Poetry by Melodie Yvonne
Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world
Tag: poems
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Originally published online May 11, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here Love For Today by Melodie Yvonne You don’t have to give me the worldJust please don’t take it awayYou don’t have to tell me you love meIf there’s no love there’s nothin’ to say You don’t have…
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Originally published online March 16, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here Understated by Melodie Yvonne My frustration here is understatedBut I’m so tired of being beratedI just want that piece of pieThat got everyone else here high I’m sick of being not quite realIt’s not fair I don’t…
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Originally published online April 19, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here Make the Night by Melodie Yvonne I’m lost inside and don’t know whyAnd it just breaks my heartI look and look most every dayBut still I fall apart I spin around in circlesAll the while just standing…
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Originally published online March 22, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available hereThis piece can also be found in the print collection Seed Guzzler: And Other Succubi — available here Tryin’ to Forgive You by Melodie Yvonne I hope somebody ruins your lifeThe way you fucked up mineI hope you…
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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 March 2, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available hereThis piece can also be found in the collection psalms 2000:17-24 — available on Amazon here Rain Check by Melodie Yvonne A rain check on my moral gainWill not be good another dayYou grow & learn & let…
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Originally published online Feb 13, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here You On Repeat by Melodie Yvonne I loved your heart there from the start but soon we came undoneWe drank and raged most every day until it wasn’t funBut if we could erase history and relive it…
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Originally published online Jan 14, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here Come Back Home by Melodie Yvonne How can it be over when it never really started?But if it’s still not over how come I’m here brokenhearted?How could you just leave me in the spotlight all alone?I would…
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Originally published online Jan 11, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here We Are All by Melodie Yvonne We are all brokenBut we are all fixedWe are all patched upBut our parts are all mixed We are all happyBut we are all sadWe are all apatheticBut we are all…
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Originally published online Jan 10, 2019 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Neuf — available here Taking A Swim by Melodie Yvonne Swimming in a sea of endless negativityI’m drowningCrying and praying for just a breath of airWishing you had dug a little just until you found meBut I had to save myself…
