Submissions by Spanker
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
The experiments continue; elements combine and react; new substances form; old ideas disintegrate; lenses filter, focus and reflect; the scientist and the lab rat – indistinguishable.
Madame
Modi says hi
Lovely things
Pinka pinka
With Maldoror
In his pocket
Plus a roach
Pinka pinka
His lovely & painting
In his heart
Picasso
An itch
In his crotch
Pinka pinka
Utrillo
And his friends
Life!
No joy declined
They take advantage
Except for her
The way she nuzzles
Creating dreams
Pinka pinka
Death comes easy
For one so blessed
Lovely things
Pinka pinka
With Maldoror
In his pocket
Plus a roach
Pinka pinka
His lovely & painting
In his heart
Picasso
An itch
In his crotch
Pinka pinka
Utrillo
And his friends
Life!
No joy declined
They take advantage
Except for her
The way she nuzzles
Creating dreams
Pinka pinka
Death comes easy
For one so blessed
#love
#death
#LifeStruggles #art
#LifeStruggles #art
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Google Maps
Outside she is all business
Inside she’s full-blown romance
At the office respect is her due
Away for her it’s the dance
We’re almost there he says
Looks over seeking thought
Noting smiles in both voices
Within their manners well taught
A window is wound down
And soothing breeze flows through
Her hair his too the radio
Gives up its muffled sound
I’m feeling good she offers
His heart leaps for joy
He accidentally activates
The windscreen wipers oh boy
And on the remaining journey ...
Inside she’s full-blown romance
At the office respect is her due
Away for her it’s the dance
We’re almost there he says
Looks over seeking thought
Noting smiles in both voices
Within their manners well taught
A window is wound down
And soothing breeze flows through
Her hair his too the radio
Gives up its muffled sound
I’m feeling good she offers
His heart leaps for joy
He accidentally activates
The windscreen wipers oh boy
And on the remaining journey ...
#love
#funny
#admiration #respect
#admiration #respect
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Sweet
I love that
When she gets all excited
Crescendo
Denouement
When she gets all excited
Crescendo
Denouement
#happiness
#hope
#inspirational #uplifting
#inspirational #uplifting
429 reads
2 Comments
Bred For the Distance
You old stayer
You’d do two miles
In a canter
You’d do two miles
In a canter
#horses
#aging
#sports
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A Girl on a Street
Lovely thing
I saw you both times
And you saw me
I saw a part of you
And you saw a part of me
The others said move on
They said she’s gone
I kind of knew
What they meant
She smiled
Looked right through us
A kind of ignorant bliss
Is that what you really think?
My muse of today asked
I gently said no
It was all very sad
Somewhat terrifying
Another human soul on the heap
She was the kind of girl
Who might talk to animals?
And understand...
I saw you both times
And you saw me
I saw a part of you
And you saw a part of me
The others said move on
They said she’s gone
I kind of knew
What they meant
She smiled
Looked right through us
A kind of ignorant bliss
Is that what you really think?
My muse of today asked
I gently said no
It was all very sad
Somewhat terrifying
Another human soul on the heap
She was the kind of girl
Who might talk to animals?
And understand...
#kindness
#drugs
#homelessness #poverty
#homelessness #poverty
314 reads
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An Accidental Asterisk Mark
Sign of the cross
With X overlaid
It redirects thought
Academics look for a footnote
Hoping for something they know
To reinforce their smarts
Memory their house-boys
Servants to an insipid trade
Science over religion
Hydrogen bombs over God
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sydney and the Gold Coast
Whores at the casinos
Losers placing their bets
All you can drink
All you can eat
Glitzy bars and cheap buffets
The morons come in all sizes
No matter the price of their suits
With X overlaid
It redirects thought
Academics look for a footnote
Hoping for something they know
To reinforce their smarts
Memory their house-boys
Servants to an insipid trade
Science over religion
Hydrogen bombs over God
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sydney and the Gold Coast
Whores at the casinos
Losers placing their bets
All you can drink
All you can eat
Glitzy bars and cheap buffets
The morons come in all sizes
No matter the price of their suits
#corruption
#power
#morality #tradition
#morality #tradition
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The English Girl
She was too beautiful
For any poem
Headed
For where I’d been
And I wanted
Everything about her
Where she’d been
Without me
And we met
Half-way
Believe it or not
For a glimpse
For a fancy
And her truth
And falseness
Trumped mine
Until I
Trumped hers
With all my
Failings
And she was
Finer than fine
And I could not
Possibly spoil that
For any poem
Headed
For where I’d been
And I wanted
Everything about her
Where she’d been
Without me
And we met
Half-way
Believe it or not
For a glimpse
For a fancy
And her truth
And falseness
Trumped mine
Until I
Trumped hers
With all my
Failings
And she was
Finer than fine
And I could not
Possibly spoil that
#romantic
#admiration
#respect #crush
#respect #crush
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Wednesday Magic
He’s waving it all about
His fiddle
Stroking her pause
She was ready
Rose in mouth
Appetite extending
He dips into her light
Apologizes profusely
They laugh it off
Before the more serious moments
With hair undone
Silencers off
They are what they used to be
Two whores in time
Sweating profusely
In their there and then
Oh, men! She thinks
Where might we be without them?
He in turn, was rounding the bend
Straightening up for the long finish
Melbourne Cup and...
His fiddle
Stroking her pause
She was ready
Rose in mouth
Appetite extending
He dips into her light
Apologizes profusely
They laugh it off
Before the more serious moments
With hair undone
Silencers off
They are what they used to be
Two whores in time
Sweating profusely
In their there and then
Oh, men! She thinks
Where might we be without them?
He in turn, was rounding the bend
Straightening up for the long finish
Melbourne Cup and...
#love
#women
#men #sex
#men #sex
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A Girl’s got to
A girl’s got to
Way up her options
Right
Just as a boy does
Separate fantasy and fiction
From stark reality
Determine any possible
Intersections
Settle on best bets
Likelihoods and probabilities
Positive and negative outcomes
A girl’s got to do
Just like a boy
Right
But maybe, just maybe
A bit more like a girl
The way, just maybe
It might and or should be
Just a thought
Right
Way up her options
Right
Just as a boy does
Separate fantasy and fiction
From stark reality
Determine any possible
Intersections
Settle on best bets
Likelihoods and probabilities
Positive and negative outcomes
A girl’s got to do
Just like a boy
Right
But maybe, just maybe
A bit more like a girl
The way, just maybe
It might and or should be
Just a thought
Right
#women
#men
#feminism
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Basket
My old cane laundry basket
I’ve had for eons
And still in good nick
I gave it a gentle rub
And thanked it, as I do
I said, “Well-done old basket”
It said, “You’re the basket”
I agreed, just to keep the peace
I’ve had for eons
And still in good nick
I gave it a gentle rub
And thanked it, as I do
I said, “Well-done old basket”
It said, “You’re the basket”
I agreed, just to keep the peace
#kindness
#funny
#MentalHealth #gratitude
#MentalHealth #gratitude
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‘Get Em Boys!’
The victims of their crimes are black and white
A cat burglar, so cool within the night
But no, they do it just as well by day
The empty homes, while workers are away
A barking dog and shattering of glass
And in they creep, continuing the farce
Then through your drawers they search for loot with stealth
Gains justified, redistributing wealth
Yet taking others’ things is surely wrong
Except the crap they rap and call it song
No thought for victims, when they break and steal
A few more trinkets for the hock and deal
People...
A cat burglar, so cool within the night
But no, they do it just as well by day
The empty homes, while workers are away
A barking dog and shattering of glass
And in they creep, continuing the farce
Then through your drawers they search for loot with stealth
Gains justified, redistributing wealth
Yet taking others’ things is surely wrong
Except the crap they rap and call it song
No thought for victims, when they break and steal
A few more trinkets for the hock and deal
People...
#violence
#suffering
#morality
247 reads
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Self-Sentenced
I awoke in chains, mostly made by me
Hard and smooth, they chinked with every move
Lovely loops, silver and gold, so shiny
My dreams undone and charges to disprove
A window filters light through two black bars
And on my Spartan bed I lay and think
The distant sounds of birds and trucks and cars
Try not to notice my own blessed stink
The walls, the door, the shadows, day then night
Wardens’ keys jangle, tempting lonely locks
A mind it wanders, almost out of sight
Voices stream their way, past the silent rocks
While shackles loosen,...
Hard and smooth, they chinked with every move
Lovely loops, silver and gold, so shiny
My dreams undone and charges to disprove
A window filters light through two black bars
And on my Spartan bed I lay and think
The distant sounds of birds and trucks and cars
Try not to notice my own blessed stink
The walls, the door, the shadows, day then night
Wardens’ keys jangle, tempting lonely locks
A mind it wanders, almost out of sight
Voices stream their way, past the silent rocks
While shackles loosen,...
#LifeStruggles
#SelfReflection
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