Submissions by Poetryman
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction www.seeds-and-weeds.com jjpoetryman@gmail.com
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Oct 2021 10:53am
19th Oct 2021 10:53am
Let There Be White
Blotted out emotions
Seeping in the cracks
Dripping into holes
Leaving white spaces
Of a stainless background
Until there is nothing left
but light...
Seeping in the cracks
Dripping into holes
Leaving white spaces
Of a stainless background
Until there is nothing left
but light...
#LifeCycle
70 reads
5 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
10th Oct 2021 4:54pm
10th Oct 2021 4:54pm
Failed Poet
Metaphor upon mystery
Meaning veiled beneath cloaks of mist
Spun in shadowy threads of a story
Re-writing tales of mispercieved history
Worst nightmares realized in clarity
That poetry is simply misunderstood vagueries
of analogies twisted in pretzeline similies
Peeing the metaphorical bed that I made
on a matress of nails piercing flesh where I laid
Yet when the real pain of life becomes too much experience
My heart goes silent and my quill will not drip
Not a drop of ink can express this thing
This monster, this...
Meaning veiled beneath cloaks of mist
Spun in shadowy threads of a story
Re-writing tales of mispercieved history
Worst nightmares realized in clarity
That poetry is simply misunderstood vagueries
of analogies twisted in pretzeline similies
Peeing the metaphorical bed that I made
on a matress of nails piercing flesh where I laid
Yet when the real pain of life becomes too much experience
My heart goes silent and my quill will not drip
Not a drop of ink can express this thing
This monster, this...
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry
135 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
10th Oct 2021 4:24pm
10th Oct 2021 4:24pm
Jade Pandora
For months I have been wondering if Jade is gone. We are/were and will forever be good friends.
I have tried calling he but her phone numbers are disconnected.
It has now been exactly one year since she last signed on dup. 365 days gone by and I miss her terribly.
I have reached out to others here on dup that I know were friends with her but no one knows any more than me. Hepcat is also gone and he was as close or perhaps closest of all here on dup.
I imagine he no longer can bear to come here.
I have recordings of of hours long phone conversations. She was such...
I have tried calling he but her phone numbers are disconnected.
It has now been exactly one year since she last signed on dup. 365 days gone by and I miss her terribly.
I have reached out to others here on dup that I know were friends with her but no one knows any more than me. Hepcat is also gone and he was as close or perhaps closest of all here on dup.
I imagine he no longer can bear to come here.
I have recordings of of hours long phone conversations. She was such...
#love
#grief
116 reads
4 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
12th Aug 2021 8:23am
12th Aug 2021 8:23am
8/13/2011
Tomorrow will officially be the tenth anniversary of my existence in the deep underground poetry world. I should do something special.
Too bad we don't have our own cafe somewhere that we could all get together at in the physical world. A party would be fun. We could all read a poem or two and celebrate our artistic hearts desires...
I hope all is well in your real world lives. Here in the matrix of digital walls and words, we can be anyone we wish to be.
Let's all be friends!
jj
Too bad we don't have our own cafe somewhere that we could all get together at in the physical world. A party would be fun. We could all read a poem or two and celebrate our artistic hearts desires...
I hope all is well in your real world lives. Here in the matrix of digital walls and words, we can be anyone we wish to be.
Let's all be friends!
jj
#aging
72 reads
9 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
31st Jul 2021 6:44am
31st Jul 2021 6:44am
It Makes Me Cry
The music in my soul
That accompanies my poems
Forever silent beyond the cage surrounding me
My physical form is a prisn of silent bars
That shutter the keys on my piano
and nothing I do will let the song of me sing out
The sadness is unbearable sometimes
It makes me cry that they sing to no one
and when I am forgotten
my poetry will tell nothing of who I was
My books standing quietly on a bookshelf
Unopened to the eyes of lovers of verse
I am nothing, a shadow of a man
I am a dream for ghosts to echo in laughter
It...
That accompanies my poems
Forever silent beyond the cage surrounding me
My physical form is a prisn of silent bars
That shutter the keys on my piano
and nothing I do will let the song of me sing out
The sadness is unbearable sometimes
It makes me cry that they sing to no one
and when I am forgotten
my poetry will tell nothing of who I was
My books standing quietly on a bookshelf
Unopened to the eyes of lovers of verse
I am nothing, a shadow of a man
I am a dream for ghosts to echo in laughter
It...
#loneliness
108 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
18th Jul 2021 3:21am
18th Jul 2021 3:21am
I Wish You Were My Daddy
Hey little angel
Why are you crying
Breaking the heart of a broken old man?
Lil' one, let me hold your tiny hand
I will dry the tears streaming from your eyes
To brighten your night is my heart's one desire
How do I answer your whispered wish to me?
Hearing your wish and wishing it could be so
What happened to the biological DNA doner
That abandoned you and your older brother?
The warm hug I give you can hardly suffice
for the seed planted in the bottom of my heart
When you said you wanted me to be your daddy
My heart filled...
Why are you crying
Breaking the heart of a broken old man?
Lil' one, let me hold your tiny hand
I will dry the tears streaming from your eyes
To brighten your night is my heart's one desire
How do I answer your whispered wish to me?
Hearing your wish and wishing it could be so
What happened to the biological DNA doner
That abandoned you and your older brother?
The warm hug I give you can hardly suffice
for the seed planted in the bottom of my heart
When you said you wanted me to be your daddy
My heart filled...
#love
100 reads
2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
19th Jun 2021 3:52am
19th Jun 2021 3:52am
Simulating Stimulating Data Streams
#sex
152 reads
7 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
9th Jun 2021 3:46pm
9th Jun 2021 3:46pm
pride
I wish there was a different word. Another way of expressing the feeling of self-esteem that gets beaten down and oppressed by people who think themselves superior.
People use the word to claim their favorite football team is the best, their religion is the real one, their country is the greatest... But pride is a monster that hants the human soul.
It took me years of contemplation after arguing the point with my brother. I was so certain that pride was a good thing, that it inspired people to accomplish great things, things they could take pride in. I was sure that it was a...
People use the word to claim their favorite football team is the best, their religion is the real one, their country is the greatest... But pride is a monster that hants the human soul.
It took me years of contemplation after arguing the point with my brother. I was so certain that pride was a good thing, that it inspired people to accomplish great things, things they could take pride in. I was sure that it was a...
#SelfWorth
133 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Jun 2021 00:48am
9th Jun 2021 00:48am
Grains of Memories
Time slipping away
Sifting through ones fingertips
A hole so vast
All of time be swallowed whole
The finality of a world tipped upside down
As oceans gobbled up in weightless space
Buried in the sand
Where beaches become washed away
No way to put it back
No path to travel to the past
Time cannot be trapped within a bottle
As it passes ever so slowly
Yet too quickly to miss a single moment
That could instead be spent holding hands and fingertips
Instead of trying to grasp at grains
Let them fall where...
Sifting through ones fingertips
A hole so vast
All of time be swallowed whole
The finality of a world tipped upside down
As oceans gobbled up in weightless space
Buried in the sand
Where beaches become washed away
No way to put it back
No path to travel to the past
Time cannot be trapped within a bottle
As it passes ever so slowly
Yet too quickly to miss a single moment
That could instead be spent holding hands and fingertips
Instead of trying to grasp at grains
Let them fall where...
#memories
74 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
8th Jun 2021 4:35pm
8th Jun 2021 4:35pm
of Vampires and Dragons
on the wings of your rhyme
in darkness of midnight
flying in the wake of your verse
enlightens the mystery of poetry
sink your teeth into me
and compel me with your magical ink
to fly into your night
drained of fained resistance
as your knight without armor
turn my soul into your floating shadow
forever lead astray of the coming day
breathe your fiery rhythmic words
into my thirsting mouth
that I may sing your poetry
as if it were my own
own my immortality
for as long as you desire
sire me in fire
before...
in darkness of midnight
flying in the wake of your verse
enlightens the mystery of poetry
sink your teeth into me
and compel me with your magical ink
to fly into your night
drained of fained resistance
as your knight without armor
turn my soul into your floating shadow
forever lead astray of the coming day
breathe your fiery rhythmic words
into my thirsting mouth
that I may sing your poetry
as if it were my own
own my immortality
for as long as you desire
sire me in fire
before...
#passion
91 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
8th Jun 2021 6:42am
8th Jun 2021 6:42am
Sculptor of Despair
The artist of perpetual misery
Carefully carving out his own niche
Where no one can surpass the depths of darkness
Created to hide an eternity of failings
Pebbles beneath a rockpile
The crumbs of the sculptor
Are but food for thought
Pondering how his life ever got so pitiful
Casting blame in concrete molds
His own hands forged from tainted clay
Imperfections formed in a kiln of icy walls
Carefully chiseled details to mislead a mind
Refusing to accept the truth reflected in his mirror
Of an image painted over with...
Carefully carving out his own niche
Where no one can surpass the depths of darkness
Created to hide an eternity of failings
Pebbles beneath a rockpile
The crumbs of the sculptor
Are but food for thought
Pondering how his life ever got so pitiful
Casting blame in concrete molds
His own hands forged from tainted clay
Imperfections formed in a kiln of icy walls
Carefully chiseled details to mislead a mind
Refusing to accept the truth reflected in his mirror
Of an image painted over with...
#SelfReflection
#art
91 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
28th Apr 2021 1:24pm
28th Apr 2021 1:24pm
Shadow Dancing in Darkness
Look for me
If you find me along some dark and deserted road
Tell me if you find me
Why I am
and where I am going
For I am missing
I am missing right here inside
Vaporizing where vampires fear to tread
A shadow lost along some sunny path
Unable to escape the tug of it's alter egotistical self
Or the hunger to tango with wandering undead apparitions
In the depths of lonesome depression and a loathing of the soul
Who else can I dance with in the pale moonlight before dawn robs us of our partner
I wish to be rid of the weight...
If you find me along some dark and deserted road
Tell me if you find me
Why I am
and where I am going
For I am missing
I am missing right here inside
Vaporizing where vampires fear to tread
A shadow lost along some sunny path
Unable to escape the tug of it's alter egotistical self
Or the hunger to tango with wandering undead apparitions
In the depths of lonesome depression and a loathing of the soul
Who else can I dance with in the pale moonlight before dawn robs us of our partner
I wish to be rid of the weight...
#depression
#loneliness
137 reads
3 Comments
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