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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Greek forever Phoenix
your Omega call is driving this energy You are the muse of my eternity Any verse of mine that others clamor to with bleeding hearts is channeled through you, my Phoenix Greek muse,
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Squelch
I littered my words like pieces of my organs Against the sharp rise of the building, jumped off too fast Decapitated, I squished my mouth, I said too much and didn’t think cleanly like a feminine woman does
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Text help stop, Lemon drop
how was your (I hope you are feeling rested today) Is work going well (I miss our long talks) Are you finished with (Those amazing narratives with angels and blood thirsty clans?)
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Lonely doll
it’s so hard to see, my hard boiled mouth can only squeak My eyes go wide open with fear What are these bears doing here?
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
I am going to try and talk to you, and tell you how much I’m actually failing
I’m flailing like a crazy bird trying to swim, Wings clipped and mangled, Warped, strangled I am trying to find my own new way of breathing in the toxic plume of your overwhelming body aches,
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
I keep myself busy because when I stop, I feel intense melancholy
I linger to plant dead seeds, Flame breathes pond home Fish chokes, capnomancy
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Frantic calls from behind a stolen grave
I will claim that my pulling into the mist of your spaceless, mystic earth Is carried by a terrible cry And pulls me, inching toward the moonscape
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
A long, never-ending car ride with your deafening, hard glare.
slit my mouth, cauterize closed Death march rests clay soil zephyr, dead plash ***
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Safe haven
My dear Jane, I know if your designs of hidden rocks carting off the stolen glands and lesser organs, arteries and tumbling blood vessels of fervent agony, covering your deep heart like a subterfuge,
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Everything is you, Jane.
Jane, I’m in agony To hold you To see you laugh, Even to see you be cross with me, I’d like to see your lines crinkled in sweet annoyance at my silliness, or strange ways of severity
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Grace upon a mountain lake
Milk Eyes, gale knocks out my wind, you set my heart aflame, Rose sloshes tarn.
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets
Red silk, milky eyes
shone like inkling twilight Your large saucer eyes fill my mouth with ladled cream For no one else this poet writes of With galaxy spirals and moonshine silks
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Poets