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
4th Mar 2019 8:08am
4th Mar 2019 8:08am
Gravitation
There's an inundation
Like a radiation
It's the oscillation
Pull and hesitation
Forces in relation
Sense is in elation
Acting at a distance
Countering resistance
Not a single instance
Mutual existence
It's powerful but weak
But inevitable we seek
To understand why we can
Transcend the spans of empty hands
There's a satisfaction
In this interaction
More than a distraction
Carnal calefaction
Light is gaining traction
Time and space refraction
Drawing lives...
Like a radiation
It's the oscillation
Pull and hesitation
Forces in relation
Sense is in elation
Acting at a distance
Countering resistance
Not a single instance
Mutual existence
It's powerful but weak
But inevitable we seek
To understand why we can
Transcend the spans of empty hands
There's a satisfaction
In this interaction
More than a distraction
Carnal calefaction
Light is gaining traction
Time and space refraction
Drawing lives...
#love
#relationships
#science #spiritual
#science #spiritual
538 reads
1 Comment
DARK POEM
Published
25th Feb 2019 5:10am
25th Feb 2019 5:10am
Wolf at the Door
Scratching paws on pine
Claws pause, opine
Carnal surrender to Canis
A beastial Bacchanal
Drunk on sanguine sin
Clannish cannibals choke
Alachasia,
It's definitely something they ate
The clinical cures next:
Balsam, Acacia, Cannabis
Can not undo the curse of charnel Chablis
Lycan lyrics clash with the silences
Of so many voices
Forever in chains
Claws pause, opine
Carnal surrender to Canis
A beastial Bacchanal
Drunk on sanguine sin
Clannish cannibals choke
Alachasia,
It's definitely something they ate
The clinical cures next:
Balsam, Acacia, Cannabis
Can not undo the curse of charnel Chablis
Lycan lyrics clash with the silences
Of so many voices
Forever in chains
#drugs
#addiction
441 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
24th Feb 2019 00:42am
24th Feb 2019 00:42am
Celfone
Hagrid or Gandalf for yet-met friends
Weekend gathering more prose than con
Each member flowers or blooms
Casting off stubborn shells to become
Themselves
-------
Submerged in the ideas that shape
Everything
Where Plank is a ruler of
Minute spans and tetrahedral
Where lightspeed ideas
Conceive the lattice framework
Where Einstein and Hiesenburg
Tinker with the building blocks of
Imagination, light, and spacetime
Illumination
------
All those wonderful creative worlds
Yet to be, yet...
Weekend gathering more prose than con
Each member flowers or blooms
Casting off stubborn shells to become
Themselves
-------
Submerged in the ideas that shape
Everything
Where Plank is a ruler of
Minute spans and tetrahedral
Where lightspeed ideas
Conceive the lattice framework
Where Einstein and Hiesenburg
Tinker with the building blocks of
Imagination, light, and spacetime
Illumination
------
All those wonderful creative worlds
Yet to be, yet...
#love
#science
#SelfDiscovery #scifi
#SelfDiscovery #scifi
500 reads
3 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
16th Feb 2019 11:22pm
16th Feb 2019 11:22pm
D coded
As Day descends to eve, Do you Doubt or believe,
Daisies Dwindle to Nightsies?
Delicate Dryads dance delight
In arboreal Doorways defy the night
Dweomer glows defined as "lightsees"
Hair donned with fireflies and diaphonous lace,
They Drill like wormholes into each tree face
Dedicated to the days to come
Danvers wakes up in Mass,
Though grounded in an Irish past
Nocturnal Duration is done
And weary Sylvan creatures rest on a Divan of new clovers and waking daisies.
Daisies Dwindle to Nightsies?
Delicate Dryads dance delight
In arboreal Doorways defy the night
Dweomer glows defined as "lightsees"
Hair donned with fireflies and diaphonous lace,
They Drill like wormholes into each tree face
Dedicated to the days to come
Danvers wakes up in Mass,
Though grounded in an Irish past
Nocturnal Duration is done
And weary Sylvan creatures rest on a Divan of new clovers and waking daisies.
#dreams
#flowers
#nature
403 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Feb 2019 10:48pm
16th Feb 2019 10:48pm
When
The sun surrenders its eternal war against gravity
The naked core exposed, dwindles into dark dust,
or
E x p l odes into a brilliant
All consuming flame
Civilization snuffed out like a wick
Or evolved to the point
That humans
Cease
On that accursed hour, I shall
Cede all hope for humanity
I guess I am a glutton for punishment
The naked core exposed, dwindles into dark dust,
or
E x p l odes into a brilliant
All consuming flame
Civilization snuffed out like a wick
Or evolved to the point
That humans
Cease
On that accursed hour, I shall
Cede all hope for humanity
I guess I am a glutton for punishment
#love
#faith
#humankind
489 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
13th Feb 2019 4:06pm
13th Feb 2019 4:06pm
Haze and Underweigh
Overcast or undermined
So many facets to find
And fifty shades at least
Pelts of primal beasts
Ambivalence and Goose
Ambergris and grease
Cityscape camouflage
Commonplace clouds of smog
Asphalt and cetacean skin
You scale for fische and fish alike
A string for fin and wing
Slate or opinion unavailing
Colorless neutrality and yet
Candlesmoke and Yankee attire
Show emotions you inspire
Why so sad?
At least you're not Blue.
So many facets to find
And fifty shades at least
Pelts of primal beasts
Ambivalence and Goose
Ambergris and grease
Cityscape camouflage
Commonplace clouds of smog
Asphalt and cetacean skin
You scale for fische and fish alike
A string for fin and wing
Slate or opinion unavailing
Colorless neutrality and yet
Candlesmoke and Yankee attire
Show emotions you inspire
Why so sad?
At least you're not Blue.
#sadness
#art
#emotional
411 reads
5 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
5th Feb 2019 2:03am
5th Feb 2019 2:03am
Quaria
Butterscotch fractal explosions
Sunrise blossoms infrared
Digital symphonic Fibonacci
Cacophonous ecstacy neurosimulation
Hexadecimal pheromone olfaction
Anticipating Inception
Approach Imminent
Alive Imagine
As Is
A.I.
I
Sunrise blossoms infrared
Digital symphonic Fibonacci
Cacophonous ecstacy neurosimulation
Hexadecimal pheromone olfaction
Anticipating Inception
Approach Imminent
Alive Imagine
As Is
A.I.
I
#MentalHealth
#learning
#SelfReflection #SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection #SelfDiscovery
688 reads
4 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Feb 2019 1:49am
3rd Feb 2019 1:49am
iNner out
Passing through masses
Rarely interacting
Unseen, unfelt, unheard
No taste, no olfactory
Clues to your presence
Hints of mass attraction
Though little wait
Subtle rearrangement
Of words past
And your identity
Changes
But you are still
Sameward
Your are an impartial particle
Ambitious to
Be,
but indecisive to
Reincarnat...
Ion... To a
New tree? No,
But closer.
Seas and lands travailed
Spoken swiftly
You emerge,
A spark of light ...
Rarely interacting
Unseen, unfelt, unheard
No taste, no olfactory
Clues to your presence
Hints of mass attraction
Though little wait
Subtle rearrangement
Of words past
And your identity
Changes
But you are still
Sameward
Your are an impartial particle
Ambitious to
Be,
but indecisive to
Reincarnat...
Ion... To a
New tree? No,
But closer.
Seas and lands travailed
Spoken swiftly
You emerge,
A spark of light ...
#science
#SelfDiscovery
501 reads
8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Jan 2019 5:34am
26th Jan 2019 5:34am
Ceasefire Cyclone
Carefree as crucifixion nails
Cambridge sails future-bound
Carving a crease into lower education
Chain living wills and dying won'ts
Cerulean sky cluttered
Cover trails, con or chem
Crime consumes innocence and innocents
Clover three-leafed lucky
Chenille iridescence christened
Charity of corpuscle-speckled sacrifice
A common spectacle citywide.
Cambridge sails future-bound
Carving a crease into lower education
Chain living wills and dying won'ts
Cerulean sky cluttered
Cover trails, con or chem
Crime consumes innocence and innocents
Clover three-leafed lucky
Chenille iridescence christened
Charity of corpuscle-speckled sacrifice
A common spectacle citywide.
#violence
#LifeStruggles
414 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Jan 2019 6:10am
25th Jan 2019 6:10am
L.C.D.
Liquid Crystal Didact
Motorized hypnosis
Neuron sunbaked electrocution
Effervescent optical distraction
Myelin unsheathing frequency
Occipital overwhelming frenzied
Nihilistic transmission
Incision cognition promoted
Calamitous Engineered societal
Debilitating cheerful onslaughts
Excruciating emotional assault
Meticulously fabricated
Ostentatious presentation
Nostalgic rhetoric opined
Insidiously programmatic
Created
Apoplectic consciousness
Docile Acceptance
Motorized hypnosis
Neuron sunbaked electrocution
Effervescent optical distraction
Myelin unsheathing frequency
Occipital overwhelming frenzied
Nihilistic transmission
Incision cognition promoted
Calamitous Engineered societal
Debilitating cheerful onslaughts
Excruciating emotional assault
Meticulously fabricated
Ostentatious presentation
Nostalgic rhetoric opined
Insidiously programmatic
Created
Apoplectic consciousness
Docile Acceptance
#technology
#LifeStruggles
403 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
17th Jan 2019 9:48pm
17th Jan 2019 9:48pm
Sooner
Passionate grip of anemone
Songbird housed by guilted cage
Playful dyrad carved into crib
Selfish love of candle-flame,
hidden from breeze under bell jar
a dwindling orbit around black hole
Last thrash of the minnow,
Sparrow's silence,
Nature-spirit stilled,
Smoke under glass
A brilliant star sputters out
If only I could have let you go...
Sooner
Songbird housed by guilted cage
Playful dyrad carved into crib
Selfish love of candle-flame,
hidden from breeze under bell jar
a dwindling orbit around black hole
Last thrash of the minnow,
Sparrow's silence,
Nature-spirit stilled,
Smoke under glass
A brilliant star sputters out
If only I could have let you go...
Sooner
#sadness
#love
501 reads
0 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
16th Jan 2019 5:12pm
16th Jan 2019 5:12pm
The Lovers
In the morning when She wakes,
She spreads her love o'er lands and lakes
And as She rises from her bed
She shines her grace on every head
She strolls serene across the lands
Forests, fields, and desert sands
And when She tires and turns to bed
Her Lover rises in Her stead
Up stares through darkness, as She sleeps
Her Sentinel in silver creeps
He holds his vigil through the night
In reverent reflection of her light
And dreams of moments on her lips
That even love cannot eclipse.
She spreads her love o'er lands and lakes
And as She rises from her bed
She shines her grace on every head
She strolls serene across the lands
Forests, fields, and desert sands
And when She tires and turns to bed
Her Lover rises in Her stead
Up stares through darkness, as She sleeps
Her Sentinel in silver creeps
He holds his vigil through the night
In reverent reflection of her light
And dreams of moments on her lips
That even love cannot eclipse.
#love
#sun
#moon
#night
#lover
419 reads
1 Comment
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