Poetry by Melodie Yvonne
Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world
Tag: love
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Originally published online May 3, 2022 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Eight Ways to Nein — available here Untitled Coveting by Melodie Yvonne His smile, it melts the coldest heartAnd his touch even gives mine a startHe makes me somehow feel so safeAnd I can’t stop thinking of his face And I need him……
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Originally published online March 15, 2017 & 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 Stumbling Up The Mountain by Melodie Yvonne I find it amazing how some people can affect us in such fundamental ways in the blink…
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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 ⚠️ Explicit Content WarningThis poetry excerpt from I Do Heroin On The Train Line So You Don’t Have To contains serious subject matter relating…
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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 March 22, 2020 & in the collection Photographic Memories: 7even — available here Platonic Romance by Melodie Yvonne Here’s where I stop giving allof my time and my heart’s energiesHere’s where I stop letting youcop out givin’ some love back to me If I’d known I was pushin’ too hardAnd you didn’t…
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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…
