Submissions by Tallen (earth_empath)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I am not really a seasoned writer. I write to Feel Less and I read to Feel more.
SELF POEM
Published
30th Apr 2022 5:08pm
30th Apr 2022 5:08pm
Comma
30 / 30
Comma
Our finite timelines are likening to train tracks
stretching from onset to finality –
only to board another train
be it a spiritual destination
or a chance to start anew
I’ve made many (too many, maybe)
an unscheduled stop
distracted by the ado of bright lights
flim-flam artisans shouting
from their mobile homes,
street corners, as well
Some stops were brief
others felt like an extended binge
yet others, due to my...
Comma
Our finite timelines are likening to train tracks
stretching from onset to finality –
only to board another train
be it a spiritual destination
or a chance to start anew
I’ve made many (too many, maybe)
an unscheduled stop
distracted by the ado of bright lights
flim-flam artisans shouting
from their mobile homes,
street corners, as well
Some stops were brief
others felt like an extended binge
yet others, due to my...
#LifeCycle
#travel
#NaPoWriMo2022
231 reads
6 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
29th Apr 2022 6:15pm
29th Apr 2022 6:15pm
Organum
29 / 30
Organum
I am a man
many say
is gentle as
the heavens know
an air of peace
& quiet love ferments
beneath my upbringing
my struggles
my awakening…………..
Wherever I step
Nature and homo sapiens
feel… know or somehow
touched in some
spiritual
ethereal
way
no different from any other
red blooded or other
blooded being,
while armed with skills to
harm, armed with a
preference for HARMONY.
...
Organum
I am a man
many say
is gentle as
the heavens know
an air of peace
& quiet love ferments
beneath my upbringing
my struggles
my awakening…………..
Wherever I step
Nature and homo sapiens
feel… know or somehow
touched in some
spiritual
ethereal
way
no different from any other
red blooded or other
blooded being,
while armed with skills to
harm, armed with a
preference for HARMONY.
...
#myself
#NaPoWriMo2022
108 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
28th Apr 2022 7:15pm
28th Apr 2022 7:15pm
Thaumaturgies
28 / 30
Thaumaturgies
Life, like nature hiking paths,
constitution of minute miracles
Do they still exist, occur
even if we’re not looking,
tunneling throughout with
bat vision and or ambivalently
watching where we step?
I believe the magick is still
all around us girding our
essence, our frequency
our resonance,
manifesting a constant of
tiny miracles
enhancing
entertaining
enlivening
what might be
a mundane existence
...
Thaumaturgies
Life, like nature hiking paths,
constitution of minute miracles
Do they still exist, occur
even if we’re not looking,
tunneling throughout with
bat vision and or ambivalently
watching where we step?
I believe the magick is still
all around us girding our
essence, our frequency
our resonance,
manifesting a constant of
tiny miracles
enhancing
entertaining
enlivening
what might be
a mundane existence
...
#nature
#spiritual
#magic #NaPoWriMo2022
#magic #NaPoWriMo2022
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SELF POEM
Published
27th Apr 2022 5:28pm
27th Apr 2022 5:28pm
Defenestrating Childship
27 / 30
Defenestrating Childship
I don’t believe I ever had childhood fantasies
mostly, because I remember very little
no smiles no laughter
more of pain & what came after
always running
from something
from someone
trying to escape
I DO remember once ----
tried to escape by swallowing
all the pills in our medicine cabinet
hoping to enter dreamlands
where 5 years less of
adolescents’ fantasies
might thrive
I failed in my attempt
woke up to lectures
woke...
Defenestrating Childship
I don’t believe I ever had childhood fantasies
mostly, because I remember very little
no smiles no laughter
more of pain & what came after
always running
from something
from someone
trying to escape
I DO remember once ----
tried to escape by swallowing
all the pills in our medicine cabinet
hoping to enter dreamlands
where 5 years less of
adolescents’ fantasies
might thrive
I failed in my attempt
woke up to lectures
woke...
#dreams
#SelfReflection
#separation #NaPoWriMo2022
#separation #NaPoWriMo2022
94 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Apr 2022 4:46pm
26th Apr 2022 4:46pm
Inductive, Deductive Equanimity
26 / 30
Inductive, Deductive Equanimity
Once I was bitter, & trapped
garbage, an insurmountable heap
sucking in mud (was it really mud?)
while scaling over the troubling pile.
Vision clouded
caught in the mouse trap
come to SEE after college
challenged me
Thinking outside the snare of
conformity I skipped out of
the self-replicating rat trap.
Yet my upbringing
religious anchor
moored me to non-logical thought
until the day I met a Buddhist monk
and dared to think for...
Inductive, Deductive Equanimity
Once I was bitter, & trapped
garbage, an insurmountable heap
sucking in mud (was it really mud?)
while scaling over the troubling pile.
Vision clouded
caught in the mouse trap
come to SEE after college
challenged me
Thinking outside the snare of
conformity I skipped out of
the self-replicating rat trap.
Yet my upbringing
religious anchor
moored me to non-logical thought
until the day I met a Buddhist monk
and dared to think for...
#spiritual
#SelfReflection
#NaPoWriMo2022
108 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
25th Apr 2022 4:30pm
25th Apr 2022 4:30pm
Desideratum
25 / 30
Desideratum
Do we love one another
or need to love?
Often lines are blurred
confusing the two in
our minds. Maybe
that’s part of the
problem. Maybe the 2
should be jumbled up
in our hearts not our
minds. At the very
least, our din should
start there, I think.
There I go again using
my mind as opposed
to feeling first.
We can want to love
needing each other.
Feels right, right?
unique...
Desideratum
Do we love one another
or need to love?
Often lines are blurred
confusing the two in
our minds. Maybe
that’s part of the
problem. Maybe the 2
should be jumbled up
in our hearts not our
minds. At the very
least, our din should
start there, I think.
There I go again using
my mind as opposed
to feeling first.
We can want to love
needing each other.
Feels right, right?
unique...
#love
#NaPoWriMo2022
134 reads
3 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
24th Apr 2022 5:37pm
24th Apr 2022 5:37pm
Vivification
24 / 30
Vivification
I’ve traveled many miles
pushing aside fears of
walking trails in a different
land, landing in search
of smiles, love and or
Friendship.
In every face that came
my way, I sought to aid
or lighten their path;
I offered to help
to live in a manner
towards & amidst
Inner peace.
Sometimes I bonded
we shared sustenance
for our hungers
then looked to the skies
the stars
the ethereal planes
of no existence!
Leaving their path ...
Vivification
I’ve traveled many miles
pushing aside fears of
walking trails in a different
land, landing in search
of smiles, love and or
Friendship.
In every face that came
my way, I sought to aid
or lighten their path;
I offered to help
to live in a manner
towards & amidst
Inner peace.
Sometimes I bonded
we shared sustenance
for our hungers
then looked to the skies
the stars
the ethereal planes
of no existence!
Leaving their path ...
#friendship
#SelfReflection
#NaPoWriMo2022
149 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
23rd Apr 2022 6:12pm
23rd Apr 2022 6:12pm
Transmuting Psychosis
23 / 30
Transmuting Psychosis
I would settle for 30 seconds
of petrification
verses millions of years!
O how I yearn for
a personal dormition
staving off effects
of my lack of R.E.M., sleep.
I get a little psychotic
A two hour nap per night
21 hours per week
my average
before I get a wee bit crazy
This past night found me
freaking out
for I had a difficult time
telling the difference
between reality,
dream & half-sleep.
In May, I have a 4 hr...
Transmuting Psychosis
I would settle for 30 seconds
of petrification
verses millions of years!
O how I yearn for
a personal dormition
staving off effects
of my lack of R.E.M., sleep.
I get a little psychotic
A two hour nap per night
21 hours per week
my average
before I get a wee bit crazy
This past night found me
freaking out
for I had a difficult time
telling the difference
between reality,
dream & half-sleep.
In May, I have a 4 hr...
#dreams
#MentalHealth
#sleep #myself
#sleep #myself
101 reads
0 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
22nd Apr 2022 6:03pm
22nd Apr 2022 6:03pm
Grimalkin Raconteur
22 / 30
Grimalkin Raconteur
That day, a year ago?
left my home
to reside with you.
Maybe it was Your smile
or tone of voice
gentle pat – petting
the empathy I felt
emanating from You. . .
When your eyes met mine
how lonely I felt & realized
“A” gentle touch
meant sooooo much!
Empathically knowing
you cared,
makes each daily
curiosities in this new
environment
much
more
meaningful
to me.
Sooooo BEAUTIFUL
It is...
Grimalkin Raconteur
That day, a year ago?
left my home
to reside with you.
Maybe it was Your smile
or tone of voice
gentle pat – petting
the empathy I felt
emanating from You. . .
When your eyes met mine
how lonely I felt & realized
“A” gentle touch
meant sooooo much!
Empathically knowing
you cared,
makes each daily
curiosities in this new
environment
much
more
meaningful
to me.
Sooooo BEAUTIFUL
It is...
#family
#animals
#narrative #NaPoWriMo2022
#narrative #NaPoWriMo2022
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0 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
21st Apr 2022 5:19pm
21st Apr 2022 5:19pm
Canned Heat
21 / 30
Canned Heat
Runnin’ on empty
at least it’s how I feel
for the alphabets
in my tank
running dangerously
low
I turned to my Bourbon
for inspiration
but all I tuned into
was romantic mush ----
crap I used to spill
years ago
Downing the heat
in a can, a bottle, a glass
used to inspire anew!
Today it is only kicking
my ass & making me blue ----
causing me to delve deeper
into those years ago
I thought I had stowed
away
I must have forgotten...
Canned Heat
Runnin’ on empty
at least it’s how I feel
for the alphabets
in my tank
running dangerously
low
I turned to my Bourbon
for inspiration
but all I tuned into
was romantic mush ----
crap I used to spill
years ago
Downing the heat
in a can, a bottle, a glass
used to inspire anew!
Today it is only kicking
my ass & making me blue ----
causing me to delve deeper
into those years ago
I thought I had stowed
away
I must have forgotten...
#alcohol
#WritersBlock
#memories
#myself
#NaPoWriMo2022
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SELF POEM
Published
20th Apr 2022 9:13pm
20th Apr 2022 9:13pm
Affably Ineluctable?
20 / 30
Affably Ineluctable?
Hiding behind syllables
beneath punctuation markings
without concise decibels
we draw closer
without trying to
Our manifestation upon
shared parchment
exhibits every inspiration
we unknowingly showed-off
Our neighbors noticed
though via individual
chats separately, You & me
continue to deny their
observations.
If either of us want more
ever will this
come to light
unless both of us
during a drunken evening
fall from restraint ...
Affably Ineluctable?
Hiding behind syllables
beneath punctuation markings
without concise decibels
we draw closer
without trying to
Our manifestation upon
shared parchment
exhibits every inspiration
we unknowingly showed-off
Our neighbors noticed
though via individual
chats separately, You & me
continue to deny their
observations.
If either of us want more
ever will this
come to light
unless both of us
during a drunken evening
fall from restraint ...
#denial
#temptation
#seductive #NaPoWriMo2022
#seductive #NaPoWriMo2022
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3 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th Apr 2022 4:54pm
19th Apr 2022 4:54pm
Gaharu
19 / 30
Gaharu
There’s been summers before this one a comin’
though I can only remember the heat
After all, these came to me before after I met
the sea
Long before I KNEW me
I’d been aware of higher beings
& an untouchable, intangible
Destiny
I am traces of celestial dust
sand and sea
definitely
You and me
Human beings
We
There have been summers
I’ve known all too well
Focused on my discomfort
I lost sense of a creator
Her life...
Gaharu
There’s been summers before this one a comin’
though I can only remember the heat
After all, these came to me before after I met
the sea
Long before I KNEW me
I’d been aware of higher beings
& an untouchable, intangible
Destiny
I am traces of celestial dust
sand and sea
definitely
You and me
Human beings
We
There have been summers
I’ve known all too well
Focused on my discomfort
I lost sense of a creator
Her life...
#nature
#memories
#pagan #NaPoWriMo2022
#pagan #NaPoWriMo2022
131 reads
3 Comments
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