Submissions by monkeyman
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Mar 2022 11:40am
10th Mar 2022 11:40am
Glittered Turd
I took a shit on the floor
I didn’t clean it up, I’m not a cleaner
I sprinkled glitter on it to make it look pretty
and sprayed nice smelling things to hide the stench
I tiptoe through a landscape of glittered turds
careful not to disturb their shiny non offensive surface
or reveal the rotting shite that makes up their core
I didn’t clean it up, I’m not a cleaner
I sprinkled glitter on it to make it look pretty
and sprayed nice smelling things to hide the stench
I tiptoe through a landscape of glittered turds
careful not to disturb their shiny non offensive surface
or reveal the rotting shite that makes up their core
#lies
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6 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
1st Feb 2022 10:19am
1st Feb 2022 10:19am
Dawn
Sell me down the river
in the boat I helped you build
now you’re expected to deliver
you see these boots just can’t be filled
Excuses excuses
they’re not fooling anyone
while loneliness induces
but the time for that my friend has gone
Oh it’s such a tragedy
steeped in old tradition
spat on stolen parchment
a paper back rendition
Then they’ll ask me “was it worth it
does your freedom mean so much?”
As they dangle and disguise...
in the boat I helped you build
now you’re expected to deliver
you see these boots just can’t be filled
Excuses excuses
they’re not fooling anyone
while loneliness induces
but the time for that my friend has gone
Oh it’s such a tragedy
steeped in old tradition
spat on stolen parchment
a paper back rendition
Then they’ll ask me “was it worth it
does your freedom mean so much?”
As they dangle and disguise...
#freedom
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2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Nov 2021 7:14am
25th Nov 2021 7:14am
The Ten Commandments (A 21st century edition)
The Ten Commandments
(A 21st century edition)
You shall have no god before me
(apart from money right ‘cos money makes the world go round )
You shall not follow false idols
(Excluding celebrities and generally anyone influential or powerful)
You shall not take the lords name in vain
(It’s only words though in’it?)
Remember the sabbath and keep it holy
(Again man it comes down to brass tacks yo, mans got mouths to feed)
Honour your mother and farther
(Yeah yeah, i know, I know)
You shall not...
(A 21st century edition)
You shall have no god before me
(apart from money right ‘cos money makes the world go round )
You shall not follow false idols
(Excluding celebrities and generally anyone influential or powerful)
You shall not take the lords name in vain
(It’s only words though in’it?)
Remember the sabbath and keep it holy
(Again man it comes down to brass tacks yo, mans got mouths to feed)
Honour your mother and farther
(Yeah yeah, i know, I know)
You shall not...
#religion
473 reads
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Apr 2021 3:35pm
2nd Apr 2021 3:35pm
Opportunities Knocked
I saw god in the face of an addict
something honest almost pure
in the sweating rattle
of his vulnerability
as his purged body shook
for another taste of golden brown
I met Einstein in a jail cell
making out of it
all he could
taking every opportunity
however limited
to build a ladder
out of hell
Still we slip between the lines
near where poverty meets crime
still we slip behind the times
with our economic shackle
and fabricated fines
Still we suffer for corporate...
something honest almost pure
in the sweating rattle
of his vulnerability
as his purged body shook
for another taste of golden brown
I met Einstein in a jail cell
making out of it
all he could
taking every opportunity
however limited
to build a ladder
out of hell
Still we slip between the lines
near where poverty meets crime
still we slip behind the times
with our economic shackle
and fabricated fines
Still we suffer for corporate...
#inequality
#poverty
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11 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
11th Mar 2021 7:52pm
11th Mar 2021 7:52pm
Presumed Innocent
Sweaty sleepless cells
no daylight to tell
the passing of dead time
have I already been found guilty
of alleged crime?
No fresh air no chance to clean
missed meals of malnutritious microwave cuisine
two nights two days in the same stinking clothes
looking my worst as the court bus rolls
No I must not speak for I have given the right
to a dutiless solicitor to take up the fight
In and out the court resumes
stood in convicted grey
can you honestly say
my innocence will be presumed? ...
no daylight to tell
the passing of dead time
have I already been found guilty
of alleged crime?
No fresh air no chance to clean
missed meals of malnutritious microwave cuisine
two nights two days in the same stinking clothes
looking my worst as the court bus rolls
No I must not speak for I have given the right
to a dutiless solicitor to take up the fight
In and out the court resumes
stood in convicted grey
can you honestly say
my innocence will be presumed? ...
#corruption
#morality
798 reads
8 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
20th Feb 2021 10:12am
20th Feb 2021 10:12am
Change the pattern take back control
Plastic toy soldiers
marching through the garden
clear away the insect trespassers
The last copy in existence
of ‘The book of life’
used to wipe our arse
Aboriginal dreams of freedom
drowned in whiskey
and the need to make some coin
Wilfully ignorant progress
one step forward
no way back
A bacterial infections
moral persuasion
sold as living light
Convenient fresh fruit
rot the questions
comfortably ignored
Cross the ocean
to see the same idea ...
marching through the garden
clear away the insect trespassers
The last copy in existence
of ‘The book of life’
used to wipe our arse
Aboriginal dreams of freedom
drowned in whiskey
and the need to make some coin
Wilfully ignorant progress
one step forward
no way back
A bacterial infections
moral persuasion
sold as living light
Convenient fresh fruit
rot the questions
comfortably ignored
Cross the ocean
to see the same idea ...
#TruthOfLife
596 reads
7 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
30th Jan 2021 10:38am
30th Jan 2021 10:38am
Part of the plan
Part of the plan
It’s all part of the plan man
it’s all part of plan
they’re tryna kill my gran man
It’s all part of the plan
My neighbour’s peeping over the fence man
it’s all part of the plan
Vaccinate against sense man
it’s all part of the plan
Black Lives Matter, where do you stand man
it’s all part of the plan
we’re doing what we can man
it’s all part of the plan
Covid kills faster than bullets man
it’s all part of the plan
you won’t see it coming man ...
It’s all part of the plan man
it’s all part of plan
they’re tryna kill my gran man
It’s all part of the plan
My neighbour’s peeping over the fence man
it’s all part of the plan
Vaccinate against sense man
it’s all part of the plan
Black Lives Matter, where do you stand man
it’s all part of the plan
we’re doing what we can man
it’s all part of the plan
Covid kills faster than bullets man
it’s all part of the plan
you won’t see it coming man ...
#TruthOfLife
505 reads
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Jan 2021 6:13pm
9th Jan 2021 6:13pm
Where Greatness Grows
Greatness doesn’t stem from comfortable places
or the pockets of someone else’s dream
it grows out of the grime of a hard days work
from those cold morns and bloody noses
Perfection is dirty and worn
with a smell that lingers, sticking to your fingers
burning on your soul
Success can’t be measured in titles, fame nor money
it’s looking in the mirror each day
knowing you gave it everything
no excuses, no regrets
that’s what success looks like ...
or the pockets of someone else’s dream
it grows out of the grime of a hard days work
from those cold morns and bloody noses
Perfection is dirty and worn
with a smell that lingers, sticking to your fingers
burning on your soul
Success can’t be measured in titles, fame nor money
it’s looking in the mirror each day
knowing you gave it everything
no excuses, no regrets
that’s what success looks like ...
#LifeStruggles
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ANGER POEM
Published
10th Nov 2020 7:32am
10th Nov 2020 7:32am
Against The Tide
Austerity - the audacity
Abjection of the obsolete
Alignment to avarice
Objection - a redundant antique
Abjection of the obsolete
Alignment to avarice
Objection - a redundant antique
#corruption
#power
#greed #poverty
#greed #poverty
806 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Nov 2020 8:48pm
1st Nov 2020 8:48pm
One moment to the next
There was a moment, once
Something real, tangible,
Something honest
Hard to see that now
in the loss
Hard to even look
Blinded by hindsight
The acrid residue
of our mistakes
When we forget
then we can fondly remember
acceptance, for all it once was
Something real, tangible,
Something honest
Hard to see that now
in the loss
Hard to even look
Blinded by hindsight
The acrid residue
of our mistakes
When we forget
then we can fondly remember
acceptance, for all it once was
#evolution
#acceptance
550 reads
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
30th Sep 2020 1:36pm
30th Sep 2020 1:36pm
.
At the start
before experience
there was infinite possibility
A sphere of potential energy
beaming out evenly in all directions
Each interaction thereafter
both detracts and enhances
dulling the orb in patches
as other parts shine brighter
Experience narrowing the view point
Zooming further and further in
condensing the glow
to a handful of highly focused channels
emanating from the shadow cast surface of unfulfilled potential
...
before experience
there was infinite possibility
A sphere of potential energy
beaming out evenly in all directions
Each interaction thereafter
both detracts and enhances
dulling the orb in patches
as other parts shine brighter
Experience narrowing the view point
Zooming further and further in
condensing the glow
to a handful of highly focused channels
emanating from the shadow cast surface of unfulfilled potential
...
#universe
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NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
5th Aug 2020 10:44pm
5th Aug 2020 10:44pm
The Deterministic Multiverse Matrix
If one were capable of knowing everything. Everything that had ever happened, everywhere in the universe (and beyond the universe if it holds influence) Every single event, in infinitely minute detail. Then one would be able to accurately predict all future events in equally minute detail.
The practical application of that knowledge would give one the ability to shape a future with precision and certainty
But to truly know everything, one would have had to influence the system in every possible way. Effectively creating new universes and influence each new...
The practical application of that knowledge would give one the ability to shape a future with precision and certainty
But to truly know everything, one would have had to influence the system in every possible way. Effectively creating new universes and influence each new...
#science
#God
#TruthOfLife
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