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

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Rewritten
I have rewritten all the greatest love poems over and over again to you. I rewrote the old ones, the new ones, the bad ones and the good ones. The layers of love were like bone and sinew and guts. Not the stuff that you ever liked. But, that’s me.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
Ate all my entropy up
I seemed to have some side of trouble added to my morning eggs—-I had a little more time to look at my entropy that piled up like clean laundry on the bed
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
The only lonely thing in the universe
I am so lonely yet I am never alone I long to be alone I long to be a blue, blue eyed star Tears that flow like love down the body of the celestial vessel
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
One more person
my heart weeps the flood of the deepest sea for the person who is indifferent to the suffering of one person that isn't them
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
I am Bexley: The Bloodletter’s Scourge part 17
My mother has had ALS all her life, but my father had always taken care of her, until he passed away. He would lift her up and dance with her on her birthdays. He was the rock of our family. He enforced his roots and his ideas on how a man should act right from the start.
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Fiction
You don't care
my younger self told me a story that a heart being broken Down into little bits well, it was a great story, but there was no ending
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
The Half Paper Moon EXCLUSIVE
Jean felt her hand traveling with trepidation toward his knee. “We gotta make him so jealous that he leaves me alone for good.”
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
Split slice slaw saw . Top Story - January 2025.
If I was editing myself like an object Obsessed with the idea of a perfect A perfect shot, a perfect scene, a perfectly perfect me
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
Annoying song
i don’t want to write I have to write My writing is a woman singing an annoying song in my head over and over and over again
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
Where is my mind
why does this thing that bounced back from me to you, a reverberating, echolocation of a single thread Twanging from beat to beat as a single swing from a sword, a very powerful drum that deepens the whole world in a mournful beat of breathing pounding
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
One last thing
if I could spend eternity in agony Restless with agony, oh yes, that recipe for me would be The best part of the color that created our very ancient atoms
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets
Tired of running
I’m proud of my four books that are currently available on JMS Books, Barnes and Noble and Amazon. Here are four haiku to highlight the main protagonist’s experience: (links to purchase and more information are provided in the title)
By Melissa Ingoldsbyabout a year ago in Poets