Submissions by DCLXVI_1989 (Garrett Asa Hughes)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I just enjoy writing if my mind allows me to. Nothing serious.
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
26th Jul 2023 6:30pm
26th Jul 2023 6:30pm
Probably
Here I sit, again
Dried ink in chewed pen
Stuck on the tides of time like a mudslide chasing the sun
Here I am, once more
Painful knees with toes sore
Counting the steps I've taken backwards as if they led me away
Every moment lost
Every lesson's cost
As I learn in repeat the same instances that haven't happened yet
So here I stand, again
To moan as I stretch my limbs
Walking on the sifted hours so that they may be replaced by forgotten memories
Dried ink in chewed pen
Stuck on the tides of time like a mudslide chasing the sun
Here I am, once more
Painful knees with toes sore
Counting the steps I've taken backwards as if they led me away
Every moment lost
Every lesson's cost
As I learn in repeat the same instances that haven't happened yet
So here I stand, again
To moan as I stretch my limbs
Walking on the sifted hours so that they may be replaced by forgotten memories
#WritingPoetry
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
26th Jul 2023 6:23pm
26th Jul 2023 6:23pm
Ranges
This range
Is based on a day with nothing to say
Nothing to ever change
It all stays the same
Deranged
Crazed in a way where shame stays in place
It won't fade away
It's all here to stay
Rearranged
Like games played in an untamed maze
It's lost in a haze
Never evaporates
Is based on a day with nothing to say
Nothing to ever change
It all stays the same
Deranged
Crazed in a way where shame stays in place
It won't fade away
It's all here to stay
Rearranged
Like games played in an untamed maze
It's lost in a haze
Never evaporates
#WritersBlock
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Jul 2023 8:17am
10th Jul 2023 8:17am
Light Pollution
My heart is heavy
I can't see the stars
I look up at nothing
Truly it's daunting
The blind and I
Share this in common
The city and it's limits
Steal my dreams away
The canvas empty
Though it does not provoke
I imagine the colors
That I know are there
Splendor lost
The sky is gone
Not a twinkle in sight
How depressing
I can't see the stars
I look up at nothing
Truly it's daunting
The blind and I
Share this in common
The city and it's limits
Steal my dreams away
The canvas empty
Though it does not provoke
I imagine the colors
That I know are there
Splendor lost
The sky is gone
Not a twinkle in sight
How depressing
#sky
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
5th Jul 2023 6:10pm
5th Jul 2023 6:10pm
Bird's Eye View
Finches sat upon telephone wires
Like tight rope walkers without a pole
If I tried my hand at their relaxation
I'd lose both balance and control
They chirp away their songs of warning
To coalesce their greatest fear
That I am near
Soon they will depart onto the next perch
Nomadic ventures to warmer climates
Flying toward their mirth in guidance
In seasons passed
Rewinded efforts
They'll migrate back
To reappear
To find once more
Upon their landing
That I am still right...
Like tight rope walkers without a pole
If I tried my hand at their relaxation
I'd lose both balance and control
They chirp away their songs of warning
To coalesce their greatest fear
That I am near
Soon they will depart onto the next perch
Nomadic ventures to warmer climates
Flying toward their mirth in guidance
In seasons passed
Rewinded efforts
They'll migrate back
To reappear
To find once more
Upon their landing
That I am still right...
#birds
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SELF POEM
Published
4th Jul 2023 7:42am
4th Jul 2023 7:42am
Still Here/Here Still
Here I write, just to write
Nothing particular to mind
Sitting in the beginning of night
Yet it's been far too long
Here I sit, as not stand
Off my feet, into my hands
Continuing with nothing planned
Silence sings her song
I have been
Far too gone
I must be
Often wrong
One more time
Then I'm gone
Again
Once upon
On the cross
We need the wood
Now get lost
Termite dust
Worm rot
Begins
Here I am, just to be
No set stanza
No flow too free
Here I...
Nothing particular to mind
Sitting in the beginning of night
Yet it's been far too long
Here I sit, as not stand
Off my feet, into my hands
Continuing with nothing planned
Silence sings her song
I have been
Far too gone
I must be
Often wrong
One more time
Then I'm gone
Again
Once upon
On the cross
We need the wood
Now get lost
Termite dust
Worm rot
Begins
Here I am, just to be
No set stanza
No flow too free
Here I...
#tobacco
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Jul 2023 7:27am
4th Jul 2023 7:27am
Venus Falling
I watch Venus rise... again
Just in the depths of the light's change
As she dances on the rim
If I take a peek... is it sin?
Deep breaths within an ice age
Frost on the horizon
She, comes out of her shell
Mezmorizes, light guided
As the sea starts to swell
The pearl, shall prevail
I'm binded by your highness
There she goes. Farewell.
Just in the depths of the light's change
As she dances on the rim
If I take a peek... is it sin?
Deep breaths within an ice age
Frost on the horizon
She, comes out of her shell
Mezmorizes, light guided
As the sea starts to swell
The pearl, shall prevail
I'm binded by your highness
There she goes. Farewell.
#stars
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
20th Jun 2023 1:53am
20th Jun 2023 1:53am
Blanks
Pressed within all these rules
Listening like the fools
As life fades away in decay
Rigamortis day after day
The years start to siphon
As they steal my iron
Fills me full of lead
Graphite as my weapon's drawn
It's difficult to holster
Each hour starts to bolster
Thoughts fill my head
Graphic images of dying dawns
What shall we use, to fill the empty spaces?
Pencil snapped in two, still erases
Any traces of imagination's figment
Within it, I question my existence
Have I ever been here? ...
Listening like the fools
As life fades away in decay
Rigamortis day after day
The years start to siphon
As they steal my iron
Fills me full of lead
Graphite as my weapon's drawn
It's difficult to holster
Each hour starts to bolster
Thoughts fill my head
Graphic images of dying dawns
What shall we use, to fill the empty spaces?
Pencil snapped in two, still erases
Any traces of imagination's figment
Within it, I question my existence
Have I ever been here? ...
#emptiness
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
12th Jun 2023 7:15pm
12th Jun 2023 7:15pm
Dreams of Sleep
Moonlight shimmering in gleam
Goodnight withering in dream
My eyes awake, it all goes dark
Silver highlights to learn
River jackknifes in turn
The sky partakes to flow in spark
So long
The night is gone
A new dawn
Yawn in song
As I awake
In this new day
To partake
In life's embrace
I shall see
What may be
To think of sleep
And dream of me
Goodnight withering in dream
My eyes awake, it all goes dark
Silver highlights to learn
River jackknifes in turn
The sky partakes to flow in spark
So long
The night is gone
A new dawn
Yawn in song
As I awake
In this new day
To partake
In life's embrace
I shall see
What may be
To think of sleep
And dream of me
#dreams
#sleep
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
30th Apr 2023 11:22pm
30th Apr 2023 11:22pm
Starseed
Planted in the empty
With the unknown void of what might bloom
The very soul within me
Shining between miracle and gloom
Sprouts of twilights
Glimmering nectar
Heavenly roots
Weaved in it's venture
Blossoming stars
Growing together
Cosmic ties
Ultimately severed
Destiny of the spore
A fate canopied like creation
As the nova roars
Shattering the noxious precipitation
Galactic echoes
Fragmented depths
Budding fractals
Flowering death
Razor leaf ...
With the unknown void of what might bloom
The very soul within me
Shining between miracle and gloom
Sprouts of twilights
Glimmering nectar
Heavenly roots
Weaved in it's venture
Blossoming stars
Growing together
Cosmic ties
Ultimately severed
Destiny of the spore
A fate canopied like creation
As the nova roars
Shattering the noxious precipitation
Galactic echoes
Fragmented depths
Budding fractals
Flowering death
Razor leaf ...
#NaPoWriMo2023
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
22nd Apr 2023 2:58am
22nd Apr 2023 2:58am
Azura
Azura in stone
I can feel your presence
Guiding me through
Twilight from dusk
Hold my soul as you hold the sun and moons
Cresent gem
To sway the tides of my path
Destiny chosen
Sword forged
The dawn begins on my task
In my glory announced
Unbeknownst of my fate
I shall sleep in this armor
This armor of light
Shadow succumbs to blade
In the depths that we wade
This magical land
To shores afar
I shall grasp the meaning ever onward
Blessed by Azura's Star
I can feel your presence
Guiding me through
Twilight from dusk
Hold my soul as you hold the sun and moons
Cresent gem
To sway the tides of my path
Destiny chosen
Sword forged
The dawn begins on my task
In my glory announced
Unbeknownst of my fate
I shall sleep in this armor
This armor of light
Shadow succumbs to blade
In the depths that we wade
This magical land
To shores afar
I shall grasp the meaning ever onward
Blessed by Azura's Star
#NaPoWriMo2023
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
13th Apr 2023 2:29am
13th Apr 2023 2:29am
Ample Rambles
Encyclopedia of useless knowledge
Vibrant in homage
Topped with a garnish
Reigns from the aforementioned
All these lies that I promise
Decorated in trauma
Sounds like peace, smells like carnage
A genius of aphorism
A pilgrim of village
A victim of pillage
Two with a glass of water
Drowned in sorrow
Excuse my spillage
I apologize your honor
But your judgements are hollow
Reaped, sown, and tillage
Hostage of children
Garbage and lineage
Sausage and pigskin
Lost on a...
Vibrant in homage
Topped with a garnish
Reigns from the aforementioned
All these lies that I promise
Decorated in trauma
Sounds like peace, smells like carnage
A genius of aphorism
A pilgrim of village
A victim of pillage
Two with a glass of water
Drowned in sorrow
Excuse my spillage
I apologize your honor
But your judgements are hollow
Reaped, sown, and tillage
Hostage of children
Garbage and lineage
Sausage and pigskin
Lost on a...
#NaPoWriMo2023
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