Submissions by LightningBug (Kathy J Anderson)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Journeyman Poet.Writing poetry since... the 70s. Seriously since the 2000s.
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th Jun 2022 1:27am
11th Jun 2022 1:27am
Long Ago
Past memories bubble
In spite of troubles,
Trembling wings double
Under double eagles,
Marching to long ago beats — -
Forgotten that we’d surely meet,
Joyous surprise greets
Heartsongs strung tight
In moonlit night
An ode took flight
And I fell under its spell,
Fell again not to quell
But faint as I tell
How it all began — -
With Pooh Bear in hands,
Of youth in sands
Expecting grand
Designs whirl
To tumble girl
Into his world…
In spite of troubles,
Trembling wings double
Under double eagles,
Marching to long ago beats — -
Forgotten that we’d surely meet,
Joyous surprise greets
Heartsongs strung tight
In moonlit night
An ode took flight
And I fell under its spell,
Fell again not to quell
But faint as I tell
How it all began — -
With Pooh Bear in hands,
Of youth in sands
Expecting grand
Designs whirl
To tumble girl
Into his world…
#hope
#childhood
#fate #nostalgia
#fate #nostalgia
298 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
4th Jun 2022 5:03am
4th Jun 2022 5:03am
Seven Suns
Your hands become the twine
Tangled up in her hair
Held fast in braids undone,
Unfurling for lust as bright as the seven suns.
Tangled up in her hair
Held fast in braids undone,
Unfurling for lust as bright as the seven suns.
#love
#erotic
#sensual
294 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
23rd May 2022 8:55pm
23rd May 2022 8:55pm
Assumptions
Always love it when
Silly people think
Something they read fits
Until they realize it can't fit only one view.
Many's the time that worlds collide
Punctuated by oopses and ahhs and sorrys,
Till the author in question reveals
Internal causations for change
Overtly cause editing themes undecided
Now become the final new
Sole intended genre.
Silly people think
Something they read fits
Until they realize it can't fit only one view.
Many's the time that worlds collide
Punctuated by oopses and ahhs and sorrys,
Till the author in question reveals
Internal causations for change
Overtly cause editing themes undecided
Now become the final new
Sole intended genre.
#LifeAsAWriter
#TruthOfLife
286 reads
6 Comments
FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
23rd May 2022 7:41pm
23rd May 2022 7:41pm
Liken to One Love
She walked to the tennis courts, not far from the parallel street sweet shop. It was hot and sunny at the worst possible time of day, straight up noon. Sunscreen in hand, she felt undaunted by the blazing sky. There were tall Elm like shade trees over hanging above the 10 foot fences surrounding the courts in every corner. Shade could be found there if the angle of the sun was right behind any of them.
A siren made her look backwards from where she had briskly walked about a 1/4 mile. Nothing visible noted, she continued towards the lockers lining each side of the court....
A siren made her look backwards from where she had briskly walked about a 1/4 mile. Nothing visible noted, she continued towards the lockers lining each side of the court....
#hope
#sports
#LookingForLove
450 reads
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STORY POEM
Published
23rd May 2022 3:41am
23rd May 2022 3:41am
An Equation
That began with two
eager souls intense,
no pretense or bull…
now has lost digits.
No longer equal duo
but situationship
gone to the louse heap
where roaches replace
romance with scores,
liken to one love
against parallels
slanted honey drips,
uneven at best.
eager souls intense,
no pretense or bull…
now has lost digits.
No longer equal duo
but situationship
gone to the louse heap
where roaches replace
romance with scores,
liken to one love
against parallels
slanted honey drips,
uneven at best.
#rejection
#relationships
#marriage #LongDistanceRelationship
#marriage #LongDistanceRelationship
425 reads
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STORY POEM
Published
21st May 2022 1:29am
21st May 2022 1:29am
Dead Zones
Of sleep it can be said
Dreamless states beyond life,
Experiences of the damned
Sequentially unfolding in rifes.
Plethoric memories
Processes in dark trance,
Endemic visions
In brain waves steeped by romance.
Yet sleep that feels real
Often is enhanced by beliefs,
As though the blanks also feel
Part of currents and realities motifs.
Sometimes the waves aren't yours
But, an overlay of anothers theta
Waves of awareness,
Gone away to forgotten input data.
Dreamless states beyond life,
Experiences of the damned
Sequentially unfolding in rifes.
Plethoric memories
Processes in dark trance,
Endemic visions
In brain waves steeped by romance.
Yet sleep that feels real
Often is enhanced by beliefs,
As though the blanks also feel
Part of currents and realities motifs.
Sometimes the waves aren't yours
But, an overlay of anothers theta
Waves of awareness,
Gone away to forgotten input data.
#dark
#emptiness
#curse #dawn
#curse #dawn
308 reads
7 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
18th May 2022 10:27pm
18th May 2022 10:27pm
Shy
distrust sends a heart
to hesitant natured mind,
lending calm vibes to parts
known to shake in stirring times.
sending sparkling visions
for inner peaceful moments,
trepidation situation calls for solutions
whenever fascinations become tense.
scant dare the thoughts
panting in dark corners,
quant of the ways sought
after, under silken covers.
to hesitant natured mind,
lending calm vibes to parts
known to shake in stirring times.
sending sparkling visions
for inner peaceful moments,
trepidation situation calls for solutions
whenever fascinations become tense.
scant dare the thoughts
panting in dark corners,
quant of the ways sought
after, under silken covers.
#loneliness
#sensual
#passion
364 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th May 2022 10:11pm
15th May 2022 10:11pm
ABRACADABRA Diamonds
Diamonds cannot become stones in the ocean,
Seas smooth away some flaws with time.
Timely are the ebbs and flowings
So flow as you must through life.
Conjure with movements slow,
Deliberate and kind.
Kindly caring,
Candles lit
For strong
Love.
Seas smooth away some flaws with time.
Timely are the ebbs and flowings
So flow as you must through life.
Conjure with movements slow,
Deliberate and kind.
Kindly caring,
Candles lit
For strong
Love.
#love
#magic
#luck
449 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th May 2022 4:55am
11th May 2022 4:55am
Yesternights
Yesternights love
is the foil of todays
lunch wrapped loaf
of meat, no gravy.
Somenights joy
is the shrunken head,
voiceless by marriage
to beef stroganoff.
Leapnights star
is nowhere to be found;
not even under bridges
where trolls dine on your sauce.
is the foil of todays
lunch wrapped loaf
of meat, no gravy.
Somenights joy
is the shrunken head,
voiceless by marriage
to beef stroganoff.
Leapnights star
is nowhere to be found;
not even under bridges
where trolls dine on your sauce.
#sadness
#anger
#conflict
#UnrequitedLove
#suffering
195 reads
0 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
30th Apr 2022 3:21am
30th Apr 2022 3:21am
Elemental Layers
Beneath the onion skin
Are ancient sins
Ancestors permit to win.
Dip the fear in hopes bin
Where children make din
Skinning their knees and shins.
Somehow we let it sink in,
Into abyss of yearning begins
The peelings to become whole again.
Are ancient sins
Ancestors permit to win.
Dip the fear in hopes bin
Where children make din
Skinning their knees and shins.
Somehow we let it sink in,
Into abyss of yearning begins
The peelings to become whole again.
#hope
#TimeHeals
#redemption
262 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
24th Apr 2022 9:19pm
24th Apr 2022 9:19pm
Wiggle Room
I'm drinking the milk
Of the moments pure peace,
Pieces of self floating
In a tall milkshake,
A cow stolen in the nights
Stygian cave of twilit life.
The jerk around's
Left bones dangling
In thin spaces
Of forgotten voids.
Clearance of this runway
Ran away with the spoons
Past Mars and Milky Ways
Bleak black basement holds;
Jersey never looked so good
As the wood of fir trees at Yule.
The touchstones lost
Last time standing
Was first time walking
Learning Libra...
Of the moments pure peace,
Pieces of self floating
In a tall milkshake,
A cow stolen in the nights
Stygian cave of twilit life.
The jerk around's
Left bones dangling
In thin spaces
Of forgotten voids.
Clearance of this runway
Ran away with the spoons
Past Mars and Milky Ways
Bleak black basement holds;
Jersey never looked so good
As the wood of fir trees at Yule.
The touchstones lost
Last time standing
Was first time walking
Learning Libra...
#anger
#heartbroken
#astrology
#TruthOfLife
#disappointment
370 reads
0 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
23rd Apr 2022 7:37pm
23rd Apr 2022 7:37pm
Seasalt Bliss
Blades cut down trees
Yet jungles under sea grow
In kelp bedded nourishment
Yet jungles under sea grow
In kelp bedded nourishment
#forest
#nature
#TimeHeals
239 reads
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