Submissions by Bonanza1
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Just trynna get my write on
SELF POEM
Published
18th Aug 2024 4:17am
18th Aug 2024 4:17am
The Underneath
It was a pressing formless
the underneath
A dark like starless sky spread while crushing
A dark like starless sky spread right through me
My t shirt like skin
Shrunk tight to me
While arms they fought against its thickness
My arms they
lost a hard fought war
O' the weight of it against my chest
Where panicked screamed
But no way out O' the underneath
The underneath
It darkened to me
My toes touched unwelcoming sand
And danced like this a moment ...
the underneath
A dark like starless sky spread while crushing
A dark like starless sky spread right through me
My t shirt like skin
Shrunk tight to me
While arms they fought against its thickness
My arms they
lost a hard fought war
O' the weight of it against my chest
Where panicked screamed
But no way out O' the underneath
The underneath
It darkened to me
My toes touched unwelcoming sand
And danced like this a moment ...
#fear
125 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
11th Aug 2024 9:28pm
11th Aug 2024 9:28pm
The Book
While mist
Not quite rain
smeared the windshield
And my head in a book
That described a red headed girl
but a child really
Who survived a wilderness
Wild with the screams of Natives
as I avoided the rearview mirror
Whose eyes who knew me too well
In spaces I had yet to introduce myself
Where they danced on ground
Hallowed out by a lineage without
my blue eyes and peculiar stare
A yellow line and highway disappeared behind me
And the distance from it now
A created space outlined by heartache
out the...
Not quite rain
smeared the windshield
And my head in a book
That described a red headed girl
but a child really
Who survived a wilderness
Wild with the screams of Natives
as I avoided the rearview mirror
Whose eyes who knew me too well
In spaces I had yet to introduce myself
Where they danced on ground
Hallowed out by a lineage without
my blue eyes and peculiar stare
A yellow line and highway disappeared behind me
And the distance from it now
A created space outlined by heartache
out the...
#confusion
113 reads
14 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
4th Aug 2024 5:38am
4th Aug 2024 5:38am
The Chase
I have been pale with terror,
Through the final shades of evening
Running fast into the dark,
Trying desperately to surrender
To the Morning Star.
One small rip in the fabric,
One tiny shred of open seam
Would allow scary cold inside
Would shake me through and through,
I tried hard to dodge the branches
Careful with my step
Careless towards morning,
Careless and barely breathing,
Suffocated by my own delusions.
My reach was incomplete and primitive
My hands were not hands but thumbs.
My...
Through the final shades of evening
Running fast into the dark,
Trying desperately to surrender
To the Morning Star.
One small rip in the fabric,
One tiny shred of open seam
Would allow scary cold inside
Would shake me through and through,
I tried hard to dodge the branches
Careful with my step
Careless towards morning,
Careless and barely breathing,
Suffocated by my own delusions.
My reach was incomplete and primitive
My hands were not hands but thumbs.
My...
#fear
105 reads
6 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
1st Aug 2024 1:21am
1st Aug 2024 1:21am
The Duomo
My Cathedral lay in pieces,
Shattered pieces of colored glass and relics I had considered anointed
Not by crushing and pressing out what God had ordained inside to profit His kingdom
To be sent.
But anointed by my own idea of virtue
Conceit
Worship of self had been the soldering
There would be radical transformation to come
A dying
A rebirth
Mourning turned
Dancing
My sore parts cut away, circumcised from my heart
by Logos,
Him who is the meta narrative, the logic begotten to true...
Shattered pieces of colored glass and relics I had considered anointed
Not by crushing and pressing out what God had ordained inside to profit His kingdom
To be sent.
But anointed by my own idea of virtue
Conceit
Worship of self had been the soldering
There would be radical transformation to come
A dying
A rebirth
Mourning turned
Dancing
My sore parts cut away, circumcised from my heart
by Logos,
Him who is the meta narrative, the logic begotten to true...
#faith
91 reads
4 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
27th Jul 2024 10:37pm
27th Jul 2024 10:37pm
Glory
Where in all of this do I stand?
And how.. ?
Uprighted by the weight
Of His Glory
The weight of Him
Pressed down upon my good deeds.
Pressed apon my fears.
They are minutiae
They are nothing compared to
His face.
His Kingdom
Presented itself to my heart,
To seek it first I must be moved by His might.
I alone drift towards self reliance.
My God before me.
I am covered and lifted up into purpose.
His purpose.
To witness and move in love.
To be sent.
To...
And how.. ?
Uprighted by the weight
Of His Glory
The weight of Him
Pressed down upon my good deeds.
Pressed apon my fears.
They are minutiae
They are nothing compared to
His face.
His Kingdom
Presented itself to my heart,
To seek it first I must be moved by His might.
I alone drift towards self reliance.
My God before me.
I am covered and lifted up into purpose.
His purpose.
To witness and move in love.
To be sent.
To...
#faith
85 reads
4 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
23rd Jul 2024 10:32am
23rd Jul 2024 10:32am
The Cave
I work hard.
My muscles become strings
Once attached to thoughts
which had caught them as they flew.
Now wound tightly together
Laces in an old shoe.
For this reason
... in a deep, deep well of many,
Worship becomes fuel,
Ignition begets:
My heart on fire.
A first love vertically.
His peace that speaks as it walks,
In a voice that does not always come
In the strong wind
In the fire
In the earthquake
But in the mouth of the cave that...
My muscles become strings
Once attached to thoughts
which had caught them as they flew.
Now wound tightly together
Laces in an old shoe.
For this reason
... in a deep, deep well of many,
Worship becomes fuel,
Ignition begets:
My heart on fire.
A first love vertically.
His peace that speaks as it walks,
In a voice that does not always come
In the strong wind
In the fire
In the earthquake
But in the mouth of the cave that...
#faith
102 reads
9 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
20th Jul 2024 1:30am
20th Jul 2024 1:30am
Crow
What would I say to you?
My beloved.
That would carpet your fall
In heaps of thread
In heaps of fabric
That shimmer red.
Your thoughts
They move like crows
Deliberate watching
Cunning waiting
Bold with initiative
Fowl ingenuity
Anyhoo
There on the carpet
lies
What is not human
Feathered around
the outline
Of hope
Green motives brightly
Spray through the black
What would I do
To carpet it?
...
My beloved.
That would carpet your fall
In heaps of thread
In heaps of fabric
That shimmer red.
Your thoughts
They move like crows
Deliberate watching
Cunning waiting
Bold with initiative
Fowl ingenuity
Anyhoo
There on the carpet
lies
What is not human
Feathered around
the outline
Of hope
Green motives brightly
Spray through the black
What would I do
To carpet it?
...
#apathy
99 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Jul 2024 4:22pm
18th Jul 2024 4:22pm
Eye of the Needle
It could be found
Nowhere else,
What he was looking for.
The night before,
A candle stick,
Dripped down and over
a remnant of old ink,
Tucked away behind
comprehension.
Something shook
and scattered within his spirit,
A mouse scared and scampering,
scrapes of tiny nails
Against the harsh odds of varnish.
It had all seen the occasional
Better day.
Better years had yet to find their place,
yet cast your cares upon tomorrow
Remained stitched to a sampler
on his pillow. ...
Nowhere else,
What he was looking for.
The night before,
A candle stick,
Dripped down and over
a remnant of old ink,
Tucked away behind
comprehension.
Something shook
and scattered within his spirit,
A mouse scared and scampering,
scrapes of tiny nails
Against the harsh odds of varnish.
It had all seen the occasional
Better day.
Better years had yet to find their place,
yet cast your cares upon tomorrow
Remained stitched to a sampler
on his pillow. ...
#healing
94 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Jul 2024 10:59pm
13th Jul 2024 10:59pm
Moon
He held the long arch of an embrace
White light of skin
pocketed by exhaustion
(He had shined such a very long time)
Pocketed pale blue
He held in his grasp a question mark
He kept under his thumb an elipses
...
Answers not spoken loud enough
To wake the sleepers
But filled with context
...
Enough said
Far from casting out delusions
He kept them in the mirror
Reflecting a light
That withered in the Sun
He held the Gold
For tug of war
And the seas came crashing ...
White light of skin
pocketed by exhaustion
(He had shined such a very long time)
Pocketed pale blue
He held in his grasp a question mark
He kept under his thumb an elipses
...
Answers not spoken loud enough
To wake the sleepers
But filled with context
...
Enough said
Far from casting out delusions
He kept them in the mirror
Reflecting a light
That withered in the Sun
He held the Gold
For tug of war
And the seas came crashing ...
#moon
112 reads
8 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
7th Jul 2024 3:53pm
7th Jul 2024 3:53pm
Let the Rough Side Drag -- with Ms. LaCarte
The sound of leather stretching
adjusting to my grip,
my hand,
my dig of heel
But the power behind it...
It is beyond me
above me and greater
even than what is underneath me
I am warming the rosin,
sticking me to my guns
apprehending a nod
signaling the chute release
the scent of roughstock rising from my own skin
its potency slack with submission
respect,
repentance,
in an absurd chapel
That caters to the wild
and unruly,
the drunken and unseemly
Who come forth to...
adjusting to my grip,
my hand,
my dig of heel
But the power behind it...
It is beyond me
above me and greater
even than what is underneath me
I am warming the rosin,
sticking me to my guns
apprehending a nod
signaling the chute release
the scent of roughstock rising from my own skin
its potency slack with submission
respect,
repentance,
in an absurd chapel
That caters to the wild
and unruly,
the drunken and unseemly
Who come forth to...
#nature
187 reads
12 Comments
DRUGS POEM
Published
6th Jul 2024 11:38pm
6th Jul 2024 11:38pm
Foxhole of Fishes
Like the beautiful
And the breaking
Find a saltwater underground
Swirl into deep pearlescent
Holes become worlds
With the bellies of fish
That swish and shine like stars
And the dark and deep blue
Becomes covering
Safe night
And a sovereign space
To sleep walk through
But agitated in our kingdom
Of separate from the grass
And hard wired
Dirt and unplowed fields
The scarecrow watches
Transforms and dives in
To do what the scarecrow is want
To do
His new being ...
And the breaking
Find a saltwater underground
Swirl into deep pearlescent
Holes become worlds
With the bellies of fish
That swish and shine like stars
And the dark and deep blue
Becomes covering
Safe night
And a sovereign space
To sleep walk through
But agitated in our kingdom
Of separate from the grass
And hard wired
Dirt and unplowed fields
The scarecrow watches
Transforms and dives in
To do what the scarecrow is want
To do
His new being ...
#courage
184 reads
8 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
5th Jul 2024 8:43pm
5th Jul 2024 8:43pm
A Suit to Kill a Bear
To beat back the bear
One must wear the fortress
Of outward iron maiden
A sneer and tortured intent
Spiking steely eyes
through triangulate of iris
Sticking through it
welling the blue
And the belladonna
Blooming through rage
like primal
feral crushing
It glows and brightens the circle
as if the whole sky were there
En masse
at large
The posse en route
Vigilante purpose violating all compact ...
One must wear the fortress
Of outward iron maiden
A sneer and tortured intent
Spiking steely eyes
through triangulate of iris
Sticking through it
welling the blue
And the belladonna
Blooming through rage
like primal
feral crushing
It glows and brightens the circle
as if the whole sky were there
En masse
at large
The posse en route
Vigilante purpose violating all compact ...
#nature
121 reads
8 Comments
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