Submissions by PaleSkies
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Been writing for years. I love raw humor or dark. At times I overcook my words but that's what I do. The dark cannot hurt you unless you are drowning in emotions.
SELF POEM
Published
12th Sep 2023 2:10pm
12th Sep 2023 2:10pm
When We Were Ghosts
When we were ghosts
I was young and didn't know butter
Make-believe was called, just pretend
There were no cowboy hats in Nashville
The TV had rabbit ears and test patterns
There were typewriters and old folks
My big sister had a doll with a broken leg
I walked to school in the snow and rain
Chicken fingers were something to laugh at
Converse Tennis shoes were $5 a pair
Daddy had a car accident and broke himself
Mom had a cyst removed from her breasts
I learned the Pledge of Allegiance
My best friend...
I was young and didn't know butter
Make-believe was called, just pretend
There were no cowboy hats in Nashville
The TV had rabbit ears and test patterns
There were typewriters and old folks
My big sister had a doll with a broken leg
I walked to school in the snow and rain
Chicken fingers were something to laugh at
Converse Tennis shoes were $5 a pair
Daddy had a car accident and broke himself
Mom had a cyst removed from her breasts
I learned the Pledge of Allegiance
My best friend...
#philosophical
210 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
12th Sep 2023 5:18am
12th Sep 2023 5:18am
Forever
In memories, beaucoup. When it was yesterday
And now it's tomorrow, adieu. Dreaming, ensemble.
Closing my eyes as if Heaven is on satin sheets
As I think of nothing but a gypsy in my soul.
When I whispered, pour toujours, forever.
And now it's tomorrow, adieu. Dreaming, ensemble.
Closing my eyes as if Heaven is on satin sheets
As I think of nothing but a gypsy in my soul.
When I whispered, pour toujours, forever.
#love
#romantic
157 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
11th Sep 2023 6:28pm
11th Sep 2023 6:28pm
The State of Fart
It is an imperfect world but my molasses
being taken over by crotchety crazies
in puddle-ass nappies with art to fart
sticking bubblegum beneath their seats
In wife beater shirts and faded tattoos
AKA cheap suits for demented souls
covered in TV reruns of global mold
thinking they are a Knucklehead Harley
I don't cotton to a shallow stalk of cane
and Jack Daniels with varicose veins
with their rusted old senile blue gums
squawking like a jackass myna bird on the run
Everyone knows that a Harley is...
being taken over by crotchety crazies
in puddle-ass nappies with art to fart
sticking bubblegum beneath their seats
In wife beater shirts and faded tattoos
AKA cheap suits for demented souls
covered in TV reruns of global mold
thinking they are a Knucklehead Harley
I don't cotton to a shallow stalk of cane
and Jack Daniels with varicose veins
with their rusted old senile blue gums
squawking like a jackass myna bird on the run
Everyone knows that a Harley is...
#loneliness
#greed
#despair #emptiness
#despair #emptiness
125 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
11th Sep 2023 4:54am
11th Sep 2023 4:54am
Moral Decay
The haunting scent of moral decay
with the sacrilege of the fowl quill
lies within the boudoir of hypocrisy
a squid in a narcissistic pool of ink
Scorpio Enfleurage for the damned
in tune with their own idle ego.
with the sacrilege of the fowl quill
lies within the boudoir of hypocrisy
a squid in a narcissistic pool of ink
Scorpio Enfleurage for the damned
in tune with their own idle ego.
#corruption
#deception
162 reads
8 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
10th Sep 2023 9:30pm
10th Sep 2023 9:30pm
Tasting Hereafter
In my mind with the scent of "Eau de Luna"
a deeper shade of gunpowder alluring,
tasting the hereafter, smoldering.
Grounded by your leather corset,
intoxicating the ink-covered night,
with the Hermit of the Damned
whispering a poetic orgy. In my mind
with the scent of "Eau de Luna."
a deeper shade of gunpowder alluring,
tasting the hereafter, smoldering.
Grounded by your leather corset,
intoxicating the ink-covered night,
with the Hermit of the Damned
whispering a poetic orgy. In my mind
with the scent of "Eau de Luna."
#dark
#erotic
163 reads
5 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Sep 2023 7:43pm
9th Sep 2023 7:43pm
Psychedelic Rainbows - Deliabear
My thoughts are psychedelic rainbows.
Of a tie-dyed pistachio tree.
I lay beneath with my cerulean dreams.
Watching the galaxy arabesque a shooting star.
Infinitely wondering where you are.
Time's persistence is relentless.
In nature's cabaret of a toothsome scent.
Through a backlit gilded mirror of yesterday.
Haunting me with the dripping quill.
Except when it stands frozen with it's ghostly chill.
Of a tie-dyed pistachio tree.
I lay beneath with my cerulean dreams.
Watching the galaxy arabesque a shooting star.
Infinitely wondering where you are.
Time's persistence is relentless.
In nature's cabaret of a toothsome scent.
Through a backlit gilded mirror of yesterday.
Haunting me with the dripping quill.
Except when it stands frozen with it's ghostly chill.
#philosophical
#collaboration
147 reads
5 Comments
FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
7th Sep 2023 8:02pm
7th Sep 2023 8:02pm
Wrong Side of Life
Between the eyes and veil of Twilight's philosophy
in pages of my mind held in escrow. With a scent of
chicanery dripping from the quill playing ink spots
pirouetting like shadows. Sipping slowly from an
Absinthe minuet. Listening to static on the radio
speaking to the chowder. As if scarabs in my dreams
chained to the canes in the cloned fields of
Purgatory. Waiting on Charon's Love Boat. Holding on
to the wrong side of life, gone fishing.
in pages of my mind held in escrow. With a scent of
chicanery dripping from the quill playing ink spots
pirouetting like shadows. Sipping slowly from an
Absinthe minuet. Listening to static on the radio
speaking to the chowder. As if scarabs in my dreams
chained to the canes in the cloned fields of
Purgatory. Waiting on Charon's Love Boat. Holding on
to the wrong side of life, gone fishing.
#ghosts
167 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Sep 2023 5:29pm
7th Sep 2023 5:29pm
Caviar on a Cuckoo
Twilight's caviar on a cuckoo
with a kiss of Stolichnaya
thinking it a Starling
dripping a haunting memory
yet, I still stitch an eerie
with a shadow on a wafer Rye
listening to Rachmaninoff
whispering in my ear
Twilight's caviar on a cuckoo
with a kiss of Stolichnaya
thinking it a Starling
dripping a haunting memory
yet, I still stitch an eerie
with a shadow on a wafer Rye
listening to Rachmaninoff
whispering in my ear
Twilight's caviar on a cuckoo
#philosophical
137 reads
2 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Sep 2023 2:19pm
6th Sep 2023 2:19pm
Now A Memoir
Among turrets of towering trees
Seduced by the florals
Wearing nature's shoes
With the falling leaves haunting
Where roses should grow
Like skeletons leaving shadows
Raining down like tallow
Into an agreeable sunset
Echoing the imagery
Now only a memoir
With the sounds of a cello
And echoing cricket
Seduced by the florals
Wearing nature's shoes
With the falling leaves haunting
Where roses should grow
Like skeletons leaving shadows
Raining down like tallow
Into an agreeable sunset
Echoing the imagery
Now only a memoir
With the sounds of a cello
And echoing cricket
#nature
#philosophical
139 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Sep 2023 7:10pm
5th Sep 2023 7:10pm
Gobshite Oracles
Eulogized, by a bottle of Snapple, I snap my garter as I
listen to Rachmaninoff and some gobshite oracles.
Through my mind's chimney top and cracks in my dark
stove pipe hat. Taking a shine, to the hermit in the mirror,
a "Weekend at Bernie's." Thinking that I am Poe. Another
drink, another blackout of a living corpse. Where the fuck
are my sunglasses get those frigging crows off my shutters.
Welcoming you my Fonzie moment.
listen to Rachmaninoff and some gobshite oracles.
Through my mind's chimney top and cracks in my dark
stove pipe hat. Taking a shine, to the hermit in the mirror,
a "Weekend at Bernie's." Thinking that I am Poe. Another
drink, another blackout of a living corpse. Where the fuck
are my sunglasses get those frigging crows off my shutters.
Welcoming you my Fonzie moment.
#dark
152 reads
4 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
4th Sep 2023 5:00pm
4th Sep 2023 5:00pm
Laying Out Jib-Boom
Laying out the jib-boom hoisting chops
listing to ghosts running to the masts
exploring the dark side of humanity
with a worm's eye view in my wake
atop the mizen's breath an albatross
listing to ghosts running to the masts
exploring the dark side of humanity
with a worm's eye view in my wake
atop the mizen's breath an albatross
#ghosts
143 reads
0 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
4th Sep 2023 3:55pm
4th Sep 2023 3:55pm
Between Flesh and Garter
Listening to sneezing from down below
The haunting peons of maddening horrors
Weeping from a scented odd fellow
Spawned by the macabre's entities
Of deadly beans being creeping Tarot
A serum for the dark widow's shake
From my quill of festering clambake
Between the flesh and garter
Snapping the stays of the dark's corset
The haunting peons of maddening horrors
Weeping from a scented odd fellow
Spawned by the macabre's entities
Of deadly beans being creeping Tarot
A serum for the dark widow's shake
From my quill of festering clambake
Between the flesh and garter
Snapping the stays of the dark's corset
#dark
#erotic
149 reads
1 Comment
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