Poetry by Melodie Yvonne

Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world

Tag: life

  • The Ick

    This piece will be in the upcoming collection Photographic Memories: Nein — available here soon The Ick by Melodie Yvonne Do you believe in love at first sight?What about LOATHE at first sight? It’s the opposite of the former where you think you adore herIt’s this tingling of hate that you just can’t abateAnd you…

  • Bad Date: A Fool Waiting On The Right Block

    Available in the print collection Photographic Memories: 7even Author’s Edition available on Amazon now HEREThis piece can also be found in the print collection Seed Guzzler: And Other Succubi — available here Bad Date: A Fool Waiting On The Right Block by Melodie Yvonne You think you’re just as slick as motherfuckin’ Pee-wee HermanGoin’ to…

  • Foolish

    Available in the print collection Photographic Memories: 7even Author’s Edition available on Amazon now HERE Foolish by Melodie Yvonne If there’s anyone else to blame then I blame youIf it wasn’t all my fault then have some tooIt only took one trusted friend and that was youIf there’s anyone else to blame then I blame…

  • Waitin’

    Available in the updated print collection Photographic Memories: 7even Author’s Edition available on Amazon now HERE Waitin’ by Melodie Yvonne I sit and wonder what’s the pointAnd then I smoke another jointIt’s not enough to just exist hereWanna live but swallowed by fear Wanna fight but I’m so tiredDon’t wanna go another mileSo then I…

  • Prefacing, Unchanging, Freebasing Time Wasting

    This piece is in the re-released print collection, Photographic Memories: 7even – Author’s Edition, available here now Moving Along by Melodie Yvonne If only I could go back, and slip in between time’s little cracksI don’t know if I’d change it, but maybe I just might not waste itWasted time here waitin’… spent too much…

  • Moving Along

    This piece will be in the upcoming collection Photographic Memories: Nein — available here soon Moving Along by Melodie Yvonne Hold my breath to hide this sadnessCan’t find my grip in this madnessAnd I’m begging you to take it back I know I’m here at my weakestWish you could have somehow seen usBut you left…

  • Shattered

    This piece will be in the upcoming collection Photographic Memories: Nein — available here soon Shattered by Melodie Yvonne Everyone I’ve ever helped has took a piece of meI’m a jigsaw with just edges, and my middle’s all emptyMy puzzled heart’s all broken wonderin’ what on earth I’ve doneI’m a shattered stained glass window echoing…

  • The Boneyard

    This piece will be in the upcoming collection Photographic Memories: Nein — available here soon The Boneyard by Melodie Yvonne My friends list is a graveyard for my exesIt’s a place where people live that used to call me “bestie”It’s a silent unseen mass I judge myself againstIt’s a lifelong list of all the “friends”…

  • Discontinued

    This piece will be in the upcoming collection Photographic Memories: Nein — available here soon Discontinued by Melodie Yvonne I still remember that way that you loved meat least I thought that’s what love was.your face when you were trying to impress me…it was just the charm you bought at the bar. You shined like…

  • Excuse me, Sir… Is There a Room Available?

    This piece will be in the upcoming collection Photographic Memories: Nein — available here soon Excuse me, Sir… Is There a Room Available? by Melodie Yvonne Is there a world where you could want me? Somewhere we could be?Is there a life where you could be here wrapped all around me?Is there somehow a little…