Colleen Millsteed

Joined May 2021

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My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.

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A Night To Last A Lifetime. Top Story - July 2025.
If only Samantha knew what this night held in store. Every time I hear the tale, I often wonder if she held the memory deeply, lovingly, within her heart or whether she lived with the deepest of regrets.
By Colleen Millsteed 9 months ago in Fiction
That Memory That Will Forever Sting
Tiny black panties held together with shoestring lace, A washboard stomach two hands can easily wrap, Goosebumps rise upon pure white silky skin,
By Colleen Millsteed 9 months ago in Poets
You Never Really Knew Her
Midnight opens a veil that many hesitate to cross, Fear boils within their veins, never allowing their breath to escape, But there’s one who walks the line cloaked in trepidation,
By Colleen Millsteed 9 months ago in Poets
She Waits For The Inevitable
She carries the weight of her world upon aching shoulders, Knowing the time to come will test her will, Hidden behind toffee toughened scarring and blemished skin,
By Colleen Millsteed 10 months ago in Poets
Residual Dreaming. Top Story - June 2025.
The daylight hours misleading in smiles and laughter, Tall walks and hot showers, Crystallised sunsets and falling rain, Varnished toenails and fragrant flowers.
By Colleen Millsteed 10 months ago in Poets
An Unassuming Modus Operandi
A pinch of light separates the darkness on the distant horizon, Squeezing a band of hope from the blackened sky, A twinkling of the future to tease the impatient,
By Colleen Millsteed 10 months ago in Poets
An Innocent Love
A tilt of her chin, a questing beg, Stillness, the patience of a saint, Her chest vibrating lustily, Her quiet voice roaring at low decibels.
By Colleen Millsteed 10 months ago in Poets
Frozen In Shock
Allison stood frozen in shock, her head spinning in disbelief. She suddenly realized that she did not know this woman standing in front of her. Not only did she not know her, but the woman Allison thought she was had never really existed; or so she just discovered!
By Colleen Millsteed 10 months ago in Fiction
She’s Got This
She watches the sun set on another day, Another day of battling her demons, squandering knee-deep in their mire, Just trying to get by in one piece,
By Colleen Millsteed 10 months ago in Poets
Take Heart And Dance
“How are you today?” Think back to the moment you first opened your eyes this morning, “How did you feel?” Because that’s the first crossroad of the trek your day will take.
By Colleen Millsteed 10 months ago in Poets
She Hides It Well
Within the deepest crevasse of her beating, bloody heart lives a dark pit of rage, Blackened and throbbing, It thrums upon the very definition of her life,
By Colleen Millsteed 10 months ago in Poets
You See But I Feel. Top Story - June 2025.
More and more I hear the words, spoken like a given compliment, “You’re a strong woman,” “You must be very strong,” “You have a strong inner strength,”
By Colleen Millsteed 10 months ago in Poets

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A Night To Last A Lifetime. Top Story - July 2025.

That Memory That Will Forever Sting

You Never Really Knew Her

She Waits For The Inevitable

Residual Dreaming. Top Story - June 2025.

An Unassuming Modus Operandi

An Innocent Love

Frozen In Shock

She’s Got This

Take Heart And Dance

She Hides It Well

You See But I Feel. Top Story - June 2025.

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