Submissions by TimWombles
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write songs without a tune. I'm a story teller. Sometimes I write about the news, sometimes about feelings, sometimes I just write.
Expecting Rain
I'm up on the stage as the clouds roll in
Throw my hands to the heavens
Let the rains wash away my sins
Pick up my guitar and play a few notes
Pulling from the paper the words that I wrote
I fooled myself into thinking I had control
Then the boat started rocking and the ocean started to roll
Made a deal with the devil and lost my soul
Now I'm waiting on the rain
Chorus::
Blinding lightning and rhythmic thunder
Gale force winds and torrential rain
Sometimes to keep your sanity
You need a hurricane
In a...
Throw my hands to the heavens
Let the rains wash away my sins
Pick up my guitar and play a few notes
Pulling from the paper the words that I wrote
I fooled myself into thinking I had control
Then the boat started rocking and the ocean started to roll
Made a deal with the devil and lost my soul
Now I'm waiting on the rain
Chorus::
Blinding lightning and rhythmic thunder
Gale force winds and torrential rain
Sometimes to keep your sanity
You need a hurricane
In a...
#LifeStruggles
#devil
#LifeAsAWriter
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Discovering Poetry
There was a sequence to my poetry
First was realizing...
“Oh yeah,” wasn't a good comeback
Felt like a twit
I was maybe in 4th grade
I discovered wit
I studied famous comedians, listened intently
Found books on the subject..
I was such a nerd, but I read them contently
I found that words were important
Then I found “quotes”
The ability to phrase things in just the right way
Started dissecting them
JFK, Martin Luther King
with words took us where we had never been
I realized quotes had power ...
First was realizing...
“Oh yeah,” wasn't a good comeback
Felt like a twit
I was maybe in 4th grade
I discovered wit
I studied famous comedians, listened intently
Found books on the subject..
I was such a nerd, but I read them contently
I found that words were important
Then I found “quotes”
The ability to phrase things in just the right way
Started dissecting them
JFK, Martin Luther King
with words took us where we had never been
I realized quotes had power ...
#WritingPoetry
346 reads
4 Comments
The Voices and the Sword
I feel my veins pulsing
My eyes locked on the sight
I hear the voices talking
Making fun of my plight
Oh to be rid of those voices
Mocking me on this night
My soul would be elated
And gleefully cheer in delight
I reach for my trusty pen
The mightiest of swords
And start to put to paper
If I can only find the words
But simple words elude me
And the voices shout so loud
But I concentrate my breathing
And words they flow so proud
I can hear the voices panic
Scattering all around
As...
My eyes locked on the sight
I hear the voices talking
Making fun of my plight
Oh to be rid of those voices
Mocking me on this night
My soul would be elated
And gleefully cheer in delight
I reach for my trusty pen
The mightiest of swords
And start to put to paper
If I can only find the words
But simple words elude me
And the voices shout so loud
But I concentrate my breathing
And words they flow so proud
I can hear the voices panic
Scattering all around
As...
#MentalHealth
#obsession
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Arrow In The Knee
I used to be an adventurer like you
Traveled as far as I could see
I wielded weapons that were true
Till I took an arrow to the knee
Someone stole my sweet roll
There was nothing I could do
It was only a sweet roll
What does it matter to you
From Solitude to Riften
My blade cut through many a draugr
Trying to save everyone
From the farmer to his daughter
Now I'm just a NPC
Working for the city guard
You'd think my life was easy
But it's really pretty hard
Now I face fierce dragons ...
Traveled as far as I could see
I wielded weapons that were true
Till I took an arrow to the knee
Someone stole my sweet roll
There was nothing I could do
It was only a sweet roll
What does it matter to you
From Solitude to Riften
My blade cut through many a draugr
Trying to save everyone
From the farmer to his daughter
Now I'm just a NPC
Working for the city guard
You'd think my life was easy
But it's really pretty hard
Now I face fierce dragons ...
#Fanfiction
#funny
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Van Halen
with apologies to Edgar Alan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary
Wearing my ear buds
Tired and weary
While nodding, nearly napping
There came a tapping
A tap, tap, tapping on his fret
The tune, I didn't know, but it was a good bet
That Eddie was on the stage
A God, like Hendricks, or Clapton, or Page
The crowd erupted in applause
It was that tap, tap, tapping that was the cause
A chant rose up from the floor
They yelled, "Eddie, forevermore"
"Eddie, forevermore"
Somewhere on a stage in the clouds
There's a...
Once upon a midnight dreary
Wearing my ear buds
Tired and weary
While nodding, nearly napping
There came a tapping
A tap, tap, tapping on his fret
The tune, I didn't know, but it was a good bet
That Eddie was on the stage
A God, like Hendricks, or Clapton, or Page
The crowd erupted in applause
It was that tap, tap, tapping that was the cause
A chant rose up from the floor
They yelled, "Eddie, forevermore"
"Eddie, forevermore"
Somewhere on a stage in the clouds
There's a...
#admiration
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Spellbound
I gazed into your eyes as you sat across from me
I swear I saw storm clouds hanging over stormy seas
One look and you brought me to my knees
My safeguards left me like the cold winter breeze
It was as if you could gaze deep inside my soul
You were the only warmth I could find stranded in the cold
I could feel the fire emanating from your ginger hair
I reached to hold you close and you were no longer there
Chorus::
You cast your spell and you captured my heart
You ripped up my reservations and tore them apart
You've...
I swear I saw storm clouds hanging over stormy seas
One look and you brought me to my knees
My safeguards left me like the cold winter breeze
It was as if you could gaze deep inside my soul
You were the only warmth I could find stranded in the cold
I could feel the fire emanating from your ginger hair
I reached to hold you close and you were no longer there
Chorus::
You cast your spell and you captured my heart
You ripped up my reservations and tore them apart
You've...
#love
#power
#curse
366 reads
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Fairy Tales
Once upon a time
I told a fairy tale
The moral was good
I think I told it well
And in the last chapter
Everyone lived happily ever after
Cause that's the way fairy tales should end
And I think it's the right message to send
Cause in every life
We weather a storm or two
It's not about the strife
It's about what we say and do
Cause when we reach our last chapter
And total our crying and our laughter
That's the way real life ends
And that's the memories we leave our friends
Cause once upon a time...
I told a fairy tale
The moral was good
I think I told it well
And in the last chapter
Everyone lived happily ever after
Cause that's the way fairy tales should end
And I think it's the right message to send
Cause in every life
We weather a storm or two
It's not about the strife
It's about what we say and do
Cause when we reach our last chapter
And total our crying and our laughter
That's the way real life ends
And that's the memories we leave our friends
Cause once upon a time...
#inspirational
#morality
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7 Comments
Move On
First love
The passion is intense
And it's hard to break up
Even when staying together makes no sense
We fear
The future is unknown
We need to take that first step
Our biggest fear is to end up alone
Breaking up
It's not easy to do
You know it's about him
But he makes you feel it's about you
Chorus:
Don't let fear control you
Don't cling to what's already gone
Never expect changes, they'll never come
Just let them go, move on
Don't let anyone try to change you
Continue...
The passion is intense
And it's hard to break up
Even when staying together makes no sense
We fear
The future is unknown
We need to take that first step
Our biggest fear is to end up alone
Breaking up
It's not easy to do
You know it's about him
But he makes you feel it's about you
Chorus:
Don't let fear control you
Don't cling to what's already gone
Never expect changes, they'll never come
Just let them go, move on
Don't let anyone try to change you
Continue...
#relationships
#breakup
#MovingOn #manipulation
#MovingOn #manipulation
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Happy Being Happy
People are seldom happy being happy
They're greedy and always wanting more
They'll take a chance on losing everything
Even if it sinks their lifeboat off shore
There is no such word as contentment
Most people just aren't built that way
They may have everything they ever wanted
But at the drop of a hat they'll throw it all away
So everyday I tell my wife I love her
I let her know that she is a major piece of my heart
Cause I know we'll either grow old together
Or we'll find that we grew too far apart
When I look into...
They're greedy and always wanting more
They'll take a chance on losing everything
Even if it sinks their lifeboat off shore
There is no such word as contentment
Most people just aren't built that way
They may have everything they ever wanted
But at the drop of a hat they'll throw it all away
So everyday I tell my wife I love her
I let her know that she is a major piece of my heart
Cause I know we'll either grow old together
Or we'll find that we grew too far apart
When I look into...
#happiness
#love
#learning
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8 Comments
Paradise
I captained a trip on a sailing ship
Across the rough and rolling seas
Looking for a place away from the race
Where I could do whatever I pleased
I passed an old man from the promised land
Who offered these words to the wise
It's not as they say if you go on that way
It's the same place in disguise
He said, "Paradise, well it ain't that nice
Go back from where you came
Cause unless you're blind you're gonna find
It's not better, Just more of the same"
I tried to sort as I sailed into port
All the things...
Across the rough and rolling seas
Looking for a place away from the race
Where I could do whatever I pleased
I passed an old man from the promised land
Who offered these words to the wise
It's not as they say if you go on that way
It's the same place in disguise
He said, "Paradise, well it ain't that nice
Go back from where you came
Cause unless you're blind you're gonna find
It's not better, Just more of the same"
I tried to sort as I sailed into port
All the things...
#wisdom
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Two Toads
Three boys, in the fort they built in the woods
Stocked with a radio and a few canned goods
In the quiet little place called Beech Grove
A pleasant community that most people love
After telling jokes and ending up in stitches
Decided to scare each other with tales of witches
It was Bradon's turn and he was really on a roll
Martin was listening closely and it was taking a toll
Josh had a fire going and in an old pot they found
He was stirring with a stick round and round
“Old man Churchman used to walk these woods at night”
“How...
Stocked with a radio and a few canned goods
In the quiet little place called Beech Grove
A pleasant community that most people love
After telling jokes and ending up in stitches
Decided to scare each other with tales of witches
It was Bradon's turn and he was really on a roll
Martin was listening closely and it was taking a toll
Josh had a fire going and in an old pot they found
He was stirring with a stick round and round
“Old man Churchman used to walk these woods at night”
“How...
#Halloween
#witches
#curse
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4 Comments
Sing of Tomorrow
Someday we'll be out in the great expanses of space
To settle another planet to preserve the human race
Brave men and women facing the unknown
Will see the sun rise and know it's not their own
No one knows what tomorrow will find
No one knows what we're forced to leave behind
No one knows what the future will bring
We can only imagine the songs they will sing
Chorus:
Sing of tomorrow
Sing of today
Sing of the planet we've wasted away
Sing of the future
Sing of the past
Sing that this lifetime won't be our last ...
To settle another planet to preserve the human race
Brave men and women facing the unknown
Will see the sun rise and know it's not their own
No one knows what tomorrow will find
No one knows what we're forced to leave behind
No one knows what the future will bring
We can only imagine the songs they will sing
Chorus:
Sing of tomorrow
Sing of today
Sing of the planet we've wasted away
Sing of the future
Sing of the past
Sing that this lifetime won't be our last ...
#hope
#environment
#scifi
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