Poetry by Melodie Yvonne
Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world
Tag: poems
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Originally published online Jan 29, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here In or Out by Melodie Yvonne Let me in or let me outYou fill my heavy head with doubtand right now I know you feel hazybut my waiting heart gets lazy Itchy soul and mind’s a…
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Originally published online Jan 23, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available hereThis piece can also be found in the print collection Seed Guzzler: And Other Succubi — available here Looks Like You by Melodie Yvonne Looks like you’re having a comfortable ride in that car that I built…
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Originally published online Jan 24, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here What the Hell by Melodie Yvonne What the hell do I do when I know there’s nobody else like you?What the hell do I say when I want you to leave, but I want you to…
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Originally published online Jan 17, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here 80 Grams by Melodie Yvonne Exhausted emotions swinging so freelyStrayed wishes for someone somewhere to see meI’m getting so tired and wishin’ for solaceThis sure as hell ain’t what our parents taught us Thought I’d be…
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Originally published online Jan 11, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Broken by Melodie Yvonne I’m so fucking broken that I can’t even breatheThis constant bullshit pressure has got me on my kneesI only need one person to keep their fucking wordbut a giant bullshit symphony is…
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Originally published online Jan 10, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Lazy Cyanide by Melodie Yvonne Feelin’ like I’m emptyLike I’m dyin’ deep insideComfortably untouchablein numbness where I hideFeelin’ like I’m drowningand my heads a lead balloonMy scuba mask’s a plastic bagand I’ll be sinking soonFeelin’ like…
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Originally published online Jan 7, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here Hocus Pocus by Melodie Yvonne Torn between what I got leftand what I got to loseRacks my mind and twists my soulIt’s givin’ me the blues I wanna know just what to doand surely it’ll hit…
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Originally published online Jan 4, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available hereThis piece can also be found in the Poetry Collaboration Sin & Skin — available on Amazon here My Love Melody by Melodie Yvonne I don’t know that I love youbut I do know that it’s truethat…
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Originally published online Jan 3, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here The Harmony of Symmetry by Melodie Yvonne The harmony of symmetry alleviates anxietyunlike the crooked pictures that need straightenedand here I sit without you drooping low and all askewlike a worthless piece of trash that you’ve…
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Originally published online Dec 30, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here The Dream Breakers by Melodie Yvonne We are the dream makers fighting the dream breakersHordes of depressed silent massesThey seek out the others destroying their brothersContent to be lowly and fascist We’re fighting good people and…
