Poetry by Melodie Yvonne
Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world
Tag: poem
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Originally published online April 4, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Honey Baby by Melodie Yvonne You understand without explainingVibes of comfort in the airYou spend no time complainingLiving life is all you care You don’t accept the passionlessSurrounded by the madEach step in life’s a dance…
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Originally published online April 1, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here The World Spins On by Melodie Yvonne Nobody here is right or wrongAnd on and on the world spins onYou wanna know why I’m singing my song?‘Cause on and on the world spins onNot much time…
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Originally published online March 23, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Hope by Melodie Yvonne Systematic revocation of your rights to meWill be the very thing I need to set my heart ache freeSubstitution of your face is just a deferred painHope I will and hope I…
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Originally published online March 28, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here The Party Lingers On by Melodie Yvonne We are all just politicians in a fuckbook kind of worldAnd I’m far from proper pretty ‘cause I’m just a little girlNever tried to grow up but I’ve got…
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Originally published online March 15, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Wondering by Melodie Yvonne The faces meld so slowly like I’m lazy cutting grassTime it flies so quickly, and my heart it moves so fastIf you had an inkling of the things that I could seeYou…
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Originally published online March 14, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Baby, Baby, I’m Gonna Miss You by Melodie Yvonne Baby, baby, I’m gonna miss youThough I never got to kiss youBaby, baby, I’m gonna miss youAnd I’m hopin’ you’ll miss me too Fuck my heart, my…
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Originally published online March 12, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Distraction by Melodie Yvonne I’d sure love to be your distractionSomebody else’s dubious attractionI’d love to be somebody’s triggerA wreck on the tracks, baffled eyes gettin’ bigger I’ll be something blue, something borrowedBut just don’t expect…
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Originally published online March 3, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here All These Wicked Things by Melodie Yvonne Empty spaces, writhing faces carried in the darknessImages that jump to life my momma swore were harmlessNow these evil faces dance again before my eyesMy scream is caught inside…
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Originally published online March 1, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Be With Me by Melodie Yvonne These times have changed, but they ain’t changing meNo matter who’s leadin’ my soul is still freeAin’t nothing can touch me if I don’t let itand I’ll spread my words…
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Originally published online Feb 27, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here The One I Want The Most by Melodie Yvonne You’re everything I needed that I didn’t really wantI just don’t like your kind of guy, the kind that needs to flauntI didn’t want to know you…
