Submissions by Tallquietguy
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Can you call yourself a poet if you only write when the muse beckons? Sometimes I feel as if someone else is writing the words & I'm just the one putting them on paper. Schizophrenic or just plain weird?
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Jan 2021 3:03am
26th Jan 2021 3:03am
Think Again
We make plans
and God laughs”
These haughty creatures
seem to believe
they control the future
Think again
We begin the journey –
the ultimate destination
is a random shot in the dark.
and God laughs”
These haughty creatures
seem to believe
they control the future
Think again
We begin the journey –
the ultimate destination
is a random shot in the dark.
#spiritual
#philosophical
#karma
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SELF POEM
Published
26th Jan 2021 3:01am
26th Jan 2021 3:01am
As Life Steals Into Mine
It all seems so unreal to me now,
a hazy distant mist
the visions of the future
the yearnings of the past
So young I feel, but so old I have become
The dream – it fades, as Life steals into mine
Hope is just a fantasy,
retained from childhood play
Tomorrow’s fields grew greener grass
The wind whispered hints of things to come
So old I’ll too soon be, so young I’d like to stay
A dream I need to grow inside, as Life steals into mine
Truth is all just relative,
or so they like to say
What works for me...
a hazy distant mist
the visions of the future
the yearnings of the past
So young I feel, but so old I have become
The dream – it fades, as Life steals into mine
Hope is just a fantasy,
retained from childhood play
Tomorrow’s fields grew greener grass
The wind whispered hints of things to come
So old I’ll too soon be, so young I’d like to stay
A dream I need to grow inside, as Life steals into mine
Truth is all just relative,
or so they like to say
What works for me...
#regret
#hope
#redemption
#disappointment
#emptiness
265 reads
1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
25th Jan 2021 3:57pm
25th Jan 2021 3:57pm
Chasing Castles
I open my eyes under protest
to yet another ordinary day
I'm mercilessly assaulted
by old Sol's dusty rays
Outside down the street,
a skittish puppy barks at shadows
The city's already awake,
deluded people chase chameleonic castles
..in the air and in their heads,
endless dreams they hope to find,
Fueled by a cult of lust and greed,
age-old mercenary quixotic desire
For a while I played their game,
cube farm politics and such,
Now I refuse to participate
in the insanity quite as much ...
to yet another ordinary day
I'm mercilessly assaulted
by old Sol's dusty rays
Outside down the street,
a skittish puppy barks at shadows
The city's already awake,
deluded people chase chameleonic castles
..in the air and in their heads,
endless dreams they hope to find,
Fueled by a cult of lust and greed,
age-old mercenary quixotic desire
For a while I played their game,
cube farm politics and such,
Now I refuse to participate
in the insanity quite as much ...
#depression
#despair
#disappointment #emptiness
#disappointment #emptiness
283 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Jan 2021 3:56pm
25th Jan 2021 3:56pm
Dead Leaves
Is there anything more lonely
than dead leaves
blown by a cold January wind
through a grove of barren trees,
piling up at the base
of mossy, faded tombstones
in an old unkempt cemetery –
forgotten in the mists of time
and lost history?
than dead leaves
blown by a cold January wind
through a grove of barren trees,
piling up at the base
of mossy, faded tombstones
in an old unkempt cemetery –
forgotten in the mists of time
and lost history?
#loneliness
#winter
#wind
292 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Jan 2021 11:20pm
24th Jan 2021 11:20pm
Barbed Wire and Flowers
Jetplane trails and rainbows
decorate the skies
Blink and you might miss
hell’s angels flying by
Dragons without wings
World without a soul
Hate that knows no bounds
Love that’s growing cold
All hail the conquering nation
Long live the mighty dollar
God forbid a moment’s compassion
for a lonely starving child!
Barbed wire and flowers,
opposites attract
Beauty wed the Beast,
all while Satan laughed.
decorate the skies
Blink and you might miss
hell’s angels flying by
Dragons without wings
World without a soul
Hate that knows no bounds
Love that’s growing cold
All hail the conquering nation
Long live the mighty dollar
God forbid a moment’s compassion
for a lonely starving child!
Barbed wire and flowers,
opposites attract
Beauty wed the Beast,
all while Satan laughed.
#hate
#lies
#violence
#war
#hypocrisy
304 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
24th Jan 2021 8:16pm
24th Jan 2021 8:16pm
The Love I Seek
You sit before me
not a word is said
I gaze into your eyes
You gaze into mine
Primeval in intensity,
penetrating to the core
What was lost is found,
What was secret is revealed
That feared is now accepted
That denied, now embraced
Time ceases to exist,
the world fades to nothing
Waves of energy ebb and flow,
the eternal dance of death and creation
Our souls kiss .. ever .. so .. gently,
yet forming a bond that hell couldn't destroy
Night falls,
Pegasus gallops...
not a word is said
I gaze into your eyes
You gaze into mine
Primeval in intensity,
penetrating to the core
What was lost is found,
What was secret is revealed
That feared is now accepted
That denied, now embraced
Time ceases to exist,
the world fades to nothing
Waves of energy ebb and flow,
the eternal dance of death and creation
Our souls kiss .. ever .. so .. gently,
yet forming a bond that hell couldn't destroy
Night falls,
Pegasus gallops...
#romantic
#honesty
#FallingInLove
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DARK POEM
Published
24th Jan 2021 3:19pm
24th Jan 2021 3:19pm
The Wall
The day catches fire with a white-hot flame
whose heat and energy merely kiss me
like a passing breeze
Night falls with a mournful silence
The darkening veil hides the madness
of the life I seek to escape
The silence grows to a deafening roar,
the peace and quiet barely touch me,
faint whispers from a dying breeze
Safe on my island of self-created emptiness,
the relentless world beats against my shell -
a storm of angry demons...
only encouraging me to build the wall higher,
deeper, stronger - protecting...
whose heat and energy merely kiss me
like a passing breeze
Night falls with a mournful silence
The darkening veil hides the madness
of the life I seek to escape
The silence grows to a deafening roar,
the peace and quiet barely touch me,
faint whispers from a dying breeze
Safe on my island of self-created emptiness,
the relentless world beats against my shell -
a storm of angry demons...
only encouraging me to build the wall higher,
deeper, stronger - protecting...
#depression
#despair
#emptiness #apathy
#emptiness #apathy
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LOVE POEM
Published
24th Jan 2021 6:27am
24th Jan 2021 6:27am
I Don't Want to Know
I wish I knew what it was like to love
But I don't want to know – I don't want to know
I wish I could feel the gentle touch
But I don't want to know – I don't want to know
Too many lonely nights
Too many wasted days
Let another be driven to the edge of sanity
by the deceptive hand of romance
Love is too elusive, I'm not the first to say
The harder I search, the faster I run,
the more it slips away
Just out of reach, 'tween high and low
Till it makes me want to scream
“I give up, Life, you're so unfair! ...
But I don't want to know – I don't want to know
I wish I could feel the gentle touch
But I don't want to know – I don't want to know
Too many lonely nights
Too many wasted days
Let another be driven to the edge of sanity
by the deceptive hand of romance
Love is too elusive, I'm not the first to say
The harder I search, the faster I run,
the more it slips away
Just out of reach, 'tween high and low
Till it makes me want to scream
“I give up, Life, you're so unfair! ...
#relationships
#heartbroken
#romantic
#FallingInLove
#disappointment
361 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
24th Jan 2021 6:24am
24th Jan 2021 6:24am
Fading
Lightning flashes,
thunder rolls
Rain clatters on the tin porch roof
My hope, my faith
pour down the gutter into the earth
Nature cries my tears for me
I want so badly to die
I can taste the blackness
In desperation I reach for...
Five bullets and a trigger
are looming ever bigger
But it only takes one to reach
the kill-switch on the sun
Lights out and all is done
The movie's over, the reaper's won
Life is a scam of struggle and pain
A Hollywood ending
never...
thunder rolls
Rain clatters on the tin porch roof
My hope, my faith
pour down the gutter into the earth
Nature cries my tears for me
I want so badly to die
I can taste the blackness
In desperation I reach for...
Five bullets and a trigger
are looming ever bigger
But it only takes one to reach
the kill-switch on the sun
Lights out and all is done
The movie's over, the reaper's won
Life is a scam of struggle and pain
A Hollywood ending
never...
#sadness
#depression
#despair
#disappointment
#emptiness
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2021 7:41pm
23rd Jan 2021 7:41pm
The Sun Will Not Always Rise
What would you say if that 'see-you-later'
was really saying goodbye;
if you knew in your heart, if not in your head,
that one of you was going to die?
Words left unsaid and deeds left undone
slowly consume the soul,
like acid rain dripping on mortal flesh,
till lies and truth are exposed.
For Death is a thief, he will not be mocked,
cheat him now though you may;
The sun that rises eventually falls
and may not light a new day.
was really saying goodbye;
if you knew in your heart, if not in your head,
that one of you was going to die?
Words left unsaid and deeds left undone
slowly consume the soul,
like acid rain dripping on mortal flesh,
till lies and truth are exposed.
For Death is a thief, he will not be mocked,
cheat him now though you may;
The sun that rises eventually falls
and may not light a new day.
#sadness
#death
#LifeCycle #bittersweet
#LifeCycle #bittersweet
314 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2021 7:39pm
23rd Jan 2021 7:39pm
Night Falls in Manchester
I kissed you goodbye,
watched you walk out the door
How was I to know
I wouldn't kiss you anymore?
When we woke on that morning,
it was just another day
Never could I have dreamed
that you'd be stolen away
How is it the world doesn't stop
when so many shattered hearts break?
Where are heaven's angels
when the sky's on fire with rage?
Darkness falls on Manchester
while the minions of Satan laugh
Does love still exist inside of man
or am I a fool to even ask?
Surely terror is the refuge of...
watched you walk out the door
How was I to know
I wouldn't kiss you anymore?
When we woke on that morning,
it was just another day
Never could I have dreamed
that you'd be stolen away
How is it the world doesn't stop
when so many shattered hearts break?
Where are heaven's angels
when the sky's on fire with rage?
Darkness falls on Manchester
while the minions of Satan laugh
Does love still exist inside of man
or am I a fool to even ask?
Surely terror is the refuge of...
#sadness
#anger
#grief
#dark
#heartbroken
328 reads
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DARK POEM
Published
22nd Jan 2021 7:33pm
22nd Jan 2021 7:33pm
There is No Place in the World for Me
There is no place in the world for me
I see no path to ever be
anything more than an empty shell,
a standing joke for the ages to tell
I'll never be a father, a lover, a hero,
a rich man, athlete, brave world explorer
I'll never jet off to exotic destinations,
stroll a moonlit beach in romantic anticipation
The fantasies, hopes, and plans of a distant child
lie ravaged and broken in the realities of time
Life's laid waste to the delusions of a fool,
left no excuse to exist beyond the chains of nature's rules
There...
I see no path to ever be
anything more than an empty shell,
a standing joke for the ages to tell
I'll never be a father, a lover, a hero,
a rich man, athlete, brave world explorer
I'll never jet off to exotic destinations,
stroll a moonlit beach in romantic anticipation
The fantasies, hopes, and plans of a distant child
lie ravaged and broken in the realities of time
Life's laid waste to the delusions of a fool,
left no excuse to exist beyond the chains of nature's rules
There...
#depression
#loneliness
#frustration
#despair
#apathy
283 reads
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