Submissions by fiveamtuesday
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction I like to rhyme words.
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Jul 2020 1:13am
4th Jul 2020 1:13am
Loyalty
Immaculate,
You are the best.
Take not for granted
What you are worth,
Or lest
Be littled by the stellar-less,
The lesser “-ists”
Intent on hellish influences
So bent to test your mettle,
Just
Be strong,
And honest,
And loyal and sincere.
You are stronger than the sum
Of all your
Insecurities and fears.
You are the best.
Take not for granted
What you are worth,
Or lest
Be littled by the stellar-less,
The lesser “-ists”
Intent on hellish influences
So bent to test your mettle,
Just
Be strong,
And honest,
And loyal and sincere.
You are stronger than the sum
Of all your
Insecurities and fears.
#strength
#courage
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Jul 2020 1:11am
4th Jul 2020 1:11am
Diamonds
I can never forget
All the tears that were wept
Since that moment we couldn't define
How much that we meant
To each other and yet,
We continued dividing our lives.
We were bound for much greater
Things but we let our
Egos create such a mess,
Leaving behind
The scene of a crime,
Where we cracked to the pressure and stress.
But given some time
To strengthen and find,
We were diamonds that shined in the wreck,
And look at us now,
Far better than how,
We could ever...
All the tears that were wept
Since that moment we couldn't define
How much that we meant
To each other and yet,
We continued dividing our lives.
We were bound for much greater
Things but we let our
Egos create such a mess,
Leaving behind
The scene of a crime,
Where we cracked to the pressure and stress.
But given some time
To strengthen and find,
We were diamonds that shined in the wreck,
And look at us now,
Far better than how,
We could ever...
#love
#hope
#funny #redemption
#funny #redemption
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STORY POEM
Published
3rd Jul 2020 5:06pm
3rd Jul 2020 5:06pm
Running from Death
I saw a man once sprinting past
As though running for his life.
He was pretty fast,
And I thought if I
Could catch up I could ask,
“Hey man where you running to?
And why you move’n fast?”
But as quickly as I thought
He leapt,
Crashing headlong into traffic.
And all that I could think of it,
Standing on that sidewalk,
Was, “Lucky me I hadn’t asked,
Or we’d both be dying on that asphalt.”
As though running for his life.
He was pretty fast,
And I thought if I
Could catch up I could ask,
“Hey man where you running to?
And why you move’n fast?”
But as quickly as I thought
He leapt,
Crashing headlong into traffic.
And all that I could think of it,
Standing on that sidewalk,
Was, “Lucky me I hadn’t asked,
Or we’d both be dying on that asphalt.”
#funny
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
3rd Jul 2020 5:00pm
3rd Jul 2020 5:00pm
Jug
Poor soul in a jug,
Filled up to the brim;
An ornate display
Of life and love
For family and friends.
But subtract the substance
Or an audience
To serve or show or captivate,
Will sit useless on the sill to sour,
Until it all
evaporates.
Filled up to the brim;
An ornate display
Of life and love
For family and friends.
But subtract the substance
Or an audience
To serve or show or captivate,
Will sit useless on the sill to sour,
Until it all
evaporates.
#philosophical
#apathy
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Jul 2020 5:23am
3rd Jul 2020 5:23am
Cult
Be stoked, the ire of frivolous men
Who gamble people’s lives,
And set ablaze the world to shine
A pyre on the horizon.
Engulfed in flames
Of decadence,
How fiercely that it grows,
And sends upon
The hills and troughs
A snow
Of kindling embers.
Forgotten are the natural order,
Who we are, or what we’ve lost,
But remembered are the acts of horrors,
But only after,
They have happened.
Repent,
Ye sinless,
For the crimes committed
By the hands
Who lit the way,
And cast a gaze...
Who gamble people’s lives,
And set ablaze the world to shine
A pyre on the horizon.
Engulfed in flames
Of decadence,
How fiercely that it grows,
And sends upon
The hills and troughs
A snow
Of kindling embers.
Forgotten are the natural order,
Who we are, or what we’ve lost,
But remembered are the acts of horrors,
But only after,
They have happened.
Repent,
Ye sinless,
For the crimes committed
By the hands
Who lit the way,
And cast a gaze...
#politics
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Jul 2020 5:18am
3rd Jul 2020 5:18am
White Elephant
Lady and gentleman
Thank you,
For this once in a lifetime gift.
I swear on the grounds
Where I stand on that I’ll
Cherish it—
For as long as I live.
Thank you,
For this once in a lifetime gift.
I swear on the grounds
Where I stand on that I’ll
Cherish it—
For as long as I live.
#funny
#philosophical
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Jul 2020 9:23pm
2nd Jul 2020 9:23pm
Apple
Red and yellow,
Sometimes green,
Juicy with a bite.
Can best be served for all occasions,
And always sure to catch an eye.
Baked with bread or sparsely spread
In a salad as a toss.
Eat it raw or better yet
Stir it softer for a sauce.
Drizzle it in caramel
With a dash of cinnamon right on top,
You can even make a juice of it,
Or cider if you want.
Just enjoy the versatility
Of apples ‘cause they’re boss.
A fruit that should be most deserving
Of a rounding of applause.
Sometimes green,
Juicy with a bite.
Can best be served for all occasions,
And always sure to catch an eye.
Baked with bread or sparsely spread
In a salad as a toss.
Eat it raw or better yet
Stir it softer for a sauce.
Drizzle it in caramel
With a dash of cinnamon right on top,
You can even make a juice of it,
Or cider if you want.
Just enjoy the versatility
Of apples ‘cause they’re boss.
A fruit that should be most deserving
Of a rounding of applause.
#happiness
#food
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Jul 2020 9:14pm
2nd Jul 2020 9:14pm
Red Lemonade
Heavy storm clouds
Fraying at the edges
As the west horizon darkens,
And just beyond it’s silhouette,
Sunbeams cast out from behind it.
In a clement spectrum,
Summer hues,
Muted through precip-ish blues,
How tall
The fields of green and yellow billow
As the rain falls soft and gentle.
Butterflies and dandelions
Dances on the roil.
A single dewdrop,
Though inconsequential,
When a million starlit,
Sparkles,
Like the evening skies,
Brought alive
By fireflies and crickets too, ...
Fraying at the edges
As the west horizon darkens,
And just beyond it’s silhouette,
Sunbeams cast out from behind it.
In a clement spectrum,
Summer hues,
Muted through precip-ish blues,
How tall
The fields of green and yellow billow
As the rain falls soft and gentle.
Butterflies and dandelions
Dances on the roil.
A single dewdrop,
Though inconsequential,
When a million starlit,
Sparkles,
Like the evening skies,
Brought alive
By fireflies and crickets too, ...
#countryside
#rain
#storm #peace
#storm #peace
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STORY POEM
Published
2nd Jul 2020 6:33am
2nd Jul 2020 6:33am
Home
I see a wall that’s beige,
And textured in a thick acrylic,
Trimmed along
With whitened edges
That seals the bottom ridges.
It’s neither light or dark in tone,
That’s what the time of day is for,
As the sun and moon
Casts,
Or lacks,
Upon the furniture and decor.
Through a window slightly centered off,
Where grass that’s green
To blue-ish seas,
Stacks up several high in grades
Of pastels running on the beach.
And further off I see a speck
Of geometrical dimensions,
A vessel set and sailing on
This...
And textured in a thick acrylic,
Trimmed along
With whitened edges
That seals the bottom ridges.
It’s neither light or dark in tone,
That’s what the time of day is for,
As the sun and moon
Casts,
Or lacks,
Upon the furniture and decor.
Through a window slightly centered off,
Where grass that’s green
To blue-ish seas,
Stacks up several high in grades
Of pastels running on the beach.
And further off I see a speck
Of geometrical dimensions,
A vessel set and sailing on
This...
#sea
#beach
#philosophical
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SELF POEM
Published
2nd Jul 2020 6:20am
2nd Jul 2020 6:20am
Bliss
Bliss, a sense I’d say I miss the most since I was six or so.
Yet when I think of how it went when I was six or so, I think I’ve shaded over certain things in light of seeing less as more,
For youth was something sweeter to remember when I’ve summed away
The rest of all things that I would rather chose to best ignore.
I should instead allow myself to see the world without the thought of bliss as being something which I never could have been about.
But now that I’ve explored the ways of how I spun my younger days, I see now life’s more beautiful than how I’d never...
Yet when I think of how it went when I was six or so, I think I’ve shaded over certain things in light of seeing less as more,
For youth was something sweeter to remember when I’ve summed away
The rest of all things that I would rather chose to best ignore.
I should instead allow myself to see the world without the thought of bliss as being something which I never could have been about.
But now that I’ve explored the ways of how I spun my younger days, I see now life’s more beautiful than how I’d never...
#hope
#motivational
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Jul 2020 10:16pm
1st Jul 2020 10:16pm
Jellyfish
Lost at sea,
O these airy days,
Carry me away.
Beneath the sun,
To ferry off,
Towards some far
And foreign stay.
Buoyed,
Softly,
And left aloft,
Listly sailing off,
Strayed along
An idle breeze,
And gone from where I was.
Someday
I’d like to surely say
I’ll find my way around,
But until that, then
I’ll stay my course
Following the ocean sounds.
O these airy days,
Carry me away.
Beneath the sun,
To ferry off,
Towards some far
And foreign stay.
Buoyed,
Softly,
And left aloft,
Listly sailing off,
Strayed along
An idle breeze,
And gone from where I was.
Someday
I’d like to surely say
I’ll find my way around,
But until that, then
I’ll stay my course
Following the ocean sounds.
#sea
#summer
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LOVE POEM
Published
1st Jul 2020 10:13pm
1st Jul 2020 10:13pm
Heart
They etched it out so perfectly,
Asymmetric and pristine,
With a set of curves,
Two vertices,
And their Initials underneath.
Weather worn
Through sun and storm,
They’d pray for better days,
While a symbol of their love
Survives,
They are divided in malaise.
Incorrigibly,
A budding love
Sown of sweet intentions,
Sours as the spoil settles,
Soaking vinegars
In fallowed soils.
To this day we’ll never know
The details of their stories,
Except that long ago they shared
A moment, ...
Asymmetric and pristine,
With a set of curves,
Two vertices,
And their Initials underneath.
Weather worn
Through sun and storm,
They’d pray for better days,
While a symbol of their love
Survives,
They are divided in malaise.
Incorrigibly,
A budding love
Sown of sweet intentions,
Sours as the spoil settles,
Soaking vinegars
In fallowed soils.
To this day we’ll never know
The details of their stories,
Except that long ago they shared
A moment, ...
#FirstLove
#bittersweet
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