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In the middle of a dead field
Nowhere to be
Yellow mountains and narrow dirt roads
Surround me
Thoughts of you keep me moving
I'd follow you with bare feet
Across California until my hands find yours again
You are the half that completes me.
Free to make a choice
Free to give my heart away
No matter how far you go,
To you I will always find a way.
 Jul 2016 BarelyABard
Anna Mosca


some poems
long to be gardens
or more likely lakes

enclosed and safe
ideal for thinking
suitable for letting go

where even silence
is guarded precious
embracing yet

leaving time out
somehow a small
palpitation held

between hands
From the collection California Notebooks 01

www.annamosca.com
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SoulSurvivor
(C) 7/11/2016
When Christians were persecuted in biblical times they would identify each other with the symbol of the fish.

It is the symbol of Christianity to this day.

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The droplets, becoming whole again,
as they became puddles, and grew closer.
It was silent,
Except
The conversation playing it’s trick on the mind, as text became voices.
Voices unheard like a quiet bubble, floating on a sea of unrest within.

In the silence,
As the unnoticed got heard,
A slight hint of inspiration returned.
Inspiration that was lost,
Just like the droplets on the glass,
Moving in randomness unaware of the outcome.

In the wind and rain,
In the deep darkness of the night,
It wasn't just the road that was drenched,
the mind was too.
Unaware,
Unsure,
Of what to make of all the webs that it fed.

Conversation ensured,
droplets met, puddles formed.
It wasn't just the water that was flowing any more,
This time,
It wasn’t just the rain that fell.

This time as smiles spread across,
It stayed, and spread.
It reached the mind, and enfolded them in its arms,
Hoovering memory,
Whisking them off the tip of their tongue.

In the silence of the night,
The voices of the mind.
The rain made puddles,
The memories…
THEM.
Click
The magic of that line-
Drawn in crayon-
Calms and excites:
Renders everything else
Meaningless and Infinitely Consequential.
Up* I go
In a swift motion-
to float there,
high,
where meaning and representation
are transcendental.
Only to drift back down,
Gently, rhythmically,
Like a fat, fluffy feather
In a barn stall full
Of day old chicks.
A soft yellow glow,
Sleepily chirping.
 Jul 2016 BarelyABard
ryn
There is a love that rages here.
A kind that's incredible.
One that's illogical
and addled.

It sees through eyes though blind.
It thinks with mind though insane.
It feels with heart though unscrupulous.
It chooses with thought though reckless.

It is selfish and it wants what it wants.
It doesn't care because everything else
bears little weight.
Inconsequential.

There is a love that surges here.
And we are but...
collateral damage.
Love makes you do crazy things no matter the cost.
 Jul 2016 BarelyABard
River
Changes
 Jul 2016 BarelyABard
River
I've been making changes everyday
Since I decided I didn't like the way
I felt and thought
And I only realized today
Seeing myself in the mirror, that I'm different
I speak different now
I smile different now
I think different now
I'm different

It's like, I'm different
But exactly the same
It's hard to describe
It's just I have so much less pain
Before i was stressed and
Hurting
Always disconcerted
But now that's lifted,
I feel loved, light, gifted

This is for all the hopeless, that see no point in
Continuing on in their transient misery
Well, this is my testimony
And I hope you take it to heart
And treasure it as a keepsake,
It serving to remind you and convince you
That your ailing heart
Won't ail forever
Things change, life gets better.
 Jul 2016 BarelyABard
Lauren R
Can words ever really be enough?

So picture this:
Mother's perfume
Cannabis car seats
Lover's knuckles
Best friend's scars
Saddest sunset

Watch me as I turn every word into
My grandpa, gardening
My best friend, taking a selfie
Me, worrying if you hate me
A tree, rotting in its grave
The way the world is so quiet
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