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Dave Robertson Nov 2020
I roll your name around my tongue,
try it on for size and fit
and note the heart-flutter it gives me
before a gulp and swallow ingests you

I ponder and digest your vitamins
as sense prevails
and I return to business as usual
jวซrรฐ May 2017
โ„œ๐”ฌ๐”ฉ๐”ฉ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค ๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ๐”ซ๐”ก ๐”ฆ๐”ซ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข
๐”–๐”ฑ๐”ฆ๐” ๐”จ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ข๐”ฐ๐”ฐ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ฑ ๐”ฃ๐”ฌ๐”ฏ๐”ช๐”ฐ
๐”„ ๐”ค๐”ข๐”ฉ๐”ž๐”ฑ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ๐”ฐ ๐”Ÿ๐”ฉ๐”ฌ๐”Ÿ
๐”’๐”ซ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”Ÿ๐”ฌ๐”ฑ๐”ฑ๐”ฌ๐”ช ๐”ฐ๐”ฅ๐”ข๐”ฉ๐”ฃ
๐”’๐”ฃ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ฃ๐”ฏ๐”ฆ๐”ก๐”ค๐”ข
โ„‘๐”ฐ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ด๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ข ๐”ด๐”ข ๐”ฐ๐”ด๐”ฌ๐”ฏ๐”ข ๐”ด๐”ข'๐”ก ๐”ก๐”ฏ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”จ
๐”ˆ๐”ณ๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”ถ ๐”ด๐”ข๐”ข๐”จ๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ก ๐”ฐ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐” ๐”ข ๐”‰๐”ข๐”Ÿ๐”ฏ๐”ฒ๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ถ
โ„ญ๐”ถ๐”ซ๐”ฆ๐” ๐”ž๐”ฉ๐”ฉ๐”ถ ๐”ž๐”ด๐”ž๐”ฆ๐”ฑ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค ๐” ๐”ฌ๐”ซ๐”ฐ๐”ฒ๐”ช๐”ญ๐”ฑ๐”ฆ๐”ฌ๐”ซ
The History: I wanted a good, but cheap Moscato. You bought a couple that left a dryness in my throat before we found the one. Another February rolled around, and for my birthday you bought it. We used to get a bottle, go down to the beach and sit on the lifeguard tower with some of my homemade alfredo. That bottle left with me, if I remember correctly.
ramya Nov 2020
For whatโ€™s there in a name,
A line that has been immortal
Since long before the age of cheap *** and roadside motels,
Still stands true
In the age of golden whiskey
And sunset kisses, a little too risky.

For a name can make scars bleed
Open up wounds which had long been sealed.
A hit to the heart can prove fatal
Just like the story about Romeo thatโ€™s now a fable.
So what name is it, in the story of your life
That made you drink enough to forget your own for a while?
Jas Nov 2020
When, in time, where a moment
Of intense desire tips the jar of elucidation
Sets loose a smoothly sailing stream
Down a hungry throat
To the awaiting gullet stuffed with malaise,
Can the rage of enzymes be heard?
Will the breath of despair, and the wailing brew
Of alcohol make peace in silence,
Or is the feat of the battle proclaimed in slurs?

When, in time, will the meager klinks of newborn knees
Ring as explicitly as creaks in an ancient house?
Will screams of hunger conceive compassion
Or should thee be mocked and exiled
To recover from the blithe shame of dependency and impatience?

Hear the sounds tread in darkness
Pleading, crying in the embrace of frigid walls and sterile corners.
Record the rhythm of footsteps
Echoing and fraying -
Taste the smeared sweat of exertion.
Count the patches of lost paint
Stolen and stowed beneath polished nails.

Hold me similarly while I recover.
Show me while I regain sobriety that I was caught
When, in time, I was lost in misery.
Lucid Nov 2020
I am two parts. One part is still a child. She is immature and lazy. She knows only to do, never to think. She never got to grow up. The other part grew up too fast. She is strict and wise. All she does is think and think and think. She never got to be a child.

Why does my husband only love me when it doesnโ€™t interfere with his career?

Why does my mom only love me when people are watching?

I keep having this nightmare where I talk to people, but no one hears me because Iโ€™ve lost my voice. Iโ€™ll scream at them and they wonโ€™t even spare me a glance. You know, itโ€™s crazy because it happens sometimes when Iโ€™m awake, too.

My dad is dying. I want to go to sleep.

My brother is dying. I would gladly take his place.

Caught somewhere between โ€œI donโ€™t need anyoneโ€ and โ€œplease come back to me."

He started hiding the liquor in the house. I donโ€™t know whether to hug him or hit him.

I often think about my life. Iโ€™ve worked so hard to build a happy, healthy routine for myself - something safe. But I donโ€™t feel safe. I feel like I canโ€™t ******* breathe.

Why does 3 AM come and go so quickly?

Last year I cracked and gave my mom the link to my poetry page in hopes that maybe she'd start to see and feel things the way I do. The other day, I asked if she had kept up with it. She said she didn't know what I was talking about.

The holidays are upon us and I cannot go home. I cannot face it.

My youngest sister is getting baptized on Sunday. She wants me to be there for her. I would rather bleed myself dry than goโ€ฆbut I will go. This is what I do.

My writing is **** recently.

My therapist tells me to imagine that I'm in a room. I'm safe and no one can hurt me. No one is around, I am alone. Nothing can touch me. I feel nothing. I open my eyes but I'm still in that room. I'm still in that ******* room.

I was 4 years old. FOUR YEARS OLD. And it took years for me to realize my childhood had ended when I was just 4 years old.
idk why I keep posting here like it ******* matters. nothing matters
Alex Salazar Nov 2020
glimmer,
soft silhouette.
an outline so evocative.ย ย 
a strange desire to sing the unwise,
to catch a name and raise a fist,
to bare a few words,
and claim this evening,
from an otherwise drunken mood.

habitual courage summoned at the sweat of another drink,
a committee of stoic voices living inside of me.
passed down through a millennia of spanish men
incessantly clamouring for more whiskey.
incessantly advising
to just breathe and let go.
flamingogirl Nov 2020
I want to be lost in your gaze
I want to be drunk off your words
I want to be entangled with your body
I want to be haunted by your touch
I want to be drowned in your love
gray Nov 2020
long black hair and white pale skin
piercing eyes whilst sipping gin.
don't know what's happening but let's begin
our story.

flashing lights and thumping bass
I can't even feel my face.
I feel like I'm going into
dangerous territory.

now your putting your number in my phone
and saying that you need a lift home
but I can't see and my head
is blurry.

but you look so good so i give in
not knowing what's going to happen, not thinking
we jump in the car and begin
our journey.

we're driving fast through the hillside
then some lorry comes past and hits the side
of my car.
i dont even know where this came from; I was penning som lyrics down for a song I'm working on but decided that maybe it suited a poem more,butas I was writing it may have went a bit, um, dark?
Mancy Nov 2020
Her soul is so drunk on dreams
but, what you see her,
a soulless sober
is just an illusion projected from
her fear of rejections and failures.

Just wait till this magical girl
blows off all her fears.
Once she drops the veil
her drunken soul will run wild
chasing her beautiful dreams.
Bellamy Nieto Oct 2020
Child: hey ma my freinds said they asked about the honey
Mum: Are you drunk?
Child: no
Child: is not alchool its hinoney ma hon
โ€œMisscall from Mumโ€
Mum: R U @ stacyโ€™s house?
โ€œMisscall from Mumโ€
Child: Im at a beach a lake or iidkthe car
Mum: Answer your phone!
Mum: who is with you?
Child: can you come pick em uip
Child: me up
Child: i wan go hoke now
Mum: Yes baby just answer your phone we can figure out where you are
โ€œChild could not be reachedโ€
โ€œChild could not be reachedโ€
โ€œChild could not be reachedโ€
This is a poem that uses a code word to let the mum know the child is in trouble. The mum knows right from the moment "honey" is mentioned that the child needs to be picked up and taken out of whatever situation they are in.
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