Submissions by Trillium
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I am new to the enjoyment and writing of poetry. In public school and high-school, I didn’t appreciate poetry and frankly didn’t understand it. Now I can’t seem to stop writing, reading, experiencing and enjoying poetry.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Nov 2024 3:10am
3rd Nov 2024 3:10am
Saying the quiet part out loud
Julia Roberts
Dared
To
Suggest
That
Women could vote for whoever they want to
Even if their husbands disagree
To keep the peace
They may even need to
‘Gasp’
Lie about their vote
Their vote is their own fucking
business
they don’t need to tell anyone how they voted
They don’t need to ask permission
If someone demands to know how they voted
And if there is a “wrong “ way to vote
Then goddammit lie to the fucker
The right wing crazies went apeshit over this
It is like...
Dared
To
Suggest
That
Women could vote for whoever they want to
Even if their husbands disagree
To keep the peace
They may even need to
‘Gasp’
Lie about their vote
Their vote is their own fucking
business
they don’t need to tell anyone how they voted
They don’t need to ask permission
If someone demands to know how they voted
And if there is a “wrong “ way to vote
Then goddammit lie to the fucker
The right wing crazies went apeshit over this
It is like...
#politics
89 reads
10 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
3rd Nov 2024 2:07am
3rd Nov 2024 2:07am
Erotic Senses - Taste II
#erotic
#sex
293 reads
1 Comment
EROTIC POEM
Published
26th Oct 2024 7:10pm
26th Oct 2024 7:10pm
Erotic Senses -Taste
#erotic
#sex
386 reads
6 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
25th Oct 2024 5:35am
25th Oct 2024 5:35am
Erotic Senses- Hearing
#erotic
#sex
262 reads
10 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Sep 2024 6:10am
16th Sep 2024 6:10am
Looking
What does it mean to look?
To really look at something?
To absorb it fully.
A flower
A tree
A painting
A partner
A lover
Making something your world
Your focus
For a moment
However long it is
To feel it
Beyond your senses
Tendrils of your being
Reaching out
Making it a part of yourself
To really look
To understand
More than just shapes
To understand
Loving
To really look at something?
To absorb it fully.
A flower
A tree
A painting
A partner
A lover
Making something your world
Your focus
For a moment
However long it is
To feel it
Beyond your senses
Tendrils of your being
Reaching out
Making it a part of yourself
To really look
To understand
More than just shapes
To understand
Loving
#happiness
#love
115 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Sep 2024 5:34am
8th Sep 2024 5:34am
Not Normal!
#morality
#politics
74 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Jun 2024 7:07am
5th Jun 2024 7:07am
The party of ….. my ass
The party of family values
Adultery,
Sexual assault
Payoffs to buy silence
Are apparently good christian values
Sold family values
My ass
The party of law and order
Laws only apply to the poor
Lowering property values to
lower taxes
Increasing property values to
get better rates on loans
Compulsive lying
Misappropriating funds from charities
Faux university
Would be jail time for the poor
Business as usual for the rich
Law and order
My ass ...
Adultery,
Sexual assault
Payoffs to buy silence
Are apparently good christian values
Sold family values
My ass
The party of law and order
Laws only apply to the poor
Lowering property values to
lower taxes
Increasing property values to
get better rates on loans
Compulsive lying
Misappropriating funds from charities
Faux university
Would be jail time for the poor
Business as usual for the rich
Law and order
My ass ...
#anger
#politics
190 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd May 2024 4:15pm
2nd May 2024 4:15pm
Electronic Communication
Messages from near and far
Filling data stacks
Ephemeral connections
In mechanically precise
sterile fonts
Impersonal perfection
Nuances of talking are lost
Sterile jests fall flat at best
At worst offend
Prick a nerve
Punctuated with the finality of an e-mail signature
Abyssal silence filled with confusion as to the meaning of your words
Insult?
Offence?
Jest?
None of the above, just a message sent in haste amongst the myriad of messages that need a response
Filling data stacks
Ephemeral connections
In mechanically precise
sterile fonts
Impersonal perfection
Nuances of talking are lost
Sterile jests fall flat at best
At worst offend
Prick a nerve
Punctuated with the finality of an e-mail signature
Abyssal silence filled with confusion as to the meaning of your words
Insult?
Offence?
Jest?
None of the above, just a message sent in haste amongst the myriad of messages that need a response
#dialogue
#WritingPoetry
169 reads
4 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
18th Apr 2024 6:28am
18th Apr 2024 6:28am
1864
Welcome ladies,
It is 1864 in Arizona
and
you have no rights to your bodies.
Unless,
of course,
you are going to die.
The Good ‘Ole Party of 2024
is
just fine with statutes from the 1800s.
Good,
wholesome
laws!
Family
values
laws!
Moral laws!
No legislative debate permitted
on an archaic law
that makes you a baby factory.
Because,
It is a good law.
Raped,
you will live
and carry a rapist’s child
Incest,
you will...
It is 1864 in Arizona
and
you have no rights to your bodies.
Unless,
of course,
you are going to die.
The Good ‘Ole Party of 2024
is
just fine with statutes from the 1800s.
Good,
wholesome
laws!
Family
values
laws!
Moral laws!
No legislative debate permitted
on an archaic law
that makes you a baby factory.
Because,
It is a good law.
Raped,
you will live
and carry a rapist’s child
Incest,
you will...
#anger
#politics
175 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
19th Mar 2024 3:12am
19th Mar 2024 3:12am
Petting a Dog
You join me on the couch
Curled up in your favourite spot
With one of your people
Petting you is supposed to be relaxing
Often I can’t find the relaxation
Petting you consciously
Like a task to be completed
Tonight is different
Finding the relaxation in the texture of fir
Softness of your ears
Absentmindedly petting your head
Playing with your floppy ears
Finally finding elusive relaxation
For both of us
Curled up in your favourite spot
With one of your people
Petting you is supposed to be relaxing
Often I can’t find the relaxation
Petting you consciously
Like a task to be completed
Tonight is different
Finding the relaxation in the texture of fir
Softness of your ears
Absentmindedly petting your head
Playing with your floppy ears
Finally finding elusive relaxation
For both of us
#anxiety
#animals
197 reads
7 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
10th Mar 2024 4:49am
10th Mar 2024 4:49am
Women’s Rights
A zygote is a person
you say
In or out of the womb
God’s creation
you decree
So has rights!
Already a person
Until they are born
[a woman]
then
rights dissolve
[because its a woman]
A woman’s rights are now
dictated
by
another’s religion
Rapist’s conceptions
have more rights
[than the woman]
A fetus that won’t live
has more rights
[than the woman]
A baby, dying in the womb
has more rights
[than the woman who grieves and may die for the life...
you say
In or out of the womb
God’s creation
you decree
So has rights!
Already a person
Until they are born
[a woman]
then
rights dissolve
[because its a woman]
A woman’s rights are now
dictated
by
another’s religion
Rapist’s conceptions
have more rights
[than the woman]
A fetus that won’t live
has more rights
[than the woman]
A baby, dying in the womb
has more rights
[than the woman who grieves and may die for the life...
#anger
#politics
227 reads
11 Comments
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