Submissions by red_speck (Shandan Unger)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
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SELF POEM
Published
5th Mar 2023 5:28am
5th Mar 2023 5:28am
Ten ten ten. (Aka. Dreams Part 2)
Its ten
Let it wake
Love stream of 3rd party occupation
Set in autopilot, I'm melting
Viewing from the outside in
Up in the veins of God's eye
I strike a nerve
twist another corner
I'll always be your lungs
Just junk DNA
Shaking something, I'm always shaking out of me.
When's it gonna end
Everybody's gonna hit the psychic boogie
It don't matter to me
Cigarettes are free
Twist its ten, twist it's always ten
...
Let it wake
Love stream of 3rd party occupation
Set in autopilot, I'm melting
Viewing from the outside in
Up in the veins of God's eye
I strike a nerve
twist another corner
I'll always be your lungs
Just junk DNA
Shaking something, I'm always shaking out of me.
When's it gonna end
Everybody's gonna hit the psychic boogie
It don't matter to me
Cigarettes are free
Twist its ten, twist it's always ten
...
#identity
#beauty
204 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
1st Jun 2021 10:18am
1st Jun 2021 10:18am
Dreams
Solution may lead.
Got a brain pocket full of teeth.
Munching from inside out.
Useless to jet around as the cocaine starts to seep.
A single thought in head.
Never eager.
Spoken from a lifeless mouth.
The silver tipped acid potion.
Turn off the sound.
It's time to leave.
Dried up and lovely.
The spark of duet doctor nose bleeds.
Twisted smiles of broken dolls asking where to go.
With the mercy now.
...
Got a brain pocket full of teeth.
Munching from inside out.
Useless to jet around as the cocaine starts to seep.
A single thought in head.
Never eager.
Spoken from a lifeless mouth.
The silver tipped acid potion.
Turn off the sound.
It's time to leave.
Dried up and lovely.
The spark of duet doctor nose bleeds.
Twisted smiles of broken dolls asking where to go.
With the mercy now.
...
#learning
#SelfDiscovery
623 reads
3 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
21st May 2021 11:51am
21st May 2021 11:51am
At the bottom
That soft glow under the rain clouds before the sun comes up.
You'll see it too.
Roll your windows down and let the sage out.
Five years under that light.
We're still pale.
Maybe it takes awhile, to glow.
Casual sediment that rolls with the current.
Clouds will part as the music breaks.
They'll see you and remember.
So burn all your memories.
Here, you are the one that just is.
The final sun birthed from collided stars.
The end of the beginning.
You'll see it too.
Roll your windows down and let the sage out.
Five years under that light.
We're still pale.
Maybe it takes awhile, to glow.
Casual sediment that rolls with the current.
Clouds will part as the music breaks.
They'll see you and remember.
So burn all your memories.
Here, you are the one that just is.
The final sun birthed from collided stars.
The end of the beginning.
#dreams
547 reads
3 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
4th May 2021 4:03pm
4th May 2021 4:03pm
The forked road that ends the same.
They will call upon you.
Strike you down in your time of question and yearning to learn.
Still, you will walk forward battered and weak, senselessly wobbling in direction of your heart's true colors. Only to be shown far worse beatings.
Your fellow man, true to hold dear. After each mark upon your skin you will gracefully hold their hand. Faintly whispering words of compassion.
Maybe you're the depiction of the other side. Never tenderly captivating the masses with what kindness could be. Burning the hills, striking the weak.
There are no...
Strike you down in your time of question and yearning to learn.
Still, you will walk forward battered and weak, senselessly wobbling in direction of your heart's true colors. Only to be shown far worse beatings.
Your fellow man, true to hold dear. After each mark upon your skin you will gracefully hold their hand. Faintly whispering words of compassion.
Maybe you're the depiction of the other side. Never tenderly captivating the masses with what kindness could be. Burning the hills, striking the weak.
There are no...
#LifeCycle
433 reads
3 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
29th Apr 2021 10:21am
29th Apr 2021 10:21am
Always late to work, to spew nonsense
At the start of the race
The full moon pulls
Maximizing intent
Never the same as always
You're making it through
Old and content
Spending the extra minutes in
appreciation of the forever moving water
It doesn't happen everyday
Silliness of mankind's most common
Feelings
Always hiding in the cold
Thorn and all
Misunderstanding and being able
The hard work
The release
On the final night run
The casual routine
Breaking apart from something usual
Seeing...
The full moon pulls
Maximizing intent
Never the same as always
You're making it through
Old and content
Spending the extra minutes in
appreciation of the forever moving water
It doesn't happen everyday
Silliness of mankind's most common
Feelings
Always hiding in the cold
Thorn and all
Misunderstanding and being able
The hard work
The release
On the final night run
The casual routine
Breaking apart from something usual
Seeing...
#freedom
346 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Apr 2021 10:08am
26th Apr 2021 10:08am
Said the Squid to the Elephant.
It's a shame I put you through it
Let our hearts work overtime
I'll surrender
I'll surrender
Even in the deepest depths
You never wrote home about
All you wanted was to choke
On the words you begged to hear
From my mouth
Maybe we should've known
Staring into the end
It was already the end
I don't care about people in love
They'd never make it this far
Seems like we'll fall in love like they do
Knowing we couldn't stick around
I wanna feel like...
Let our hearts work overtime
I'll surrender
I'll surrender
Even in the deepest depths
You never wrote home about
All you wanted was to choke
On the words you begged to hear
From my mouth
Maybe we should've known
Staring into the end
It was already the end
I don't care about people in love
They'd never make it this far
Seems like we'll fall in love like they do
Knowing we couldn't stick around
I wanna feel like...
#love
#music
#LifeCycle
307 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
16th Apr 2021 10:09am
16th Apr 2021 10:09am
Timely, dues to duet
White specs of herecy
The deep hunger that lies somewhere between your heart and your nose
One day you'll sleep unnoticed
With shattered memories of forever
Open wounds for all to see
With the promise of everything
The sort that never sorted out.
Never asking for much until the end
The last starred night
That kills every single time
Stepping out for the final act
Courage of lions under kings of false weapons
What sort have you sorted out pilgrim of words.
Falter at this
Here under a new window...
The deep hunger that lies somewhere between your heart and your nose
One day you'll sleep unnoticed
With shattered memories of forever
Open wounds for all to see
With the promise of everything
The sort that never sorted out.
Never asking for much until the end
The last starred night
That kills every single time
Stepping out for the final act
Courage of lions under kings of false weapons
What sort have you sorted out pilgrim of words.
Falter at this
Here under a new window...
#SelfReflection
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DARK POEM
Published
10th Apr 2021 8:10pm
10th Apr 2021 8:10pm
Harmonious loss of composure
Can you see yourself?
Set in the crowded room.
That moment the screams are louder than they ever have been before.
You'll try to hold on tight,
at least for tonight.
Beg and plead as they rise.
Groveling before shadows,
too stubborn to let go.
The gravest mistake that echoes
at the loss of your own voice.
It's too early to leave.
Senseless repetition,
Amongst resonating shame.
Lights out.
Words falter at the explanation.
Pretending to be alive.
Dim, the branches will bend.
Back...
Set in the crowded room.
That moment the screams are louder than they ever have been before.
You'll try to hold on tight,
at least for tonight.
Beg and plead as they rise.
Groveling before shadows,
too stubborn to let go.
The gravest mistake that echoes
at the loss of your own voice.
It's too early to leave.
Senseless repetition,
Amongst resonating shame.
Lights out.
Words falter at the explanation.
Pretending to be alive.
Dim, the branches will bend.
Back...
#regret
#frustration
#confusion
#denial
#emptiness
344 reads
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
6th Apr 2021 10:35am
6th Apr 2021 10:35am
What it is, I will never know
The world revolves its resolve
How are you and how are your parents
I have been trying to call but no one is answering
Maybe we should just keep it apart
The ex bride I've become in the world with no resolve
Life turns out
To be the only thing that has a little bit of time
The tide of a man in his last day
How do we know
How do I make this work
We've given our past for the years to come
Followed the palette ballet
Our last turn of the century.
There is no righting wrongs
Just burying the lies that used to be. ...
How are you and how are your parents
I have been trying to call but no one is answering
Maybe we should just keep it apart
The ex bride I've become in the world with no resolve
Life turns out
To be the only thing that has a little bit of time
The tide of a man in his last day
How do we know
How do I make this work
We've given our past for the years to come
Followed the palette ballet
Our last turn of the century.
There is no righting wrongs
Just burying the lies that used to be. ...
#bittersweet
340 reads
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SELF POEM
Published
24th Mar 2021 9:18am
24th Mar 2021 9:18am
11 minutes late
Here i am
Holding onto
anything that's not holding onto you
All this smoke up in the air
No breath wasted
Cough out my lungs
Dream of you
Speak in tongues
Hopefully it isn't true
Got this head full of dreams, abused
Park bench
Back seat
Digging my own kind of trench
Surrendering to the beat
Hello
Goodbye
Further adieu
Waste away with me? I dream of you
Im sick
Cancer picks
Smokin some white like sticks
Got a heart full of love, abused
Momento
The...
Holding onto
anything that's not holding onto you
All this smoke up in the air
No breath wasted
Cough out my lungs
Dream of you
Speak in tongues
Hopefully it isn't true
Got this head full of dreams, abused
Park bench
Back seat
Digging my own kind of trench
Surrendering to the beat
Hello
Goodbye
Further adieu
Waste away with me? I dream of you
Im sick
Cancer picks
Smokin some white like sticks
Got a heart full of love, abused
Momento
The...
#SelfReflection
394 reads
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Mar 2021 9:00am
24th Mar 2021 9:00am
Field of flowers.
A pedal day by day,
Withering and restless.
A pedal to stretch a little further.
Release the weight of beauty.
Life's hypocrisy.
Withering and restless.
A pedal to stretch a little further.
Release the weight of beauty.
Life's hypocrisy.
#LifeCycle
#freedom
#wisdom
371 reads
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
21st Dec 2020 2:58am
21st Dec 2020 2:58am
Respects.
A violent dance.
Top the flower hills you wait.
A duet of books and empty coffee cups.
It was never a bench for two.
Lovers squeeze and bend rules they should follow.
The unoriginal fashion renegades of skulls and over the counter pills we borrowed.
Yeah, I'm pretty shallow.
Sea of grass, so bold and weak.
Blossoms of death you hold dear,
forget not yet and speak-
"Holes are filled by the lost and make believe. I'm just here for the role of saying I might leave. Never for you to follow, that I do stay and pretend....
Top the flower hills you wait.
A duet of books and empty coffee cups.
It was never a bench for two.
Lovers squeeze and bend rules they should follow.
The unoriginal fashion renegades of skulls and over the counter pills we borrowed.
Yeah, I'm pretty shallow.
Sea of grass, so bold and weak.
Blossoms of death you hold dear,
forget not yet and speak-
"Holes are filled by the lost and make believe. I'm just here for the role of saying I might leave. Never for you to follow, that I do stay and pretend....
#memories
#acceptance
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