Submissions by Taurus385
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
My heart, soul, and memories have never changed as far as inspiration. It always adds up to the same thing: be honest. That said, keeping my reading-range wide allows me to experience a myriad of influences to keep my proverbial pen on its toes.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2018 8:13pm
2nd Oct 2018 8:13pm
Walking with Jonathan Osterman
Every night
I hold tomorrow in my arms
cradling the infant dream
in a blanket of memory
I shut my eyes
and today
falls away...
It’s 1941
Christmas time
The old snowy classics on the radio
are new
So is the news
of planes and fire
over Hawaii
this changes everything
It’s 1984
my mother swears off
every vice
on her own advice
I’m growing inside her
and she will not poison me further
It’s 2020
November
Thank God
Thank God
THAT’S finally over, ...
I hold tomorrow in my arms
cradling the infant dream
in a blanket of memory
I shut my eyes
and today
falls away...
It’s 1941
Christmas time
The old snowy classics on the radio
are new
So is the news
of planes and fire
over Hawaii
this changes everything
It’s 1984
my mother swears off
every vice
on her own advice
I’m growing inside her
and she will not poison me further
It’s 2020
November
Thank God
Thank God
THAT’S finally over, ...
#fate
#luck
595 reads
4 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2018 5:25pm
2nd Oct 2018 5:25pm
Slip
#lust
#sex
#erotic
#lover
#passion
1025 reads
10 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
2nd Oct 2018 5:11am
2nd Oct 2018 5:11am
Sundial Blues
(These are song lyrics from the alt-rock band Echo of a Sundial, a relatively popular early 90’s group hailing from a suburb of Seattle in the United States of My Head. All song lyrics - unless otherwise noted - are credited to lead vocalist Jeremy Whitfield with occasional input from his band mates)
What did we make of the gods
the sky
when we wore marble feet?
When we drank knowledge
in Athenian malls and
tomorrow was so sweet
Making circles that
pointed the way
through the valley of days
We knew the creatures that...
What did we make of the gods
the sky
when we wore marble feet?
When we drank knowledge
in Athenian malls and
tomorrow was so sweet
Making circles that
pointed the way
through the valley of days
We knew the creatures that...
#identity
#culture
567 reads
8 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
29th Sep 2018 2:48am
29th Sep 2018 2:48am
Into the Night
I sat on a rooftop
Strumming strings at the sky
Looking through Eric Draven’s eyes
Into the Night
A city of shadows below me
spread
like the thighs of a defeated whore
Don’t think I can take anymore
but I will
I’ve been dead before
Walking with ill intent
to settle the score
into the night
I walked quietly
with roadhouse concerts
in my head
through the streets of Paris
and the beaches of LA
Through fevered acid dreams
and right on down the hall
in the Lizard King’s boots
and the...
Strumming strings at the sky
Looking through Eric Draven’s eyes
Into the Night
A city of shadows below me
spread
like the thighs of a defeated whore
Don’t think I can take anymore
but I will
I’ve been dead before
Walking with ill intent
to settle the score
into the night
I walked quietly
with roadhouse concerts
in my head
through the streets of Paris
and the beaches of LA
Through fevered acid dreams
and right on down the hall
in the Lizard King’s boots
and the...
#identity
#confessional
#myself #SelfReflection
#myself #SelfReflection
515 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
27th Sep 2018 3:35am
27th Sep 2018 3:35am
These Empty Streets
low howling wind*
*distant barking dog*
*rustling leaves*
My only light
is the cherry
of this half-spent cigarette
and one streetlight
many yards away
Parked in the driveway
of a quiet house
but I’m not going in
I’m staying in
here
where it’s quiet and calm
and dark
like my sense of me
Spend most my time
on lonely loops
paved with the bones
of memories and mistakes
These lonely loops
These quiet streets
they comfort me
with most familiar misery ...
*distant barking dog*
*rustling leaves*
My only light
is the cherry
of this half-spent cigarette
and one streetlight
many yards away
Parked in the driveway
of a quiet house
but I’m not going in
I’m staying in
here
where it’s quiet and calm
and dark
like my sense of me
Spend most my time
on lonely loops
paved with the bones
of memories and mistakes
These lonely loops
These quiet streets
they comfort me
with most familiar misery ...
#dark
#shadows
#silence
919 reads
10 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
26th Sep 2018 6:58pm
26th Sep 2018 6:58pm
The Eye of the Beast
#lust
#erotic
#sensual
#temptation
#passion
884 reads
14 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
25th Sep 2018 8:37pm
25th Sep 2018 8:37pm
A Call to Flames
I saw them marching on the walls
at birth
Black fingers of a hearth
hidden from me
Greek minds told us this
What bliss
we find
in ignorance
is so much sculpted byproduct
of that which we strain to touch
I walked streets awash
in cold white fire
from a merciless eye
no mercy for heroes
the good
the obedient
be damned
Learning lessons
taught by concrete hands
and asphalt minds
that never see their own erosion
We’re all just shadows
cast by a fire we can never see ...
at birth
Black fingers of a hearth
hidden from me
Greek minds told us this
What bliss
we find
in ignorance
is so much sculpted byproduct
of that which we strain to touch
I walked streets awash
in cold white fire
from a merciless eye
no mercy for heroes
the good
the obedient
be damned
Learning lessons
taught by concrete hands
and asphalt minds
that never see their own erosion
We’re all just shadows
cast by a fire we can never see ...
#fate
#ArthurRimbaud
674 reads
9 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
24th Sep 2018 11:04pm
24th Sep 2018 11:04pm
All You Pretty People
(These are song lyrics from the alt-rock band Echo of a Sundial, a relatively popular early 90’s group hailing from a suburb of Seattle in the United States of My Head. All song lyrics - unless otherwise noted - are credited to lead vocalist Jeremy Whitfield with occasional input from his band mates)
Tuxedo union suits
Carbonation soothes the mood
in disguise
Diamond blue in their eyes
Perfect Cleavage smiles lies
of paradise
Tell me
Who cut you into
this television fool
I find
locked in the static snowing ...
Tuxedo union suits
Carbonation soothes the mood
in disguise
Diamond blue in their eyes
Perfect Cleavage smiles lies
of paradise
Tell me
Who cut you into
this television fool
I find
locked in the static snowing ...
#humankind
643 reads
3 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
24th Sep 2018 9:32pm
24th Sep 2018 9:32pm
Star Garden
All the pretty pieces of me
All the shards
Left spinning slowly
in the lonely void
from a world blown apart
In this cold cosmic garden
where dead thoughts go
to rest
I find kindred stellar souls
Out here
in the asteroid parade
where all my
fellow dreaming aliens
go to grow
All the shards
Left spinning slowly
in the lonely void
from a world blown apart
In this cold cosmic garden
where dead thoughts go
to rest
I find kindred stellar souls
Out here
in the asteroid parade
where all my
fellow dreaming aliens
go to grow
#universe
#stars
#evolution #astronomy
#evolution #astronomy
617 reads
6 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
5th Sep 2018 8:33pm
5th Sep 2018 8:33pm
The Beast Beneath...
#lust
#sex
#erotic
#sensual
#temptation
1102 reads
21 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
5th Sep 2018 5:24am
5th Sep 2018 5:24am
The Ballad of the Wild Wolves
And the dust in throat I crave
Only knowledge will I save
To the game you stay a slave
Rover, wanderer
Nomad, vagabond
Call me what you will...”
Metallica,
Wherever I May Roam
“I looked out on the big field, on the big field
It opens, like the cover of an old bible
And out come the wolves
Out come the wolves!
Their paws trampling in the snow of the alphabet
I stand on my head and watch it all go away...”
Rancid,
Junkie Man
***
The Last Ride
...
Only knowledge will I save
To the game you stay a slave
Rover, wanderer
Nomad, vagabond
Call me what you will...”
Metallica,
Wherever I May Roam
“I looked out on the big field, on the big field
It opens, like the cover of an old bible
And out come the wolves
Out come the wolves!
Their paws trampling in the snow of the alphabet
I stand on my head and watch it all go away...”
Rancid,
Junkie Man
***
The Last Ride
...
#fiction
761 reads
6 Comments
SONG LYRICS
Published
4th Sep 2018 5:44am
4th Sep 2018 5:44am
Cigarette Shadows
(These are song lyrics from the alt-rock band Echo of a Sundial, a relatively popular early 90’s group hailing from a suburb of Seattle in the United States of My Head. All song lyrics - unless otherwise noted - are credited to lead vocalist Jeremy Whitfield with occasional input from his band mates)
Trailing
Off to the air
Swimming
through dark oxygen, like
phantom hair
Faces of broken mirrors
crowd the clouds
of memories
I’d like to think that something
worth smoking lies
inside of me
Didn’t they say ...
Trailing
Off to the air
Swimming
through dark oxygen, like
phantom hair
Faces of broken mirrors
crowd the clouds
of memories
I’d like to think that something
worth smoking lies
inside of me
Didn’t they say ...
#dark
#shadows
#TruthOfLife #suffering
#TruthOfLife #suffering
573 reads
5 Comments
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