Submissions by whale
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
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LOVE POEM
Published
26th Apr 2017 11:03pm
26th Apr 2017 11:03pm
PERFUME
Chanel on my shirt
Letters in the grate
Great words perfume and fade
Even two eyes can not see the whole sea
Does it matter that ours was a whole sea
Even seas turn to deserts
May be we were only a bath or a bottle
What does it matter
Empty is empty
Oh it's too hard
And too lonely
I sleep on my grave
And I turn because there's no one there
There never was amongst the worms
And the living
Nothing but a shirt reading letters
On a park bench
In the perfume of you
The perfume of the...
Letters in the grate
Great words perfume and fade
Even two eyes can not see the whole sea
Does it matter that ours was a whole sea
Even seas turn to deserts
May be we were only a bath or a bottle
What does it matter
Empty is empty
Oh it's too hard
And too lonely
I sleep on my grave
And I turn because there's no one there
There never was amongst the worms
And the living
Nothing but a shirt reading letters
On a park bench
In the perfume of you
The perfume of the...
1006 reads
26 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Apr 2017 9:25pm
18th Apr 2017 9:25pm
BAI
His village was by the river
When the big rain came
The river rose and washed
His village away
Ke Ba Lai felt his heart torn out
and the sun hid behind the dark clouds
A month later the British
Came on their boats
Finding no village they carried on
Up the river
Ke Ba Lai saw in this god's blessing
as a high noon sun that cast no shadow
It was thirty-nine years
Before more Englishman came
His people were prepared
And they killed them all easily
Bai Ke Ba...
When the big rain came
The river rose and washed
His village away
Ke Ba Lai felt his heart torn out
and the sun hid behind the dark clouds
A month later the British
Came on their boats
Finding no village they carried on
Up the river
Ke Ba Lai saw in this god's blessing
as a high noon sun that cast no shadow
It was thirty-nine years
Before more Englishman came
His people were prepared
And they killed them all easily
Bai Ke Ba...
801 reads
12 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
13th Apr 2017 10:09pm
13th Apr 2017 10:09pm
BREATH
Of breath water love
Breath is best
As long as you are breathing
The other two will come
As if the flowers care
We are smoke walking
Constantly doused and stoked
By doubts and lust
Cheer up ignore these words
just as the flowers ignore my words
Better to cultivate breath
Like one thirsty for love
And know love like you know air
and water the flowers everywhere
Ingest love without obsession
Not like possessions possess
Or drugs drug
Love...
Breath is best
As long as you are breathing
The other two will come
As if the flowers care
We are smoke walking
Constantly doused and stoked
By doubts and lust
Cheer up ignore these words
just as the flowers ignore my words
Better to cultivate breath
Like one thirsty for love
And know love like you know air
and water the flowers everywhere
Ingest love without obsession
Not like possessions possess
Or drugs drug
Love...
961 reads
20 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Apr 2017 00:59am
13th Apr 2017 00:59am
SKIRTAN
You iron the pleats
Of a linen skirt
Spray on starch
For the scent is reassuring
tap tap tap
And there are shelves of love
And love on the floor
Stacked up in stories
Without foundation
So the cat that passes
Wobbles them
tap tap tap the cat on the pane
And inside one book
Inside the cover
A lover's name and yours
And a date
tap tap blinds on window frame
There are two cups
The second empty
Is there a name for useful things
No longer in...
Of a linen skirt
Spray on starch
For the scent is reassuring
tap tap tap
And there are shelves of love
And love on the floor
Stacked up in stories
Without foundation
So the cat that passes
Wobbles them
tap tap tap the cat on the pane
And inside one book
Inside the cover
A lover's name and yours
And a date
tap tap blinds on window frame
There are two cups
The second empty
Is there a name for useful things
No longer in...
1009 reads
20 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Apr 2017 7:19pm
10th Apr 2017 7:19pm
GLASS
Poles apart
Yet you transcend space
Ice on glass and time
You are gravity
And I'm caught by your voice
Yes I like dancing
Hello old soul
I'm a polymath
It means I'm good in this world
But bad in mine
And I'll change your world
And you me
Mine some more
There's gold here
Yours and mine
Let me be there for you
Be someone that you want to know
Words thrown on a railway line
Yet the light on the pole
Meets the light in your eye
A light till sun
Yet you transcend space
Ice on glass and time
You are gravity
And I'm caught by your voice
Yes I like dancing
Hello old soul
I'm a polymath
It means I'm good in this world
But bad in mine
And I'll change your world
And you me
Mine some more
There's gold here
Yours and mine
Let me be there for you
Be someone that you want to know
Words thrown on a railway line
Yet the light on the pole
Meets the light in your eye
A light till sun
733 reads
10 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
9th Apr 2017 4:31pm
9th Apr 2017 4:31pm
YOGANOYOGA
The grave is deep enough
Time to stop digging
Throw yourself in
And walk away
betrayed humiliated humility breathe
I was glad to have died
One dinner jacket moth eaten
One pullover a sweater
Second hand genes
A jumble sale of selves
Used
No longer fit
One gale will steal these blooms
And tears of gratitude
A smile of comprehension
There are no dramas
No guilt or innocence
In yoga there is only doing
And when you fall
You repeat the posture...
Time to stop digging
Throw yourself in
And walk away
betrayed humiliated humility breathe
I was glad to have died
One dinner jacket moth eaten
One pullover a sweater
Second hand genes
A jumble sale of selves
Used
No longer fit
One gale will steal these blooms
And tears of gratitude
A smile of comprehension
There are no dramas
No guilt or innocence
In yoga there is only doing
And when you fall
You repeat the posture...
727 reads
10 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
7th Apr 2017 1:43am
7th Apr 2017 1:43am
MENORAH
The green field starred with yellow dandelion
The six pronged telegraph pole a menorah
The back of my hand cold blades
Looking up at the menorah lit
Up like a burning bush
And I knew I had to be exactly here
Cock linnet trill from a redcurrant hedgerow
And every sod of this plot I've trod
Shotting elation and sorrow
As the heavens pull me up and the earth
Spins down beneath
And in the meadow flowers between my fingers
Are your fingers
As we lay down close close to dawn
As night closes here lit ...
The six pronged telegraph pole a menorah
The back of my hand cold blades
Looking up at the menorah lit
Up like a burning bush
And I knew I had to be exactly here
Cock linnet trill from a redcurrant hedgerow
And every sod of this plot I've trod
Shotting elation and sorrow
As the heavens pull me up and the earth
Spins down beneath
And in the meadow flowers between my fingers
Are your fingers
As we lay down close close to dawn
As night closes here lit ...
942 reads
9 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
5th Apr 2017 2:53am
5th Apr 2017 2:53am
BREL
If you can not forgive me
Then forget all but not me
Forget even what you have to forgive
I will be your tattoo
I will be your lips ruby
The moon on dark nights
Reflecting your Sun
He planted me and I grew tall
Green leaves to the heavens
But I chose to go down
Become coal
And coal burns and coal chokes
This karma I can not unmake
To become Tree
Again
Karma is Dharma
My lesson is my choice
I accept the lesson of the Tree
Accept the pressure of the earth ...
Then forget all but not me
Forget even what you have to forgive
I will be your tattoo
I will be your lips ruby
The moon on dark nights
Reflecting your Sun
He planted me and I grew tall
Green leaves to the heavens
But I chose to go down
Become coal
And coal burns and coal chokes
This karma I can not unmake
To become Tree
Again
Karma is Dharma
My lesson is my choice
I accept the lesson of the Tree
Accept the pressure of the earth ...
1190 reads
14 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
30th Mar 2017 8:02pm
30th Mar 2017 8:02pm
WILD
Before this time there was a time
When I couldn't stand without falling
For only wild souls stand still
And aye here's a cliff
And 'pon the cliff a tree
That leans towards
The sky the sea and fall
And now I am the tree
Dare no storm tarry me
Nor carry me below
To scree foam and squall
Some will bray others pray
But I will stand before you all
The akratic the erratic
The squawkers that maul
Aye the wild knows me
Well the wind knows me
A hello in heaven and
Haven...
When I couldn't stand without falling
For only wild souls stand still
And aye here's a cliff
And 'pon the cliff a tree
That leans towards
The sky the sea and fall
And now I am the tree
Dare no storm tarry me
Nor carry me below
To scree foam and squall
Some will bray others pray
But I will stand before you all
The akratic the erratic
The squawkers that maul
Aye the wild knows me
Well the wind knows me
A hello in heaven and
Haven...
867 reads
14 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
18th Mar 2017 5:21pm
18th Mar 2017 5:21pm
SEAGULL
Even this seagull over land against a grey sky
This cigarette in my hand is beautiful
For you made this world for me
This nettled path
This wording don't go there
And other signs
The muddy pools in the tractor tracks
The manure on the air
The wind that holds me back
Till the way became the world
And the world the way
The dark on light
On a notepad of my dreams
For all is just as it is
And nothing is as it seems
For this is it
With no heaven to escape...
This cigarette in my hand is beautiful
For you made this world for me
This nettled path
This wording don't go there
And other signs
The muddy pools in the tractor tracks
The manure on the air
The wind that holds me back
Till the way became the world
And the world the way
The dark on light
On a notepad of my dreams
For all is just as it is
And nothing is as it seems
For this is it
With no heaven to escape...
1191 reads
28 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
13th Mar 2017 4:11pm
13th Mar 2017 4:11pm
AGATE
Calf never saw
Cow mother cry
Only her joy at a homecoming bull
She never forget you-o
How she never forget you
Coming home
As the yellow leaves fell
Roots never leave
Even as the yellow leaves
a gate opens
The fire twins race
Bright as tallow wick
Exploding Phaeton
Earth embraced
Morning mantra mouthed
a gate opens
There are people living in the old house
making a life for themselves
I watched them through the bay window
Their things on our shelves
...
Cow mother cry
Only her joy at a homecoming bull
She never forget you-o
How she never forget you
Coming home
As the yellow leaves fell
Roots never leave
Even as the yellow leaves
a gate opens
The fire twins race
Bright as tallow wick
Exploding Phaeton
Earth embraced
Morning mantra mouthed
a gate opens
There are people living in the old house
making a life for themselves
I watched them through the bay window
Their things on our shelves
...
849 reads
12 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
26th Feb 2017 12:37pm
26th Feb 2017 12:37pm
TRAIN
An age whereveryone speaks
Is an age where no one is heard
On a night train to ashram Khajuraho
Sipping on chai wallah's too sweet tea
Mami coughs and now tired didi weeps
Huddled together on a single leather
Sharing grapes splashed with water
I have a coat here have my sheets
Against the air to swaddle or shroud
Now here's a blanket now have my pillow
For why give prayers to God if one
Has preyed on the widowed and weak
Yes the Lord gave claws to the crows
And our bones to carry their meat
But He...
Is an age where no one is heard
On a night train to ashram Khajuraho
Sipping on chai wallah's too sweet tea
Mami coughs and now tired didi weeps
Huddled together on a single leather
Sharing grapes splashed with water
I have a coat here have my sheets
Against the air to swaddle or shroud
Now here's a blanket now have my pillow
For why give prayers to God if one
Has preyed on the widowed and weak
Yes the Lord gave claws to the crows
And our bones to carry their meat
But He...
926 reads
24 Comments
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