Submissions by SonderNinja (BenjaminEC)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Meticulous nonsense
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
27th Oct 2024 10:02pm
27th Oct 2024 10:02pm
Purgatory
Half a mind for morning swill,
purging shine 'til ticking clock-
angry fate of oddment dawn
nights that wrench in nerve & bile...
piecework prize of chill & sigh
damn a soul to dusky brush,
stinging blaze of jackleg grace-
rack-rent sty in warbling brain
days in ice & empty wile...
feckless flight feels full & high
feague the way in grey retrace,
sharpened sticks for sport or point-
shares the void with bug or sign
eidolon by rote or mile...
restless plight of hill...
purging shine 'til ticking clock-
angry fate of oddment dawn
nights that wrench in nerve & bile...
piecework prize of chill & sigh
damn a soul to dusky brush,
stinging blaze of jackleg grace-
rack-rent sty in warbling brain
days in ice & empty wile...
feckless flight feels full & high
feague the way in grey retrace,
sharpened sticks for sport or point-
shares the void with bug or sign
eidolon by rote or mile...
restless plight of hill...
#dark
#mystery
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
27th Oct 2024 9:13pm
27th Oct 2024 9:13pm
Body Horror
..
Neck and shoulders groan
when my back acts like a prick.
Brain is an asshole.
Neck and shoulders groan
when my back acts like a prick.
Brain is an asshole.
#aging
#senryu
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th Oct 2024 7:37pm
19th Oct 2024 7:37pm
Wrong from the Start
(or "The Beast System Blues")
Wrong from the start
slow roads through this
brokenhearted
asphalt flower
business
strayed from the pack
into bits of byway passing
the gloomy pine
of a much maligned
interstate split
an eminent domain
for crooks & culvert-crawling
philistines and misanthropic desires
to decimate this boom car parking lot hole
with an off-the-grid wandering
a sprat-covered heath
for bulldozer sprawling
mortality &...
Wrong from the start
slow roads through this
brokenhearted
asphalt flower
business
strayed from the pack
into bits of byway passing
the gloomy pine
of a much maligned
interstate split
an eminent domain
for crooks & culvert-crawling
philistines and misanthropic desires
to decimate this boom car parking lot hole
with an off-the-grid wandering
a sprat-covered heath
for bulldozer sprawling
mortality &...
#culture
#FreeVerse
#nature
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LOVE POEM
Published
7th Oct 2024 1:34am
7th Oct 2024 1:34am
Crawling Chaos (In-Between)
Croaking sky, her iron eyes
speak no more my wet rock home
thund'rous soul claps true & free
peace within this stressful storm
feathered crowning starry shine
brimstone shores our fleshy leak
blazing calm through battered time
mellowed from her salted peak
crooning zenith siren head
sickle moon reaps loom for oil
mongrel boom for rainfall plead
blue tongues parched with room & toil
sings this fume to wooden East
melts with mantled Northern hiss
crawling chaos in-between
binding...
speak no more my wet rock home
thund'rous soul claps true & free
peace within this stressful storm
feathered crowning starry shine
brimstone shores our fleshy leak
blazing calm through battered time
mellowed from her salted peak
crooning zenith siren head
sickle moon reaps loom for oil
mongrel boom for rainfall plead
blue tongues parched with room & toil
sings this fume to wooden East
melts with mantled Northern hiss
crawling chaos in-between
binding...
#acceptance
#love
#mystery #WritingPoetry
#mystery #WritingPoetry
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
6th Oct 2024 7:39pm
6th Oct 2024 7:39pm
American Golem
Passive dirt in mindless motion,
numb of speech for careful meetings
covered stars
over-stares of lap
with dullard ties
nod or quake
to desk in stone
solidified-
ingested parchments
awaiting script,
monotone scraping
stalks & perks
sorcerer's code
through shortened miles
skyscrapers shake...
empty earth in shameless pattern,
toiling tongue with office jargon
smothered stars
on a spit of wind
with cyborg eyes
dead at...
numb of speech for careful meetings
covered stars
over-stares of lap
with dullard ties
nod or quake
to desk in stone
solidified-
ingested parchments
awaiting script,
monotone scraping
stalks & perks
sorcerer's code
through shortened miles
skyscrapers shake...
empty earth in shameless pattern,
toiling tongue with office jargon
smothered stars
on a spit of wind
with cyborg eyes
dead at...
#culture
#dark
#dystopian #FreeVerse
#dystopian #FreeVerse
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
6th Oct 2024 4:01pm
6th Oct 2024 4:01pm
American Homunculus
Things are about to break,
it's on the tongue of the world-
we're
about to
synchronize
fomented worms
in misery
zap with certain
electricity,
mass = hypnotized:
where will a town mouse
hide
from bill-collecting
fat cat rage
of rubes & cons
across the Rubicon?
This land is our land,
from bubbling cauldron
to breeding bored
in an overflow
of nowhere to go but
up
when the lights go
down;
I'm gonna be on...
it's on the tongue of the world-
we're
about to
synchronize
fomented worms
in misery
zap with certain
electricity,
mass = hypnotized:
where will a town mouse
hide
from bill-collecting
fat cat rage
of rubes & cons
across the Rubicon?
This land is our land,
from bubbling cauldron
to breeding bored
in an overflow
of nowhere to go but
up
when the lights go
down;
I'm gonna be on...
#culture
#dark
#dystopian #FreeVerse
#dystopian #FreeVerse
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SELF POEM
Published
22nd Sep 2024 5:13pm
22nd Sep 2024 5:13pm
See How They Run
Early spark & saunter
the morning stalks
a warmed-up,
chilled-out
flowering,
first...
this heat
(more like a buzz)
all through the night:
a zephyr-frozen
spear of light
spits the heart
on a space of
wavering
~time & daze~
stabbing westward
growls for hope
through a howling gust
where the darkness stretches
thought & prayers
for old friends
from ancient days
you should've had killed
when the absence
was more...
the morning stalks
a warmed-up,
chilled-out
flowering,
first...
this heat
(more like a buzz)
all through the night:
a zephyr-frozen
spear of light
spits the heart
on a space of
wavering
~time & daze~
stabbing westward
growls for hope
through a howling gust
where the darkness stretches
thought & prayers
for old friends
from ancient days
you should've had killed
when the absence
was more...
#FreeVerse
#friendship
#regret
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Sep 2024 11:38pm
10th Sep 2024 11:38pm
The Least Among Us
(or "Chicken-of-the-Sea")
Intrepid wattle,
caught in the roil
of a reckoning watch
a ragamuffin remnant
of chaotic creation
a tatterdemalion shamble
through fluid
subconscious
a spring chicken
marching with
his death wish
-list
down to the shore
for boiling
beyond
our earthly shine
a serf on the surf
from a trusted turf
to crash & spray
ichor,
brine:
a hook for a look
is long in...
Intrepid wattle,
caught in the roil
of a reckoning watch
a ragamuffin remnant
of chaotic creation
a tatterdemalion shamble
through fluid
subconscious
a spring chicken
marching with
his death wish
-list
down to the shore
for boiling
beyond
our earthly shine
a serf on the surf
from a trusted turf
to crash & spray
ichor,
brine:
a hook for a look
is long in...
#environment
#vulnerability
#FreeVerse
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Sep 2024 9:32pm
10th Sep 2024 9:32pm
Like Night & Day
The Sun is speaking
now in hungry, eldritch tongues...
the stars are just right
dust & smoke clearing
monolith in the distance,
pardon this stumbling
happy days for me-
got my cake and eating it;
I am satisfied
crawling dawn, it breaks
my heart & tools daily, yet
I slumber soundly
a fool past his peak
now scraping to the finish,
was it worth the climb?
this: for the taking,
a callow soul escaping-
this was...
now in hungry, eldritch tongues...
the stars are just right
dust & smoke clearing
monolith in the distance,
pardon this stumbling
happy days for me-
got my cake and eating it;
I am satisfied
crawling dawn, it breaks
my heart & tools daily, yet
I slumber soundly
a fool past his peak
now scraping to the finish,
was it worth the climb?
this: for the taking,
a callow soul escaping-
this was...
#acceptance
#confessional
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
2nd Sep 2024 4:01am
2nd Sep 2024 4:01am
Monocline
Lay to rest these childish sins,
from gone to ground in quaking dirt
I handhold to sounds -
a bicker & sway for skinning high,
the cry, the climb,
dangling tired;
the scrape, the joy, the blood,
the will, the nerve,
the shame...a wonderful
place to die, this was all
excellent! but
abandon hope
ye who enter:
blessing & curses,
colors & prayers
are a terrible comfort,
a place to do circles in....
a grip on the wound
of a festering pride,
...
from gone to ground in quaking dirt
I handhold to sounds -
a bicker & sway for skinning high,
the cry, the climb,
dangling tired;
the scrape, the joy, the blood,
the will, the nerve,
the shame...a wonderful
place to die, this was all
excellent! but
abandon hope
ye who enter:
blessing & curses,
colors & prayers
are a terrible comfort,
a place to do circles in....
a grip on the wound
of a festering pride,
...
#FreeVerse
#WritingPoetry
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Sep 2024 5:57pm
1st Sep 2024 5:57pm
How to Proceed
Awake in modern days,
a pay scale faith
in reptilian
real estate
~haze
future
deposits
lollygag
hatred...
inequitable
indifference:
a fear of shovels
crusting your
double agent
piehole,
a mechanized spread
of grass roots
independence
gear-grinding the goodness
dumbing-down this
cacophonous
caucus
croaking yoke
& work,
this special interest
hand-selected
paper trail gourmet
shaves electric points
as inadvertent ...
a pay scale faith
in reptilian
real estate
~haze
future
deposits
lollygag
hatred...
inequitable
indifference:
a fear of shovels
crusting your
double agent
piehole,
a mechanized spread
of grass roots
independence
gear-grinding the goodness
dumbing-down this
cacophonous
caucus
croaking yoke
& work,
this special interest
hand-selected
paper trail gourmet
shaves electric points
as inadvertent ...
#culture
#FreeVerse
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SELF POEM
Published
31st Aug 2024 10:13pm
31st Aug 2024 10:13pm
Broken (Free)
Broken,
free...
there is
only me,
this mind,
see-
so free
a whipcord dog
in blue sinew
buries a bone
away from view;
impenitent steel
for yowling real -
my name
my nerve
my sass
my verve,
smitten...
brain bug-bitten,
a hopeful ghoul
in a pool of drool -
a stricken hick
with a breakaway tick -
my boots, my grave -
how my guts do taste
laughing like rain
and unafraid, ...
free...
there is
only me,
this mind,
see-
so free
a whipcord dog
in blue sinew
buries a bone
away from view;
impenitent steel
for yowling real -
my name
my nerve
my sass
my verve,
smitten...
brain bug-bitten,
a hopeful ghoul
in a pool of drool -
a stricken hick
with a breakaway tick -
my boots, my grave -
how my guts do taste
laughing like rain
and unafraid, ...
#confessional
#FreeVerse
#gratitude
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