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.
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daytime stellar nurseries skinnydipping into the Now
magnetic windblown
memories
curve horizonward
like civilizations forgotten
fractal tears
unwept
history's arc
pooling intoxicatingly
a distilled concoction
rising
scorched and triumphant
breath perfumed
with poesy
pile of masks
discarded
cityscapes of sandcastles
glittering through stained-glass thoughts
immutable soul beauty
rebuffing tide's twinkling caress
memories
curve horizonward
like civilizations forgotten
fractal tears
unwept
history's arc
pooling intoxicatingly
a distilled concoction
rising
scorched and triumphant
breath perfumed
with poesy
pile of masks
discarded
cityscapes of sandcastles
glittering through stained-glass thoughts
immutable soul beauty
rebuffing tide's twinkling caress
#inspirational
#wind
#nature
#metaphor
#healing
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The Impenetrable Fortress They Had Erected Was Made Of Leaves Not Steel
I.
He has been erased from her mind
with the surgical precision of a lightning strike.
All the mountainous connections of adoration
are now upturned and bleeding,
guts splayed out across the continental shelf of his shrinking heart.
II.
What cosmic dream-come-true
then folds itself into brutal origami shapes
that hungrily devour every promise-filled step,
leaving behind only a vacant and cloudless sky?
III.
Now all that remains of their surprising union of the mind
is an infinitesimal speck of floating debris. ...
He has been erased from her mind
with the surgical precision of a lightning strike.
All the mountainous connections of adoration
are now upturned and bleeding,
guts splayed out across the continental shelf of his shrinking heart.
II.
What cosmic dream-come-true
then folds itself into brutal origami shapes
that hungrily devour every promise-filled step,
leaving behind only a vacant and cloudless sky?
III.
Now all that remains of their surprising union of the mind
is an infinitesimal speck of floating debris. ...
#love
#heartbroken
#breakup
#hurt
#emotions
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As A Heart Accelerates, Sweet Nothings Careen Into The Devastating Abyss
I.
Is it foolish to still believe
that by reaching out into the darkness
I can light a candle whose flickering light
may eventually swell into a powerful beacon
that guides her magical essence into my life?
II.
Her supernova smile is ripe with quantum fluctuations
that lasso probability clouds around my heart:
she effortlessly outshines entire galaxies with her mesmerizing aura.
III.
She,
the most ravishing woman
I have ever known in my life;
I,
a proton,
accelerated to the speed of light, ...
Is it foolish to still believe
that by reaching out into the darkness
I can light a candle whose flickering light
may eventually swell into a powerful beacon
that guides her magical essence into my life?
II.
Her supernova smile is ripe with quantum fluctuations
that lasso probability clouds around my heart:
she effortlessly outshines entire galaxies with her mesmerizing aura.
III.
She,
the most ravishing woman
I have ever known in my life;
I,
a proton,
accelerated to the speed of light, ...
#love
#girlfriend
#nature
#emotional
#passion
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A Brief Glimpse Of Neurodivergence Appears Like A Shaft Of Light In The Photon-Starved Darkness
A world waiting to shatter,
high definition pictures of the atmosphere
pregnant with the crimson bruises
of temporal estrangement
motions destructive
isolation seductive
into the mind's vibrating eye
I journey
a portent of shuddering violence
manifests as a ferocious gristle of fear
torn from this cowardly shipwreck of a soul
and left to rot in the full wicked smile
of the serrated sunlight;
a harmony
turned into stench
a calm
violated
a whisper like a...
high definition pictures of the atmosphere
pregnant with the crimson bruises
of temporal estrangement
motions destructive
isolation seductive
into the mind's vibrating eye
I journey
a portent of shuddering violence
manifests as a ferocious gristle of fear
torn from this cowardly shipwreck of a soul
and left to rot in the full wicked smile
of the serrated sunlight;
a harmony
turned into stench
a calm
violated
a whisper like a...
#OCD
#MentalHealth
#SelfReflection
#emotional
#SelfDiscovery
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Approaching The Event Horizon Of The Dark-Robed Goddess Of Sleep
I.
Every night she dreams she is an ancient messenger,
effortlessly gliding through the drifting clouds of interstellar gas.
Crawling at light-speed past innumerable galactic clusters
she feels like a solitary photon slicing through a monstrous stained-glass cube:
even with her mind anchored to a racing point
she cannot help but marvel at the swirling rainbows of matter
that so beautifully punctuate the expanding darkness.
II.
As the glowing ember of her mind
traipses across the black majesty of space
each step forward stokes...
Every night she dreams she is an ancient messenger,
effortlessly gliding through the drifting clouds of interstellar gas.
Crawling at light-speed past innumerable galactic clusters
she feels like a solitary photon slicing through a monstrous stained-glass cube:
even with her mind anchored to a racing point
she cannot help but marvel at the swirling rainbows of matter
that so beautifully punctuate the expanding darkness.
II.
As the glowing ember of her mind
traipses across the black majesty of space
each step forward stokes...
#dreams
#universe
#nature
#astronomy
#scifi
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