Submissions by takis1917
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction Lately, find it interesting and, occasionally, enjoyable...
SELF POEM
Published
16th Mar 2019 1:19pm
16th Mar 2019 1:19pm
A Blast From The Past
When I grow up,
I want to become so many things
All the time in the world I do have...
... But, alas...
I know
(self knowledge is ever so punishing)
I know well it's highly unlikely
I'll complete any of them...
And, I have learned,
(experience is ever so forbidding)
to never start anything I can't finish...
I want to become so many things
All the time in the world I do have...
... But, alas...
I know
(self knowledge is ever so punishing)
I know well it's highly unlikely
I'll complete any of them...
And, I have learned,
(experience is ever so forbidding)
to never start anything I can't finish...
#parody
#SelfDiscovery
26 reads
2 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
15th Mar 2019 3:06pm
15th Mar 2019 3:06pm
Maria's Case For Atheism
An after church gang,
seekers of brunch establishments,
beating their chests and crying "Alleluia",
rudely interrupted her idle frappe sipping...
Maria, calmly, lit a cig
and offered them a piece of her mind:
"If you think about it, (not that you'll ever do),
it is far more meaningful to admit meaninglessness
in a world convoluted with meanings...
It, certainly, forces freedom on you"...
seekers of brunch establishments,
beating their chests and crying "Alleluia",
rudely interrupted her idle frappe sipping...
Maria, calmly, lit a cig
and offered them a piece of her mind:
"If you think about it, (not that you'll ever do),
it is far more meaningful to admit meaninglessness
in a world convoluted with meanings...
It, certainly, forces freedom on you"...
#parody
29 reads
4 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
12th Mar 2019 3:58pm
12th Mar 2019 3:58pm
On His 20th Month
Fearful of father,
crawls under bed covers, nests
up mother's belly...
crawls under bed covers, nests
up mother's belly...
#haiku
29 reads
5 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
10th Mar 2019 3:36pm
10th Mar 2019 3:36pm
Looking For The Point I Made...
No need to point...
I see it!
An exclamation point!
And, yes, you can call this
'my point of reference'... So what?
Under the mattress,
a point-less argument and a point of no return;
my donation
to the Institute of Social Engineering,
they come a dime a dozen...
Moot point,
but, that's beside the point.
Breaking point, point of departure.
West Point?
Don't even think of it!...
Low point of my life
- say what you will, but, that is yet to be determined -
Point in case and a case of...
I see it!
An exclamation point!
And, yes, you can call this
'my point of reference'... So what?
Under the mattress,
a point-less argument and a point of no return;
my donation
to the Institute of Social Engineering,
they come a dime a dozen...
Moot point,
but, that's beside the point.
Breaking point, point of departure.
West Point?
Don't even think of it!...
Low point of my life
- say what you will, but, that is yet to be determined -
Point in case and a case of...
#parody
25 reads
1 Comment
STORY POEM
Published
2nd Mar 2019 1:45pm
2nd Mar 2019 1:45pm
Maria's Baptism
Stood there
in her white dress
-her left breast bare -
as each one in the crowd approached
placing a gift at her feet,
then, discretely walking away.
He was the last to show
- so, she thought for sometime -
came near her holding a needle,
pricked his finger,
left a blood drop on her dress under the waist
and three on her bare breast.
"One", he said, "indicates a period.
Three are called an ellipsis.
I shall call you, Maria.
May all your moments of ecstasy
be filled with grammar!"...
in her white dress
-her left breast bare -
as each one in the crowd approached
placing a gift at her feet,
then, discretely walking away.
He was the last to show
- so, she thought for sometime -
came near her holding a needle,
pricked his finger,
left a blood drop on her dress under the waist
and three on her bare breast.
"One", he said, "indicates a period.
Three are called an ellipsis.
I shall call you, Maria.
May all your moments of ecstasy
be filled with grammar!"...
#confessional
60 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
1st Mar 2019 7:26pm
1st Mar 2019 7:26pm
Public Admission
This just in...
Just for you...
No, not for you...
Not for you, either...
Yes, you!
Just for you (nobody else)...
Stating the obvious... And, no spin included...:
You and I...
No beginning... No end...
Ergo, no middle... Ergo, wtf?...
You're jumping out of your pants with joy
for never having met me...
I remain, stoically, in my underwear...
Just for you...
No, not for you...
Not for you, either...
Yes, you!
Just for you (nobody else)...
Stating the obvious... And, no spin included...:
You and I...
No beginning... No end...
Ergo, no middle... Ergo, wtf?...
You're jumping out of your pants with joy
for never having met me...
I remain, stoically, in my underwear...
#parody
41 reads
1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Feb 2019 3:26pm
26th Feb 2019 3:26pm
When In Doubt, Punt!
False is the hope
for reaching bottom
when in a black hole... But...
You can,
always,
reach for a side...
for reaching bottom
when in a black hole... But...
You can,
always,
reach for a side...
#parody
50 reads
8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Feb 2019 6:48pm
23rd Feb 2019 6:48pm
Poets Writing Ads (Thinking of T. S. Elliot)
No sign of motion
neither slow, nor normal, or fast;
No questions asked.
-Officer, officer,
enter my home
plant me a hope
chain my globe
In the frozen arteries
of bloodless metaphors
fearful life, now,
lethargically flows;
fear of life, fear of soul.
He tried to blend
but the back door was closed
and the front one wrote:
- Prophets And Sons of Wastelands,
Poets Acceding to Writing Ads -
-Officer, officer,
stop my bicycle
seize my principle
leave my icicle.
neither slow, nor normal, or fast;
No questions asked.
-Officer, officer,
enter my home
plant me a hope
chain my globe
In the frozen arteries
of bloodless metaphors
fearful life, now,
lethargically flows;
fear of life, fear of soul.
He tried to blend
but the back door was closed
and the front one wrote:
- Prophets And Sons of Wastelands,
Poets Acceding to Writing Ads -
-Officer, officer,
stop my bicycle
seize my principle
leave my icicle.
#philosophical
51 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Feb 2019 10:59pm
16th Feb 2019 10:59pm
Is That You, Bob?
How many Februaries
must a man endure
before he gets a Prague Spring?...
must a man endure
before he gets a Prague Spring?...
#silence
59 reads
10 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
13th Feb 2019 3:31pm
13th Feb 2019 3:31pm
Alexandria
They say,
once, the greatest poet ever,
searching endlessly in Alexandria
- four nights and days -
for the sublime word about a pair of eyes
tickling his memory,
came up with μαβί...
True story, I made it up!
once, the greatest poet ever,
searching endlessly in Alexandria
- four nights and days -
for the sublime word about a pair of eyes
tickling his memory,
came up with μαβί...
True story, I made it up!
#art
75 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Feb 2019 12:23pm
1st Feb 2019 12:23pm
Water Cooler
There are no questions?
Don't feel like an idiot.
Make up the answers...
Don't feel like an idiot.
Make up the answers...
#haiku
81 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
29th Jan 2019 3:49pm
29th Jan 2019 3:49pm
Agora
Getting rid of excess weight!
Thirty-two of my years
- rarely used and in excellent condition -
on the selling block!
Reduced prices, or, first offer...
Thirty-two of my years
- rarely used and in excellent condition -
on the selling block!
Reduced prices, or, first offer...
#parody
#SelfWorth
83 reads
10 Comments
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