Submissions by PunchDrunk (Margo Garrison)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction Hello. Poetry is my therapy, my refuge, to an extent, my my self esteem, and at times just an overwhelming joy.
LOVE POEM
Published
19th Jun 2021 5:31am
19th Jun 2021 5:31am
Winters '95 and '08
Pent up love
War on a barren field.
Of the drugs that make me smile
And the hate that make me yield
To whatever demon comes
Selling bargains I can't steal
Do I need your love
Could I survive this pit alone
Gasping for the air
That seeps out of my prayer
Could I create a womb
Fashioned from the past
A silicon balloon
Around a brittle, crumbling moon
How I loathe this fertile sleep
Where I regenerate the pain
And open eyes on dawn
Red with all the life it's slain.
...
War on a barren field.
Of the drugs that make me smile
And the hate that make me yield
To whatever demon comes
Selling bargains I can't steal
Do I need your love
Could I survive this pit alone
Gasping for the air
That seeps out of my prayer
Could I create a womb
Fashioned from the past
A silicon balloon
Around a brittle, crumbling moon
How I loathe this fertile sleep
Where I regenerate the pain
And open eyes on dawn
Red with all the life it's slain.
...
#childhood
#death
#fate
#aging
#luck
62 reads
15 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th May 2021 8:32am
25th May 2021 8:32am
Paul's Valley Train Station
Agape in a memory
A spotlight flash on a transient time
When time was made of seasons
Winter woods and Summer vines
I ignite with careful words
Aiming straight for the insider
To prove the turnstiles never change
When they lose their lonely riders
Mama and Daddy
The poets of the city
Smoke-Blue-Sky-Glass-Amethyst
Two lovers in love with the skyline
She holds the loser anonymous
Now, the Embassy Hotel windows
Keep their last anniversary
And through the smog I can feel their...
A spotlight flash on a transient time
When time was made of seasons
Winter woods and Summer vines
I ignite with careful words
Aiming straight for the insider
To prove the turnstiles never change
When they lose their lonely riders
Mama and Daddy
The poets of the city
Smoke-Blue-Sky-Glass-Amethyst
Two lovers in love with the skyline
She holds the loser anonymous
Now, the Embassy Hotel windows
Keep their last anniversary
And through the smog I can feel their...
#sadness
#regret
#grief
#heartbroken
#shame
75 reads
15 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Apr 2021 2:01am
24th Apr 2021 2:01am
Strange Garden
Strange garden
This ancient Eden by the freeway
The perfumed aftermath of tragedy
Sorrow sleeping in delusion
Holy canyons
They echo with fallen healers
Reflections kneeling by the rivers
Of the saints they knew as children
Mourning Roses
Pressed in dead as dreamers
Who leave their pail and castles
To the wind for her dominion
Grey over grey eves
Brown over brown leaves
Three windows with their curtains drawn
Dissolving morning into
The stasis of deception
This ancient Eden by the freeway
The perfumed aftermath of tragedy
Sorrow sleeping in delusion
Holy canyons
They echo with fallen healers
Reflections kneeling by the rivers
Of the saints they knew as children
Mourning Roses
Pressed in dead as dreamers
Who leave their pail and castles
To the wind for her dominion
Grey over grey eves
Brown over brown leaves
Three windows with their curtains drawn
Dissolving morning into
The stasis of deception
#grief
#death
93 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Apr 2021 9:40pm
23rd Apr 2021 9:40pm
One Springtime Love's Contemplation
One thousand days are over
Floating, bloated and dispersed
The liar's moon has split the meaning
Of these thunderous, poison words
Love's so quick and fascinating
Ripping clockwise to the earth
Breaks the bleeding heart still breathing
In every woman's little girl.
There are hateful ways to linger
Tricks that stand the test of time
When the perfect mercy killing
Always makes it out alive
But the eyes don't fool the mirror
As karma ripens on the vine
Every lover is a killer
Of some long...
Floating, bloated and dispersed
The liar's moon has split the meaning
Of these thunderous, poison words
Love's so quick and fascinating
Ripping clockwise to the earth
Breaks the bleeding heart still breathing
In every woman's little girl.
There are hateful ways to linger
Tricks that stand the test of time
When the perfect mercy killing
Always makes it out alive
But the eyes don't fool the mirror
As karma ripens on the vine
Every lover is a killer
Of some long...
#rejection
#UnrequitedLove
94 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
20th Apr 2021 4:29am
20th Apr 2021 4:29am
Perfect Love
I search for you in fits and starts
In mystic law and mythic art
In the fullness of the deep blue sea
In sacred text and geometry
In sacrificial trials and proverbial truths
In the smoldering embers of eternal youth
In the seventh wonder
In the seventh son
Where passion begins
Where it's dead and gone
In the spectre the the sacred of the righteous and the mighty
In the bossom of Adonis and Aphrodite
It is from this vantage point I finally see through
To all of the false perfection I have projected onto you ...
In mystic law and mythic art
In the fullness of the deep blue sea
In sacred text and geometry
In sacrificial trials and proverbial truths
In the smoldering embers of eternal youth
In the seventh wonder
In the seventh son
Where passion begins
Where it's dead and gone
In the spectre the the sacred of the righteous and the mighty
In the bossom of Adonis and Aphrodite
It is from this vantage point I finally see through
To all of the false perfection I have projected onto you ...
#SelfReflection
90 reads
14 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
10th Apr 2021 12:00pm
10th Apr 2021 12:00pm
Narcissus
Scratching my way to freedom
I found a respite from your cruelty
Hurling my tearful doldrums
Into outerspace
The hornet has its nest
And a hole will hide the scorpion
But you, my lovely serpent
Can't find a home in either place
A bitter, salty powder
Made from cried out dirges
Time to genuflect
Upon your righteous kill
What keeps a donor needing
A seeker constantly seeking
In lonely, broken mirrors
For one more soul to to steal?
The titan, breathless and pale
Slinking...
I found a respite from your cruelty
Hurling my tearful doldrums
Into outerspace
The hornet has its nest
And a hole will hide the scorpion
But you, my lovely serpent
Can't find a home in either place
A bitter, salty powder
Made from cried out dirges
Time to genuflect
Upon your righteous kill
What keeps a donor needing
A seeker constantly seeking
In lonely, broken mirrors
For one more soul to to steal?
The titan, breathless and pale
Slinking...
#anger
#betrayal
#abuse
#oppression
#bullying
127 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Apr 2021 4:48pm
6th Apr 2021 4:48pm
Corporate Blues
Buried in so many prayers
The lives worth fighting for
Sweep in and out of the city
Punching the numbers
Cleaning the tables
Absorbed in the condensation
Of the skyscraper windows
Mellow and lonely
The computer tech's only cat has cancer
And the dark chocolate
And the opening night sex tournaments
Can't abate the coma
Or Google away the aftermath
Of dividing her life between
Scarf shopping and Monopoly
Christmas on computer screens
Mortgage debt and disfigured means
Bead up on God's toy...
The lives worth fighting for
Sweep in and out of the city
Punching the numbers
Cleaning the tables
Absorbed in the condensation
Of the skyscraper windows
Mellow and lonely
The computer tech's only cat has cancer
And the dark chocolate
And the opening night sex tournaments
Can't abate the coma
Or Google away the aftermath
Of dividing her life between
Scarf shopping and Monopoly
Christmas on computer screens
Mortgage debt and disfigured means
Bead up on God's toy...
#politics
#freedom
#consumerism
#morality
#tradition
94 reads
7 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
3rd Apr 2021 5:36am
3rd Apr 2021 5:36am
Spring
The gospel teaches pain as a season...
The winter concurs. Every winter
I feel like a drop in the ocean--
Damned a mortal lifetime--
Depraved--made to break every fever
And thirst and wait upon the Lord.
Thawing out my frozen bones
I stepped into the anticipation of spring; mild and clear, my soul's dedication
Tracing the leave's veins with my
thumb nail
The sun on my neck, the ice underfoot
A hidden verse for my heart alone
In this changeling, solitude was necessary...
...
The winter concurs. Every winter
I feel like a drop in the ocean--
Damned a mortal lifetime--
Depraved--made to break every fever
And thirst and wait upon the Lord.
Thawing out my frozen bones
I stepped into the anticipation of spring; mild and clear, my soul's dedication
Tracing the leave's veins with my
thumb nail
The sun on my neck, the ice underfoot
A hidden verse for my heart alone
In this changeling, solitude was necessary...
...
#sadness
#hope
#redemption #despair
#redemption #despair
113 reads
11 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
1st Apr 2021 10:31pm
1st Apr 2021 10:31pm
Cautionary Tale
This is a beautiful film
You'll understand when you are older
This endless sequence of shadows and laughter
You can only relate in dreams
Can only feel with prayer
This is a consoling lullaby
You'll understand when you are older
Every word in your good girl conscience
Quite absurd--
The notion we are more than paper dolls
Spreading wildly across this dying planet
Recycling, dieting, rioting ideals of
Granite and stone--the hearts on loan
The ivory towers
Quite absurd
This is a lonely world
You'll...
You'll understand when you are older
This endless sequence of shadows and laughter
You can only relate in dreams
Can only feel with prayer
This is a consoling lullaby
You'll understand when you are older
Every word in your good girl conscience
Quite absurd--
The notion we are more than paper dolls
Spreading wildly across this dying planet
Recycling, dieting, rioting ideals of
Granite and stone--the hearts on loan
The ivory towers
Quite absurd
This is a lonely world
You'll...
#learning
#LifeCycle
69 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
30th Mar 2021 11:28am
30th Mar 2021 11:28am
Scribhneoir
A midnight yarn weaving into truth
A lonely impulse of delight
Drips the potion into my tea
Bleeds the sadness from the night
A timely relic of yesterlore
Bridges the distances of two shores
When tongues were still with terminal weight
The self I love and love to hate
I acquiesce to an uncommon will
To move the beast formidably still
From his cave in my chest, an alien thrill
To rethread the needle, rewet the quill.
A lonely impulse of delight
Drips the potion into my tea
Bleeds the sadness from the night
A timely relic of yesterlore
Bridges the distances of two shores
When tongues were still with terminal weight
The self I love and love to hate
I acquiesce to an uncommon will
To move the beast formidably still
From his cave in my chest, an alien thrill
To rethread the needle, rewet the quill.
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfWorth
130 reads
14 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
13th Feb 2021 5:58am
13th Feb 2021 5:58am
Tomorrow
Svelte, soft and solid wings
Sing the fluid song of freedom
Over this degenerate congregation
A powerful noise, but not a law, nor
ownership
I am the river
And the shadowed wings above it
Morphing as a cloud
Cleansing and clearing all
Damning up the toxic debris
Of desperate foibles, lazy lies
Storied eyes of paranoia, hatred and
boredom
In the distance I hear a nightbird
Her notes are timely and clear
Whispered over wild rose and
honeysuckle
Harmonized with...
Sing the fluid song of freedom
Over this degenerate congregation
A powerful noise, but not a law, nor
ownership
I am the river
And the shadowed wings above it
Morphing as a cloud
Cleansing and clearing all
Damning up the toxic debris
Of desperate foibles, lazy lies
Storied eyes of paranoia, hatred and
boredom
In the distance I hear a nightbird
Her notes are timely and clear
Whispered over wild rose and
honeysuckle
Harmonized with...
#SelfDiscovery
176 reads
13 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Jan 2021 12:53pm
30th Jan 2021 12:53pm
Words
Words...words like fragment
When our perceptions fragment
Beneath the weight of framework Framework of fantasy
Caught in digital fallacies
Fallacies in a Fortress of
Words...words like symbol--Sibyl
Her name has a place here too in our
War of the worlds--words...
For you, all for you and the vain Indifferences we once counted
Their significances against absence
And those words--words never heard
The all consuming I love you...
You and these words.
When our perceptions fragment
Beneath the weight of framework Framework of fantasy
Caught in digital fallacies
Fallacies in a Fortress of
Words...words like symbol--Sibyl
Her name has a place here too in our
War of the worlds--words...
For you, all for you and the vain Indifferences we once counted
Their significances against absence
And those words--words never heard
The all consuming I love you...
You and these words.
#regret
#rejection
#confusion
#disappointment
#bittersweet
134 reads
8 Comments
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