Submissions by LightningBug (Kathy J Anderson)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Journeyman Poet.Writing poetry since... the 70s. Seriously since the 2000s.
FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
28th Sep 2024 2:45pm
28th Sep 2024 2:45pm
Her Magic Dragon
It had a special golden glow by the way the shadows made no effect on this egg. The elf queen had never seen such a large nest before. Dragons were rare and rarely had nests out in the grassy open plains like this.
Tia had no idea what creature was inside this giant scaly egg. It was sparkly and had a slight pale blue mist around it. She could feel the magnetic field pulsing and drawing her to it as she touched the surface.
She waited, since upon seeing it noticed that it had a large crack as if about to split open anytime.
What seemed an eternity suddenly...
Tia had no idea what creature was inside this giant scaly egg. It was sparkly and had a slight pale blue mist around it. She could feel the magnetic field pulsing and drawing her to it as she touched the surface.
She waited, since upon seeing it noticed that it had a large crack as if about to split open anytime.
What seemed an eternity suddenly...
#dragons
#earth
#fairies
#friendship
#responsibility
94 reads
3 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Feb 2024 8:18pm
24th Feb 2024 8:18pm
Morning Senses
This sunrise
Is the best
Morning sighs,
The senses
Come alive
For the life,
A scent wafts
Of coffee
Steamed dreams,
Squirrels romp,
Leap and lunge
Airs above,
Honey taste
Melts in heat
Stirred slowly,
Embracing
Sensory
Discovers.
Is the best
Morning sighs,
The senses
Come alive
For the life,
A scent wafts
Of coffee
Steamed dreams,
Squirrels romp,
Leap and lunge
Airs above,
Honey taste
Melts in heat
Stirred slowly,
Embracing
Sensory
Discovers.
#morning
#coffee
#food
#emotions
#dawn
183 reads
9 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
31st Jan 2024 5:01pm
31st Jan 2024 5:01pm
Shadows of Love
An apparition
Arose when she awakened
With the condition
Congealed between lips slaked
Simply by connecting once.
There’s a light mirage
Wavering from her viewpoint
Hidden in gardens
Shimmering by night or day
Where two stood as silhouettes.
Arose when she awakened
With the condition
Congealed between lips slaked
Simply by connecting once.
There’s a light mirage
Wavering from her viewpoint
Hidden in gardens
Shimmering by night or day
Where two stood as silhouettes.
#love
#romantic
#FallingInLove
219 reads
5 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
2nd Nov 2023 4:22am
2nd Nov 2023 4:22am
A Secret Word
when the world is quiet it gives back if you know the magic word
The word is whispers
On the breeze while first snows
Sprinkle once green grass,
Now the earth is white,
Leaves are like angel flakes
Adorned in ice robes,
The wind bares the word
Of the ice giant Jotun,
Speaking "wolf" to moon,
When the wolf howls
He causes access to stars,
Twinkling your wishes.
The word is whispers
On the breeze while first snows
Sprinkle once green grass,
Now the earth is white,
Leaves are like angel flakes
Adorned in ice robes,
The wind bares the word
Of the ice giant Jotun,
Speaking "wolf" to moon,
When the wolf howls
He causes access to stars,
Twinkling your wishes.
#monsters
#mythology
#pagan #magic
#pagan #magic
195 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
26th Oct 2023 5:39am
26th Oct 2023 5:39am
Winged Things
Fair dragon lace-winged things
Alight upon lillied springs,
Infared be their visions
Redolent, balmy as nights passions;
Yellowing eyes crystalline glowing
Lifted to indigo skies, returning
Amidst clouds hovering round the moon,
Nescient of other-kinds commune
Dwellings, whereby wakened, not stirring.
Alight upon lillied springs,
Infared be their visions
Redolent, balmy as nights passions;
Yellowing eyes crystalline glowing
Lifted to indigo skies, returning
Amidst clouds hovering round the moon,
Nescient of other-kinds commune
Dwellings, whereby wakened, not stirring.
#fairies
#mythology
#pagan #magic
#pagan #magic
202 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
26th Sep 2023 4:12pm
26th Sep 2023 4:12pm
Tea Reflections
Grandmas kitchen was quaint
Quiet, quintissential
Simplicity of times
Taken with quality
Over excessively
Bit and brack-full cupboards.
Cozy winter nights
Were overheated
Till claustrophobic
With indoor temps high
In the mid 80s.
Then memories
Return to nows
Neither bitter
Nor sugary.
Falls forests
Are colored
Brighter hues,
Deep blued
Calm clear
Sky.
Quiet, quintissential
Simplicity of times
Taken with quality
Over excessively
Bit and brack-full cupboards.
Cozy winter nights
Were overheated
Till claustrophobic
With indoor temps high
In the mid 80s.
Then memories
Return to nows
Neither bitter
Nor sugary.
Falls forests
Are colored
Brighter hues,
Deep blued
Calm clear
Sky.
#childhood
#memories
#SelfReflection
147 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
21st Sep 2023 3:57pm
21st Sep 2023 3:57pm
Violet Taste
Violet tasts like the flower
Or like blueberry muffins
On a chilly Fall day.
Violet is the sweetest nectar
Or the gooiest fruit pie
Smoothed by whip cream .
Violet tastes like heavens
Red apples and elderberries
Combined, making your mouth water.
Purple is violets plum cousin
Sweet and tart at the same time
Love, when you’ve lost it.
Or like blueberry muffins
On a chilly Fall day.
Violet is the sweetest nectar
Or the gooiest fruit pie
Smoothed by whip cream .
Violet tastes like heavens
Red apples and elderberries
Combined, making your mouth water.
Purple is violets plum cousin
Sweet and tart at the same time
Love, when you’ve lost it.
#love
#rejection
#heartbroken
#romantic
#TimeHeals
184 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Sep 2023 2:44am
8th Sep 2023 2:44am
The Hues of Woo
Colorful are the days
When you're falling in love,
You realize beauty
Exists in every
Pore and hair follicle,
Brown, red, blonde or graying.
Rainbows without end
Bless golden sun rays,
Illuminate each
Mornings jade and gold
Arisen in eyes.
Holding hands pinks
Your splendid smooth cheeks
In yon garden
Where roses bloom.
Comets blaze
Inside eyes
Trailing stars
Glitter,
Moonlit
Hearts.
When you're falling in love,
You realize beauty
Exists in every
Pore and hair follicle,
Brown, red, blonde or graying.
Rainbows without end
Bless golden sun rays,
Illuminate each
Mornings jade and gold
Arisen in eyes.
Holding hands pinks
Your splendid smooth cheeks
In yon garden
Where roses bloom.
Comets blaze
Inside eyes
Trailing stars
Glitter,
Moonlit
Hearts.
#love
#romantic
#FallingInLove
#crush
#emotions
223 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
4th Sep 2023 1:56pm
4th Sep 2023 1:56pm
Colorful ~ Senyru
Even the bluest
Blue isn't deep enough to
Describe this feeling,
Feeling out of times
Times of hopeful burgundies
Scarlet love affairs,
Affairs sienna
Aftermath of crimson flames
Leaving embers burnt
Down to umber grounds
Deepening loves eternal
Braziers yellow glow.
Go slow into mauve
Pinks productive songs,
Sing violet tunes.
Indigo those eyes
Transmuted by night sky hues
Sparkling with knowing.
Blue isn't deep enough to
Describe this feeling,
Feeling out of times
Times of hopeful burgundies
Scarlet love affairs,
Affairs sienna
Aftermath of crimson flames
Leaving embers burnt
Down to umber grounds
Deepening loves eternal
Braziers yellow glow.
Go slow into mauve
Pinks productive songs,
Sing violet tunes.
Indigo those eyes
Transmuted by night sky hues
Sparkling with knowing.
#love
#loneliness
#stars
#fire
#passion
214 reads
6 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Aug 2023 4:29am
30th Aug 2023 4:29am
Naturally So
Like a sunfish swimming shimmering seas
She’s the queen of blue coral strewn seas,
Singing atop these watery rocks with glee.
Large waves crash on her tail, so she does cry
Out, while seagulls quail high in clouds, they too cry,
Such a scene brings no ease as cormorants fly.
In spite of stormy days she climbs again
As these stony cays she finds once again,
The same on seafront or lakes to contend.
She’s the queen of blue coral strewn seas,
Singing atop these watery rocks with glee.
Large waves crash on her tail, so she does cry
Out, while seagulls quail high in clouds, they too cry,
Such a scene brings no ease as cormorants fly.
In spite of stormy days she climbs again
As these stony cays she finds once again,
The same on seafront or lakes to contend.
#dreams
#TimeHeals
#escape
#determination
#PersonalGrowth
141 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
25th Aug 2023 4:53pm
25th Aug 2023 4:53pm
Register
It finally did register
Register at the last line,
Lines of love brought down
Down to the level of hoax.
Hoax on a real heart
Heart full of yearning
Yearning for honestly
Honesty of thought and emotion.
Emotion is the carrier
Carrier of divine mind,
Minds the way you’re treated
Treated to abysmal mulct.
Mulct of all real returns
Returns of the day failed,
Failed and fell short
Short of a new death.
Death to love, life and peace
Peace found only below ground
Ground down into the...
Register at the last line,
Lines of love brought down
Down to the level of hoax.
Hoax on a real heart
Heart full of yearning
Yearning for honestly
Honesty of thought and emotion.
Emotion is the carrier
Carrier of divine mind,
Minds the way you’re treated
Treated to abysmal mulct.
Mulct of all real returns
Returns of the day failed,
Failed and fell short
Short of a new death.
Death to love, life and peace
Peace found only below ground
Ground down into the...
#loneliness
#lies
#bittersweet
#deception
#fear
215 reads
2 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
25th Aug 2023 3:59pm
25th Aug 2023 3:59pm
Population of Earth
The existence of humans has not been threatened with extinction since homo sapiens appeared. Our human population was under 1 million prior to that time frame, around 10,000 BCE. During this previous era humans were below 1 million a lot of the time.
https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth-over-time
Since 1800 population increases have been continuous. Although this peaked in 1962–63, and has slowed it hasn’t really dropped completely. Yet, the UN has a lot to say about the opposite happening, I believe this is propaganda. Demographers have totally opposing...
https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth-over-time
Since 1800 population increases have been continuous. Although this peaked in 1962–63, and has slowed it hasn’t really dropped completely. Yet, the UN has a lot to say about the opposite happening, I believe this is propaganda. Demographers have totally opposing...
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#responsibility
#risk
#deception
216 reads
6 Comments
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