I wish I told the flowers to shut the fuck up. To stop admiring their own beauty, To stop talking of how others Are so infatuated with them That they want to de-petal their pretty limbs That I spoke louder with my poetry As they sung over with their own hymns That I was too [...]
Author: lyricdeep
Poet.
MD
Mama must’ve missed me today. Muddled in the mews and the maze Of mundanity. Making music With the murmurs of smoke inhalation, Mixing spit with her match made And mindlessly musing through Mate’s make-believe masterpieces Called timeline memoirs. Miserably Making it through work, massaging Her muscles with marred hands From painting murals in the boss’ [...]
My Then Is Not My Now 17/02/21
17/02/21 Between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, I did a lot of stuff that keeps my brain beating itself up over to this day. I used homophobic, racist, ableist and overall offensive words and phrases, trying to be as outrageous as possible for the sake of what I would’ve called, then, “humour”. I would [...]
Fuck You Like a Downward Facing Dog
When lowering, your weight is forward Don’t have to tell me twice Every lean over leads to topple Every topple leads to face first And my nose needs a break, I tell you Downward Spiral, could be Nah It’s a Pretty Hate Machine day My ears rattle My feet tap My heart beats My arms [...]
I Nearly Brought You Flowers
The sun shone then disappeared in the blink of an eye. I turned my head for a moment, and, it was gone. It felt wrong to miss it as it said goodbye but how could I have known it would leave so quickly? Suddenly the sky was dark, I missed the sun but the sun [...]
2021 Ain’t 2020 Darlin 17/01/21
17/01/21 Happy new year! Emphasis on the ‘happy’… Everyone has already said “God, hopefully this one will be better than the last!” Or, for the more pessimistic folk: “this year is already a steaming pile of shit and we’re only a couple weeks in”, and now I have something to say about that. I have [...]
A Supersize Poem About Wanting To Be Thin
It's weird talking to young girls Who don't have eating disorders I developed mine when I was twelve And could never imagine being fourteen And not caring how many calories Is in the dinner I'm eating You took me to dinner We ate as we spoke And my thank you Was my fingers down my [...]
My Happy EastEnding
I can't quite Pin point What it is I'm desperate To run back to But these memories Exhaust me Thinking of When Where and Who Of happy times Bad times All the shit Over the years I've been through I hear songs That remind me Of my old tunes I watch TV and Remember Ancient [...]
Chocolate & Changes 17/12/2020
17/12/2020 One door shuts, another door opens. One cardboard flap peals its way to signalling fingertip entrance, and another little chocolate inhabitant sits awaiting the scoffing. December is a time we in the West know in all of its delightful stereotypes. The darkness crawls down by the school run, yet the streets flicker with golden [...]
Regalia
I have a firm belief that the sharpest tool In your arsenal Should be your tongue. But every pocket's pallet holds Brainless lexis and stainless steal Bovine individuals with maladroit vocabulary And slick fists I'm embarrassed by this laziness And being big in demeanour but small In wits. Being interesting but interested in Nothing. Nothing [...]
