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Did you know
And pretend to not?
How much guilt have you got?
Did you look the other way
Or justify
“Well, they want to play?”  
Are you mad at yourself
For what you didn’t say?
Would it have helped
Anyway?  
That thing been there
******* out all of the fresh air
Eating away at the game you love
All that **** you could never scrub
Is that why you walked away?  
Burdened with too much weight
Of all those things you couldn’t say
“Games” you didn’t want to play
And if that be the case
Will the justice long delayed
Have any effect on
Your decisions from today?
 Sep 2024 Aslam M
ymmiJ
Untitled
 Sep 2024 Aslam M
ymmiJ
mountainous
upon flattened plain
termite mound
 Sep 2024 Aslam M
CJ Sutherland
They will rue the day

                  Rich profit from endless wars

                 Stop no more bloodshed

                        Civil Wars started for less

        Wake up before it’s too late


Tanka Haiku
Five line 31 syllables
Pattern 5–7– 5 – 7–7


Inspired songs
1) Bring our Brothers Home 1972
By The Covered Wagon  Musician

2) War 1971
By Edwin Starr

3) We Got To Get Out Of This Place 1972
By The Animals
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge
Rue 9-23-24,
Some thing to feel penance, remorse, or regret for it. Rue is often used in the phrase “Rue the day”

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I still hide you in my poetry
Through the lines and curves
You’re in each letter written
An honor you deserve

I still hide you in my poetry
In every single word
Because not to have you in my poetry
Is a thought I deem absurd

I still hide you in my poetry
Through each gap and nook
Because you’re in each thought
that’s in my mind
And you’re everywhere I look
Times seem difficult right now
Look in mirror and hate what I see
I have faith that if I keep trying
I'll start to eventually like being me
What doesn't **** makes me stronger
I continue building myself every day
Growing
Learning from my fuckups and messes
Fueled by faith in fate that someday I'll finally feel okay
Gotta have faith faith faith
 Sep 2024 Aslam M
Myrrdin
Believe me
 Sep 2024 Aslam M
Myrrdin
So they asked the tree
If you fell, why didn't you scream
But I did, it said
But I did
you thought we were broken
yet we watch you solidly, bravely like joan
with just one comma throughout
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