Submissions by olliec (Oliver Cocks)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
3rd Jul 2024 8:03am
3rd Jul 2024 8:03am
Deep
in tobacco tar night, and
we’re singing the usual:
“ I C A N ’ T G E T N O ! ”
But your voice
shakes, buckles,
your eyes blaze
with disintegration.
What’s going on?
What’s up?
Why so hasty
to put away the phone?
I try to probe (gentle, now!):
“Is anything…. Ah…”
Tears seep like oil
from a shoddy car.
“It’s just…”
you begin,
“Are we doomed, not blessed,
to be free?
And Ian’s breaking up with me.”
“Oh! There, there,” I say ...
we’re singing the usual:
“ I C A N ’ T G E T N O ! ”
But your voice
shakes, buckles,
your eyes blaze
with disintegration.
What’s going on?
What’s up?
Why so hasty
to put away the phone?
I try to probe (gentle, now!):
“Is anything…. Ah…”
Tears seep like oil
from a shoddy car.
“It’s just…”
you begin,
“Are we doomed, not blessed,
to be free?
And Ian’s breaking up with me.”
“Oh! There, there,” I say ...
#funny
#love
#meditation
72 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
16th May 2024 1:30pm
16th May 2024 1:30pm
Wisdom
Wisdom is a pipe dream.
We are all fools.
We all know everything,
except true knowings.
When we are born,
we bawl and scream,
grope towards the end
of our serene gestation.
So why not
titter, laugh, and smooch?
We are all fools.
We all know everything,
except true knowings.
When we are born,
we bawl and scream,
grope towards the end
of our serene gestation.
So why not
titter, laugh, and smooch?
#dark
#depression
#love
#sadness
#suffering
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
21st Apr 2024 9:45am
21st Apr 2024 9:45am
The Mouse
Midnight: I lie on the bed, a
song plays in my head- but which?
Ah, I don’t know. I close my eyes,
but no use: no oblivion, no
peace. No medicine of all
times. And so I get up and leave
my room. A coffee! Why
not? Therefore I go to a shelf and
grab the coffee, but I hear something.
What’s there? I look around and see
a mouse, a molecule hurrying
to escape in the infinity of the planet,
in the sea of the night. I feel
ready finally for sleep,
for the dreams remaining to me.
song plays in my head- but which?
Ah, I don’t know. I close my eyes,
but no use: no oblivion, no
peace. No medicine of all
times. And so I get up and leave
my room. A coffee! Why
not? Therefore I go to a shelf and
grab the coffee, but I hear something.
What’s there? I look around and see
a mouse, a molecule hurrying
to escape in the infinity of the planet,
in the sea of the night. I feel
ready finally for sleep,
for the dreams remaining to me.
#animals
#nature
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LOVE POEM
Published
21st Apr 2024 9:20am
21st Apr 2024 9:20am
Love and Pasta
I seek love
and tuna
Because I want
to cook pasta
With a sauce
with tuna
And find
the heart
who will
like it,
with whom
I can share
every sauce
and tuna
Because I want
to cook pasta
With a sauce
with tuna
And find
the heart
who will
like it,
with whom
I can share
every sauce
#love
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th Apr 2024 6:05am
11th Apr 2024 6:05am
Secluded
in dimness, I murmur secrets
to the bedroom wall.
Isolated from outside’s hubbub,
I ponder the great mysteries.
I fold over a rich bedsheet,
and close my eyes,
think of spacetime,
and love poetry, and
the very top of pop songs,
as the world unwinds
beyond, as it always does.
Because here, between
these four excluding walls,
I can feel myself
a discoverer, and voyage
great seas of imagination.
Here, I have all
the company I could desire,
seething...
to the bedroom wall.
Isolated from outside’s hubbub,
I ponder the great mysteries.
I fold over a rich bedsheet,
and close my eyes,
think of spacetime,
and love poetry, and
the very top of pop songs,
as the world unwinds
beyond, as it always does.
Because here, between
these four excluding walls,
I can feel myself
a discoverer, and voyage
great seas of imagination.
Here, I have all
the company I could desire,
seething...
#anxiety
#depression
#dreams
#LifeStruggles
#LifeAsAWriter
204 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
22nd Mar 2024 5:35am
22nd Mar 2024 5:35am
After the Banquet
Christmas Day
Post-prandial droop
Listening to Ed Sheeran
For whatever reason
Bloated and satisfied
Below, family and friends
While I sit upstairs
Good to rest
Good to unspool
Good to be
Post-prandial droop
Listening to Ed Sheeran
For whatever reason
Bloated and satisfied
Below, family and friends
While I sit upstairs
Good to rest
Good to unspool
Good to be
#love
#family
#holiday
#meditation
#PersonalGrowth
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
7th Mar 2024 4:45am
7th Mar 2024 4:45am
Reflection Diptych
Thunder and Rhythm
All connects to all,
everything builds
upon everything.
We’re all leaves
in an ageless storm.
We all seek beauty,
and we all link each to each.
Rain and Dew
There is beauty in the rain,
grandeur in the dew.
The things we lose and gain
are known by the wind.
The sea gathers our tears.
The stars witness our sighs.
All things contain the cosmos,
all skies are built of atoms.
So, treasure every slightest second,
cherish each...
All connects to all,
everything builds
upon everything.
We’re all leaves
in an ageless storm.
We all seek beauty,
and we all link each to each.
Rain and Dew
There is beauty in the rain,
grandeur in the dew.
The things we lose and gain
are known by the wind.
The sea gathers our tears.
The stars witness our sighs.
All things contain the cosmos,
all skies are built of atoms.
So, treasure every slightest second,
cherish each...
#love
#nature
156 reads
3 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Mar 2024 5:34am
1st Mar 2024 5:34am
Yes, This Moment
A glorious evening, in which to gloriously
reflect upon the huge seas I’ve travelled.
A nice, ripe, wet evening, but
I’m inside, safe from ice-spitting winds.
A very nice, glorious evening, in which
I’ll scribble, still tipsy, elegies on napkins.
Or would,
if I was out and about to vomit.
But it’s nice here, where
I can just feel not uneasy,
and list all the miracles
that built this moment, yes, this one.
reflect upon the huge seas I’ve travelled.
A nice, ripe, wet evening, but
I’m inside, safe from ice-spitting winds.
A very nice, glorious evening, in which
I’ll scribble, still tipsy, elegies on napkins.
Or would,
if I was out and about to vomit.
But it’s nice here, where
I can just feel not uneasy,
and list all the miracles
that built this moment, yes, this one.
#sadness
#hope
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LOVE POEM
Published
29th Feb 2024 4:34am
29th Feb 2024 4:34am
All Now is Light and Air
At one point there was no such thing as love,
much like politics’ sensible centre.
But I still hear your voice
when trees sway in the wind.
Sweeter than an Oreo,
supple as a teenager’s imaginings
of soft thighs,
or merely otherwise.
We’ve lived through the deaths
that abound throughout life.
We’ve played Scrabble game
after Scrabble game,
fingers interlocking.
I still see you finding
those words, and grinning,
outlandishly proud.
I still recall our touch. ...
much like politics’ sensible centre.
But I still hear your voice
when trees sway in the wind.
Sweeter than an Oreo,
supple as a teenager’s imaginings
of soft thighs,
or merely otherwise.
We’ve lived through the deaths
that abound throughout life.
We’ve played Scrabble game
after Scrabble game,
fingers interlocking.
I still see you finding
those words, and grinning,
outlandishly proud.
I still recall our touch. ...
#sadness
#love
#dark
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LOVE POEM
Published
28th Feb 2024 7:12am
28th Feb 2024 7:12am
Amid Vanishing Darkness
Gyrating night cedes to a whimper, as
the stars flicker like dying lightbulbs.
The air bites cold- as do you.
But as the night sloughs into dawn,
bald wind is embroidered
with the velvet warble of birds,
and I forget you for once.
About time.
But then, as birds warble
amid vanishing darkness,
darkness dissolving
before dawn’s beams,
well, I’m back to remembering,
to honouring your perpetual shadow.
the stars flicker like dying lightbulbs.
The air bites cold- as do you.
But as the night sloughs into dawn,
bald wind is embroidered
with the velvet warble of birds,
and I forget you for once.
About time.
But then, as birds warble
amid vanishing darkness,
darkness dissolving
before dawn’s beams,
well, I’m back to remembering,
to honouring your perpetual shadow.
#sadness
#love
#dark
107 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
27th Feb 2024 12:55pm
27th Feb 2024 12:55pm
Pyre of Longing
Gobbling blaze
seethes and blackens,
and you think only of…
Who?
Who can be your heart’s home?
Time to bide this hour’s flames,
until you think of someone.
Someone to share
life’s fires with.
Until then, you’ll
just need to roast.
Roast in this fire,
that rages within.
But soon, soon, soon,
you will find that one,
that can quench all fires.
seethes and blackens,
and you think only of…
Who?
Who can be your heart’s home?
Time to bide this hour’s flames,
until you think of someone.
Someone to share
life’s fires with.
Until then, you’ll
just need to roast.
Roast in this fire,
that rages within.
But soon, soon, soon,
you will find that one,
that can quench all fires.
#sadness
#love
#depression #dark
#depression #dark
79 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
27th Feb 2024 10:53am
27th Feb 2024 10:53am
Love at a Banquet
#sadness
#love
#depression
#dark
#LifeStruggles
57 reads
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