Submissions by Calamityofgin
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Aug 2020 11:27pm
1st Aug 2020 11:27pm
It was White
A white ... A white ... I’m dreaming of a curtain of snow
falling from her shoulders.
Snow crackling against the window. Snow shredded
with gunfire. Red sky.
Ocean Vuong
Aubade with Burning City
There lay war. Tyranny’s serial
Killer... heat abroad
The moon was white
Degrees of yellow
White...
falling from her shoulders.
Snow crackling against the window. Snow shredded
with gunfire. Red sky.
Ocean Vuong
Aubade with Burning City
There lay war. Tyranny’s serial
Killer... heat abroad
The moon was white
Degrees of yellow
White...
#war
#OceanVuong
65 reads
14 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
30th Jul 2020 3:40am
30th Jul 2020 3:40am
Silent Bell
I cannot feel here at all
No touch in this space
No sight sound
Or ability to taste remorse
...
When the roaring stops
Done God deafening
And the sine qua non silence
The after the moment
Moment
Of a crushing vacuum of pause
Pre denouement
The infinity felt in the silence
There
...
before fate arrives sure footed
Black boot stomp
And fortunes imprint
...
So deep this track
How many have laid it
...
And here is mine
It shows my drag and limp
Curving artfully in the...
No touch in this space
No sight sound
Or ability to taste remorse
...
When the roaring stops
Done God deafening
And the sine qua non silence
The after the moment
Moment
Of a crushing vacuum of pause
Pre denouement
The infinity felt in the silence
There
...
before fate arrives sure footed
Black boot stomp
And fortunes imprint
...
So deep this track
How many have laid it
...
And here is mine
It shows my drag and limp
Curving artfully in the...
#fate
51 reads
6 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
25th Jul 2020 6:06am
25th Jul 2020 6:06am
Star Talk
When I am thrown back to
Shades of dying
Through walking breathe Universe
In search of resurrection
To lighten the tongue softly
With Star talk
Offering scores of Gods
The ability
To shine their ego
In a constant crown
Of constellation
With extravagant names
Of ancient Kings
Fierce hunters brandishing weapons pulled and ready to pierce
And women with the intuitive smoke
Of oracles
When I am in this space
Of mist and vague illusion
And the ambient effects
Of wine
Or...
Shades of dying
Through walking breathe Universe
In search of resurrection
To lighten the tongue softly
With Star talk
Offering scores of Gods
The ability
To shine their ego
In a constant crown
Of constellation
With extravagant names
Of ancient Kings
Fierce hunters brandishing weapons pulled and ready to pierce
And women with the intuitive smoke
Of oracles
When I am in this space
Of mist and vague illusion
And the ambient effects
Of wine
Or...
#stars
54 reads
5 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
23rd Jul 2020 3:33am
23rd Jul 2020 3:33am
Dick
See what he wears
A smirk like a foreskin
To be pulled back
And allow
Perversity
To flick forked
And attempt to tingle
As spittle flies from tongue
I would be unhappy to taste
His desire foams
And falls from his face
With a palsy of droop and moan
Unkempt hair falls in greasy fit
To shade a left
And wicked eye
And from the right
A stare that would like to pervert me
To down my panties
With a wink
And crooked tooth
From the thought of it
Grime settles on my...
A smirk like a foreskin
To be pulled back
And allow
Perversity
To flick forked
And attempt to tingle
As spittle flies from tongue
I would be unhappy to taste
His desire foams
And falls from his face
With a palsy of droop and moan
Unkempt hair falls in greasy fit
To shade a left
And wicked eye
And from the right
A stare that would like to pervert me
To down my panties
With a wink
And crooked tooth
From the thought of it
Grime settles on my...
#frustration
99 reads
7 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
20th Jul 2020 6:47pm
20th Jul 2020 6:47pm
This Place
This derelict mansion
My soul
And its worn fine embroidered
Green silk and
Once charming blinds
In tatters
Tatters I tell you
What say you
You and I
Hunt forgotten treasure
Here,
In long winding
Once bourgeoisie
Halls
Red carpeted halls
Of misdirection
Hunt treasure here
Perhaps pearls were once
Unstrung suddenly
As rough hand
Skipped its catch
And the beauty of pearls
Slipped and had scattered
Just rolled off and away from
Her smile
Just...
My soul
And its worn fine embroidered
Green silk and
Once charming blinds
In tatters
Tatters I tell you
What say you
You and I
Hunt forgotten treasure
Here,
In long winding
Once bourgeoisie
Halls
Red carpeted halls
Of misdirection
Hunt treasure here
Perhaps pearls were once
Unstrung suddenly
As rough hand
Skipped its catch
And the beauty of pearls
Slipped and had scattered
Just rolled off and away from
Her smile
Just...
#SelfDiscovery
73 reads
9 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
14th Jul 2020 8:32pm
14th Jul 2020 8:32pm
Considering Snowdrops
Snowdrop
Now is the globe shrunk tight
Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart.
Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass,
Move through an outer darkness
Not in their right minds,
With the other deaths. She, too, pursues her ends,
Brutal as the stars of this month,
Her pale head heavy as metal.
Ted Hughes—
I understand the space in the brass
Airless no contempt, or ability to hold it
Tightly, round spring coiled around nothing
The Yo yo ing purpose of mice, mouse
Pursuits of the steel wool cut, itchy ...
Now is the globe shrunk tight
Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart.
Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass,
Move through an outer darkness
Not in their right minds,
With the other deaths. She, too, pursues her ends,
Brutal as the stars of this month,
Her pale head heavy as metal.
Ted Hughes—
I understand the space in the brass
Airless no contempt, or ability to hold it
Tightly, round spring coiled around nothing
The Yo yo ing purpose of mice, mouse
Pursuits of the steel wool cut, itchy ...
#TedHughes
90 reads
13 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
12th Jul 2020 8:03pm
12th Jul 2020 8:03pm
The Lizard and the Walking Stick
See the lizard with the walking stick
An absurd rhythm
It applies to a scurried gate
For fashion it would suit him
Only if he were made
A hat band
For my houndstooth fedora
The green flash
And a blue feather
Would bring out my eye
I eye him
With a curiosity
And enough desire now
To make his skinny neck gulp
A new bejiggity
Gitter up and go
Now see him drop the stick
He fast approaches frantic
And also drops his tail
...
An absurd rhythm
It applies to a scurried gate
For fashion it would suit him
Only if he were made
A hat band
For my houndstooth fedora
The green flash
And a blue feather
Would bring out my eye
I eye him
With a curiosity
And enough desire now
To make his skinny neck gulp
A new bejiggity
Gitter up and go
Now see him drop the stick
He fast approaches frantic
And also drops his tail
...
#funny
62 reads
4 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
11th Jul 2020 3:58am
11th Jul 2020 3:58am
Mother
Here it is the time
Of climbs
By the side
Of men who reach
With clank
Of armored
Coats
gruff suits of musk
And little afterthought
But you reach
Through the smoke
As if it were only dusk
And the twilight of it
Would be spread by
Love
(We breathe it in and your grin)
I might shower in your perfume
Have it sprinkle like rain
To think of you often
(Again and again)
And remember
To not hide my heart away
No shelter from life
could be...
Of climbs
By the side
Of men who reach
With clank
Of armored
Coats
gruff suits of musk
And little afterthought
But you reach
Through the smoke
As if it were only dusk
And the twilight of it
Would be spread by
Love
(We breathe it in and your grin)
I might shower in your perfume
Have it sprinkle like rain
To think of you often
(Again and again)
And remember
To not hide my heart away
No shelter from life
could be...
#mother
75 reads
8 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
11th Jul 2020 2:59am
11th Jul 2020 2:59am
Gabe
He
dares not hold
The blister
Of long days
In skin
For spirit
His soul does
Tease
The twinkle in my
eye
dares not hold
The blister
Of long days
In skin
For spirit
His soul does
Tease
The twinkle in my
eye
#love
#friendship
60 reads
9 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
9th Jul 2020 6:16pm
9th Jul 2020 6:16pm
Man
When were you cast out Brother?
I had named you
Adam
Your woman still lies
In great beauty
Red hair spilled on the desert floor
Great sands pillowing against
Open thighs
As sometimes
In its infinite piling
As it would be rough
With your fingertips
Pressed
Preparing her for entry
Sweet tendrils
Wrap vermillion and dark
Like the cinder curling of
My word as it burns
The ink bleeds mankind
Into ashen wandering
And back again
To dust
In only the blink of my eye...
I had named you
Adam
Your woman still lies
In great beauty
Red hair spilled on the desert floor
Great sands pillowing against
Open thighs
As sometimes
In its infinite piling
As it would be rough
With your fingertips
Pressed
Preparing her for entry
Sweet tendrils
Wrap vermillion and dark
Like the cinder curling of
My word as it burns
The ink bleeds mankind
Into ashen wandering
And back again
To dust
In only the blink of my eye...
#religion
65 reads
14 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
8th Jul 2020 3:33pm
8th Jul 2020 3:33pm
Alcohol
I had entered the blue lights
And fog of the joint
Mostly to become oblivious
Tip of elbow
And Gin colicky
By sunken treasured
Green olive
No pimento
To dissolve through the juniper taste
Salty swill
And swilling
And would to the extent
Of almost un noticing
The cantor of would be stallions
Surrounding my bender
Their prance intent
On heightening my heel
A good five inches
That oblivion
Hooked
Spiked over
Curved steel
To balance Gin effects
Over the bottom of ...
And fog of the joint
Mostly to become oblivious
Tip of elbow
And Gin colicky
By sunken treasured
Green olive
No pimento
To dissolve through the juniper taste
Salty swill
And swilling
And would to the extent
Of almost un noticing
The cantor of would be stallions
Surrounding my bender
Their prance intent
On heightening my heel
A good five inches
That oblivion
Hooked
Spiked over
Curved steel
To balance Gin effects
Over the bottom of ...
#alcohol
61 reads
12 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Jul 2020 2:59pm
6th Jul 2020 2:59pm
Manipulation
Vizzz
#nature
79 reads
12 Comments
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