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.
EROTIC POEM
Published
26th Oct 2024 7:10pm
26th Oct 2024 7:10pm
Erotic Senses -Taste
#erotic
#sex
370 reads
6 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
25th Oct 2024 5:35am
25th Oct 2024 5:35am
Erotic Senses- Hearing
#erotic
#sex
248 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
102 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Sep 2024 5:34am
8th Sep 2024 5:34am
Not Normal!
#morality
#politics
64 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
178 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
156 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
159 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
180 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
204 reads
11 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
21st Feb 2024 5:04pm
21st Feb 2024 5:04pm
Mainlining Outrage
Cable news
Talk radio
Blogs
Social media
A quick fix
Stoking anger
Feeling superior
To the idiots
The weak
Snowflakes
Troglodytes
Who don’t get it
See the world your way
The business of outrage
Feeding the need
Echoes of what you want to hear
Big business
Conspiracies
Cons
Needing an enemy
The other
To vilify
Driving wedges between people
Accepting the extremists view of the other.
No...
Talk radio
Blogs
Social media
A quick fix
Stoking anger
Feeling superior
To the idiots
The weak
Snowflakes
Troglodytes
Who don’t get it
See the world your way
The business of outrage
Feeding the need
Echoes of what you want to hear
Big business
Conspiracies
Cons
Needing an enemy
The other
To vilify
Driving wedges between people
Accepting the extremists view of the other.
No...
#anger
#culture
165 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
11th Feb 2024 5:24am
11th Feb 2024 5:24am
Do you want to colour?
Do you want to colour?
A question from your childhood.
Crayons spread across the table
the floor
Whatever paper is handy
Blank
A colouring book
Covering the pages
Diligently staying within the lines
Freedom of a blank page
No matter
You were creating
Something
Choosing the perfect colour
From a carefully sorted box
Or
From a pile of half-spent broken pieces in a candy tin
Grinding into the paper to create a solid form
The unmistakable smell of crayons
The...
A question from your childhood.
Crayons spread across the table
the floor
Whatever paper is handy
Blank
A colouring book
Covering the pages
Diligently staying within the lines
Freedom of a blank page
No matter
You were creating
Something
Choosing the perfect colour
From a carefully sorted box
Or
From a pile of half-spent broken pieces in a candy tin
Grinding into the paper to create a solid form
The unmistakable smell of crayons
The...
#childhood
161 reads
9 Comments
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