Submissions by Marks
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
SELF POEM
Published
29th Apr 2021 7:33pm
29th Apr 2021 7:33pm
Visual feelings
.. ... ...
Pedestrian traffic...
Generating verses worth reading
Please, do not get rid of me
I am not a scribbler with delusions of grandeur...
... To ignore your inspiration easily
An arcade...
Covering an architectural space
In a block of buildings
Arranged in front of the entrances...
... To shape my visual feelings
Concrete with a human feel
Helping my deeper awareness
My mental wellbeing
An aura of vulnerable realness...
Within my creative thinking
... ... ... ...
Pedestrian traffic...
Generating verses worth reading
Please, do not get rid of me
I am not a scribbler with delusions of grandeur...
... To ignore your inspiration easily
An arcade...
Covering an architectural space
In a block of buildings
Arranged in front of the entrances...
... To shape my visual feelings
Concrete with a human feel
Helping my deeper awareness
My mental wellbeing
An aura of vulnerable realness...
Within my creative thinking
... ... ... ...
#motivational
#inspirational
536 reads
8 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
28th Apr 2021 00:10am
28th Apr 2021 00:10am
Unfelt feeling
.. ...
My heart is not racing.
My temperature is not up.
And my muscles are OK
Darkness is never absolute for my eyes
And shadows need light to survive...
It is left to them to make the direct connection
An exploration of my magnetic side
This obsession seems to become neurotic
Who else can I attract ... What else?
There is plenty of evidence to lead clairvoyants...
... To believe that I am able to stop existing
... ... ...
My heart is not racing.
My temperature is not up.
And my muscles are OK
Darkness is never absolute for my eyes
And shadows need light to survive...
It is left to them to make the direct connection
An exploration of my magnetic side
This obsession seems to become neurotic
Who else can I attract ... What else?
There is plenty of evidence to lead clairvoyants...
... To believe that I am able to stop existing
... ... ...
#strength
458 reads
2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
20th Apr 2021 00:27am
20th Apr 2021 00:27am
Beyond belief
.. ...
I can see no windows...
No buildings...
To judge my speed
Just the black sky above
And below ...
Tiny lights moving like toy towns
Slowly...
Sedately ...
Causing our beds to be hazy and vague
The dark rolling swell of the sheets
Now the lucid dream is alive...
And one step nearer fulfilment
How long for the flight ?
How long have I got ?
How long have she got ?
She and I are beyond belief...
Who could dress up us...
... to look like humans ?
I can see no windows...
No buildings...
To judge my speed
Just the black sky above
And below ...
Tiny lights moving like toy towns
Slowly...
Sedately ...
Causing our beds to be hazy and vague
The dark rolling swell of the sheets
Now the lucid dream is alive...
And one step nearer fulfilment
How long for the flight ?
How long have I got ?
How long have she got ?
She and I are beyond belief...
Who could dress up us...
... to look like humans ?
#love
#motivational
#inspirational
554 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Mar 2021 00:16am
16th Mar 2021 00:16am
Angel eyes
.. ... ...
I moved away from the counter
I crossed the smoky, noisy bar
I whispered into a woman's ear ...
I complimented her on her angel eyes
She smiled... A pleasing precious smile
I turned away... as if I was fading away
And recalled nothing further from the evening...
What else can I say? ... What else can I invent ?
Maybe the moon hissed her loneliness to me ...
Searching for me more frantically
... ... ...
I moved away from the counter
I crossed the smoky, noisy bar
I whispered into a woman's ear ...
I complimented her on her angel eyes
She smiled... A pleasing precious smile
I turned away... as if I was fading away
And recalled nothing further from the evening...
What else can I say? ... What else can I invent ?
Maybe the moon hissed her loneliness to me ...
Searching for me more frantically
... ... ...
#motivational
#inspirational
458 reads
8 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
6th Mar 2021 2:11pm
6th Mar 2021 2:11pm
A complicated dude
.. ... ... ...
Sex
Power
Neurosis
Connection with reality
Society
Intellectualization
A thesis for creativity
Every now and then reason sees the soul
Every now and then
Sex
Insufficient
Transcendental neurosis
Beyond the physical world
The good... The evil
Loneliness
... ... ... ...
Sex
Power
Neurosis
Connection with reality
Society
Intellectualization
A thesis for creativity
Every now and then reason sees the soul
Every now and then
Sex
Insufficient
Transcendental neurosis
Beyond the physical world
The good... The evil
Loneliness
... ... ... ...
#motivational
#inspirational
378 reads
8 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Mar 2021 6:03pm
2nd Mar 2021 6:03pm
Pretty
.. ...
Afternoon sky
Clouds like face masks...
And their insatiable demand...
For a new romance
An unattractive woman
Then the look in her eyes
Then her smile...
And her prettiness
Pretty
A pretty maneuver...
In an empty atmosphere
Afternoon sky
Clouds like face masks...
And their insatiable demand...
... ... For badly trained verses
... ... ... ... Badly supplied... Badly led...
Pleasing woman...
Requires as a necessity...
Better stanzas...
Now she is my...
Afternoon sky
Clouds like face masks...
And their insatiable demand...
For a new romance
An unattractive woman
Then the look in her eyes
Then her smile...
And her prettiness
Pretty
A pretty maneuver...
In an empty atmosphere
Afternoon sky
Clouds like face masks...
And their insatiable demand...
... ... For badly trained verses
... ... ... ... Badly supplied... Badly led...
Pleasing woman...
Requires as a necessity...
Better stanzas...
Now she is my...
#love
#motivational
#inspirational
383 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
12th Feb 2021 00:22am
12th Feb 2021 00:22am
Just because
..
Oops! It seems that I am stuck
Wait ... Retry ...
Wait ? ... Retry ?
Have I crossed a line ?
Am I abusing my inspiration ?
Possible,... but not likely
Wait ... Retry ...
Wait ? ... Retry ?
What if a lot of stuff happens just because?
But why do I...?
Just because
... ... ...
Oops! It seems that I am stuck
Wait ... Retry ...
Wait ? ... Retry ?
Have I crossed a line ?
Am I abusing my inspiration ?
Possible,... but not likely
Wait ... Retry ...
Wait ? ... Retry ?
What if a lot of stuff happens just because?
But why do I...?
Just because
... ... ...
#motivational
#inspirational
380 reads
8 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
31st Jan 2021 00:16am
31st Jan 2021 00:16am
Well, then...
.. ... ...
Memories died ...
Along with ...
The *why nots?* and the *whys?*
And I know it doesn't work like that
Well, then...
If the present has flesh and blood,...
I can deal with it
I could deal with it
... ... ... ...
Memories died ...
Along with ...
The *why nots?* and the *whys?*
And I know it doesn't work like that
Well, then...
If the present has flesh and blood,...
I can deal with it
I could deal with it
... ... ... ...
#inspirational
#utopia
#bittersweet
405 reads
10 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
6th Jan 2021 1:06am
6th Jan 2021 1:06am
Cabotage
.. ... ...
Cabotage
I stroll on within my territory
I stroll up to my old age
No place like home
Now I've got to be free
It has been like living someone else's life
It causes me to question my own perceived journeys
Cabotage
The remaining years
The riverside avenue...
The riverside avenue flanked on both sides by trees
Travelling ...
Travelling like a shadow in the shade they offer
Within the cooling effect they have
... ... ... ...
Cabotage
I stroll on within my territory
I stroll up to my old age
No place like home
Now I've got to be free
It has been like living someone else's life
It causes me to question my own perceived journeys
Cabotage
The remaining years
The riverside avenue...
The riverside avenue flanked on both sides by trees
Travelling ...
Travelling like a shadow in the shade they offer
Within the cooling effect they have
... ... ... ...
#happiness
#gratitude
549 reads
6 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
30th Dec 2020 2:57pm
30th Dec 2020 2:57pm
Pretty blackness ... Nice circles ... The supermarket as an ambush
.. ... ...
Outside...
Evening crawling towards its night
Pretty blackness ...
Makes the air smell better
Inside...
The supermarket shelves...
Offering diversity from their package
Inside...
Nice circles ... going round and round
The machinery of a mega industry
Has a thousand industries inside
Magic tricks make me believe that
Strawberry yogurt has strawberry
...
Outside...
Evening crawling towards its night
Pretty blackness ...
Makes the air smell better
Inside...
The supermarket shelves...
Offering diversity from their package
Inside...
Nice circles ... going round and round
The machinery of a mega industry
Has a thousand industries inside
Magic tricks make me believe that
Strawberry yogurt has strawberry
...
#relationships
#inspirational
#humankind #gratitude
#humankind #gratitude
477 reads
8 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
20th Dec 2020 00:39am
20th Dec 2020 00:39am
Why not ... ?
.. ... ...
Transition...
From dizziness to calmness
Perception...
Of motionless verses
Inspiration...
Debates its own duration
Leaving mere traces of my presence
Why... ?
Why should I spend a whole life-time...
Studying myself ... ?
Why ... ?
Why should I see everything ...
In relation to myself ?
Why ... ?
Why am I always changing myself...
To reflect poetic acts ?
Why not ... ?
... ... ... ...
Image : An Infinity Room installation by Yayoi Kusama.
...
Transition...
From dizziness to calmness
Perception...
Of motionless verses
Inspiration...
Debates its own duration
Leaving mere traces of my presence
Why... ?
Why should I spend a whole life-time...
Studying myself ... ?
Why ... ?
Why should I see everything ...
In relation to myself ?
Why ... ?
Why am I always changing myself...
To reflect poetic acts ?
Why not ... ?
... ... ... ...
Image : An Infinity Room installation by Yayoi Kusama.
...
#motivational
373 reads
17 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
17th Dec 2020 00:50am
17th Dec 2020 00:50am
... Again
.. ... ... ...
Weak dynamism
Streets shown as cubism
Geometric shapes
Interlocking planes
And their aching emptiness
... ... ... All is emerging as a new ground...
... Where a new reality of any kind can happen
Memories from those early cyber days
Then
Home to Internet
Internet to TV
Now I have new friends
And a place to know them ... ... again
... ... ... ...
...
Weak dynamism
Streets shown as cubism
Geometric shapes
Interlocking planes
And their aching emptiness
... ... ... All is emerging as a new ground...
... Where a new reality of any kind can happen
Memories from those early cyber days
Then
Home to Internet
Internet to TV
Now I have new friends
And a place to know them ... ... again
... ... ... ...
...
#strength
#hope
#TimeHeals
#frustration
#despair
426 reads
4 Comments
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