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 3° 
lana
i cant bring myself to apologize for something
iโ€™m not sorry for
i used to then
but not anymore
She came to me with heavy eyes,
a story of love turned into lies.
A boy had broken what she had built,
left her standing in shadows of guilt.

But queens do not crumble,
they rise from the groundโ€”
I took her hand,
and I fixed her crown.

I told her: *โ€œYou are fire,
you are gold,
you are the story
yet to be told.

No boy can dim
the light you bear,
your worth is endless,
beyond compare.โ€

So lift your head,
let sorrow fallโ€”
you were never small,
you were always tall.

And when the world
tries to drag you down,
rememberโ€”queens
adjust each otherโ€™s crowns.
 3° 
Carlo C Gomez
Engineering to the Bridge:

"Time passed, but without us. A bit like Kepler's third, I suppose."

Express your "law" another way. Throw rocks at the moon. Stone the satellite because of your own despicable sins.

I see demise in your face. There's something strange about the through lines of your crew, the yellow journalism of their spacewalk.

Posters of the wild frontier, staggered and torn, said nothing will go wrong. That sometimes death is merely the devil changing colors.

"I think not, Captain. You laugh when you should cry. You tear to pieces the pictures of the overtaken. You run from the lie detectors. Otherwise, your narrative falls apart and all you're left with is your withered mind funneling down a ****** abyss..."
 3° 
VD
Innocent naked vision,
Cradled in my shadow's fold;
Sheltered from this burning world,
A fragile spark, a sacred soul

You are mine, sweet thing
Mine for now, in dream and prayer
But soon enough the day will come
When reality rips you from my care

And what waits for you, out there?
Salted earth and rivers of fire?
Gentle lips with teeth beneath?
Cruelty dressed in kind attire?

I am complicit, yet I swear:
I never meant to curse you so
Child unborn, it's just not fair,
I cry every night; I hope you know

See, God's mistake was birthing Adam,
Cursing him with endless fear;
Clothing him in skin and sorrow:
But never ever, not for you, my dear

No. You are mine forever, always
And not for this cruel world to find;
I won't let its evil hurt you
You are safer in my mind
I love you too much to force you to life.
 3° 
Jesus is Lord
Oh, my lord, I thank You.
You gave me a true faith
which have got only few
the price for it You paid.

Some may be sad; I have pleasure
where's god, there's no death.
Some may worry โ€” I am sure
later He'll crown me with a wreath.

In harsh times of sin
he offered us a helping hand
and redeemed us through raisin'
Jesus Christ, our best friend.

And he will raise us too,
I can tell you for sure.
With Him there's nothing we can't do โ€”
his love is impossible to measure.
 3° 
Christopher
Round the wagons,
and call on the dogs.

For there is fury in that mist,
there is malice in that fog.

Arm yourselves wisely.
Shoulder steady, breath slow,
give in to eyeโ€™s end.

Shower sky with shot,
And do so
with fatal intent.

Line, volley and rising smoke
Un-surreptitious spending of saltpeter,
leaves quiet rise to billowing choke.

Loosen formation
Send scouts up ahead
โ€œHow many the count?โ€

โ€œReport:
none dead.โ€

โ€œHow can this be
we took distance,
aimed well
And still count you no heads?โ€

โ€œSir,
machinations of the mind,
maybe it was insteadโ€.
 3° 
kortu valentine
i don't think about you anymore.
except when i become
my own lowest point.
you cross my mind then.
briefly,
grazing the edges
of my reality,
impersonating a friend.

but i don't need you anymore.
so, every time you knock,
trying to sell,
wearing your shiny labels
like a badge,
i'll shut the door in your face
and let the night take you back
to the abyss you crawled out from,
veiled in shame.
this one is about a low point in my sobriety journey.
Iโ€™m from New York she said.I guarantee that when you are from New York, the world is at your feet , as you know I live on Madisson 5 and sorry to ask you,  i never heard about you, are you a lawyer? I might have a case.It all happened on 5 th avenue , it was last month..Do you want a coffee?
 3° 
Salmabanu Hatim
Have been created as an ATM of men's desire.
Don't let hackers take advantage,
Treat with care and gently.
3/10/2025
๐’ซ๐“‡โ„ด๐“‚๐“…๐“‰ ~ Think of a song that captures a memorable time in your life. Attach a recording of yourself humming it.

๐”—๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”š๐”ข๐”ข๐”จ๐”ซ๐”ก, "๐”ฌ๐”ฃ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ซ."๐Ÿ”
๐”ˆ๐”ณ๐”ข๐”ฏ ๐”ฐ๐”ฌ ๐”ฐ๐”ฌ๐”ฌ๐”ซ, ๐”Ÿ๐”ฉ๐”ฒ๐”ซ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ก ๐”ฑ๐”ฏ๐”ฒ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ.
๐”ˆ๐”ณ๐”ข๐”ฏ ๐”ฐ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐” ๐”ข ๐”ฐ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐” ๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”ข๐”ฉ๐”ถ ๐”ฌ๐”ซ๐”ข'๐”ฐ ๐”ฐ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค ๐”Ÿ๐”ฏ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ฐ ๐”Ÿ๐”ž๐” ๐”จ ๐”ง๐”ฌ๐”ถ๐”ฃ๐”ฒ๐”ฉ ๐”ช๐”ฌ๐”ช๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ฑ๐”ฐ โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ
๐”„๐”ฐ๐”ฑ๐”ฏ๐”ฌ๐”ฑ๐”ซ๐”ฌ๐”ช๐”ฆ๐”ฐ๐”ฑ, ๐”ถ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ ๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ข๐”ซ'๐”ฑ ๐”ž๐”ฉ๐”ด๐”ž๐”ถ๐”ฐ, ๐”ถ๐”ข๐”ฑ ๐”ถ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ ๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ข ๐”ด๐”ฌ๐”ฏ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ถ ๐”ฌ๐”ฃ ๐”ฃ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ข๐”ฐ๐”ฑ ๐”ถ๐”ข๐”ฑ ๐”ฃ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ข๐”ฏ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ฐ.
"๐”Ž๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ฐ ๐”ž๐”ซ๐”ก ๐•ผ๐”ฒ๐”ข๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ฐ" ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ž๐” ๐”ข ๐”ž๐”ฑ ๐”ฅ๐”ข๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ฑ ๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿฅ‚ ๐”„+.
๐”‡๐”ฒ๐”ช๐”ญ๐”ฉ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ฐ ๐”ž๐”ซ๐”ก ๐” ๐”ฅ๐”ฆ๐” ๐”จ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ฐ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ๐”ญ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ฑ ๐”ฌ๐”ซ๐”ข ๐”ก๐”ฆ๐”ฐ๐”ฅ ๐”Ÿ๐”ฏ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค ๐” ๐”ฌ๐”ช๐”ฃ๐”ฌ๐”ฏ๐”ฑ ๐”ฑ๐”ฌ ๐”ถ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ. ๐Ÿ“Œ (๐”ฒ๐”ฑ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”ช๐”ฌ๐”ฐ๐”ฑ)
โ„œ๐”ž๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ถ ๐”ก๐”ž๐”ถ๐”ฐ โ„‘'๐”ช ๐”ฐ๐”ฒ๐”ฏ๐”ข ๐”ฌ๐”ซ๐”ข ๐”ฉ๐”ฌ๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ฐ ๐”ฃ๐”ฌ๐”ฏ.
๐”—๐”ฏ๐”ฒ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ ๐”ฌ๐”ฏ ๐”ก๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ข, "๐”ฅ๐”ข๐”ž๐”ก๐”ฐ ๐”ฌ๐”ฏ ๐”ฑ๐”ž๐”ฉ๐”ข๐”ฐ"
๐”ˆ๐”ฆ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข๐”ฏ ๐”ด๐”ž๐”ถ ๐”ฆ๐”ฑ ๐”ค๐”ฌ๐”ข๐”ฐ ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ฉ๐”ฉ ๐”ž ๐”ฑ๐”ž๐”ฉ๐”ข.... ๐”…๐”ฏ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ๐”ค๐”ฅ๐”ฑ ๐”ฑ๐”ฌ ๐”ถ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ ๐”Ÿ๐”ถ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ฃ๐”ž๐”ฆ๐”ฏ๐”ฉ๐”ถ ๐”ฃ๐”ž๐”ฆ๐”ฏ๐”ถ ๐”ฌ๐”ก๐”ก ๐”ณ๐”ฐ. ๐”ข๐”ณ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ญ๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ฑ๐”ฐ.
๐”‰๐”ž๐”ฆ๐”ฏ๐”ฉ๐”ถ ๐”ฃ๐”ž๐”ฆ๐”ฏ๐”ถ ๐”ฌ๐”ก๐”ก ๐”ญ๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ฑ๐”ฐ ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ฉ๐”ฉ ๐”ฑ๐”ž๐”ฉ๐”ข๐”ฐ ๐”ฌ๐”ฃ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”Ÿ๐”ฏ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค ๐”ฌ๐”ซ๐”ข ๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ซ๐”ก ๐”ฆ๐”ซ ๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ซ๐”ก.
๐”‰๐”ฌ๐” ๐”ฒ๐”ฐ. ๐”‰๐”ฌ๐” ๐”ฒ๐”ฐ ๐”ฌ๐”ซ ๐”œ.๐”’.๐”˜. โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸŒบ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ๐Ÿ”
๐”‰.๐”.๐”’.๐”š.๐”ˆ.โ„œ ๐Ÿฅ€๐Ÿ˜”
๐”…๐”ข๐”ฉ๐”ฆ๐”ข๐”ณ๐”ข ๐”ช๐”ข... โ„‘ ๐”ซ๐”ข๐”ข๐”ก ๐”ถ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ ๐Ÿฅน
๐Ÿฅ‚๐”š๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ฑ ๐”ฐ๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ฉ๐”ฉ ๐”ด๐”ข ๐”ฑ๐”ฌ๐”ž๐”ฐ๐”ฑ ๐”ฑ๐”ฌ ๐Ÿ˜
๐Ÿ’‹๐”ฐ๐”ช๐”ฌ๐”ฌ๐” ๐”ฅ
๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ๐”‘๐”ฒ๐”ฑ ๐”ง๐”ฌ๐”Ÿ
๐’ณ๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“
~ ๐’ฎ๐’พโ„Š๐“ƒ๐’พ๐“ƒโ„Š โ„ด๐’ป๐’ป ๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“๐“
๐’ซ๐“Ž๐“‰ ๐’ฆ๐’พฬจ๐“€๐’พฬจ
โ„ โ„Šโ„ด๐“‰ ๐“‚๐“Ž ๐’ป๐’พ๐“‡๐“ˆ๐“‰ ๐“€โ„ฏ๐“Ž๐’ทโ„ด๐’ถ๐“‡๐’น ๐’ท๐’ถ๐’ธ๐“€... โ„ด๐“‡๐’พโ„Š๐’พ๐“ƒ๐’ถ๐“๐“๐“Ž โ„ด๐“‡๐’พโ„Š๐’พ๐“ƒ๐’ถ๐“ ๐Ÿฅ‚
๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐’ซ๐“Ž๐“‰ ๐’ฆ๐’พฬจ๐“€๐’พฬจ๐Ÿ“Œ
๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ
๊จ„โžถ๏ธŽโˆž๏ธŽ๏ธŽ
~ โ„ฌโ„ฏ๐“โ„ด๐“Œ ๐“Œ๐“‡๐’พ๐“‰โ„ฏ ๐“Žโ„ด๐“Š๐“‡ ๐’ป๐’ถ๐“‹ ๐“…๐“‡๐’ถ๐“Žโ„ฏ๐“‡.
"๐“โ„ด๐“โ„ด" ~ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ด๐”ข๐”ข๐”จ๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ก
๐’ฎ๐’พโ„Š๐“ƒโ„ฏ๐’น ~ "๐’ฐ๐“ƒ๐“€๐“ƒโ„ด๐“Œ๐“ƒ"
๐’ฒ๐“‡๐’พ๐“‰๐“‰โ„ฏ๐“ƒ ~ ๐’ช๐’ธ๐“‰. 4, 2025
โ„ฑ๐’ถ๐“‡ โ„ด๐’ป๐’ป ๐’พ๐“ƒ๐“‰โ„ด ๐“‰๐’ฝโ„ฏ โ„ฏ๐“‹โ„ฏ๐“ƒ๐’พ๐“ƒโ„Š ๐“Œโ„ฏ โ„Šโ„ด... ๐’ดโ„ด๐“Š๐“‡ ๐’ป๐’ถ๐“‹โ„ด๐“‡๐’พ๐“‰โ„ฏ ๐“…๐“‡๐’ถ๐“Žโ„ฏ๐“‡...
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๐’ซ๐“ˆ๐’ถ๐“๐“‚๐“ˆ 147 ๐“‚๐“Ž ๐’ป๐’ถ๐“‹โ„ด๐“‡๐’พ๐“‰โ„ฏ ๐Ÿ“Œ
I would rather live in the shadow of us,
than live in the daylight without you.
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 2° 
Zaynub Elshamy
if we watch the day end together
as the colors of dusk surround
    being attached by the night
     as we walk through town
          we will talk of life
             sit by the lake
           smile as we wait
                   for the
                    dawn
We met where the lines blurred-
between want and wound,
between skin and sin.
28/9/25
 2° 
onlylovepoetry
study
your defined mounds and dipping hips,,
lips and heated soles, to ascertain that
your mine willingly, you're alive, still mine,
to have and hold,
not to be me, a left~behind


for
you in and ex,
hale~hail me not,
you chest. convex nor concave,
if it gives, lives, moves, my eyes,
ย ย ย ย mine wetted eyes cannot discern,
and the precious stillness I do so adore
cherish,
contaminated by
notions of you having perished


+
it,
is wished hard away,
wished hard it may disappear,
a sigh. a groan, a puzzling moan, anything
even a sudden dreaming scream,
to confirm that our heat still can be all merged,
so that your light sleeper schema cannot be
touched and thus defeated,
so I write an only love poem,
and sign it with tears
of a cursed quiet streaming,
clouded, most unliterary, but
always
with a super silent adoration, of, for


she,
who cannot be disturbed
 2° 
Lily
Itโ€™s almost been a yearโ€”
a year since I last saw you smile,
since I talked with you,
since I heard your voice,

A year of crying,
a year of trying to understand,
a year of sinking into silence and griefโ€”
a year since you breathed.
For my family member who became suicidal
 2° 
Murray Roberts
You are beautiful;
Your T-shirt says "religion":
Everything makes sense.
 2° 
Dakota
I've come to a realization.
I dont want the impossible silence.
What is truly crave
Is the sound of water
Rushing around me
Swallowing me
Into its darkness.
The pressure of the depth
Slowly building
As I allow myself
To sink.
I want
To let go
Of all my emotions.
Forget
The fears
And feel
At peace.
Written sometime in 2022. It wasn't the outer noise of the city that had been hurting, but the internal noise that was still there after moving.
 2° 
guy scutellaro
the moon lights a bed of frost.
the wind a storyteller.

are the stars and the sea
still there
when the sky weeps white?

the moon lights a bed of frost.
the wind is a storyteller

and the griffons know the failure
of flesh, flesh and bones

and feeling the bones
in my crooked nose,
I understand sunrise
is not a guarantee.

the sky weeps white.

but the nightingale sometimes
sings to me of you in my dreams.


...(if the nightingale sings of me
then know I hear her too.)
The stars were not to blame
Nor the ocean between us
Or even that dreadful place
We used to call home

It was only you and me
Always a little too wrong
And maybe just a little
Too late
 2° 
So
years are funny aren't they?
sometimes they gallop away quickly
dancing and singing into the sunset
other times they dawdle
slowly fading, their bag weighing them down
too heavy with memories to run

this year or year and a half I should say
has never gone slower
a long list of pain
a heavy bag
does slow me down
trapping me in the past
when all I wish for is to run away
 2° 
Mariam
--- แƒ แƒแƒ›แƒ“แƒ”แƒœแƒ˜ แƒแƒ“แƒแƒ›แƒ˜แƒแƒœแƒ˜ แƒ’แƒแƒ’แƒ˜แƒชแƒ•แƒœแƒ˜แƒ แƒ“แƒ แƒ แƒแƒ›แƒ“แƒ”แƒœแƒ˜ แƒ“แƒแƒ’แƒ˜แƒ™แƒแƒ แƒ’แƒแƒ•แƒก แƒแƒ› แƒชแƒฎแƒแƒ•แƒ แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜แƒก แƒ›แƒแƒœแƒซแƒ˜แƒšแƒ–แƒ”?
--- แƒ‘แƒ”แƒ•แƒ แƒ˜. แƒแƒ“แƒแƒ›แƒ˜แƒแƒœแƒ˜แƒก แƒ’แƒแƒชแƒœแƒแƒ‘แƒ แƒ˜แƒแƒšแƒ˜แƒ แƒจแƒ”แƒœแƒแƒ แƒฉแƒฃแƒœแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ แƒ™แƒ˜ แƒ แƒ—แƒฃแƒšแƒ˜แƒ...
แƒกแƒแƒ›แƒฌแƒฃแƒฎแƒแƒ แƒ แƒ˜แƒก แƒแƒ แƒ˜แƒก, แƒ แƒแƒ› แƒ›แƒแƒ›แƒแƒ•แƒแƒšแƒก แƒฌแƒ˜แƒœแƒแƒกแƒฌแƒแƒ  แƒ•แƒ”แƒ  แƒ’แƒแƒกแƒญแƒ•แƒ แƒ”แƒข แƒ“แƒ แƒ•แƒ”แƒ  แƒ“แƒแƒ˜แƒœแƒแƒฎแƒแƒ• แƒ—แƒ˜แƒ—แƒแƒ”แƒฃแƒšแƒ˜ แƒฃแƒ แƒ—แƒ˜แƒ”แƒ แƒ—แƒแƒ‘แƒ แƒ แƒแƒ’แƒแƒ  แƒฌแƒแƒ แƒ˜แƒ›แƒแƒ แƒ—แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ...
--- แƒ แƒแƒ›แƒ”แƒšแƒ˜แƒ›แƒ” แƒฃแƒ แƒ—แƒ˜แƒ”แƒ แƒ—แƒแƒ‘แƒ แƒ’แƒ˜แƒœแƒแƒœแƒ˜แƒ แƒ—แƒฃ แƒแƒ แƒ?
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2024.06.7
แƒ แƒ แƒžแƒแƒกแƒฃแƒฎแƒก แƒ’แƒแƒกแƒชแƒ”แƒ›แƒ— แƒ—แƒฅแƒ•แƒ”แƒœ?
Daisies in a garden full of weeds
Have you ever seen such an ugly thing?
Daisies may look like flowers
But look how they steal our sunlight
Look how they steal our soil
They are not flowers
They are infiltrators


This is a garden full of weeds
This land belongs to us
Now look at those selfish Daisies
Showing off their ugliness beneath our sunlight
Wasting the nutrients in our soil
Look at how they taint our community
Look at how they defile our home

We are incompatible
Their crimes are intolerable
Are you with us or against us?
Hesitation is treason

This is a garden infested with Daisies
Take them all away
And set them ablaze
They can never steal our sun again



Classify

Symbolize


Dehumanize



Organize




Polariz­ยญe





And

Prepare



One to six
It can be fixed
Seven to eight
It is too late




Exterminate

And








Deny





Deny





Deny






­You could have stopped it if you tried
It was all advertised
For just a limited time
Before it was taken off the shelves

A limited-edition opportunity
To step in and intervene
But the event has already passed
Daisy? What the hell is that?


It was all advertised
For just a limited time
You could have intervened
A limited-edition opportunity

That never happened
It never happened
But it will happen again

And you'll see a product you recognize
In limited-edition
But no, you won't buy
Not until it's taken off the shelves
Then you'll finally miss what's gone
If you have the luxury of a memory
But even then

Will you be believed?



One to six
It can be fixed
Seven to eight
It is too late



Now all you can say

Is

Never Again























Until Next Time
 2° 
Austin
Tossing in your sleep
Sleeping through the day

Swimming in your dreams
Tossing them out during the day

Feeling something when you weep
Numbing yourself all day

Praying for the path you don't see
Denying a god day after day
I could have gone to the cemetery,
or back to my high school lab,
find him lecturing from a podium,
bony finger raised,
demagogue of the dead.
I could break him down piece by piece,
cram him in a duffle,
a femur jutting the zipper.
Ignore the groan-
Skeletons are
by nature
never satisfied.

Instead I found myself
in the carnival lot,
The dog was long dead,
the sign kept guard.
Rusty rides slouched like tumbleweeds.
Cotton candy in memory-
blue tack crunching my teeth.
Lewd.

Skeletons fixed on poles,
spiked up through pelvis and spine.
Use ****.
Grip shoulders. twist. lift.
When one slid free,
he collapsed into my arms
all bone-light, lovely,
mine at last.

I just brought him home.
Sat at the kitchen table.
Named him Curly.
Zoom howled: WAGโ€™s gone weird!
Whatโ€™s his name? Whatโ€™s his name?

His name is Curly,
I said, but I knew
his name was You.

We drink wine by the pool.
He never sips.
Sometimes I pour a second glass for the glint.
Sometimes he tells me Danny Elfman
wants to play his ribs like a xylophone.
Sometimes he sighs,
he hates Oingo Boingo.
I laugh. Obliging.
So do I.

When the wind kicks up
he smells of sugar and rust.
Sometimes he rattles the glassware.
Sometimes he wonโ€™t sit still.
Skeletons are
by nature
never satisfied.
A brilliant unofficial companion piece to this poem by Shay Caroline Simmons- https://hellopoetry.com/poem/5169091/skully/
 2° 
girlinflames
The soul says:
I donโ€™t want to carry
this pain alone anymore.

I want to translate it.

And so poetry
becomes a bridge of healingโ€”

what once was pain
becomes self-expression.
 2° 
Zywa
The tension between

I am me and you are you --


is released in bed.
Collection "The Yellow House Museum"
 2° 
guy scutellaro
a ballet of light
weaves golden threads
across the canvas of night.

the fabric of soul and sky
elusive dancers

wonderย ย ย ย alive at the edge of eternity

unspoken poetry breathed in my sigh
words elusive, alive within

beauty poetry
poetryย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย breathed in my sigh???

words elusive

a tear that never fell
shimmering in twilight

left me searching
a shadow running from the sun
 2° 
Ric
In another universe,
they sway hand in hand.
Dancing on moon dust,
In a silver dreamland.
Stars hum their blessing,
the Earth fades from view,
two souls in forever,
where love feels brand new.
No gravity binds them, no ending, no soon just endless soft laughter, dancing on the moon.
In another universe, I'm still hers and she's still mine. Hand in hand, smiling ear to ear,  dancing the night away.
 2° 
Cassie love
I must make it
Even when everything feels too much,
Even when the road is all stone.

I must make it
For the sake of my parents,
For the sacrifices, the sleepless nights,
For their unforgotten dreamsโ€”
Just to make mine.
 2° 
Ree
Like an arrow
shot at an invisible target
love eludes me.....

It looms...
Lurks...
Stalks in my directionโ€ฆ
but never finds me....

A shadow rehearsing
a tender touch,
yet never landing.

Maybe. Maybe. Maybe...
Soft to the ear,
sharp with nothingness.

It walks away
with my name on its lips
and vanishes when I turn to catch it....
..........................................................­....
.........as if the void is my loyal companionโ€ฆ and love is too courteous to intrude....
 2° 
paul sheridan
who doesnโ€™t like eating out
it beats cooking
and thereโ€™s no washing up
 2° 
Lucien
Every day
An overwhelming desire
Pushes me to
End it all right there
But every day
Iโ€™m dragged back
To the one reason I continue to live.
We never learn
Until it's too late
Until the price
Has been paid

We fill the jails
And lock the doors
While the problem
....Is ignored

Bribes are paid
Pulling the strings
Insuring consequences
That they bring

And the objectives
Of political platforms
Belong to Lobbyist
And citizens are ignored

And the poor
Are the victims of justice
A commodity of sorts
In corporate decisions
Life is unfair
And will never be fair
Hold on
Giving up never
What is real will prosper
Numb the pain
Wink from this tribulation
Drain this bad energy
Forget ....
Not okay
but will be.
This poem is in the collection of  10DAYS_OF_TRYING_TO_FORGET_HER
 2° 
Giacomo
It hurts...
Her teeth rip my flesh apart.
It hurts
But she is so gorgeous...

Keep going...
Devour me slowly.
I love It when you do It

Enjoy your meal,
Life.
Never give up guyz. Reading your poems, I realized how many of you are suffering. Itโ€™s normal, you are sensitive, and your connection to poetry proves it. Always be grateful for your pain. Itโ€™s just an opportunity to feel better afterward. Hold on to life. Itโ€™s beautiful, even when it hurts.
 2° 
Lance Remir
I wanted to find
The perfect word
To describe my misery
But the only word I found
Was your name
 2° 
Lillith
bad
i am bad
for wishing you'd message me
because
you're probably
talking to her.
i've told you before
i'll go
but somehow i come back
i'll go now,
properly
unless
nope nope nope, i know where this is going, and it needs to stop,
The biggest danger in Bible study
is not what I takenฬˆ out of
CONTENT
it's what's been taken out of
CONTEXT.
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