Submissions by Pinkdreams
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Humorist and storyteller, with a dash of lyrical loveliness and an occasional deep thought.
SELF POEM
Published
Yesterday 6:28pm
Yesterday 6:28pm
List # 11: Times When I'm Happy
1. Almost always when I'm eating. Gawd I love food. I'd marry it if I could. Wait, I think I did...
2. When I land in a new country and wonder how I'm going to be different when I leave
3. When I'm the center of attention and everyone else thinks I'm as funny as I think I am
4. When I'm on any kind of boat or ship on the open water and a cool breeze is blowing back my hair.
5. When I'm in a library, greedily grabbing as many books as I want
6. Every time my cat jumps on my lap. Lately when she does I say Yay, I won a cat! I'm not sure why.
7. When my students are...
2. When I land in a new country and wonder how I'm going to be different when I leave
3. When I'm the center of attention and everyone else thinks I'm as funny as I think I am
4. When I'm on any kind of boat or ship on the open water and a cool breeze is blowing back my hair.
5. When I'm in a library, greedily grabbing as many books as I want
6. Every time my cat jumps on my lap. Lately when she does I say Yay, I won a cat! I'm not sure why.
7. When my students are...
#happiness
45 reads
10 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Dec 2024 1:34am
27th Dec 2024 1:34am
Cruel World
We were thrown together
Working a temp job we were both overqualified for.
He, a recent college grad soon to begin a master's
And me, who had gotten my bachelor's
somewhere around the time his parents were in kindergarten.
We talked about everything
Movies
Music
Politics
What the future of the world might hold
What America would be like in fifty years
Even ten.
It turned depressing from there.
Cruel World, young guy said, shaking his head
How long have you known that? I ask
...
Working a temp job we were both overqualified for.
He, a recent college grad soon to begin a master's
And me, who had gotten my bachelor's
somewhere around the time his parents were in kindergarten.
We talked about everything
Movies
Music
Politics
What the future of the world might hold
What America would be like in fifty years
Even ten.
It turned depressing from there.
Cruel World, young guy said, shaking his head
How long have you known that? I ask
...
#denial
#fear
#TruthOfLife
61 reads
10 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
22nd Dec 2024 6:10pm
22nd Dec 2024 6:10pm
Loosening the White Knuckled Grip
I should be..
Nah.
I need to...
Who cares.
It's 7 AM! I overslept!
Pfffttt
Ugh! Ruth smashed a cupcake in Gustavo's face at the Christmas party and I didn't do anything about it.
Yawn. He lived.
Why did all my teacher gifts from parents have to be sweets?
Because they're effing good, even the Ferrero Rochers, and yes, I will have another.
How many times have I watched the David Lee Roth Just a Gigolo video since Friday evening?
Who's counting? It's cute and funny and I love...
Nah.
I need to...
Who cares.
It's 7 AM! I overslept!
Pfffttt
Ugh! Ruth smashed a cupcake in Gustavo's face at the Christmas party and I didn't do anything about it.
Yawn. He lived.
Why did all my teacher gifts from parents have to be sweets?
Because they're effing good, even the Ferrero Rochers, and yes, I will have another.
How many times have I watched the David Lee Roth Just a Gigolo video since Friday evening?
Who's counting? It's cute and funny and I love...
#happiness
#holiday
#school
49 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Dec 2024 4:25am
22nd Dec 2024 4:25am
Deserted
Sonoran desert
sparse like you
unsentimental wishes
alluring invitation
cancelled party
sparse like you
unsentimental wishes
alluring invitation
cancelled party
#desert
#hope
#TruthOfLife
88 reads
8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Dec 2024 4:46am
18th Dec 2024 4:46am
Estrella is a Star
She's the first one on the dance floor.
The only one.
Fine.
More room for her to shine.
Estrella doesn't test the water of the thudding beat.
She stomps right into it.
Owning the ocean.
Letting no wave stop her
Swimming so strong she could reach a distant shore.
Her confidence a beacon,
others are lured to the dance space.
They giggle.
Look to each other for what to do.
It will take them years -if ever- to figure out
What Estrella was born knowing.
I hope Estrella always remembers ...
The only one.
Fine.
More room for her to shine.
Estrella doesn't test the water of the thudding beat.
She stomps right into it.
Owning the ocean.
Letting no wave stop her
Swimming so strong she could reach a distant shore.
Her confidence a beacon,
others are lured to the dance space.
They giggle.
Look to each other for what to do.
It will take them years -if ever- to figure out
What Estrella was born knowing.
I hope Estrella always remembers ...
#childhood
#courage
#dance
68 reads
10 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
14th Dec 2024 2:06am
14th Dec 2024 2:06am
Ringside
Tracy takes me to Ringside Steakhouse the day before my birthday
We get our entrees at 9:30 PM.
I've flown from Phoenix to Portland
Spent Thanksgiving with my sister
Then taken the train to Tacoma to visit old friends
By the time a bus gets me back to Portland, it's late and I'm not very hungry
I haven't seen Tracy in 14 years
and it's only the second time seeing him in almost twenty
He's not on social media, so I didn't know how to age him in my mind
I never thought of him as fat,
but he's lost something like 50 pounds ...
We get our entrees at 9:30 PM.
I've flown from Phoenix to Portland
Spent Thanksgiving with my sister
Then taken the train to Tacoma to visit old friends
By the time a bus gets me back to Portland, it's late and I'm not very hungry
I haven't seen Tracy in 14 years
and it's only the second time seeing him in almost twenty
He's not on social media, so I didn't know how to age him in my mind
I never thought of him as fat,
but he's lost something like 50 pounds ...
#aging
#boyfriend
#travel
83 reads
5 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th Dec 2024 4:25am
11th Dec 2024 4:25am
Lucid Dreams of Bowling Alley Men
He had straight blonde hair and was young.
Perhaps I was too
He showed me a large, luxurious bedroom with many windows
I loved it,
but it was a guest room.
Who was he?
He worked at a bowling alley.
Wha?
No...
Well, maybe it's okay
He showed me another beautiful guest space.
Why?
And what made him keeper of the keys?
I change into a clingy, champagne-colored dress
It looks great
How is this possible?
He's wonderful
He's an idiot
No, he's perfect
but he's...
Perhaps I was too
He showed me a large, luxurious bedroom with many windows
I loved it,
but it was a guest room.
Who was he?
He worked at a bowling alley.
Wha?
No...
Well, maybe it's okay
He showed me another beautiful guest space.
Why?
And what made him keeper of the keys?
I change into a clingy, champagne-colored dress
It looks great
How is this possible?
He's wonderful
He's an idiot
No, he's perfect
but he's...
#dreams
#mystery
114 reads
16 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Dec 2024 2:27am
8th Dec 2024 2:27am
Less News, More Art
What survives the centuries?
Art.
There have always been fires,
both real and metaphorical.
They are currently burning fast and furious
with plenty more on the way.
Enough with the ceremonial doom dance around each one.
Less news.
More art.
Create it every way you can.
And dance to celebrate the joy.
Art.
There have always been fires,
both real and metaphorical.
They are currently burning fast and furious
with plenty more on the way.
Enough with the ceremonial doom dance around each one.
Less news.
More art.
Create it every way you can.
And dance to celebrate the joy.
#art
108 reads
11 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
2nd Dec 2024 00:48am
2nd Dec 2024 00:48am
Laughlin from the Sky
A sudden land blaze
Where am I?
The sky is honest
The land tells lies.
So many patchwork quilts
Neat human geometry
the higher you go.
45 minutes from Phoenix
a small crop of flashing signs below,
a river behind them.
I'm always guessing in the air
Where am I?
But I'm fairly certain i know this: Laughlin, Nevada
A weekend...what?
Fourteen years ago?
I want to start parsing that weekend
Neat cognitive geometry
Remembering this
Selectively forgetting that. ...
Where am I?
The sky is honest
The land tells lies.
So many patchwork quilts
Neat human geometry
the higher you go.
45 minutes from Phoenix
a small crop of flashing signs below,
a river behind them.
I'm always guessing in the air
Where am I?
But I'm fairly certain i know this: Laughlin, Nevada
A weekend...what?
Fourteen years ago?
I want to start parsing that weekend
Neat cognitive geometry
Remembering this
Selectively forgetting that. ...
#lust
#memories
#travel
140 reads
6 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
18th Nov 2024 5:27am
18th Nov 2024 5:27am
I Was 18 and Stoned, Okay?
What do the stars mean?
Absolute realization of one's aliveness.
The wind is a cool silver stream
She could stand still and live the pinnacle of happiness.
But up ahead, he is the ocean,
Can she, just once, dive off the moon
and jump into him,
his entirety
which surely would welcome her
with ecstasy, not obstacles?
Alive, alive, alive
The silver wind blows
The midnight mountain is a treadmill
They walk without concern
A rustle in the trees
Piqued curiosity meets opportunity
...
Absolute realization of one's aliveness.
The wind is a cool silver stream
She could stand still and live the pinnacle of happiness.
But up ahead, he is the ocean,
Can she, just once, dive off the moon
and jump into him,
his entirety
which surely would welcome her
with ecstasy, not obstacles?
Alive, alive, alive
The silver wind blows
The midnight mountain is a treadmill
They walk without concern
A rustle in the trees
Piqued curiosity meets opportunity
...
#college
#drugs
#mountains
94 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Nov 2024 4:52am
18th Nov 2024 4:52am
The League of Horrible Pants
They were a triad of unfortunate fashion
wide, wide pants
with wide, wide openings
two pairs exhausted black
one the grayish brown of smog
the frayed bottoms swept up dust
and crumbs
and who knows what else
as they walked (three wide of course)
the aisles of the local Safeway
One's tattered jacket
as unfortunate looking as his pants
had an evil clown on the back
with some sort of I-warned-you message about madness
maybe he was a CPA who coaches Little League
one never knows
life is random and weird ...
wide, wide pants
with wide, wide openings
two pairs exhausted black
one the grayish brown of smog
the frayed bottoms swept up dust
and crumbs
and who knows what else
as they walked (three wide of course)
the aisles of the local Safeway
One's tattered jacket
as unfortunate looking as his pants
had an evil clown on the back
with some sort of I-warned-you message about madness
maybe he was a CPA who coaches Little League
one never knows
life is random and weird ...
#PopCulture
82 reads
5 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
28th Oct 2024 3:45am
28th Oct 2024 3:45am
One of These Doesn't Fit
One of these doesn't fit
Whopper Junior with fries
Poetry flowing free
Knowing what's inside of me
Letting truth set me free
One of these doesn't fit
Something to look forward to
A fond memory to renew
Icelandic Handball team loses to Netherlands
One of these doesn't fit
The promise of petrichor
Cleansing rain is in store
Europa has an iron core
Nature rains down gifts galore
One of these doesn't fit
Sometimes that's me in a crowd
But then uniqueness is allowed
I don't like...
Whopper Junior with fries
Poetry flowing free
Knowing what's inside of me
Letting truth set me free
One of these doesn't fit
Something to look forward to
A fond memory to renew
Icelandic Handball team loses to Netherlands
One of these doesn't fit
The promise of petrichor
Cleansing rain is in store
Europa has an iron core
Nature rains down gifts galore
One of these doesn't fit
Sometimes that's me in a crowd
But then uniqueness is allowed
I don't like...
#WritingPoetry
116 reads
5 Comments
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