Submissions by PhantomPhace
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
looking for words for what cannot be said
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
22nd Sep 2023 8:55pm
22nd Sep 2023 8:55pm
fog
I walked into the fog of a spell
avoiding it was impossible
for I was born blind (blindness the sin –
see at any cost) like all,
a fog lain over the land where we dwell:
see it too late – it covers itself.
when all becomes fog, world becomes bathed in gray
we become accustomed to limited spectrums
within our conception
what breaks our perception?
given a cure – then it's taken away
or diverts the curse into new dimension:
symbols are abstracts; the ocean is mere introspection
look inward, into the fog – fog has settled there ...
avoiding it was impossible
for I was born blind (blindness the sin –
see at any cost) like all,
a fog lain over the land where we dwell:
see it too late – it covers itself.
when all becomes fog, world becomes bathed in gray
we become accustomed to limited spectrums
within our conception
what breaks our perception?
given a cure – then it's taken away
or diverts the curse into new dimension:
symbols are abstracts; the ocean is mere introspection
look inward, into the fog – fog has settled there ...
#Christian
#faith
#spiritual
#magic
#curse
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
8th Dec 2020 7:01pm
8th Dec 2020 7:01pm
Coda
I'm afraid most of all that I am my least favorite type to witness from across the room the one who hides and lies
This distance from my heart by the uncrossable boundary of mind is a pillared wall that even outside forces couldn't break behind
What do I do with me my eternal companion my sole ocean voyager as company on the endless sea of the life I float along?
We are ringing round the lonely waters of obliviousness hand in hand forever searching for a mythic spark of land
Lonely journey gifted journey gifted to me I am grateful truly but I bring...
This distance from my heart by the uncrossable boundary of mind is a pillared wall that even outside forces couldn't break behind
What do I do with me my eternal companion my sole ocean voyager as company on the endless sea of the life I float along?
We are ringing round the lonely waters of obliviousness hand in hand forever searching for a mythic spark of land
Lonely journey gifted journey gifted to me I am grateful truly but I bring...
#sea
#music
#lyrics
#SelfReflection
#SelfDiscovery
289 reads
2 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
13th Sep 2020 6:08am
13th Sep 2020 6:08am
Crack
https://soundcloud.com/phantomphace/crack
***
There's a crack inside my soul
I could sing about it forever
but I never will return to how I was
And I run so I can find
what lies over this divide
but every time I lose myself again
There's a crack inside my self
Every night I sit with Death
but each morning somehow I'm awake again
It's a nightly visitor,
sits beside me to whisper,
"Can you tell me why it is that you're alive?"
There's a place inside my soul
I'm afraid...
***
There's a crack inside my soul
I could sing about it forever
but I never will return to how I was
And I run so I can find
what lies over this divide
but every time I lose myself again
There's a crack inside my self
Every night I sit with Death
but each morning somehow I'm awake again
It's a nightly visitor,
sits beside me to whisper,
"Can you tell me why it is that you're alive?"
There's a place inside my soul
I'm afraid...
#depression
#death
433 reads
2 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
21st Jun 2020 8:52pm
21st Jun 2020 8:52pm
Evolve as the Pamphlet Directs
Take a hard turn; try to see where we're going
Think about the weather and try to move slow
Started on a track; now I'm stuck in a bind
When the waves rise up, I have somewhere to go
We lost one religion, now another comes up
bearing no name to pull youinto its game
Hand out the pamphlets and swallow the message;
It takes me a little more time
I was a pagan and a pagan I'll stay
See the stones of my ways in a thousand years
Oh, the stories scholars will invent,
the silent truths we'll all forget
The...
Think about the weather and try to move slow
Started on a track; now I'm stuck in a bind
When the waves rise up, I have somewhere to go
We lost one religion, now another comes up
bearing no name to pull youinto its game
Hand out the pamphlets and swallow the message;
It takes me a little more time
I was a pagan and a pagan I'll stay
See the stones of my ways in a thousand years
Oh, the stories scholars will invent,
the silent truths we'll all forget
The...
#religion
#culture
407 reads
4 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
10th Jun 2020 2:07am
10th Jun 2020 2:07am
Love Kills
I do not watch the Daily Show
I do not watch John Oliver
I'm gonna end up all alone
out on an island of somewhere nobody cares for
It takes a lot to find a mate
It takes a lot to nod your head these days
I don't think Greta Thunberg is our new lord and savior
Why don't you leave that girl alone? Love kills as much as hate does
Your love is killing her
Passion kills just as passion
when it rides the wave of fashion
to break on shores of paradise
I never get invited to
the beach party where...
I do not watch John Oliver
I'm gonna end up all alone
out on an island of somewhere nobody cares for
It takes a lot to find a mate
It takes a lot to nod your head these days
I don't think Greta Thunberg is our new lord and savior
Why don't you leave that girl alone? Love kills as much as hate does
Your love is killing her
Passion kills just as passion
when it rides the wave of fashion
to break on shores of paradise
I never get invited to
the beach party where...
#loneliness
#freedom
#culture #love
#culture #love
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1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Mar 2020 00:19am
18th Mar 2020 00:19am
Eras
I am a computer
They know that about me
They know they need computers
To output what they see
They know the output I’ll conclude –
They just need me to do it
I’m built to churn and process what’s put into me
So they put in information
To get what they desire
To be put on paper
And stamped into trees
I feel powerless, like a baby, my brain – knowing this –
a landfill for absolutely everything
When they limit information
When the laborers come filling the wells in with dirt ...
They know that about me
They know they need computers
To output what they see
They know the output I’ll conclude –
They just need me to do it
I’m built to churn and process what’s put into me
So they put in information
To get what they desire
To be put on paper
And stamped into trees
I feel powerless, like a baby, my brain – knowing this –
a landfill for absolutely everything
When they limit information
When the laborers come filling the wells in with dirt ...
#power
#technology
#politics
542 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
8th Mar 2020 11:49pm
8th Mar 2020 11:49pm
Square 1 4 - 10 Years of Work -or- A Lot About the Sun -or- The Embodiment of Conflict
Wrestle with myself to get something going
in my head
in my brain in my room
in whatever expanding and shrinking disappearing non-existing space
I drop everything to renew.
Only a story passed through
and I start tomorrow at ground zero.
Put on the music and sit alone.
Be free of structure and rhyme - only say what could not be said
yesterday.
Like this passing through
the world
meeting everyone
having...
in my head
in my brain in my room
in whatever expanding and shrinking disappearing non-existing space
I drop everything to renew.
Only a story passed through
and I start tomorrow at ground zero.
Put on the music and sit alone.
Be free of structure and rhyme - only say what could not be said
yesterday.
Like this passing through
the world
meeting everyone
having...
#conflict
#rebirth
#myself
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
29th Feb 2020 3:10pm
29th Feb 2020 3:10pm
What, oh what, does extreme loneliness make you do? (God have mercy on me)
How grave is the sickness?
The lengths that it makes me go to
the worlds that it makes me build up around me
and fall when the wind blows.
How grave is the sickness?
My propeller.
Shouldn't bring others into where I dwell.
I can't even see.
Beloved sickness
eating me
regurgitating me
enveloping enlightening and fading away
taking with it everything I learned
back into the Void
the Big Black Void
where nothing existed
where I know I'd created Another
just now realized the metaphor was true....
The lengths that it makes me go to
the worlds that it makes me build up around me
and fall when the wind blows.
How grave is the sickness?
My propeller.
Shouldn't bring others into where I dwell.
I can't even see.
Beloved sickness
eating me
regurgitating me
enveloping enlightening and fading away
taking with it everything I learned
back into the Void
the Big Black Void
where nothing existed
where I know I'd created Another
just now realized the metaphor was true....
#loneliness
#TruthOfLife
498 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
24th Feb 2020 11:07pm
24th Feb 2020 11:07pm
All Across a Breaking World
I will know you for a little bit
then will disappear
back into the woods to work
to make myself heard clear
to know myself - just myself - once again
above the noise you're left in -
out of centuries and speakeasys polluted by the locals dissecting the time-encumbered sounds behind them
clear off time;
out of time;
dip into
solitude
lonelitude
my own self
only
for so long
most of my life
minor bright spots shine whenever i do step outside
and oh they shine...
then will disappear
back into the woods to work
to make myself heard clear
to know myself - just myself - once again
above the noise you're left in -
out of centuries and speakeasys polluted by the locals dissecting the time-encumbered sounds behind them
clear off time;
out of time;
dip into
solitude
lonelitude
my own self
only
for so long
most of my life
minor bright spots shine whenever i do step outside
and oh they shine...
#LifeCycle
#identity
451 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
23rd Feb 2020 5:53pm
23rd Feb 2020 5:53pm
)untitled(
Somewhere I know
Reality
Somewhere I know
What had to be
Somehow I know
what I had to do
Pull you out
into the air ---
Now I can breathe again.
Who are you?
Oh who are you?
Starting anew
Walking forward. . .
Maybe you will discover
Your past was no lie
Maybe you will discover
I have made this I
Maybe you will discover
that nothing has to be
Maybe one day you'll recover
Maybe one day
you will be...
Reality
Somewhere I know
What had to be
Somehow I know
what I had to do
Pull you out
into the air ---
Now I can breathe again.
Who are you?
Oh who are you?
Starting anew
Walking forward. . .
Maybe you will discover
Your past was no lie
Maybe you will discover
I have made this I
Maybe you will discover
that nothing has to be
Maybe one day you'll recover
Maybe one day
you will be...
#identity
#universe
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2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
23rd Feb 2020 7:23am
23rd Feb 2020 7:23am
To Have Never Been
I know the secret ---
where we're all going
that they keep from us.
Why am I writing this?
Laughing.
There's an infinity ---
all is forever ---
if it was born
it cannot die.
I am ready to fade
I - I - I
to annihilate,
having been ---
peacefully,
now I wait
for the moment
I have said everything I had to say
for the Never-Infinite.
I am ready
to never have been.
All of the Infinite --
There never was
we never were living
walking the street...
where we're all going
that they keep from us.
Why am I writing this?
Laughing.
There's an infinity ---
all is forever ---
if it was born
it cannot die.
I am ready to fade
I - I - I
to annihilate,
having been ---
peacefully,
now I wait
for the moment
I have said everything I had to say
for the Never-Infinite.
I am ready
to never have been.
All of the Infinite --
There never was
we never were living
walking the street...
#identity
#universe
#spiritual #SelfReflection
#spiritual #SelfReflection
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LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Feb 2020 7:18am
23rd Feb 2020 7:18am
The Size of My Phone
In my long deep waiting tunnel
I will take
as they do take
from me
except with pure intentions ---
I will take your malformed iteration ---
turn it into God
then we
will walk upon the newly forming Earth
as we already do
as I already see . . . .
I see through
into
the background
hidden
...
I will take
as they do take
from me
except with pure intentions ---
I will take your malformed iteration ---
turn it into God
then we
will walk upon the newly forming Earth
as we already do
as I already see . . . .
I see through
into
the background
hidden
...
#sex
#spiritual
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