Melissa Ingoldsby

Joined February 2021

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My work:

The Job , The Space Between Us , Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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The poet searching in vain for a muse, lost
glazed, the opportunist struggle of the bacterium can I dream? I can see but I cannot hear the winds that whip through the strains,
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Fresh heaven stuck in a private hell
The tempestuous younger sister, had a penchant for true crime she lingered over sordid details of past gruesome murder But found them So boring. She found a rat to serve her older sister as stew a drink of sewer, a toast will do ‘Why did she shimmer brighter than I? I Was The Real Star.’
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Red Hat
you stuck out like a red hat In a sea of gray I am Not allowed to be angry Because of the season of emotional flu Nausea for the erasure of truth,
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Trauma Carnival . Top Story - May 2024. Content Warning.
I have unpopular opinions on one of my old favorites, The L Word. First is: Jenny is my favorite character. Second: The show was originally about Jenny, her trauma, her broken identity and the way her sexuality was explored as an awakening that brought up many memories of childhood abuse.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Art
Ndagukumbuye (I miss you)
writers eat me alive they use me up like a wasted, slaughtered chicken They use me up until a pretty picture is presented Writers use me up like an artist’s toil They wrap colors around a sea of blood
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Aroma
Angel’s eyes go half-lidded. “Like you’re baking me in a cookie, homemade, lots of butter, and you can smell the aroma of warm, sweet and gooey.”
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Strangely, my name is
I fell so madly in love with you, my Jade skinned Indian love, Your mer-tail like a jewel, so bright teal Your long limbs so elegantly placed against my skin, so cold and wet and
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Good poem:food porn
secret screen of a lavish deluxe, delicate lush Stuffing my face like a bloated monster As I sneak into the scenes of a hole-in-the-wall kitchen
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Vocal & my relationship to publishing traditionally . Top Story - May 2024.
Ever since my small writing beginnings, when I started writing on Vocal in February 2021, I had been in a truly terrible slump & funk when it came to my writing. I had so many unfinished projects, ideas, half finished manuscripts and first chapters that were going nowhere.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Motivation
Malaise of malaise
Ah. The malaise of this story doesn’t even begin to unwind the tension that lies between my bones, each joint being held by tacky glue
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Trauma sparkle
a politic is a bag o’ tricks, Taxes are the best bag of all You win some you lose big I am The Queen of tired Fucking exhausted like a waterlogged rock
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
sun
how can you break down your syllabic structure like dancing rain against the windy lake, The structure of the struggle that made you so brave
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets