Submissions by BatPowers (Bat Powers)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write from a simple point of view, from the people and events around me.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Sep 2023 1:53am
19th Sep 2023 1:53am
The Flowers
I've known 1,000 crooks
read 10,000 books
still like my whiskey with sour
took 500 aims
at my 5,000,000 blames
as I sit all alone at the fire
my hands are now cold
but my heart is still bold
waiting on some newfound desire
if I don't think quick
i just might miss
my opportunity to fuck up the flowers
it's been 700 months
i met 31 monks
not one of them had a thing to say
i poured 20,000 baths
to clean...
read 10,000 books
still like my whiskey with sour
took 500 aims
at my 5,000,000 blames
as I sit all alone at the fire
my hands are now cold
but my heart is still bold
waiting on some newfound desire
if I don't think quick
i just might miss
my opportunity to fuck up the flowers
it's been 700 months
i met 31 monks
not one of them had a thing to say
i poured 20,000 baths
to clean...
#anxiety
#depression
#identity
#SelfHarm
#SelfWorth
594 reads
21 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Apr 2023 3:26pm
1st Apr 2023 3:26pm
Drag Queens and Blue Eyed Jesus
Here we are banning books about Rosa Parks
while the Pastor dresses in drag on Sunday
spewing a sermon of love that sounds more like hate
then goes home to berate his wife and children
but that's o.k. he asked for forgiveness
so next Sunday he'll expose the evils of bourbon
white Jesus with his flowing locks and blue eyes
carrying all his divine interventions
can't seem to rise above it all ...
while the Pastor dresses in drag on Sunday
spewing a sermon of love that sounds more like hate
then goes home to berate his wife and children
but that's o.k. he asked for forgiveness
so next Sunday he'll expose the evils of bourbon
white Jesus with his flowing locks and blue eyes
carrying all his divine interventions
can't seem to rise above it all ...
#anger
#death
#religion #hypocrisy
#religion #hypocrisy
511 reads
7 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Feb 2023 10:51pm
10th Feb 2023 10:51pm
Freedom
Sunflower seeds and heavy weight champions
bombs dropping down on hospitals and schools
land is all that ever really matters
open a refinery memorialize them with crude
turns out the rain of armageddon looks like missiles
greed and power from a feruled eyed dog
fight from the streets and rooftops
they need ammo not a ride
death and destruction a bloodied women cries
now gas is so high I can’t afford tickets
to see my favorite rock band at the Fox in Detroit
so I go to the diner and scream at the waiter ...
bombs dropping down on hospitals and schools
land is all that ever really matters
open a refinery memorialize them with crude
turns out the rain of armageddon looks like missiles
greed and power from a feruled eyed dog
fight from the streets and rooftops
they need ammo not a ride
death and destruction a bloodied women cries
now gas is so high I can’t afford tickets
to see my favorite rock band at the Fox in Detroit
so I go to the diner and scream at the waiter ...
#war
#death
#freedom #morality
#freedom #morality
234 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
20th Jan 2023 5:28pm
20th Jan 2023 5:28pm
Same Tree
Kill each other over our religions
end other lives for what we believe
we've taken men
hung them right up there
for the color of their skin
right up in our tree
that tree we carved our names into
heart with an arrow
shot clean through
hate them for what they believe in
hates us back for the very same
take these guns onto the fields
our blood runs onto its leaves
those leaves that fell so beautifully in autumn
this cool crisp morning won't let us...
end other lives for what we believe
we've taken men
hung them right up there
for the color of their skin
right up in our tree
that tree we carved our names into
heart with an arrow
shot clean through
hate them for what they believe in
hates us back for the very same
take these guns onto the fields
our blood runs onto its leaves
those leaves that fell so beautifully in autumn
this cool crisp morning won't let us...
#religion
#racism
#HumanRights
#inequality
#morality
408 reads
8 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
17th Jan 2023 1:00am
17th Jan 2023 1:00am
The Last Station
Smoke stacks rise in the distance
we've been here before
scent of horror on the tip of my senses
railway cars filled with scorn
unclenched of perceived accommodation
train rail clicks the sound of disdain
engineer's whistle blows
how did we lose the site of humanity
fill up the cars no tickets sold
signs to protest the atrocity
inspector gets you on board
soot in the air
the ghost of another
will history blame us for lining...
we've been here before
scent of horror on the tip of my senses
railway cars filled with scorn
unclenched of perceived accommodation
train rail clicks the sound of disdain
engineer's whistle blows
how did we lose the site of humanity
fill up the cars no tickets sold
signs to protest the atrocity
inspector gets you on board
soot in the air
the ghost of another
will history blame us for lining...
#LifeChangingMoment
#LifeCycle
#dystopian
278 reads
0 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
9th Jan 2023 00:09am
9th Jan 2023 00:09am
Where I live
Used to be a farmer used to till the ground
now my tractor's silent
i can faintly here the sound
that memory of my father
as I sat on his knee
while he taught me the value
of the planted seed
used to be a milkman used to be your friend
used to be something I'll never be again
used to be a teacher used to mentor kids
really thought it mattered then it all came to this
had to buy the...
now my tractor's silent
i can faintly here the sound
that memory of my father
as I sat on his knee
while he taught me the value
of the planted seed
used to be a milkman used to be your friend
used to be something I'll never be again
used to be a teacher used to mentor kids
really thought it mattered then it all came to this
had to buy the...
#anxiety
#hope
#death #LifeStruggles
#death #LifeStruggles
520 reads
12 Comments
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