Submissions by backdeckbenny
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I have always loved words and would never use them as weapons.I have no great skill but that is of no consequence as long as readers find meaning or solace or guidance in my musings.
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
22nd Nov 2024 5:21am
22nd Nov 2024 5:21am
True or False
#sex
64 reads
2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
21st Nov 2024 7:46am
21st Nov 2024 7:46am
Hmmmm!!!
It's hard.....very very hard.
It's wet......very very wet.
I know what your thinking while i'm hosing my driveway..
It's wet......very very wet.
I know what your thinking while i'm hosing my driveway..
#sex
188 reads
4 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
21st Nov 2024 4:45am
21st Nov 2024 4:45am
Sleep is Death is Sleep
Went to bed to die
Slept through the whole damn darkness
Alive i write this
Je suis toujours en vie!
How wonderful.
Slept through the whole damn darkness
Alive i write this
Je suis toujours en vie!
How wonderful.
#gratitude
#happiness
#hope
71 reads
1 Comment
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
20th Nov 2024 7:51pm
20th Nov 2024 7:51pm
Eternity is a long time.
I hope there is no afterlife
At least none that lasts forever
Which is silly in itself as time is a human construct and so is forever and infinity.
First digression....damn I'll try and stay on topic.
I hope there is no afterlife
Where we get to spend forever with those we love.
Which is silly in itself as love is also a human construct .
Second digression....damn I'll try and stay on topic.
Three digressions and I'm out.
Some fabulous people I've met in my life.
Not least of them being...
At least none that lasts forever
Which is silly in itself as time is a human construct and so is forever and infinity.
First digression....damn I'll try and stay on topic.
I hope there is no afterlife
Where we get to spend forever with those we love.
Which is silly in itself as love is also a human construct .
Second digression....damn I'll try and stay on topic.
Three digressions and I'm out.
Some fabulous people I've met in my life.
Not least of them being...
#philosophical
82 reads
2 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Nov 2024 6:49pm
19th Nov 2024 6:49pm
Mon Pere
We all have fathers
Not everyone has a dad.
It's 4.30 am
It's as it should be at this time of day,
dark and quiet.
I'm on the back deck
scorching cup of tea as my trusted companion.
Was awake for an hour before arising.
My father was on my mind.
Which is strange as I don't think of him much since he died.....no euphemism here....he died.
It's funny what you recall about the day or night a parent dies.
I was called to the hospital by my sister,
There had been some complications...
Not everyone has a dad.
It's 4.30 am
It's as it should be at this time of day,
dark and quiet.
I'm on the back deck
scorching cup of tea as my trusted companion.
Was awake for an hour before arising.
My father was on my mind.
Which is strange as I don't think of him much since he died.....no euphemism here....he died.
It's funny what you recall about the day or night a parent dies.
I was called to the hospital by my sister,
There had been some complications...
#death
71 reads
2 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
19th Nov 2024 2:18am
19th Nov 2024 2:18am
Oxygen
Will your last breath be an exhale that just continues on until all air is gone?
Can it be anything else?
No more inhales.
No more anything.
No more you.
You never existed in the first place.
You were just an imagining in consciousness.
Things only touched a convention , never you.
You can't be touched physically.
Because you don't exist physically.
You're just attached to something created by contact with something else.
...
Can it be anything else?
No more inhales.
No more anything.
No more you.
You never existed in the first place.
You were just an imagining in consciousness.
Things only touched a convention , never you.
You can't be touched physically.
Because you don't exist physically.
You're just attached to something created by contact with something else.
...
#earth
#fire
#water
86 reads
3 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Nov 2024 8:50pm
18th Nov 2024 8:50pm
DuP
Deep underground real poets live
It's safer down there than above
They don't conform to the general view
And search for the meaning of love.
They write with a view from the lives they have lived.
Torn, shredded, healed and still here
Deep underground real poets live
Where they write without favour or fear.
Who ever runs the show blesses you all.
It's safer down there than above
They don't conform to the general view
And search for the meaning of love.
They write with a view from the lives they have lived.
Torn, shredded, healed and still here
Deep underground real poets live
Where they write without favour or fear.
Who ever runs the show blesses you all.
#courage
#inspirational
#motivational
#romantic
#wisdom
116 reads
7 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Nov 2024 6:56pm
17th Nov 2024 6:56pm
Need
Mondays cloud
Is Tuesdays rain
Is Wednesdays cup of tea.
Is Tuesdays rain
Is Wednesdays cup of tea.
#TruthOfLife
80 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Nov 2024 5:50am
17th Nov 2024 5:50am
Knuckles
When next you see an old couple holding hands.
Pay attention.
Look how their bent fingers are clasped as one.
They bent them together.
What is that called?
Pay attention.
Look how their bent fingers are clasped as one.
They bent them together.
What is that called?
#aging
78 reads
1 Comment
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Nov 2024 9:46pm
16th Nov 2024 9:46pm
Sunday
When there's nothing left to eat
We eat ourselves.
This thought just popped into my head
I'm still trying to work out what I just said.
We eat ourselves.
This thought just popped into my head
I'm still trying to work out what I just said.
#consumerism
97 reads
4 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
15th Nov 2024 9:50pm
15th Nov 2024 9:50pm
If Only
I want to write a poem,some prose,
some words
that enter your heart
which is really your mind.
I want you to read those words
and weep with me for our collective suffering.
to smell the cordite in Gaza
and witness the broken homes and bodies in the Ukraine
To taste the suffering of those huddled in some dreary, cold alcove in your own country.
I want you to read my words and know our shared human experience.
Their suffering is not just theirs
It's yours,it's mine,it's our planets.
I'd love to write words so ...
some words
that enter your heart
which is really your mind.
I want you to read those words
and weep with me for our collective suffering.
to smell the cordite in Gaza
and witness the broken homes and bodies in the Ukraine
To taste the suffering of those huddled in some dreary, cold alcove in your own country.
I want you to read my words and know our shared human experience.
Their suffering is not just theirs
It's yours,it's mine,it's our planets.
I'd love to write words so ...
#hope
#kindness
#love
122 reads
4 Comments
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