Poetry by Melodie Yvonne
Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world
Tag: poems
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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…
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Originally published online Feb 25, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Outta My Head by Melodie Yvonne Get outta my head, get outta my headI’ll forgive what you said, just get outta my head All that I wanted was kinda to touch youAll that you wanted was…
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Originally published online Feb 24, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Staring Right Straight In The Sun by Melodie Yvonne I’m staring right straight in the sunWondering what on earth I’ve doneand now I guess you’ll never know meI just wanted you to own me Empty is…
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Originally published online Feb 23, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here A You Addict by Melodie Yvonne My mind’s lost the war on drugs, and you’re the drug for meHeroin’s got nothing on your frank philosophyMy heart’s twisted from your blood that courses through my veinsIt’s time…
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Originally published online Feb 21, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Broken Rosy Lenses by Melodie Yvonne I was what you saw in herI was in her eyesThat fleshy bag of meatwas just a me disguise I was Hunter ThompsonI was Steadman tooI was everything you wantedpackaged…
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Originally published online Feb 7, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here 22 Steps to Leaving You by Melodie Yvonne Twenty-two steps to leaving youIt’s what I am, it’s what I doTwenty-two steps to leaving youNow I’m gone, and now we’re through One, two, threeWalk over meTwo, three,…
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Originally published online Feb 4, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Chimney to Nowhere by Melodie Yvonne A chimney to nowhere in the middle of the woodsis where I hid and where I stoodas I watched each passing dayfade into memories bleak and grey It stood so…
