Submissions by shadowsfallsoftly
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Shadows fall softly giving way to night. The blood sings in my veins so violently alive. Here in the shadows I find myself revived. Here dreaming in the darkness with all too open eyes.
I am a woman
I am a woman.
Impractical
Imperfect
Insecure
I am a woman
a breathing work of art
I have the power to enchant you
with a simple husky laugh
I have the power to pull you in
by a gesture or a phrase
I am a woman
I am vulnerable sometimes
yet still I find the strength to mingle laughter with my tears
to stand tall in the face of what I fear
I am a woman and the world has said
that I must be tall and lanky
and Have a million mile legs
I am a woman
I laugh to loud
eat chicken wings ...
Impractical
Imperfect
Insecure
I am a woman
a breathing work of art
I have the power to enchant you
with a simple husky laugh
I have the power to pull you in
by a gesture or a phrase
I am a woman
I am vulnerable sometimes
yet still I find the strength to mingle laughter with my tears
to stand tall in the face of what I fear
I am a woman and the world has said
that I must be tall and lanky
and Have a million mile legs
I am a woman
I laugh to loud
eat chicken wings ...
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Madness
I am scared
these words fall from my lips
in a torrent
And I wonder as you read them do you care?
Probably not.
I am just another face
just another poet
like you.
It means nothing
and yet everything
Don't you know you hear my silent scream?
Who am I?
who writes these words that stab me?
that scrawl across the page
reviling more of me.
than I care to have you know
but, maybe, if I write these words
they won't eat me alive
maybe if I get them out
some how I can survive.
I...
these words fall from my lips
in a torrent
And I wonder as you read them do you care?
Probably not.
I am just another face
just another poet
like you.
It means nothing
and yet everything
Don't you know you hear my silent scream?
Who am I?
who writes these words that stab me?
that scrawl across the page
reviling more of me.
than I care to have you know
but, maybe, if I write these words
they won't eat me alive
maybe if I get them out
some how I can survive.
I...
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Empty hallway
I wonder through these empty halls
Surrounded by these stark, blank walls
Shadows playing in the light,
Shadows dancing in the night
I scream to pierce the heavy air
It echoes back no one is there
No one to hear
No one to care
Mirrors, mirrors, on the walls
Reflecting back my every flaw
A thousand faces taunting me
A thousand things that no one sees
And the memories keep playing, playing
Like some demented song explaining
That I’m broken, incapable of what I seek
Shall I forever chase a perfect me?
In...
Surrounded by these stark, blank walls
Shadows playing in the light,
Shadows dancing in the night
I scream to pierce the heavy air
It echoes back no one is there
No one to hear
No one to care
Mirrors, mirrors, on the walls
Reflecting back my every flaw
A thousand faces taunting me
A thousand things that no one sees
And the memories keep playing, playing
Like some demented song explaining
That I’m broken, incapable of what I seek
Shall I forever chase a perfect me?
In...
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I await you
I await the one with moonlight falling in his hair
that breaths in whispered chants
who sings the songs of old
He who feels the rush and the rustle
of the wind that dances through the trees
I wonder is he out there one, who is truly free?
ah! Enchanted one, so like me
I await you here
I call you in my dreams
that breaths in whispered chants
who sings the songs of old
He who feels the rush and the rustle
of the wind that dances through the trees
I wonder is he out there one, who is truly free?
ah! Enchanted one, so like me
I await you here
I call you in my dreams
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