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 May 2012 Anna
Rai
You twisted my words
How nicely you made it seem
As though I was the one
Who had turned to ice before your heart had melted
Sorry is a strange land
It lives somewhere between denial and acceptance
Is a truth worth the burdon of unhappiness
I will take back all that was mine
And hold my own face in my hands
Your palms were so warm for a while
against my tender skin
which beckoned for the touch of another
Tears fall
But im glad to be back in my own skin once more
I will turn the music up far too loud
And dance in my mind to the journey that will now begin
Never an ending to this madness
Thank you
Im not sure what ive learnt this time around
But thankyou all the same for
Spending a little time
Drinking a little wine
Dancing beneath the sheets
To the uncurable desire
Known as lust
When the dust settles
You may understand
But I doubt it ...
 Apr 2012 Anna
Brandon
Mother Spider
 Apr 2012 Anna
Brandon
A spider clings to the brick and mortar wall
Facing the setting southwestern Sun
A sack of a thousand eggs hangs from her backside
Meticulously thrown over her abdomen
She watches wearily for saboteurs
Or watches hungrily for prey to quench her thirst
Her web ripples slightly from a hidden breeze
Giving the illusion of her dancing
To a lost tribal mamba
a spider that i talked to at work, she gave birth and died shortly thereafter.
 Apr 2012 Anna
BB Tyler
Heaven must be black.
a shadow stretching from some great eclipse;
wherein we are students,
from which we are teachers.
all of us bright lights
in the dark.

Hell is ablaze
with color, more than before,
flooding the space
with waves, crashing to shore;
One
on top of
the next
until every corner of darkness left unlit
is burning!
Every corner but the one
in which you sit.
a speck of void
in endless white.

fence sitters,
on the line between blurring,
and stark separation.
sigh because the grass is always greener.

if you don't like what you're seeing,
turn around.
if you don't like what you're seeing,
close your eyes.
 Apr 2012 Anna
T Andre Bostwick
Don steps outside.

The sight of the piercing blue sky stops him in his tracks.
Immediately his heartbeat doubles and he begins to sweat.

Just look at that thing;
all that nothing.

It's just too much.
 Apr 2012 Anna
T Andre Bostwick
He greets
the day with open eyes
Sounds of sprinklers meet him there.
He feels
the wet grass beneath his palm
and slowly raises himself off the ground
He looks
as though at any moment
he could collapse into an endless nothing
trapped between the moments between the moments

halfway down the gullet of a bear

when you fight gravity
nobody wins
 Apr 2012 Anna
Evan Backward
Elusive
 Apr 2012 Anna
Evan Backward
Let me tell you,
A story.
I'm going to spell
This out to you,
Plain and clear.

In a hazy but pleasant dream,
A crying man turned to me.
He told me, in an impromptu elegy
For the forgotten worlds,
About the repetition.
I vowed to him, I will change that.
The state of constant confusion.
Birthed by evolution, can take a hike.
I will push forward, letting my wrists bleed
From the serrated edges of the shackles
that bind them.

I will remain safe.
Hidden away from the chains.
Supported by my knowledge.

That premonition will be my spur,
To let loose everyday.
That I will blow down
Their paper shelters, tirelessly.
I refuse, to identify
With the hollow, false, self-deluding face,
That they throw at me.
Without reason.
Without care.
 Apr 2012 Anna
Brandon
Yaje
 Apr 2012 Anna
Brandon
Vine of the soul
Releasing of the animal from within
Eyes burning ****** red
Gyrating around the fire
A depraved vision quest
Wandering in the desert
Seeing what was left of who I was
And the animal that I’ve become
Armageddon was here
And gone
 Apr 2012 Anna
Evan Backward
from the inside
I look out of,
the frosted windows 
of my eyes

I'm swimming 
in my own skin.
in the same way one 
might swim in a shirt 
three sizes too large

I'm cold but, 
I don't seem to care. 
actually I do, 
it sparks curiosity in me,
my own discomfort
comforts me

I'm more interested 
in the sensation of the smooth glass
underneath my fingertips 
than the discussion around me

I'm calm. movement 
makes me sad.
I'm content just not moving,
my back bent and 
frozen against the cold metal 
of the locker,
my foot falling asleep 
from the awkward bend of my leg,
my *** quickly losing 
sensation, unnerves me

I'm not happy and
I don't know why.
I'm disconnected from the world 
but I have not retreated into a fantasy.
still half asleep 
but not yet dreaming.
an observer to my own body, 
my sensations and the world around me
 Apr 2012 Anna
Cece
Foggy Memories
 Apr 2012 Anna
Cece
The warmth of our bodies
breathing against each other
is strangely comforting.
         Nice to meet you, too.
I feel your hot breath on my ear
sharing secrets we shouldn't be sharing.
         We don't know each other.
Making empty promises to give
us hope for another day, probably
isn't the best decision.
But I don't give a ****.
         A kiss on the cheek never hurt anyone.
Tomorrow it will soon fade away
and be forgotten as the night that
we didn't have to think.
         We'll probably never speak again.
 Apr 2012 Anna
Samuel
quite frankly I'm
startled to see you
right now

thinking you must live
beside my thoughts, all
the time you share
with them

but here you are
here and beautiful.
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