Submissions by Tardegrade
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I am still trying to find my voice, so my work oft seems disconnected. But I try to write from a real place - though my lens is distorted so who knows how my truths will come across.
SELF POEM
Published
15th Aug 2019 2:00pm
15th Aug 2019 2:00pm
Down
It's easy to feel down
When your pants are brown
Especially when they started grey.
When your pants are brown
Especially when they started grey.
#sadness
#homelessness
587 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
15th Jul 2019 5:07am
15th Jul 2019 5:07am
Naan scents
#lust
#alcohol
#drugs #addiction
#drugs #addiction
467 reads
0 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
7th Jul 2019 12:40pm
7th Jul 2019 12:40pm
Hands that yell
Her spirit golden,
She sprinkles twinkling words
Like faerie dust
Words that impact
Like nuclear bombs
Proving that even mushroom clouds
Can hide a shimmering lining
Hands that yell_oh
Always just so
Soundlessly
Profoundly
Yelluw_always
A great inspiration.
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems-by/yelluw_always/
She sprinkles twinkling words
Like faerie dust
Words that impact
Like nuclear bombs
Proving that even mushroom clouds
Can hide a shimmering lining
Hands that yell_oh
Always just so
Soundlessly
Profoundly
Yelluw_always
A great inspiration.
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems-by/yelluw_always/
#WritingPoetry
422 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
6th Jul 2019 9:43pm
6th Jul 2019 9:43pm
Calculations in the root of -1
Starveling's feast
Inside's out
Max's least
Zealot's doubt
Love's indifference
Hate's infatuation
Ugly's splendiference
Beauty's defascination
Bitter's sweet
Poison's pure
Victory's defeat
Loss's endure
Everyday's miracles
Rarity's plains
Yesterday's oracles
Tomorrow's insanes
Something's nothings
Nothing's some
Some things know things
Know thing's sum
Inside's out
Max's least
Zealot's doubt
Love's indifference
Hate's infatuation
Ugly's splendiference
Beauty's defascination
Bitter's sweet
Poison's pure
Victory's defeat
Loss's endure
Everyday's miracles
Rarity's plains
Yesterday's oracles
Tomorrow's insanes
Something's nothings
Nothing's some
Some things know things
Know thing's sum
#dark
#relationships
#wisdom
431 reads
0 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Jun 2019 4:17am
28th Jun 2019 4:17am
eye crye tarez, not teerz
Sometimes the world reveals
Such spectacular indifference
To starving faces
And battlefield leftovers
And child soldiers
And crippling loneliness
I cry tears in the fabric of my sanity
Deep furrows that fill with silt
And the detritus of a dozen broken hearts
The sorrow that never seems to flush
Sometimes the world displays
effervescent ecstacy
In the unburdened laughter of youth
Or the gentle sighs of lovemaking
Or the simple joy of kindness
Or the warm comfort of belonging
I cry tears in...
Such spectacular indifference
To starving faces
And battlefield leftovers
And child soldiers
And crippling loneliness
I cry tears in the fabric of my sanity
Deep furrows that fill with silt
And the detritus of a dozen broken hearts
The sorrow that never seems to flush
Sometimes the world displays
effervescent ecstacy
In the unburdened laughter of youth
Or the gentle sighs of lovemaking
Or the simple joy of kindness
Or the warm comfort of belonging
I cry tears in...
#happiness
#sadness
635 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
25th Jun 2019 00:36am
25th Jun 2019 00:36am
Mingled Malevolence
Mortally Malm maimed
Recently recalled
Mazelike Mudget Manor
H.H. Holmes' homes
Mumbling monastic Martyr
Pious petrol pyre
Mainstream Mercantile methodology
Starving the cents-less
Marshmellow Meringue
Clogging coronary capillaries
Migrant masses morph
Sadistic Stereotype
Militants Mingle
Wage woeful wars
Mideast Military Mutiny
Melding Myrrh and murder
Recently recalled
Mazelike Mudget Manor
H.H. Holmes' homes
Mumbling monastic Martyr
Pious petrol pyre
Mainstream Mercantile methodology
Starving the cents-less
Marshmellow Meringue
Clogging coronary capillaries
Migrant masses morph
Sadistic Stereotype
Militants Mingle
Wage woeful wars
Mideast Military Mutiny
Melding Myrrh and murder
#evil
#humankind
470 reads
3 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
24th Jun 2019 1:03am
24th Jun 2019 1:03am
Alchemy
The cowled cognoscente,
With shuffling steps
followed the declivity
Into the shifting shadow
Of the candlelit chamber
Peers awaited this arrival
With frangible patience
Suddenly gasping as robes fall
Her nakedness, palpable
An ineffable force
Mercury boiled in nearby sconces
Recalcitrant to the cowled chants
And arduous whispers
Potent vapors meshed with musk
Defying subtle prodding
To transmute
Rhythmic became
Both chants and chance
As improbable energies
Traced...
With shuffling steps
followed the declivity
Into the shifting shadow
Of the candlelit chamber
Peers awaited this arrival
With frangible patience
Suddenly gasping as robes fall
Her nakedness, palpable
An ineffable force
Mercury boiled in nearby sconces
Recalcitrant to the cowled chants
And arduous whispers
Potent vapors meshed with musk
Defying subtle prodding
To transmute
Rhythmic became
Both chants and chance
As improbable energies
Traced...
#erotic
613 reads
2 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
21st Jun 2019 11:18pm
21st Jun 2019 11:18pm
Maker
The Great Mystery weaves
all-color threads
Strands of light,
patiently plaid
His tribute to All-Mother Sky
A splendiferous raiment,
Part rain, part Earth,
Fire and wind
Intertwined
Sky shakes out a fragment
Then another falls
Followed by multitudes
Warriors of every hue
To wage battle against man's worst foes:
Poverty, greed, famine, and countless sins
We play the drum and sing
Dancing in firelight
Aglow with sweat
Praying for that day
all-color threads
Strands of light,
patiently plaid
His tribute to All-Mother Sky
A splendiferous raiment,
Part rain, part Earth,
Fire and wind
Intertwined
Sky shakes out a fragment
Then another falls
Followed by multitudes
Warriors of every hue
To wage battle against man's worst foes:
Poverty, greed, famine, and countless sins
We play the drum and sing
Dancing in firelight
Aglow with sweat
Praying for that day
#spiritual
513 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Jun 2019 3:14am
14th Jun 2019 3:14am
You never
Take off your shoes to sleep
Make trusted friends
Know what someone might do
Amass things that require space
Pass up a cigarette or drugs
Enjoy a restful night
Fit into society
Avoid arrest
Leave property unguarded
Live freely
Make a difference
Become
Make trusted friends
Know what someone might do
Amass things that require space
Pass up a cigarette or drugs
Enjoy a restful night
Fit into society
Avoid arrest
Leave property unguarded
Live freely
Make a difference
Become
#homelessness
492 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
7th Jun 2019 11:45pm
7th Jun 2019 11:45pm
ATL
Reborn from flames
And risen from ash,
Didn't burn long enough
To be rid of the rats.
Streets rebuilt
over hill and dale
But they never got rid
Of the God awful smell
With a hand for the homeless
Like an abusive father
You might get fed
But all else is a bother
No bathrooms for miles
Unless you have cash
So the streets are like toilets
And I can't rhyme to that...
Walls, benches, and parks
Display human filth
Like a Jackson Pollock
Or one of his ilk ...
And risen from ash,
Didn't burn long enough
To be rid of the rats.
Streets rebuilt
over hill and dale
But they never got rid
Of the God awful smell
With a hand for the homeless
Like an abusive father
You might get fed
But all else is a bother
No bathrooms for miles
Unless you have cash
So the streets are like toilets
And I can't rhyme to that...
Walls, benches, and parks
Display human filth
Like a Jackson Pollock
Or one of his ilk ...
#corruption
#LifeStruggles
#poverty
480 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
3rd Jun 2019 1:30am
3rd Jun 2019 1:30am
Petrichor
Earth and Rain conspire
With air to make fire
Infectious olfactory cue
To Imaginings of desert:
Oases, sandstorms
And Torrential floods
Its a snake's fnasting
Tasting the smells with tongue
A damp forest floor
Teeming with mosses, mushrooms
And warm warrens
It's the shushing of tires
As they create wakes
Like prows of determined ships
To chagrin of librarian and poet
But not so nearly so much as
Sprinkling spring branches
Spattering my screen with
Distracting...
With air to make fire
Infectious olfactory cue
To Imaginings of desert:
Oases, sandstorms
And Torrential floods
Its a snake's fnasting
Tasting the smells with tongue
A damp forest floor
Teeming with mosses, mushrooms
And warm warrens
It's the shushing of tires
As they create wakes
Like prows of determined ships
To chagrin of librarian and poet
But not so nearly so much as
Sprinkling spring branches
Spattering my screen with
Distracting...
#rain
557 reads
8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Jun 2019 11:14pm
1st Jun 2019 11:14pm
Loss and
One time in a younger mind
I saw four walls and envisioned home
The word was bittersweet
An unexpected gift -
A beating or Taco Bell feast
Time and a different mind learned
Four walls can be a prison
Figuratively or quite literally
I began to despise home
Now, from the enlightened mind
I realize that I never knew home
Sleeping on concrete, walls are rare
And the families here are just as dysfunctional
I've been homeless my whole life, now I've just lost the walls
And I can start to make home ...
I saw four walls and envisioned home
The word was bittersweet
An unexpected gift -
A beating or Taco Bell feast
Time and a different mind learned
Four walls can be a prison
Figuratively or quite literally
I began to despise home
Now, from the enlightened mind
I realize that I never knew home
Sleeping on concrete, walls are rare
And the families here are just as dysfunctional
I've been homeless my whole life, now I've just lost the walls
And I can start to make home ...
#LifeStruggles
#home
#homelessness #poverty
#homelessness #poverty
438 reads
10 Comments
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