Submissions by Abracadabra
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I'm just a soul, hooked on magic & poetry sandwiches. My words are fools, dancing as they flirt with the life you give them... & then there's the naughty stuff that wakes me in the middle of the night... one day all that cheese'll kill me.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Feb 2025 11:03am
27th Feb 2025 11:03am
Rotting Fruit
I couldn't give a hoot
for democratic fruit
but when the govercunt
you voted for
dons new designer suits
It's like they've grabbed you
by the balls
to promise ripe bananas
when there's almost none at all
thanks to Mr Charmer
They swiped the winter fuel
set cold hardship on the table
while in white warm corridors
fat quangos much on mangoes
as they contemplate their navels
They talked up cleaner greener
when what they meant
was leaner meaner
They've reneged on foreign aid
to build a...
for democratic fruit
but when the govercunt
you voted for
dons new designer suits
It's like they've grabbed you
by the balls
to promise ripe bananas
when there's almost none at all
thanks to Mr Charmer
They swiped the winter fuel
set cold hardship on the table
while in white warm corridors
fat quangos much on mangoes
as they contemplate their navels
They talked up cleaner greener
when what they meant
was leaner meaner
They've reneged on foreign aid
to build a...
#inequality
#politics
#unicorns
58 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Feb 2025 5:47am
27th Feb 2025 5:47am
Two Worlds
My shopping list:
organic carrots
purple sprouting broccoli
sweet potatoes
salmon fillets
manuka honey
chocolate eclairs
Her shopping list:
two handfuls of rice
& water
from the well.
organic carrots
purple sprouting broccoli
sweet potatoes
salmon fillets
manuka honey
chocolate eclairs
Her shopping list:
two handfuls of rice
& water
from the well.
#inequality
#poverty
#unicorns
48 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Feb 2025 1:02pm
18th Feb 2025 1:02pm
The Nearly Poems
I hear poems that pass in the night
tight unfinished lines with agonised rhymes
brave couplets that struggle and fight
hugging horizons over oceans of words
while loose titles slip out of sight
Ideas rear up from the subconscious mind
to fall lost overboard by dawn
The almost remembered great stories untold
perched high on life's clifftop crumble of stones
inscriptions faded and worn
So near yet so far I hear them retreat
from their dream to be free of thought's cage
vainglorious lines ever read and re-read
not my...
tight unfinished lines with agonised rhymes
brave couplets that struggle and fight
hugging horizons over oceans of words
while loose titles slip out of sight
Ideas rear up from the subconscious mind
to fall lost overboard by dawn
The almost remembered great stories untold
perched high on life's clifftop crumble of stones
inscriptions faded and worn
So near yet so far I hear them retreat
from their dream to be free of thought's cage
vainglorious lines ever read and re-read
not my...
#LifeAsAWriter
#unicorns
58 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Feb 2025 11:12am
9th Feb 2025 11:12am
Not Lost
When a scream betrays secrets
and demons swallow the night
never doubt the love of life
still shines forever in your heart
Be braver
brave enough to drag
bold fragments of your soul
through ruin of despair
to find another
then another breath
as effortless as time
embracing cold certainty
straddling the hour
until warmth of expectation
bestows forgiveness
so that peace may once more flourish
feeding hope
to nourish dawn's new light
and demons swallow the night
never doubt the love of life
still shines forever in your heart
Be braver
brave enough to drag
bold fragments of your soul
through ruin of despair
to find another
then another breath
as effortless as time
embracing cold certainty
straddling the hour
until warmth of expectation
bestows forgiveness
so that peace may once more flourish
feeding hope
to nourish dawn's new light
#unicorns
101 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Jan 2025 5:20pm
13th Jan 2025 5:20pm
The Guilty Generation
I wake up angry
as two faced January
screams the death throes of our world
The kids say it's my fault
that I could have done more
The 'guilty' generation
who should have done more
So I took my rage to a church
where cold high ceilings
squander energy
while my anger squirms
I am angry at God
and myself
for listening
to too much news
I should learn to shut it all out
put my head in the sand--
but then isn't that what God does
while his children burn
as two faced January
screams the death throes of our world
The kids say it's my fault
that I could have done more
The 'guilty' generation
who should have done more
So I took my rage to a church
where cold high ceilings
squander energy
while my anger squirms
I am angry at God
and myself
for listening
to too much news
I should learn to shut it all out
put my head in the sand--
but then isn't that what God does
while his children burn
#anger
#sadness
#vulnerability
64 reads
0 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Nov 2024 5:19pm
28th Nov 2024 5:19pm
Life Expectancy
In doorway forty three
she clings to cardboard skirts
though homeless is no crime
forgotten is what hurts
But who should rescue
her shortened years
and from their warm beds rise
when barefoot holy
winter's empire
descends unseen
to claim ill fated lives
she clings to cardboard skirts
though homeless is no crime
forgotten is what hurts
But who should rescue
her shortened years
and from their warm beds rise
when barefoot holy
winter's empire
descends unseen
to claim ill fated lives
#homelessness
#inequality
#poverty
132 reads
1 Comment
SONG LYRICS
Published
17th Nov 2024 7:20pm
17th Nov 2024 7:20pm
Never Too Late to Love Again
It's never too late
to love again
if you're brave enough
to try ...
https://tinyurl.com/89nzfj55
to love again
if you're brave enough
to try ...
https://tinyurl.com/89nzfj55
#FallingInLove
134 reads
0 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
30th Sep 2024 10:20pm
30th Sep 2024 10:20pm
Ransom
https://tinyurl.com/2raxb48y
Maybe you're the dream
I could never forget
while I'm drying my tears
at 3 am.......
Maybe you're the dream
I could never forget
while I'm drying my tears
at 3 am.......
#breakup
#love
#unicorns
187 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Sep 2024 11:00am
28th Sep 2024 11:00am
Life in a Few Words #775
For a starveling mouse
the crumbs in your toaster
are a feast
the crumbs in your toaster
are a feast
#inequality
#unicorns
120 reads
3 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
25th Sep 2024 8:16pm
25th Sep 2024 8:16pm
A Merman's Tale
I met the Devil
on the deep blue sea...
https://tinyurl.com/324sw6ks
on the deep blue sea...
https://tinyurl.com/324sw6ks
#fate
#love
#unicorns
146 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
25th Sep 2024 10:19am
25th Sep 2024 10:19am
The Darkest Corner
If God's out of town
living the highfalutin
while the world rolls crazy
growing tumbleweed from the Devil
under its skin
it's a sure bet there'll be hell to pay
when the party's over
and he gets in
He'll be madder than moonshine
spitting out stars
and stomping his feet
until the sky breaks a bunch of bum notes
pouring thunder and lightning
from busted harp strings
with fearful angels cowering out back
hugging the trash cans in cathedral yard
sniffing up all those bodies
left to rot underground
...
living the highfalutin
while the world rolls crazy
growing tumbleweed from the Devil
under its skin
it's a sure bet there'll be hell to pay
when the party's over
and he gets in
He'll be madder than moonshine
spitting out stars
and stomping his feet
until the sky breaks a bunch of bum notes
pouring thunder and lightning
from busted harp strings
with fearful angels cowering out back
hugging the trash cans in cathedral yard
sniffing up all those bodies
left to rot underground
...
#unicorns
100 reads
0 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
22nd Sep 2024 7:19pm
22nd Sep 2024 7:19pm
End Times
https://tinyurl.com/42jtznsx
It rained in the desert
until the waters ran high
and washed away sand
for centuries dry
deeper than mountains
a city appeared...
It rained in the desert
until the waters ran high
and washed away sand
for centuries dry
deeper than mountains
a city appeared...
#earth
#environment
#humankind #unicorns
#humankind #unicorns
104 reads
6 Comments
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