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I stand on the eastern side
of the rainbow bridge
without a passport
I cannot cross

The sunless day offers
slate gray backdrops
to white billows
rising from roaring falls

During the night
I watched the towers
of the city on the opposite shore
it's lights sparkled
throughout the evening
illuming descending flurries
like bits of pastel graffiti

On the morn of my birthday
the snow squalls rise and fall
suspending snowflakes
in an aerial dance

Yes, it is time to dance....

Music Selection
Yo Yo Ma & Rosa Passos
"O Amor Em Paz"
(Jobim)

Niagara Falls
1/30/17
jbm
my birthday poem
composed at Niagara Falls, NY
 Feb 2017 Atoosa
Indigo Morrison
"You were a moment . You are not beautiful enough, you don't give back enough to interrupt my solitude. "
 Feb 2017 Atoosa
hfallahpour
Close your eyes
Make a wish
randomly open the poetry of Hafiz
"She loves you by her heart and soul"
that's the interpretation of your wish
 Feb 2017 Atoosa
hfallahpour
Divan of Hafiz's poem
at this longest and darkest night
longing to be recited
 Feb 2017 Atoosa
Linnea Wilson
I read the poetry of Hafiz
and Rumi, Shakespeare and Neruda.
Hundreds of years a part.
Yet, they all write about you.

Nothing can I read about love
without seeing your face,
hearing your words,
and feeling your skin.

I have been conditioned
like a salivating dog,
to pair your being
with love.
(and rightly so, I'd say).

For your real life love
makes the poet's words
dance
and sigh with satisfaction.

And when I think of your love,
I imagine a love greater
than any ever written.
A bond so close,
it can't fit into poetic words.
May 5, 2014
 Feb 2017 Atoosa
Paige
Dedicate
 Feb 2017 Atoosa
Paige
I dedicate this poem to everyone who is hurt
Mentally
Physically
Emotionally
This poem goes to the people who have dealt with it all but manage to
Live
Smile
Love
Because you guys are STRONG
You never give up
You guys know that the pain you've felt gives you POWER
So that you will never back down
Forget superman or batman, they are nothing compared to you
YOU are my hero
ARE you up to my challenge
A moment of silence is dedicated to you
HERO is what you should be called
I dedicate this poem to those who are up to the challenge of life
I dedicate this poem to those who have hurt but refuse to hurt
I dedicate this poem to those who will never give up
I dedicate this poem to *you
 Feb 2017 Atoosa
Demonatachick
You cannot break the broken, you can't live in the past, throw that memory away, you cannot let it stay, oh I wish I had the power to change every wasted hour, to knock down this growing tower under which I fearfully cower, in my ball of self regret.

             
                    I can remember:

                Tears that I have shed.

                 Lies that I have said.

                 Pain I have inflicted.

              Oh how I feel conflicted.


But know now this, for it is true, for all the things I can't undo, I'd never regret loving you.
No sleep = creativity, how does that work?
Oml this made the daily poem, thank you so much everyone!!
 Feb 2017 Atoosa
mikev
2 letters
 Feb 2017 Atoosa
mikev
I wrote you two letters
Both I sent together -
One was a welcome as well as
a warning of the words to come -
I often said that writing about you
was the easiest thing for me.
Be it the bad times, or the good we shared
I always found a way to mesh the moment
with your feelings, like I forgot mine
on a dusty European coast when you said
You'd come back and the phone never rang.
I watched it for days
At dinner, at dawn - I still remember how
little the food tasted then
 Feb 2017 Atoosa
mikev
i am forgiven
for the ways i have wasted
for days, i had been tasting
fruit from a tree i found
i am forgiven
for kissing her on the mouth
for days in rewind
Neptune, Neptune
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