Submissions by goldenmyst
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction Goldenmyst, 55 years old, lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The poet and author believe, “Love blossoms even within the walls of a madhouse in hearts yearning to be free.”
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
Today 2:06am
Today 2:06am
Old Rebirth Flame
Old Rebirth Flame
“Hey, the bagel needs cream cheese.”
“Since you are one of our valued customers I’ll replace it.”
“Sorry, but this hasn’t happened before.”
“I believe trust is the key to any relationship.
Whether that be to a patron or a lover.”
“It isn’t every day a Barista puts me alongside a lover.”
“Well, it is exceedingly rare for me as well.”
“I imagine I run into old classmates all the time.
But they would rather not be recognized by me.”
“Well, I would be most eager for you to remember.
Does the Coffee Triangle...
“Hey, the bagel needs cream cheese.”
“Since you are one of our valued customers I’ll replace it.”
“Sorry, but this hasn’t happened before.”
“I believe trust is the key to any relationship.
Whether that be to a patron or a lover.”
“It isn’t every day a Barista puts me alongside a lover.”
“Well, it is exceedingly rare for me as well.”
“I imagine I run into old classmates all the time.
But they would rather not be recognized by me.”
“Well, I would be most eager for you to remember.
Does the Coffee Triangle...
#romantic
#rebirth
#coffee
#lover
#memories
2 reads
0 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
15th Apr 2021 11:17pm
15th Apr 2021 11:17pm
Astral Barista Wife
Astral Barista Wife
Barista wife come to life
“Listen, I did need a social call in my pall
But I left a heavenly security system
In the apartment, soulcams everywhere
To keep my heart secure.
Before I left earth orbit
My astral camera caught you
stranded in my posthumous crib.
Ironically, salt, such as from your tears,
When added to coffee neutralizes the taste buds
to take out the bitterness.
Here, consider it on the house absolution.”
“Why do I believe you are who you say you are?”
“Join me at the college for my...
Barista wife come to life
“Listen, I did need a social call in my pall
But I left a heavenly security system
In the apartment, soulcams everywhere
To keep my heart secure.
Before I left earth orbit
My astral camera caught you
stranded in my posthumous crib.
Ironically, salt, such as from your tears,
When added to coffee neutralizes the taste buds
to take out the bitterness.
Here, consider it on the house absolution.”
“Why do I believe you are who you say you are?”
“Join me at the college for my...
#love
#romantic
#rebirth
#coffee
#heaven
14 reads
8 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
14th Apr 2021 7:41pm
14th Apr 2021 7:41pm
Rainy Streets
Rainy Streets
Friends washed out to sea
So like a dream upon waking
Yet so real as an apartment
Where quiet gathers like spirits
Whose memory sings to a Celtic beat
Soft as a lullaby on rainy streets
Where babies wail and widowers cry
Friends washed out to sea
So like a dream upon waking
Yet so real as an apartment
Where quiet gathers like spirits
Whose memory sings to a Celtic beat
Soft as a lullaby on rainy streets
Where babies wail and widowers cry
#depression
#grief
#loneliness
#death
#memories
20 reads
10 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Apr 2021 11:00pm
13th Apr 2021 11:00pm
Evergreen Journey
Evergreen Journey
Sandstone terrace of mesa
Where wife takes her naked stand
For freedom beyond speech
There her bramble blesses our ramble
With her coniferous eyes
On an evergreen journey
Sandstone terrace of mesa
Where wife takes her naked stand
For freedom beyond speech
There her bramble blesses our ramble
With her coniferous eyes
On an evergreen journey
#love
#wife
#forest
#nature
#sensual
25 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
11th Apr 2021 5:32am
11th Apr 2021 5:32am
Etheralis’ Lovelorn Cafe
Etheralis’ Lovelorn Cafe
“Your bagels got lost in our Goth kitchen.
Why not try a chocolate truffle?”
“Etheralis, I’ll binge on coffee.”
“Nay, partake of the essence of the cacao seed
A flavor not found on a thousand other worlds.”
“Read from the farmers’ almanac for the galaxy?”
“Like most girls prone to flights of fancy,
I read ufo magazines.”
“Etheralis has a flying saucer abducted you?”
“Just my wok in hopes of attracting a hubby
through my cooking.”
“Your Blood...
“Your bagels got lost in our Goth kitchen.
Why not try a chocolate truffle?”
“Etheralis, I’ll binge on coffee.”
“Nay, partake of the essence of the cacao seed
A flavor not found on a thousand other worlds.”
“Read from the farmers’ almanac for the galaxy?”
“Like most girls prone to flights of fancy,
I read ufo magazines.”
“Etheralis has a flying saucer abducted you?”
“Just my wok in hopes of attracting a hubby
through my cooking.”
“Your Blood...
#erotic
#gothic
#coffee
#sensual
#crush
27 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
11th Apr 2021 00:22am
11th Apr 2021 00:22am
Anemone
Anemone
Angel hair strewn in moonbeams
With strawberry tones warm as nature
Scimitar of solar eclipse lips
Red as a coral reef
In Caribbean garden
Where anemone pulse
Yet sea blue eyes round the curves
Of her Beaujolais tresses
Each strand a voice
in her mystic Madrigal
Angel hair strewn in moonbeams
With strawberry tones warm as nature
Scimitar of solar eclipse lips
Red as a coral reef
In Caribbean garden
Where anemone pulse
Yet sea blue eyes round the curves
Of her Beaujolais tresses
Each strand a voice
in her mystic Madrigal
#love
#women
#beauty
#art
#sensual
33 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Apr 2021 00:52am
10th Apr 2021 00:52am
Tomato Bagel Splash
Tomato Bagel Splash
“Hey can you feel your taste buds crying
For a tomato pesto bagel?”
“But my palate is fickle. Can’t you top that?”
“We have spinach and artichoke like last time.”
“Since I am at a coffee shop,
cream cheese and veggies sound apropos.”
“Is the tomato too spicy for you?
Surely a Louisiana boy like you can take it hot.”
“Well, the pesto wouldn’t go well with coffee.”
“Are you kidding me?
We wouldn’t serve it here if it didn’t.”
“I come to your coffee shop
for a spiritual experience
like church with...
“Hey can you feel your taste buds crying
For a tomato pesto bagel?”
“But my palate is fickle. Can’t you top that?”
“We have spinach and artichoke like last time.”
“Since I am at a coffee shop,
cream cheese and veggies sound apropos.”
“Is the tomato too spicy for you?
Surely a Louisiana boy like you can take it hot.”
“Well, the pesto wouldn’t go well with coffee.”
“Are you kidding me?
We wouldn’t serve it here if it didn’t.”
“I come to your coffee shop
for a spiritual experience
like church with...
#women
#romantic
#coffee
#sensual
#crush
20 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Apr 2021 3:36am
9th Apr 2021 3:36am
Nighthawks at the Coffee House
Nighthawks at the Coffee House
50s Starlet coffee house crash
Turns mirror pastry ball shelver
With blonde glassed Monet
Who crests the crystal cake menagerie
Into Nighthawks at the coffee house
Five finger silver adornment
Gleams under vaulted starlight
Opal ablaze with Moroccan hand sign
Worn in Marrakesh love light
She bends in a statuesque summons
With her arc of feminine might,
That she wields for his delight
Whose Braille is calligraphy of woman
Written on his skin...
50s Starlet coffee house crash
Turns mirror pastry ball shelver
With blonde glassed Monet
Who crests the crystal cake menagerie
Into Nighthawks at the coffee house
Five finger silver adornment
Gleams under vaulted starlight
Opal ablaze with Moroccan hand sign
Worn in Marrakesh love light
She bends in a statuesque summons
With her arc of feminine might,
That she wields for his delight
Whose Braille is calligraphy of woman
Written on his skin...
#women
#night
#coffee
#sensual
#surreal
23 reads
8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Apr 2021 11:24pm
7th Apr 2021 11:24pm
Kosher Bagels
Kosher Bagels
“Do you have whole wheat bagels today?”
“Yes! Yes! We do.
We came through for you today.”
“Then I’ll have it with hummus.”
“Oh God, we don’t have that dressing today.
Sorry to let you down.”
“Then I’ll have it with butter.”
“Lord, we are never out of butter
Except for today. We must be hexed.”
“Then do you have any suggestions?”
“Personally I like the spinach and artichoke
With cream cheese.
It has the taste of lox and bagels
That I grew up on in New York.”
“I trust your judgment.”
“Based on...
“Do you have whole wheat bagels today?”
“Yes! Yes! We do.
We came through for you today.”
“Then I’ll have it with hummus.”
“Oh God, we don’t have that dressing today.
Sorry to let you down.”
“Then I’ll have it with butter.”
“Lord, we are never out of butter
Except for today. We must be hexed.”
“Then do you have any suggestions?”
“Personally I like the spinach and artichoke
With cream cheese.
It has the taste of lox and bagels
That I grew up on in New York.”
“I trust your judgment.”
“Based on...
#women
#men
#coffee
#food
#crush
27 reads
7 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Apr 2021 10:47pm
6th Apr 2021 10:47pm
Caffeine Chasity
Caffeine Chasity
“That caffeinated concoction
Left me jittery. At the risk
Of incurring your lambast
I’m going into caffeine abstinence.”
She replies, “Sounds like a Catholic
Means of insomnia control.”
“I am chaste when it comes to caffeine.”
“Only with caffeine?”
“Also with white bread.”
“Touche. But why don’t you
Put sugar in your coffee?”
“The sugar overwhelms the flavor
Of the coffee.”
“So does the milk you swamp it with.”
“The atmosphere of this place
Is all I need for sweetener.”
“What keeps ...
“That caffeinated concoction
Left me jittery. At the risk
Of incurring your lambast
I’m going into caffeine abstinence.”
She replies, “Sounds like a Catholic
Means of insomnia control.”
“I am chaste when it comes to caffeine.”
“Only with caffeine?”
“Also with white bread.”
“Touche. But why don’t you
Put sugar in your coffee?”
“The sugar overwhelms the flavor
Of the coffee.”
“So does the milk you swamp it with.”
“The atmosphere of this place
Is all I need for sweetener.”
“What keeps ...
#women
#men
#coffee
#funny
#crush
23 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Apr 2021 12:11pm
6th Apr 2021 12:11pm
Black Madonna Eyes
Black Madonna Eyes
Blue jeaned honey drop of heaven
Prances busily as a bee
A coffee wielding Calypso
Dips with precocious posterior
Posed behind cashier lass
So while she rings him up
His eyes feel the urgency
Of her crescent moonrise
He feels the same excitement
When as a kid in New Orleans
He built a fire to explode oyster shells
And her luster is that of mother of pearl
But her eyes dark as the Black Madonna
Painted in a Polish monastery
Where...
Blue jeaned honey drop of heaven
Prances busily as a bee
A coffee wielding Calypso
Dips with precocious posterior
Posed behind cashier lass
So while she rings him up
His eyes feel the urgency
Of her crescent moonrise
He feels the same excitement
When as a kid in New Orleans
He built a fire to explode oyster shells
And her luster is that of mother of pearl
But her eyes dark as the Black Madonna
Painted in a Polish monastery
Where...
#women
#erotic
#coffee
#sensual
#sexy
32 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Apr 2021 1:06am
6th Apr 2021 1:06am
Real Men Caffeinate
Real Men Caffeinate
I ask her, “Why do you scowl
Every time you serve me?
When your eyes close
Those styled eyelashes point down
As if I’d made a faux pas
Like did you bleach your hair
To make it so frizzy?”
She replies, “You have committed
The cardinal sin for a man in my eyes.
You are one of my decafe customers.
I can tolerate that from women
Females after all are naturally perked
For we are of the catty breed but
Real men drink caffeine.”
I say, “I bet boxers
Who need a good night’s sleep
Before...
I ask her, “Why do you scowl
Every time you serve me?
When your eyes close
Those styled eyelashes point down
As if I’d made a faux pas
Like did you bleach your hair
To make it so frizzy?”
She replies, “You have committed
The cardinal sin for a man in my eyes.
You are one of my decafe customers.
I can tolerate that from women
Females after all are naturally perked
For we are of the catty breed but
Real men drink caffeine.”
I say, “I bet boxers
Who need a good night’s sleep
Before...
#happiness
#women
#men
#coffee
#disappointment
34 reads
6 Comments
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