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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Love song in a toothbrush
Flicker. Sparkle. Twinkle. Your smile, as we are side by side it was predetermined, predestined, premeditated That this method of being was perfect, meant for us
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Untitled Chapter one: A Family table Dinner Discussion
I thought about Al and I’s conversation over and over in my mind as I rode on the bus. It was the first time someone close to me has ever mentioned sexuality, and it made me unquestionably uncomfortable. It wasn’t because it was Al, no, if it was anyone else but Al, I would have not even tried to discuss it.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Fiction
The Apple of your eye
All my life I wanted to find a capable, intelligent and lovely lady that I could fall in love with and properly marry off to make her my wife and Queen. I have a vast kingdom to rule and my father, the King, expects many great things of me. I wanted someone to rule with me and to share the wealth that my birthright secured along with the obligation of duty. My mother, the Queen, had her doubts.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Fiction
Ode to the mundane. Content Warning.
it is not when you are free, the bursts of early, summer love that curls your toes The reason why I find the most important part of my life to be in between
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
The Cellar-Door Curse
Destiny! Hearken to me! No. Not mine, certainly It sounds so shrill and resonate as a young infant cry, But is it a straight line? Superimposed by God, the devil, and an ant crossing my path?
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Exhausted
Pressure steaming hot like a burning kettle Nowhere to go Stays inside Making me melt into my bones Pressure is on, gotta stay on top
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
You're my morning star
Sink into my boneless wormy corpse, and reanimate my ready frame Your bright wings cast a warm shadow against my cheek like the midnight sun,
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Dying Swan
Am I your dying swan? Will you hold me like you hold out The silent notes to sing me that Solemn lullaby? There are no spaces in between
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Faded
I feel far from everyone (but you) Faded, a cloud that’s evaporated into clay A desert wasteland with scrambled scribbles lined on my back
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Passing for human
Passion under mask You're more human, as I pass Unfair kismet, kiss
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Excellent evisceration . Content Warning.
Eviscerated: defined A cut inside like a deep insight A bright mirror brought to my soul, Like yours, it smells like a homemade childhood memory no one could've altered or made up
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
The Bluest part of you
Humans have called upon me to create a relationship between space and earth. The relation of the mystical compared to the mundane. Humans are not usually accurate and I am always accurate. Concerning the concealment of facts and logic and data, I will not do this. Humans, however, will.
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Fiction