Submissions by Alastair (Alas...a tear)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I am a cynical Ventriloquist Babbling ridicules On a vendetta To duel with bliss
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
17th Jun 2017 6:08am
17th Jun 2017 6:08am
Sad Shark
With the waves crashing down on me
Peeling away layers of my shiny vanity
I furiously paint my coat anew, anew
desecrate in some attempt to demonstrate
And I won’t ignore gravity
Or the shadows cast by the light of others
I forgive all of that and need the weight -
to slip away, not to be held down by love
the happiness that drifted like smoke into the breeze
laughing at these cigarette burns upon my shaky hands
I stomped down the track and slipped into a pear trellis
There was a special cross on one of the trees
it...
Peeling away layers of my shiny vanity
I furiously paint my coat anew, anew
desecrate in some attempt to demonstrate
And I won’t ignore gravity
Or the shadows cast by the light of others
I forgive all of that and need the weight -
to slip away, not to be held down by love
the happiness that drifted like smoke into the breeze
laughing at these cigarette burns upon my shaky hands
I stomped down the track and slipped into a pear trellis
There was a special cross on one of the trees
it...
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DARK POEM
Published
9th Jan 2014 9:17am
9th Jan 2014 9:17am
polpotutionD+
The world spins an axis made of weather
It’s rain then it’s sun as swells rezone and
develop, leaving some in storms of cold
I would love to live in tranquil waters
Figurehead’s water turning sanguine
Sanctions surround us, fencing with money
Some neighbours sharing, some bees collecting honey
some golden some tar black, all a little blood red.
Swarming like flies round lords of lies
Queens and the kings bled creed like a pig
with sliced out thighs, that’s why they scream
and scream “I didn’t do it!”
faces turn from sanguine to...
It’s rain then it’s sun as swells rezone and
develop, leaving some in storms of cold
I would love to live in tranquil waters
Figurehead’s water turning sanguine
Sanctions surround us, fencing with money
Some neighbours sharing, some bees collecting honey
some golden some tar black, all a little blood red.
Swarming like flies round lords of lies
Queens and the kings bled creed like a pig
with sliced out thighs, that’s why they scream
and scream “I didn’t do it!”
faces turn from sanguine to...
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DARK POEM
Published
6th Jan 2014 2:05pm
6th Jan 2014 2:05pm
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Without recalling my stubborn hate is how I would have liked to remember
That’s all I ever wanted from you before you were gone forever
I tattooed the word failure into my mind with a gun filled with the tears I refuse to cry
Capital letters spelt my safe word, my refuge of numbness and I’d slither inside
Your final tears bore not my reflection
I’ll brew for years
Concord my conscious
Cement my convictions not your virtuous ruined state of self undoing
That’s all I ever wanted from you before you were gone forever
I tattooed the word failure into my mind with a gun filled with the tears I refuse to cry
Capital letters spelt my safe word, my refuge of numbness and I’d slither inside
Your final tears bore not my reflection
I’ll brew for years
Concord my conscious
Cement my convictions not your virtuous ruined state of self undoing
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Jan 2014 1:01pm
6th Jan 2014 1:01pm
Simple and plain
Simple and plain
I’m inside the things that I hate
Shallow water being sucked down a sewage drain
Play a simple song, cast the hook
Write a young adult action romance book
Become the face of a cult fashion denouncing looks
Pander like the president
Demand you be the one to make a difference
There’s a deliverance
fingers on the trigger fires phase(r)s to set off emotional land mines
implanted deeper and deeper as I let the explosion simmer still, its fumes fill your soul with exuberance There’s a depiction
the feeling of a direction in which...
I’m inside the things that I hate
Shallow water being sucked down a sewage drain
Play a simple song, cast the hook
Write a young adult action romance book
Become the face of a cult fashion denouncing looks
Pander like the president
Demand you be the one to make a difference
There’s a deliverance
fingers on the trigger fires phase(r)s to set off emotional land mines
implanted deeper and deeper as I let the explosion simmer still, its fumes fill your soul with exuberance There’s a depiction
the feeling of a direction in which...
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SELF POEM
Published
2nd Jan 2014 2:13pm
2nd Jan 2014 2:13pm
I'm Back!
Guess whose back? Back from outer space
I’m back in black, back in the New York grove
I’m back to let you know I can really shake em down
Do you love me? Now that you have removed my pants
Holding my childhood at ransom
Yes I love you, you are handsome
Onward & awkward and I’m back
Some say it was all cryptomnesia
Fits of self important seizers
So I’ve sunken to the depths
I was a drunkard and I wept
And I slept for three days
Now I’ve been awake for three weeks
Or what seems to be
But black is back and I’m...
I’m back in black, back in the New York grove
I’m back to let you know I can really shake em down
Do you love me? Now that you have removed my pants
Holding my childhood at ransom
Yes I love you, you are handsome
Onward & awkward and I’m back
Some say it was all cryptomnesia
Fits of self important seizers
So I’ve sunken to the depths
I was a drunkard and I wept
And I slept for three days
Now I’ve been awake for three weeks
Or what seems to be
But black is back and I’m...
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
17th Dec 2013 1:13pm
17th Dec 2013 1:13pm
Religion is a gun
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
3rd Jul 2013 11:25am
3rd Jul 2013 11:25am
black hole paint
Some say you were a savior or a saint
but that’s two things that you aint
In this harsh world
That’s two things that don't exist
A world that’s got spiky fingers
That turn sticky, clenched into a fist
Crucify me, mutilate me
Fate’s the means to justify
I just levitate above it all
for I have died in your eyes
I even drank your blasted “cure”
This endured it only deeper
Past the dimension of my soul
Into a self-awareness
That shone so overbearing
Like a golden throne
I took the black hole paint
And...
but that’s two things that you aint
In this harsh world
That’s two things that don't exist
A world that’s got spiky fingers
That turn sticky, clenched into a fist
Crucify me, mutilate me
Fate’s the means to justify
I just levitate above it all
for I have died in your eyes
I even drank your blasted “cure”
This endured it only deeper
Past the dimension of my soul
Into a self-awareness
That shone so overbearing
Like a golden throne
I took the black hole paint
And...
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DRUGS POEM
Published
3rd Jul 2013 11:22am
3rd Jul 2013 11:22am
Overshadowed
Curtains of shadow
Constantly close on me
Overlapping one another
the fabric I slowly seep
into the stitches
From the pieces
You ripped
And tried to rebuild
The skin
you tried to conceal
This burden I carry
With me, the weight
of the curtains, now
My back is hurting
After all black is
The densest shade
Absorbing only
The dankest vibes
A cleansing shame of
Filth while I thrive
Quilted by
Curtains of shadow
Shield me from
This burden I carry
The feelings come and go
Crash and...
Constantly close on me
Overlapping one another
the fabric I slowly seep
into the stitches
From the pieces
You ripped
And tried to rebuild
The skin
you tried to conceal
This burden I carry
With me, the weight
of the curtains, now
My back is hurting
After all black is
The densest shade
Absorbing only
The dankest vibes
A cleansing shame of
Filth while I thrive
Quilted by
Curtains of shadow
Shield me from
This burden I carry
The feelings come and go
Crash and...
788 reads
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DRUGS POEM
Published
26th Jun 2013 6:04pm
26th Jun 2013 6:04pm
Smoking Sage
Smokin sage?
Or something like it
It ain’t the kind of high you get
from smoking weed though
Smoked way too much
cos I thought I didn’t feel it
Now my heart is pumping pounding
And all my doubts are so coherent
Fought with the bile to feed my appetite
The deconstruction of god as a concept
White suits meet in the monolith
To conjure a consuming abyss
Until this whole worlds got raw fists
I know you don’t want to witness
But there are horrors in more forms than this
Oh lord how horrible it all must seem
Paint these doubts...
Or something like it
It ain’t the kind of high you get
from smoking weed though
Smoked way too much
cos I thought I didn’t feel it
Now my heart is pumping pounding
And all my doubts are so coherent
Fought with the bile to feed my appetite
The deconstruction of god as a concept
White suits meet in the monolith
To conjure a consuming abyss
Until this whole worlds got raw fists
I know you don’t want to witness
But there are horrors in more forms than this
Oh lord how horrible it all must seem
Paint these doubts...
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DARK POEM
Published
3rd Jun 2013 3:38pm
3rd Jun 2013 3:38pm
Death Poem - Black Rain
Sailing into hell on the god wind
Stab the enemy as he stabs you
Obey because, turn and face the fog.
They say I will bloom when I breathe in death
But as I fly I think of love and my heart just welts
Leave behind a thousand shades of pink and white
Speckles dancing upon the wind taking flight
behind streaks of the rising sun near Carp Castle
Reminding me of those nights spent with saké
and a now unfamiliar echo of laughter
Those nights spent under cherry trees
A sacred thought I use to put my mind at ease
Obey with a...
Stab the enemy as he stabs you
Obey because, turn and face the fog.
They say I will bloom when I breathe in death
But as I fly I think of love and my heart just welts
Leave behind a thousand shades of pink and white
Speckles dancing upon the wind taking flight
behind streaks of the rising sun near Carp Castle
Reminding me of those nights spent with saké
and a now unfamiliar echo of laughter
Those nights spent under cherry trees
A sacred thought I use to put my mind at ease
Obey with a...
840 reads
4 Comments
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