Poetry by Melodie Yvonne
Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world
Tag: love
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Originally published online Feb 16, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here Wild by Melodie Yvonne It’s hard for me to listen ‘cause your words just melt awayIt’s not for lack of tryin’, though, your eyes lead me astrayThey’re like the calm before the storm above the ocean’s wavesAnd they wane…
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Originally published online Feb 15, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here Nowhere by Melodie Yvonne If you can’t let me in then please just shut me outI’ve been so close to givin’ up more times than I can countI’m tired of wonderin’ what you’re thinkin’ every single dayAnd I’m not…
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Originally published online Dec 10, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here Please Stay, Go Away by Melodie Yvonne I’m so friggin’ sad my heart breaks every dayI pray and I pray, but it won’t go awayAnd all of my tears they just get in the wayI just want…
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Originally published online Nov 8, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here Tired of Dreaming by Melodie Yvonne You were in my dream again here just the other dayI prayed to God again today to make it go away‘Cause if I just can’t have you then I’d like to…
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Originally published online Sept 1, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here Looking Away by Melodie Yvonne I can’t forget myself with you ‘cause there’s no telling what I’d doI just can’t look you in the eye ‘cause it’s the drug that gets me highI’m just here thinkin’ ‘bout…
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Originally published online June 19, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here Love Me or Love You by Melodie Yvonne Spend most of my time fakin’ it’s fineWhen really my shit is all outta lineSpend all of my time feelin’ aloneBut not worthy enough to pick up the phoneSpend…
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Originally published online June 14, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here Just A Stray by Melodie Yvonne How can you see me and just turn awayHow can you go on another dayIf I’d known you were leavin’ I’d begged you to stayYou just thought of yourself and now…
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Originally published online May 12, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here Baby in the Corner by Melodie Yvonne I feel your vibes all jived with mine for just one momentWe energized the air and now I can’t control itAnd if I do I’ll just spend all that time…
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Originally published online March 30, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here All I Am is All I Was by Melodie Yvonne Sometimes you’re still all I see when I close my eyesSometimes all these thoughts of you just keep me paralyzedI don’t know why it’s been so long…
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Originally published online Jan 10, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Lazy Cyanide by Melodie Yvonne Feelin’ like I’m emptyLike I’m dyin’ deep insideComfortably untouchablein numbness where I hideFeelin’ like I’m drowningand my heads a lead balloonMy scuba mask’s a plastic bagand I’ll be sinking soonFeelin’ like…
