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.
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
15th Apr 2019 6:46am
15th Apr 2019 6:46am
Petal
Stuck out from all it's kind
Flower denuded
To a single
petal
A thousand questions came to mind
My mind undecided
Tween happy and sad
Did she love him, or didn't she?
The flower unconcerned
Slathered passing bees
With it's potent seed
A wanton pollen slut
Electrochemistry and vascular
Capillary action and osmotics
Bittersweet doomed romances
And a score of broken hearts
Skew my floral contemplations
I may never...
Flower denuded
To a single
petal
A thousand questions came to mind
My mind undecided
Tween happy and sad
Did she love him, or didn't she?
The flower unconcerned
Slathered passing bees
With it's potent seed
A wanton pollen slut
Electrochemistry and vascular
Capillary action and osmotics
Bittersweet doomed romances
And a score of broken hearts
Skew my floral contemplations
I may never...
#happiness
#sadness
#love
#hope
#flowers
662 reads
5 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
8th Apr 2019 6:21pm
8th Apr 2019 6:21pm
Brushing death
The door is labeled
"Opportunity" in a hurried scrawl
Desperation drives fingers to act
Juggling hook and awl delicately
To appease stubborn tumblers.
After a lifetime of painful performance
The audible click reverberates
My weary hands reach for doorknob
The door opens to reveal a gruesome
Rail station scene
Possum eyes gaze lifeless toward
Distant indifferent skies
Front claws extended,
As if it could somehow run away
But his rear half, several strides behind
Begs to differ...
Splaying with...
"Opportunity" in a hurried scrawl
Desperation drives fingers to act
Juggling hook and awl delicately
To appease stubborn tumblers.
After a lifetime of painful performance
The audible click reverberates
My weary hands reach for doorknob
The door opens to reveal a gruesome
Rail station scene
Possum eyes gaze lifeless toward
Distant indifferent skies
Front claws extended,
As if it could somehow run away
But his rear half, several strides behind
Begs to differ...
Splaying with...
#depression
#death
#FeelingLost
425 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Apr 2019 2:00am
2nd Apr 2019 2:00am
Evanescent
That tiny drop clawing skyward
Following the pebble's plink
The blush and rush and tingle
Of a stolen Summer kiss
The choking stench while driving
Passing the roadkill skunk
Shadow self appears and fades
In the cloudy moonlit Eve
That shade of eye in transition
Between life and death
Breaking the rule, a lingering glow
Of a lover's hungry touch
Following the pebble's plink
The blush and rush and tingle
Of a stolen Summer kiss
The choking stench while driving
Passing the roadkill skunk
Shadow self appears and fades
In the cloudy moonlit Eve
That shade of eye in transition
Between life and death
Breaking the rule, a lingering glow
Of a lover's hungry touch
#love
#technology
#death #LifeCycle
#death #LifeCycle
399 reads
2 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Mar 2019 7:24pm
29th Mar 2019 7:24pm
Trained
The train sways
A safer surrogate
Than mother's arms
Trees dance by
Pirouette in parallax
An arborial ballet
Green horizons bashful
Play Peek-a-boo
Behind tall towers
Viewing through dirty
Panes and pains
Needn't highlight misery
Even if you are trained that way.
A safer surrogate
Than mother's arms
Trees dance by
Pirouette in parallax
An arborial ballet
Green horizons bashful
Play Peek-a-boo
Behind tall towers
Viewing through dirty
Panes and pains
Needn't highlight misery
Even if you are trained that way.
#gratitude
#tradition
#determination
519 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
25th Mar 2019 10:02pm
25th Mar 2019 10:02pm
Self (abs.orbed)
I missed you
(No small feat)
Your presence, open
My eyes, defeat
Empty, moot hands
As music intones
Party to some
Others shuffle alone
(Lost in self)
Pitying my condition
I missed you
Regret the admission
Wallflower, wolf hour
Which is true?
(Knows mal feet)
I missed you
Your presents, open
Eyes deaf, eat
Empty, mute hands
Muse akin...
(No small feat)
Your presence, open
My eyes, defeat
Empty, moot hands
As music intones
Party to some
Others shuffle alone
(Lost in self)
Pitying my condition
I missed you
Regret the admission
Wallflower, wolf hour
Which is true?
(Knows mal feet)
I missed you
Your presents, open
Eyes deaf, eat
Empty, mute hands
Muse akin...
#love
#grief
577 reads
2 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
22nd Mar 2019 1:02pm
22nd Mar 2019 1:02pm
Spells like mean spirit
Load up on puns, and zing your friends
It's fun to play and then to win
ArienellJones and Snugglebuck
Oh no, I know just rhymed with fuck
Yelluw, JusTim_, Eerie, Yolo
How do, you know, how to, def flo?
I know, how low, I'd go, to know
Fellow, follow, Yelluw
With some wite-out, I'm less dangerous
Punderstanding, is less heinous
I'm with stupid... ignoramus
All alone...ow, rode the short bus
I'm mistreated, and Miss Tree-did, and mystery-dead, my Mist reeded
Yeah, hay
The worse puns what...
It's fun to play and then to win
ArienellJones and Snugglebuck
Oh no, I know just rhymed with fuck
Yelluw, JusTim_, Eerie, Yolo
How do, you know, how to, def flo?
I know, how low, I'd go, to know
Fellow, follow, Yelluw
With some wite-out, I'm less dangerous
Punderstanding, is less heinous
I'm with stupid... ignoramus
All alone...ow, rode the short bus
I'm mistreated, and Miss Tree-did, and mystery-dead, my Mist reeded
Yeah, hay
The worse puns what...
#parody
#funny
486 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Mar 2019 11:04pm
19th Mar 2019 11:04pm
Vessels
Black bag spins feline cartwheel
Capoera battles phantom moth
Mighty oak hushes talkative starlings
Murmuration leaves gossiping wind
Impatient teapot screams forgotten
Loneliness steams scalding tears
Smug carton prankster hides
Odiferous milky curdled miasma
Emotional vein gushes endless
Exsanguinates razor-sorrow red
Capoera battles phantom moth
Mighty oak hushes talkative starlings
Murmuration leaves gossiping wind
Impatient teapot screams forgotten
Loneliness steams scalding tears
Smug carton prankster hides
Odiferous milky curdled miasma
Emotional vein gushes endless
Exsanguinates razor-sorrow red
#StreamOfConsciousness
392 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
18th Mar 2019 7:22am
18th Mar 2019 7:22am
I don't like black licorice
A trip to the store to fetch something
Mom's approval to spend the change
If only I'd known how close you were
To breaking
You looked at the milk and the paltry change
Ten cents short
And instead of beating me,
As I flinched,
You cried
Torrents.
You were inconsolable,
I was suspicious and afraid
I found a corner and hid,
Chewing the bitter
Moments
Of a dark spiral tube
I watched in slow
Stillness until
Dad gets home and calls
And the ambulance arrives
...
Mom's approval to spend the change
If only I'd known how close you were
To breaking
You looked at the milk and the paltry change
Ten cents short
And instead of beating me,
As I flinched,
You cried
Torrents.
You were inconsolable,
I was suspicious and afraid
I found a corner and hid,
Chewing the bitter
Moments
Of a dark spiral tube
I watched in slow
Stillness until
Dad gets home and calls
And the ambulance arrives
...
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#bipolar
569 reads
5 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
18th Mar 2019 3:14am
18th Mar 2019 3:14am
Arose
In Texas, has a vibrant name
Sparked by sundogs
And sunflower's flame
Bright eyes
Illumed, by late Spring's bloom
Saffron seasoned
Into Autumnal womb
Heart fire
Endeavors, to stoke Love's glow
In youthful eyes
And tabby soul
A rose
Awakened, pale petals shy
Honey sweet words
For wandering eye
This is written as an example for a contest. This is not an entry.
Sparked by sundogs
And sunflower's flame
Bright eyes
Illumed, by late Spring's bloom
Saffron seasoned
Into Autumnal womb
Heart fire
Endeavors, to stoke Love's glow
In youthful eyes
And tabby soul
A rose
Awakened, pale petals shy
Honey sweet words
For wandering eye
This is written as an example for a contest. This is not an entry.
#friendship
#gratitude
#art
392 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
14th Mar 2019 6:33pm
14th Mar 2019 6:33pm
Bespoke
Effervescent architect
Meticulous crafter
Passionate purveyor
Eloquent hands
That shout with sagas
And whisper of sweet
I bask in your temples
As a glint of inspiration
In reverent awe
Of all the worlds
Yet spoke
Meticulous crafter
Passionate purveyor
Eloquent hands
That shout with sagas
And whisper of sweet
I bask in your temples
As a glint of inspiration
In reverent awe
Of all the worlds
Yet spoke
#kindness
#dialogue
#gratitude
539 reads
10 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
5th Mar 2019 6:13pm
5th Mar 2019 6:13pm
Millennial Heroes (just like Spacemen)
We're the virgin consummation
And we're doing quite middlin'
We're the woke congregation
Half asleep on Ritalin
What you're calling my cynical style
Is what we call a Millennial smile
And if we're not what you figured
Say nothing, we get triggered
And to prove we're not racist
Gangsta rap on our playlist
And we all like violence
And we're just like Spacemen
Scanning screens in the silence
Hiding out in the basement
We're the new kid hipster
Try to be the outcast one
We're the new generation
Trying...
And we're doing quite middlin'
We're the woke congregation
Half asleep on Ritalin
What you're calling my cynical style
Is what we call a Millennial smile
And if we're not what you figured
Say nothing, we get triggered
And to prove we're not racist
Gangsta rap on our playlist
And we all like violence
And we're just like Spacemen
Scanning screens in the silence
Hiding out in the basement
We're the new kid hipster
Try to be the outcast one
We're the new generation
Trying...
#lyrics
404 reads
1 Comment
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
4th Mar 2019 8:25am
4th Mar 2019 8:25am
With me
Do not enter fear
Do not endure fear
Do not interfere
Do not end of here
Do not endure fear
Do not interfere
Do not end of here
#anxiety
#depression
#loneliness #LifeStruggles
#loneliness #LifeStruggles
509 reads
2 Comments
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