Submissions by Arbasyn
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Sep 2015 11:03pm
16th Sep 2015 11:03pm
Tangible Thought
The typical intro,
A moment of reflection,
Philosophical conversation with my glass veil is ago,
I swear she's the perfect audience lacking in cognition but excellent in reception,
Shameless in anonymity and thoroughly content being one-dimensional,
An afterthought emerged from reverberating echoes,
Rationalizing a fantasy through demented reality and an appeal to logos,
External concern expressed through intellectual opinion against a majesty outside the realm of scientific convention,
A slight ringing in my ear,
The hazing of the eyes,
My hand presses...
A moment of reflection,
Philosophical conversation with my glass veil is ago,
I swear she's the perfect audience lacking in cognition but excellent in reception,
Shameless in anonymity and thoroughly content being one-dimensional,
An afterthought emerged from reverberating echoes,
Rationalizing a fantasy through demented reality and an appeal to logos,
External concern expressed through intellectual opinion against a majesty outside the realm of scientific convention,
A slight ringing in my ear,
The hazing of the eyes,
My hand presses...
768 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Sep 2015 4:51pm
14th Sep 2015 4:51pm
Jack-0-Lantern
Apathetic weakness,
A reluctance to oppose,
Entombed in ideological coffins,
When there's a dictator to depose,
The embalming comes easy,
Propaganda preservative coating of whatever the media regurgitates,
Washing your hands in victim's blood to remove the residue of reality,
Hollowing out your eyes,
Amputating your limbs,
Discarding your mind,
The perfect ingredients for a sound judgement,
Carved into a frightening face,
Your permanent grimace a thousand word picture,
A one-dimensional deathly gaze,
Warding off opposition and reason...
A reluctance to oppose,
Entombed in ideological coffins,
When there's a dictator to depose,
The embalming comes easy,
Propaganda preservative coating of whatever the media regurgitates,
Washing your hands in victim's blood to remove the residue of reality,
Hollowing out your eyes,
Amputating your limbs,
Discarding your mind,
The perfect ingredients for a sound judgement,
Carved into a frightening face,
Your permanent grimace a thousand word picture,
A one-dimensional deathly gaze,
Warding off opposition and reason...
721 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
9th Sep 2015 10:44pm
9th Sep 2015 10:44pm
Pseudo
You smile at a distance,
Honesty hidden behind your teeth,
Tongue poised to reminisce,
Of linen floors and bed-sheets,
I can't remember,
How your hand felt in mine,
Memory locked in December,
When our fingers intertwined,
A nostalgic misfortune,
Cheap stuffed bear excavated by golden cranes,
Entering our relationship's 7th edition,
A 90 degree kiss coupled by growing pains,
Following the path of our stiff walk home,
These nights alone are my whiskey,
And your cup of tea,
Perfectly content in my fluorescent dome,
While your...
Honesty hidden behind your teeth,
Tongue poised to reminisce,
Of linen floors and bed-sheets,
I can't remember,
How your hand felt in mine,
Memory locked in December,
When our fingers intertwined,
A nostalgic misfortune,
Cheap stuffed bear excavated by golden cranes,
Entering our relationship's 7th edition,
A 90 degree kiss coupled by growing pains,
Following the path of our stiff walk home,
These nights alone are my whiskey,
And your cup of tea,
Perfectly content in my fluorescent dome,
While your...
742 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
5th Sep 2015 8:26pm
5th Sep 2015 8:26pm
Bales and Bushels
It's our social spectrum,
Polar opposites,
A moral conundrum,
Named Charlotte,
Our eyes locked across the sea,
Sealed behind iron eyelids,
An investor's security,
The upstarts outbid,
All bets are off,
The crack of our whips,
A duelist's standoff,
Agony on your lips,
Pushed into an animalistic frenzy,
My fists won the day with their negotiating,
A bargain for your safety,
At the cost of my sanity
"Our bond's too treacherous for society",
Wordlessly you agree,
"We'll find shelter at my home come...
Polar opposites,
A moral conundrum,
Named Charlotte,
Our eyes locked across the sea,
Sealed behind iron eyelids,
An investor's security,
The upstarts outbid,
All bets are off,
The crack of our whips,
A duelist's standoff,
Agony on your lips,
Pushed into an animalistic frenzy,
My fists won the day with their negotiating,
A bargain for your safety,
At the cost of my sanity
"Our bond's too treacherous for society",
Wordlessly you agree,
"We'll find shelter at my home come...
738 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Aug 2015 9:53pm
23rd Aug 2015 9:53pm
They Came From The East
A siphoning breeze,
Suffocated by dust,
Sustained by ash,
Faith burning like a rash,
Dedication measured by decibels for salvation or bust,
Aiming down the sights in pursuit of peace,
A splintered calling,
Scripture bound cells,
Prophets up for auction,
Baptized in a fiery benediction,
A four horse drawn carriage heralding a cataclysmic revelation,
A promised utopia among the world's skeleton,
Smiling at the camera during macabre bobble-head show-and-tells,
Preaching purity to the women you're mauling,
The media gasping for breath in...
Suffocated by dust,
Sustained by ash,
Faith burning like a rash,
Dedication measured by decibels for salvation or bust,
Aiming down the sights in pursuit of peace,
A splintered calling,
Scripture bound cells,
Prophets up for auction,
Baptized in a fiery benediction,
A four horse drawn carriage heralding a cataclysmic revelation,
A promised utopia among the world's skeleton,
Smiling at the camera during macabre bobble-head show-and-tells,
Preaching purity to the women you're mauling,
The media gasping for breath in...
789 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
21st Aug 2015 3:05am
21st Aug 2015 3:05am
The Syndicates (Warframe)
Sanctus Tegrum (New Loka)
Cleanse the impure,
Oh beige gods of eyes and skin,
Return my amour.
Quaestrus Mortalitas (The Perrin Sequence)
War's an honest trade,
Neutral and faultless profit,
Open to parley.
Clarus Conspicio (Cephalon Suda)
An all-seeing eye,
Lives devoted to knowledge,
Hermes' gemini.
Discipulus Militis (The Arbiters of Hexis)
Trial without error,
Atlas pass on the burden,
The world's ours to bear.
Ignis Judicium (The Red Veil)
In flesh we are...
Cleanse the impure,
Oh beige gods of eyes and skin,
Return my amour.
Quaestrus Mortalitas (The Perrin Sequence)
War's an honest trade,
Neutral and faultless profit,
Open to parley.
Clarus Conspicio (Cephalon Suda)
An all-seeing eye,
Lives devoted to knowledge,
Hermes' gemini.
Discipulus Militis (The Arbiters of Hexis)
Trial without error,
Atlas pass on the burden,
The world's ours to bear.
Ignis Judicium (The Red Veil)
In flesh we are...
684 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
18th Aug 2015 11:44pm
18th Aug 2015 11:44pm
Meadow
A forested skyline,
A small clearing for two,
Their hands nervously intertwined,
Hearts filled the purity of innocence and the wisdom of temperance,
With tears brimming in their eyes they lock each other's gaze hearts pounding with purpose,
Envisioning white ball gowns and pixelated costume parties,
And dreaming of endless nights together counting the paper-mache stars,
Under God's guidance they begin this matrimony,
A reciprocal appreciation transcribed in volumes of conversation bounded by a passion that leaves them breathless,
Christening their love...
A small clearing for two,
Their hands nervously intertwined,
Hearts filled the purity of innocence and the wisdom of temperance,
With tears brimming in their eyes they lock each other's gaze hearts pounding with purpose,
Envisioning white ball gowns and pixelated costume parties,
And dreaming of endless nights together counting the paper-mache stars,
Under God's guidance they begin this matrimony,
A reciprocal appreciation transcribed in volumes of conversation bounded by a passion that leaves them breathless,
Christening their love...
824 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
18th Aug 2015 5:54am
18th Aug 2015 5:54am
This is War (Warframe)
Flint-lock alarm clock,
A blooming Lotus whispers,
Speaking while death knocks.
Enter the Grineer,
Led by their slaver captain,
Vor, whom they revere.
Servant to his Queens,
Seeking hope for his clone race,
Corrupted by greed.
Pure vampiric thirst,
Stalking sacred metal crypts,
For our holy blood.
To be clapped in chains,
Seconds after waking is,
A harsh good morning.
My power's severed,
Soft as a petal she stirs,
Polarizing shifts.
Tingling fingertips,
An awakening occurs,
Underneath...
A blooming Lotus whispers,
Speaking while death knocks.
Enter the Grineer,
Led by their slaver captain,
Vor, whom they revere.
Servant to his Queens,
Seeking hope for his clone race,
Corrupted by greed.
Pure vampiric thirst,
Stalking sacred metal crypts,
For our holy blood.
To be clapped in chains,
Seconds after waking is,
A harsh good morning.
My power's severed,
Soft as a petal she stirs,
Polarizing shifts.
Tingling fingertips,
An awakening occurs,
Underneath...
1153 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
15th Aug 2015 9:06am
15th Aug 2015 9:06am
Our Own Is What's Left
A loss of ambition,
The gradual loss of motion,
Chained down by a comfort addiction,
Through messages in bottles I can display emotion,
Ballads of personal insecurities and holy benedictions,
Yet for all of my eloquent speech and fits of burning passion I lie dormant,
Bleeding out the fire of life and injecting contentment,
Oh how my heart is retched with contempt,
My mind cries out to be challenged,
Dusted off the shelf where only the scraps of intelligence can be scavenged,
Fashion me a...
The gradual loss of motion,
Chained down by a comfort addiction,
Through messages in bottles I can display emotion,
Ballads of personal insecurities and holy benedictions,
Yet for all of my eloquent speech and fits of burning passion I lie dormant,
Bleeding out the fire of life and injecting contentment,
Oh how my heart is retched with contempt,
My mind cries out to be challenged,
Dusted off the shelf where only the scraps of intelligence can be scavenged,
Fashion me a...
831 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
15th Aug 2015 9:06am
15th Aug 2015 9:06am
Shelter
Bullet shells,
Plastic bottles,
Homely hell,
Dusty cubicle,
Worlds apart,
An unforeseeable end,
A repetitive start,
With hands to heal and fists to rend,
A warlord is dead and a city is secured,
With bloodshot eyes and microwaveable dinners,
An achievement is unlocked and another sleepless night endured,
Through patient planning and cooperative intelligence,
The brass can report the mission with a clear conscience,
Through analyzed walkthroughs and console command codes,
The leader-board can add points to playing on hard mode,...
Plastic bottles,
Homely hell,
Dusty cubicle,
Worlds apart,
An unforeseeable end,
A repetitive start,
With hands to heal and fists to rend,
A warlord is dead and a city is secured,
With bloodshot eyes and microwaveable dinners,
An achievement is unlocked and another sleepless night endured,
Through patient planning and cooperative intelligence,
The brass can report the mission with a clear conscience,
Through analyzed walkthroughs and console command codes,
The leader-board can add points to playing on hard mode,...
751 reads
3 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
13th Aug 2015 5:06am
13th Aug 2015 5:06am
Backpacks (Mirror's Edge)
Pick up on the go,
Balconies covet their trove,
Vinyl treasure chests.
Balconies covet their trove,
Vinyl treasure chests.
625 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
12th Aug 2015 2:03am
12th Aug 2015 2:03am
The Long March Home (The Banner Saga)
A sudden awakening,
An urgent hand shaking my shoulder,
Through weary eyes I see the valley blackening,
Their steady thunderous march animates river and boulder,
Allowing only a moment's reprieve in the timid morning light,
Somber clouds and solemn faces,
Ashen skies and scarlet fields,
Shattered shields and fractured maces,
Orphaned swords with scarcely an arm to wield,
The shrieking wind rattling through the city wall's carapace,
Echoed by scouts' shrill cries from atop a battered tower's terrace,
...
An urgent hand shaking my shoulder,
Through weary eyes I see the valley blackening,
Their steady thunderous march animates river and boulder,
Allowing only a moment's reprieve in the timid morning light,
Somber clouds and solemn faces,
Ashen skies and scarlet fields,
Shattered shields and fractured maces,
Orphaned swords with scarcely an arm to wield,
The shrieking wind rattling through the city wall's carapace,
Echoed by scouts' shrill cries from atop a battered tower's terrace,
...
1429 reads
10 Comments
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