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 Dec 2022
Amanda Kay Burke
This year drawing to a close
Mind clouded by memory;
Your name
Future is a mystery but one thing is certain
Nothing ever will again be the same
I never thought I'd have to live without you so soon
 Dec 2022
Adrian Holt-Byrd AP
Involving so much clutter, unorganized information just floating around
I go to write but my actions always stutter, I’ll change when I put procrastinating down
The feeling of the thought of I don’t care
The feeling of the thought of I’m okay
The feeling of the thought of I can’t or I can
Every thought comes with a feeling
Some of no feeling yet even no feeling is a feeling itself
My mind feels open, wild, & free just waiting to share
My heart tries to connect with my cerebral but my mind scares it away
The leaves never still, with the wind making them obey
The insects never stop moving, some with one and some without a plan
Everything’s here for something whether it’s eaten away or here for eating
Think of it as you must or don’t think and leave it well
The feelings will come when you think at all
Involving so much clutter, unorganized information just floating around
I go to write but my actions always stutter, I’ll change when I put procrastinating down
Feelings are a crazy thought
 Dec 2022
Aimée
Did you think we'd
Love you less
When you put your flaws on display?

As if they could ever
Be comparable
To even one of the reasons we stay?

They are dust on diamonds
One day they will see what you see and that is the day you cry for joy :)
 Nov 2022
Amanda Kay Burke
A blanket of snow covers ground
Heart is coated in frost
Pieces of memory are scattered all around
Little reminders of what I have lost
 Nov 2022
morning glory
sometimes,
a little sliver of light
is more than enough
to chase the demons
away.
never lose faith. we can save ourselves.
 Nov 2022
Hannah Lurie Bowen
something empty
in my life
feels less empty
when i write
 Oct 2022
Grey
if our fingers brushed together
and you pressed yours to mine
so accidentally-on-purpose
they gently intertwined
and i looked at you
and you looked at me
and we smiled
i think maybe everything
would be just fine.
6/18/2022
Going through my drafts again
 Oct 2022
ok okay
My eyes wandered onto a lonely highway
Only a few headlights remained
They dawdled like fireflies in a midnight sky
Moments like these are few and far between
But when these occur, I feel alive
I can dream
 Sep 2022
Ron
Tell me I am needed,
In your sleep like air.
And not like whispers,
Momentarily there.

Tell me I am seen,
In the orbs of your eyes.
Stare into my face,
Present me no lies.

Tell me I am read,
Between pages of books.
A paragraphs end,
My prologue mistook.

When tired and old,
Lying down in our bed.
Kiss me like I'm young,
And taste what you 've said.
 Sep 2022
ryn
Molten stories smelted
and poured like ashened gold.

We turn to paper
as coffers for lesser ingots - old.

In hopes to lessen;
nay, diminish thy gaping hole.

In hopes to relinquish
and set free caged memories stole.
 Sep 2022
Virtuous
I think the sun has grown jealous
Of my friendship with the moon
I prefer dusk to dawn
And midnight instead of noon
 Aug 2022
Amanda Kay Burke
It was the last thing I longed to do

He was THE ONE after all

Playful smile
Mischievous eyes
Coming with the tide to wash up on my shore to stay forever

Wanted fairytale to remain intact

And just like that it imploded and all its perfection scattered a dozen different directions with one catastrophic explosion

He was impossible to capture
I should have realized that from the start

I tried pinning him down but maybe when I did that he couldn't breathe
I crushed his lungs AND his spirit...
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