Submissions by ClovenTongue34 (Nathaniel Peter)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
My stage name is Cloven and much of my writing is influenced by a lot of the music and mood of the music I listen to and is often heavier and philosophical in nature.
Delusions of Grandeur
Lost between attention and recognition
We can’t see where we’re going because we’ve sold our vision
When cries become substitutes to sell scars for significance
Faking progress when we’re handicapped of our ignorance
Convenience consumers buying platforms in place of mountain tops
When status is our hindrance
Fad love is currency, what happens when the money stops
After we’ve lost touch with our fingerprints
Our purposes and gifts in the hands of our reckless confessions
Following the carrot for the fools gold of vain obsessions ...
We can’t see where we’re going because we’ve sold our vision
When cries become substitutes to sell scars for significance
Faking progress when we’re handicapped of our ignorance
Convenience consumers buying platforms in place of mountain tops
When status is our hindrance
Fad love is currency, what happens when the money stops
After we’ve lost touch with our fingerprints
Our purposes and gifts in the hands of our reckless confessions
Following the carrot for the fools gold of vain obsessions ...
#anxiety
#corruption
#LifeCycle
#LifeGoals
#LifeStruggles
90 reads
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One Man’s Savior Is Another Man’s Devil
Do I rehash these former wounds
What benefit does it serve
When it can be far too easy to think
On the terms of what seems fair and what we don’t deserve
When truth stands to reason
Our scale is a skewed bias
Everything through the filter of our partial sense of pious
No entitlement to bitterness when we are the forgiven
Nevertheless we can all relate for the ways we’ve been betrayed
Our hearts recall the daggers for the ways we’ve been filleted
No claims to monsters lives
When we bear the blade of our own knives
We...
What benefit does it serve
When it can be far too easy to think
On the terms of what seems fair and what we don’t deserve
When truth stands to reason
Our scale is a skewed bias
Everything through the filter of our partial sense of pious
No entitlement to bitterness when we are the forgiven
Nevertheless we can all relate for the ways we’ve been betrayed
Our hearts recall the daggers for the ways we’ve been filleted
No claims to monsters lives
When we bear the blade of our own knives
We...
#betrayal
#forgiveness
#morality
#NaPoWriMo2024
#SelfReflection
61 reads
2 Comments
The Understudy
Identity versus image and the symbol of it all in literary scores
I am made of layers aiming to disclose
As I make myself vulnerable in the cipher of metaphors
I become someone everyone and yet no one really knows
Am I made of tragedies relative to the sentiments
As we parade our scars in the culture as if massacres are fingerprints
When in truth it goes much deeper in the character beyond what you see
Suffering is just one element in the making but affliction isn’t by definition, me
Healing informs perspectives in the ultimate end of what...
I am made of layers aiming to disclose
As I make myself vulnerable in the cipher of metaphors
I become someone everyone and yet no one really knows
Am I made of tragedies relative to the sentiments
As we parade our scars in the culture as if massacres are fingerprints
When in truth it goes much deeper in the character beyond what you see
Suffering is just one element in the making but affliction isn’t by definition, me
Healing informs perspectives in the ultimate end of what...
#confessional
#identity
#myself
#NaPoWriMo2024
#SelfReflection
60 reads
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As To Swallow Or Choke Upon My Pride?
Confrontations of allegations and I silently take the heat
Tension to regurgitation on the pages of this self defeat
Redirecting the rage in a therapy of laying it all to rest
I write to ease the suffering I endure in this life comprised of stress
Disarm the mind of my emotions when logic dictates silence
As I conduct warfare in my prayers to relinquish the will for violence
Choosing joy irrespective of the circumstance
Arsenals unseen, another attack, another battle, learning how to dance
Satisfy my want to be understood by starving the...
Tension to regurgitation on the pages of this self defeat
Redirecting the rage in a therapy of laying it all to rest
I write to ease the suffering I endure in this life comprised of stress
Disarm the mind of my emotions when logic dictates silence
As I conduct warfare in my prayers to relinquish the will for violence
Choosing joy irrespective of the circumstance
Arsenals unseen, another attack, another battle, learning how to dance
Satisfy my want to be understood by starving the...
#anxiety
#bullying
#healing
#job
#NaPoWriMo2024
48 reads
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Am I Cheating Death or Is Death Cheating Me?
Am I alive or just surviving
Waking up and going through the motions
I breathe, my heart beats
Yet I suffocate beneath the surface
Earning my share of the air in my lungs
Everything is mortgaged
I wager time and bid on my dreams
I take the risk of delays against the hope of an un-promising tomorrow
Can dimmer futures house within the light of brighter days ahead
In this world overcast of shadows
The clouds are circling to descend
Heaven is a loaded orbit
Like we’re playing roulette with the stars we provoke
How long...
Waking up and going through the motions
I breathe, my heart beats
Yet I suffocate beneath the surface
Earning my share of the air in my lungs
Everything is mortgaged
I wager time and bid on my dreams
I take the risk of delays against the hope of an un-promising tomorrow
Can dimmer futures house within the light of brighter days ahead
In this world overcast of shadows
The clouds are circling to descend
Heaven is a loaded orbit
Like we’re playing roulette with the stars we provoke
How long...
#dark
#depression
#despair
#disappointment
#NaPoWriMo2024
110 reads
3 Comments
Grand Slam
Lost inside this chaos
The simulation of control
For all that can’t be compensated for
I’m sinking and I can’t plug the hole
Plans subject to these circumstances of decay
It’s only matter of an unknown time frame for home in the remaking
Moving forward as I chase a non existent day
Dreams in exile, occupation taking
Insomnia of realist pessimism
Lost in the maze of the social convention
Common expectations entrapment
Judged upon presumed intention
Caught between critics, debts, and obligations of sacrifice ...
The simulation of control
For all that can’t be compensated for
I’m sinking and I can’t plug the hole
Plans subject to these circumstances of decay
It’s only matter of an unknown time frame for home in the remaking
Moving forward as I chase a non existent day
Dreams in exile, occupation taking
Insomnia of realist pessimism
Lost in the maze of the social convention
Common expectations entrapment
Judged upon presumed intention
Caught between critics, debts, and obligations of sacrifice ...
#confessional
#identity
#NaPoWriMo2024
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
94 reads
2 Comments
Memoirs of A Renegade
Calculations calibration, down to the wire
Ignite my heart again on the fuel of my desire
When everyday I wake up playing with the fire
I mean well as if justified when I am an honest liar
Abstracted messages of coded confessions made
Trying to clear my conscience till enough time passes that all of my mistakes fade
Filling these pages with the memoirs of a renegade
Faith in future havens comprised of references of retrograde
In timelessness there’s no such thing as too late to live again
When all too many times I’ve...
Ignite my heart again on the fuel of my desire
When everyday I wake up playing with the fire
I mean well as if justified when I am an honest liar
Abstracted messages of coded confessions made
Trying to clear my conscience till enough time passes that all of my mistakes fade
Filling these pages with the memoirs of a renegade
Faith in future havens comprised of references of retrograde
In timelessness there’s no such thing as too late to live again
When all too many times I’ve...
#confessional
#corruption
#NaPoWriMo2024
#rebellion
#SelfReflection
79 reads
4 Comments
Insanity
Bring me back to passion
All the things that I once knew
Lost in vain reactions
Broken serenades of failures point of view
Caught up in self traumas of fractures in routine
All the blessings I take for granted
Abusing every breath of the unseen
All the ways I’m disenchanted
Highs and lows, the ups and downs of empty praise
Compensations of heartache in writing
When struggle is just a phrase
I keep speaking like I’m fighting
In truth it all comes crashing
This fabricated narrative of me
The same things I’m...
All the things that I once knew
Lost in vain reactions
Broken serenades of failures point of view
Caught up in self traumas of fractures in routine
All the blessings I take for granted
Abusing every breath of the unseen
All the ways I’m disenchanted
Highs and lows, the ups and downs of empty praise
Compensations of heartache in writing
When struggle is just a phrase
I keep speaking like I’m fighting
In truth it all comes crashing
This fabricated narrative of me
The same things I’m...
#confessional
#NaPoWriMo2024
#SelfDiscovery
#SelfReflection
#SelfWorth
84 reads
2 Comments
Invisible Voices
Beginning from the ending
What do you see
Fate predetermined
Of God or my humanity
If love does not insist on its own way
The sovereign constrains self to give free will
Choosing between the darkness or the light of an eternal day
Capable we are of evil for the sake of something real
Authenticating love unbound to programmed affection
Salvation or damnation, acceptance or rejection
Self fulfilling prophecy takes shape in the form of what we believe
Whether we rise or plummet
The hope or anchor of the ways we have or...
What do you see
Fate predetermined
Of God or my humanity
If love does not insist on its own way
The sovereign constrains self to give free will
Choosing between the darkness or the light of an eternal day
Capable we are of evil for the sake of something real
Authenticating love unbound to programmed affection
Salvation or damnation, acceptance or rejection
Self fulfilling prophecy takes shape in the form of what we believe
Whether we rise or plummet
The hope or anchor of the ways we have or...
#Christian
#faith
#NaPoWriMo2024
#philosophical
#spiritual
83 reads
0 Comments
Do you think that’s air you’re breathing?
Convenience craves control
We are cogs in the mechanics enslaved
Blueprints for consciousness in the drafts of experimental AI
Past the point we can be saved
We are mastered by computers in the name of technological advance
Following algorithms to patterns after the network of digital romance
Minds undone as we plug in
Reworking perspectives of the news that’s sold
What do we believe in
Indoctrinated by the narrative of everything we’re told
What is the source behind it all
The collective coding, the programming of...
We are cogs in the mechanics enslaved
Blueprints for consciousness in the drafts of experimental AI
Past the point we can be saved
We are mastered by computers in the name of technological advance
Following algorithms to patterns after the network of digital romance
Minds undone as we plug in
Reworking perspectives of the news that’s sold
What do we believe in
Indoctrinated by the narrative of everything we’re told
What is the source behind it all
The collective coding, the programming of...
#corruption
#evil
#NaPoWriMo2024
#philosophical
#technology
95 reads
2 Comments
Rose Colored Depravity
I can’t see the thorns in the shape of the bloom
When demons masquerade in beauty
Enchantment, the blind optimism
Count down to ultimatum confessions
We are lulled to sleep in the throes of comfort
Wake up to see the reality
Our smiles sell our hopes like there’s substance to them
Chasing all the wrong things
Pleasures and social prestige
Set the stage
Everything is routine
In circles we breathe like we’re here to stay
Bought on the material and failing to see the cost
How far will we stray away from true...
When demons masquerade in beauty
Enchantment, the blind optimism
Count down to ultimatum confessions
We are lulled to sleep in the throes of comfort
Wake up to see the reality
Our smiles sell our hopes like there’s substance to them
Chasing all the wrong things
Pleasures and social prestige
Set the stage
Everything is routine
In circles we breathe like we’re here to stay
Bought on the material and failing to see the cost
How far will we stray away from true...
#apocalypse
#Christian
#corruption
#morality
#NaPoWriMo2024
78 reads
0 Comments
Vitriolic Values
Caught in a perpetual fight
The inheritance of conflict and the ongoing war
Violence's in reprised roles cast of former strides
Living and dying for the causes of a broken record
Circling revived mountains, reinvented
Sparking the same revolution over and over again
Scapegoat nations, self centered generations
Faulting forward the debts we inherit
Mocking mantras of politicians on repeat
Torn between the red and blue parrot
We suffer, casualty of an unseen battle
Not the flesh and blood, but the symptom of ourselves ...
The inheritance of conflict and the ongoing war
Violence's in reprised roles cast of former strides
Living and dying for the causes of a broken record
Circling revived mountains, reinvented
Sparking the same revolution over and over again
Scapegoat nations, self centered generations
Faulting forward the debts we inherit
Mocking mantras of politicians on repeat
Torn between the red and blue parrot
We suffer, casualty of an unseen battle
Not the flesh and blood, but the symptom of ourselves ...
#corruption
#faith
#NaPoWriMo2024
#politics
#rebellion
88 reads
2 Comments
DU Poetry : Submissions by ClovenTongue34 (Nathaniel Peter)