Inside The Mind Of Little Me

I'm growing up? Oh yeah, I guess I am. T. L. Manx here! At heart I'm a writer, but let's be so for real, I haven't touched that novel since High School. We'll just say I'm a dreamer. I write poetry, I imagine my world building for my novel, and I continue living because, well, I can't stop it. For some reason, I see 22 everywhere and I really like Moths because they remind me of Jesus. Why? They're attracted to the light, I guess??? I'm kinda living for the first time.

[rosieandthemoon]

By Laura Winter

[lunamonchtuna]

— Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Vera (tr. Olga Voronina & Brian Boyd) (via lunamonchtuna)

[tlmanx]

Almost afraid... I can't help but not be afraid anymore.

[buttpoems]

[holeinthehedgerow]

I want to sit on a park bench with you

Watch the birds and people watch

Make up stories

Where they're coming from and going to

Take turns first me and then you

And in the morning remind me to wear sunscreen and a jacket

Fix my coller

Brush the dust off my shoulders as I leave

Want me at my best and love me at my worst

And in the evening notice my little scrapes and bruises

As you trace my outlines with your finger tips

Find my scars and make up stories about where they came from

Then make believe where were going and make me believe it's true

One day I want to sit on a park bench with you

[flowrrs4u]

I am good. I am loved.

[tlmanx]

We say we don't like infidelity,

Until it creeps up to our door.

Our children conditioned to normalcy

Through the parenting replacement uproar.

A propaganda or two, fed through a reflection.

Child's play grooming our blessings.

You don't have time? Then slow down.

Stop feeding the machine.

The 1970s was one big sham.

You blame the counter culture,

A sex revolution to be had.

The addicts and cravings,

the worst kind of evil.

No one notices the house wives

Or the veterans of hopeless.

Stop the war! They cry!

All you see is a mirror.

You've let them take over

Not the hippies but your heros.

You must find someone to blame

For your child being gay

Or your daughter who is pregnant,

Before she ever walked her graduation day.

It's not my fault! It couldn't be!

But now you've gone and let a screen

Raise your precious little boy.

Bouncing breasts in an ad

A man left her for his toy.

Pictures of positions,

As a woman leaves with her child.

He isn't even 9 yet.

At least you didn't have to tell him.

For some odd reason

You check out when your needed

For things you can't control

When hiding is better than leading

As long as your character is preserved

You'll be just fine!

Just dont tell anyone what wasn't your fault

You didn't raise that red pill facist.

[goneahead]

Life is piling up again, the bills and the dishes and the needs and the demands and-

The chill of early morn soaks into my shoes, as I walk a field wispy with dandelions.

The sun’s rising through winter-stripped trees. A wren begins its soft beck and call, pulling the green spiral of spring from the earth. I stop, and just— breathe.

[holeinthehedgerow]

The time the crickets come out

Chirping in the dark from somewhere unseen

Their violin legs ring out of the shadows

Then cicadas call and the frogs they chirp

The birds will sing come morning just before light

In the dark the sounds they shout

Calling out to the night

The fireflies with their lighthouse beacons

Fearing the coming dawn's light

They wink at me and glow and fade slow

The shouts reach my sleepless ears

They're calls for all that's near

Though they speak a language I do not their calling I can hear

I call into the dark with them through the night

To be heard by a sleepless ear

Or seen by a tired eye

Fearing the coming dawn's light

I call out into the night

[sanddollarpoems]

Lost in the weeds

I wish they would reach over me

A fort grown out of seeds

Let me be a wild thing

[tlmanx]

Dad?

Sometimes I wonder if you're there.

When I really think and I really try,

When I'm inside my head

And I realize I'm alive

I wonder then if it is true.

I want to know what truth is,

But some say many things are.

Truth and Facts are different now.

I just want to know if you're there.

[tlmanx]

Y'know I think the best kind of love is when you're living your life and a random thing reminds you of your person and you smile. There is no fawning or obsession, just a quiet reminder you're in love and that everything is going to be okay.

I think the sun is a little brighter today.

[tlmanx]

An Ode to The Ones Unseen

Barefoot Princess

Where did you go?

Your castles too high

To be standing all alone

Wandering royal

Where is your throne?

Your bed lies deep within

But you lie down below

What convinced you

Summer would never come?

What whispered too close

Red lines come undone

Winter's too cold

To take it in your hands

The angels caught you

Deep within the seine

[tlmanx]

Creatures great and small take in the world at different levels.

Lights and sounds and colors. A Kaleidoscope of angels and devils.

Intricate patterns and designs from the quantum size.

Nothing could compare to the very goodness of God's own eyes.

To know you is to love you, and for that I wish to know it all.

On the very earth we own, the Lord rose to call.

No one, except the willing of the living after death.

<3

I am so proud of the man you are becoming.

[remanence-of-love]

[tlmanx]

Literally just gonna look at this everytime I feel I can't.

[vexheart]

[tlmanx]

Photo smile

There is a certain kind of Joy

And a certain kind of peace

Out of the corner of my eye

And from my heart, I listen

The way you close your eyes

Step back just a second

You recollect yourself

With a joyful noise emitted

Sometimes what follows after

Is a fit of laughter

A brightness in your eyes

As you let them wander

But I alone hold this joy

I hold it deeply in my heart

Layers of color in my memory

A captured star in the dark

First impressions don't compare

But I don't have a worry

From the first time I saw you

I held that photo memory

At first you held my heart

A friend, a brother I held so dear

Now you hold me helpless

I'm in love with you, I fear

[tlmanx]

Wait.

I'm actually gonna be okay.