Submissions by Abracadabra (Abra)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I'm just a soul, hooked on magic & poetry sandwiches. My words are fools, dancing as they flirt with the life you give them... & then there's the naughty stuff that wakes me in the middle of the night... one day all that cheese'll kill me.
Trafalgar Square
A green tea leaf
chases your tongue around your mouth
stalking your taste buds
like evolutionary Christmas pudding
with the annoyance of odd socks
Its job is to give you a hard time
and it's a grey day for texture anyway
Food is too expensive for the poor
and there's a forest in Trafalgar Square--
another testament to all our craziness
But it's not enough just to feel guilty,
is it?
There must be more we can do
to help offset all the bitterness
swilling around the world
chases your tongue around your mouth
stalking your taste buds
like evolutionary Christmas pudding
with the annoyance of odd socks
Its job is to give you a hard time
and it's a grey day for texture anyway
Food is too expensive for the poor
and there's a forest in Trafalgar Square--
another testament to all our craziness
But it's not enough just to feel guilty,
is it?
There must be more we can do
to help offset all the bitterness
swilling around the world
214 reads
1 Comment
Available
We agreed we were both available
and we tore off our clothes
real slow
We were soon discovering some special places
laughing together like a couple of kids
unstoppablehearts racing away on a rogue wave
Why, we were cooler than cool
on a desert day at noon
damned if we did
and damned if we didn't
and we both knew
there would be no way back ever
He told me
if you knew the why
you didn't always need to know the how
and although that may or may not have been true
one thing was sure
our tongues...
and we tore off our clothes
real slow
We were soon discovering some special places
laughing together like a couple of kids
unstoppablehearts racing away on a rogue wave
Why, we were cooler than cool
on a desert day at noon
damned if we did
and damned if we didn't
and we both knew
there would be no way back ever
He told me
if you knew the why
you didn't always need to know the how
and although that may or may not have been true
one thing was sure
our tongues...
257 reads
3 Comments
God's a Serial Killer
Not long ago they would have burned me at the stake
for ever breathing this out loud
but now our modern world is civilised,
we have the internet and cable television
yet millions never get to watch
and die from malnutrition every year
So God's a serial killer ~ it's straight from the hip
but I can no longer defend Him or deny
the evidence is incontrovertible
earthquakes, tsunami, famine, disease and drought
That's not us - it's all down to Him
...
for ever breathing this out loud
but now our modern world is civilised,
we have the internet and cable television
yet millions never get to watch
and die from malnutrition every year
So God's a serial killer ~ it's straight from the hip
but I can no longer defend Him or deny
the evidence is incontrovertible
earthquakes, tsunami, famine, disease and drought
That's not us - it's all down to Him
...
517 reads
10 Comments
Values
There's an empty old house in Bulgaria
at the foot of the mountains,
near a European fault line.
It has large windows and a green porch.
A dream going cheap
for the same price as my beat-up VW
or half a British holiday.
With no immediate neighbours,
it comes with its own land
complete with fruit trees
and outbuildings.
There's space
to grow things--
keep a donkey
and oh,
there's a well as well
I...
at the foot of the mountains,
near a European fault line.
It has large windows and a green porch.
A dream going cheap
for the same price as my beat-up VW
or half a British holiday.
With no immediate neighbours,
it comes with its own land
complete with fruit trees
and outbuildings.
There's space
to grow things--
keep a donkey
and oh,
there's a well as well
I...
357 reads
4 Comments
Teddy
Why do you keep
that old Teddy bear
and who are you hiding from
Why do you cry
when you watch sad movies
don't you know where your heart
belongs?
Last night
when we danced in the rain
threw our shoes to the moon
and sucked at the stars through a straw
Last night
making time stand still
was the easiest thing in the world
For Fucks sake, God
stop murdering our planet.
that old Teddy bear
and who are you hiding from
Why do you cry
when you watch sad movies
don't you know where your heart
belongs?
Last night
when we danced in the rain
threw our shoes to the moon
and sucked at the stars through a straw
Last night
making time stand still
was the easiest thing in the world
For Fucks sake, God
stop murdering our planet.
308 reads
3 Comments
DU Poetry : Submissions by Abracadabra (Abra)