Submissions by monkeyman
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
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
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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
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7 Comments
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
408 reads
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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8 Comments
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
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9 Comments
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
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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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6 Comments
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
379 reads
4 Comments
The Faux Unexpected
They know what they’ll find
those faux unexpected
because justice ain’t blind
it’s just not cost effective
By design
our complicit elective
misread the signs
irrespective
Infecting the minds
all movement detected
Trapped between lines
each emotion projected
Inspected in kind
tested, dissected
But don’t worry, it’s fine
profess the faux unexpected
those faux unexpected
because justice ain’t blind
it’s just not cost effective
By design
our complicit elective
misread the signs
irrespective
Infecting the minds
all movement detected
Trapped between lines
each emotion projected
Inspected in kind
tested, dissected
But don’t worry, it’s fine
profess the faux unexpected
#sleep
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The Wonder of Wandering
Not all those who wander are lost”
JRR Tolkien
The Wonder of Wandering
There are
which ways twist
and wind
fork or even fade away
the kind
that lead nowhere
at least nowhere
today
Some paths
are laid out well
signed in map
and hiked
from fern to fell
O’er bridges o’er styles
walked a million men
for every mile
and women too
amongst the masses
clamber o’er
mountain passes ...
JRR Tolkien
The Wonder of Wandering
There are
which ways twist
and wind
fork or even fade away
the kind
that lead nowhere
at least nowhere
today
Some paths
are laid out well
signed in map
and hiked
from fern to fell
O’er bridges o’er styles
walked a million men
for every mile
and women too
amongst the masses
clamber o’er
mountain passes ...
#nature
#freedom
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7 Comments
Let the light
Let the relentless night pass
The darkness
and the cold at last,
surrender
to the warming knowledge
of the light
Let the light illuminate
penetrate the shadows
revealing
what we are blind to see,
ignite
a roaring passion
that burns forever free
As pilgrim, pauper,
princes, thieves and prostitute
alike,
when lost of soul,
or path,
or way
As bright as lightning strike
Let it
lead them from obscurity
into the...
The darkness
and the cold at last,
surrender
to the warming knowledge
of the light
Let the light illuminate
penetrate the shadows
revealing
what we are blind to see,
ignite
a roaring passion
that burns forever free
As pilgrim, pauper,
princes, thieves and prostitute
alike,
when lost of soul,
or path,
or way
As bright as lightning strike
Let it
lead them from obscurity
into the...
#hope
#dark
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11 Comments
Who are we? Who can we be?
We are
our own
interpretation
of the experiences
we have encountered
Which in turn
negotiate
the interpretation
of future
experiences
our own
interpretation
of the experiences
we have encountered
Which in turn
negotiate
the interpretation
of future
experiences
#environment
#LifeChangingMoment
428 reads
7 Comments
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