Submissions by veganpoet (Thomas L Goss)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I've been erupting with poetry since I was 17. My books include Holding The Bruised Rose Blossoms Of An Attempted Genetic Rinse, Juggernaut Of Yearning, and now Love Words And Ignite Their Echo.
Ears To The Ground, Listening To Dandelion Daydreams
Twilight descends languidly like a squadron
of tranquilized paratroopers; unfledged dandelion seeds
jealously await the wind’s capricious kiss.
of tranquilized paratroopers; unfledged dandelion seeds
jealously await the wind’s capricious kiss.
#dreams
#inspirational
#flowers #nature
#flowers #nature
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Juggling Sunrise And The Abyss, My Eyes Pop Like Blisters Of Color
1.
in the velvet distance
a sequence of yearnings
emerges from the zig-zagging bees
of frantic motion
2.
wherever the green grenade of spring
explodes into bounty
is where I want to be
feeling the exhaling light
of a mile-high rainforest
welling up inside my heart
but the path to love
is strewn with mines
and each reckless step
calls down lightning from the sky
calls down...
in the velvet distance
a sequence of yearnings
emerges from the zig-zagging bees
of frantic motion
2.
wherever the green grenade of spring
explodes into bounty
is where I want to be
feeling the exhaling light
of a mile-high rainforest
welling up inside my heart
but the path to love
is strewn with mines
and each reckless step
calls down lightning from the sky
calls down...
#dreams
#LifeStruggles
#universe
#TruthOfLife
#LifeCycle
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An Introduction To Fairy-String Theory
1.
In the midst of the unrelenting
and implacable ocean waves of life
I’ve made the molecular heart-docking calculations
that prove our subatomic kisses
were forged and dispersed
from the harsh center
of every radioactive star.
2.
The unmeasurable nanoseconds
when your lips thrust towards mine:
it is then that I transform into your quantum-gravitational slave,
spinning helplessly in moon-like pirouettes
like a fawning Janus, ...
In the midst of the unrelenting
and implacable ocean waves of life
I’ve made the molecular heart-docking calculations
that prove our subatomic kisses
were forged and dispersed
from the harsh center
of every radioactive star.
2.
The unmeasurable nanoseconds
when your lips thrust towards mine:
it is then that I transform into your quantum-gravitational slave,
spinning helplessly in moon-like pirouettes
like a fawning Janus, ...
#happiness
#love
#FallingInLove
#crush
#passion
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Permafrost Melts, Nematode Winks
1.
Methane bubbles rise forcefully
from the gargantuan clenched fist
of humanity.
The iron fingers of each finite digit of fossil fuel
steadily rust, one by one,
and soon voracious oxidative processes
will slowly unveil a culling diamond in the palm.
The dark matter of the universe
is calling you, tender primate soldier.
The sharpness of hydrocarbon ascent
is only felt on the way down.
2.
As you glance head-long into
the bursting shards of time –
realize that you are many.
In...
Methane bubbles rise forcefully
from the gargantuan clenched fist
of humanity.
The iron fingers of each finite digit of fossil fuel
steadily rust, one by one,
and soon voracious oxidative processes
will slowly unveil a culling diamond in the palm.
The dark matter of the universe
is calling you, tender primate soldier.
The sharpness of hydrocarbon ascent
is only felt on the way down.
2.
As you glance head-long into
the bursting shards of time –
realize that you are many.
In...
#universe
#environment
#pollution #nature
#pollution #nature
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How To Escape A Universe That Steals Its Smile From The Hyena
I.
We all trip violently
into the interstellar void
only to get sandwiched
between a billion galaxies still sticky
with the invisible glue of dark matter.
For we are all just meals
to the lumbering minions
of the universe.
Drop your ear groundward
and listen:
the bone crunchers
are approaching.
Their fangs slip disdainfully out,
teeth full of whirling clockwork gears
and life-sucking...
We all trip violently
into the interstellar void
only to get sandwiched
between a billion galaxies still sticky
with the invisible glue of dark matter.
For we are all just meals
to the lumbering minions
of the universe.
Drop your ear groundward
and listen:
the bone crunchers
are approaching.
Their fangs slip disdainfully out,
teeth full of whirling clockwork gears
and life-sucking...
#love
#identity
#dreams
#universe
#astronomy
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Resurrecting The Mournful Dislocation Of An Emotional Crossroad
I.
The twisting spindles
of nature’s Quenched Desire
poke angrily into her spine
with the fresh sharpness
of slaughtered promises.
The greasy aftermath smears love’s lips
with a reverse alchemy
of throat-to-chest explosions
that transmute her golden heart
into jutting spires of leaden remembrance.
II.
All that glistens
in this guilty-eyed
nightbloom of regret
is the ghostly remnants
of his now-blackened gift
of Sky Flowers.
(Yearning and fulfillment
break like two glass brothers ...
The twisting spindles
of nature’s Quenched Desire
poke angrily into her spine
with the fresh sharpness
of slaughtered promises.
The greasy aftermath smears love’s lips
with a reverse alchemy
of throat-to-chest explosions
that transmute her golden heart
into jutting spires of leaden remembrance.
II.
All that glistens
in this guilty-eyed
nightbloom of regret
is the ghostly remnants
of his now-blackened gift
of Sky Flowers.
(Yearning and fulfillment
break like two glass brothers ...
#love
#depression
#heartbroken
#breakup
#hurt
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Bloodqueen
Glint of chains,
torchfire searing
bleary eyes.
Heartswapper,
combustion is simply
the in out in out
of your vapid gypsy soul,
like white-hot lungs atop
the mountain high.
You plunge vicious fingers
into my chest like it was ancient Egypt,
trading out souls like switching hats,
the floor blooming like crimson plankton
seen from high above,
scouring every stain of love
from the crumbling corners of my...
torchfire searing
bleary eyes.
Heartswapper,
combustion is simply
the in out in out
of your vapid gypsy soul,
like white-hot lungs atop
the mountain high.
You plunge vicious fingers
into my chest like it was ancient Egypt,
trading out souls like switching hats,
the floor blooming like crimson plankton
seen from high above,
scouring every stain of love
from the crumbling corners of my...
#dark
#breakup
#dreams
#gothic
#hurt
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Veins Afire With Gasoline Daydreams, Woken Giants Breathing Fire Upon The Horizon
In between the motley faces of fear
hiding behind masks of alienation,
rage at being boxed up like old forgotten nails,
where is a hammer when you need one;
where is the thunderstrike,
strong as whiskey-breath,
anger boiling over in the cauldron of night?
Burn the world
while we burn ourselves in ironic effigy,
and the mothers and fathers disapprove,
rabid with misunderstanding,
for nothing gets past the opaqueness
of their flickering eyelights.
Time pulls decrepit corpses
from the rain-soaked...
hiding behind masks of alienation,
rage at being boxed up like old forgotten nails,
where is a hammer when you need one;
where is the thunderstrike,
strong as whiskey-breath,
anger boiling over in the cauldron of night?
Burn the world
while we burn ourselves in ironic effigy,
and the mothers and fathers disapprove,
rabid with misunderstanding,
for nothing gets past the opaqueness
of their flickering eyelights.
Time pulls decrepit corpses
from the rain-soaked...
#anger
#anxiety
#LifeStruggles #universe
#LifeStruggles #universe
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Cryptic Insects, Occupying The Spaces That Used To Be Human
I accidentally filled her mind
with serenading cicadas
that erupted on El Dia De Los Muertos,
a piñata swarm of insects,
their nightmarish candy forms
eating away all the love in the universe,
splitting me into two broken halves,
heart snapping like the thunderous crack
of the lumberjack’s axe.
(Echoes, echoes reverberate
through a forest we used to call home,
where her eyes would blink like fireflies in the night,
where the alluring tug of her voice
would spin silky illusions of kaleidoscopic renewal.)
...
with serenading cicadas
that erupted on El Dia De Los Muertos,
a piñata swarm of insects,
their nightmarish candy forms
eating away all the love in the universe,
splitting me into two broken halves,
heart snapping like the thunderous crack
of the lumberjack’s axe.
(Echoes, echoes reverberate
through a forest we used to call home,
where her eyes would blink like fireflies in the night,
where the alluring tug of her voice
would spin silky illusions of kaleidoscopic renewal.)
...
#love
#heartbroken
#conflict
#death
#hurt
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Jubilantly Interfacing With The Gravitational Waves Of Her Holy Sunspire
1.
Exquisite exhalations
smash viciously against us
like wave after wave of ravenous,
jailbreaking, thunderhearted Tsunamis
like chain lightning lighting up a sky with asteroidal ferocity,
impact events cutting into our skin with the harshness
of nature’s crimson sabre,
fangs sunk deeply into the hilt of this dirty poet’s cauldron-bladed heart.
Oh,
my darling soulhacker extraordinaire,
how is it that a single smooth whisper
from your sultry ambrosial voice
leaves me eternally corrupted by your infiltrating loveware?...
Exquisite exhalations
smash viciously against us
like wave after wave of ravenous,
jailbreaking, thunderhearted Tsunamis
like chain lightning lighting up a sky with asteroidal ferocity,
impact events cutting into our skin with the harshness
of nature’s crimson sabre,
fangs sunk deeply into the hilt of this dirty poet’s cauldron-bladed heart.
Oh,
my darling soulhacker extraordinaire,
how is it that a single smooth whisper
from your sultry ambrosial voice
leaves me eternally corrupted by your infiltrating loveware?...
#love
#romantic
#ILoveYou
#lover
#FallingInLove
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