Submissions by Spanker
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Mar 2014 11:22am
4th Mar 2014 11:22am
If I Were a Gambler
I’d bet
You have people
Falling in love with you
All the time
I’d bet
You’re flattered and
Let them down gently
When you can
I’d bet
You love wildly
With everything you have
Not knowing why
I’d bet
You leave them
And they leave you
Without good reason
I’d bet
So many times
Because of your beauty
You’ve missed connections
I’d bet
That strong image
And air of confidence
Hides your fears
I’d bet
When you’re alone
You like to cry
Over lost dreams
And...
You have people
Falling in love with you
All the time
I’d bet
You’re flattered and
Let them down gently
When you can
I’d bet
You love wildly
With everything you have
Not knowing why
I’d bet
You leave them
And they leave you
Without good reason
I’d bet
So many times
Because of your beauty
You’ve missed connections
I’d bet
That strong image
And air of confidence
Hides your fears
I’d bet
When you’re alone
You like to cry
Over lost dreams
And...
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Mar 2014 5:14am
3rd Mar 2014 5:14am
Senryu 2
poets
are aliens
with cameras
are aliens
with cameras
572 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Mar 2014 5:13am
3rd Mar 2014 5:13am
Senryu 1
fakebook
falsebook
farcebook
falsebook
farcebook
640 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
9th Feb 2014 7:09am
9th Feb 2014 7:09am
Some Revolutionary …
Call yourself a man?
Brains of an elephant,
Balls like peas,
Make me sick,
Too hard on yourself,
Only human you say?
And what of the others,
Who spill their guts on the pavement?
And die like men,
I was therefore I am,
Thought the philosophers,
Who’d be a revolutionary?
What’s needed is action,
Proof of life,
Reason for living,
Sick of normality,
Fighting destiny,
Winds of fate,
Drawing you in,
To the void,
Where fear lives,
Let’s stay home,
Watch it on TV,
In comfort,
So much to lose,
Not me,...
Brains of an elephant,
Balls like peas,
Make me sick,
Too hard on yourself,
Only human you say?
And what of the others,
Who spill their guts on the pavement?
And die like men,
I was therefore I am,
Thought the philosophers,
Who’d be a revolutionary?
What’s needed is action,
Proof of life,
Reason for living,
Sick of normality,
Fighting destiny,
Winds of fate,
Drawing you in,
To the void,
Where fear lives,
Let’s stay home,
Watch it on TV,
In comfort,
So much to lose,
Not me,...
623 reads
0 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
2nd Feb 2014 2:03pm
2nd Feb 2014 2:03pm
Plan B
Was nothing I’d never dreamed?
Yet everything I instinctively knew
She, it, he
The semantics did not matter
It hit me
With a closed fist
Hard at first
Then like a slow kiss
I felt it grow
Outside in
And it was all
I could ever
Possibly see
Yet everything I instinctively knew
She, it, he
The semantics did not matter
It hit me
With a closed fist
Hard at first
Then like a slow kiss
I felt it grow
Outside in
And it was all
I could ever
Possibly see
541 reads
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Jan 2014 2:00pm
30th Jan 2014 2:00pm
Cabbage
Kill the bugs
They leave their marks
Fleeting
I take the hunk
Of char-grilled animal
Respect it with the jus
Fungi scattered
Like little soldiers
In my own private war
With myself and the world
Including Mother Nature
And all her so called gifts
Which I think I love so much
And probably really do
But the music
And the juices of the vine
Take me somewhere else
Where I am contented and happy
The simplest and most complex of things
I see their marks
The signs of being and going
Should they haunt me?
I do not...
They leave their marks
Fleeting
I take the hunk
Of char-grilled animal
Respect it with the jus
Fungi scattered
Like little soldiers
In my own private war
With myself and the world
Including Mother Nature
And all her so called gifts
Which I think I love so much
And probably really do
But the music
And the juices of the vine
Take me somewhere else
Where I am contented and happy
The simplest and most complex of things
I see their marks
The signs of being and going
Should they haunt me?
I do not...
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SELF POEM
Published
19th Jan 2014 3:11am
19th Jan 2014 3:11am
One More Time
I walk alone
Talk to no-one
On my own
Again
Fear the phone
Hear the moan
Silent tone
Again
See the clone
Seed I’ve sown
Pointed bone
Again
Tip the throne
Smoke a cone
Leave the zone
Again
Talk to no-one
On my own
Again
Fear the phone
Hear the moan
Silent tone
Again
See the clone
Seed I’ve sown
Pointed bone
Again
Tip the throne
Smoke a cone
Leave the zone
Again
585 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
19th Jan 2014 3:05am
19th Jan 2014 3:05am
I do I am
I snore I lust
I dream I rust
I fart I laugh
I eat I need
I drink I joke
I smoke I think
I read I piss
I write I shit
I spew I doubt
I love I live
I hate I lie
I fuck I die
I work I look
I bleed I touch
I fight I stay
I dream I rust
I fart I laugh
I eat I need
I drink I joke
I smoke I think
I read I piss
I write I shit
I spew I doubt
I love I live
I hate I lie
I fuck I die
I work I look
I bleed I touch
I fight I stay
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DARK POEM
Published
15th Jan 2014 3:25pm
15th Jan 2014 3:25pm
Shadows
Into the abyss,
Nothing to lose,
Faithless leap,
Escaping sanity,
Meeting madness,
Too deep,
Too far,
Fear,
Darkness,
Breathe,
Relax,
Wait,
Longer,
Patience,
Spasm,
Kick,
Struggle,
Panic,
Nothing,
Light,
Warmth,
Nausea,
Pain,
Despair,
Silence,
Memory,
Melancholy,
Love,
Sleep,
Dream
Nothing to lose,
Faithless leap,
Escaping sanity,
Meeting madness,
Too deep,
Too far,
Fear,
Darkness,
Breathe,
Relax,
Wait,
Longer,
Patience,
Spasm,
Kick,
Struggle,
Panic,
Nothing,
Light,
Warmth,
Nausea,
Pain,
Despair,
Silence,
Memory,
Melancholy,
Love,
Sleep,
Dream
636 reads
0 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
11th Jan 2014 2:52pm
11th Jan 2014 2:52pm
E.P.I. Pt 1
Oh yes
Welcome to …
Extreme political incorrectness
Part 1
Today we begin
The great re-balancing
Of diatribes gone too far
Once noble
But long since horribly abused
So which discrimination to begin with
How about the most powerful?
The minority group that secretly runs the world
No, not Skull & Bones
No, not the Neo-Cons
No, not Religious Fundamentalists
No, not the Freemasons
No, not Microsoft (but close)
It’s the minority group
That is in fact a majority
Any guesses … anyone?
Yes, it’s women...
Welcome to …
Extreme political incorrectness
Part 1
Today we begin
The great re-balancing
Of diatribes gone too far
Once noble
But long since horribly abused
So which discrimination to begin with
How about the most powerful?
The minority group that secretly runs the world
No, not Skull & Bones
No, not the Neo-Cons
No, not Religious Fundamentalists
No, not the Freemasons
No, not Microsoft (but close)
It’s the minority group
That is in fact a majority
Any guesses … anyone?
Yes, it’s women...
582 reads
0 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
12th Oct 2013 9:03am
12th Oct 2013 9:03am
Outside Out
I’m the lunch stain
On your paper
I’m the button
Off your shirt
At times
I’m like a gas
Invisible
And inert
I’m the quiet one
In the corner
I’m the loner
On the edge
The outsider
Among outsiders
The jumper
On the ledge
On your paper
I’m the button
Off your shirt
At times
I’m like a gas
Invisible
And inert
I’m the quiet one
In the corner
I’m the loner
On the edge
The outsider
Among outsiders
The jumper
On the ledge
838 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
12th Oct 2013 8:59am
12th Oct 2013 8:59am
Two and a Half Zen
It’s all hypothetical
And completely theoretical
But let’s suppose
I was a cross between
Charlie and Alan
And you were a cross between
Rose and Rose
What I’m trying to say
And let’s not confuse
The thing is ...
I'm lacking
And need a new muse
And completely theoretical
But let’s suppose
I was a cross between
Charlie and Alan
And you were a cross between
Rose and Rose
What I’m trying to say
And let’s not confuse
The thing is ...
I'm lacking
And need a new muse
632 reads
3 Comments
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