Submissions by DaddyPhantom (DaddyPhantomPhotoTron)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I’m not the best urban poet, but I sure as hell carry myself as such. The alter-ego that is Daddy Phantom isn’t very humble, but the vessel (me) is.
Daddy Phantom Goes Green
From infants sharing a symbiotic relationship with elemental forces
Into Juvenile Delinquents recklessly manipulating them
Progress?
Evolution?
Recycling Bins and Hybrids?
Collective guilt complexes
Failed attempts at quick band-aid fixes that can’t stem the current biological trend
Countries that are yet to reap the benefits (of Babylon’s Slumber Party with no parental supervision)
Pay dearly for its sins
Attacked by Weather Witches sent via satellite transmission
Feed the children?
Teach them how to fish in poisoned oceans?
Till...
Into Juvenile Delinquents recklessly manipulating them
Progress?
Evolution?
Recycling Bins and Hybrids?
Collective guilt complexes
Failed attempts at quick band-aid fixes that can’t stem the current biological trend
Countries that are yet to reap the benefits (of Babylon’s Slumber Party with no parental supervision)
Pay dearly for its sins
Attacked by Weather Witches sent via satellite transmission
Feed the children?
Teach them how to fish in poisoned oceans?
Till...
#environment
#pollution
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Chosen
Chris was endowed with
Solar disk given inner luminescence
Photosynthesis feeds the internal tree
Residing within the sturdy shell
Manifesting itself as this Supreme Being
Protected by Goddesses
Driven by fear of the Gods wrath
For they donned me
PhotoTron
Speaker of the House
Four-Score and Seven Metaphors was the incantation
Chanted by the Sorceress and Sorcerer
Then Bam!
Metamorphosis from mortal
To African Superman
Equipped with Depth-Ray-Vision
Bred from countless generations of Sun Children
That...
Solar disk given inner luminescence
Photosynthesis feeds the internal tree
Residing within the sturdy shell
Manifesting itself as this Supreme Being
Protected by Goddesses
Driven by fear of the Gods wrath
For they donned me
PhotoTron
Speaker of the House
Four-Score and Seven Metaphors was the incantation
Chanted by the Sorceress and Sorcerer
Then Bam!
Metamorphosis from mortal
To African Superman
Equipped with Depth-Ray-Vision
Bred from countless generations of Sun Children
That...
#WritingPoetry
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1108 reads
3 Comments
Out of Time
The child that is my spirit may never catch up to the gray hairs and laugh lines
Age leaves an expanding mind behind
More time is required to complete my Mission
Now I’m scrambling as if expecting a sudden lapse in the Powers given
Who knows when my penchant to walk the Path of Righteousness will end?
I guess I must pretend as if my inner conscious is a perpetuation
Continuance of former Mystic Earth residents who left this planet
After their material existence
Reached expiration
Age leaves an expanding mind behind
More time is required to complete my Mission
Now I’m scrambling as if expecting a sudden lapse in the Powers given
Who knows when my penchant to walk the Path of Righteousness will end?
I guess I must pretend as if my inner conscious is a perpetuation
Continuance of former Mystic Earth residents who left this planet
After their material existence
Reached expiration
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Answers
It’s as if
The majority of my time is spent
Thwarting the Beast from inhibiting
The perpetual lineage of Interplanetary Beings
But those actions don’t always end in success
The spirit of Kemet is not a safety harness-blanket-net
Death is not a concept it finds hard to accept
Unfortunately most don’t qualify for
Premium Cosmic Protection
In that aspect
Daddy Phantom is not among the one-percent
Every Dog has its Day in due time
Yet when I slip consequences are instantaneous
The stench and filth of a tainted spirit go unnoticed on this...
The majority of my time is spent
Thwarting the Beast from inhibiting
The perpetual lineage of Interplanetary Beings
But those actions don’t always end in success
The spirit of Kemet is not a safety harness-blanket-net
Death is not a concept it finds hard to accept
Unfortunately most don’t qualify for
Premium Cosmic Protection
In that aspect
Daddy Phantom is not among the one-percent
Every Dog has its Day in due time
Yet when I slip consequences are instantaneous
The stench and filth of a tainted spirit go unnoticed on this...
1023 reads
6 Comments
1043 reads
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1328 reads
2 Comments
Games Our People Play and Harsh Critique (Two relevant short poems combined)
Games Our People Play
Collectively speaking
Our pursuit of money and property
A glorified version of Monopoly played sloppily
Anything worth obtaining
Can be taken easily
By the greedy uncaring people
Playing the same insane game
We thought we were winning
By choosing not to enter a pewter piece
I’m keeping my sanity
"Harsh Critique"
My verses make the closed minded wish they could itch their brain-stem because
The masses fail to comprehend and act as if
They’ve been infected by some chemical agent...
Collectively speaking
Our pursuit of money and property
A glorified version of Monopoly played sloppily
Anything worth obtaining
Can be taken easily
By the greedy uncaring people
Playing the same insane game
We thought we were winning
By choosing not to enter a pewter piece
I’m keeping my sanity
"Harsh Critique"
My verses make the closed minded wish they could itch their brain-stem because
The masses fail to comprehend and act as if
They’ve been infected by some chemical agent...
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Feed the Enlightened
Free at last’ for the Mass
Comes when you lay your Black ass down
For that inevitable dirt nap
Long before the checkered flag
Exhaustion sets in
What happened to the exhilaration and adrenaline experienced at the starting line?
Barely halfway to the finish
And you’ve already witnessed
Ninety percent of the race’s participants relent
Who could blame them?
Examine the choices challenges and chances
As the world grows colder
For the struggler striver survivor
The odds are no longer in our favor
Wonder if they ever were?
Many...
Comes when you lay your Black ass down
For that inevitable dirt nap
Long before the checkered flag
Exhaustion sets in
What happened to the exhilaration and adrenaline experienced at the starting line?
Barely halfway to the finish
And you’ve already witnessed
Ninety percent of the race’s participants relent
Who could blame them?
Examine the choices challenges and chances
As the world grows colder
For the struggler striver survivor
The odds are no longer in our favor
Wonder if they ever were?
Many...
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Can I Hit A Lick?
If only I could put written genius into prepackaged containers and
Flip them by millions like famous Amos’ but
The ways of Gods and Goddesses are mysterious
It seems they haven’t decided whether I’m given
A crown specifically fitted to my heads specifications
Or live equivalent to the average son of an African who plays the peasant
For the rest of existence
Flip them by millions like famous Amos’ but
The ways of Gods and Goddesses are mysterious
It seems they haven’t decided whether I’m given
A crown specifically fitted to my heads specifications
Or live equivalent to the average son of an African who plays the peasant
For the rest of existence
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I Stand Accused
I strive so hard to be closest to the Heavens
Isis had to put in an order of protection
I threw myself on the mercy of Omnipotent judges
Then as a closing argument
Reminded Horus
If it wasn’t for the Plaintiff Sorceress’ love for Osiris
And determination to revive him by divine magic
There wouldn’t be a Hawk’s Eye in existence
Case was dismissed due to insufficient evidence
Isis had to put in an order of protection
I threw myself on the mercy of Omnipotent judges
Then as a closing argument
Reminded Horus
If it wasn’t for the Plaintiff Sorceress’ love for Osiris
And determination to revive him by divine magic
There wouldn’t be a Hawk’s Eye in existence
Case was dismissed due to insufficient evidence
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Nobody
Mahogany Tree free falls in an uninhabited forest
Golden Brown
Dry Leaf Facial Complexion
Features reflecting light from a vivid screen
Otherwise
Engulfed in darkness
A writer and his beacon
Alone so
Dead to the world
Solo campfire
Cold night
No nocturnal
In the middle of a desert named Seclusion
Meant for one
No more or less
Paradise or Prison?
Paradise and Prison?
Golden Brown
Dry Leaf Facial Complexion
Features reflecting light from a vivid screen
Otherwise
Engulfed in darkness
A writer and his beacon
Alone so
Dead to the world
Solo campfire
Cold night
No nocturnal
In the middle of a desert named Seclusion
Meant for one
No more or less
Paradise or Prison?
Paradise and Prison?
913 reads
8 Comments
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