Submissions by olliec (Oliver Cocks)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
DARK POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2024 8:21am
23rd Jan 2024 8:21am
Ravening Heart
You beat so fast,
so harsh, so dark.
I will settle in
fortresses of sleek glass,
just to escape
your raving beats.
so harsh, so dark.
I will settle in
fortresses of sleek glass,
just to escape
your raving beats.
#sadness
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
15th Nov 2023 8:42am
15th Nov 2023 8:42am
You and Your Pooch
A dog
A park
Much foliage
You pitch the ball
She zips after it
Skips back
to slobber and tail-wag
Many years since
the days
The days when
it seemed like
you couldn’t be
The days when
you pondered an end
each nanosecond
Now, you have
your pooch
Now, to find
the pooch’s
perfect partner guardian
A park
Much foliage
You pitch the ball
She zips after it
Skips back
to slobber and tail-wag
Many years since
the days
The days when
it seemed like
you couldn’t be
The days when
you pondered an end
each nanosecond
Now, you have
your pooch
Now, to find
the pooch’s
perfect partner guardian
#nature
#MentalHealth
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
11th Nov 2023 9:51am
11th Nov 2023 9:51am
On the Bus
The bus wobbles
winding down streets.
You scroll your phone,
trying not to think
Glancing at the sinking sun
home soon
To prepare for the next day
of grinding it out.
But you’re ready,
you know you are.
Ready to find
that someone
To share all
life’s rides with,
whatever wobbles
down winding streets.
winding down streets.
You scroll your phone,
trying not to think
Glancing at the sinking sun
home soon
To prepare for the next day
of grinding it out.
But you’re ready,
you know you are.
Ready to find
that someone
To share all
life’s rides with,
whatever wobbles
down winding streets.
#love
#MentalHealth
#healing
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DARK POEM
Published
2nd Nov 2023 10:06am
2nd Nov 2023 10:06am
After
blizzards,
building, and cyclones,
and building
After
flame-reaved earth,
seas of seeds
After
the trees surge,
what still teems?
building, and cyclones,
and building
After
flame-reaved earth,
seas of seeds
After
the trees surge,
what still teems?
#sadness
#dark
#MentalHealth
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LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Nov 2023 9:16am
2nd Nov 2023 9:16am
Just Together
Dancing in moonbeams with you is the tops
A tango in silver light
Can anything beat your shimmering giggle?
Your cosmically echoing sighs?
There’s nothing better than holding your hand
Except maybe kissing your rich lips
You make me me
by being you, you, you
They snicker about you
Soft and deep, like autotune thunder
But you show them
when you are
You are the answer
to every crisis
Only you can re-sew
the fabric of us all
by speaking, smiling, existing
And...
A tango in silver light
Can anything beat your shimmering giggle?
Your cosmically echoing sighs?
There’s nothing better than holding your hand
Except maybe kissing your rich lips
You make me me
by being you, you, you
They snicker about you
Soft and deep, like autotune thunder
But you show them
when you are
You are the answer
to every crisis
Only you can re-sew
the fabric of us all
by speaking, smiling, existing
And...
#love
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LOVE POEM
Published
27th Oct 2023 7:28am
27th Oct 2023 7:28am
You
You glitter
You glitter like
Your eyes glitter like
Like lamps
Like lamps’ shimmer
Like lamps’ shimmer in
the dust and fumes of a
The dust
and fumes of a
cabin hemmed in boughs
Your eyes…
You glitter like
Your eyes glitter like
Like lamps
Like lamps’ shimmer
Like lamps’ shimmer in
the dust and fumes of a
The dust
and fumes of a
cabin hemmed in boughs
Your eyes…
#love
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
27th Oct 2023 6:58am
27th Oct 2023 6:58am
The Latest Resurrection
For so long I languished
in a same-same swamp
But now all the anger
of my Bildungsroman
seems a plot device,
all the crises of before
the episodes of a
bland TV series
Now past ornaments
seem decorous,
artificial flowers
I phoenix from the ashes
of my former selves
Until the next undoing
in a same-same swamp
But now all the anger
of my Bildungsroman
seems a plot device,
all the crises of before
the episodes of a
bland TV series
Now past ornaments
seem decorous,
artificial flowers
I phoenix from the ashes
of my former selves
Until the next undoing
#LifeCycle
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ANGER POEM
Published
17th Oct 2023 6:41am
17th Oct 2023 6:41am
Seeking Ruin
Now we’ve found our chaos,
what next?
Now that we’ve sought our ruin,
where can we go?
How can we top plummeting
to the utter bottom,
and then crashing through,
and keeping plunging?
We’ve made a world
safe for killers,
less forgiving
for prey.
How can we possibly
worsen everything?
But then, we’ll find
a way, at all costs,
to keep defeating
humanity,
until we’re all
victorious cinders.
what next?
Now that we’ve sought our ruin,
where can we go?
How can we top plummeting
to the utter bottom,
and then crashing through,
and keeping plunging?
We’ve made a world
safe for killers,
less forgiving
for prey.
How can we possibly
worsen everything?
But then, we’ll find
a way, at all costs,
to keep defeating
humanity,
until we’re all
victorious cinders.
#depression
#dark
#LifeStruggles
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Oct 2023 11:39am
16th Oct 2023 11:39am
Seeking Storm and Stress
We should all be tormented artists,
at least once.
Let everyone feel in heaves, in
impetuous sighs, moans, and odes.
Everyone should paint at least one
messianic vision of homely sunflowers,
compose at least one
tumultuous opera,
harkening to ages of faery,
peasants, and knights.
We ought to all
feel the pressure
of the fall, and
of the call,
and of the then fall,
the next call, another fall,
one last call, if
only to know
what it is to shatter ...
at least once.
Let everyone feel in heaves, in
impetuous sighs, moans, and odes.
Everyone should paint at least one
messianic vision of homely sunflowers,
compose at least one
tumultuous opera,
harkening to ages of faery,
peasants, and knights.
We ought to all
feel the pressure
of the fall, and
of the call,
and of the then fall,
the next call, another fall,
one last call, if
only to know
what it is to shatter ...
#dark
#inspirational
#art #philosophical
#art #philosophical
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LOVE POEM
Published
15th Oct 2023 8:52am
15th Oct 2023 8:52am
I / You
I will bring you a crown of barbed wire,
laurel of art magazines, and throne
of alabaster. I will name you King of
my heart, Queen of my body. I will
bring you olive branches and cocaine.
I will aeroplane to your house,
Rolls Royce to your bed. I will take
your breath and transmute it into
amphetamines. I will toss aside the sun
and carve your face into the sky.
I will baptise you in a sea of honey.
I will turn your words into song, then
assemble a choir of recalcitrant toddlers,
to bawl them for eternity....
laurel of art magazines, and throne
of alabaster. I will name you King of
my heart, Queen of my body. I will
bring you olive branches and cocaine.
I will aeroplane to your house,
Rolls Royce to your bed. I will take
your breath and transmute it into
amphetamines. I will toss aside the sun
and carve your face into the sky.
I will baptise you in a sea of honey.
I will turn your words into song, then
assemble a choir of recalcitrant toddlers,
to bawl them for eternity....
#love
#sex
#FallingInLove
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