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
11th Jan 2025 9:32pm
11th Jan 2025 9:32pm
Sunday Morning south of Sydney
Travellers often say that visiting such and such a place was 'life changing'.
From my observations nothing much has changed in them, post travel.
They talk the same,walk the same and definitely think the same.
Can a woman hater change by visiting Notre Dame?
Does a bigot change from standing beneath Mount Fuji?
I've met some who have seen the slums of Delhi or the Concentration Camps of Poland.
They still walk past the street beggars and still lump people into groups they can despise.
An experience of any sort changes life but to change...
From my observations nothing much has changed in them, post travel.
They talk the same,walk the same and definitely think the same.
Can a woman hater change by visiting Notre Dame?
Does a bigot change from standing beneath Mount Fuji?
I've met some who have seen the slums of Delhi or the Concentration Camps of Poland.
They still walk past the street beggars and still lump people into groups they can despise.
An experience of any sort changes life but to change...
#travel
70 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Jan 2025 11:46pm
10th Jan 2025 11:46pm
We fiddle while Rome Burns.
The fires that ravaged LA,the bombs that levelled Gaza,the inequality that sits on your doorstep.All caused by the same thing.
YOU.
Deny it if you like.
BUT
The three TVs or the three cars you have were fuel for the fires.
The well appointed home you live in was stolen from the man asleep on your door step.
The bombs falling in foreign lands paid for by your taxes.
GREED
OVERCONSUMPTION
What would you actually do to save the planet?Save another human being?
Doing NOTHING is so easy....
YOU.
Deny it if you like.
BUT
The three TVs or the three cars you have were fuel for the fires.
The well appointed home you live in was stolen from the man asleep on your door step.
The bombs falling in foreign lands paid for by your taxes.
GREED
OVERCONSUMPTION
What would you actually do to save the planet?Save another human being?
Doing NOTHING is so easy....
#consumerism
#oppression
89 reads
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Jan 2025 8:16pm
10th Jan 2025 8:16pm
Conspiracies
"I've done my research"
If anyone tells you this ask where they searched.
Watching you tube vids is not research.
Listening to toxic podcasts is not research.
Reading opinion pieces is not research.
Research requires critical thinking.
Research requires putting away any conditioning and biases.
Research requires honesty.
I know...I've done my research.
If anyone tells you this ask where they searched.
Watching you tube vids is not research.
Listening to toxic podcasts is not research.
Reading opinion pieces is not research.
Research requires critical thinking.
Research requires putting away any conditioning and biases.
Research requires honesty.
I know...I've done my research.
#lies
65 reads
5 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Jan 2025 2:32am
10th Jan 2025 2:32am
Apple Sauce
You have your opinions
I have mine
You're right.
I'm wrong.
Who cares you tiny little sub atomic particle.
The universe does not give one jot what you think.
We're all up ourselves
I have mine
You're right.
I'm wrong.
Who cares you tiny little sub atomic particle.
The universe does not give one jot what you think.
We're all up ourselves
#identity
93 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
9th Jan 2025 6:32am
9th Jan 2025 6:32am
Testicles
Life's small anchors hang,
Silent strength in gentle form,
Nature's quiet plan.
Silent strength in gentle form,
Nature's quiet plan.
#haiku
66 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Jan 2025 6:19am
8th Jan 2025 6:19am
CPR
I love you so much
I want to rip your tortured heart
from your body
place it next to mine
and bring us both back to life.
I want to rip your tortured heart
from your body
place it next to mine
and bring us both back to life.
#emotions
#kindness
#love
112 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Jan 2025 1:27am
8th Jan 2025 1:27am
The End is Nigh.
A dystopian future is at our door
Facts on Facebook checked no more
Open the sewer let the clowns speak
Lies and deceipt will reach a new peak.
Orwell was prescient with the Ministry of Truth.
Bradbury knew the temperature at which books burned.
And Huxley foresaw a society off their tits on Soma, subdued, placated and duped.
The genies of Zuckerberg,Musk,Trump and countless others cannot be put back in the bottle.
Disinformation is the new truth.
Facts on Facebook checked no more
Open the sewer let the clowns speak
Lies and deceipt will reach a new peak.
Orwell was prescient with the Ministry of Truth.
Bradbury knew the temperature at which books burned.
And Huxley foresaw a society off their tits on Soma, subdued, placated and duped.
The genies of Zuckerberg,Musk,Trump and countless others cannot be put back in the bottle.
Disinformation is the new truth.
#betrayal
#lies
44 reads
0 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
7th Jan 2025 8:56am
7th Jan 2025 8:56am
It's not a sin.
To yield and kneel in a world of knots,
of whispers soft yet stern.
Where hearts must break to truly love,
and learn what we all must learn.
What courage makes one bow so low,
and trust where trembling hearts will go?
Where voiceless power is freely given,
and sacred vows link earth and heaven?
And there a Dominant whose eyes command,
to bind ones limbs with firm and steady hand.
Each lash, each word, each tethered knot,
a pathway home,no doubt, no thought.
Not shame nor...
of whispers soft yet stern.
Where hearts must break to truly love,
and learn what we all must learn.
What courage makes one bow so low,
and trust where trembling hearts will go?
Where voiceless power is freely given,
and sacred vows link earth and heaven?
And there a Dominant whose eyes command,
to bind ones limbs with firm and steady hand.
Each lash, each word, each tethered knot,
a pathway home,no doubt, no thought.
Not shame nor...
#BDSM
210 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Jan 2025 1:31am
7th Jan 2025 1:31am
Cumulus
Today the clouds borrowed the sun.
It was their turn to shine.
It was their turn to shine.
#universe
64 reads
2 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Jan 2025 11:22pm
5th Jan 2025 11:22pm
Sol
The morning sun took my shadow for a walk.
It flowed over concrete,cars and grass.
Sometimes playing hide and seek with much larger shadows or stopping when I stopped to greet a friend and chat to its own shadow buddy.
Most times it was by my side,a trusted friend.
Quite often though it would be up front hoping to get to the cafe first before the other shadows did.
Or it would be loitering behind me, a truculent toddler in search of its tantrum.
Everyone has shadows.
Some can't find the sun.
It flowed over concrete,cars and grass.
Sometimes playing hide and seek with much larger shadows or stopping when I stopped to greet a friend and chat to its own shadow buddy.
Most times it was by my side,a trusted friend.
Quite often though it would be up front hoping to get to the cafe first before the other shadows did.
Or it would be loitering behind me, a truculent toddler in search of its tantrum.
Everyone has shadows.
Some can't find the sun.
#shadows
#sun
64 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Jan 2025 5:29am
5th Jan 2025 5:29am
Blankets
No blankets now to hide beneath
No parents bed in which to creep
No songs being sung
No stories told
You're on your own
When you get old
It was scary being a child
Sometimes scarier as an adult.
No parents bed in which to creep
No songs being sung
No stories told
You're on your own
When you get old
It was scary being a child
Sometimes scarier as an adult.
#fear
66 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Jan 2025 8:32pm
4th Jan 2025 8:32pm
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She walks in beauty, like the night
Lord Byron famously wrote
I think I've done much better
With this pen and paper note.
" In her eyes yet not one star she is the whole night sky"
Lord Byron famously wrote
I think I've done much better
With this pen and paper note.
" In her eyes yet not one star she is the whole night sky"
#WritingPoetry
85 reads
12 Comments
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