Submissions by Josh (Joshua Bond)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write mainly poetry for the inner journey. I also have a feisty side-line of writing poetic commentaries on the war industry and politics & culture. "When power corrupts, poetry cleanses" (JFK, Oct 1963)
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Nov 2023 11:15pm
17th Nov 2023 11:15pm
Tragedy in Gaza
In the Gaza Extermination Zone
unacceptable by any measure
the dogged pursuit of Hamas erasure
kills civilians in and out of their homes;
as buildings collapse, hear the crunch of bones
relentless missiles fired with a leisure
that clock religious measure-for-treasure
dating back to fantasy chromosomes
Strange, Palestinians too are Semitic
Jewish-Arab brotherhood rejected
extremists in charge, apocalyptic,
fellow humans march for peace, suspected
meanwhile, weapons-makers, parasitic
are pocketing profits,...
unacceptable by any measure
the dogged pursuit of Hamas erasure
kills civilians in and out of their homes;
as buildings collapse, hear the crunch of bones
relentless missiles fired with a leisure
that clock religious measure-for-treasure
dating back to fantasy chromosomes
Strange, Palestinians too are Semitic
Jewish-Arab brotherhood rejected
extremists in charge, apocalyptic,
fellow humans march for peace, suspected
meanwhile, weapons-makers, parasitic
are pocketing profits,...
#sadness
#war
#rhyming #sonnet
#rhyming #sonnet
73 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Oct 2023 12:11pm
26th Oct 2023 12:11pm
Haiku/Senryu, Nr.12 — Window of Opportunity
By the time Lennon
was my age he’d been dead
twenty-seven years.
was my age he’d been dead
twenty-seven years.
#dreams
#TruthOfLife
#aging #SelfReflection
#aging #SelfReflection
108 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
3rd Oct 2023 1:22pm
3rd Oct 2023 1:22pm
Ballet Dancer
There’s a hole up in the roof, it’s where the truth is dripping in
an elephant within the womb so very hard to see
and green men in the forests who now panic ‘bout the trees
[
There’s counterforce prevailing that is failing in degree
since paradigms are wailing they’re unfit to change the ‘Quo’
as many clever people leave — they just don’t want to know
[
There’s giant bellows pumping air, a very strange device
that’s technified the Commons leaving people lost, marooned
who weep for missing children whom the devil wants to groom ...
an elephant within the womb so very hard to see
and green men in the forests who now panic ‘bout the trees
[
There’s counterforce prevailing that is failing in degree
since paradigms are wailing they’re unfit to change the ‘Quo’
as many clever people leave — they just don’t want to know
[
There’s giant bellows pumping air, a very strange device
that’s technified the Commons leaving people lost, marooned
who weep for missing children whom the devil wants to groom ...
#SelfReflection
#philosophical
#healing
130 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Aug 2023 6:19pm
23rd Aug 2023 6:19pm
End Game
That survival course on “wreckage” you sold me:
the one with the sun-blasted cross-roads
where the dried-up river bisects the underused motorway…,
well, what else do you reckon when the tolls are so high
leaving a preference for back-tracks through the desert?
Coming to, what are you doing here anyway —
surely you’re not one of those losers who jumped … ?
You are?? Listen, people like you should be made to
clean up the mess - and that’s a friendly suggestion.
I’ll make sure you are not mentioned in Sunday prayers:
enjoy going with the...
the one with the sun-blasted cross-roads
where the dried-up river bisects the underused motorway…,
well, what else do you reckon when the tolls are so high
leaving a preference for back-tracks through the desert?
Coming to, what are you doing here anyway —
surely you’re not one of those losers who jumped … ?
You are?? Listen, people like you should be made to
clean up the mess - and that’s a friendly suggestion.
I’ll make sure you are not mentioned in Sunday prayers:
enjoy going with the...
#identity
#environment
#LifeGoals
#SelfDiscovery
#rebellion
169 reads
16 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Aug 2023 3:36pm
16th Aug 2023 3:36pm
A Retrocausal Solastalgia for Pre-Accident Times
A Spirit-Lion crossed my path
and stopped to say hello
the old hyena didn’t laugh
since she was in the know
An iguana rolled its eyes
in feigned forgetfulness
and teasing truth from out the lies
said “YOU have made the mess”
The more-than-human world looked on
and turned to have their say
“the humans may all be soon gone
because they’ve had their day”
I said “a remnant will survive
it’s always been the case
for evolution is alive
with sense of time and place”
The Spirit-Lion...
and stopped to say hello
the old hyena didn’t laugh
since she was in the know
An iguana rolled its eyes
in feigned forgetfulness
and teasing truth from out the lies
said “YOU have made the mess”
The more-than-human world looked on
and turned to have their say
“the humans may all be soon gone
because they’ve had their day”
I said “a remnant will survive
it’s always been the case
for evolution is alive
with sense of time and place”
The Spirit-Lion...
#technology
#politics
#environment
#LifeCycle
#SelfReflection
186 reads
18 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
18th Jul 2023 6:55pm
18th Jul 2023 6:55pm
Unexpected Grounding
The pulcan sang so sweetly
made connection with my heart
a song-line flowed discreetly
like a science hid in art
And subtly came vocations
all completely off the wall
as meaning altercations
blew assumptions of the fall
Determining a journey
raises symbols in the air
as turning hurdy-gurdies
shoot the baseline of despair
A strange felicitation
deals the cards to play again
and pulcans find elation
as potential inks the pen.
made connection with my heart
a song-line flowed discreetly
like a science hid in art
And subtly came vocations
all completely off the wall
as meaning altercations
blew assumptions of the fall
Determining a journey
raises symbols in the air
as turning hurdy-gurdies
shoot the baseline of despair
A strange felicitation
deals the cards to play again
and pulcans find elation
as potential inks the pen.
#LifeStruggles
#LifeChangingMoment
#myself #SelfDiscovery
#myself #SelfDiscovery
152 reads
16 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Jun 2023 5:07pm
30th Jun 2023 5:07pm
Haiku/Senryu, Nr.11 — A Question of Artificial Intelligence
Why not cultivate
natural intelligence
if I may so ask?
natural intelligence
if I may so ask?
#technology
#HumanRights
#SelfWorth
182 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Apr 2023 10:34pm
1st Apr 2023 10:34pm
A Lament of Hope
She sleeps … like in some other kind of form
she weeps even at the gentlest touch, fragile
as if her world tried to give birth
but such effort comes to nothing done
On a mundane Sunday morning
flattened at the altar of cut trees
I wonder what the padres truly think
strangely dressed as they are in kevlar
incense rising from their chainsaws —
they scatter beliefs across the congregation
who watch nations sink further in deep psychosis
During this war of attrition
Mother Earth turns over, maybe in despair, ...
she weeps even at the gentlest touch, fragile
as if her world tried to give birth
but such effort comes to nothing done
On a mundane Sunday morning
flattened at the altar of cut trees
I wonder what the padres truly think
strangely dressed as they are in kevlar
incense rising from their chainsaws —
they scatter beliefs across the congregation
who watch nations sink further in deep psychosis
During this war of attrition
Mother Earth turns over, maybe in despair, ...
#hope
#trees
#nature
#religion
#NaPoWriMo2023
247 reads
15 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
7th Mar 2023 4:17pm
7th Mar 2023 4:17pm
Story Behind
There is a savage story behind my face:
doubts, knives, spigots, knots, bewilderment
and a make-shift gallows —
betrayal as expected from religious double-agents of love
while self-appointed crows posed as wise beings.
A legacy burns in my brother’s house
and my missing sister turned East — still in hiding.
The family diamonds lie in a deep vault,
the combination lock for which is configured
in a distant constellation;
someone promised a master key, later smelted
into a rough cross.
The split-junctions laughed, linked fists ...
doubts, knives, spigots, knots, bewilderment
and a make-shift gallows —
betrayal as expected from religious double-agents of love
while self-appointed crows posed as wise beings.
A legacy burns in my brother’s house
and my missing sister turned East — still in hiding.
The family diamonds lie in a deep vault,
the combination lock for which is configured
in a distant constellation;
someone promised a master key, later smelted
into a rough cross.
The split-junctions laughed, linked fists ...
#LifeStruggles
#spiritual
#LifeCycle #SelfReflection
#LifeCycle #SelfReflection
210 reads
10 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Mar 2023 7:41pm
3rd Mar 2023 7:41pm
Sonnet Nr.01 — Cricket-Football-Rugby
The batsman hit the ball as hard as hell
it flew beyond the line, a certain ‘six’
the umpire signalled both hands up to tell
as crowds applauded calmly pleased to bits
The centre-forward dribbled past the backs
and thwacked the ball, off-side, in back of net
the referee was blind or rather lax
or maybe bent the rules to win a bet
The fly-half took the ball and ran the pitch
a sprint of fifty yards, touched down to cheers
the try converted straight without a hitch
and local pubs got stocked with many beers
...
it flew beyond the line, a certain ‘six’
the umpire signalled both hands up to tell
as crowds applauded calmly pleased to bits
The centre-forward dribbled past the backs
and thwacked the ball, off-side, in back of net
the referee was blind or rather lax
or maybe bent the rules to win a bet
The fly-half took the ball and ran the pitch
a sprint of fifty yards, touched down to cheers
the try converted straight without a hitch
and local pubs got stocked with many beers
...
#money
#sports
#culture #tradition
#culture #tradition
232 reads
15 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Jan 2023 9:08pm
18th Jan 2023 9:08pm
Haiku/Senryu, Nr.10 — Strange Concept
Destroy the planet.
Replace with promises of
new technology.
Replace with promises of
new technology.
#technology
#war
#science
#environment
#nature
216 reads
18 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Dec 2022 2:46pm
14th Dec 2022 2:46pm
CULTURAL CHANGE, Nr.1
Time-lapse responses to a man opening a door for a woman.
1950s Thank you.
1960s Thank heavens there are still some gentlemen around.
1970s Oi! I hope you’re a fully paid-up member of the Door-Openers Union.
1980s (BLAM!) You pig-ignorant tosser. D’you think just because I’m a woman I can’t open a door by myself?
1990s Blimey! How the hell am I going to monetise a throw-back like this?
2000s Oh, how fascinating. Are you a robot demonstrating the latest biomimicry tech-innovation?
2010s Wow!...
1950s Thank you.
1960s Thank heavens there are still some gentlemen around.
1970s Oi! I hope you’re a fully paid-up member of the Door-Openers Union.
1980s (BLAM!) You pig-ignorant tosser. D’you think just because I’m a woman I can’t open a door by myself?
1990s Blimey! How the hell am I going to monetise a throw-back like this?
2000s Oh, how fascinating. Are you a robot demonstrating the latest biomimicry tech-innovation?
2010s Wow!...
#women
#men
#relationships
#historical
#scifi
322 reads
14 Comments
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