Submissions by oskar
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
2nd Oct 2019 7:13am
2nd Oct 2019 7:13am
the Obama legacy
The Obama presidency
He started out promising but fell at the first hurdle
When he tried to give America a health system
That covered the working classes, what’s left is
An insurance system they can ill afford.
He sent back thousands of illegals back, but since
he was the darling of the liberal press little was said.
Once when he had the chance to become great
By declaring Palestine, a free state, he didn’t quite
Make it, and his speech ended in platitude.
He will be remembered as a suave but weak man
Who baulked at the pressure...
He started out promising but fell at the first hurdle
When he tried to give America a health system
That covered the working classes, what’s left is
An insurance system they can ill afford.
He sent back thousands of illegals back, but since
he was the darling of the liberal press little was said.
Once when he had the chance to become great
By declaring Palestine, a free state, he didn’t quite
Make it, and his speech ended in platitude.
He will be remembered as a suave but weak man
Who baulked at the pressure...
#politics
#music
#freedom
#art
#morality
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DARK POEM
Published
1st Oct 2019 3:52pm
1st Oct 2019 3:52pm
ghosts
The ghost
Someone knocked on my bedroom door
I switched the bedside lamp and with rolled
Up TLS opened the door.
Peering into the darkness of the living room
I thought I saw a shadowy figure
On approaching it disappeared
Checked the entrance door all was locked
And put the paper on the table after all it was
Only good to swatting flies.
Well, it was not a thief they do not knock
Before entering, I went back to bed again.
Before going back to sleep, I thought it was
Not an assassin, perhaps a phantom who
Had nowhere to...
Someone knocked on my bedroom door
I switched the bedside lamp and with rolled
Up TLS opened the door.
Peering into the darkness of the living room
I thought I saw a shadowy figure
On approaching it disappeared
Checked the entrance door all was locked
And put the paper on the table after all it was
Only good to swatting flies.
Well, it was not a thief they do not knock
Before entering, I went back to bed again.
Before going back to sleep, I thought it was
Not an assassin, perhaps a phantom who
Had nowhere to...
#alcohol
#drugs
#heroin
#marijuana
#addiction
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STORY POEM
Published
30th Sep 2019 12:04pm
30th Sep 2019 12:04pm
rumbling in the night
Rumblings in the night
I was trying to write the words on the screen turned
into spatter of blood, darkness descended
A woollen mass pressing me down, I screamed
Of fear and my brother came and laid beside me.
A young woman. who had been thrown out of her?
Uncle’s house came with a tray of bacon & eggs
I grabbed a piece of bacon, but the woman said
It was not for me but my brother because
He had been dead for many years and therefore
Must be hungry.
I went into a Chinese restaurant where the owner
Shouted “table for one” I...
I was trying to write the words on the screen turned
into spatter of blood, darkness descended
A woollen mass pressing me down, I screamed
Of fear and my brother came and laid beside me.
A young woman. who had been thrown out of her?
Uncle’s house came with a tray of bacon & eggs
I grabbed a piece of bacon, but the woman said
It was not for me but my brother because
He had been dead for many years and therefore
Must be hungry.
I went into a Chinese restaurant where the owner
Shouted “table for one” I...
#monsters
#ghosts
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SELF POEM
Published
29th Sep 2019 12:01pm
29th Sep 2019 12:01pm
trying to sleep
Trying to sleep
I will lie down make no fuzz think of nothing
And relax, the past is a foreign country no need
To go there, it is like raking yesteryears leaves.
So, you feel hungry too late to get up now anyway
No food will not kill you have diabetes shut up go
Sleep, and before you know it a nice girl will serve
Breakfast…oh yeah!
Try not to remember any jokes you brother told
it was thirty years ago back then you laughed
At things that are not funny now.
Can you think of an example, (shut up and sleep!)
We found older adults funny...
I will lie down make no fuzz think of nothing
And relax, the past is a foreign country no need
To go there, it is like raking yesteryears leaves.
So, you feel hungry too late to get up now anyway
No food will not kill you have diabetes shut up go
Sleep, and before you know it a nice girl will serve
Breakfast…oh yeah!
Try not to remember any jokes you brother told
it was thirty years ago back then you laughed
At things that are not funny now.
Can you think of an example, (shut up and sleep!)
We found older adults funny...
#anxiety
#confusion
#denial
#apathy
#boredom
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SELF POEM
Published
28th Sep 2019 12:36pm
28th Sep 2019 12:36pm
another sleepless night
Another sleepless night
A went back in time litany of failures
What I wanted to do I never did
My happiest time was when living alone
In the interior of Algarve
I walked with my dogs in the woods had
Learned conversation with an oak
While the dog chased rabbits.
Six happy years what more can a man ask.
Turbulent water ahead I drank too much
The dog died, and my loneliness became a burden
Pressing me into apathy.
Well, life became tolerable again,
but my contentment was never the same.
My old house is standing there...
A went back in time litany of failures
What I wanted to do I never did
My happiest time was when living alone
In the interior of Algarve
I walked with my dogs in the woods had
Learned conversation with an oak
While the dog chased rabbits.
Six happy years what more can a man ask.
Turbulent water ahead I drank too much
The dog died, and my loneliness became a burden
Pressing me into apathy.
Well, life became tolerable again,
but my contentment was never the same.
My old house is standing there...
#anxiety
#bipolar
#addiction
#apathy
#Autism
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Sep 2019 11:13am
26th Sep 2019 11:13am
the blank screen
the blank screen
So here on a blank screen is the enemy
It has to be defeated filled with words so the blank
The screen can’t haunt me in the night.
I saw a vet program of a horse that was 3o years old
It couldn’t pull a cart any more, unproductive
Grazing and doing nothing, it also had kidney problems
Otherwise, it was beautiful.
A vet was called to put the horse down the vet thought
The horse looked fine, but it is useless the owner said
Put it down; a couple of injection later it was done.
Perhaps it was a good...
So here on a blank screen is the enemy
It has to be defeated filled with words so the blank
The screen can’t haunt me in the night.
I saw a vet program of a horse that was 3o years old
It couldn’t pull a cart any more, unproductive
Grazing and doing nothing, it also had kidney problems
Otherwise, it was beautiful.
A vet was called to put the horse down the vet thought
The horse looked fine, but it is useless the owner said
Put it down; a couple of injection later it was done.
Perhaps it was a good...
#anger
#anxiety
#frustration #disappointment
#frustration #disappointment
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
25th Sep 2019 4:11pm
25th Sep 2019 4:11pm
shibboleth
Shibboleth
It includes our political parties
Distant past their prime when they had a meaning.
Also, Christian theology is passé
As philosophies anchored in old thinking are
Like rusty ships waiting to for dismantling
A new approach for our modern question about
Life and dead must
be written in a language
That reflects the time we live in
It is not about old ideas being dressed in jeans
However, a fundamental rethink that if not breaking
From the past entirely, find a new expression
Because the structural problems will...
It includes our political parties
Distant past their prime when they had a meaning.
Also, Christian theology is passé
As philosophies anchored in old thinking are
Like rusty ships waiting to for dismantling
A new approach for our modern question about
Life and dead must
be written in a language
That reflects the time we live in
It is not about old ideas being dressed in jeans
However, a fundamental rethink that if not breaking
From the past entirely, find a new expression
Because the structural problems will...
#faith
#fate
#pagan
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DARK POEM
Published
24th Sep 2019 11:16am
24th Sep 2019 11:16am
the oncoming
The oncoming
The human tragedy is not to learn from the past
The world is in an uproar a nuclear war is coming
The belief is by using a smaller bomb it will not be so bad
So also, is the thinking of the enemy.
Millions of people will be killed and nature already
Devasted will collapse too.
It appears to me that the coming tragedy is ordained
That unknown forces will make it this way, it is uncanny
That we blithely walk around with no care in the world
As the Damocles sword has loosened from it ropes, and
Is about to fall.
What...
The human tragedy is not to learn from the past
The world is in an uproar a nuclear war is coming
The belief is by using a smaller bomb it will not be so bad
So also, is the thinking of the enemy.
Millions of people will be killed and nature already
Devasted will collapse too.
It appears to me that the coming tragedy is ordained
That unknown forces will make it this way, it is uncanny
That we blithely walk around with no care in the world
As the Damocles sword has loosened from it ropes, and
Is about to fall.
What...
#apocalypse
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
22nd Sep 2019 2:34pm
22nd Sep 2019 2:34pm
the exile
The exile
No matter how far
To the other side of the moon
if you like
Sadness follows an exile.
Never at ease
Thinking of what is forsaken
Finding it impossible
To find the way back home.
No matter how far
To the other side of the moon
if you like
Sadness follows an exile.
Never at ease
Thinking of what is forsaken
Finding it impossible
To find the way back home.
#frustration
#despair
#disappointment #emptiness
#disappointment #emptiness
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th Sep 2019 1:01pm
19th Sep 2019 1:01pm
home from the cinema
Home from the cinema
We were going home from the movies
It began raining I had an umbrella and shielded
Her from most of the cloudburst, I got wet.
At her home, she said I had to take my suit off
I did but felt silly sitting on her sofa in my undies.
She came back from the bathroom wearing less than me,
We kissed and cuddled and ended up in her bedroom.
We made love after she fell asleep, I watched
Her serene face, she looked lovely.
I was tired too, but before falling asleep, I thought
I hope my suit will be...
We were going home from the movies
It began raining I had an umbrella and shielded
Her from most of the cloudburst, I got wet.
At her home, she said I had to take my suit off
I did but felt silly sitting on her sofa in my undies.
She came back from the bathroom wearing less than me,
We kissed and cuddled and ended up in her bedroom.
We made love after she fell asleep, I watched
Her serene face, she looked lovely.
I was tired too, but before falling asleep, I thought
I hope my suit will be...
#kindness
#courage
#inspirational #misunderstood
#inspirational #misunderstood
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
18th Sep 2019 10:09am
18th Sep 2019 10:09am
tears at night
Tears at night
I heard a child crying in the night
Why are you crying son, my father said?
I feel so sad, why are you weeping?
I long for the old days when livening near
The forest where my dog and I walked.
I wish to return.
You are too old now, my father said, think
Of your struggle carry firewood and water
The hills are steep.
I had dreams back then of being famous
it has come to nothing.
If you believe in yourself, it is all you need,
My father said.
A sigh from the son that went louder and
Louder and ended...
I heard a child crying in the night
Why are you crying son, my father said?
I feel so sad, why are you weeping?
I long for the old days when livening near
The forest where my dog and I walked.
I wish to return.
You are too old now, my father said, think
Of your struggle carry firewood and water
The hills are steep.
I had dreams back then of being famous
it has come to nothing.
If you believe in yourself, it is all you need,
My father said.
A sigh from the son that went louder and
Louder and ended...
#anger
#anxiety
#boredom
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
16th Sep 2019 10:06am
16th Sep 2019 10:06am
several haiku
Haiku
A season is over
Golden leaves softly fall
The breeze is absent.
Haiku
Bushes have the blooms
Still intact covered in dust
The town waits for storm
Haiku
Indoor plants sag too
Sorrowful for no reason
Longing for freedom
Haiku
Umbrellas await
Know their duty are coming
They have the courage
A season is over
Golden leaves softly fall
The breeze is absent.
Haiku
Bushes have the blooms
Still intact covered in dust
The town waits for storm
Haiku
Indoor plants sag too
Sorrowful for no reason
Longing for freedom
Haiku
Umbrellas await
Know their duty are coming
They have the courage
#beauty
#consumerism
#art #dance
#art #dance
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