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.
Despite Being Stranded In Another Solar System, She Still Tastes Like Three Shades Of Gray
1.
scintillating sleek skyscrapers
lining the horizon
and I am hungry
like a car low on fuel
burn the palm trees
in effigy
what do you give
the man who has everything
how do you speak
in a language of blackened halos
sometimes the only thing
that remains to do
is pressing down the accelerator
and yelling
like no one can hear you
2.
how many...
scintillating sleek skyscrapers
lining the horizon
and I am hungry
like a car low on fuel
burn the palm trees
in effigy
what do you give
the man who has everything
how do you speak
in a language of blackened halos
sometimes the only thing
that remains to do
is pressing down the accelerator
and yelling
like no one can hear you
2.
how many...
#love
#breakup
#LifeStruggles
#hurt
#scifi
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The Thrilling Exuberance Of Starlight Is Fuel For The Dancing Engines Of Our Hearts
1.
adoration swiftly rises
like helicopter blades
chopping into stark night sky
thunder of trumpets blaring
whirl of bold and righteous hips
swaying
my eyes flow and flow
with the blood of hunger
blasting beyond
the banality of daily life
unabashed
fully immersed in the molten spine
of our irresistible momentum
the tender polarity of your tears
caressing like oval drops of sentience
shelter from entropy
after hellacious hailstorms
your vulnerable face...
adoration swiftly rises
like helicopter blades
chopping into stark night sky
thunder of trumpets blaring
whirl of bold and righteous hips
swaying
my eyes flow and flow
with the blood of hunger
blasting beyond
the banality of daily life
unabashed
fully immersed in the molten spine
of our irresistible momentum
the tender polarity of your tears
caressing like oval drops of sentience
shelter from entropy
after hellacious hailstorms
your vulnerable face...
#happiness
#love
#inspirational
#spiritual
#passion
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thatched roof hut and berry blooms destined to become fruit for our lips
swollen sepia
skyburn
summer rain
sparkles in your eyes
as the dust
changes to mud
footprints begin
to gather like fossils
unearthed
to dance
one last time
in the arena
of summer’s wistful
wanderings
skyburn
summer rain
sparkles in your eyes
as the dust
changes to mud
footprints begin
to gather like fossils
unearthed
to dance
one last time
in the arena
of summer’s wistful
wanderings
#love
#hope
#inspirational
#summer
#nature
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The Incendiary Transmutation Of Our Astonishing And Indomitable Skylight
1.
The resounding agility
of your prismatic love beacon
strikes wildly across my internal horizon
the hunger of nightime
coalesced into effervescent lightning strikes
a high mountain storm kiss,
the blissful balm of your lips
showering the devastated landscape
of my fluctuating consciousness
with astonishing neon rejuvenation;
vivaciousness intricately stacked atom by atom
by the great wall of your unfathomable essence.
2.
A riotous horde of
scintillating flakes of gold
descends boldly from...
The resounding agility
of your prismatic love beacon
strikes wildly across my internal horizon
the hunger of nightime
coalesced into effervescent lightning strikes
a high mountain storm kiss,
the blissful balm of your lips
showering the devastated landscape
of my fluctuating consciousness
with astonishing neon rejuvenation;
vivaciousness intricately stacked atom by atom
by the great wall of your unfathomable essence.
2.
A riotous horde of
scintillating flakes of gold
descends boldly from...
#happiness
#love
#hope
#beauty
#inspirational
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Time Filled My Pockets With The Glow Worms Of Momentum
1. The Sound Of A Teardrop Distilled Into Alien Ears
the faultless sun
sure shot us
an indecipherable gaze
that day
we drifted to the
atmosphere’s edge
naked
like an orchid blooming
against the defunct metal
of an orbiting satellite
we were left stranded
on the rooftop of the world
where regret pools
in wailing shadows
yet
together we formed Pterodactyl wings
and flew away on thin sheets of skin,
the prehistoric wind brimming
with...
the faultless sun
sure shot us
an indecipherable gaze
that day
we drifted to the
atmosphere’s edge
naked
like an orchid blooming
against the defunct metal
of an orbiting satellite
we were left stranded
on the rooftop of the world
where regret pools
in wailing shadows
yet
together we formed Pterodactyl wings
and flew away on thin sheets of skin,
the prehistoric wind brimming
with...
#dreams
#universe
#astronomy
#scifi
#StreamOfConsciousness
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She, The Only Knowledge That Remains
I.
My mind is a juggernaut
of dirt and steel.
My hands on your body,
the arbiter of all that is real.
With tears that fall
like the spider crawls,
I sing these syllables
of voracious yearning:
how I want you,
how I need you,
to slide open these closed curtains of Self
with the silky drawstring of your trembling lower lip.
II.
Welcoming the sun-stream that kissed across his face,
the...
My mind is a juggernaut
of dirt and steel.
My hands on your body,
the arbiter of all that is real.
With tears that fall
like the spider crawls,
I sing these syllables
of voracious yearning:
how I want you,
how I need you,
to slide open these closed curtains of Self
with the silky drawstring of your trembling lower lip.
II.
Welcoming the sun-stream that kissed across his face,
the...
#love
#gothic
#universe
#uplifting
#passion
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A Wedding Ring Forged Into The Shape Of A Poem
Each day
you educate my heart on
how to extend the boundaries
of love and intimacy.
Each moment,
the jubilant rhythm
of our synchronized heartbeats
showers every corner of the universe
with precious understanding,
that rarest gift that only true love can offer up.
Your breathtaking intelligence
and riotous spirit rise like binary suns,
flooding the verdant planet of my mind
with life-sustaining sunshine.
For without you,
I am left to struggle
in the cascading inadequacy of darkness.
...
you educate my heart on
how to extend the boundaries
of love and intimacy.
Each moment,
the jubilant rhythm
of our synchronized heartbeats
showers every corner of the universe
with precious understanding,
that rarest gift that only true love can offer up.
Your breathtaking intelligence
and riotous spirit rise like binary suns,
flooding the verdant planet of my mind
with life-sustaining sunshine.
For without you,
I am left to struggle
in the cascading inadequacy of darkness.
...
#love
#hope
#wife
#beauty
#inspirational
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A Bewitching Interlude That Crescendos Like Raindrops Falling From The Sun
If,
under the harvest moon,
I held you softly,
and kissed
all the parts of you
that were left jagged
and bewildered by the harsh edges of
life's slings and arrows,
would you return the glint of starlight
from your eyes to mine?
Would you understand
that the way the clouds
drift toward us as our hearts beat in unison,
is the same way the sun rises
and puts to bed the shadows of night?
Your wild heart
speaks to mine,
in the language
of my homeland,
and I can feel the...
under the harvest moon,
I held you softly,
and kissed
all the parts of you
that were left jagged
and bewildered by the harsh edges of
life's slings and arrows,
would you return the glint of starlight
from your eyes to mine?
Would you understand
that the way the clouds
drift toward us as our hearts beat in unison,
is the same way the sun rises
and puts to bed the shadows of night?
Your wild heart
speaks to mine,
in the language
of my homeland,
and I can feel the...
#love
#hope
#inspirational
#universe
#moon
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Do I Tremble From The Cold, Or From The Turbulence Of Your Midnight Kiss?
1.
Beautiful sunlit maiden,
you revitalize my universe
with an unadulterated joy
that pours playfully out
like a bucket of heartfelt kisses.
Even when my only companion
is the steady rhythm of heavy rain,
still you grace my billowing heart
with your startling effervescence.
How I revel in the way you truly listen,
drinking in your calming sustenance
even when our lips are far apart,
quivering as they do with earthly premonitions
that swirl madly with the ravenous hunger
of ripest...
Beautiful sunlit maiden,
you revitalize my universe
with an unadulterated joy
that pours playfully out
like a bucket of heartfelt kisses.
Even when my only companion
is the steady rhythm of heavy rain,
still you grace my billowing heart
with your startling effervescence.
How I revel in the way you truly listen,
drinking in your calming sustenance
even when our lips are far apart,
quivering as they do with earthly premonitions
that swirl madly with the ravenous hunger
of ripest...
#love
#hope
#inspirational
#universe
#passion
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Open Up And Say Ahhh, For Here Comes The Medicine From The Cabinet Of The Long Emergency
simmering in
a beautiful angry broth
ladled out
with wild prophetic precision
a hungry cauldron
of riotous images and fresh thoughts
that dance oh-so jubilantly
spinning silver coins
fading into ghostly reverie
the abstractness of money
lost in a stark crash of hypercomplexity
we,
thunder-ripe witches-brew witnesses,
gurgling throatfuls of carbon
under the patient guidance of moonlight
thrusting bony hips
and wise whispering skin
with worshipful intent ...
a beautiful angry broth
ladled out
with wild prophetic precision
a hungry cauldron
of riotous images and fresh thoughts
that dance oh-so jubilantly
spinning silver coins
fading into ghostly reverie
the abstractness of money
lost in a stark crash of hypercomplexity
we,
thunder-ripe witches-brew witnesses,
gurgling throatfuls of carbon
under the patient guidance of moonlight
thrusting bony hips
and wise whispering skin
with worshipful intent ...
#universe
#environment
#nature
#humankind
#rebellion
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goodbye woman, hello lonesome drifter
drifting charcoal flowers
invade smiling dreams
nectar of bittersweet corruption
tasted
fuel for
the old rusty blues
and twilight
turns her face
into night
a wolf's paw
burned up into
the deepest reaches
of the sky
riding a freight
train
against a backdrop
of soulstreaming stars
sitting
on top
of the world
again
invade smiling dreams
nectar of bittersweet corruption
tasted
fuel for
the old rusty blues
and twilight
turns her face
into night
a wolf's paw
burned up into
the deepest reaches
of the sky
riding a freight
train
against a backdrop
of soulstreaming stars
sitting
on top
of the world
again
#love
#breakup
#dreams
#stars
#trains
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