Submissions by ReggiePoet (Reggie)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
An inner passion drives me to the pen, not something that I sought, or thought was mine; and it was very late in my life when I found my joy in meter and in rhyme!
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Apr 2020 6:39pm
5th Apr 2020 6:39pm
Corona Virus is a Crisis
Corona virus is a crisis?
Worse than Influenza-A?
Don’t trust the bias news folk buy us
Cable news and old cliches!
This ain’t the plague, make no mistake
Except, for what “They” make of it
While congress fakes are on the take
And hide the crimes that they commit
They shot the wad on pork and fraud
To make us think they care for us
As we applaud the news facade
Of scofflaws who are treasonous!
The swamp exposed—our world explodes!
They’ve mobilized the whole deep-state!
Trump struck a nerve, must be...
Worse than Influenza-A?
Don’t trust the bias news folk buy us
Cable news and old cliches!
This ain’t the plague, make no mistake
Except, for what “They” make of it
While congress fakes are on the take
And hide the crimes that they commit
They shot the wad on pork and fraud
To make us think they care for us
As we applaud the news facade
Of scofflaws who are treasonous!
The swamp exposed—our world explodes!
They’ve mobilized the whole deep-state!
Trump struck a nerve, must be...
#corruption
#politics
#rebellion #funny
#rebellion #funny
411 reads
6 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Sep 2019 5:57pm
30th Sep 2019 5:57pm
O’Malley, The Bobby Cat
Every evening at, oh, around quarter past eight
You are likely to see him around the park’s gate
O’Malley, the Bobby Cat, walking his beat
Keeping rodents in check while patrolling the streets
They say he was once just a wild alley cat
In The War, no one knew where O’Malley was at
He returned with a new found respect for the law
But still tough as nails, with the sharpest of claws
With dignified grace he now strolls through his beat
Policing his city for something delicious to eat
And occasionally he’ll chat up a jellicle lady ...
You are likely to see him around the park’s gate
O’Malley, the Bobby Cat, walking his beat
Keeping rodents in check while patrolling the streets
They say he was once just a wild alley cat
In The War, no one knew where O’Malley was at
He returned with a new found respect for the law
But still tough as nails, with the sharpest of claws
With dignified grace he now strolls through his beat
Policing his city for something delicious to eat
And occasionally he’ll chat up a jellicle lady ...
#cats
#TSEliot
599 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Sep 2019 3:05pm
29th Sep 2019 3:05pm
Another Suitcase
Another grand speech in a boring town hall
Won’t solve the world’s problems today
We’ve grown too enamored of media brawls
And corruption inside the beltway
Another news pollster committing his fraud
He convinced me to love what I hate
But I’ve learned that our media is just a facade
For elites in control of the state
Another suitcase in another hall
So what happens now? Do you care?
I’ve come to care more that his government falls
Than I did for our doomed love affair
Call me in three months, and I’ll...
Won’t solve the world’s problems today
We’ve grown too enamored of media brawls
And corruption inside the beltway
Another news pollster committing his fraud
He convinced me to love what I hate
But I’ve learned that our media is just a facade
For elites in control of the state
Another suitcase in another hall
So what happens now? Do you care?
I’ve come to care more that his government falls
Than I did for our doomed love affair
Call me in three months, and I’ll...
#breakup
#corruption
#politics #rhyming
#politics #rhyming
659 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
22nd Sep 2019 7:57pm
22nd Sep 2019 7:57pm
Pirate 6 - Hurricane
quatern
Upon ya’ like a hurricane
Commissioned by me Letters Marque
A Privateer, I’m on campaign
To claim yer booty, and yer barque!
My Jamaica sloop be fast
Upon ya’ like a hurricane
I’ll warn ya’ with one cannon blast
a’fore I fire demastin’ chain!
Yer passengers and crew be slain
Bar comely girls, I’ll strip and save
Upon ya’ like a hurricane
Despoiled and sold as parlor slaves!
Privateer or Pirate, me?
It matters not, if you be slain
Enslaved, or starvin’ on some Cay ...
Upon ya’ like a hurricane
Commissioned by me Letters Marque
A Privateer, I’m on campaign
To claim yer booty, and yer barque!
My Jamaica sloop be fast
Upon ya’ like a hurricane
I’ll warn ya’ with one cannon blast
a’fore I fire demastin’ chain!
Yer passengers and crew be slain
Bar comely girls, I’ll strip and save
Upon ya’ like a hurricane
Despoiled and sold as parlor slaves!
Privateer or Pirate, me?
It matters not, if you be slain
Enslaved, or starvin’ on some Cay ...
#rhyming
#historical
328 reads
1 Comment
STORY POEM
Published
17th Sep 2019 12:33pm
17th Sep 2019 12:33pm
Pirate 5 - Lament for Port Royal
quatern
In year o’ 1692
The wrath o’ God came rainin’ down
Like Sodom, and Gomorrah too!
And smote our fair Port Royal town!
An earthquake and a mighty wave
In year o’ 1692
Condemned her to a watery grave
The city, and her people, too!
And when the angry sea was through,
The Fires o’ Hell consumed the shore
In year o’ 1692
The fair Port Royal was no more!
Aboard me ship, out on a raid
Me life was spared, and so me crew
When, fer her sins, Port Royal paid
In year o’ 1692!
In year o’ 1692
The wrath o’ God came rainin’ down
Like Sodom, and Gomorrah too!
And smote our fair Port Royal town!
An earthquake and a mighty wave
In year o’ 1692
Condemned her to a watery grave
The city, and her people, too!
And when the angry sea was through,
The Fires o’ Hell consumed the shore
In year o’ 1692
The fair Port Royal was no more!
Aboard me ship, out on a raid
Me life was spared, and so me crew
When, fer her sins, Port Royal paid
In year o’ 1692!
#rhyming
#historical
364 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Sep 2019 1:04am
4th Sep 2019 1:04am
Not On Purpose
A famous line, writ long before my time.
He’d be banned from Twitter, or worse
If he dared to post such verse
In public, in the shallow culture of our own time.
“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
Let us go then, you and I,
And make our escape from this world on-line
Back to a world inhabited by human-kind
Unafraid to say what we like.
No bits on a screen spewing words crass and mean.
Parchment will do.
Let us go then, you and I,
To a world fit for flesh and bone
Where reality means we may suffer alone ...
He’d be banned from Twitter, or worse
If he dared to post such verse
In public, in the shallow culture of our own time.
“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
Let us go then, you and I,
And make our escape from this world on-line
Back to a world inhabited by human-kind
Unafraid to say what we like.
No bits on a screen spewing words crass and mean.
Parchment will do.
Let us go then, you and I,
To a world fit for flesh and bone
Where reality means we may suffer alone ...
#oppression
#TruthOfLife
#freedom #TSEliot
#freedom #TSEliot
518 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
7th Aug 2019 9:11pm
7th Aug 2019 9:11pm
Pirate 4 - Cabin Boy
quatern
We pirates need a cabin boy
The cap’n said ta’ find 'im one
The last ‘un left our ship’s employ
‘Cause he annoyed most ev’ryone!
I hope ta’ find one older now
We pirates need a cabin boy
A’fore we cross from Curaçao
To raid them lanes around St. Croix.
The last ‘un made such grievous noise
I warned ‘im, when me sword I drew
We pirates need a cabin boy
Annoyed me so, I ran ‘im through!
I used his shirt ta’ clean me sword
The silence, we sure all enjoyed
Then threw his...
We pirates need a cabin boy
The cap’n said ta’ find 'im one
The last ‘un left our ship’s employ
‘Cause he annoyed most ev’ryone!
I hope ta’ find one older now
We pirates need a cabin boy
A’fore we cross from Curaçao
To raid them lanes around St. Croix.
The last ‘un made such grievous noise
I warned ‘im, when me sword I drew
We pirates need a cabin boy
Annoyed me so, I ran ‘im through!
I used his shirt ta’ clean me sword
The silence, we sure all enjoyed
Then threw his...
#violence
#rhyming
#funny
381 reads
0 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
7th Aug 2019 12:38pm
7th Aug 2019 12:38pm
Pirate 3 - Every Port O’ Call
#sex
#rhyming
#funny
391 reads
2 Comments
DRUGS POEM
Published
4th Aug 2019 5:03pm
4th Aug 2019 5:03pm
Pirate 2 - My Favored Drink
quatern
Aye, my favored drink be Rhum
The finest drink was ever made!
Distilled, out oaken barrels, born’d
From festered juice of sugar cane
A pirate knows his liquors well
Aye, my favored drink be Rhum
Afford Ye wine? Yer wealth foretell!
We’ll board yer ship to sample some!
Scotch whisky tends ta’ make me glum
And thinkin’ forlorn, ‘bout me past
Aye, my favored drink be Rhum
I’ll sleep, and dream of whores! Avast!
Bourbons, Brandies, and the lot—
I’ll drink when e’re I’m offer’d some
But Toby...
Aye, my favored drink be Rhum
The finest drink was ever made!
Distilled, out oaken barrels, born’d
From festered juice of sugar cane
A pirate knows his liquors well
Aye, my favored drink be Rhum
Afford Ye wine? Yer wealth foretell!
We’ll board yer ship to sample some!
Scotch whisky tends ta’ make me glum
And thinkin’ forlorn, ‘bout me past
Aye, my favored drink be Rhum
I’ll sleep, and dream of whores! Avast!
Bourbons, Brandies, and the lot—
I’ll drink when e’re I’m offer’d some
But Toby...
#alcohol
#rhyming
#funny
500 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Jul 2019 3:21am
5th Jul 2019 3:21am
So It Seems
Upon this Summer Solstice Eve’s hot night
You danced for me in dreamscape’s June moonlight
A sight, exotic, like I’ve never seen
I rue that it was only just a dream!
My mind’s eye winks with devilish intent
Resisting, as I grow more senescent
Your ageless beauty drives me to adore—
My soul, in chase, takes flight as beauty soars!
Alas, before the catch, upon the heights
My soul is struck incapable of flight
Debased, it crashes down into the dirt
Condemned forevermore, an introvert!
This memory of love still fills my dreams ...
You danced for me in dreamscape’s June moonlight
A sight, exotic, like I’ve never seen
I rue that it was only just a dream!
My mind’s eye winks with devilish intent
Resisting, as I grow more senescent
Your ageless beauty drives me to adore—
My soul, in chase, takes flight as beauty soars!
Alas, before the catch, upon the heights
My soul is struck incapable of flight
Debased, it crashes down into the dirt
Condemned forevermore, an introvert!
This memory of love still fills my dreams ...
#love
#loneliness
#dreams
#sonnet
#memories
527 reads
4 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Jun 2019 6:29pm
4th Jun 2019 6:29pm
Be Not
Be not Grains of Sand to see for Time holds not Infinity, our
Hands may grasp Eternity, our Life is short upon this World.
Be not Doves and Pigeons burdened, break the Cage, release the Birds, when
Only then, birdsong be heard and Angel’s Wings shall be uncurled!
Cages on which wrath incurred and into Hell we should he hurled!
Heaven’s Rage shall be unfurled!
Be not Starving Dogs’...
Hands may grasp Eternity, our Life is short upon this World.
Be not Doves and Pigeons burdened, break the Cage, release the Birds, when
Only then, birdsong be heard and Angel’s Wings shall be uncurled!
Cages on which wrath incurred and into Hell we should he hurled!
Heaven’s Rage shall be unfurled!
Be not Starving Dogs’...
#dogs
#birds
#greed #poverty
#greed #poverty
471 reads
6 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
25th May 2019 2:19pm
25th May 2019 2:19pm
Champions
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic." --Comte de Lautreamont
Before Prometheus bequeathed
The gift of fire on all mankind
And Zeus’s eagle came to feast
Upon our champion, confined—
The gods of old would torment us
Until the spark of science, gained;
The crime of old Prometheus?
All mankind’s future he ordained!
He brought us science, to command
Our own utopia, to build
Then, he was pardoned by a man
And Zeus’s will went unfulfilled!
Olympus glares in helpless...
Before Prometheus bequeathed
The gift of fire on all mankind
And Zeus’s eagle came to feast
Upon our champion, confined—
The gods of old would torment us
Until the spark of science, gained;
The crime of old Prometheus?
All mankind’s future he ordained!
He brought us science, to command
Our own utopia, to build
Then, he was pardoned by a man
And Zeus’s will went unfulfilled!
Olympus glares in helpless...
#utopia
#rhyming
#mythology
362 reads
5 Comments
DU Poetry : Submissions by ReggiePoet (Reggie)
