Poetry by Melodie Yvonne
Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world
Tag: poems
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Originally published online June 17, 2018 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Huit — available here Boomerang by Melodie Yvonne You’re a dirty coyote that needs kept on a leashAll of that power needs kept out of reachBut just to escape you’d chew off your legThen duct tape it on to drag me…
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Originally published online June 20, 2018 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Huit — available hereThis piece can also be found in the collection psalms 2000:17-24 — available on Amazon here Hurry by Melodie Yvonne My life is marked with hurry and it’s causin’ me much troubleMy idle hands are the devil’s toys,…
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Originally published online June 18, 2018 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Huit — available hereThis piece can also be found in the collection psalms 2000:17-24 — available on Amazon here All for You by Melodie Yvonne We were taught here from a young ageHow the Lord wants us to behaveBut not how…
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Originally published online June 15, 2018 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Huit — available hereThis piece can also be found in the collection psalms 2000:17-24 — available on Amazon hereThis piece can also be found in the print collection Seed Guzzler: And Other Succubi — available here Kin by Melodie Yvonne I…
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Originally published online June 23, 2018 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Huit — available here 13 by Melodie Yvonne Dedicated to Shannon Hoon ❤ ❤ ❤ Every day you remind me of what you could have beenThe little trinkets you leave us full of love you sendA dollar here a dollar there…
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Originally published online June 26, 2018 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Huit — available here My Weird Eyes by Melodie Yvonne The brightness it frightens me most everyday‘Cause my weird eyes they work in mysterious waysAnd sometimes it hurts so bad I’d gouge them outBut I can’t cause then I can’t see…
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Originally published online June 28, 2018 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Huit — available here Oh Nope It’s Gone by Melodie Yvonne Why should I be sad that, oh nope it’s goneBecause it happens all the time and it doesn’t last longIf I just take a minute to try to stop and…
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Originally published online May 29, 2018 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Huit — available hereThis piece can also be found in the collection psalms 2000:17-24 — available on Amazon hereThis piece can also be found in the print collection Seed Guzzler: And Other Succubi — available here Mongoose by Melodie Yvonne I…
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Originally published online May 12, 2018 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Huit — available here Sorry, Not Sorry by Melodie Yvonne Sometimes I’m sorry is just for yourselfSometimes I’m sorry don’t help no one elseSo before you apologize just stop and thinkIs this to help them, or relieve my own stink? Ask…
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Originally published online May 9, 2018 & in the collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Huit — available here Hurt So Bad by Melodie Yvonne I see your heart but you don’t see mineAnd mine is aching all the timeI want what I can never haveWhy do you have to hurt so bad? I saw you…
