Submissions by brokentitanium
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction "Poet"? I dunno.... I'm just a human spilling the stuff I can't say out loud. Sometimes the words arrange themselves nicely, and that's pretty cool.
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
Today 9:18pm
Today 9:18pm
White Pine
I climb high in the branches today.
A squirrel registers his complaint,
from a socially safe distance.
Cloud-wisps echo the curve
of soft needles that tickle my face
like mother’s hair.
I am cradled in the sunshine,
cheek against the coolness of tree skin.
The wind sounds different in the top of a pine -
More intimate, like breath through lips.
I am one with the treetop dwellers as they
chatter and hop
branch to twig,
And I sit and
simply
listen.
I’ve always wondered, do my prayers...
A squirrel registers his complaint,
from a socially safe distance.
Cloud-wisps echo the curve
of soft needles that tickle my face
like mother’s hair.
I am cradled in the sunshine,
cheek against the coolness of tree skin.
The wind sounds different in the top of a pine -
More intimate, like breath through lips.
I am one with the treetop dwellers as they
chatter and hop
branch to twig,
And I sit and
simply
listen.
I’ve always wondered, do my prayers...
#love
#trees
#spiritual
9 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
Today 3:57am
Today 3:57am
Hypochondriac
I feel a tickle in my chest –
Oh no! I better take a rest.
My stomach feels a little sore;
I better have one cookie more.
Is that a sniffle? Oh dear me!
It’s time to lie and watch TV.
A funny ache down in my back -
Best watch a movie, eat a snack.
Now, what if my sore knee’s a sign?!
I think I’ll sit here ‘til I’m fine.
My lips are chapped! I must be doomed!
Best stay here safely in my room.
I’m lonely and my hands are raw.
My plan for safety has one flaw;
If covid doesn’t come to kill,
Imagination surely will!
Oh no! I better take a rest.
My stomach feels a little sore;
I better have one cookie more.
Is that a sniffle? Oh dear me!
It’s time to lie and watch TV.
A funny ache down in my back -
Best watch a movie, eat a snack.
Now, what if my sore knee’s a sign?!
I think I’ll sit here ‘til I’m fine.
My lips are chapped! I must be doomed!
Best stay here safely in my room.
I’m lonely and my hands are raw.
My plan for safety has one flaw;
If covid doesn’t come to kill,
Imagination surely will!
#anxiety
#funny
#illness
29 reads
12 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
Yesterday 2:30am
Yesterday 2:30am
Beast?
They crashed into a murky time and place
and found a giant’s cave to shelter in
He claimed them as his prey with leering face
Lascivious, the hunger in his grin.
She offered up herself to save the child,
unto the heathen stranger bared her breast
But -- blood he scented on the breezes wild
and left her untouched, breathless and perplexed.
With curdling howl he vanished to the chase
A moonless night in frigid dew they spent
They both feared his return back to that place
But she also feared his abandonment
His virile...
and found a giant’s cave to shelter in
He claimed them as his prey with leering face
Lascivious, the hunger in his grin.
She offered up herself to save the child,
unto the heathen stranger bared her breast
But -- blood he scented on the breezes wild
and left her untouched, breathless and perplexed.
With curdling howl he vanished to the chase
A moonless night in frigid dew they spent
They both feared his return back to that place
But she also feared his abandonment
His virile...
#dark
#forest
#mystery
25 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Apr 2020 1:51am
3rd Apr 2020 1:51am
That time you missed my birthday
That’s when I grew up.
It’s when I knew
I didn’t figure in your plans
or rise to your consciousness
Time to put on the big girl pants,
get on with life on my own
So I did
with a vengeance
turning aloneness to fierce independence
wearing shame shamelessly as bravado
Maybe I miss all that could have been
if I had really mattered in your life.
Maybe -- but I don’t know --
I can’t imagine it anymore;
I don’t.
Maybe I’m grateful
You set me adrift
….set me alight….
Although your memory...
It’s when I knew
I didn’t figure in your plans
or rise to your consciousness
Time to put on the big girl pants,
get on with life on my own
So I did
with a vengeance
turning aloneness to fierce independence
wearing shame shamelessly as bravado
Maybe I miss all that could have been
if I had really mattered in your life.
Maybe -- but I don’t know --
I can’t imagine it anymore;
I don’t.
Maybe I’m grateful
You set me adrift
….set me alight….
Although your memory...
#grief
#fire
#acceptance
20 reads
6 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
2nd Apr 2020 3:12am
2nd Apr 2020 3:12am
Doubtful
How to survive a global pandemic
without sweet red oblivion in my veins?
The sameness of days,
of work from home –
once a blessed perk,
now a bloody curse –
four tiny walls pinching my psyche
as teenage elephants galumph over concentration
descending like locusts upon the kitchen
leaving naught but crumbs and sass…
There’s no separation from day to eve
no “5 o’clock somewhere”
no friends to see
just the NaPalm of daily poetry
exploding in my brain
a silent commotion
of wordless emotion… ...
without sweet red oblivion in my veins?
The sameness of days,
of work from home –
once a blessed perk,
now a bloody curse –
four tiny walls pinching my psyche
as teenage elephants galumph over concentration
descending like locusts upon the kitchen
leaving naught but crumbs and sass…
There’s no separation from day to eve
no “5 o’clock somewhere”
no friends to see
just the NaPalm of daily poetry
exploding in my brain
a silent commotion
of wordless emotion… ...
#anxiety
#alcohol
#WritingPoetry
36 reads
12 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
23rd Feb 2020 4:00am
23rd Feb 2020 4:00am
Tuesday's child
where ocean meets the night
and firmament flaunts fearless hope
we're loved just as we are
with starlight in our tears
and lovers' eyes enfolding all
our defects endure grace
'til naked we embrace
our shame the means of our release
we rise anew, entwined
and firmament flaunts fearless hope
we're loved just as we are
with starlight in our tears
and lovers' eyes enfolding all
our defects endure grace
'til naked we embrace
our shame the means of our release
we rise anew, entwined
#love
#rebirth
67 reads
8 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
23rd Feb 2020 3:27am
23rd Feb 2020 3:27am
FU
I am an adult
I don't need your reprimand
Kindly kiss my ass
I don't need your reprimand
Kindly kiss my ass
#marriage
#conflict
#frustration
71 reads
10 Comments
DRUGS POEM
Published
22nd Jan 2020 11:55pm
22nd Jan 2020 11:55pm
×××
I miss your feedback
You have such an awesome mind
That's the beer talking
You have such an awesome mind
That's the beer talking
#friendship
#alcohol
#IMissYou
153 reads
21 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
20th Jan 2020 4:24am
20th Jan 2020 4:24am
A sheer blue hippy shirt with silver beads
It caught me by surprise in the closet
…that’s the shirt I was wearing that day…
Finger tips remembering the seams they scrutinized,
those tiny beads and the slip of the fabric
as my mind congealed and went blank
I wasn’t even in danger; a public place with a friend
Me sitting frozen like a cartoon lizard
memorizing crumb patterns on the worn carpet,
victim of an unwanted stress response
simply because I had resolved to be completely vulnerable.
I don’t remember much of the conversation.
Just the loud rushing of my own beating...
…that’s the shirt I was wearing that day…
Finger tips remembering the seams they scrutinized,
those tiny beads and the slip of the fabric
as my mind congealed and went blank
I wasn’t even in danger; a public place with a friend
Me sitting frozen like a cartoon lizard
memorizing crumb patterns on the worn carpet,
victim of an unwanted stress response
simply because I had resolved to be completely vulnerable.
I don’t remember much of the conversation.
Just the loud rushing of my own beating...
#depression
#friendship
#memories #PTSD
#memories #PTSD
98 reads
14 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Jan 2020 1:50pm
16th Jan 2020 1:50pm
Haiku love
wham-bam easy fix
seventeen syllable kiss
single-thought quickie
seventeen syllable kiss
single-thought quickie
#haiku
#WritingPoetry
55 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Jan 2020 2:27am
16th Jan 2020 2:27am
Choices
to write or to sleep:
that is always the question.
morning has demands....
goodnight, sleepyhead
that is always the question.
morning has demands....
goodnight, sleepyhead
#sleep
#frustration
#WritingPoetry
49 reads
8 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
10th Jan 2020 4:05am
10th Jan 2020 4:05am
000
hopscotch through my thoughts
same refrain keeps popping up
echoes of a tune
same refrain keeps popping up
echoes of a tune
#love
#hope
#spiritual #meditation
#spiritual #meditation
64 reads
8 Comments
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