Submissions by wallyroo92
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Inspired by life, literature, love and music.
A Wider Vision
After all these troubled and tumultuous times
And the craziness happening around the world
We’ve been able to stay calmly together
Even when things seemed so unsure
After all the ups and downs in recent years
Even when we thought it would be the end
We were able to pull ourselves through it
Even though we lost some dear friends
After all the frustrations and latent vexations
We managed to solve our problems with clarity
Growing older has given us a wider vision
A collective wisdom coupled with sincerity
After all...
And the craziness happening around the world
We’ve been able to stay calmly together
Even when things seemed so unsure
After all the ups and downs in recent years
Even when we thought it would be the end
We were able to pull ourselves through it
Even though we lost some dear friends
After all the frustrations and latent vexations
We managed to solve our problems with clarity
Growing older has given us a wider vision
A collective wisdom coupled with sincerity
After all...
#peace
#aging
#gratitude #wisdom
#gratitude #wisdom
505 reads
16 Comments
A Sestina for Jade
Statistics said she didn’t stand a chance
Now I wonder more about why she’s gone
The words she wrote had something else to tell
While on lock down when we were on all indoors
Like a foreboding to reflect on life
As everyone else had to stay apart
And then as we all tried to stay apart
We didn’t know who amongst us stood a chance
While many were very careless with life
The plague swept away and then they were gone
As she wrote about being stuck indoors
Suffering with something she wouldn’t tell
But then again...
Now I wonder more about why she’s gone
The words she wrote had something else to tell
While on lock down when we were on all indoors
Like a foreboding to reflect on life
As everyone else had to stay apart
And then as we all tried to stay apart
We didn’t know who amongst us stood a chance
While many were very careless with life
The plague swept away and then they were gone
As she wrote about being stuck indoors
Suffering with something she wouldn’t tell
But then again...
#death
#WritingPoetry
#DeepUndergroundPoetry #pandemic
#DeepUndergroundPoetry #pandemic
418 reads
4 Comments
The Best Years of Our Lives
He waved goodbye to his children
All grown up now with kids of their own
His heart was happy, joyous to the core
Life had been such an interesting journey
His wife was tired after this gathering
So she headed early to bed
He kissed her forehead and whispered to her
The best years of our lives are still ahead
Sitting by the fireplace, looking out the window
The last remnants of the sunset painted the sky
The cool mountain air seemed to be inspiring
There by the flames with nothing but time
He wrote down...
All grown up now with kids of their own
His heart was happy, joyous to the core
Life had been such an interesting journey
His wife was tired after this gathering
So she headed early to bed
He kissed her forehead and whispered to her
The best years of our lives are still ahead
Sitting by the fireplace, looking out the window
The last remnants of the sunset painted the sky
The cool mountain air seemed to be inspiring
There by the flames with nothing but time
He wrote down...
#peace
#memories
#wisdom
361 reads
5 Comments
Leave Big Bird Alone!
Leave Big Bird alone!
He’s just trying to live his best life
Why do these bastards want to debone
A beloved character with so much rife
Leave the six year-old alone!
He is a national treasure in children’s eyes
I don’t like some of these people’s tones
They’re trying to bring his career to a demise
Can’t they see he’s trying to promote
Being safe and healthy and just being kind
But these politicians are so cutthroat
Their sinister plans are just plain asinine
He’s taught me and our children so much
To be loving...
He’s just trying to live his best life
Why do these bastards want to debone
A beloved character with so much rife
Leave the six year-old alone!
He is a national treasure in children’s eyes
I don’t like some of these people’s tones
They’re trying to bring his career to a demise
Can’t they see he’s trying to promote
Being safe and healthy and just being kind
But these politicians are so cutthroat
Their sinister plans are just plain asinine
He’s taught me and our children so much
To be loving...
#children
#politics
#humankind #pandemic
#humankind #pandemic
218 reads
0 Comments
Money Lies
I used to subscribe to these mutual fund journals
And then read every one of them from cover to cover
I used to tell myself I wanted to be like those men
And multiply my money like I was the best lover
I wanted to invest with the best and makes so much
I read up on stocks, trades and everything in between
I took classes, read books on anything I could
To become like money managers on those magazines
I got gains, I took hits, I cut my teeth here and there
But I needed to finish my education and get a degree
And yet somehow I was...
And then read every one of them from cover to cover
I used to tell myself I wanted to be like those men
And multiply my money like I was the best lover
I wanted to invest with the best and makes so much
I read up on stocks, trades and everything in between
I took classes, read books on anything I could
To become like money managers on those magazines
I got gains, I took hits, I cut my teeth here and there
But I needed to finish my education and get a degree
And yet somehow I was...
#lies
#humankind
#greed #deception
#greed #deception
238 reads
2 Comments
She Is...
She said she didn’t dwell too much on the past things
“Resolve the issue and move on
Time is of the essence and if you don’t work the plan
You can easily be left behind”
They’d call her a bitch, a ball buster, all those things
Behind her back
But the truth was whenever she’d flex her knowledge
To get the work done, they just didn’t like it
She has worked longer hours than anyone else
Then go home and be a mother
A teacher
A counselor
A planner
Manager
CEO
CFO
Maintenance and Operations
Therapist ...
“Resolve the issue and move on
Time is of the essence and if you don’t work the plan
You can easily be left behind”
They’d call her a bitch, a ball buster, all those things
Behind her back
But the truth was whenever she’d flex her knowledge
To get the work done, they just didn’t like it
She has worked longer hours than anyone else
Then go home and be a mother
A teacher
A counselor
A planner
Manager
CEO
CFO
Maintenance and Operations
Therapist ...
#love
#strength
#power #feminism
#power #feminism
348 reads
6 Comments
Tomorrow's Coming Tide
She struggled with her faith
Felt as if she’d be condemned to an eternity of hell
Simply because she felt free and loved
Battling the conscience
Of years of teachings and preaching and indoctrination
Her mother didn’t want to say..
As if unable to accept her daughter for being this way
It’s not who she was or what she was taught
Then again,
Who are we really on the inside when trying to find ourselves?
Still she struggled with her belief
Wondering if mother or grandmother would still love her
While the rest of...
Felt as if she’d be condemned to an eternity of hell
Simply because she felt free and loved
Battling the conscience
Of years of teachings and preaching and indoctrination
Her mother didn’t want to say..
As if unable to accept her daughter for being this way
It’s not who she was or what she was taught
Then again,
Who are we really on the inside when trying to find ourselves?
Still she struggled with her belief
Wondering if mother or grandmother would still love her
While the rest of...
#love
#family
#faith #acceptance
#faith #acceptance
365 reads
7 Comments
Momster
#Halloween
#scary
#funny #ghosts
#funny #ghosts
320 reads
2 Comments
Killer Candy Corn
His momma was a candy
And his daddy was a corn
Though their love was forbidden
Sometime later, he was born
At first they called him a monster
Looking abnormal and vicious
Unbeknownst to him later on
People would find his kind delicious
"He’s a freak, he’s bizarre, he’s a weirdo!"
They called him an odd shaped beast
With sworn scorn they hated his form
Not knowing he’d be part of their feast
Then he found out his mommy and daddy
Had popped more corns than kettle porn
Now his breed are all over the...
And his daddy was a corn
Though their love was forbidden
Sometime later, he was born
At first they called him a monster
Looking abnormal and vicious
Unbeknownst to him later on
People would find his kind delicious
"He’s a freak, he’s bizarre, he’s a weirdo!"
They called him an odd shaped beast
With sworn scorn they hated his form
Not knowing he’d be part of their feast
Then he found out his mommy and daddy
Had popped more corns than kettle porn
Now his breed are all over the...
#Halloween
#scary
#funny #monsters
#funny #monsters
291 reads
4 Comments
Snip, Snip
#love
#erotic
#scary #funny
#scary #funny
306 reads
12 Comments
Untitled (but I'm leaning toward Word Vomit)
#erotic
#funny
#dirty
406 reads
6 Comments
Ash Dreams
Lost in stolen quick glances and coy smiles
The dreamer goes off into another trance
But this time it burns harder and longer
Knowing all this has a ghost of a chance
But the dreamer lingers amidst fantasies
The all too familiar place of blissful reveries
There, dwelling for decades and centuries
Freely captive in a realm of false memories
And when the desire appears to catch fire
The flames burn and churn without control
All the while the dreamer sits lonely, calmly
Amidst vivid sparks embedded in the soul
There...
The dreamer goes off into another trance
But this time it burns harder and longer
Knowing all this has a ghost of a chance
But the dreamer lingers amidst fantasies
The all too familiar place of blissful reveries
There, dwelling for decades and centuries
Freely captive in a realm of false memories
And when the desire appears to catch fire
The flames burn and churn without control
All the while the dreamer sits lonely, calmly
Amidst vivid sparks embedded in the soul
There...
#MentalHealth
#UnrequitedLove
#nostalgia
728 reads
15 Comments
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