Poetry by Melodie Yvonne
Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world
Category: Poetry
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Originally published online Nov 6, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here Fallin’ Somewhere Else by Melodie Yvonne I miss you every day, though, you’re missin’ someone elseI’ve been tryin’ not to feel this, but it’s all that I have feltYou turn your icy blues at me and all of me…
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Originally published online Oct 20, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here Desensitized Monotony by Melodie Yvonne All these things they pull me downAll these things don’t make a soundMake me feel I’m gonna drown But that’s all so fucking boring Just a bunch of putrid storiesTo relive our foolish glories‘Til…
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Originally published online Oct 16, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here This Week by Melodie Yvonne This week I fell apart, I found an end, but not a startThis week I fell apart, I tried to give and lost my heartThis week I cried and cried, I drowned until my…
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Originally published online Feb 18, 2021 & in the collection I Do Heroin On The Train Line So You Don’t Have To: A Hitchhiker’s Guide To My Galaxie — available here I just wanted to pop in and share a brand new reading of “Old Town Shuffle” from my upcoming book, Methlehem, a collection inspired…
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Originally published online Sept 15, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here Somebody Else Like You by Melodie Yvonne I was wrong… there is somebody else like youYou’re a dime a dozen, but I never knewAll those boys that break toys and then they’re throughI was wrong… there’s plenty more just…
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Originally published online Aug 10, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here How to Dodge a Broken Heart by Melodie Yvonne Every time I fall in love I always fall apartI always get a lil scared and then break my own heartThe crazy things I do for love could be a…
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Originally published online Aug 10, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here Playin’ Chicken by Melodie Yvonne I’m feelin’ just a little scaredI try to act like I don’t careBut really I just wanna touch youWishin’ that you’d feel that way too Wishin’ I knew how to show youThat I’m not…
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Originally published online Aug 7, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here Do You See Me? by Melodie Yvonne Do you see me? ‘Cause I see youI don’t know what I’m gonna doWith all these feelings rushin’ at meI just want you to be happy But why can’t it just be…
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Originally published online Aug 2, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available hereThis piece can also be found in the collection psalms 2000:17-24 — available on Amazon here Stuck in Forward by Melodie Yvonne Sometimes things breakSometimes I breakI’m just as fragile as people Sometimes I fallAnd can’t get back upTrampled by…
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Originally published online July 20, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available hereThis piece can also be found in the collection psalms 2000:17-24 — available on Amazon here Heavy by Melodie Yvonne My stomach’s in knots & I can’t feel a thing‘Cept the rootin’ and tinglin’ up in my brainMy mind is…
