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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · 4d

In a temple of promises I knelt,
and found a cage of knives instead.
Wounded, I’m scolded for bleeding,
each plea met with hymns of blame.
My soul walks the altar of love,
dying, yet shamed for not rising.

#poetry

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · 4d

The volume blares from my deprivation,
each ache an #advert for what’s missing.
Yet even if I lower the sound,
the song remains, sharp, somber,
and unbearably sad to listen to.

#poetry #vss365

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · 6d

I grind my soul to #pulp,
straining for worth in silence.
The void asks me to bloom
without water,
to burn without flame,
to prove life
while hollowed out by need.

#poetry #vss365

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · 7d

I wander the ruins of creation,
A soul exiled from its own pulse.
No mercy, no water,
Only the phantom #oasis glimmering
Like God's withheld touch,
While I dissolve into dust
Singing hymns no heaven hears.

#poetry #vss365

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · 11d

I cradle my dreams like dying birds,
their wings too bright for my dim sky.
I seal them in a box, attic-bound,
a reliquary for some gentler soul,
for in my hands, hope is treason,
and joy belongs to someone else’s dawn.

#poetry

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · 13d

His #sonorous growl,
A hymn of dark fire,
Threads through my veins
Like molten desire.
Each word a kiss,
Each rumble a plea,
Unveiling the wildest
Hunger in me.

#poetry #vss365

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · 14d

With sacred hands I raise my temple high,
Stone by stone,I crown the sky.
Not bending to #caprice or shame,
I worship my body, I honor my name.
Divine, enduring, fierce with flame,
A goddess reborn, triumphant I rise.

#poetry #vss365

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · 15d

A goddess need not beg the gaze,
her beauty burns in her own flame.
#Eventually eyes will arrive,
unafraid,
to behold her glory and her shadows,
and call her beloved
in the wholeness she always was.

#poetry #vss365

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · 16d

Starved, I rise as my own #bellwether,
no shepherd guides me, no hand sustains.
I, goddess, carve rivers from stone,
summon harvest from famine.
When hunger claws, I walk unled,
finding food or forging it,
eternal in my power to endure.

#poetry #vss365

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · 17d

Upon the shelf I ache,a forgotten doll,
Waiting for the moment your hands recall.
To be lifted, to breathe, to #reinvigorate,
Yet I bleed with longing to be the one you choose,
Your favorite, not a toy returned to dust.

#poetry #vss365

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · 18d

#Perhaps my soul still waits for him,
the one who guards my dignity,
who holds me when I break,
who cherishes daily,
drives our shared dreams,
and makes life brighter than solitude;
with passion, worship, and plans that spill into forever.

#poetry #vss365

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · 25d

Because it's delicious and we're right about everything duh hehe 😁

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · Sep 4

How peaceful it is,
The heart that no longer beats.
How still the air,
The breath that no longer weeps.
How soothing it is,
The earth that lulls the body to rest.
How comforting it must be,
To be held by something
Unmoving, eternal.

#poetry

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · Sep 4

Demons drip from my #conscious like tar,
Splattering hell’s filth on all I love.
Yet the noxious muck infects me most,
A furnace of moods,
A devil’s choir twisting truth,
Until even my own reflection
Writhes in fire I cannot escape.

#poetry #vss365 #prompt

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · Sep 4

I was told to not shrink,
yet Eden holds no space
for a woman crowned in galaxies,
too vast for a garden fenced by ribs.
I cannot live on scraps of divine fruit,
so I birth my own kingdom,
a sanctuary where my fullness is altar,
where I feast in glory,
and angels bow to my grand power.

#poetry

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am no idle ember,
but a sovereign flame,
a marvel wrought of flesh and star.
Though he turns blind,
I rise unbowed,
building kingdoms from my sorrow.
His gaze may elude me,
but I burn eternal,
a woman worth worship,
seen or not.

#poetry

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · Sep 4

I wither on your back burner,
loyal flame left to smolder.
Agony drips slow as wax,
each moment of neglect
scorching deeper than betrayal.
If love is mine, why am I ash,
burned by waiting,
while you tend every fire but me?

#poetry

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · Sep 3

She is not #arbitrary,
But a constellation in motion,
A hymn of silk and fire,
Moving like prayer made flesh.
Every glance, a brushstroke,
Every breath, a cathedral.
She is art unbound,
The divine remembering herself.

#poetry #vss365 #prompt

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · Sep 2

Teach me how to murder my heart,
For love's mercy will always #elude me.
Its pulse only drags me through graves of longing,
Each beat a blade carving my bones,
Let silence be the weapon,
Let nothingness be my only hymn.

#poetry #vss365 #prompt

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · Sep 1

The #past clings like chains,
its weight unyielding though forgiveness is spoken.
I atone in shadows,
yet every step is burdened,
a penance endless,
for the scars remain etched deeper than mercy can reach.

#poetry #vss365 #prompt

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · Sep 1

To live without you,
torture eternal.
A day without your breath beside mine,
death itself.
My heart is bound to yours,
not by choice
but by fate,
a love so fierce
the cosmos bends to witness it.

#poetry

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ugh a menace (but nice) 🍂 @ugh-imhere.bsky.social · Aug 31

you moon kissed soul,
a luminous speck
against a dying world.

supernova under your skin,
a warmth to live for.
a fire to die for.

the stars whispered
“You will be loved,”
& I sit here,
an altar in your light,
inhaling your presence.

gravity below,
infinity above,
starlight within.

#poem

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · Aug 31

You call me wife and my soul ignites with stars,
yet still I #yearn,
to feel your ring upon my finger,
to bear your last name as my eternal hymn,
to make divine
the dream we speak,
and live as one beneath heaven’s vow.

#poetry #vss365 #prompt

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · Aug 31

When his deep, piercing eyes meets my own,
his gaze maps #constellations,
each star etched on my heart,
each line traced in my soul,
until I am a universe
drawn by his love.

#poetry #vss365 #prompt

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Madonna Gein @madonnagein.bsky.social · Aug 29

I remember the look on his face,
More clear than the memory
Of my mother's laughter,
When I told him who I am
When I was a four year old child.
The smile of a father looking at his child with love,
mutated
To #pungent hatred and disgust.
"Girl" cursed me to bruises and starvation.

#poetry #vss365

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