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The moon, she watches, soft and wise,
A silver guardian in the skies.
She hums to the waves, a lullaby deep,
Singing the ocean into sleep.

She whispers to lovers beneath her light,
Guiding lost souls through the night.
She listens to dreams, secrets untold,
Carving their stories in shimmered gold.

Yet, though she glows with patient grace,
She longs to touch, to leave her place.
A lonely queen in midnight’s tune,
Forever bound—a silent moon.
 Mar 30 Jack Turner
C
I wonder if I will let myself eat cake on my birthday?
I don’t want 25 to be the year that I waste away.


Every sprinkle

is a number,

every morsel

fuels my hunger.


In the mirror,
stands my executioner.
Day three of swallowing the guilt
Nada te importa la verdad,
y eso no basta para ser poeta.

Para ganar las cimas del Olimpo
confías en tus amigos:
tantos y tan tontos
que acabaron metiéndote en sus antologías.

¿O lo hicieron adrede?
En cualquier caso,
merced a sus esfuerzos
tu estupidez -antes
celebrada tan sólo entre iniciados-
ya es pública y notoria.

Dales las gracias, pero desconfía.
 Mar 30 Jack Turner
Sienna
There stood the red roses
In a vase they stood
Petals so healthy
Stems so stealthy
The place was cold

There stood the red roses
In a vase they stood
Petals red as blood
Like the accidents from the thorns
Born from stems
The vase was cold.

There stood the red roses
In a vase they stood
Petals now wilting
Stems now quitting
The place was cold

There stood the red roses
In a vase they stood
What’s left of the petals
What’s left of the stems
Well, nothing
The vase was still cold.

- Sienna Norman
 Mar 30 Jack Turner
Chetan
Somewhere between okay and not,
like standing in a room with no doors—
not trapped, not free,
just there.

The world hums on,
but the sound feels distant,
like watching life through a window
you’re not sure you want to open.

It’s not pain, not peace,
just something in between,
a quiet weight, a floating ache,
a question with no answer yet.
An emptiness grows
As I watch the world burning.
I wish man was good.
Giggles
Chuckles
Laughter
Birds
The mocking birds
The birds I don't quite get
Everywhere they go
They mock another bird
Like it's another average day
Or another standard Tuesday

What did those birds do to you?
When do you not be a nuisance?
Why do YOU have rights?
i think I **** at poems currently but that's fine!
Every life
has a gap
unbridgeable:
the wish
is not achievable
but such so few
will accept-
human nature
this is--with no exception -

life--the chasm
beyond
the reach of reason

we each seem
lost in the dark
seeking a spark
of light
for deliverance
while time
looks askance
in indifference

so much
of life
is lived
(in silence)
in dreams
too many
that are broken.
 Mar 30 Jack Turner
Sora
The stars that once graced the nights,
Now seemed lifeless and forgotten;
For my hands stained with crimson,
Dripped with the imperceptible reverie
Of long gone, triumphant feelings.
Hands covered in stardust.
A brief visit

I sat trying to write
A poem of love
Yes, once Love hit me hard
I sensed someone
Standing beside my chair
Yes, it was her
Twenty years had gone
She looked the same
She smiled with eyes of love
Then, she faded away
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