Submissions by 1Docmcruz (PoetCruz)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Even on days when I am speechless I will always find a way to be quoted I like things raw & love to touch topics ppl shy from My style is ever changing & consistently as powerful as it can be gentle
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Jul 2024 1:54am
18th Jul 2024 1:54am
I CAN WRITE AGAIN!
As if the pen’s silver nib were a bullet
shot backward into the well,
recalling the joy of writing
and the pain of counting 5-7-5,
over and over,
and under
until Haikus spin silk syllables.
Don’t underestimate yourself!
My hand shakes sometimes,
muscle memory,
Parkinson’s poetry,
tenacious texts that tremor,
talent moving left to right,
telling me there’s something left to write.
My pointer kisses my thumb,
a reminder of poetry’s tenderness, ...
shot backward into the well,
recalling the joy of writing
and the pain of counting 5-7-5,
over and over,
and under
until Haikus spin silk syllables.
Don’t underestimate yourself!
My hand shakes sometimes,
muscle memory,
Parkinson’s poetry,
tenacious texts that tremor,
talent moving left to right,
telling me there’s something left to write.
My pointer kisses my thumb,
a reminder of poetry’s tenderness, ...
#uplifting
#WritersBlock
#WritingPoetry
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
22nd Jun 2024 00:36am
22nd Jun 2024 00:36am
Energy In Our Hands
sometimes our fists ball
yet brains are square
so we hug it out
sometimes our hands shake
yet our feet are steady
so we walk it off
sometimes our hands are callous
yet hearts are soft
so we build it up
we push out 🖊️ pen-ance for peace
or we just release
what words can’t fully express
hands close to our chest
or like a bulletproof vest
praying together or stretched
outward to bless
to cradle our nest
to “fight the power” of unrest
to point at the sun...
yet brains are square
so we hug it out
sometimes our hands shake
yet our feet are steady
so we walk it off
sometimes our hands are callous
yet hearts are soft
so we build it up
we push out 🖊️ pen-ance for peace
or we just release
what words can’t fully express
hands close to our chest
or like a bulletproof vest
praying together or stretched
outward to bless
to cradle our nest
to “fight the power” of unrest
to point at the sun...
#inspirational
#LifeAsAWriter
#uplifting
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
21st Jun 2024 10:08am
21st Jun 2024 10:08am
Call Me Light
I know just when the sun rises
call me Light
when my head lifts
above the horizon of my pillow
when my white sheets
ball up like cumulus clouds
when I brighten someone's day
sometimes I glow
when I'm warm and sweet
when I'm confident and on fire
when I'm illuminating the room
call me Light
I know when to be a prism
when to refract frowns into smiling faces
when to lift chins and bend rainbows
when to bring back childhood joy
like light up sneakers
there is a happy hue, in hello ...
call me Light
when my head lifts
above the horizon of my pillow
when my white sheets
ball up like cumulus clouds
when I brighten someone's day
sometimes I glow
when I'm warm and sweet
when I'm confident and on fire
when I'm illuminating the room
call me Light
I know when to be a prism
when to refract frowns into smiling faces
when to lift chins and bend rainbows
when to bring back childhood joy
like light up sneakers
there is a happy hue, in hello ...
#motivational
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
21st Jun 2024 1:34am
21st Jun 2024 1:34am
Tree of Life
I’ve been quiet
finding solace under the tree of life
how many times I’ve sat here
watched seeds fall
reading Revelations
laying sheet after page to my left
practicing how I’d one day
tuck in my own children right
give them voice to story
S.T.E.M to sow
gifts to grow
teach them to plant the tree
not carve their name
to yield fruit not flesh
but bark when they need to
be an olive branch of hope
be rooted
in this soiled world
call me a sap but…
I’ve been...
finding solace under the tree of life
how many times I’ve sat here
watched seeds fall
reading Revelations
laying sheet after page to my left
practicing how I’d one day
tuck in my own children right
give them voice to story
S.T.E.M to sow
gifts to grow
teach them to plant the tree
not carve their name
to yield fruit not flesh
but bark when they need to
be an olive branch of hope
be rooted
in this soiled world
call me a sap but…
I’ve been...
#LifeGoals
#PersonalGrowth
#SelfDiscovery
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2 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
21st Jun 2024 1:30am
21st Jun 2024 1:30am
World Prayer
the day the world prayed
that angels flew faster than missiles
that love was explosive
that heros lived
to rebuild all lost in the rubble
that borders would be erased
homes built with the same shovel
for every land mine to open the dirt
may a tree be planted
for every homeless fed
may a blessing be granted
the day the world prayed
that peace was on the press
that there is liberation for the oppressed
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that angels flew faster than missiles
that love was explosive
that heros lived
to rebuild all lost in the rubble
that borders would be erased
homes built with the same shovel
for every land mine to open the dirt
may a tree be planted
for every homeless fed
may a blessing be granted
the day the world prayed
that peace was on the press
that there is liberation for the oppressed
Instagram.com/nourish_cruz
#prayer
#war
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Jun 2021 2:05am
1st Jun 2021 2:05am
Women Warriors
swords on the points of our tongues
birth cords to appoint our young
as vocal lungs
already won
battles blistering the base of our feet
we win wars in heels
aligned chakras as shields
Mother Earth the battle field
Kneel!
birth cords to appoint our young
as vocal lungs
already won
battles blistering the base of our feet
we win wars in heels
aligned chakras as shields
Mother Earth the battle field
Kneel!
#strength
#courage
#women
#redemption
#feminism
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Dec 2020 5:00am
1st Dec 2020 5:00am
Never Alone
fighting to be strong on my own
made from the rib of his bone
they throw their sticks and a stone
a crucifix & “ATONE!”
I am Eve’s daughter
clutching Eden’s clover
snakes whispering on my shoulder
praying that SOMEWHERE
after atonement
there is a garden of paradise
another land of milk and honey
another MIRACLE where water turns to wine
I have FAITH in the devine
they may have called me
Delilah or Jezebel
but today, I am Anointed!
I will be the LAST cursed womb ...
made from the rib of his bone
they throw their sticks and a stone
a crucifix & “ATONE!”
I am Eve’s daughter
clutching Eden’s clover
snakes whispering on my shoulder
praying that SOMEWHERE
after atonement
there is a garden of paradise
another land of milk and honey
another MIRACLE where water turns to wine
I have FAITH in the devine
they may have called me
Delilah or Jezebel
but today, I am Anointed!
I will be the LAST cursed womb ...
#hope
#forgiveness
#God #redemption
#God #redemption
157 reads
3 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Oct 2020 10:11pm
16th Oct 2020 10:11pm
Final Hour
today I saw a minute hand
like a shooting star across a clock
wishing the final hour
felt like thirty six hundred seconds
I’m aware it’s the same
God knows I tried to slow time
...but my tears ran anyway
so I spent our last moments
counting blinks and smiles
and bad jokes
hoping we’d laugh so hard
it’d hurt more than our goodbyes
...as precious as they’ve always been
yet took for granted
that hour we lived more than our whole lives
and there I hoped ...
like a shooting star across a clock
wishing the final hour
felt like thirty six hundred seconds
I’m aware it’s the same
God knows I tried to slow time
...but my tears ran anyway
so I spent our last moments
counting blinks and smiles
and bad jokes
hoping we’d laugh so hard
it’d hurt more than our goodbyes
...as precious as they’ve always been
yet took for granted
that hour we lived more than our whole lives
and there I hoped ...
#love
#hope
#death #LifeCycle
#death #LifeCycle
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2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
12th Sep 2020 5:03am
12th Sep 2020 5:03am
Smiling
if they only knew
my biggest smile
came after my hardest cry
...how long I was behind the door
before I skipped through the threshold
how many tissues crumbled beside me
while I distracted the world with my lifted chin
how many tears dragged along my sleeves
when I felt naked
how many “wonderfuls” and “greats” I vomited
till I was sick of telling lies
I put on my mask today and boy was I happy,
I didn’t have to smile.
IG: nourish_cruz
my biggest smile
came after my hardest cry
...how long I was behind the door
before I skipped through the threshold
how many tissues crumbled beside me
while I distracted the world with my lifted chin
how many tears dragged along my sleeves
when I felt naked
how many “wonderfuls” and “greats” I vomited
till I was sick of telling lies
I put on my mask today and boy was I happy,
I didn’t have to smile.
IG: nourish_cruz
#sadness
#dark
#healing
193 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Jul 2020 5:22am
6th Jul 2020 5:22am
Black Lives Yellow Paint
#poetry
#blacklivesmatter
There is a red stain
3 drops of yellow on her shoe
through her mask
the smell of fresh paint
a hint of yesterday’s pepper spray
and coffee bean in her labored breath
She hasn’t gotten much sleep since...
the red stain
the white chalk
them blue bastards
and orange filth
There are 3 drops of yellow on her shoe
calluses from picket signs on her hands
foot sores from marching through streets
There is a...
#blacklivesmatter
There is a red stain
3 drops of yellow on her shoe
through her mask
the smell of fresh paint
a hint of yesterday’s pepper spray
and coffee bean in her labored breath
She hasn’t gotten much sleep since...
the red stain
the white chalk
them blue bastards
and orange filth
There are 3 drops of yellow on her shoe
calluses from picket signs on her hands
foot sores from marching through streets
There is a...
#corruption
#politics
#racism
#HumanRights
#inequality
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2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
30th May 2020 4:39am
30th May 2020 4:39am
“I Can’t Breath”
Muscle memory
They will still
Reach for their guns
Swing their batons
Grip their tasers
They will still
Roll their eyes
Bend bias from their lips
Lift white power and enforce blue
They will still
Feel imaginary resistance
Site fictitious felonies
Beat on brown
Tomorrow
Again
Just like yesterday
Be ready to flex back
IG: Nourish_Cruz
They will still
Reach for their guns
Swing their batons
Grip their tasers
They will still
Roll their eyes
Bend bias from their lips
Lift white power and enforce blue
They will still
Feel imaginary resistance
Site fictitious felonies
Beat on brown
Tomorrow
Again
Just like yesterday
Be ready to flex back
IG: Nourish_Cruz
#anger
#violence
#racism
242 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Mar 2020 3:42pm
2nd Mar 2020 3:42pm
Ode to Nirvana
sometimes, I close my eyes
to replace you with the darkness
bend my lashes inward
to paint you into my thoughts
my silence is speechlessness
everything without a tongue
sounds louder, more meaningful
yet your kind words carry me like faith
have you tasted a sunrise
before your morning coffee?
smelled a dream
like it was ready to come out the oven?
have you ever touched a heart
while your hands where on a shoulder?
suffering is but a puddle of tears for your inner child to splash in ...
to replace you with the darkness
bend my lashes inward
to paint you into my thoughts
my silence is speechlessness
everything without a tongue
sounds louder, more meaningful
yet your kind words carry me like faith
have you tasted a sunrise
before your morning coffee?
smelled a dream
like it was ready to come out the oven?
have you ever touched a heart
while your hands where on a shoulder?
suffering is but a puddle of tears for your inner child to splash in ...
#depression
#peace
#faith
#redemption
#suffering
303 reads
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