Submissions by Jade-Pandora (jade tiger)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
We’ll always have Gallop.♡
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Apr 2020 1:26pm
3rd Apr 2020 1:26pm
Lighthouse
( a Catena Rondo )
To be alone to give my heart to you
I live inside a lighthouse in my mind
So far above the breakers when I climb
To be alone to give my heart to you
I live inside a lighthouse in my mind
The view I seek in vain of any shown
Surrounded by a tower made of stone
I live inside a lighthouse in my mind
The view I seek in vain of any shown
A present past no future heading in
Reminding me the places I have been
The view I seek in vain of any shown
A present past no future...
To be alone to give my heart to you
I live inside a lighthouse in my mind
So far above the breakers when I climb
To be alone to give my heart to you
I live inside a lighthouse in my mind
The view I seek in vain of any shown
Surrounded by a tower made of stone
I live inside a lighthouse in my mind
The view I seek in vain of any shown
A present past no future heading in
Reminding me the places I have been
The view I seek in vain of any shown
A present past no future...
#love
#sea
#NaPoWriMo2020
#pandemic
#separation
1098 reads
14 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Apr 2020 3:39pm
2nd Apr 2020 3:39pm
Hopes & Dreams
My travels to the stars of hopes & dreams!
For in my mind I’ve walked the galaxy;
The spiraling adventures of extremes
Were marvels to a vision I could see.
It showed what I could be & crystalized
My travels to the stars of hopes & dreams.
The people that I’d meet were mystified;
They never thought it possible, the themes!
I had an “aha” moment for a scheme,
And asked who’d like to go when I assign
My travels to the stars of hopes & dreams’,
They shouted instantly ‘where do we sign!’
...
For in my mind I’ve walked the galaxy;
The spiraling adventures of extremes
Were marvels to a vision I could see.
It showed what I could be & crystalized
My travels to the stars of hopes & dreams.
The people that I’d meet were mystified;
They never thought it possible, the themes!
I had an “aha” moment for a scheme,
And asked who’d like to go when I assign
My travels to the stars of hopes & dreams’,
They shouted instantly ‘where do we sign!’
...
#hope
#dreams
#stars
#travel
#NaPoWriMo2020
936 reads
25 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Apr 2020 1:27pm
1st Apr 2020 1:27pm
Novel
( a contrapuntal poem )
He looked into the dark of Internet
And found a huntress who wrote poetry.
She gazed at him with longing and regret,
He also sighed and felt they’d never meet.
But stranger still she could not realize
He too supposed he didn’t have a chance,
The competition coveting his prize.
She put a pen to verse the words that dance.
Then back and forth a week of poetry,
Would his desire turn into a play?
But like the flower to a honeybee,
To go to him and give her heart away.
He looked into the dark of Internet
And found a huntress who wrote poetry.
She gazed at him with longing and regret,
He also sighed and felt they’d never meet.
But stranger still she could not realize
He too supposed he didn’t have a chance,
The competition coveting his prize.
She put a pen to verse the words that dance.
Then back and forth a week of poetry,
Would his desire turn into a play?
But like the flower to a honeybee,
To go to him and give her heart away.
#love
#WritingPoetry
#LongDistanceRelationship
#separation
#NaPoWriMo2020
1042 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
28th Mar 2020 1:53pm
28th Mar 2020 1:53pm
Like Climbing Vines Will Do
#1: “I love you as certain dark things
are meant to be loved, in secret,
between the shadow and the soul.”
What would it take for me in deepest woods
To find and bring you love that’s from my soul,
Without a something vulner’ble to give,
By making known the ‘allness’ you possess.
The creatures will then seek me in your lair,
Now I’m the one who hides within your arms.
The moon must find a chink to let in light,
Not even gods are priv’leged to come in.
And so it does remain...
are meant to be loved, in secret,
between the shadow and the soul.”
What would it take for me in deepest woods
To find and bring you love that’s from my soul,
Without a something vulner’ble to give,
By making known the ‘allness’ you possess.
The creatures will then seek me in your lair,
Now I’m the one who hides within your arms.
The moon must find a chink to let in light,
Not even gods are priv’leged to come in.
And so it does remain...
#relationships
#flowers
#animals
#nature
#PabloNeruda
1087 reads
12 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
25th Mar 2020 7:25pm
25th Mar 2020 7:25pm
Deep Underground
( a Tribute that tells a story through poem titles from 21 Deep members )
It’s now one year forward since the scourge;
Comes the dawning of the first new Light
Through a crimson sky, the colours of time.
We are no different despite the purge.
The cleansing of being tethered flight
Beyond of what seemed to be a lifetime.
Lockdown cities, street by empty street,
Isolation by isolation,
Considered a privilege if we survived.
A hint of sadness, we’ll never meet,
Emerged from charity sedations. ...
It’s now one year forward since the scourge;
Comes the dawning of the first new Light
Through a crimson sky, the colours of time.
We are no different despite the purge.
The cleansing of being tethered flight
Beyond of what seemed to be a lifetime.
Lockdown cities, street by empty street,
Isolation by isolation,
Considered a privilege if we survived.
A hint of sadness, we’ll never meet,
Emerged from charity sedations. ...
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
#admiration
#DeepUndergroundPoetry
#pandemic
1601 reads
27 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Mar 2020 7:22pm
23rd Mar 2020 7:22pm
This Virus Won’t Keep Me From My Own Bed
( after Yahuda Amichai )
I know it seems humanity is lost,
But times are no more worse than holocausts.
No matter how the news fills us with dread,
This virus won’t keep me from my own bed.
Though I am isolated, hear me now;
The people of this world remember how
Pandemics, famine, wars are ever spread.
This virus won’t keep me from my own bed.
Could Samson kill Corona for his God?
Does fear make us call Death a hoax, a fraud?
Are questions ever solved when blood is shed?
This virus won’t...
I know it seems humanity is lost,
But times are no more worse than holocausts.
No matter how the news fills us with dread,
This virus won’t keep me from my own bed.
Though I am isolated, hear me now;
The people of this world remember how
Pandemics, famine, wars are ever spread.
This virus won’t keep me from my own bed.
Could Samson kill Corona for his God?
Does fear make us call Death a hoax, a fraud?
Are questions ever solved when blood is shed?
This virus won’t...
#illness
#humankind
#inequality
#YehudaAmichai
#pandemic
794 reads
8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Mar 2020 7:55am
23rd Mar 2020 7:55am
Urchins II
A total lockdown hasn’t happened yet
In southern Cali where, like other towns
Up and down the state, homeless youth
Forage & huddle to keep dry from the rain.
“Stay healthy, stay safe, and stay home.
So how do you think we’re doing, man?”
“Heh. I’d say we have a leaky roof.”
“Yeah, and we suck at social distancing.”
“Oh yeah? Uh I dunno, it’s only us here.”
“Bro’, you call this being six feet apart?”
“Hey man, keep your corner of the tarp up.”
“Naw, dude, let’s toss...
In southern Cali where, like other towns
Up and down the state, homeless youth
Forage & huddle to keep dry from the rain.
“Stay healthy, stay safe, and stay home.
So how do you think we’re doing, man?”
“Heh. I’d say we have a leaky roof.”
“Yeah, and we suck at social distancing.”
“Oh yeah? Uh I dunno, it’s only us here.”
“Bro’, you call this being six feet apart?”
“Hey man, keep your corner of the tarp up.”
“Naw, dude, let’s toss...
#city
#homelessness
#humankind
#dialogue
#inequality
523 reads
8 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
19th Mar 2020 9:57pm
19th Mar 2020 9:57pm
Of Holding On And Letting Go
1: Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
You think that water is the color blue
That ocean currents imitate the wind.
And where it ends beyond the height of clouds
That’s where the sky of me will turn to black,
Where neither air nor astronauts may live;
Yes, I’m the sky and all the rest is air.
If not for me there’d be no atrium
To hold within the weather and the rain,
From where the cumulus and stratus play.
The teaming life that feeds on coral beds,
The orca pods who prey...
You think that water is the color blue
That ocean currents imitate the wind.
And where it ends beyond the height of clouds
That’s where the sky of me will turn to black,
Where neither air nor astronauts may live;
Yes, I’m the sky and all the rest is air.
If not for me there’d be no atrium
To hold within the weather and the rain,
From where the cumulus and stratus play.
The teaming life that feeds on coral beds,
The orca pods who prey...
#universe
#nature
#spiritual
#humankind
#JelaluddinRumi
791 reads
11 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
12th Mar 2020 7:45am
12th Mar 2020 7:45am
A Thousand Cranes
千羽鶴
( tanka )
while I wait for spring
in honor of Myagi
I fold the first crane
reviving a spirit djinn
it sings in my small hand
🧞♂️
cranes made of paper
in harmony to the earth
a journey begins
as I fold and neatly tuck
snowflakes to be wishes
🧞♀️
quietly sightless
their cause to be as one
when it’s time to say
with these origami birds
this is what I...
( tanka )
while I wait for spring
in honor of Myagi
I fold the first crane
reviving a spirit djinn
it sings in my small hand
🧞♂️
cranes made of paper
in harmony to the earth
a journey begins
as I fold and neatly tuck
snowflakes to be wishes
🧞♀️
quietly sightless
their cause to be as one
when it’s time to say
with these origami birds
this is what I...
#birds
#winter
#nature
#tanka
#respect
758 reads
18 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
10th Mar 2020 9:17am
10th Mar 2020 9:17am
C O L O U R S
( a visual verse )
Draft hooves cut the sod, divots fly
Into charger’s sides, Master’s urge.
No test to win fair lady’s hand
As warrior's steed his bellows blow
Across the field of honor’s purge
Pursuant to the hounds,
The other side this day shall die
Till he and his colours go down.
Draft hooves cut the sod, divots fly
Into charger’s sides, Master’s urge.
No test to win fair lady’s hand
As warrior's steed his bellows blow
Across the field of honor’s purge
Pursuant to the hounds,
The other side this day shall die
Till he and his colours go down.
#war
#death
#horses #rebellion
#horses #rebellion
777 reads
15 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Mar 2020 1:53am
8th Mar 2020 1:53am
H O R S E S
( a visual verse )
They come from nowhere;
Horses that stampede through a life,
Herds of them,
And leave destruction in their wake.
Their whinnies & snorts & lashings
Bridle my hate and tether my fear.
But I can’t help but stay and watch,
For how majestic they seem.
They come from nowhere;
Horses that stampede through a life,
Herds of them,
And leave destruction in their wake.
Their whinnies & snorts & lashings
Bridle my hate and tether my fear.
But I can’t help but stay and watch,
For how majestic they seem.
#horses
#LifeStruggles
#metaphor
609 reads
22 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
6th Mar 2020 10:25am
6th Mar 2020 10:25am
GLOVE
#sex
#lover
#sensual
#passion
#orgasm
1390 reads
24 Comments
DU Poetry : Submissions by Jade-Pandora (jade tiger)
