Poetry by Melodie Yvonne

Lazy

August 31, 2025

Originally published online May 25, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

Lazy by Melodie Yvonne

Lazy my mind won’t stop thinkin’ ‘bout you
Besides if it did, what would I do?

I’m waitin’ and wishin’ & breathin’ while dreamin’
And keepin’ my mind safe from all other demons
I’m lusting and longing since first time I met you
I’m not quite sure why, but I just can’t forget you

Lazy my mind won’t stop thinkin’ ‘bout you
Besides if it did, what would I do?

I tasted the water, and now I’m here drowning
Intuition is thick, but I’m treading here doubting
I look up, and hope that your blue eyes will save me
But the lower I’m sinking the more they get hazy

Lazy my mind won’t stop thinkin’ ‘bout you
Besides if it did, what would I do?

I’m lost, and somehow I’d hoped you would find me
But your light can’t break through this abyss that binds me
I’m fightin’ and finally my heads above water
I’ve built up my confidence, I’m a bit taller

Lazy my mind won’t stop thinkin’ ‘bout you
Besides if it did, what would I do?

I’m fixin’ to ramble where your grass is greener
‘Cause feedin’ my wanderlust frees my demeanor
But this is the last you I’m following blindly
I’m giving up you to get me back finally

‘Cause lazy my mind won’t stop thinkin’ ‘bout you
I’m a little bit scared, what do I do?

Lazy my mind won’t stop thinkin’ ‘bout you
I’ll close my mind’s eye until we are through

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Wishing On Your Stars

August 31, 2025

Originally published online May 22, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

Wishing On Your Stars by Melodie Yvonne

When I wish upon your stars
I’m wishing on those way up far

The ones up over yours and my head
Me at my home, and you in your bed

Is that all we got in common?
All these heavens up above us?

Is that all I’m really feeling?
Moonlight madness got me reeling?

I just won’t, I can’t believe it!
Not just me, you gotta feel this?!?!

‘Cause if I’m in this alone
Just a fool is all I’ve shown

But one more loss will not affect me
Lest this time the me rejects me

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Silent Wishes

August 31, 2025

Originally published online May 22, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

Silent Wishes by Melodie Yvonne

This monotony of me on me
is not enough to set me free

My mind is still so fucking frantic,
and I’m still so very heartsick

Why can’t I just not be sober
‘til this nauseous feeling’s over?

Why can’t I just let you be,
and distract all this lust in me?

I guess it’s just the way I’m built,
I’m not quite right, my axis tilts

I feed off my imagination
Just to get a new sensation

Let my thoughts flail & my mind race
Let my skin flush, quickened pulse pace

Hide from these truths all the while
in my crush filled sweet denial

Most days, though, I want this over
Thinkin’ ‘bout that four leaf clover

Pledge my head to clearer thinking
just to keep my heart from sinking

Give my hands to greater service,
and faintly wish that I deserve him

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For Momma

August 31, 2025

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

Dedicated to Nel Hoon and all the strong mothers out there all over the world

For Momma by Melodie Yvonne

Momma I write this for you on your day,
although you may not feel like reading

I just wanna thank you for humoring me,
and my silly dreams that I’m dreaming

You’ve given me everything I could want,
some things I didn’t know I was needing

Your faith’s made me stronger and now I’m no
longer a slave to the demons I’m fleeing

You’re endlessly loving, accepting, and kind,
you’re just such a beautiful being

I drive miles and miles just to be by your side
‘cause it’s love in your eyes that I’m seeing

I promise my heart and my brain’s got your back,
and I’ll throat punch any ailments your feeling

I’d tear out my soul and give it to you if it’d
ease just an inch of your grieving

I know there’s a hole in your heart I can’t fill,
but at least I can help stop the bleeding

‘Cause, Momma, I love you and I’ll always be here
‘til we meet in our own little Eden

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The Sorry Girl

August 31, 2025

Originally published online May 4, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

The Sorry Girl by Melodie Yvonne

The sorry girl’s sorry even when she’s silent
The sorry girl doesn’t say goodbye
The sorry girl knows everything’s her fault
When they look her in the eyes and lie

She sits in the dark and cries, and hides those tear stains to go outside
She sits in my mind and cries, and keeps my feelings buried on the inside

This wary girl’s tired, but she keeps a-movin’
This worried girl’s locked inside her brain
This weird girl’s hidin’, but she keeps a-lurkin’
Tryin’ to hide the fact that she’s insane

She sits in the dark and cries, and hides those bruises to go outside
She sits in my mind and cries, a tangled up straight jacket deep inside

This broken girl duct tapes shit together
This lonely girl’s photographs are her only friends
This empty girl can’t fill her head with silence
I’ll miss my quiet rapture when the silence ends

I sit in the dark and cry, and I hide all my bruises to go outside
I sit in my mind and cry, I’m silent, but I’m still sorry on the inside

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18 Years Love Should Have Grown

August 31, 2025

Originally published online Mar 30, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Meet me in the Middle — available here

I just realized the Love we lost would have been 18 this year… all grown up ❤ This is dedicated to her and my beautiful Hazie. I know you don’t have internet out there, Hazie, but I know you feel me in your head right now…

Zoe Yvonne Love by Melodie Yvonne

Tears have fallen
down our cheeks
you see our hearts are breaking.

Hand in hand we
pray for Love that
was so quickly taken.

Hold us closely
never go and
leave us all alone,

For now the only
Love that lingers
has been etched in stone.

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3 Years by Melodie Yvonne

3 years have past since Love has gone.
3 years Love should have grown.
If I had seen 3 years of heartache
I’d seen what I had known.

3 years of how could, what if, why.
3 years Love set in stone.
Will comfort be in knowledge that
she’s spread her wings and flown?

3 years in time will drift away.
I blink… 3 more are gone,
but 3 more years will not forget
the Love that has been wronged.

3 YEARS

WE LOVE YOU
MOMMIES ALWAYS LOVE YOU

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Material Lord

August 30, 2025

Originally published online April 26, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

Material Lord by Melodie Yvonne

This hometown feeling’s a pit in my soul
It keeps me reeling and ready to go
An illegal alien to all those I know
They watch and they gasp at my mobile freakshow

Feed me the Lord ’cause you think it’ll fix me
I’m filled to the brim with your gluttonous teachings
but I’m not your whore and you can’t unbreak me
and all this material shit I don’t envy

Where am I at if I don’t have a home?
A pile of crap and I’m chewin’ on bones
What do I do with this knowledge I know?
Throw it away ’cause the listener’s broke

Feed me the Lord ’cause you think it’ll fix me
I’m filled to the brim with your gluttonous teachings
but I’m not your whore and you can’t unbreak me
and all this material shit just don’t faze me

You claim no religion, I say you’re a fraud
You say my depression is spiritual fog
Well, not once in this life did you spare the rod
so I’ll never trade my Dog for your God

Feed me the Lord ’cause you think it’ll fix me
I’m filled to the brim with your gluttonous teachings
but I’m not your whore and you can’t unbreak me
Your bullshit material world will not change me

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A Preemptive Strike

August 30, 2025

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

A Preemptive Strike by Melodie Yvonne

I’m the one that’s walkin’ away
I don’t wanna think of you every day
I don’t wanna picture those words you’ll say
If the universe suddenly goes my way

This time I’m gonna walk away
If you don’t wanna stop me, get outta my way
So please just stop starin’, I got nothin’ to say
I’m not gonna live with your thoughts every day

I won’t be diverted by lust in your touch
I’ll stop all that wanting you ever so much
I’m not gonna be a new fall back crutch
I can’t be this stupid, enough is enough

This time I’m gonna walk away
If you don’t wanna stop me, get outta my way
So please just stop starin’, I got nothin’ to say
I’m not gonna live with your thoughts every day

These thoughts are unnerving and I want them gone
I been thinkin’ ‘bout your blue eyes far too long
I’ll cut all these ties by the end of this song
And take back my heart before you do it wrong

This time I’m gonna walk away
If you don’t wanna stop me, get outta my way
So please just stop starin’, I got nothin’ to say
I’m not gonna live with your thoughts every day

I don’t wanna know if you link to my soul
All I want is for you to just go
I don’t want the heartache that you’ll never know
I just want my mind to be in control

This time I’m gonna walk away
I want you to stop me, beg me to stay
Your eyes tell me you got somethin’ to say
But I’ll not keep on thinkin’ bout you every day

This time I’m the one that’s walkin’ away
I’m not gonna think of you every day
I’m not gonna picture those words you’d say
‘Cause my universe just plain doesn’t go that way

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I Own Me

August 30, 2025

Originally published online April 6, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Meet me in the Middle — available here

I Own Me by Melodie Yvonne

All this time it’s been my heart
inside breaking mine.
All these years it’s been myself
as enemy I find.
All this sadness, all this rage
that tears myself apart,
I did this and I did that!
I broke my own heart.
All this love that’s come undone,
all this hate I made,
every agony I felt in
every heart I break,
Every misery I felt,
every heart I lost,
all this time I couldn’t see that
myself was the cost.

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Seed Guzzler

August 30, 2025

Originally published online Mar 26, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

Seed Guzzler by Melodie Yvonne

Anxiety is quite sadistic
Hide my bullshit in these limericks

Let it out to keep my heart sane
Need a shield for all this mind rain

One foot in and one foot out of
Reality breeds endless mind fucks

How can I stay open minded
Rose tint lenses leave me blinded

All this work was all for nothing
All this work is all my something

I’ve got skill not mammaries
But talent gets you nowhere free

And all my dreams I’ve kept alive
To live this scene, to jump and jive

Just disappear without a trace
Except the tears that mark my face

But I’ll not let this vampire bleed me
Jiz refreshes much more quickly

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