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.
SONG LYRICS
Published
29th May 2019 2:51am
29th May 2019 2:51am
Cycles
Universal strings
So small make mighty sound
Bringing life to everything
So fragile and profound
Tying tides to tide lines
Mooring months to Moon
Linking lives to lifetimes
In a quantum coded tune
The melody is lost
For lack of proper scale
The harmony a mystery
In each microcosmic cell
A star is born
Spreading light to galaxies
A supernova neuron
Fires the brain within a flea
Everything forever
Even you and me
Cycles spinning circles
Into infinity.
So small make mighty sound
Bringing life to everything
So fragile and profound
Tying tides to tide lines
Mooring months to Moon
Linking lives to lifetimes
In a quantum coded tune
The melody is lost
For lack of proper scale
The harmony a mystery
In each microcosmic cell
A star is born
Spreading light to galaxies
A supernova neuron
Fires the brain within a flea
Everything forever
Even you and me
Cycles spinning circles
Into infinity.
#science
#spiritual
#astronomy
808 reads
9 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
28th May 2019 00:05am
28th May 2019 00:05am
N keycards
Flitter fae creature
Capture the sky
Sharing a kindness
None can deny
Sprinkle your letters
Cast off your think
You will feel, better
Freed from the ink
Love your companion
A beautiful glow
Dance in the glory
Of all that you show
Capture the sky
Sharing a kindness
None can deny
Sprinkle your letters
Cast off your think
You will feel, better
Freed from the ink
Love your companion
A beautiful glow
Dance in the glory
Of all that you show
#friendship
451 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
25th May 2019 2:41am
25th May 2019 2:41am
The vile appendage
This vile appendage
Merely doggerel
Tool of the coistrel kin
Dangles
like
a part
iciple
Sheathed
In human skin
Balls! Balls!
As if tongue
Could contain
It's fellated breath
Or the effluvia
Despensed
In spasmic
Spurts of
Consequence
Some feel an absence
A phantom limn
When they haven't a leg to stand on
But it's more dis-arming
To let it script your steps
Basking the brain in toxins
Flushing the flesh ...
Merely doggerel
Tool of the coistrel kin
Dangles
like
a part
iciple
Sheathed
In human skin
Balls! Balls!
As if tongue
Could contain
It's fellated breath
Or the effluvia
Despensed
In spasmic
Spurts of
Consequence
Some feel an absence
A phantom limn
When they haven't a leg to stand on
But it's more dis-arming
To let it script your steps
Basking the brain in toxins
Flushing the flesh ...
#anger
#hate
468 reads
7 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
23rd May 2019 10:23pm
23rd May 2019 10:23pm
Cars
Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live
In cars"
Gary Numan
Most see a car differently
( Than I have learned)
A ride from A to B
Or fashion accessory
A chance to feel free
Or faithful P.I.C.
(Or graduation earned)
But to those without homes
A car is a place of rest
Shelter from rain or cold
A spot of safety through the night
But like staying to grasp starlight
Just a dream.
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live
In cars"
Gary Numan
Most see a car differently
( Than I have learned)
A ride from A to B
Or fashion accessory
A chance to feel free
Or faithful P.I.C.
(Or graduation earned)
But to those without homes
A car is a place of rest
Shelter from rain or cold
A spot of safety through the night
But like staying to grasp starlight
Just a dream.
#home
#cars
357 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd May 2019 10:09pm
23rd May 2019 10:09pm
WanTrap
Be wary what you want
I(t's a trick of time)
Far too oft, you get
No(w changes every second)
Exactly what you asked
Late(r )
Far too oft, you regret
Soon(er than you count on)
I(t's a trick of time)
Far too oft, you get
No(w changes every second)
Exactly what you asked
Late(r )
Far too oft, you regret
Soon(er than you count on)
#regret
#grief
369 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
19th May 2019 7:09pm
19th May 2019 7:09pm
+/I/me
The hardest part of Introduction
Is its initiation demands an I
and I am incapable of coping
with one more
Insecurities inundate my introspections;
Indecipherable, incomprehensible Ideas
infect my Imaginings:
Ignorant impulses to immenentize
inappropriate irrational Isola+ion
My inability to indicate in+eres+
is not Insensi+vi+y
It's more like influenza
The best cure Is
+/I/me
Is its initiation demands an I
and I am incapable of coping
with one more
Insecurities inundate my introspections;
Indecipherable, incomprehensible Ideas
infect my Imaginings:
Ignorant impulses to immenentize
inappropriate irrational Isola+ion
My inability to indicate in+eres+
is not Insensi+vi+y
It's more like influenza
The best cure Is
+/I/me
#anxiety
#TimeHeals
#SelfDiscovery
355 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
15th May 2019 9:23pm
15th May 2019 9:23pm
Birdsong
The air resounds with warbles and tweets
It's easy to imagine rejoicing tunes
Fluttering on the gentle breezes of Spring
But my mind's eye knows that in truth
Every sweet tone and dulcet chirp
Is a battle cry
Finches and pigeons vie for patches of ground
Competing for resources
Trying to starve out the competition
Cute, petty wars that revolve around breadcrumbs and paved stones delight children and young at heart
But my perception sees the grand feathered dinosaurs that were their forebears
Tramping out fern...
It's easy to imagine rejoicing tunes
Fluttering on the gentle breezes of Spring
But my mind's eye knows that in truth
Every sweet tone and dulcet chirp
Is a battle cry
Finches and pigeons vie for patches of ground
Competing for resources
Trying to starve out the competition
Cute, petty wars that revolve around breadcrumbs and paved stones delight children and young at heart
But my perception sees the grand feathered dinosaurs that were their forebears
Tramping out fern...
#birds
#TruthOfLife
#evolution #historical
#evolution #historical
408 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
13th May 2019 10:22pm
13th May 2019 10:22pm
Gone but not
As stubborn as the memory of a lost tooth
Remembered daily
As an absence which
..............nothing else
Quite fits
As sudden as the realization of lost air
Once underwing, not
Vertigo blended with fear
A feeling with no cure
As painful as a lost fight
Which pilfers your wan smile of bone
And lungs of breath
And head of constancy
And legs of buoyancy
Yet gifts you with a collage of bruises
Every night
Remembered daily
As an absence which
..............nothing else
Quite fits
As sudden as the realization of lost air
Once underwing, not
Vertigo blended with fear
A feeling with no cure
As painful as a lost fight
Which pilfers your wan smile of bone
And lungs of breath
And head of constancy
And legs of buoyancy
Yet gifts you with a collage of bruises
Every night
#love
#grief
571 reads
7 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
8th May 2019 3:58am
8th May 2019 3:58am
Entanglement
Forces poised in opposition
Hopelessly bound
They define the other by what they are not
Asymmetry and Symmetry clash in broken fractals
Entropy and Order weigh time's inclination on variable scales
Death and Life converge in every supernova...
One ends that the other may know abundance
A patch of uranium forms soil rich in potential mutational diversity
A tree falls soundlessly in the forest and fungi silently rejoice
Particle and antiparticle dance on the verge of annihilation
Love and Indifference...
Hopelessly bound
They define the other by what they are not
Asymmetry and Symmetry clash in broken fractals
Entropy and Order weigh time's inclination on variable scales
Death and Life converge in every supernova...
One ends that the other may know abundance
A patch of uranium forms soil rich in potential mutational diversity
A tree falls soundlessly in the forest and fungi silently rejoice
Particle and antiparticle dance on the verge of annihilation
Love and Indifference...
#love
#loneliness
#relationships #science
#relationships #science
644 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Apr 2019 2:33am
28th Apr 2019 2:33am
Milldog Slumionairre
When you wake. ......... up
More ................ than
.....down
Icy cold concrete
Seeps into old bones
And muscles
Chilly thighs meet, and for one
**Terrifying** moment
It.feels.like.you've.pissed.yourself
These are good days
Like a winning scratch off
The mill smells of roasting dog
Food, ambivalent...
Churning bile and hunger
Those are every days.like
Hollow eyes and
A...
More ................ than
.....down
Icy cold concrete
Seeps into old bones
And muscles
Chilly thighs meet, and for one
**Terrifying** moment
It.feels.like.you've.pissed.yourself
These are good days
Like a winning scratch off
The mill smells of roasting dog
Food, ambivalent...
Churning bile and hunger
Those are every days.like
Hollow eyes and
A...
#homelessness
634 reads
7 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
28th Apr 2019 2:29am
28th Apr 2019 2:29am
I * u take
I eye ivory
Italy teems with knickknack shops
Sweaty swarthy itenerate men with Indian goods
Hawk wares to unsuspecting tourists
My iris ignites as carefully carved wonders gleam with illumunation
I want to wrap up the place,
The smell of falafel competing with catch of the day
The bronzed bodies slick with sweat
The intersection between wharf and cannery row
And take it all home.
But ivory is illegal to buy, much less transport
And my ideal vacation does not have room for a customs arrest.
The impenetrable gaze of...
Italy teems with knickknack shops
Sweaty swarthy itenerate men with Indian goods
Hawk wares to unsuspecting tourists
My iris ignites as carefully carved wonders gleam with illumunation
I want to wrap up the place,
The smell of falafel competing with catch of the day
The bronzed bodies slick with sweat
The intersection between wharf and cannery row
And take it all home.
But ivory is illegal to buy, much less transport
And my ideal vacation does not have room for a customs arrest.
The impenetrable gaze of...
#travel
467 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Apr 2019 5:10am
24th Apr 2019 5:10am
Magnetitude
Strange but expected phenomenon
Tugging at puppies like a line of clumped iron filings
The magnetism of promising plinks of kibble
Filling the glass bowl
Which scream to instincts
The concept of "Fed" plays out
Flinging fast furry feet
And faster canine jaws
And frantic tongues
The same force draws police
Vans, cars, motorcycles
Toward the plinking of copper jackets
Spilling on concrete
Frantic for a taste of violence
They squeeze down narrow streets
Tires squealing out impatience ...
Tugging at puppies like a line of clumped iron filings
The magnetism of promising plinks of kibble
Filling the glass bowl
Which scream to instincts
The concept of "Fed" plays out
Flinging fast furry feet
And faster canine jaws
And frantic tongues
The same force draws police
Vans, cars, motorcycles
Toward the plinking of copper jackets
Spilling on concrete
Frantic for a taste of violence
They squeeze down narrow streets
Tires squealing out impatience ...
#TruthOfLife
600 reads
2 Comments
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