Submissions by mebo
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
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STORY POEM
Published
1st Jun 2024 7:15am
1st Jun 2024 7:15am
The Fourth Watch
My watch is a proximate
Peg-legged rhyme
A mariner's rimed hazard
Off course
Intrepid, salty, faulty
Breached, shored up, still sure
Out of league
A foundling foundering
In ebbing cobalt elysian seas
Fathomless time unmoored
Peg-legged rhyme
A mariner's rimed hazard
Off course
Intrepid, salty, faulty
Breached, shored up, still sure
Out of league
A foundling foundering
In ebbing cobalt elysian seas
Fathomless time unmoored
#determination
#fate
#FeelingLost #travel
#FeelingLost #travel
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STORY POEM
Published
30th Sep 2023 3:37am
30th Sep 2023 3:37am
My Evening Uncut
My Evening Uncut
Or,
Gretel and Grendel
A Wake
Drove home alone, marvelous blessed blessing, from Bellevue, fleeing crow-eyed blind date ("I’m a pilot,” [picture of the Cessna] “I’m in intelligence…”) Shall I confide, “I’m in intelligence, too?” Leaning across the sweating beer and mustache, creaking black leather, smartly snapping the wallet to prove up his ID, confiding his average annual income
“…have no fear I am no rapist no stalker no no no i only want, i just want i only want… i only need to own you and eat you softly...
Or,
Gretel and Grendel
A Wake
Drove home alone, marvelous blessed blessing, from Bellevue, fleeing crow-eyed blind date ("I’m a pilot,” [picture of the Cessna] “I’m in intelligence…”) Shall I confide, “I’m in intelligence, too?” Leaning across the sweating beer and mustache, creaking black leather, smartly snapping the wallet to prove up his ID, confiding his average annual income
“…have no fear I am no rapist no stalker no no no i only want, i just want i only want… i only need to own you and eat you softly...
#loneliness
#death
#memories #travel
#memories #travel
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DARK POEM
Published
1st Feb 2023 10:16pm
1st Feb 2023 10:16pm
The Cracked Chalice and the Two-Backed-Beast
Cowering in the dark cell of a child-mind, brooding in a nest of gloom, one towering terror raises a nodding, hoary head like a babe of shadow, seeded as Grendel ruts with Kraken, their two- backed writhing union birthing a shapeshifting, howling hungry beast. A babe blessed by the crooning, slow-turning leviathan pondering in the deep, christened with curse-etched bones of all who restless wrest their rest full fathom five, voices drowning and blending forgotten in layering sediments of time.
Unspeakable firstborn shapeless, suckling wtih many mouths mother's milk from the...
Unspeakable firstborn shapeless, suckling wtih many mouths mother's milk from the...
#birth
#betrayal
#dreams
#death
#sleep
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
16th Apr 2022 10:01pm
16th Apr 2022 10:01pm
To Pass Below the Moon
Her frame a rope unraveled
Another sun shone through
Strands frayed from ache of crossing
Still tied, taut, true
Her anchor drags the sea floor
Strains against each tide
Stay or away
No craft lasts
Sails shred worn from storm
Timbers give, breach, divide
Life pours inside
The hold, the wings
The cargo free
Sink, float, rise
Taste bright salt returning
Released from wake and rudder
Lifted, falling, riding
Finally untied.
Another sun shone through
Strands frayed from ache of crossing
Still tied, taut, true
Her anchor drags the sea floor
Strains against each tide
Stay or away
No craft lasts
Sails shred worn from storm
Timbers give, breach, divide
Life pours inside
The hold, the wings
The cargo free
Sink, float, rise
Taste bright salt returning
Released from wake and rudder
Lifted, falling, riding
Finally untied.
#death
#LifeChangingMoment
#evolution
#freedom
#escape
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
18th Dec 2021 1:19pm
18th Dec 2021 1:19pm
Birthday Stones
Brief, small
Birthed, bathed and bedded
Between earth and moon
We slip in, we root, nurse, fruit
Limbs grow, leaves fall
We grey, fail, leave again
Rising smoke
Fleeting thing red blood white bone
Taste the air wet cool
Paddle lift, glide, drip
Waking the still waters
Pause to know your passing
Oar resting on the surface trailing
Our heat beats out and in
Eyes closed chin to sun
Choose a flat grey stone
Wet and grit
One lone
Aim true, lean
Skip your stone
Birthed, bathed and bedded
Between earth and moon
We slip in, we root, nurse, fruit
Limbs grow, leaves fall
We grey, fail, leave again
Rising smoke
Fleeting thing red blood white bone
Taste the air wet cool
Paddle lift, glide, drip
Waking the still waters
Pause to know your passing
Oar resting on the surface trailing
Our heat beats out and in
Eyes closed chin to sun
Choose a flat grey stone
Wet and grit
One lone
Aim true, lean
Skip your stone
#birth
#childhood
#death
#LifeCycle
#aging
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd May 2021 8:57pm
23rd May 2021 8:57pm
Maybe this is why we are mortal
MAYBE THIS IS WHY WE ARE MORTAL
At the swelling, reliable dawn chorus,
Spring’s fresh wave
Your new, dissonant orchestra still tuning,
Chins and fingers poised,
Damp, fierce and scared
You are born.
In morning’s child light is blinding silver,
A clear window, potent canvas.
Soon, summer and fall
Fall down
You might have a sea of oak leaves crackle feet, humus- firefly scent rising
A murder of Crows
Play cats cradle above
throwing amused insults
At your childish retreat
Grandpa,...
At the swelling, reliable dawn chorus,
Spring’s fresh wave
Your new, dissonant orchestra still tuning,
Chins and fingers poised,
Damp, fierce and scared
You are born.
In morning’s child light is blinding silver,
A clear window, potent canvas.
Soon, summer and fall
Fall down
You might have a sea of oak leaves crackle feet, humus- firefly scent rising
A murder of Crows
Play cats cradle above
throwing amused insults
At your childish retreat
Grandpa,...
#love
#beauty
#freedom
#art
#passion
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FICTIONAL PROSE
Published
25th Oct 2019 4:12pm
25th Oct 2019 4:12pm
The Other Vacations: Your Flock of Griefs
Ouch, the empty spot is unbearable isn’t it? Our recent losses in this inner circle have spanned the void - losses human, animal & inner/ psychic....
Dare I say, the magnitude and substance of love and grief with our animals or realities/ dreams / beliefs is the “same” in substance as what we hold and lose for parent, child, friend - we just pretend otherwise in some sick “bystander effect,” shy to display the blade sunk to the hilt in our ebbing sides. Talk of “attachment” is twinned with talk of “loss” as if our loves and lives are measurable and discrete; jellybeans in a...
Dare I say, the magnitude and substance of love and grief with our animals or realities/ dreams / beliefs is the “same” in substance as what we hold and lose for parent, child, friend - we just pretend otherwise in some sick “bystander effect,” shy to display the blade sunk to the hilt in our ebbing sides. Talk of “attachment” is twinned with talk of “loss” as if our loves and lives are measurable and discrete; jellybeans in a...
#grief
#death
#dogs
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
26th Sep 2019 9:59pm
26th Sep 2019 9:59pm
Aikah is Leaving
Armies of angels
Cast careless from heaven
Handfuls of silver seed
Take purchase among us
Thrive grow bend in the wind
Mingle their starry roots with ours
They fall unexpected
Taking their light
The short sweet shine
Leaving a breadcrumb stardust trail
A fading comet’s tail
A few pictures
A chewed toy
Some fur
Dispersing, reminding ever fainter
Echo hounds bouncing down
Our narrow canyon walls
Remember my joy by your side?
Will you truly, deeply always remember me?
Not just...
Cast careless from heaven
Handfuls of silver seed
Take purchase among us
Thrive grow bend in the wind
Mingle their starry roots with ours
They fall unexpected
Taking their light
The short sweet shine
Leaving a breadcrumb stardust trail
A fading comet’s tail
A few pictures
A chewed toy
Some fur
Dispersing, reminding ever fainter
Echo hounds bouncing down
Our narrow canyon walls
Remember my joy by your side?
Will you truly, deeply always remember me?
Not just...
#grief
#BestFriend
#friendship
#death
#dogs
608 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Jul 2019 6:02pm
4th Jul 2019 6:02pm
Raven-Ghosts
Many handsome ghosts I meet,
A measure together we soar
Circling in updrafts shared
Below the world turns small.
Raven-Ghosts pass through,
Burning fingertip trails,
On the walls of this chambered nautilus
Tracing hungry messages
As only men can do.
Drawing wishes charting course
Across the beaded waters of my looking glass.
Some hover for hours, days,
Their echos ripple insistent
...
A measure together we soar
Circling in updrafts shared
Below the world turns small.
Raven-Ghosts pass through,
Burning fingertip trails,
On the walls of this chambered nautilus
Tracing hungry messages
As only men can do.
Drawing wishes charting course
Across the beaded waters of my looking glass.
Some hover for hours, days,
Their echos ripple insistent
...
#strength
#loneliness
#men
#sex
#power
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EROTIC POEM
Published
16th Mar 2019 5:59pm
16th Mar 2019 5:59pm
Bedchambers of the Lord
Dawn overflows a halfshell sky
He fills painting me Venus
Doppler-blurred each wingbeat
Clouds a rising lunar moth
The horizon is my spine
His wing the pulsing sky
He breathes out
Inspiring velvet paisley plumes
Forming me His new day,
Sealing my lips
Fitting the reins of my lifebreath
To His conductor’s measure.
Taking His bit, communion
Tasting, tuning, gentle turning
In time I exhale obedient...
He fills painting me Venus
Doppler-blurred each wingbeat
Clouds a rising lunar moth
The horizon is my spine
His wing the pulsing sky
He breathes out
Inspiring velvet paisley plumes
Forming me His new day,
Sealing my lips
Fitting the reins of my lifebreath
To His conductor’s measure.
Taking His bit, communion
Tasting, tuning, gentle turning
In time I exhale obedient...
#sex
#erotic
#God
#spiritual
#lover
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Nov 2018 11:14am
24th Nov 2018 11:14am
Winter’s Mate
For Jeff
On the May your gold-brown plumage flashed
We nibbled the sweet green fuse.
Blossoms clung across late summer
We played sticky sweet
Mapping limbs with trickling juices, rising sap.
Swelling aching, blood-brown full
A harvest moon climbed
Over the orchard loosing her ready fruit
Geese winged purposed, urgent
Crying warning crossing
Twinning arrows loosed, swift and gone.
May we embrace in deep winters
Layering tight,...
On the May your gold-brown plumage flashed
We nibbled the sweet green fuse.
Blossoms clung across late summer
We played sticky sweet
Mapping limbs with trickling juices, rising sap.
Swelling aching, blood-brown full
A harvest moon climbed
Over the orchard loosing her ready fruit
Geese winged purposed, urgent
Crying warning crossing
Twinning arrows loosed, swift and gone.
May we embrace in deep winters
Layering tight,...
#happiness
#love
#strength
#motivational
#TimeHeals
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EROTIC POEM
Published
20th Aug 2018 3:23pm
20th Aug 2018 3:23pm
Captain Blue Eyes
You launch me alive,
For each compass point you mark
I am bound, your craft.
Steady you navigate
The ballast of my trust.
Well-provisioned, seaworthy we hold.
We aren’t the first, but let us live the best!
The rest are scribed, stowed on rolled charts,
Ending hard by this new sea.
The rest sing prologue fathoms below
At best a wake to celebrate
Griefs to free.
The rest call out shoals and reefs
The best of our shipwrecks
Arise to...
For each compass point you mark
I am bound, your craft.
Steady you navigate
The ballast of my trust.
Well-provisioned, seaworthy we hold.
We aren’t the first, but let us live the best!
The rest are scribed, stowed on rolled charts,
Ending hard by this new sea.
The rest sing prologue fathoms below
At best a wake to celebrate
Griefs to free.
The rest call out shoals and reefs
The best of our shipwrecks
Arise to...
#sea
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