Submissions by mingomingus (SamTheSlam)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
"But on second thought, I didn't have anything to say. Besides, I have to admit that whatever interest you can get people to take in you doesn't last very long." - Albert Camus' "The Stranger"
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
7th Feb 2025 00:39am
7th Feb 2025 00:39am
the Gates of the Sun
The soul never really ascends
It's merely regurgitated
And swallowed up again
Like a Cosmic Cat
Hocking up a hair ball
All the while
Continuing to preen
Call it reincarnation
I call it a rigged wheel
Where the House always wins
And you never break even
Just keep losing
More and more of yourself
And yet
Never reduced to Nothing
So you can keep coming back
To feed the Beast
Promises of an afterlife
Haunt your present life
Holding...
It's merely regurgitated
And swallowed up again
Like a Cosmic Cat
Hocking up a hair ball
All the while
Continuing to preen
Call it reincarnation
I call it a rigged wheel
Where the House always wins
And you never break even
Just keep losing
More and more of yourself
And yet
Never reduced to Nothing
So you can keep coming back
To feed the Beast
Promises of an afterlife
Haunt your present life
Holding...
#LifeCycle
50 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
6th Feb 2025 5:02am
6th Feb 2025 5:02am
Not That Kind Of Writer
I will never write like Bukowski
because I did not have a hard life
I will never write like Ginsberg
because Moloch is not my daemon
I will never write like Angelou
because I am not phenomenal when I rise
I will never write like Rumi
because I gave up looking for Shams a long time ago
No, I am not that kind of writer
and yet, that kind of writer helped me find the one I am
2-5-2025
because I did not have a hard life
I will never write like Ginsberg
because Moloch is not my daemon
I will never write like Angelou
because I am not phenomenal when I rise
I will never write like Rumi
because I gave up looking for Shams a long time ago
No, I am not that kind of writer
and yet, that kind of writer helped me find the one I am
2-5-2025
#WritingPoetry
65 reads
2 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
4th Feb 2025 11:33pm
4th Feb 2025 11:33pm
Abigail
A cardinal song bird
Balanced on a Gail of scales
She is liberated from putting on airs
By getting down to earth
And working with others
To decorate a Greathouse within The Great Work
A rouge a rose to soil her beauty
Only to prick the hand
Who thought it could grasp
That which stems from her ability to thrive
Even uprooted, she still remains
Her Father’s Joy
2-4-2025
Balanced on a Gail of scales
She is liberated from putting on airs
By getting down to earth
And working with others
To decorate a Greathouse within The Great Work
A rouge a rose to soil her beauty
Only to prick the hand
Who thought it could grasp
That which stems from her ability to thrive
Even uprooted, she still remains
Her Father’s Joy
2-4-2025
#sister
59 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Jan 2025 4:36am
16th Jan 2025 4:36am
Ficken Do
Not quite 'Fuck You'
For those about to Sprach
Verpiss dich
und
Halts Maul
1/15/2025
For those about to Sprach
Verpiss dich
und
Halts Maul
1/15/2025
#PowerOfWords
45 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Jan 2025 4:36pm
1st Jan 2025 4:36pm
AI Cap'N!
no cap, train you're Brian go choo choo
mite git why's ya dink, deadass
wouldn't want that
genau ennui
1-15-2025
mite git why's ya dink, deadass
wouldn't want that
genau ennui
1-15-2025
#technology
279 reads
0 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Sep 2024 00:35am
17th Sep 2024 00:35am
I Could've Been A Linguist
Listening to a French tutorial
While sitting on la toilette
At la Madeleine
Pandering to some ponce at the urinal
Who claims he doesn't understand Spanish
Which is funny
Because he didn't really seem like
A pimp or a fairy
That's what I get
For trying to siphon culture
Out of a chain restaurant
9-16-2024
While sitting on la toilette
At la Madeleine
Pandering to some ponce at the urinal
Who claims he doesn't understand Spanish
Which is funny
Because he didn't really seem like
A pimp or a fairy
That's what I get
For trying to siphon culture
Out of a chain restaurant
9-16-2024
#culture
246 reads
1 Comment
DRUGS POEM
Published
14th Sep 2024 1:35am
14th Sep 2024 1:35am
Subtle Suicide
I'm getting really good at destroying myself
But there is always room for improvement
Swore off drugs and alcohol
So I have to get creative now
Guess you can call this the long game
Spending a fortune on Lucky Strikes
Hoping to never run out
Of luck, that is...
As if there were anything lucky about cigarettes
Use to smoke 38 Specials
Liked the cruel irony
Of puffing little cigars
Imagining the gun in my mouth
And the band in my ears
But they were too hard to come by
In case I ever left town
Plus they...
But there is always room for improvement
Swore off drugs and alcohol
So I have to get creative now
Guess you can call this the long game
Spending a fortune on Lucky Strikes
Hoping to never run out
Of luck, that is...
As if there were anything lucky about cigarettes
Use to smoke 38 Specials
Liked the cruel irony
Of puffing little cigars
Imagining the gun in my mouth
And the band in my ears
But they were too hard to come by
In case I ever left town
Plus they...
#tobacco
188 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
19th Aug 2024 9:46pm
19th Aug 2024 9:46pm
You're Going To Shel, Silverstein!
Extra! Extra!
Read All About It
"There's a crack in the Moon"
Full story this afternoon
Catch it again on the evening news
Left & Right
They both say 'Doom'
Nobody knows what it means
My guess?
Some smarty pants forgot to clean his lenses
8-19-2024
Read All About It
"There's a crack in the Moon"
Full story this afternoon
Catch it again on the evening news
Left & Right
They both say 'Doom'
Nobody knows what it means
My guess?
Some smarty pants forgot to clean his lenses
8-19-2024
#funny
274 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
14th Aug 2024 11:44pm
14th Aug 2024 11:44pm
Tired As Hell, But I Can Take It
My get up & go
Got up and went
And it's not coming back
Like an absentee father
Who went out for smokes
Leaving a single mother
To raise my inner child
My Outer Adult hurts like hell
A soul-pain that permeates my entire being
Man, I wish I wasn't so Goddamn tired
No amount of Energy Drinks can start my engine
Left idling as Time grinds the gears
And again I'm going nowhere
Forward momentum
Raging retrograde
Rocking back & forth
In the fetal position
As the World comes crashing in around you ...
Got up and went
And it's not coming back
Like an absentee father
Who went out for smokes
Leaving a single mother
To raise my inner child
My Outer Adult hurts like hell
A soul-pain that permeates my entire being
Man, I wish I wasn't so Goddamn tired
No amount of Energy Drinks can start my engine
Left idling as Time grinds the gears
And again I'm going nowhere
Forward momentum
Raging retrograde
Rocking back & forth
In the fetal position
As the World comes crashing in around you ...
#determination
289 reads
1 Comment
EROTIC POEM
Published
1st Aug 2024 00:38am
1st Aug 2024 00:38am
Ungrateful
#gratitude
#lust
163 reads
0 Comments
DRUGS POEM
Published
25th Jul 2024 5:03am
25th Jul 2024 5:03am
Drug Resistant Depression
What ever doesn’t kill you
wasn’t strong enough”
Claiming thoughts not my own
Up the dose, Doc!
These pills aren’t working
Side effects may include
Transplanted transmissions lost in translation
Put the “Harm” in Pharmacy
You call it Wellness
I call it a piss poor fix
for a vessel not certain
it's even broken
The only thing for certain
is I’ll be hurtin’
if I don’t find a solution, stat!
Trial and error
Every patient a lab rat
Look at me playing the victim
Like I’ve been done wrong
Truth is I want...
wasn’t strong enough”
Claiming thoughts not my own
Up the dose, Doc!
These pills aren’t working
Side effects may include
Transplanted transmissions lost in translation
Put the “Harm” in Pharmacy
You call it Wellness
I call it a piss poor fix
for a vessel not certain
it's even broken
The only thing for certain
is I’ll be hurtin’
if I don’t find a solution, stat!
Trial and error
Every patient a lab rat
Look at me playing the victim
Like I’ve been done wrong
Truth is I want...
#depression
190 reads
1 Comment
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