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.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Jan 2025 7:07am
24th Jan 2025 7:07am
Coincidence V Conditions
When conditions are right things happen
good and bad.
Hubris fools us into thinking we can adjust conditions to suit our moods,by
simply ignoring the truth that conditions brought the mood on.
For you to find your soul mate requires thousands of years, lives and conditions that had to be met first.
For a cloud to form or an earthquake to occur, the conditions have to arise.They have to be right for manifestation to occur.
To fall in love or into darkness need the right conditions to arise.
Ergo
Nothing arises by itself. ...
good and bad.
Hubris fools us into thinking we can adjust conditions to suit our moods,by
simply ignoring the truth that conditions brought the mood on.
For you to find your soul mate requires thousands of years, lives and conditions that had to be met first.
For a cloud to form or an earthquake to occur, the conditions have to arise.They have to be right for manifestation to occur.
To fall in love or into darkness need the right conditions to arise.
Ergo
Nothing arises by itself. ...
#universe
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3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Jan 2025 1:38am
24th Jan 2025 1:38am
Good Intentions
It was late
I never intended to kill
I trapped it under some Tupperware
And would set it free in the morning
to get on with it's own precious life.
It died during the night.
It was more than just a cockroach.
I never intended to kill
I trapped it under some Tupperware
And would set it free in the morning
to get on with it's own precious life.
It died during the night.
It was more than just a cockroach.
#LifeCycle
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3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2025 3:24am
23rd Jan 2025 3:24am
M.A.C.A.
I don't believe in God
but if I did
I would pray to him or her
to Make America Compassionate Again.
If God can't do that
He or she should smite those that
tarnish his name by disguising
themselves as Christians.
You can become POTUS
If you lie
If you bully
If you despise
If you're a felon
But you cannot be a Christian.
You may ask
when God is going to intervene
but he doesn't have to
America is destroying itself
using his name to do so.
but if I did
I would pray to him or her
to Make America Compassionate Again.
If God can't do that
He or she should smite those that
tarnish his name by disguising
themselves as Christians.
You can become POTUS
If you lie
If you bully
If you despise
If you're a felon
But you cannot be a Christian.
You may ask
when God is going to intervene
but he doesn't have to
America is destroying itself
using his name to do so.
#evil
#religion
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2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2025 2:58am
23rd Jan 2025 2:58am
X-ray vision
I don't see the greying hair.
I don't see the spider veins.
I don't see the sagging breasts.
Or the mothers belly.
Or the slightly yellowing teeth.
Or the beginning of age spots.
I see through all those veneers.
I see you.
I don't see the spider veins.
I don't see the sagging breasts.
Or the mothers belly.
Or the slightly yellowing teeth.
Or the beginning of age spots.
I see through all those veneers.
I see you.
#love
80 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
21st Jan 2025 1:05am
21st Jan 2025 1:05am
One walk three thoughts.
One:
A gentleman will hold your hand and pull out your chair.
A mans man will pull on your hair while entering you from behind.
A real man will do both.
Which one are you?
Two:
Killing yourself won't bring you peace, just an end to your suffering.You can't find peace when your dead....only when your living.
Three:
The more you resist pain the more you'll suffer.
Do the math.
PxR=S ( pain x resistance = suffering)
If your pain is a 10 and your resistance is a 10 then your suffering will be a 100.
If your pain is a 10 and...
A gentleman will hold your hand and pull out your chair.
A mans man will pull on your hair while entering you from behind.
A real man will do both.
Which one are you?
Two:
Killing yourself won't bring you peace, just an end to your suffering.You can't find peace when your dead....only when your living.
Three:
The more you resist pain the more you'll suffer.
Do the math.
PxR=S ( pain x resistance = suffering)
If your pain is a 10 and your resistance is a 10 then your suffering will be a 100.
If your pain is a 10 and...
#TruthOfLife
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8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Jan 2025 8:29pm
18th Jan 2025 8:29pm
Shooting Zzzzzzzzz
All our senses vanish
when descending into sleep
and we follow oh so blindly
without a bloody peep.
Zzzzzzzzzzz
In sleep we are no more.
Zzzzzzzzzzz
We can't and we don't exist without senses
without our sense of self
we're nothing but
a plaything of the gods
or a carcass for the night vultures.
Zzzzzzzzzzz
when descending into sleep
and we follow oh so blindly
without a bloody peep.
Zzzzzzzzzzz
In sleep we are no more.
Zzzzzzzzzzz
We can't and we don't exist without senses
without our sense of self
we're nothing but
a plaything of the gods
or a carcass for the night vultures.
Zzzzzzzzzzz
#sleep
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
18th Jan 2025 6:54am
18th Jan 2025 6:54am
Ubuntu Two
I am because we are.
If you don't see me
I don't see you.
We both won't exist.
If you don't see me
I don't see you.
We both won't exist.
#TruthOfLife
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Jan 2025 11:23pm
17th Jan 2025 11:23pm
Memento Mori
Some of us will wear black soon
Some will forever lie still
Got nothing to do with a deity
Got nothing to do with God's will
It's simply the way that life happens
It's not in any God's scheme
Death forces eyes to stay open
To witness this life is a dream.
Some will forever lie still
Got nothing to do with a deity
Got nothing to do with God's will
It's simply the way that life happens
It's not in any God's scheme
Death forces eyes to stay open
To witness this life is a dream.
#death
#TruthOfLife
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Jan 2025 11:54pm
16th Jan 2025 11:54pm
When Clouds Get Heavy
The clouds cry to release their suffering.
Never holding their tears in because they know how much lighter they become without them.
Never holding their tears in because they know how much lighter they become without them.
#nature
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Jan 2025 6:11am
16th Jan 2025 6:11am
Nude Nuts
I'm not a huge fan of body hair
So I shave my head and
I shave down there
I shave my face
My back and my chest
But my fave shaved spot
Is where I'm a guest.
The lips below her hips.
So I shave my head and
I shave down there
I shave my face
My back and my chest
But my fave shaved spot
Is where I'm a guest.
The lips below her hips.
#women
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
15th Jan 2025 10:49pm
15th Jan 2025 10:49pm
Unconditional
I'm dying and I'm happy.
I lie on the bed watching the rain through the window as it greets the trees,the ground,my home.
It says hello to each in a slightly different voice but not with different amounts of love.
I'm dying and I'm happy.
The rain makes it so.
And
Now it gently whispers
That it's time for me to go.
I lie on the bed watching the rain through the window as it greets the trees,the ground,my home.
It says hello to each in a slightly different voice but not with different amounts of love.
I'm dying and I'm happy.
The rain makes it so.
And
Now it gently whispers
That it's time for me to go.
#death
#happiness
#rain
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Jan 2025 9:03pm
14th Jan 2025 9:03pm
Where selfies go to die.
Pointless bloody selfies, treasures so grand,
A pic of your face or your bum on the sand.
No story, no meaning, no context to frame,
Yet here they exist, for illusory fame.
A pic of your face or your bum on the sand.
No story, no meaning, no context to frame,
Yet here they exist, for illusory fame.
#WritingPoetry
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