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 Jul 30 Kalliope
Tre Waters
Not an artist in the slightest,
But I'll pick up my brush.

Every bristle perfectly dipped,
Strokes ever gentle and patient.

My wrist flicks in a perfect rhythm,
Seamlessly blending your colour.

For you,
I do the impossible.

I'll paint the sky golden,
Because you deserve anything other than ordinary.


- Tré
Poems from a fractured mind.
What if I loved you deeply
Just the way I am,
What if we opted out
Of this program?

What if I created
With only you in mind
And you and I excised
delicately
a life of our design?

Will you still love me,
In my real voice
In this body
With this mind
In this our only lifetime?
 Jul 30 Kalliope
Anthony H
Im done im done
I give up. No more
You didn't care
No love just war

It was a game
I kept no score
It's all offense
No love just war

I am blind
Where is the door?
Led astray
No love just war

You picked fights
You have no core
Just dead inside
No love just war

I've moved on
I flew, I soar
Ive find myself
All love no war
A dark memory.
Made of murky yesterdays.
There at waters edge.
 Jul 30 Kalliope
morallygray
Did you ever make it back?
Did you see everything you wanted to see?
Carve your name into the seven wonders?
Summited Everest and made it your home?
Maybe you flew into the sun
Decided it was where you need to be
Shed human form and let your soul take over
If you did make it back, and you roam like Cain
Come find me
Let me know
If you became the woman
You always wanted to be.
 Jul 30 Kalliope
BEEZEE
It’s rained.
Crawdads swept up on the street.
I chase them down with small bare-feet.
Across the street, there rises steam.
The neighbor makes hot oysters sing.
Carolina, is still that child—
She’s in my heart, she’s roaming free.
No need to brush your hair, little Bee.
I like it stringy.
I like black feet.
The story here is one of Me.
It’s where I copped the name “Beezee”
Where I road bikes and scraped my knees.
I ducked and dived and climbed up trees.
It’s forever and a day so sweet.
Nostalgia is my favorite street.
Messy hair, black feet, no shame.
 Jul 30 Kalliope
wardsheart
I realize something,
as I feel… strange—
a love like you.

You did that too.
I once knew,
saw more than I do.

Once… twice…
three times too late.

The rest doesn’t matter.
Because now I see—
that love shaped me.

But I can’t be.
I hide myself in shame;
that’s what it became.

It’s all a game…
walking in and out of fame.

Isn’t that… lame?
When you say my name,
angelic voice sings on key,
special song for me.
anonymous, he disembarks
and heads
for any old london bar

and thinks, should I collapse
and die     ..
and drinks to each strange
passer by
 Jul 29 Kalliope
Malcolm
What if the question
is older than the answer?
What if time forgets
why it moves,
and the stars
no longer know their names?
What if we speak,
but it is the silence between words
that holds the weight.
The road bends
not to mislead,
but to remind us:
truth is never linear.
A seed does not know
it is a tree.
The stone does not dream
of flight
yet both contain the sky.
I do not search
for meaning,
only the place
where meaning once slept.
Copyright Malcolm Gladwin
July 2025
Time forgets why
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