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 6d Usha
Onoma
There's a harvest

in adamant smoke.

The table is far too

proportionate--

sit down for a bit.

You alone provide

the spoils.

Sit down.

What a spread.
 6d Usha
Onoma
Manna Mou:

it's our birthday.

Your boy will

NEVER trade

places with truth.
 6d Usha
Onoma
Onoma's a thorough

city-boy,

but he loves his

country peoples.

Let's tip our hat to

hard rain.

Then get some food

in our stomach.

Peace begets peace.
In grammar, a correlative is a word that is paired with another word with which it functions to perform a single function but from which it is separated in the sentence.

In English, examples of correlative pairs are both–and, either–or, neither–nor, the–the ("the more the better"), so–that ("it ate so much food that it burst"), and if–then.

Correlative
-----------
the word intrigues,
not for its functionality,
but for its relativity

we are neither relatives,
blood connected,
nor are we correlated,
in fact, quite the opposite!

my love for you,
from afar,
if not, then,
not at all

you say
never,

and I say, even better!
causing you're confessing,
we are special together,
the more, the better,
our relationship contains
a scriptural clause elemental,
an unconditional
correlative,
for
every
for
e v e r

you
never
utter
……
 Sep 25 Usha
Donall Dempsey
CHASING ANGELS...FLEEING DEMONS

The morning was
a mountain

that had to be
climbed because

it was there.

She wasn't going to let
the mountain conquer her.

The whiskey helped.

She sat through endless
early morning TV.

She wondered if one could die
of endless early morning TV.

The gone cold fried eggs
with the subbed out cigarette

in its centre
like a flying saucer

invaded her
sense of self

"Is this what I've
come to...?"

she asked a mirror.

The mirror kept shtum .

The plate smashed to smithereens
on the cinnamon coloured wall

leaving a satisfying stain
resembling Argentina

trailing down like a Rorschach test
of how she was

feeling.

Another whiskey wouldn't
hurt...would it?  

*

“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”

― Jeffrey Rasley, Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
 Sep 25 Usha
Poet B
-
 Sep 25 Usha
Poet B
-
Tear my sorrow from

my chest, that pain is much more

preferred in the end.
 Sep 24 Usha
Cassie love
Is writing really my thing ?
Yeah I may create stories—
Fulfilling ones.
I may craft poems
That flows like rivers.

But every one can write.
Everyone can imagine

So what makes me unique?
What makes me special?
We all wrestle with the thoughts that come with our art — wondering how we are different, and how we’re supposed to know if writing is truly our thing. It can feel so confusing.
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