Kaytee's Poems

Here's the list of poems submitted by Kaytee  —  There are currently 25 poems total — keep up the great work!

Pantoum to Sadness

Sadness is a stealthy seductress
She whispers alluring words
Offering the comfort of familiarity
On well-worn paths into the darkness

She whispers alluring words
Begging me to come to her once again
On well-worn paths into the darkness
...

by Kaytee

 131 Views
added 12 days ago
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Silver Lining

Every cloud has a silver lining
Every devil a silver tongue
Which silver is better
Or worse
Lovers paint words gold
Hoping to seduce
Alchemize
Hypnotize
Drunk on your lies
I rationalize
Synthesize
Forming a solution
that is no longer me...

by Kaytee

 622 Views
added 25 days ago
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Lost in useless territory.

Wandering without purpose
Is my useless purpose

Branches reaching towards me
With twisted arms welcoming
And blocking passage at the same time

Do branches speak the language
Of the world, my world, the fairy world
The languages I am yet...

by Kaytee

 174 Views
added 1 month ago
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Phantom Pain

My mission was written in stone
Hoping to mend itself with the rain
That seems unreasonable, now

 I predicted the outcome before the start

Dancers before you were too
aggressive or too passive, never just right

 They must have been
...

by Kaytee

 254 Views
added 1 month ago
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Awareness

Awareness comes to me as a surprise
You confess your melancholy without regret
that is peppered in daydreams and delusions
vaporizing like the morning dew

Depending on which identity I chose to reveal,
I recognize your profile from museum...

by Kaytee

 131 Views
added 1 month ago
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I want more

I want someone who can hear a painting
Someone haunted by a line of poetry
A soul who is comfort and
pulse raising at the same time

I want to be deeply understood
Although I am not sure who I am
I want to remove the masks I have worn for so...

by Kaytee

 136 Views
added 2 months ago
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Aging ain't for sissies

Oh how looking in the mirror
With wrinkles and jiggles in places that used to be firm
Hurts my heart and makes me wince and quiver
Remembering the young girl with a perm
The outline of my silhouette is no longer curvy in the right places
I use...

by Aging ain't for sissies

 164 Views
added 3 months ago
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I am not afraid of the dark

I am not afraid of the dark
I am afraid of the shadows
The darkness hides me from the monsters
And if I cannot see them they cannot see me

Shadows curve into villainous crones
Ghosts that scratch at windows
And threaten to steal you in the...

by Kaytee

 50 Views
added 3 months ago
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What if...

What if I cultivated stars instead of whispering your name
What if I forget to remember you today and feel more sane

What if I communicated with the crows
What if I sensed the magic of the crossroads

What if I danced under the moon
What if...

by Kaytee

 130 Views
added 5 months ago
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Lack of Dopamine

Sometimes I forget my age until I look in the mirror
Am I my mother today or my father


  I have my father’s mouth but speak my mother’s

  words

  When did I start complaining so much

Do I annoy my friends by complaining so...

by Kaytee

 283 Views
added 5 months ago
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Masquerading as a Sonnet

Grown women wear making underpants. I am
A calico cat in red panties and a black bra. I am impersonating
An adult. I am unsure of myself and I fidget constantly
I appear to pay attention but insecurities rattle in mind
As I nod and gesture...

by Kaytee

 77 Views
added 6 months ago
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The Heart Doesn't Forget

The heart doesn’t forget what it came here to do
It loves impossible creatures
And sadness and strife, it never picks the easy route
It takes me through forests when I know I should flee

The heart doesn’t forget what it came here to do
It...

by Kaytee

 74 Views
added 6 months ago
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Apology to Myself

I sat down today to write an apology to myself
I made a mental list of all the things I regretted
I read the charges and pleaded no contest
Realizing there is no need to name the knives

 I have driven into my own heart
Christening the blades...

by Kaytee

 80 Views
added 7 months ago
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Pantoum on Loss

In the darkness of loss I am undone
You remind me of trees with silver moss
Swaying in the breezes of the marsh
Your poetry echoes in my ears

You remind me of trees with silver moss
Memories of you take away my breath
Your poetry echoes in...

by Kaytee

 193 Views
added 8 months ago
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The Tempest

I tried to save you but nearly drowned
The waves of your past crashed into me
Pulling me into rip tides of your suffering
With shipwrecks full of ghosts wanting company

I became one of the specters for awhile
Disappearing from my life and...

by Kaytee

 287 Views
added 8 months ago
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Unrecognizable

“Unrecognizable” the headline screams
Heckling the latest actress who dares to show her face in public
Code for old, fat, or changed by plastic surgery
How dare she have laugh lines and forehead creases
Or cover those “flaws” with fillers
Look!...

by Kaytee

 50 Views
added 9 months ago
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I Can No Longer Stand in the Sun

I can no longer stand in the Sun
It is too bright and revealing
I need to walk in the shadow of moonlight
There I can reveal my untainted parts
And hide the decay of regrettable choices

Some say at the end of life we regret the things we did...

by Kaytee

 76 Views
added 10 months ago
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Melancholy

I glimpsed my melancholy in the mirror
The sadness of my spirit impossible to hide
I go through the motions everyday
Trying to push back thoughts of you
Even happy memories of my children make me want to cry
Those moments far away and gone

...

by Kaytee

 286 Views
added 10 months ago
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The Day in the Park

New Orleans always feels like home
I could never live there
It just the place we meet to rekindle what no longer exists
It helps me forget that you belong to someone else
And I have a life I can’t give up
We planned to go to the zoo but it was...

by Kaytee

 66 Views
added 10 months ago
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Your thorns

We are mismatched you and I
Day and night trying to converge
I think we have collided for lifetimes
You trying to light the pyre
Me attempting to put out the wildfire

I am the eye of the storm
And you are the fury
I longed for the ONE
To...

by Kaytee

 97 Views
added 11 months ago
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The Dream of Us

I dreamed of you last night
My dreams won’t even lie to me
They showed you barely there
Giving me just enough attention to keep me from letting go
Revealing that dark dance we performed for way too long

I woke up and could not breathe.
The...

by Kaytee

 85 Views
added 1 year ago
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Dark Moon

She is the moon grown dark and contemplative
Sinking into herself, doubting her worth
Metabolizing the past
Ruminating about the ghosts

She sits with her shadow
Wincing at the poisonous parts of herself
Wondering if she can stop the venom...

by Kaytee

 403 Views
added 1 year ago
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I Am Water

The dark Goddesses conspire in your favor.

I breathed my prayer into the cedar I burned in ceremony. The wind took the pungent smoke and invocation to the Gods. The drums pulsated and rhythmic chanting casted a spell. Dark Goddesses did you...

by Kaytee

 80 Views
added 1 year ago
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My bones

Your whispers of love flowed into my soul and into my blood. The words ran through my veins and awakened by heart.

The excitement of you quickened my pulse and ran to my skin exhilarated by your touch. Your eyes, your piercing eyes saw into my...

by Kaytee

 72 Views
added 1 year ago
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Naked Soul

I saw your naked soul in the post coital fog. For a brief moment you showed your vulnerable self. You needed me in that moment and it felt like the moon showing herself for the first time.

Then I broke a breaking that I never thought I could fix...

by Kaytee

 168 Views
added 1 year ago
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