Submissions by Sandman68
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I live in and out of Dreams, careful to heed their warnings and interpret their symbolisms. I write from ideas uncovered there, people and beasts met there and situations never meant to be real in our sad reality.
SELF POEM
Published
23rd May 2018 2:53am
23rd May 2018 2:53am
Bound
Hidden away so far
the moon can't find us
as a blanket of dark
renews our ritual
Shared moments
of vulnerability
and loss overwritten
by sensations of now
Conversational ubiquities
drift to unspoken
recognitions
The ethers that swirl
and subjugate
unseen forces of fate
play out the quiet story
For so long have the stars
looked down on us with favor,
tired travelers crossing paths
to exchange life stories,
to trade favors and
curse the heavens
for all we have lost ...
the moon can't find us
as a blanket of dark
renews our ritual
Shared moments
of vulnerability
and loss overwritten
by sensations of now
Conversational ubiquities
drift to unspoken
recognitions
The ethers that swirl
and subjugate
unseen forces of fate
play out the quiet story
For so long have the stars
looked down on us with favor,
tired travelers crossing paths
to exchange life stories,
to trade favors and
curse the heavens
for all we have lost ...
#TimeHeals
#redemption
567 reads
10 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
13th Apr 2018 7:54am
13th Apr 2018 7:54am
Cold
I watched the tears
roll down her face
Her eyes were pools
of sorrow and
drowned there within,
hopes of a future
soon never to be
Through it all I sat
impassive, indifferent,
a quiet observer
asking myself repeatedly
why I felt nothing inside
I used to love her and
she brought me such joy
Somewhere it just passed
and I could not pretend
I became as sterile
and cold to her as
a winter tree to the sky
I'll never forgive myself
for the pain I caused
with...
roll down her face
Her eyes were pools
of sorrow and
drowned there within,
hopes of a future
soon never to be
Through it all I sat
impassive, indifferent,
a quiet observer
asking myself repeatedly
why I felt nothing inside
I used to love her and
she brought me such joy
Somewhere it just passed
and I could not pretend
I became as sterile
and cold to her as
a winter tree to the sky
I'll never forgive myself
for the pain I caused
with...
#loneliness
#UnrequitedLove
540 reads
3 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
13th Apr 2018 7:20am
13th Apr 2018 7:20am
Chance Encounter
As I approuched the crow
it made no attempt to move
It stood off to the side
of the walkway and when I
looked down at it in passing
it slowly opened and closed
it's beak one time
I wondered if it was
a silent greeting
Perhaps it was requesting
a morsel to eat
Maybe it was an expression
of gratitude
for me not preying on it
Or as a symbol of the
Underworld it may have
merely granted me
one further day above ground
Whichever, if any, the case may
have been, I'd...
it made no attempt to move
It stood off to the side
of the walkway and when I
looked down at it in passing
it slowly opened and closed
it's beak one time
I wondered if it was
a silent greeting
Perhaps it was requesting
a morsel to eat
Maybe it was an expression
of gratitude
for me not preying on it
Or as a symbol of the
Underworld it may have
merely granted me
one further day above ground
Whichever, if any, the case may
have been, I'd...
#hope
#birds
#nature
499 reads
5 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
4th Apr 2018 3:20am
4th Apr 2018 3:20am
So Dark
It should have never ended that way
Truths more horrific than secrets
Father never knew his shadow
The dark stories under every town
Hard to see, harder to accept
The brightest lights burn fastest
No surprise your diversion into drugs
your midnight forays of careless sex
to assert control of lone moments
Deep tones of unspeakable terror
even worst realizations of family
violations that break psyches
A monster of two minds make them meet
overwhelming despair for one
while the stronger howls laughter ...
Truths more horrific than secrets
Father never knew his shadow
The dark stories under every town
Hard to see, harder to accept
The brightest lights burn fastest
No surprise your diversion into drugs
your midnight forays of careless sex
to assert control of lone moments
Deep tones of unspeakable terror
even worst realizations of family
violations that break psyches
A monster of two minds make them meet
overwhelming despair for one
while the stronger howls laughter ...
#sadness
#grief
#dark
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1 Comment
ANGER POEM
Published
3rd Apr 2018 9:14am
3rd Apr 2018 9:14am
Backstab
My anger stems
from your ungrateful treachery
All I have given you
across all these many years
Indulgences I have entertained
on your behalf
Drugs & alcohol I provided
to make you feel good
Sleepless nights of suffering
I was always there
Countless money spent
making you look presentable
All the times you surrendered
I picked you back up
Your eternal anger
I have endured & withstood
After all this
you turn on me now?
You break me down, ...
from your ungrateful treachery
All I have given you
across all these many years
Indulgences I have entertained
on your behalf
Drugs & alcohol I provided
to make you feel good
Sleepless nights of suffering
I was always there
Countless money spent
making you look presentable
All the times you surrendered
I picked you back up
Your eternal anger
I have endured & withstood
After all this
you turn on me now?
You break me down, ...
#anger
#hate
#betrayal
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5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Apr 2018 8:58am
3rd Apr 2018 8:58am
Blasphemy
I tire of life labeled as a miracle,
of the Miracle of Childbirth
Reproduction is NOT miraculous
It's at the other end of the scale
It's downright commonplace
It happens every day
In every hospital
In every city
In every village
In every culture
In every species
against all odds
In fact, it is so anti-miracle
that it can happen by ACCIDENT
No hand of God reaching down
to intervene occasionally
leaving no other explanation
for how it occurred
Even "rare" cases are just ...
of the Miracle of Childbirth
Reproduction is NOT miraculous
It's at the other end of the scale
It's downright commonplace
It happens every day
In every hospital
In every city
In every village
In every culture
In every species
against all odds
In fact, it is so anti-miracle
that it can happen by ACCIDENT
No hand of God reaching down
to intervene occasionally
leaving no other explanation
for how it occurred
Even "rare" cases are just ...
#birth
#God
#humankind
510 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
28th Mar 2018 4:49am
28th Mar 2018 4:49am
Damn Memories
In night's blackest hours I think of you
Are you safe? Are you sleeping
far away from your waking problems?
Where there was once promise
all is painted over with loss
The pains and regrets created from
festering and untreated addictions
Now apart we have both lost so much
from those distant times & anticipation
of a future now dry as dunes of sand
But in my pain and isolation
I can still recall your smile
I can still hear your uncontrolled laughter
I can still feel your deep sleeping breaths
Just...
Are you safe? Are you sleeping
far away from your waking problems?
Where there was once promise
all is painted over with loss
The pains and regrets created from
festering and untreated addictions
Now apart we have both lost so much
from those distant times & anticipation
of a future now dry as dunes of sand
But in my pain and isolation
I can still recall your smile
I can still hear your uncontrolled laughter
I can still feel your deep sleeping breaths
Just...
#loneliness
#heartbroken
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6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Mar 2018 4:45am
28th Mar 2018 4:45am
At the End
Perhaps the world
will not go out with a bang!
An exclamation point
after a terribly long
run-on sentence
of humanity
Maybe we deserve
to go out with a whimper
Three period marks...
as we die a slow
quiet extinction
made sterile by
too much ink stain
on the virgin sheet
will not go out with a bang!
An exclamation point
after a terribly long
run-on sentence
of humanity
Maybe we deserve
to go out with a whimper
Three period marks...
as we die a slow
quiet extinction
made sterile by
too much ink stain
on the virgin sheet
#earth
#evolution
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4 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
26th Mar 2018 3:07am
26th Mar 2018 3:07am
Longing
My cat sits
on the window sill
tail slowly waving
back and forth
Enthralled with wide
open spaces out there
perhaps he longs
for the freedom
to move quietly, to hunt
But he is an indoor cat
inexperienced
with all the dangers
out there
My fears for his safety
keep him captivated
at the window
inside
on the window sill
tail slowly waving
back and forth
Enthralled with wide
open spaces out there
perhaps he longs
for the freedom
to move quietly, to hunt
But he is an indoor cat
inexperienced
with all the dangers
out there
My fears for his safety
keep him captivated
at the window
inside
#fate
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STORY POEM
Published
26th Mar 2018 2:56am
26th Mar 2018 2:56am
The New Pain
In these precious moments of pain we share together
we are united under a flag of commonality
A similar ache occupies our attentions
Twin agonies twist our perceptions
to the necessity of mood altering medications
Overindulgences from the past have come payment due
Let our tears of discomfort transform into
the wet uncertainty of the truly deranged
We will master our disgust of the expectations
of what we are supposed to feel and how to act
Let the new normal be constant pain
Let him who is without be cast down and...
we are united under a flag of commonality
A similar ache occupies our attentions
Twin agonies twist our perceptions
to the necessity of mood altering medications
Overindulgences from the past have come payment due
Let our tears of discomfort transform into
the wet uncertainty of the truly deranged
We will master our disgust of the expectations
of what we are supposed to feel and how to act
Let the new normal be constant pain
Let him who is without be cast down and...
#universe
#evolution
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3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Mar 2018 4:37am
25th Mar 2018 4:37am
From Above
Dark with death &
dense with danger
The Paliment of owls
continually insist I fight on
They encourage me
to fight past pain and fear
and not give up
on a world gone cold
The Murder of Crows
provide no advice to me
They merely lurk watching
Time is on their side
and they hate owl's wisdom
Occasionally other birds
check in with no interest
Just curiosity with no
intellect to care and soon
they are off & quickly forget
To live the avian life
Perspective so far above ...
dense with danger
The Paliment of owls
continually insist I fight on
They encourage me
to fight past pain and fear
and not give up
on a world gone cold
The Murder of Crows
provide no advice to me
They merely lurk watching
Time is on their side
and they hate owl's wisdom
Occasionally other birds
check in with no interest
Just curiosity with no
intellect to care and soon
they are off & quickly forget
To live the avian life
Perspective so far above ...
#spiritual
#mythology
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Mar 2018 4:34am
25th Mar 2018 4:34am
The Heat
Will this accursed heat ever let up?
No escape even in late night's oppression
of day's lingering temperatures
Bedchambers too dank and warm
to allow even the briefest of sleep
No time away in blessed dreams
Alone in my misery save for my cat
sprawled out on the floor trapped
in it's own body with no coherent
understanding of his discomfort
I lay awaiting even the slightest breeze
to cool me, pulling sweat from my skin
Less available to further saturate
these damp silk bed covers
In the moments that...
No escape even in late night's oppression
of day's lingering temperatures
Bedchambers too dank and warm
to allow even the briefest of sleep
No time away in blessed dreams
Alone in my misery save for my cat
sprawled out on the floor trapped
in it's own body with no coherent
understanding of his discomfort
I lay awaiting even the slightest breeze
to cool me, pulling sweat from my skin
Less available to further saturate
these damp silk bed covers
In the moments that...
#summer
#night
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