Poetry by Melodie Yvonne

Originally published online Nov 13, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

Pall Mall 100s In An Orange Box by Melodie Yvonne

Pall mall 100s in an orange box
Carryin’ hiedi ‘cause she’s feelin lost
Saddlin’ me like I’m a mule
She rides me like I’m a fool

Vodka leers and cigarette smiles
Light her eyes just like a child
But she’s feelin’ rather edgy
Waitin’ on my slow ass lefty

Pall mall 100s in an orange box
She likes it straight not on the rocks
Speakin’ her truths feisty as fuck
Think you’re hard she’ll prove you’re not

Walk in the door she struts her stuff
Bendin’ for only her pill poppin’ pup
But now again she’s feelin’ edgy
Waitin’ on my slow ass lefty

Pall Mall 100s in an orange box
Drivin’ down ninth feelin’ for cops
Oldies on benches like corner whores
Secret dialed codes unlockin’ doors

Spirited tongue and nicotine lips
Shelves full of Elvis’s swivelin’ hips
Arthritic feet shuffle the floor
Horoscope ashtray sits by the door

Pall Mall 100s in an orange box
Hiedi’s there now so I can get lost
Ridin’ down slow crossin’ the lot
Doubled up bitches callin’ shots

Drive away slow, miss her already
Headin’ back home ‘cause it keeps me steady
This time it’s me who’s feelin’ edgy
Time to burn my slow ass lefty

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Originally published online Nov 10, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

I See by Melodie Yvonne

I see the film grain that makes up the world
And the little things makin’ up you
I see the struggles in everyone’s life
And I see all your fears become truths

I see your heart become long for this world
With your pessimist realist views
I see you tie ropes so tight ’round your neck
Tourniquets happiness can’t get through

I see the humans that make up this world
But all you see is cannibal’s stew
I see unique visual snowflakes surround
But you wait for the rain to ensue

I see the walls you built ’round your small world
But the cage that you built I outgrew
I see a person and not wunderkind
You’re not the same you that I knew

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Originally published online Nov 5, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

Jeffrey’s Pipe Dream by Melodie Yvonne

This is fucking real, and this is fucking happening
These our lives that matter, and it’s time we stood for something
Underpaid to fight the good fight, trying to make a difference
Let go your thoughts, look in my eyes, lay back, and take a listen

Looking at Dakota’s pipeline
It’s a pipe dream, but it’s night-time
Looking at it from a wrong mind
Sacrilegious dogs feed primetime

Politics and corporate greed
quickly get us nowhere free
Blindly dig themselves up something
Eat our souls just like The Nothing

This is fucking real, and this is fucking happening
These our lives that matter, and it’s time we stood for something
Underpaid to fight the good fight, trying to make a difference
Let go your thoughts, look in my eyes, lay back, and take a listen

Government blind to the natives
Squawking pigs don’t represent us
Taking land with brute armed forces
Tyranny empire enforcers

Hollywood paid to be faithful
My words may not be so graceful
But I’ll make one kind of difference
With my free speech groove deliverance

This is fucking real, and this is fucking happening
These our lives that matter, and it’s time we stood for something
Underpaid to fight the good fight, trying to make a difference
Use my grooves to save what’s right, and wipe away the ignorance

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Originally published online Oct 23, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

Blue Dream Eyes by Melodie Yvonne

Being tethered to you makes my soul want to vomit
Sooner punch you than text you if I’m to be honest
I’m sick of you lookin’ like you got a problem
That’s a good way to get me to step up and solve it

I need you more now than I needed you truly
Without your blue dream eyes I get unruly
If your eyes will still hold me I’ll still be your friend
I’ll be lucky or screwed by your draw in my end

I’ve given you chances that you threw away
So suck up those eyes ’cause I’m not gonna play
All that I wanted was being inside you
but coveting eyeballs got lids that I outgrew

I need you more now than I needed you truly
Without your blue dream eyes I get unruly
If your eyes will still me hold I’ll still be your friend
I’ll be lucky or screwed by your draw in my end

Now move it along, you’ve chosen your path
I hope what you found is a love that’ll last
‘Cause I think I’m done as a hopeless romantic
and all my ridiculous amorous antics

I need you more now than I needed you truly
Without your blue dream eyes I get unruly
If your eyes will still hold me I’ll still be your friend
I’ll be lucky or screwed by your draw in my end

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Originally published online Oct 16, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

I Don’t Wanna Go by Melodie Yvonne

I don’t wanna go inside today
I wanna stay in the sun and play
I’m done with all these skeevy people
Using me so they will reap well

Helping me but only half-assed
Passive fiends all seem so harmless
So I’m gonna stay outside
No one says I go says I

I don’t wanna go outside today
I don’t wanna go in the sun’s harsh rays
Burning through me like a hot knife
Ending me through my blue eye’s life

Leaving me out all exposed
He’s gonna see my ducks unrowed
I feel like I should run and hide now
His eyes see inside me somehow

I don’t wanna live my life today
My insides toxic, stay away
I’m done with all these secret glances
Puking vibes and making messes

Showing me for who I am
Just a frightened slaughtered lamb
Slipping on a fine wolf coat
‘Cause right on back inside I go

I don’t wanna go inside today
I don’t wanna go outside today
I don’t wanna live my life today
I don’t wanna go inside today

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Originally published online Oct 8, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

Meticulous Ridiculous by Melodie Yvonne

I know I’m quite ridiculous
but really I’m meticulous
‘bout all the little things I do to please you

And once upon a little while
I do my most to make you smile
‘cause seeing your sweet face makes me inclined to

I wish someday I would get real
and stop this crazy shit I feel
these molehills into mountains I must hike through

Bipolar happy mediums
are still my only closest friends
and all I am is what I am designed to

So now I must erase your face
and put me back into my place
rebuild these concrete walls that you can’t cut through

I’ll galvanize this little heart
and make you stop before you start
and hide my stealthy heart from you in plain view

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Originally published online Oct 6, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

The Early Bird by Melodie Yvonne

I’m perpetually looking
For someone in life
Who won’t think it’s too early for me

I’m constantly searching
For someone who thinks
It’s ok for me to be me

Maybe not romance
Even just friendship
From someone that sees inside me

One that won’t use me
Or be way too boozy
Or flee when it’s time to help me

I know I’m real weird
And sometimes I’m feared
But it’s just my wild heart that runs free

Just give me a minute
To calm all these nerve tics
And show you the greatness in me

I swear I am worth it
I’m all that you heard and
A little bit more underneath

But time keeps on spinnin’
And still I’m not winnin’
That early bird worm that I seek

My last hope is gone now
Move on I will somehow
So used to my lonely I’ll be

And maybe stop lookin’
For chemistry cookin’
When matches light fires just as easy

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Copyright notice: All content on this site is copyright Melodie Yvonne. Non-profit online sharing is allowed only if content is unaltered and credit is given. Commercial use or unauthorized alteration is illegal. Questions? Contact Melodie HERE