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 Apr 2015 Kenshō
Hashim ZK
Somewhere in the vanity of hope,
Lie buried the ashes of dreams..
And, it is in its sphere,
A castle of life is built.
 Apr 2015 Kenshō
Jeffrey Pua
Only
 Apr 2015 Kenshō
Jeffrey Pua
She alone will understand
Why the word star in my poetry
     Will never be well put,
Why the colors and the setting change,
And how her name
Does not ring the same,
She alone, where we, she
     Alone.*

© 2015 J.S.P.
Draft.
 Apr 2015 Kenshō
Jeffrey Pua
Should pyramids to dust return,
And tears to soul to rain distilled,
And Sun from end to start will burn,
To love from flesh, at last, we're freed.*

© 2015 J.S.P.
Edited.
Low
We wade and wait through the daily hate to
practice our fractured love each night.
We make and mate once it gets late, just
to have a day's worth of material to write.

Now you're the wet dreams
slowly rusting away my mettle,
and I just smile, nod, and
paint you a ****** portrait.

In the silence between dry heaves,
while waiting for my gorge to settle,
I pray to the porcelain god and
spit on my reflection in the toilet.

I venture outside then to choke on a smoke
and I **** your name into snowy leaves.

Can't afford a deathbed, I'm so ******* broke,
please just **** me on the loveseat.
 Apr 2015 Kenshō
Rose Claire
Don't say words in midnight silence.
For a bird like me might become a crow and pick at your heart and eat your soul. I don't mean to be built this way. But, you came to me in a off day. Okay its true. I'm ******* off everyday but, I try to be true. No that's a lie. Its all lie's. Just get away. Its best for both. Cause, you know I will.......no you don't know! You don't ******* know me. To be real. I've been played before. I don't even trust my sister next door. We don't have a chance. See,.. I trust no one. Not even myself. Its best you stay away, until you feel no more. In fact get the **** out.
I once dreamed about a guy like you. But I'm damage goods.
I will never be . I will never see. I will never be free. I will never be once more. Sure its look good in the out. But,I 'm a girl that will never be without.
So, I'm doing you a favor when I say get the **** out.
Your welcome
 Apr 2015 Kenshō
Seán Mac Falls
Windy as news, at ends of a line,
When eyes are lone, exhausting,
A whisper once grew into dream
And all the world set fire in song.

Love came unbidden in a dour day,
When time was low and everlasting
And sorrow painted its oils on skin,
Framed a tableau as live as nothing.

Love flamed in boxed, hopeless air,
Little words she dropped then fairly
And I was rapt under crush of light,
By eyes, she gifted without shame.
 Apr 2015 Kenshō
Jeffrey Pua
A sofa in the wheatfield,
The moon, the wind-swept stars,
Your head so light
On this arm pillow.
I cannot move the pen.
It's hard to write a poem.*

© 2015 J.S.P.
Draft.
 Apr 2015 Kenshō
Jeffrey Pua
#24
 Apr 2015 Kenshō
Jeffrey Pua
#24
Deities' messengers
On fishing rod alight—
Pair of damselflies.*

© 2015 J.S.P.
 Apr 2015 Kenshō
Francie Lynch
It's drop dead sad
When someone dies,
And you can't pretend
Through dry eyes,
Or even breathe
A grieving sigh
You give a ****!
But you do.
Deep down you wish
He'd do it again.
 Apr 2015 Kenshō
Francie Lynch
In fair Stratford-on-Avon
Is where we set our stage,
This town where
Our Bard was born,
The man for all ages.

In The White Swan
John's son, Will,
Was rightly being toasted.
Young Will had a way with words,
And used his quill
To turn girls' heads
Toward his finest,
His best bed.

Halfway down Market Street,
Just before the Barber's,
Lived the Hathaway girl, Ann.
Some locals called her Cougar.

Will didn't know how old she was
For she didn't look her age.

A few months on,
Her belly grown
They held a cross-bow wedding.
Ensuing vows
The reception crowd
Filed into The White Swan,
Raised their tankards
To toast the couple
With this Avon song:

*Shakespeare hath
His will with her,
But Ann hath-a-way.
Shakespeare, in his Will, left "his best bed" and only his best bed to his wife, Anne Hathaway. Oh, and it was a cross-bow wedding.
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