Observational Poems by New Members
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poetry about life, society and the natural world
- Published by new DU Poetry members.
bluelongan
Poem Published
12th Jun 2021 9:31am
12th Jun 2021 9:31am
Class Started
Go away! This is children's business—
A conference you will not witness.
Plotting, profits, you won't understand—
Crayon arrows you can't comprehend.
Their intellect astounds the greatest mind—
Answers to the universe you'll find.
Blind to the complexity of blocks—
Deaf to the ticking of the bent clocks.
Maturity in the spill of tea—
As they pass thy cup to thee.
You grown up, learned, fruitless foul fiend—
Powder your nose with fluoxetine,
Eat your three portions of fruit and green,
Reflect not on wilted, parted dreams, ...
A conference you will not witness.
Plotting, profits, you won't understand—
Crayon arrows you can't comprehend.
Their intellect astounds the greatest mind—
Answers to the universe you'll find.
Blind to the complexity of blocks—
Deaf to the ticking of the bent clocks.
Maturity in the spill of tea—
As they pass thy cup to thee.
You grown up, learned, fruitless foul fiend—
Powder your nose with fluoxetine,
Eat your three portions of fruit and green,
Reflect not on wilted, parted dreams, ...
#anger
#childhood
#disappointment
16 reads
2 Comments
KhaoticKat
Poem Published
13th Jun 2021 12:54pm
13th Jun 2021 12:54pm
Questions
Do you like the word power
when you are not in control?
Do you like the word dominance
when you are submissive?
Do you like the word master
when you are a slave?
Do you like the word manipulation
when you are being used?
Do you like the word puppet
when you are at the end of the string?
Do you like the word wealth
when you are always poor?
Do you like the word chess ...
when you are not in control?
Do you like the word dominance
when you are submissive?
Do you like the word master
when you are a slave?
Do you like the word manipulation
when you are being used?
Do you like the word puppet
when you are at the end of the string?
Do you like the word wealth
when you are always poor?
Do you like the word chess ...
#dark
#freedom
#responsibility #choices
#responsibility #choices
20 reads
3 Comments
GypsySoul86
Poem Published
13th Jun 2021 1:48pm
13th Jun 2021 1:48pm
Spinning Wheel
Wisdom gained is
innocence lost.
He who seeks truth
always pays a high cost.
For hearts are deceitful,
they tell such sweet lies...
Love conquers all they shout,
there's no such thing as goodbye.
Emotions are a temptress,
desire a snare,
one leads us to our doom,
the other strips us bare.
The mind is a dark pit
hiding all manner of monsters inside,
we give our all to slay the beasts
all the while feeding our biggest one;
PRIDE.
We spend our finite existence racing
trying to always be first in line, ...
innocence lost.
He who seeks truth
always pays a high cost.
For hearts are deceitful,
they tell such sweet lies...
Love conquers all they shout,
there's no such thing as goodbye.
Emotions are a temptress,
desire a snare,
one leads us to our doom,
the other strips us bare.
The mind is a dark pit
hiding all manner of monsters inside,
we give our all to slay the beasts
all the while feeding our biggest one;
PRIDE.
We spend our finite existence racing
trying to always be first in line, ...
#fate
#spiritual
#TruthOfLife
#luck
#wisdom
27 reads
2 Comments
Bmovive
Poem Published
1st Jun 2021 9:07pm
1st Jun 2021 9:07pm
Take all you can.
Grab all you can.
Take it.
Such plunder!
Going, going cheap
Celebrate wildly......oh yeah
Wave your bows.
Cheer your cheers.
As lunatics take control.
With just one fatal kiss.
Such as this.
A life tripping on its past achievements.
Preoccupied or just simply pre programmed...
No democracy.
Just wings from the same bird..
A population set up.
Only to consume.
Never questioning.
Like turkeys voting for thanks giving.
We sign our own death sentence.
Grab all you can.
Take it.
Such plunder!
Going, going cheap
Celebrate wildly......oh yeah
Wave your bows.
Cheer your cheers.
As lunatics take control.
With just one fatal kiss.
Such as this.
A life tripping on its past achievements.
Preoccupied or just simply pre programmed...
No democracy.
Just wings from the same bird..
A population set up.
Only to consume.
Never questioning.
Like turkeys voting for thanks giving.
We sign our own death sentence.
Grab all you can.
#greed
#manipulation
#deception
31 reads
4 Comments
MyPoeticDiary
Poem Published
31st May 2021 6:21pm
31st May 2021 6:21pm
Another Soldier Lost
Another slain who wasn't even a man
One by one before him, all of my friends
A chosen soul as a proxy's pledge
Knows that the end hides in one round
Memory only delivers us away
From the Devil's way of his play
Reap their souls, paint their lands
No fight goes right to free yourself
Hold me down, shoot me down
In the end, we all will fall
Cut the chain - the pain in vain
Running left and right through the night
The fight chose me!
I hate the moments still with me
Of war being the answer ever to them ...
One by one before him, all of my friends
A chosen soul as a proxy's pledge
Knows that the end hides in one round
Memory only delivers us away
From the Devil's way of his play
Reap their souls, paint their lands
No fight goes right to free yourself
Hold me down, shoot me down
In the end, we all will fall
Cut the chain - the pain in vain
Running left and right through the night
The fight chose me!
I hate the moments still with me
Of war being the answer ever to them ...
#soldiers
#war
#fiction
#despair
#fear
19 reads
2 Comments
Chords_of_red
Gayle
Gayle
Poem Published
14th Jun 2021 4:58am
14th Jun 2021 4:58am
The Mask
The mask you wear for
all to see is dripping
from your face
When reality sets in,
all things being equal
here comes the end
Your travels took
you nowhere
only just outside your door
You live inside
your mind
taking others to
despair
fooling some, but not me
I see through your fantasy
Remember when
you leave...
The mask will drip
from your face
Revealing how ugly
you really are
all to see is dripping
from your face
When reality sets in,
all things being equal
here comes the end
Your travels took
you nowhere
only just outside your door
You live inside
your mind
taking others to
despair
fooling some, but not me
I see through your fantasy
Remember when
you leave...
The mask will drip
from your face
Revealing how ugly
you really are
#TruthOfLife
36 reads
14 Comments
WeesusMadimas
Poem Published
7th Jun 2021 11:01pm
7th Jun 2021 11:01pm
Plastic Soldiers
Go now fake soldier and run like she told ya
You're fading from the light.
You're out in the cold
In the trenches so bold.
You're fighting for your life.
So, gaze not upon. The things you can't see.
You're leaders intentions, mean nothing to me.
You fight, you rise, you fall, you cry.
you hate so badly but, do not know why.
You're mounting the precipitous
With best intentions but,
paving your demise.
...
You're fading from the light.
You're out in the cold
In the trenches so bold.
You're fighting for your life.
So, gaze not upon. The things you can't see.
You're leaders intentions, mean nothing to me.
You fight, you rise, you fall, you cry.
you hate so badly but, do not know why.
You're mounting the precipitous
With best intentions but,
paving your demise.
...
#courage
#war
#despair
#morality
#fear
25 reads
6 Comments
Battered-Suitcases
Poem Published
28th May 2021 5:18pm
28th May 2021 5:18pm
In-skirts
In-skirts
My soul clangs against my brain
Like an empty prisoners cup runs against cold metal bars.
Radiating and disturbing the silence
of an otherwise ignorant peace.
Chambered in its hopeless plea for freedom,
settles back onto to its tiny cot, bewildered,
dingy with grief in a sea of wrinkled, restless dismay.
No saving’s grace, no hero’s ride,
no best-ever recipe (file baked inside)
can free me now.
This is the in-skirts of reality
This is where we get stuck
Stuck moving
From one parent to the next ...
My soul clangs against my brain
Like an empty prisoners cup runs against cold metal bars.
Radiating and disturbing the silence
of an otherwise ignorant peace.
Chambered in its hopeless plea for freedom,
settles back onto to its tiny cot, bewildered,
dingy with grief in a sea of wrinkled, restless dismay.
No saving’s grace, no hero’s ride,
no best-ever recipe (file baked inside)
can free me now.
This is the in-skirts of reality
This is where we get stuck
Stuck moving
From one parent to the next ...
#humankind
#morality
#responsibility
#manipulation
#karma
30 reads
0 Comments
Urbanfacemace
Poem Published
2nd Jun 2021 11:10pm
2nd Jun 2021 11:10pm
Sound off
#LifeStruggles
#LifeAsAWriter
#LifeCycle
16 reads
0 Comments
Tarkovsky7
Poem Published
25th May 2021 11:21pm
25th May 2021 11:21pm
A ghost is following me
A ghost is following me.
My senses are active. I know it's peculiar but...
I really do see it.
I exist,
I feel,
I am standing in the ground.
It, looks like it's dragging itself.
Ghost, spirit, spook
Shadow, existence, it sorrows me.
Of course I do not have time for compassion.
I have to continue to this path...
even if it follows behind me.
I amble.
When I eat, an animal must sacrifice for me.
When I sleep I see no colors to pamper me.
I listen to empty music.
I talk about...
My senses are active. I know it's peculiar but...
I really do see it.
I exist,
I feel,
I am standing in the ground.
It, looks like it's dragging itself.
Ghost, spirit, spook
Shadow, existence, it sorrows me.
Of course I do not have time for compassion.
I have to continue to this path...
even if it follows behind me.
I amble.
When I eat, an animal must sacrifice for me.
When I sleep I see no colors to pamper me.
I listen to empty music.
I talk about...
#environment
#ghosts
#evolution #LifeCycle
#evolution #LifeCycle
36 reads
7 Comments
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