Submissions by fiveamtuesday
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction I like to rhyme words.
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
6th Jan 2021 7:30am
6th Jan 2021 7:30am
The Sweetest Girl
With melancholy she’s drawing tears,
Sweet as saccharine and every bit addictive,
Until there’s little else but sugared water,
Soaking
In an empty sundress by the field.
Sweet as saccharine and every bit addictive,
Until there’s little else but sugared water,
Soaking
In an empty sundress by the field.
#bittersweet
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Jan 2021 7:10am
6th Jan 2021 7:10am
By Design
Paper houses bend and bow
Every time the winds will blow.
It’s by design or so they’re told,
For safety if it fold.
And when the tides rise up
The homes will sink to nothing more,
And the builders say
“Blame the salt and sea
"Who allowed integrity to fail.”
Every time the winds will blow.
It’s by design or so they’re told,
For safety if it fold.
And when the tides rise up
The homes will sink to nothing more,
And the builders say
“Blame the salt and sea
"Who allowed integrity to fail.”
#politics
#culture
#morality
#responsibility
#risk
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STORY POEM
Published
29th Sep 2020 9:47pm
29th Sep 2020 9:47pm
Message in a Bottle
Well look at who
The tides turned in,
A lass as frail as brittle glass.
For years she sailed the oceans made
Of heartache tears, and yet alas
Her voyages continued on,
Despite the sails since
Fallen off.
Adrift she made her way by whim
Of wayward currents,
Day by day.
With every passing wave
Her ship did break away
From bow to stern,
And nary but a bouy left
To save her life
And nothing learned.
She let it slip
Her grip to let
Be drowned among her
Loneliness,...
The tides turned in,
A lass as frail as brittle glass.
For years she sailed the oceans made
Of heartache tears, and yet alas
Her voyages continued on,
Despite the sails since
Fallen off.
Adrift she made her way by whim
Of wayward currents,
Day by day.
With every passing wave
Her ship did break away
From bow to stern,
And nary but a bouy left
To save her life
And nothing learned.
She let it slip
Her grip to let
Be drowned among her
Loneliness,...
#sea
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SELF POEM
Published
15th Jul 2020 7:24am
15th Jul 2020 7:24am
Yes
Where does artistic style end,
And bad writing being?
I couldn’t tell you 'cause I’m just
To perfect at it.
And bad writing being?
I couldn’t tell you 'cause I’m just
To perfect at it.
#SelfWorth
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FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
12th Jul 2020 5:24am
12th Jul 2020 5:24am
Charlie's Story; Chapter 3 excerpt.
Admist the derelict alleyways, in a convolute of pipes and wires, plumes of steam concealed the sidestreets, so intricately vast. The concrete ground through centuries of people walking past, impressed a suite of puddles where they'd congregate en masse. In the acid rain, everything glistened, and through the highrise and polluted haze, vivid neons coruscated, electrified by starlit rays. The horizon lines extended far beyond the eyes could reach, and traced along the enterprises most irreverent and unique. Pulsing quietly beyond them diffused a glow of prussian orange; the city's beating...
#scifi
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LOVE POEM
Published
11th Jul 2020 6:28pm
11th Jul 2020 6:28pm
Love; A Poetic Exercise of Abstract Reduction
I love you so much,
I dedicate to you this poem.
I dedicate to you this poem.
#love
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FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
10th Jul 2020 11:18pm
10th Jul 2020 11:18pm
Charlie's Story; Chapter 2 excerpt.
It pursed itself a coyly grin while closing in, and pressed itself cheek to cheek against his own, chuckling. "You aren't real." It spoke in numerous whispered voices, all modulating in synchrony. "You shouldn't be here. You are the madness that needs to die so that I may continue living." This was the monstrosity, and it's words dithered like a plague of roaches, crawling over Charlie's face. They burrowed into his wounds and orifices, skittering of dispiriting words that pained against his skull. His eyes roiled independently as the manifest of cruel intentions gnawed themselves through the...
#scary
#scifi
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FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
10th Jul 2020 11:12pm
10th Jul 2020 11:12pm
Charlie's Story; Chapter 1 excerpt.
Charlie knew his place as the lamest, beigest, and poorest 'yes-man' around. As a standard corporate asset he offered nothing to any would be infiltrator of malicious intent. Every choice and action made, up until this point, was poised to be enacted in order to fulfill his boring purpose. To live a life, overt in safety and predictability, was paramount to his survival, and through mediocrity he suffered to maintain it, succeeding in dystopia as the threaded weave sewing it's own normalcy.
Such a personal, and intimate, act of criminality would be a blessing of the...
Such a personal, and intimate, act of criminality would be a blessing of the...
#scifi
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ANGER POEM
Published
9th Jul 2020 1:45am
9th Jul 2020 1:45am
Inequality
What constitutes as new grounds?
When are we doomed to repeat the past?
These catastrophes happening
Aren’t a matter of happenstances,
It’s a war being waged by the classes.
Can you blame us though,
For being born into a system of lame
Institutionalized poverty and racism?
No.
This is a first world country,
Running laps across the hemisphere,
Yet somehow, and let me make this clear,
Fifty individuals are allowed to determine how the other seven billion people feel?
Truth be told,
What the fuck can...
When are we doomed to repeat the past?
These catastrophes happening
Aren’t a matter of happenstances,
It’s a war being waged by the classes.
Can you blame us though,
For being born into a system of lame
Institutionalized poverty and racism?
No.
This is a first world country,
Running laps across the hemisphere,
Yet somehow, and let me make this clear,
Fifty individuals are allowed to determine how the other seven billion people feel?
Truth be told,
What the fuck can...
#corruption
#politics
#humankind
#greed
#inequality
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STORY POEM
Published
8th Jul 2020 11:56pm
8th Jul 2020 11:56pm
A Pirate's Life
#love
#funny
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Jul 2020 5:40am
8th Jul 2020 5:40am
Quarter in the Crack
I don't know what it means
When I see that quarter in the crack,
And I don't mean metaphorically,
Sometimes it's gone but then it's back.
When I see that quarter in the crack,
And I don't mean metaphorically,
Sometimes it's gone but then it's back.
#money
#mystery
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Jul 2020 5:03am
8th Jul 2020 5:03am
Time Capsule
By the time this poem finds you,
Whoever you may be,
May you ask yourself the question of,
"How well am I doing?”
And should you feel that this was just
Exactly what you needed,
May you pass along this poem to
Another who could need it.
Whoever you may be,
May you ask yourself the question of,
"How well am I doing?”
And should you feel that this was just
Exactly what you needed,
May you pass along this poem to
Another who could need it.
#love
#kindness
#emotions
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