Submissions by ScottSF21
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Radical blues dancer.
I'm taken by your mind
radical blues dancer
nerdy science teacher
walk into a kiss
hold you under the covers
for hours and hours
said bye at the train platform
reminders the sun does shine a little brighter
sometimes
through the worse of times for the world
the world outside these walls is wild
and worrying me
but I'm happy smiling
snuggled up to you
in your company
and your security.
radical blues dancer
nerdy science teacher
walk into a kiss
hold you under the covers
for hours and hours
said bye at the train platform
reminders the sun does shine a little brighter
sometimes
through the worse of times for the world
the world outside these walls is wild
and worrying me
but I'm happy smiling
snuggled up to you
in your company
and your security.
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To Sophia
working title until I find a better one*
I tried to visit you at work today
but you weren't in
so I just left
and gave in
some things are better
left forgotten
I thought I was over this
but some battles you just
can't win
and we've been over this
a familiar situation
but today your picture
appeared on my facebook
feed
and my heart yawned
like a hungry mouth
full of need
affection is sometimes
the only thing
keeping me going
and from you
sometimes it's
the thing I need.
...
I tried to visit you at work today
but you weren't in
so I just left
and gave in
some things are better
left forgotten
I thought I was over this
but some battles you just
can't win
and we've been over this
a familiar situation
but today your picture
appeared on my facebook
feed
and my heart yawned
like a hungry mouth
full of need
affection is sometimes
the only thing
keeping me going
and from you
sometimes it's
the thing I need.
...
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5 things that bug mi.
1. I hate that I can no longer
wear my Ramones T-shirt
because trendy wannabes
think its a brand
instead of a band
the difference is small
for sure, it's only
one easy 'R'
but that can take
you quite far
you see
the R is for reality
which is what
these people escape
like they're on an
Apollo mission
to the planet fake
they known nothing
of the history of punk
its just noise to them
a reason to fuck and get drunk
and now I'm sounding like an old fogey
crusted, green with jealousy like a bogey
but...
wear my Ramones T-shirt
because trendy wannabes
think its a brand
instead of a band
the difference is small
for sure, it's only
one easy 'R'
but that can take
you quite far
you see
the R is for reality
which is what
these people escape
like they're on an
Apollo mission
to the planet fake
they known nothing
of the history of punk
its just noise to them
a reason to fuck and get drunk
and now I'm sounding like an old fogey
crusted, green with jealousy like a bogey
but...
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Love, farts and all
Love me shits, farts and all
Love me even though
I get spots
Love me even though
I wear a hat
To cover my insecurity
Over my baldness
Tell me it’s fine
and mean it
So I can take it off
And be free with you.
Love me in all my physical asymmetry.
Love me in all my Dyspraxic
Dyscalculic moments of difficulty.
Love me though low self esteem
means I can be needy
and moody.
Love me knowing I’m intense
and open about my thoughts.
Love me though
I have fire in my belly
And don’t always get the references...
Love me even though
I get spots
Love me even though
I wear a hat
To cover my insecurity
Over my baldness
Tell me it’s fine
and mean it
So I can take it off
And be free with you.
Love me in all my physical asymmetry.
Love me in all my Dyspraxic
Dyscalculic moments of difficulty.
Love me though low self esteem
means I can be needy
and moody.
Love me knowing I’m intense
and open about my thoughts.
Love me though
I have fire in my belly
And don’t always get the references...
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5pm, on the bus.
He’s coming back, The driver’s coming back” a voice said.
“The driver had just gone to help someone who broke down, their car stopped right in front of us it would seem “ ,another voice explained.
Our driver is boarding back onto the bus but fear is hitting us as another man is joining him. The man is holding a knife to our driver’s back. WE’RE BEING HELD AT KNIFEPOINT! WE’RE BEING HIJACKED! The man is standing stiff as a corpse ,his red painted face bent out of shape by his crooked smile. Dread is starting to seep into our bones like a cold fog.
Three...
“The driver had just gone to help someone who broke down, their car stopped right in front of us it would seem “ ,another voice explained.
Our driver is boarding back onto the bus but fear is hitting us as another man is joining him. The man is holding a knife to our driver’s back. WE’RE BEING HELD AT KNIFEPOINT! WE’RE BEING HIJACKED! The man is standing stiff as a corpse ,his red painted face bent out of shape by his crooked smile. Dread is starting to seep into our bones like a cold fog.
Three...
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The Problem.
Like an unsolveable problem,
a task beyond the pale,
the impasse rises
like a cloud
approaching overhead.
Burnt bridges can be rebuilt
but the initial arson cannot be
dropped as easily
as autumn leaves.
It bounces back into present attention
the elephant in the room,
uncaged but uncertain.
You can whet an appetite with wonder
yet still stand
still
like an observer watching a hot air balloon
rise over a hill.
Skeletons in cupboards get noisy
much preferable to elephants
(less costly)
however they...
a task beyond the pale,
the impasse rises
like a cloud
approaching overhead.
Burnt bridges can be rebuilt
but the initial arson cannot be
dropped as easily
as autumn leaves.
It bounces back into present attention
the elephant in the room,
uncaged but uncertain.
You can whet an appetite with wonder
yet still stand
still
like an observer watching a hot air balloon
rise over a hill.
Skeletons in cupboards get noisy
much preferable to elephants
(less costly)
however they...
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yet more poems to past loves
1.
I take comfort
that during the universe’s
Creation
We were one.
We were so close.
and I’m sure
but not certain
that those parts
of yours which
were once part of me
look to the stars
with the sigh
of remembrance.
( To R.C.)
I saw you
And a residue
of recollection
Triggered.
You smiled each time I passed
Until we finally said “ Hi ” .
Embarrassed for you
I crossed the room
Like a comet entering your orbit
Sheltered by it
By the closing of space .
Close to your body...
I take comfort
that during the universe’s
Creation
We were one.
We were so close.
and I’m sure
but not certain
that those parts
of yours which
were once part of me
look to the stars
with the sigh
of remembrance.
( To R.C.)
I saw you
And a residue
of recollection
Triggered.
You smiled each time I passed
Until we finally said “ Hi ” .
Embarrassed for you
I crossed the room
Like a comet entering your orbit
Sheltered by it
By the closing of space .
Close to your body...
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Poems composed on Arthurs Seat, Edinburgh.
Written on the sunny Wednesday of 23/7/2014.
1. Among the long grasses
the thistles
Hutton’s ancient rocks
I pause
To take in
Nature’s pride
Neither bashful
Nor arrogant
Just growing
Green
And alive.
2. Away from
the rush of
the city
the noisy clatter
of the irrelevancies
I am restored.
3. A wee bird
Drinks fae a burn
A butterfly flauchters
Oan purple flouers
An Ah feel
Like Ah’m
Li Po
Iz Chinese folk
Pass.
4. On Arthurs Seat
I roamed...
1. Among the long grasses
the thistles
Hutton’s ancient rocks
I pause
To take in
Nature’s pride
Neither bashful
Nor arrogant
Just growing
Green
And alive.
2. Away from
the rush of
the city
the noisy clatter
of the irrelevancies
I am restored.
3. A wee bird
Drinks fae a burn
A butterfly flauchters
Oan purple flouers
An Ah feel
Like Ah’m
Li Po
Iz Chinese folk
Pass.
4. On Arthurs Seat
I roamed...
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Poems on Loneliness.
Loneliness is
encased in a tomb
of concrete
unable to feel ,full.
unable to feel,complete.
You feel like a phantom limb.
feel dismembered
feel disconnected
a lone star in the night sky
fading each time an eye,turns away from you
or to you.
Loneliness is the background noise
of the human condition.
Stolen happiness.
Stolen like a sausage by a seagull.
to go home alone is agony
to wake alone is agony.
the unbearable weight of your own company.
loneliness is life becoming a prison
stocks, chains, the boots,the works....
encased in a tomb
of concrete
unable to feel ,full.
unable to feel,complete.
You feel like a phantom limb.
feel dismembered
feel disconnected
a lone star in the night sky
fading each time an eye,turns away from you
or to you.
Loneliness is the background noise
of the human condition.
Stolen happiness.
Stolen like a sausage by a seagull.
to go home alone is agony
to wake alone is agony.
the unbearable weight of your own company.
loneliness is life becoming a prison
stocks, chains, the boots,the works....
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To my friend Brooke.
Like the moon
and it's tides
our ebb and flow
moods
are in synch.
To see you
after sorrowful solitude
it is as if
the sun has burst through the rain clouds
and though we met
like strangers in the night
tourists of this dream
you have become
as normal in my company
as the sky.
as welcoming to my presence
as the newly boiled kettle.
Between us we hold no prisoners of fear , no flower too delicate
to be touched.
Dear Dear friend
I ask if the air I breathe
and you are of, a different nature.
Surely, they are...
and it's tides
our ebb and flow
moods
are in synch.
To see you
after sorrowful solitude
it is as if
the sun has burst through the rain clouds
and though we met
like strangers in the night
tourists of this dream
you have become
as normal in my company
as the sky.
as welcoming to my presence
as the newly boiled kettle.
Between us we hold no prisoners of fear , no flower too delicate
to be touched.
Dear Dear friend
I ask if the air I breathe
and you are of, a different nature.
Surely, they are...
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TAOISM- My understanding of it.
Based on Convergence with Nature: A Daoist perspective by David E. Cooper. as well as my readings of Tao te Ching and Chuang Tzu
Daoism is very this worldly, humanistic, anti-dualistic, very empirical, very embodied, very deep, very useful, very interesting ,very phenomenological.
Heidegger liked Daoism.
Daoism favours spending time in nature as a way to cultivate mindfulness and understand Daoist virtue. It must involve activity. It must be to understand nature not as a mere spectacle. Daoism rejects Eco-tourist approaches to environmentalism and nature.
...
Daoism is very this worldly, humanistic, anti-dualistic, very empirical, very embodied, very deep, very useful, very interesting ,very phenomenological.
Heidegger liked Daoism.
Daoism favours spending time in nature as a way to cultivate mindfulness and understand Daoist virtue. It must involve activity. It must be to understand nature not as a mere spectacle. Daoism rejects Eco-tourist approaches to environmentalism and nature.
...
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Poems for Dad.
1. Eight years
have passed
since
you
passed
my pen
hasn't
spoken
of it
in so long
yet
it has lingered
on my
mind
in the shadows
I think
of the words
you wrote
on
Julieann's death
In the mirror
I see
my
old man
and
leaning
back
MYSELF.
2. The
Death
of
HEART
in
my life
my family
our society
I didn't feel
like
it was
just
you
who was
buried
on that
day
previous ...
have passed
since
you
passed
my pen
hasn't
spoken
of it
in so long
yet
it has lingered
on my
mind
in the shadows
I think
of the words
you wrote
on
Julieann's death
In the mirror
I see
my
old man
and
leaning
back
MYSELF.
2. The
Death
of
HEART
in
my life
my family
our society
I didn't feel
like
it was
just
you
who was
buried
on that
day
previous ...
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