs
Her face of milk white complexion, beyond compare
Atop her graceful neck
Shines the face of a goddess imagined
None compare with her glorious existence
The hopes and dreams of the mass are wrecked
Her gaze rests upon the upturned countenances of her worshippers
She outweighs any glory they have previously...
The female form sways sultrily by
An ambiance of expectation hangs heavy in the air
Gorgeous deep eyes hide behind long lashes
Lone individuals are lost in pleasurable sighs
Her face of milk white complexion, beyond compare
Atop her graceful neck
Shines the face of a goddess imagined
None compare with her glorious existence
The hopes and dreams of the mass are wrecked
Her gaze rests upon the upturned countenances of her worshippers
She outweighs any glory they have previously...
91 reads
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This Black Hole
A black hole spreads like a virus
It forces and exudes itself
Through every fiber of my most intimate being
I sit huddled with knees to my chest
A song of melancholic melody plays loudly
As I attempt to drown out my screaming loneliness
The lamp on the table sits in shadows that grow
And this room is much like I am…
Cold, dark, and alone
Demons of my own creation
Hover in every corner
They wait for my eyes to close
My breath to slow
For my consciousness to wane
Death lies in wait for the outward and final compression of my body
As...
It forces and exudes itself
Through every fiber of my most intimate being
I sit huddled with knees to my chest
A song of melancholic melody plays loudly
As I attempt to drown out my screaming loneliness
The lamp on the table sits in shadows that grow
And this room is much like I am…
Cold, dark, and alone
Demons of my own creation
Hover in every corner
They wait for my eyes to close
My breath to slow
For my consciousness to wane
Death lies in wait for the outward and final compression of my body
As...
67 reads
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Summer Love
Warm rays of a summer love
Morph with passion’s ebb and flow
Petals of soft admiration
Stem from the bond of young hearts
Dances in a flowered field
Followed by nighttime walks in rain
Hand in hand
Skin to skin
Lying under a moon of silver
On a soft bed of green
They exist as though alone in this world
Eyes glisten with deep emotion
They know what they have will last
And yet…
…It is but a summer love
Morph with passion’s ebb and flow
Petals of soft admiration
Stem from the bond of young hearts
Dances in a flowered field
Followed by nighttime walks in rain
Hand in hand
Skin to skin
Lying under a moon of silver
On a soft bed of green
They exist as though alone in this world
Eyes glisten with deep emotion
They know what they have will last
And yet…
…It is but a summer love
85 reads
4 Comments
The Nightly Ritual
9:30 every night
She arrived
In her bedroom
Concealed by ignorance
She changed her clothes
Her complexion was soft and beautiful pale
9:25PM regular like clockwork
In a tower adjacent to the first
He stood in a dark and musty room
Homeless, his fantasy was her
With binoculars from some previous war
He watched intently never blinking
He imagined her fragrance
Sweet and blossom filled
Pallid light abounded
Causing a holy aura
She never beheld her stalker
Such a clinger to obscurity was he
A pungent odor of...
She arrived
In her bedroom
Concealed by ignorance
She changed her clothes
Her complexion was soft and beautiful pale
9:25PM regular like clockwork
In a tower adjacent to the first
He stood in a dark and musty room
Homeless, his fantasy was her
With binoculars from some previous war
He watched intently never blinking
He imagined her fragrance
Sweet and blossom filled
Pallid light abounded
Causing a holy aura
She never beheld her stalker
Such a clinger to obscurity was he
A pungent odor of...
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Society's Obscenity
Society’s Obscenity
Chilled concrete blocks
Damp from a nighttime of mourning
Talent wasted in ghetto graffiti weep near sidewalks
Sirens blare distant warnings
Society’s obscenity
An un-kept child
Lost amidst five thousand
Tattered and eyes wild
Victim of drug’s induction; never planned
Society’s obscenity
Red lips and a hollow smile
Flaunted in hunger and pain
Death fears such a mile
There is no gain
Society’s obscenity
Grand childhood dreams
Broken from parental degradation
Clothes...
Chilled concrete blocks
Damp from a nighttime of mourning
Talent wasted in ghetto graffiti weep near sidewalks
Sirens blare distant warnings
Society’s obscenity
An un-kept child
Lost amidst five thousand
Tattered and eyes wild
Victim of drug’s induction; never planned
Society’s obscenity
Red lips and a hollow smile
Flaunted in hunger and pain
Death fears such a mile
There is no gain
Society’s obscenity
Grand childhood dreams
Broken from parental degradation
Clothes...
82 reads
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