Submissions by LobodeSanPedro
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Know justice ... Know peace!
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Jun 2013 6:04am
9th Jun 2013 6:04am
Season of Sacrifice
Season of Sacrifice
I heard the usual warnings of my mother
as I headed out
Be careful
But I was young
Knew how to take care of myself
Indestructible
Untouchable
Confident
Me
There were the usual nods and greetings
To those I knew as I made my way into the park
I could smell the freshly turned earth as I entered
Last thing I'd truly remember of that night with joy
This was the season of rebirth
So a crucifixion was needed first
A sacrifice, to find resurrection
They said there was blood everywhere...
I heard the usual warnings of my mother
as I headed out
Be careful
But I was young
Knew how to take care of myself
Indestructible
Untouchable
Confident
Me
There were the usual nods and greetings
To those I knew as I made my way into the park
I could smell the freshly turned earth as I entered
Last thing I'd truly remember of that night with joy
This was the season of rebirth
So a crucifixion was needed first
A sacrifice, to find resurrection
They said there was blood everywhere...
932 reads
6 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
2nd Jun 2013 9:20am
2nd Jun 2013 9:20am
I'll Be Right There
I'll Be Right There
I've been here before
All of my life in fact
Suspended between life and the unknown
Seeking salvation and acceptance by many who I'm now foreign to
Unseen by
Yet enjoying my freedom above them
Unpolluted by the very things which keep them bound
I can feel her tentacles pulling me
She's not the monster my mother always said to stay away from
Make sure you have protection daddy would warn
But she's always been there with me
For me
I built sandcastles under her
Held...
I've been here before
All of my life in fact
Suspended between life and the unknown
Seeking salvation and acceptance by many who I'm now foreign to
Unseen by
Yet enjoying my freedom above them
Unpolluted by the very things which keep them bound
I can feel her tentacles pulling me
She's not the monster my mother always said to stay away from
Make sure you have protection daddy would warn
But she's always been there with me
For me
I built sandcastles under her
Held...
929 reads
4 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
1st Jun 2013 8:52pm
1st Jun 2013 8:52pm
Who Drinks with Blackbeard?
Who Drinks with Blackbeard?
(A sea shanty - Sung as a call and response between the shanty and crew as they labored on a pirate vessel.)
Submitted for the History competition:
Here be a story
of wit, guts and glory
A captain revered
by moors commandeered
On high seas and shallows
his black crew was feared
Poseidon and Hades,
would drink with Blackbeard
Edward Teach be his Christian name
Taught us the code, through powder and flame
Shanty: Heave
Crew: Ho
...
(A sea shanty - Sung as a call and response between the shanty and crew as they labored on a pirate vessel.)
Submitted for the History competition:
Here be a story
of wit, guts and glory
A captain revered
by moors commandeered
On high seas and shallows
his black crew was feared
Poseidon and Hades,
would drink with Blackbeard
Edward Teach be his Christian name
Taught us the code, through powder and flame
Shanty: Heave
Crew: Ho
...
919 reads
2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
27th May 2013 8:40pm
27th May 2013 8:40pm
Damn Him! ... And his pint too!
1556 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
22nd May 2013 1:56pm
22nd May 2013 1:56pm
What You Need of Me
What You Need of Me
I came to sit on this bench
Because I've been hardened in bronze too
Though mine was a star
They come to me beaten battered and bruised
Deprived of limps
Deprived of sight
G I issued and war torn, their souls confused
Farm boys from Iowa
Shredders from Venice
Ballers from Rucker Park
Tar Heels from the Carolinas
I've seen all fifty stars
And they're all one and the same
Young
Poor
Deprived
Hollowed by what they've seen
Hardened by...
I came to sit on this bench
Because I've been hardened in bronze too
Though mine was a star
They come to me beaten battered and bruised
Deprived of limps
Deprived of sight
G I issued and war torn, their souls confused
Farm boys from Iowa
Shredders from Venice
Ballers from Rucker Park
Tar Heels from the Carolinas
I've seen all fifty stars
And they're all one and the same
Young
Poor
Deprived
Hollowed by what they've seen
Hardened by...
961 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
21st May 2013 3:05am
21st May 2013 3:05am
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
His name had money in it long
before any of these rappers did
Got hooked on his music
Sippin' Jacks as a kid
Stood up to his uncle Sam
And told him "Fuck You too!"
Said I won't be defined
When he sang about A Boy Named Sue
Sang the Folsom Prison Blues
For men like my dad
Stripped of their humanity
His strummin' was all they had
Hound dog's voice kissed
His boom-chicka-boom sound
Sang of Ira Hayes who
Died face down in the ground
Not a drop of...
His name had money in it long
before any of these rappers did
Got hooked on his music
Sippin' Jacks as a kid
Stood up to his uncle Sam
And told him "Fuck You too!"
Said I won't be defined
When he sang about A Boy Named Sue
Sang the Folsom Prison Blues
For men like my dad
Stripped of their humanity
His strummin' was all they had
Hound dog's voice kissed
His boom-chicka-boom sound
Sang of Ira Hayes who
Died face down in the ground
Not a drop of...
1114 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
20th May 2013 2:12pm
20th May 2013 2:12pm
I heard Heaven but they didn't hear Me
I heard Heaven but they didn't hear Me
2 July, 0125
Young vivacious voices sang in the next room
A church choir rejoiced on TV
Their singing echoed in my head as if it were hollow
But I laid there
Frozen
He was done with me
Shredded my loins
Beaten
I tethered in this web bloodied and swollen
Face down
Jeans pulled to my waist on his kitchen table
The hungry pants and gasps for air were
No longer mine
No longer his
...
2 July, 0125
Young vivacious voices sang in the next room
A church choir rejoiced on TV
Their singing echoed in my head as if it were hollow
But I laid there
Frozen
He was done with me
Shredded my loins
Beaten
I tethered in this web bloodied and swollen
Face down
Jeans pulled to my waist on his kitchen table
The hungry pants and gasps for air were
No longer mine
No longer his
...
955 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
17th May 2013 2:38pm
17th May 2013 2:38pm
The Jackals Feast
(submitted as part of a trilogy for the Zodiac Love competition)
The Jackals Feast
Foolish was Hippomenes when he did
not pay tribute to Venus for
capturing the heart of the mesmerizing Atalanta
He should have known better
Men died in pursuit of her beauty
It was their star crossed love
that binds my fortune in the vengeance of Venus
For the two were cast out as lions
Forever damned for tempting Fate
My sign, Leo, cursed and plagued
to wear a hollow crown
In a kingdom where I must do...
The Jackals Feast
Foolish was Hippomenes when he did
not pay tribute to Venus for
capturing the heart of the mesmerizing Atalanta
He should have known better
Men died in pursuit of her beauty
It was their star crossed love
that binds my fortune in the vengeance of Venus
For the two were cast out as lions
Forever damned for tempting Fate
My sign, Leo, cursed and plagued
to wear a hollow crown
In a kingdom where I must do...
950 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
15th May 2013 1:09am
15th May 2013 1:09am
Apple Ass
Apple Ass
~ Lessons from the Gullah Isles ~
Ol' Man Jess had been barkin' somethin' awful
Sounds of a bay hound who's lost the scent
But none of his thrist
Just plain vexed he was
I peeked in on him
He was bowed for his morning call
"Fall to your knees before God
so you don't live there before men"
His Daddy taught him that
And he taught me
"You heatin' my apple ass woman?"
That's what he called it
To us it was just plain apple cider vinegar
I liked mine with honey
...
~ Lessons from the Gullah Isles ~
Ol' Man Jess had been barkin' somethin' awful
Sounds of a bay hound who's lost the scent
But none of his thrist
Just plain vexed he was
I peeked in on him
He was bowed for his morning call
"Fall to your knees before God
so you don't live there before men"
His Daddy taught him that
And he taught me
"You heatin' my apple ass woman?"
That's what he called it
To us it was just plain apple cider vinegar
I liked mine with honey
...
1276 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
12th May 2013 12:16pm
12th May 2013 12:16pm
No. 2
No. 2
Used every day to sharpen your mind
Or dull it with doctrines and dogma
Not meant to enlighten
But merely contain
Erase mistakes
Brush them away lightly
When done hurriedly
Violently
You leave little room for me to guide you further
As you grow
I am diminished
You want to get to the point
So I have to stay sharp but I'm dulled
And gnawed by the same things you are
The very same people
The very same world
You bite me
Play paper hockey with me ...
Used every day to sharpen your mind
Or dull it with doctrines and dogma
Not meant to enlighten
But merely contain
Erase mistakes
Brush them away lightly
When done hurriedly
Violently
You leave little room for me to guide you further
As you grow
I am diminished
You want to get to the point
So I have to stay sharp but I'm dulled
And gnawed by the same things you are
The very same people
The very same world
You bite me
Play paper hockey with me ...
905 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd May 2013 7:18am
3rd May 2013 7:18am
Darkness under the Rainbow
Darkness under the Rainbow
I Hated his rainbow
He said it set him free
Gave him strength he said
"It just let's me be me"
"Red is life
Like the blood in my vein"
Stop talking like that
His silhouette mirrored my shame
Orange brought healing
Yellow stolen sunlight
What's your count today?
"350, I'm alright"
The nature of Green
Drew us to bike in Central Park
Time slipped away from us
And the shadows began to hark
In a sea of Blue
He bathed in harmony
Only his dark...
I Hated his rainbow
He said it set him free
Gave him strength he said
"It just let's me be me"
"Red is life
Like the blood in my vein"
Stop talking like that
His silhouette mirrored my shame
Orange brought healing
Yellow stolen sunlight
What's your count today?
"350, I'm alright"
The nature of Green
Drew us to bike in Central Park
Time slipped away from us
And the shadows began to hark
In a sea of Blue
He bathed in harmony
Only his dark...
#LGBT
#rainbow
#ignorance
869 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Apr 2013 7:38am
29th Apr 2013 7:38am
Ol' Man Jess
Ol' Man Jess
~ Lessons from the Gullah Isles
Tis the Devil's heat today
"Junior, come ya boy"
He needs cigarettes
I'm thirsty
So.
He spits at the ground
His aim near me
"If it dries
before you're
back ..."
I'd
Get switched.
Drink my sweat
Two packs of Camels
He had determined my worth
Stroke
Gospel hymns
When he died
But I only laughed
Make the devil run now
~ Lessons from the Gullah Isles
Tis the Devil's heat today
"Junior, come ya boy"
He needs cigarettes
I'm thirsty
So.
He spits at the ground
His aim near me
"If it dries
before you're
back ..."
I'd
Get switched.
Drink my sweat
Two packs of Camels
He had determined my worth
Stroke
Gospel hymns
When he died
But I only laughed
Make the devil run now
799 reads
0 Comments
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