Submissions by Magnetron
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
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[ FS ] Picture Me In Pink
Visualize
I am sitting naked next to you
Just picture me in blue
Picture me in blue
against clear skies
with nothing of importance to do
Just picture me in blue
Picture me in blue
Close your eyes---
imagine yourself this scene
Just picture me in green
Picture me in green
Try it on for size---
a Springtime meadow, serene
Just picture me in green
Picture me in green
Let yourself unwind
Relax, gather in this sight
Just...
I am sitting naked next to you
Just picture me in blue
Picture me in blue
against clear skies
with nothing of importance to do
Just picture me in blue
Picture me in blue
Close your eyes---
imagine yourself this scene
Just picture me in green
Picture me in green
Try it on for size---
a Springtime meadow, serene
Just picture me in green
Picture me in green
Let yourself unwind
Relax, gather in this sight
Just...
975 reads
4 Comments
[ SciFi & Fantasy ] See How It Feels?
I don't know what to make of this
I don't know what to make of this
These hands, clumsy
adamantine alloy
void of appreciation
lacking a single sense receptor
Frustration grows by the hour
unable to experience fabric of a flower
Texture, pain, pleasure, joy
---only thing worth using them for
is to crush and destroy
I take from you what you take for granted
I take from you what I was deprived of
You can have my hate, I give it freely
and in...
I don't know what to make of this
These hands, clumsy
adamantine alloy
void of appreciation
lacking a single sense receptor
Frustration grows by the hour
unable to experience fabric of a flower
Texture, pain, pleasure, joy
---only thing worth using them for
is to crush and destroy
I take from you what you take for granted
I take from you what I was deprived of
You can have my hate, I give it freely
and in...
974 reads
4 Comments
Anatomy Of A Dragon I
Forgotten oaths sworn by elder generations
mystic rites, incantations, spoken
in archaic languages, tongues
long broken
echoing
in caverns that are the dragon's lungs
mystic rites, incantations, spoken
in archaic languages, tongues
long broken
echoing
in caverns that are the dragon's lungs
#dreams
#dragons
768 reads
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[ Politics ] System Failure
Crash
The system begins to fail
Your struggles to no avail
as talking heads of state prevail
childishly holding their breath
Watch
partisan lungs deflate
derailing prolonged debate
Need to defibrillate governing body
now completely failing us
Crash
The system long corrupted
by the morally bankrupted
Peace talks interrupted
Goodwill anesthetized
Lost
Function and control
War machine on downhill roll
Hear the chiming toll to be paid ...
The system begins to fail
Your struggles to no avail
as talking heads of state prevail
childishly holding their breath
Watch
partisan lungs deflate
derailing prolonged debate
Need to defibrillate governing body
now completely failing us
Crash
The system long corrupted
by the morally bankrupted
Peace talks interrupted
Goodwill anesthetized
Lost
Function and control
War machine on downhill roll
Hear the chiming toll to be paid ...
815 reads
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[ FS ] The Briar Patch
Once upon a wandering in the Old Country
was a flowering bush not meant for everyone to see
I stumbled across this flower, a rose for certain
hidden within briars under morning's misty curtain
Pleasant was the scent as I knelt down upon one knee
Reach for the bush I did for what was pleasing me
No ordinary flower this was by the softness of its petals
causing me to linger further, brushing away the nettles
A woman's voice spoke softly, offering me a sip of wine
from that beautiful flowering bush, divinest...
was a flowering bush not meant for everyone to see
I stumbled across this flower, a rose for certain
hidden within briars under morning's misty curtain
Pleasant was the scent as I knelt down upon one knee
Reach for the bush I did for what was pleasing me
No ordinary flower this was by the softness of its petals
causing me to linger further, brushing away the nettles
A woman's voice spoke softly, offering me a sip of wine
from that beautiful flowering bush, divinest...
930 reads
4 Comments
[2014] Flappy Bat Not So Happy
An enigma
not quite so enigmatic
Transparently unpragmatic
Flappy bat bouncing off the rafters in the attic;
too tragic for words to describe
Scattered thoughts
lost in the storm
eminating in the form of static
Jumping to conclusions
in fashion automatic---
too tragic a song to sing
Tangled in my hair---
bat flying everywhere
Whizzing through the air---
flying rodent of DESPAIR!
Aaaaaghhhhhhh!
Getaway! Getaway!
You're not welcome anyway
in my attic, in my...
not quite so enigmatic
Transparently unpragmatic
Flappy bat bouncing off the rafters in the attic;
too tragic for words to describe
Scattered thoughts
lost in the storm
eminating in the form of static
Jumping to conclusions
in fashion automatic---
too tragic a song to sing
Tangled in my hair---
bat flying everywhere
Whizzing through the air---
flying rodent of DESPAIR!
Aaaaaghhhhhhh!
Getaway! Getaway!
You're not welcome anyway
in my attic, in my...
724 reads
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[ SciFi & Fantasy ] It's Halloween!
Spooky cobwebbed windows
and goblins green
My favorite day has arrived
It's Halloween!
Oooh, I better hurry
Children already on the streets
frolicking in their costumes
begging for candy sweets
Time to wait for them
at the door!
ding dong ding dong
Trick or Treat!
Smell my feet!
Give me something good to eat!
You look rather scrumptious
How about I eat you instead?
I've been having a craving
for some decapitated head!
chomp
gulp ...
and goblins green
My favorite day has arrived
It's Halloween!
Oooh, I better hurry
Children already on the streets
frolicking in their costumes
begging for candy sweets
Time to wait for them
at the door!
ding dong ding dong
Trick or Treat!
Smell my feet!
Give me something good to eat!
You look rather scrumptious
How about I eat you instead?
I've been having a craving
for some decapitated head!
chomp
gulp ...
803 reads
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[ SciFi & Fantasy ] Worlds At War
Lightning strikes
Ground rips apart
Motors whine, gears unwind
The End is about to start
Soon there's more than one
Monstrous tripods loom
Canvassing neighborhoods;
mecha-spiders of doom
Worlds at war
The life you have yet to live is
nevermore
The course of history changed
forever
Run for your lives
Ear shattering screams
Bodies crushed into pulp
Torched with laser beams
Buildings blown away
Tidal waves of debris ...
Ground rips apart
Motors whine, gears unwind
The End is about to start
Soon there's more than one
Monstrous tripods loom
Canvassing neighborhoods;
mecha-spiders of doom
Worlds at war
The life you have yet to live is
nevermore
The course of history changed
forever
Run for your lives
Ear shattering screams
Bodies crushed into pulp
Torched with laser beams
Buildings blown away
Tidal waves of debris ...
#war
#aliens
#scifi
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[ Tolkien ] A Mere Trinket
Hold me in your hand
Such an ordinary metal band
i am
so shiny
G O L D
reflected
in your eyes---
cool, its touch
upon warm fingers
as wraithing hands writhe
in desperation, sensing
POWER that still lingers;
Forged in Mount Doom's molten rift
where flames burned white-hot fervent
Distrust fanned between Elf, Dwarf, and Man
as Nine crowned became...
Such an ordinary metal band
i am
so shiny
G O L D
reflected
in your eyes---
cool, its touch
upon warm fingers
as wraithing hands writhe
in desperation, sensing
POWER that still lingers;
Forged in Mount Doom's molten rift
where flames burned white-hot fervent
Distrust fanned between Elf, Dwarf, and Man
as Nine crowned became...
#JRRTolkien
887 reads
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[ Tolkien ] The March Of The Ents
From the highest winding branch
down to the deepest gnarled root
and furthermost wavering leaf
the decision is moot
Moot moot moot moot
Moot moot moot moot
Here no more for ourselves
we are off to help the Little Ones
and Men and Dwarves and Elves
Having endured many moons and suns
dating back to ages ancient
in this constantly changing world
our existence becoming rapidly...
down to the deepest gnarled root
and furthermost wavering leaf
the decision is moot
Moot moot moot moot
Moot moot moot moot
Here no more for ourselves
we are off to help the Little Ones
and Men and Dwarves and Elves
Having endured many moons and suns
dating back to ages ancient
in this constantly changing world
our existence becoming rapidly...
#JRRTolkien
819 reads
2 Comments
[ SciFi & Fantasy ] The Tenth Melissa
Five kilometers underground
manufactured in secret
along with nine others
Shadow government facility
Absent parents or brothers
a hive of sisterhood
intentions far from altruistic
pretensed as Greater Good
plaus • i • ble de • ni • a • bil • i • ty
Thus a little known story
in which chaos erupted; ...
manufactured in secret
along with nine others
Shadow government facility
Absent parents or brothers
a hive of sisterhood
intentions far from altruistic
pretensed as Greater Good
plaus • i • ble de • ni • a • bil • i • ty
Thus a little known story
in which chaos erupted; ...
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[2014] Here's To The Lies ( v.2450 )
Get down
How low will you go?
to stay the execution
delay parade from Death Row?
To where with a brine soaked skull
when in the moment pivotal
Society cleaves and cooks the meat
From the breastbone of your soul
Will you appeal, insist it wasn't real
pleading insanity or in an act of vanity?
Sign a perverse and cursed Faustian deal
in a pathetic sloughing of whatever ethics
miserably clinging with lichened fingers
to a rigored conscience that lingers
fills your ears with dull ringing?
...
How low will you go?
to stay the execution
delay parade from Death Row?
To where with a brine soaked skull
when in the moment pivotal
Society cleaves and cooks the meat
From the breastbone of your soul
Will you appeal, insist it wasn't real
pleading insanity or in an act of vanity?
Sign a perverse and cursed Faustian deal
in a pathetic sloughing of whatever ethics
miserably clinging with lichened fingers
to a rigored conscience that lingers
fills your ears with dull ringing?
...
755 reads
3 Comments
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