Submissions by Robert (Robert Oliva)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Bobby or Robert Love Jazz , R&B
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Dec 2023 2:59pm
5th Dec 2023 2:59pm
Suddenly Awkward
SUDDENLY AWKWARD
Her forced smile made me wonder, she held tight my hand ,feeling likely prone to blunder, coherent thought escaping my command. Now forcing my own smile, looking surely out of touch , First dates just make me fumble and make me think too much.
Her blue eyes glistened,
I listened to her breathe, awkward as a child foraging on hands and knees, straining to unsheathe a charming phrase that perks her interest , a persuasion to invest her time and her desires and be anxious to coalesce.
She was magnificent , intelligent, confident and beautiful...
Her forced smile made me wonder, she held tight my hand ,feeling likely prone to blunder, coherent thought escaping my command. Now forcing my own smile, looking surely out of touch , First dates just make me fumble and make me think too much.
Her blue eyes glistened,
I listened to her breathe, awkward as a child foraging on hands and knees, straining to unsheathe a charming phrase that perks her interest , a persuasion to invest her time and her desires and be anxious to coalesce.
She was magnificent , intelligent, confident and beautiful...
#curse
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SELF POEM
Published
5th Dec 2023 8:58am
5th Dec 2023 8:58am
Dealing For the Mob
DEALING FOR THE MOB
Some connected guys needed honest skills to splay some cards in a sketchy sorta town. This Filipino cat caught that news , he threw my name around ,picture your first guess, head bowed, neck bent, the inveigled lean those heavy carats dressed , he knew where and he knew how , he knew that he knew the best, his darted whispers sipped some juice and hit dead center direct.
Gathered thought , wonders and risk, fixation fidgets the audition. These two huge men Guido and Johnny, were charged with hiring the new addition, which figuratively,...
Some connected guys needed honest skills to splay some cards in a sketchy sorta town. This Filipino cat caught that news , he threw my name around ,picture your first guess, head bowed, neck bent, the inveigled lean those heavy carats dressed , he knew where and he knew how , he knew that he knew the best, his darted whispers sipped some juice and hit dead center direct.
Gathered thought , wonders and risk, fixation fidgets the audition. These two huge men Guido and Johnny, were charged with hiring the new addition, which figuratively,...
#passion
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Dec 2023 4:20am
5th Dec 2023 4:20am
Words
WORDS
The freedom to survey, the challenge to convey
Sparks w first light each day
Noticing of course that it's a therapeutic force
a personal source of delight that carries from dawn to twilight.
Rage rage against unfair moments, pave pave the way for fair ascent. Make a difference if I can , learn from Queens and honored man. Write write, disperse or lock it w a key, just interact w this universe and destiny.
Bobby O
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The freedom to survey, the challenge to convey
Sparks w first light each day
Noticing of course that it's a therapeutic force
a personal source of delight that carries from dawn to twilight.
Rage rage against unfair moments, pave pave the way for fair ascent. Make a difference if I can , learn from Queens and honored man. Write write, disperse or lock it w a key, just interact w this universe and destiny.
Bobby O
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#fate
176 reads
7 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Dec 2023 8:38pm
2nd Dec 2023 8:38pm
Shaken Balance
SHAKEN BALANCE
Suddenly My Path Got Jumbled
My Certain Plan Suddenly Was Unclear
Instinct , Find Strength Internal, Instead , I Just Found Fear
Charting a Courageous Course
a Jumbled Plan That Quickly Crumbled
Deep Sadness Lives Here , Now I Just Pray ,This Deep Sadness Disappears
This Jumbled Path Defines a New
Never , Starkly Alone, I Face This Bridge I’m Forced to Cross
I Take no Solace Knowing Billions
Have and Will Be Familiar with This Loss
See, My Mom is Gone
I Was Not Prepared
I Never Imagined the Sharpness...
Suddenly My Path Got Jumbled
My Certain Plan Suddenly Was Unclear
Instinct , Find Strength Internal, Instead , I Just Found Fear
Charting a Courageous Course
a Jumbled Plan That Quickly Crumbled
Deep Sadness Lives Here , Now I Just Pray ,This Deep Sadness Disappears
This Jumbled Path Defines a New
Never , Starkly Alone, I Face This Bridge I’m Forced to Cross
I Take no Solace Knowing Billions
Have and Will Be Familiar with This Loss
See, My Mom is Gone
I Was Not Prepared
I Never Imagined the Sharpness...
#death
166 reads
10 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Dec 2023 00:28am
2nd Dec 2023 00:28am
Left Turn
LEFT TURN
Left turn, left turn 4 straight times,
I'm on an oval with no finish line.
Unanswered questions racing thru my mind, u drove away and took love's exit sign, and left me behind with left turn, left turn 4 more times.
No one goes thru life without making mistakes, You put your pride aside and face the trouble you make. When you hold someone's heart you hold life's highest stakes. Then you treat me like a pitstop, my emotions ain't fake.
Like the myth of Sisyphus and his uncompleatable task, love moved slowly up the mountain but fell real...
Left turn, left turn 4 straight times,
I'm on an oval with no finish line.
Unanswered questions racing thru my mind, u drove away and took love's exit sign, and left me behind with left turn, left turn 4 more times.
No one goes thru life without making mistakes, You put your pride aside and face the trouble you make. When you hold someone's heart you hold life's highest stakes. Then you treat me like a pitstop, my emotions ain't fake.
Like the myth of Sisyphus and his uncompleatable task, love moved slowly up the mountain but fell real...
#rejection
215 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Dec 2023 8:19pm
1st Dec 2023 8:19pm
Uncertain
UNCERTAIN
Life's certainty is uncertain . Certain of no perfect plan. Almost certain once you'll be burned ,it takes a certain woman or man to understand .
So you nimbly surf the twists, and deftly slide the turns. You're not that man behind the Curtain, you share that certain Bounty you have learned.
Follow gladly my deep Footsteps,
Madly search for friendship Earned.
Certain to find GOLD amongst the Hurtin',
Even when uncertainty Returns!
Bobby O
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Life's certainty is uncertain . Certain of no perfect plan. Almost certain once you'll be burned ,it takes a certain woman or man to understand .
So you nimbly surf the twists, and deftly slide the turns. You're not that man behind the Curtain, you share that certain Bounty you have learned.
Follow gladly my deep Footsteps,
Madly search for friendship Earned.
Certain to find GOLD amongst the Hurtin',
Even when uncertainty Returns!
Bobby O
◦
#philosophical
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SONG LYRICS
Published
1st Dec 2023 2:21am
1st Dec 2023 2:21am
Skip the Selfish Road
SKIP THE SELFISH ROAD
I know, i recognize, i realize, i can't deny. My heart skips a little beat,
Sometimes i struggle just to breathe.
Never before did i believe that the love that i now feel is the reason why, why we dare to hope and dream, that the best that life can bring can humbly be achieved when we find love.
I thought i always knew about love,
It's in songs and lot's of books.
I tried and tried to live without love,
Selfish was the road i took.
U taught me life was all about love,
A fact too many overlook,
Now life's...
I know, i recognize, i realize, i can't deny. My heart skips a little beat,
Sometimes i struggle just to breathe.
Never before did i believe that the love that i now feel is the reason why, why we dare to hope and dream, that the best that life can bring can humbly be achieved when we find love.
I thought i always knew about love,
It's in songs and lot's of books.
I tried and tried to live without love,
Selfish was the road i took.
U taught me life was all about love,
A fact too many overlook,
Now life's...
#love
208 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Dec 2023 2:08am
1st Dec 2023 2:08am
Pinch Me
PINCH ME
Everyday she teaches me that these tingles are for real
That this unconventional attachment doesn’t limit how we can feel
Across the pond or there upon yet excitement it builds still
Asking not a question
true emotions enter and fulfill
togethered tender promise
I feel undeserving if I’m honest
Through these clouds of joy I can barely see
While embracing lifelong fantasy
Pinch me please, pinch me
Bobby O
Everyday she teaches me that these tingles are for real
That this unconventional attachment doesn’t limit how we can feel
Across the pond or there upon yet excitement it builds still
Asking not a question
true emotions enter and fulfill
togethered tender promise
I feel undeserving if I’m honest
Through these clouds of joy I can barely see
While embracing lifelong fantasy
Pinch me please, pinch me
Bobby O
#romantic
200 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Nov 2023 6:02pm
25th Nov 2023 6:02pm
Thelonius Reborn As The Dee Oh Double Gee
Thelonius Reborn as the Dee Oh Double Gee
If we rhyme metaphorically , reach back historically, spit out new styles just like Miles, compose tunes that Trane, John Coltrane, would b proud to compile, or like the Bird, Charlie Parker, bravely brake rules, take take take, the music apart, do you honor Darwinian progress? Do you demand excellent art? Then you might might b from Hip- Hop, yeah, that's where many geniuses start.
It's simple, it's like nature, there is no fakers, take Common or Chet Baker. Satchmo begets Biggy, Tupac was influenced by Dizzy. Discerning ears are...
If we rhyme metaphorically , reach back historically, spit out new styles just like Miles, compose tunes that Trane, John Coltrane, would b proud to compile, or like the Bird, Charlie Parker, bravely brake rules, take take take, the music apart, do you honor Darwinian progress? Do you demand excellent art? Then you might might b from Hip- Hop, yeah, that's where many geniuses start.
It's simple, it's like nature, there is no fakers, take Common or Chet Baker. Satchmo begets Biggy, Tupac was influenced by Dizzy. Discerning ears are...
#music
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4 Comments
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