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 Dec 2024 izzn
ZOO
Desolate 1
 Dec 2024 izzn
ZOO
my 1 view wishing to know you
   like a photograph taken years ago,
 Dec 2024 izzn
Bekah Halle
Must we endure guilt’s futility;
To take stock of our soul’s condition and
To release all unnecessary spoil, to
Be comforted by our Maker’s redeeming love?
Or

Must we endure guilt’s futility;
To take stock of our soul’s condition and
To release all unnecessary spoil?
Or rather, be comforted by our Maker’s redeeming love,
And release guilt’s siren.
 Dec 2024 izzn
nivek
to know your weakness
how fragile you are

is a priceless gift
leaving all to God.
 Dec 2024 izzn
Sally A Bayan
Unspoken Narratives

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A late glum afternoon takes place;
two stilled shadows occupy space,
seated on warmth-less corners,
sipping cold, stale coffee...it alters
not, a pricking, awkward quietness,
both alternate, share flitting glances.

Timid, uncertain thoughts
enslave, and sway to and fro,
none wants to be uttered
they block the throats,
trapped...nowhere to go.
into lumps, they've turned.

Two restless shadows inhale
and take time to exhale
unspoken narratives are set free,
all spewed in one long, deep sigh.
a love that's gone awry,
meanders...and takes flight,
suddenly, their verses they can't write
why can't they do things right?
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They're couplets, no longer spliced
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no cadence left, just estranged rhymes
hesitating...dangling on in their minds.
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A soured silence lingers,
bearing a scene in faded watercolors
their spirits, so shaded with pallor.
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sally b

Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
September 11, 2019
(^o^ a silly love poem ^o^)
I love you in the morning,
I love you through the night,
I love you when I fight,
I love you when I tried and failed,
I love you in the light,
I love you in the dark,
I love you through the moon and back,
I love you through hard times,
I love you even if we break apart,
I love you when you’re here,
I love you when you’re there,
I love you even when you’re gone,
I love you everywhere.
I love you every moment--

I love you…
 Dec 2024 izzn
Ken Pepiton
Sculpted faces,
aging drama queens,

all the world's stages, this
is after those, these depths
of despair, where no pieces fit,

Kintsugi, fractured flash bulb scene,

an instamatic moment, a Kodak memory.
Hollywood Blvd... just a photomatic meme function we can use... while imagining converting vhs to mp4, before it's more plastic in the sea.
 Dec 2024 izzn
Zazu
See me, again.
 Dec 2024 izzn
Zazu
I wonder
What will cross your mind
When you see me
In person

It’s been so long
since we’ve seen face to face
I've only become a presence behind a screen
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