Submissions by Scattered_Thoughts (ST)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
DARK POEM
Published
28th Dec 2020 5:51am
28th Dec 2020 5:51am
Legacy
You
could have been a person
instead of spilled proof
of the one who came before.
Less progeny than malignancy
…he deserved a better mark.
could have been a person
instead of spilled proof
of the one who came before.
Less progeny than malignancy
…he deserved a better mark.
#frustration
#disappointment
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STORY POEM
Published
21st Sep 2020 1:31am
21st Sep 2020 1:31am
Cast Out
Dead to me? Don't be silly.
Death begets grief and regret;
it spawns sorrow in stillborn wishes
that echo in unbidden moments.
I mourn my dead.
You shall be suffered to live.
To breathe. To subsist as less than.
As substantive as motes in the dark.
Thrive there. Or not.
So removed from my reality
even memories fail to linger.
Dead to me? Don't be silly.
I mourn my dead.
You, living, lack the ghost
with which to haunt me.
Death begets grief and regret;
it spawns sorrow in stillborn wishes
that echo in unbidden moments.
I mourn my dead.
You shall be suffered to live.
To breathe. To subsist as less than.
As substantive as motes in the dark.
Thrive there. Or not.
So removed from my reality
even memories fail to linger.
Dead to me? Don't be silly.
I mourn my dead.
You, living, lack the ghost
with which to haunt me.
#MovingOn
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
20th Jul 2019 6:58pm
20th Jul 2019 6:58pm
None so blind
What I said was
“never saw it coming”
believing every word
Shell-shocked, brittle, broken
berating the blind eye
for not giving a heads up
before the shit-show started
Gallagher style
and me without a slicker
But wait ...what?
So who then purged
of empty space and matches
weeks, then days, before
the hammer fell
(on what, my head?)
Bitch, please.
Seems an apology owed
like the one received
for ...oh,nothing
because Denial?
Nailed it.
“never saw it coming”
believing every word
Shell-shocked, brittle, broken
berating the blind eye
for not giving a heads up
before the shit-show started
Gallagher style
and me without a slicker
But wait ...what?
So who then purged
of empty space and matches
weeks, then days, before
the hammer fell
(on what, my head?)
Bitch, please.
Seems an apology owed
like the one received
for ...oh,nothing
because Denial?
Nailed it.
#funny
#memories
450 reads
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SELF POEM
Published
19th Jul 2019 3:49am
19th Jul 2019 3:49am
How hard can a title really be? ...really
soft, brash, whispered, brazen
deafening silence; Sincere indifference; Confused Determination; Soul-crushing VICTORY!
Words, like cresting waves, surface only to be violently sucked back under the weight of another surging current.
It's not a block, more like being beaten senseless by roiling seas.
Whitecaps, blurbs! Break through only to tumble back into the trough.
No treasure sparkles amidst the flotsam.
deafening silence; Sincere indifference; Confused Determination; Soul-crushing VICTORY!
Words, like cresting waves, surface only to be violently sucked back under the weight of another surging current.
It's not a block, more like being beaten senseless by roiling seas.
Whitecaps, blurbs! Break through only to tumble back into the trough.
No treasure sparkles amidst the flotsam.
#MentalHealth
#learning
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
11th Jun 2018 7:41pm
11th Jun 2018 7:41pm
Fingers bleeding? Let it go.
You can only shove so much plaster
into the cracks, ever growing,
before you drop the trowel
and burn that motherfucker down.
Rebuild? Move on? Who knows?
Who cares?
Who's got the marshmallows?
into the cracks, ever growing,
before you drop the trowel
and burn that motherfucker down.
Rebuild? Move on? Who knows?
Who cares?
Who's got the marshmallows?
#courage
#relationships
#marriage #MovingOn
#marriage #MovingOn
563 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th May 2018 10:32pm
25th May 2018 10:32pm
Distance
A ten-by-twelve foot room
should not echo quite this way
independent of dimensions
It harbors hidden space
an unacknowledged chasm
that wasn't in the floorplan
before we walked in
should not echo quite this way
independent of dimensions
It harbors hidden space
an unacknowledged chasm
that wasn't in the floorplan
before we walked in
#regret
#emptiness
787 reads
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Jul 2017 3:00am
26th Jul 2017 3:00am
Charade
As performances go
it was passable
but for the star
for whom even I have
on occasion
scattered petals
of abject adoration
forgive the intrusion
of intuition
when observation
is ill controlled
and expansive
beyond the spotlight's intention
pay no attention to
what lies behind the curtain
after all,
sometimes, you get more
than you paid for
when the price of admission
is free
it was passable
but for the star
for whom even I have
on occasion
scattered petals
of abject adoration
forgive the intrusion
of intuition
when observation
is ill controlled
and expansive
beyond the spotlight's intention
pay no attention to
what lies behind the curtain
after all,
sometimes, you get more
than you paid for
when the price of admission
is free
709 reads
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Jul 2017 4:38am
23rd Jul 2017 4:38am
Letting go
A vision in champagne satin
truest smile I'd ever seen
so bright, it lit her eyes
from the inside
like the Fourth of July
golden flakes and green
breaking through what
always appeared to be brown
I finally got to see
the barest trace of me
in her
bittersweet, that moment
when my own eyes
must have dimmed
from the effort
of gracefully letting go
truest smile I'd ever seen
so bright, it lit her eyes
from the inside
like the Fourth of July
golden flakes and green
breaking through what
always appeared to be brown
I finally got to see
the barest trace of me
in her
bittersweet, that moment
when my own eyes
must have dimmed
from the effort
of gracefully letting go
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