Submissions by Robert_Poe (Benjamin Derr)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Mar 2015 10:50pm
24th Mar 2015 10:50pm
Something Smells Fishy
There is a brook beyond the yard and beyond the yard I must never stray
I long to rake my fingers through her cherub little waves. Dip my toes and get lost in a cleansing interstellar daze
How foolish, to thirst for a tiny creek when I have hills and fields I could explore for years. However, I find no satisfaction in overturning stones I am expected to overturn.
I want to lift the mountains hidden behind the backdrop sky, snatch up the slimy things scurrying beneath them, and feed the birds singing by
More than anything I want to lap at the stream beyond...
I long to rake my fingers through her cherub little waves. Dip my toes and get lost in a cleansing interstellar daze
How foolish, to thirst for a tiny creek when I have hills and fields I could explore for years. However, I find no satisfaction in overturning stones I am expected to overturn.
I want to lift the mountains hidden behind the backdrop sky, snatch up the slimy things scurrying beneath them, and feed the birds singing by
More than anything I want to lap at the stream beyond...
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LOVE POEM
Published
27th Oct 2013 2:05pm
27th Oct 2013 2:05pm
berb
The wind that hit us as we kissed
Started like a wave
On the opposite side of the world
Grew larger with every poetic crash and curl
Oh the love
Let it unfurl
Started like a wave
On the opposite side of the world
Grew larger with every poetic crash and curl
Oh the love
Let it unfurl
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DRUGS POEM
Published
25th Oct 2013 1:44am
25th Oct 2013 1:44am
her gentle exit
The bullet entered innocent
Disappearing like a child jumping into a ball pit
Every one of them, red
Spilling away from the entry point
I watched her fall
Like a baby bird from a nest
The shell, still attached to her fragile head
She layed on that bed
For what felt like years
That barrel rang hot and embodied my fear
The smoke danced like the leaves of August
Admitting its crime, so honest while the dawn was nearly upon us
Of the entire world and all its inhabitants
Only us house pets witnessed this...poetic silence.
Disappearing like a child jumping into a ball pit
Every one of them, red
Spilling away from the entry point
I watched her fall
Like a baby bird from a nest
The shell, still attached to her fragile head
She layed on that bed
For what felt like years
That barrel rang hot and embodied my fear
The smoke danced like the leaves of August
Admitting its crime, so honest while the dawn was nearly upon us
Of the entire world and all its inhabitants
Only us house pets witnessed this...poetic silence.
656 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Oct 2013 9:15pm
18th Oct 2013 9:15pm
cancer kills again
I sat in disbelief
At the end of your bed
As a heartless machine
mocked your heart's final breaths
Fluttering dives and climbs
It beeped the rhythm of life
Spelling without letters
A morose rhyme
Explaining in sighs
You've not much time
Alas
The waves layed down
It cried the tone of death
A sonorous ringing ill never forget
Motionless like your chest
Though you gained the face of rest
How selfish of me
To want you back
Why is life so fragile
So short, so brief
Why must loved ones
Watch each...
At the end of your bed
As a heartless machine
mocked your heart's final breaths
Fluttering dives and climbs
It beeped the rhythm of life
Spelling without letters
A morose rhyme
Explaining in sighs
You've not much time
Alas
The waves layed down
It cried the tone of death
A sonorous ringing ill never forget
Motionless like your chest
Though you gained the face of rest
How selfish of me
To want you back
Why is life so fragile
So short, so brief
Why must loved ones
Watch each...
580 reads
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DRUGS POEM
Published
10th Oct 2013 8:09pm
10th Oct 2013 8:09pm
Half Open Broken Zipper Door
Beneath the October stars
We layed uncomfortably in a tent
Attention inevitably poured
Through the translucent screen door
Frosted with spider webs
Half opened broken zipper door
Were the stars aglow?
I knew then, I'd never know
These twinkling anythings'
Lighting, stunning, cunning things
Hold my concentration
Confused, I bit my tongue
Cats eyes
Balcony lights
Be you stars, be you not
Confess your sins
You no longer protest or fight
What stirs beyond the light
Within the shadows and darkness
I...
We layed uncomfortably in a tent
Attention inevitably poured
Through the translucent screen door
Frosted with spider webs
Half opened broken zipper door
Were the stars aglow?
I knew then, I'd never know
These twinkling anythings'
Lighting, stunning, cunning things
Hold my concentration
Confused, I bit my tongue
Cats eyes
Balcony lights
Be you stars, be you not
Confess your sins
You no longer protest or fight
What stirs beyond the light
Within the shadows and darkness
I...
747 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2013 3:14am
2nd Oct 2013 3:14am
Birth of October
Leaves weren't even thinking
Pourch lights bled through fences
The birth of October was today
Taste the air if you doubt me
Pourch lights bled through fences
The birth of October was today
Taste the air if you doubt me
590 reads
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Oct 2013 4:25pm
1st Oct 2013 4:25pm
we simply, Are
Moments crawled away
Not escaping; passing by
In the cool cool grass
Our hearts ate the sky
Every cumulus requested permission
Before reflecting through her eyes
I melted to nothing in the scent of her hair
She whispered to me without speaking
"its amazing how we can still breathe
with the amount of clouds in the air"
I understand your logic darling
We simply, are.
And just before time began to fly once more
My heart sank, my soul choked
In an anxious sweat
I became hers
Not escaping; passing by
In the cool cool grass
Our hearts ate the sky
Every cumulus requested permission
Before reflecting through her eyes
I melted to nothing in the scent of her hair
She whispered to me without speaking
"its amazing how we can still breathe
with the amount of clouds in the air"
I understand your logic darling
We simply, are.
And just before time began to fly once more
My heart sank, my soul choked
In an anxious sweat
I became hers
643 reads
1 Comment
DRUGS POEM
Published
19th Sep 2013 6:25pm
19th Sep 2013 6:25pm
He is, no more
He chuckled as he snapped the buttons from waist to throat. Each fastening echoed though his finger's bones. Pockets on the inside, pockets on the outside, a hood that hid your eyes just right. Cloaked and bundled up, prepared for anything. An extravagant thing, our world. He faced it armed with the heart of a lion. With only his thoughts and dreams to confide in. He took not into consideration, the strength of the sun. And with trembling hands, every button was undone. Throat to waist, his fingernails pinched pink to white. Shedding his shell, slowly offering himself, to the warmth of...
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Sep 2013 1:26pm
18th Sep 2013 1:26pm
That Face of Hers
On a Friday just after sundown
Your reflection fell upon a Wednesday's snow
The grown with his head down
Bowed In respect of your eclipsing glow
Your face never emitted such emotion
Yet most no one will see
Flowing like a stream into an ocean
The endless pages of poetry
Somberly and gleefully spewed
From the hearts and souls of writers
Confessing the love they feel
Confessing nothing else matters
Your presence tonight saved lives
Proving to the hopeless and blind
That even when darkness persists
Beauty can exist ...
Your reflection fell upon a Wednesday's snow
The grown with his head down
Bowed In respect of your eclipsing glow
Your face never emitted such emotion
Yet most no one will see
Flowing like a stream into an ocean
The endless pages of poetry
Somberly and gleefully spewed
From the hearts and souls of writers
Confessing the love they feel
Confessing nothing else matters
Your presence tonight saved lives
Proving to the hopeless and blind
That even when darkness persists
Beauty can exist ...
644 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
16th Sep 2013 6:27pm
16th Sep 2013 6:27pm
Green Windows
There is a therapeutic something, in watching you dream
My only complaint; your eyes must close as you sleep
Your lids slowly slid
Down over your green windows
Oh the beauty I know
These curtains have hidden
Not like any beauty
I've before now witnessed
My only complaint; your eyes must close as you sleep
Your lids slowly slid
Down over your green windows
Oh the beauty I know
These curtains have hidden
Not like any beauty
I've before now witnessed
723 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Sep 2013 3:38am
9th Sep 2013 3:38am
A Poetic Silence
The day exhaled a poetic silence
And here I lay, dying to describe it
No one was hinting
No one was speaking
With no sort of planning
Everyone began gazing
All smiling and crying
Holding and sighing
So sentimental and alluring
As the ceiling fan was swaying
It's hum sung in circles
A simple lullaby
Eyes were closed
Nobody was cold
Hearts were agape
As we aired out our souls
And here I lay, dying to describe it
No one was hinting
No one was speaking
With no sort of planning
Everyone began gazing
All smiling and crying
Holding and sighing
So sentimental and alluring
As the ceiling fan was swaying
It's hum sung in circles
A simple lullaby
Eyes were closed
Nobody was cold
Hearts were agape
As we aired out our souls
621 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Sep 2013 3:47pm
3rd Sep 2013 3:47pm
this gentle descent
The squeak of your front door
To which I've grown accustomed
Was impossible to shut out
In this, my final visit
The springs and hinges
Squeezing and straining
If possible, they too would be crying
The kitchen clenched the stench of death
And yet, that comforting scent of yours
My feet never felt heavier
My heart never beat so lightly
And this house
Never wept with such loneliness
On the floor
Lay your captainless vessel
Layers of tissue
Thin and fragile
Your soul; the linchpin
And you yourself pulled...
To which I've grown accustomed
Was impossible to shut out
In this, my final visit
The springs and hinges
Squeezing and straining
If possible, they too would be crying
The kitchen clenched the stench of death
And yet, that comforting scent of yours
My feet never felt heavier
My heart never beat so lightly
And this house
Never wept with such loneliness
On the floor
Lay your captainless vessel
Layers of tissue
Thin and fragile
Your soul; the linchpin
And you yourself pulled...
771 reads
2 Comments
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