Submissions by prestonGibson (NomadsPath)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I write about what my heart breaks and beats for. My work is rough, raw, flawed and imperfect; a work of self embodiment. I can't promise perfection, but I can promise authentic.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
22nd Oct 2020 9:17pm
22nd Oct 2020 9:17pm
Convergence
Have you ever had one of those dreams
In the middle of the night
When it’s dark
When chills taunt your restless vessel
When shadows from your mind project themselves a playwright on your walls
and ceiling
Sealing you into a prism of fear?
Have you ever heard that voice
In the middle of the night
When it’s silent
When it’s still
Whispering your worst thoughts
to the rhythm of a war-drum-heartbeat
racing inside the cage of your chest?
Have you ever woken from terror
Found it spilled over...
In the middle of the night
When it’s dark
When chills taunt your restless vessel
When shadows from your mind project themselves a playwright on your walls
and ceiling
Sealing you into a prism of fear?
Have you ever heard that voice
In the middle of the night
When it’s silent
When it’s still
Whispering your worst thoughts
to the rhythm of a war-drum-heartbeat
racing inside the cage of your chest?
Have you ever woken from terror
Found it spilled over...
#anxiety
#strength
#courage
#determination
#fear
442 reads
0 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
2nd Aug 2019 8:41pm
2nd Aug 2019 8:41pm
Mountain
I often wonder
If mountains understand the glory
In their reach;
How splendid
And rare a thing
It is
To collide into one’s self
And rise
Up
From it
If mountains understand the glory
In their reach;
How splendid
And rare a thing
It is
To collide into one’s self
And rise
Up
From it
#environment
#SelfDiscovery
407 reads
2 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Jul 2019 00:30am
25th Jul 2019 00:30am
Roots
It’s true to say that your seed
Was not of my tree
But how beautifully our branches sway
Leaves no room for dismay
...
I will nurture you
Familiar
Yet foreign fruit
I will tend to your reach
So that you may always find the sun
And
Ensure your structure
Is stable and strong
Though you may not come from
Me
You move through me
Every vein
Every beat
Every breath
Every root
Was not of my tree
But how beautifully our branches sway
Leaves no room for dismay
...
I will nurture you
Familiar
Yet foreign fruit
I will tend to your reach
So that you may always find the sun
And
Ensure your structure
Is stable and strong
Though you may not come from
Me
You move through me
Every vein
Every beat
Every breath
Every root
#love
#family
455 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
22nd Jul 2019 9:42pm
22nd Jul 2019 9:42pm
Gatherer
I am butter
Spread across too much bread
Left in the summer sun
I cannot
Pull myself
Together
Many parts of me
Belong to yesterday
Found among where
And who I’ve come from
I am less of me
Than I appear to be
For I am scattered
And cannot he gathered
Along winding roads
They grow;
Within hearts
Claiming them as their own;
In swells of happiness
And waves of sorrows;
Stored away for hopeful tomorrows;
Perched on cracked windows;
Concealed in old drawers ...
Spread across too much bread
Left in the summer sun
I cannot
Pull myself
Together
Many parts of me
Belong to yesterday
Found among where
And who I’ve come from
I am less of me
Than I appear to be
For I am scattered
And cannot he gathered
Along winding roads
They grow;
Within hearts
Claiming them as their own;
In swells of happiness
And waves of sorrows;
Stored away for hopeful tomorrows;
Perched on cracked windows;
Concealed in old drawers ...
#SelfReflection
395 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
12th Jul 2019 3:30am
12th Jul 2019 3:30am
The Overlook
Pray tell
How many limbs must one sever
to be lighter than a feather;
how many roots must be gut
to lengthen a reach;
how clean
and cut
and bleached
must one become
before returning home
...
Should there be anything left
of either
How many limbs must one sever
to be lighter than a feather;
how many roots must be gut
to lengthen a reach;
how clean
and cut
and bleached
must one become
before returning home
...
Should there be anything left
of either
#religion
#faith
#acceptance
445 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Jun 2019 10:14pm
28th Jun 2019 10:14pm
Tumbleweed
You
Staple of youth;
summer nights
and paths less traveled
but winding
still
Have not changed
Your gravel still rests
Chalky and silent
- Treacherous to the wheals
of a bicycle
unfamiliar to your charms
Your vacancies
Still vacant
Your gates
Still high enough to be mistaken
a wall
One capable of touching
the underbellies of clouds
(The too few passing through
-But never stationary)
To the strays born just outside your tracks
-To Me...
Staple of youth;
summer nights
and paths less traveled
but winding
still
Have not changed
Your gravel still rests
Chalky and silent
- Treacherous to the wheals
of a bicycle
unfamiliar to your charms
Your vacancies
Still vacant
Your gates
Still high enough to be mistaken
a wall
One capable of touching
the underbellies of clouds
(The too few passing through
-But never stationary)
To the strays born just outside your tracks
-To Me...
#childhood
#identity
#home #learning
#home #learning
447 reads
2 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
12th Mar 2019 7:51pm
12th Mar 2019 7:51pm
Salvation
I have seen the idea of heaven
crumble
under the weight of a turning page
But
I have held you
and with that
I have also seen salvation
crumble
under the weight of a turning page
But
I have held you
and with that
I have also seen salvation
#love
#family
#religion
#heaven
#learning
546 reads
1 Comment
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Oct 2018 2:14am
30th Oct 2018 2:14am
Collision Incantation
Earth’s collide
Mountains born
Mighty reach
Illuminated peaks
Translucent cloak
Sheering shroud
Lifting veil
Quaking ground
Cascading light
All around
Fading fright
Answers found
Mountains born
Mighty reach
Illuminated peaks
Translucent cloak
Sheering shroud
Lifting veil
Quaking ground
Cascading light
All around
Fading fright
Answers found
#strength
#courage
#magic #SelfDiscovery
#magic #SelfDiscovery
452 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
28th Sep 2018 8:40pm
28th Sep 2018 8:40pm
Selfsmith
If left exposed
All the pieces of me
Could cool in the light of the sun
So much internal workings
The likes of which
Are never done
All the pieces of me
Could cool in the light of the sun
So much internal workings
The likes of which
Are never done
#identity
#learning
#SelfDiscovery
477 reads
1 Comment
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Aug 2018 11:51pm
9th Aug 2018 11:51pm
While You Grow
Stardust collected itself
A seed
And it took root
In the hearts
Of a tribe
The seas
Seemed deeper;
The mountains
Appeared to lengthen
Their reach;
The redwoods retold
Tales of old;
Of love;
Of life
And the seeds we hold
Now
Brought closer together
We gather
Around the fire
To feed the Magic
Amongst the mundane
And watch its beauty
Unfold
A flame...
A seed
And it took root
In the hearts
Of a tribe
The seas
Seemed deeper;
The mountains
Appeared to lengthen
Their reach;
The redwoods retold
Tales of old;
Of love;
Of life
And the seeds we hold
Now
Brought closer together
We gather
Around the fire
To feed the Magic
Amongst the mundane
And watch its beauty
Unfold
A flame...
#love
#birth
#family #magic
#family #magic
478 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
3rd Aug 2018 00:39am
3rd Aug 2018 00:39am
uninvited
If someone were to ask me
What I think heaven could be like
I’d tell them
It’s wherever
And
Whenever
I am with you
But
They never ask with the intention
Of knowing my interpretation
...
They tell me
Through upturned noses
What they
“Know”
It to be
And
What it isn’t
And
Who’s not invited
What I think heaven could be like
I’d tell them
It’s wherever
And
Whenever
I am with you
But
They never ask with the intention
Of knowing my interpretation
...
They tell me
Through upturned noses
What they
“Know”
It to be
And
What it isn’t
And
Who’s not invited
#love
#identity
#pollution
#religion
#SelfDiscovery
501 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Jul 2018 10:42pm
30th Jul 2018 10:42pm
Givers and Takers
I
Am not a saint
Nor
Do I claim to be
For
The soles of my shoes
Know
Where I’ve been
But
Should you need shoes
I’d lace mine
Upon your feet
And
Should you need shelter
I’d make room in my keep
For
I know what it’s like
To feel cold
And
Exposed
But
Not everyone
Loves the same
I find this out
Continuously
With the coming
Of the rain
Am not a saint
Nor
Do I claim to be
For
The soles of my shoes
Know
Where I’ve been
But
Should you need shoes
I’d lace mine
Upon your feet
And
Should you need shelter
I’d make room in my keep
For
I know what it’s like
To feel cold
And
Exposed
But
Not everyone
Loves the same
I find this out
Continuously
With the coming
Of the rain
#love
#friendship
#identity
#learning
#support
579 reads
1 Comment
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