Submissions by goldenmyst
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Goldenmyst, 58 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.”
Mystic Lovers On Bicycles
Mystic Lovers On Bicycles
Bicycling down student row
Where the bar scene gets in gear
While we cruise the path
Where even police demur
Through night pitch as the velvet hair
Of my bicycle girl in our double star
Whose tresses are ribbons
For a Halloween party girl
But with raspberry lips
Instead of charcoal
And nude fingernails
We pedal like madhouse escapees
On a flight to where crazy
Becomes Stan & Stella impressionists
In a watering hole known as The Bayou
Where the only catfish that...
Bicycling down student row
Where the bar scene gets in gear
While we cruise the path
Where even police demur
Through night pitch as the velvet hair
Of my bicycle girl in our double star
Whose tresses are ribbons
For a Halloween party girl
But with raspberry lips
Instead of charcoal
And nude fingernails
We pedal like madhouse escapees
On a flight to where crazy
Becomes Stan & Stella impressionists
In a watering hole known as The Bayou
Where the only catfish that...
#love
#marriage
#night
#travel
#sensual
382 reads
4 Comments
Completing the Circle
Completing the Circle
Along the ridge, we followed the trail
That led through confederate earthworks
Deep into forest quiet
Descended the hill
To cross the pathless creek
Where rushes were thick
To be parted to make way
For intrepid lovers
Until we follow the rise
On our pilgrimage
To the museum water fountain
Where wife excitedly imparts our adventure
To smiling young ranger
Who admonishes not to go off-trail again
But that we had a good time and that is good
Wife brushes dirt off her pants ...
Along the ridge, we followed the trail
That led through confederate earthworks
Deep into forest quiet
Descended the hill
To cross the pathless creek
Where rushes were thick
To be parted to make way
For intrepid lovers
Until we follow the rise
On our pilgrimage
To the museum water fountain
Where wife excitedly imparts our adventure
To smiling young ranger
Who admonishes not to go off-trail again
But that we had a good time and that is good
Wife brushes dirt off her pants ...
#loneliness
#marriage
#nature #historical
#nature #historical
277 reads
2 Comments
Bolshoi Coffee Girl
Bolshoi Coffee Girl
Serious as a Russian girl
But attired like an American Bohemian
In spandex pants
She sports herself like a figure
From a dance studio for ballerinas
Who stretches herself into art
When coffee is on the menu
For thirsty connoisseurs
Serious as a Russian girl
But attired like an American Bohemian
In spandex pants
She sports herself like a figure
From a dance studio for ballerinas
Who stretches herself into art
When coffee is on the menu
For thirsty connoisseurs
#women
#coffee
#art
#dance
#sensual
371 reads
6 Comments
Coffee Shop Buddha
Coffee Shop Buddha
As an older man among a younger crowd, I wonder what the students think of me. Probably they assume me to be a hobo in my frayed jacket and unshaven face. Then again they might be right on target that I am an alumnus from this academic castle who is there to relive his younger years. If they are very perceptive they might notice my eyes wandering across the feminine field of vision to take in the cornucopia of lovelies that populate the coffee shop realm.
But maybe the barista girls are sympathetic to my singular plight and are receptive to...
As an older man among a younger crowd, I wonder what the students think of me. Probably they assume me to be a hobo in my frayed jacket and unshaven face. Then again they might be right on target that I am an alumnus from this academic castle who is there to relive his younger years. If they are very perceptive they might notice my eyes wandering across the feminine field of vision to take in the cornucopia of lovelies that populate the coffee shop realm.
But maybe the barista girls are sympathetic to my singular plight and are receptive to...
#women
#romantic
#coffee #aging
#coffee #aging
402 reads
2 Comments
Barista Impressionism
Barista Impressionism
Leotard lass
A Degas dancer
But today a coffee shop barista
Seen through the fog of my glasses
In a Monet vision of a misty dream
When fashion is animated
Into art on fire
Leotard lass
A Degas dancer
But today a coffee shop barista
Seen through the fog of my glasses
In a Monet vision of a misty dream
When fashion is animated
Into art on fire
#women
#beauty
#dreams
#coffee
#art
285 reads
0 Comments
Sacred Cross
Sacred Cross
Supple as a cattail
Her spandex clings
On a Pythagorean form
Whose equation is the symmetry
Of a leaning parallelogram
With the flex of her axes
A sacred cross
Supple as a cattail
Her spandex clings
On a Pythagorean form
Whose equation is the symmetry
Of a leaning parallelogram
With the flex of her axes
A sacred cross
#women
#beauty
#coffee
#sensual
#college
510 reads
4 Comments
Paul Bowles Dream
Paul Bowles Dream
My dream is to savor cardamom coffee
in a Tangiers souk
with hashish perfume of yesteryear
floating in clouds,
With the camel riders,
who populated Bowles stories,
telling Moroccan folklore.
My dream is to savor cardamom coffee
in a Tangiers souk
with hashish perfume of yesteryear
floating in clouds,
With the camel riders,
who populated Bowles stories,
telling Moroccan folklore.
#Africa
#marijuana
#coffee
396 reads
2 Comments
Campus Memory Flash
Campus Memory Flash
Flash of palmetto
Between terracotta walls
A botanist paradise
Where the spring of azalea
Grows past the tangle of lives
And will blossom when I am ashes in an urn
Flash of palmetto
Between terracotta walls
A botanist paradise
Where the spring of azalea
Grows past the tangle of lives
And will blossom when I am ashes in an urn
#death
#nature
#memories
#nostalgia
#college
595 reads
4 Comments
Caffeine Lass
Caffeine Lass
Purple caffeine girl
Is jogging suit espresso
Become my morning coffee
That awakens my senses
To her azalea stroll
Purple caffeine girl
Is jogging suit espresso
Become my morning coffee
That awakens my senses
To her azalea stroll
#women
#flowers
#morning
#nature
#sensual
391 reads
4 Comments
Parade Ground
Parade Ground
Parade ground green
A ceremonial plaza
Where a girl stretches her emotional muscles
With boyfriend in a campus romance
Whose revelry makes for a kiss
Of magical proportions
To begin her gender hypotenuse
Like an equestrian
Who rides a ray of sunshine
Parade ground green
A ceremonial plaza
Where a girl stretches her emotional muscles
With boyfriend in a campus romance
Whose revelry makes for a kiss
Of magical proportions
To begin her gender hypotenuse
Like an equestrian
Who rides a ray of sunshine
#women
#beauty
#sun
#nature
#college
297 reads
4 Comments
Return to the Coffee Shop
Return to the Coffee Shop
She greets me with a smile
Warm enough to melt butter
And her lilt is a force of nature
That summons me into a dream
From which I draw strength
She turns like an angel
With gym shorts and blouse revealing
The heaven of her back
And I break a sweat
Under the hypnosis of beauty
Personified
She greets me with a smile
Warm enough to melt butter
And her lilt is a force of nature
That summons me into a dream
From which I draw strength
She turns like an angel
With gym shorts and blouse revealing
The heaven of her back
And I break a sweat
Under the hypnosis of beauty
Personified
#women
#beauty
#coffee #sensual
#coffee #sensual
371 reads
4 Comments
Back to the Future
Back to the Future
Memories flood the quiet
Where birds bring in the eventide
With melodies of forgotten paths
Where she and I trod like angels
Into a collegiate of student and wife
Under points of light so distant
That our eyes can only resolve the faint image
Of what the past shows us
Memories flood the quiet
Where birds bring in the eventide
With melodies of forgotten paths
Where she and I trod like angels
Into a collegiate of student and wife
Under points of light so distant
That our eyes can only resolve the faint image
Of what the past shows us
#love
#grief
#home
#memories
#nostalgia
518 reads
2 Comments
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