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 them.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
15th Nov 2024 2:02am
15th Nov 2024 2:02am
Sun thief.
It was a dimming,
Not a darkness,not yet anyway.
It settled then invaded my
mind, body, world.
Stole the sun just for fun.
Knowing now.
It never leaves entirely.
You just get accustomed to
the strange thinking
in both brains,
the one in the head
the one in the gut.
If science doesn't know,
then I certainly do.
Prove me wrong.
Cut off my head
disembowel me if you must
But depression lurks in every cell
And settles just like dust.
You can try to sweep it out
by...
Not a darkness,not yet anyway.
It settled then invaded my
mind, body, world.
Stole the sun just for fun.
Knowing now.
It never leaves entirely.
You just get accustomed to
the strange thinking
in both brains,
the one in the head
the one in the gut.
If science doesn't know,
then I certainly do.
Prove me wrong.
Cut off my head
disembowel me if you must
But depression lurks in every cell
And settles just like dust.
You can try to sweep it out
by...
#MentalHealth
58 reads
1 Comment
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Nov 2024 8:02pm
13th Nov 2024 8:02pm
Cha
I love my morning cuppa
It's always tea, no milk, no sugar
Always hot
It pulls me back to reality
Out of the morning fog
Fog so thick I can barely see life
But there it is a lovely cup of tea
Or magic, or whatever
Fogs lifting I can see now
Another shitty day in paradise begins
With me and a cup of tea.
N.B ....never coffee.
It's always tea, no milk, no sugar
Always hot
It pulls me back to reality
Out of the morning fog
Fog so thick I can barely see life
But there it is a lovely cup of tea
Or magic, or whatever
Fogs lifting I can see now
Another shitty day in paradise begins
With me and a cup of tea.
N.B ....never coffee.
#water
56 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Nov 2024 7:12am
13th Nov 2024 7:12am
Reboot
Where do you go when your asleep or in an induced coma?
Do you wander off into some other persons mind ?
Just take a little break from yourself?
Do you morph into a succubus or incubus to realise your deepest desires?
Who is it that does the dreaming and wakes up screaming?
I used to wake up laughing by the way.
Do we die each night and get reborn each morning?
I don't want to be on standby at night.I want to be re booted so that all the crap gets cleaned out.So I can function better when i return to the flesh.
Do you wander off into some other persons mind ?
Just take a little break from yourself?
Do you morph into a succubus or incubus to realise your deepest desires?
Who is it that does the dreaming and wakes up screaming?
I used to wake up laughing by the way.
Do we die each night and get reborn each morning?
I don't want to be on standby at night.I want to be re booted so that all the crap gets cleaned out.So I can function better when i return to the flesh.
#angels
47 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Nov 2024 6:28am
13th Nov 2024 6:28am
I'm Back Again
Enough
When is enough enough?
When is too much booze,food,sex, possessions ever enough?
Can you have too much sorrow?
Too much joy?
Joy that only arises when you've experienced sorrow.You can't know one without the other.Take sorrow away and you take joy away.
Enough already.
Can we ever drink,eat,screw or own our way out of sorrow?They are all false dawns.
Don't you get it?
Chasing desires is the cause of all suffering.Yours,mine, everyones.
Just stop it now.Stop chasing...
When is enough enough?
When is too much booze,food,sex, possessions ever enough?
Can you have too much sorrow?
Too much joy?
Joy that only arises when you've experienced sorrow.You can't know one without the other.Take sorrow away and you take joy away.
Enough already.
Can we ever drink,eat,screw or own our way out of sorrow?They are all false dawns.
Don't you get it?
Chasing desires is the cause of all suffering.Yours,mine, everyones.
Just stop it now.Stop chasing...
#consumerism
45 reads
1 Comment
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Nov 2024 3:47am
8th Nov 2024 3:47am
Not a cloud in the sky.
This will be my last post on DUP .
The writers on this site are brilliant and prolific ,so much so that instead of writing I'm spending too much time reading .I need to return to my books.There is a fascinating variety of contributors here and without knowing each one personally, I think all feel compelled to write to help free themselves from suffering.
So for all those who have suffered please enjoy this piece from Rumi....one of my faves.
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a...
The writers on this site are brilliant and prolific ,so much so that instead of writing I'm spending too much time reading .I need to return to my books.There is a fascinating variety of contributors here and without knowing each one personally, I think all feel compelled to write to help free themselves from suffering.
So for all those who have suffered please enjoy this piece from Rumi....one of my faves.
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a...
#courage
#gratitude
#kindness
#love
#respect
89 reads
1 Comment
EROTIC POEM
Published
7th Nov 2024 8:35pm
7th Nov 2024 8:35pm
Adaptation
I'm sitting in the sun waiting for the washing to finish and I'm thinking of you there will be no commas colons or any punctuation at all my fingers and nimble mind will lead the way so I was thinking about you just tell me what you want I can adapt do you want me to be a Dom I can adapt how about your Sub I can adapt do you want it rougher more animalistic or do you prefer tender I can do both I can adapt just tell me what you want and the washing finished and so is this
#BDSM
#erotic
#sex
163 reads
1 Comment
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
6th Nov 2024 7:23pm
6th Nov 2024 7:23pm
Everythings Fine
There are bigger things to worry about than politics or the death of democracy.
Worry about the death of kindness.
Worry about the death of compassion.
Worry about the death of decency.
Worry about the death of yourself.
Or
Don't worry at all.
Look up to the sky
Be amazed and cry.
Isn't that all we've ever wanted
To be amazed.
Worry about the death of kindness.
Worry about the death of compassion.
Worry about the death of decency.
Worry about the death of yourself.
Or
Don't worry at all.
Look up to the sky
Be amazed and cry.
Isn't that all we've ever wanted
To be amazed.
#corruption
#deception
#freedom
#homelessness
#ignorance
81 reads
1 Comment
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
5th Nov 2024 8:34pm
5th Nov 2024 8:34pm
Tissues Please
#marriage
43 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Nov 2024 8:00pm
5th Nov 2024 8:00pm
Bookmark my lust.
Oh that I were a book
touched by your hands each night
held tenderly into the hushed hours
pages turned with anticipation
devoured with passion
one more page
one last sigh
a carnal bookmark
holds the spot
your eyes close
I vanish
you're drifting now
sinking
ever sinking
into the mattress
to the emptiness of sleep.
touched by your hands each night
held tenderly into the hushed hours
pages turned with anticipation
devoured with passion
one more page
one last sigh
a carnal bookmark
holds the spot
your eyes close
I vanish
you're drifting now
sinking
ever sinking
into the mattress
to the emptiness of sleep.
#relationships
90 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
5th Nov 2024 7:29am
5th Nov 2024 7:29am
The world is going backwards.
Them between that's all is paper the of thickness the, other the on Hell and paper of
side one on Heaven wrote I if.
side one on Heaven wrote I if.
#universe
67 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Nov 2024 1:57am
5th Nov 2024 1:57am
WTF (why the fuss)
Love does not need to Like.
If we don't have words that name things then do they still exist?If a noun was nothing would it still be something?
Who put that thought in my mind because it wasn't me?As soon as my eyes opened in popped a thought and then another and another.Always thinking but thoughts aren't real and have no power..So who gives thoughts power?
Why do we cry when crying changes nothing?Did crying ever bring anyone back?
Eyes can only see, they can't interpret.Your mind not your brain does that.So is mind more valuable than a brain?...
If we don't have words that name things then do they still exist?If a noun was nothing would it still be something?
Who put that thought in my mind because it wasn't me?As soon as my eyes opened in popped a thought and then another and another.Always thinking but thoughts aren't real and have no power..So who gives thoughts power?
Why do we cry when crying changes nothing?Did crying ever bring anyone back?
Eyes can only see, they can't interpret.Your mind not your brain does that.So is mind more valuable than a brain?...
#universe
57 reads
5 Comments
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