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 Jul 2013 jo
brooke
Beautiful Smile.
 Jul 2013 jo
brooke
memories
flash out like
dead light-bulbs
brilliant fluorescent
wiring and then

nothing
(c) Brooke Otto
 Jul 2013 jo
Marie K
Like wine
 Jul 2013 jo
Marie K
I have no talent. Just like wine
So we have become best friends
wine and I

Some day everything will be good.
I tell you that, my dear wine
until then you must keep steady.
Be still, hold on, follow me, down down down.
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 Jul 2013 jo
Marie K
Golden
 Jul 2013 jo
Marie K
You are a star now and nobody knows who you really are
but you are great, a miracle, pure gold
Ohhh you love everybody
But who are you?
Take a drink, leave earth and die just for one night
we are sinners in heaven
We have cheated them and they don't even know
They don't even know
Can you imagine all this fame, so much love
love for the unloved.
Do you still keep in contact with those from old days
God I don't hope so.
We have golden business to do here, we have diamond roses to pick.
When will it be enough, I don't know
I don't know anything,
did I die or am still alive, did he love me or did I he lie.
As my mother did when she gave birth to me
unspoken promises.
I am star and nobody knows who I am, but I am golden
and she dances like rain on the streets, for men in suits with money in pockets.
Maybe tomorrow will be a time for babies, big houses and five persons cars,
but give me another shot and I will throw it down,
just give me another shot.
A shot for the dumb and unloved
for those who never made it
 Jul 2013 jo
Claire E
Gone too soon
 Jul 2013 jo
Claire E
I remember that spring morning all too well
As much as I wish I could forget
It was the Monday after prom
I came into math class, the teacher was eyeing me sympathetically
Then the principle came in with tears in her eyes
What was going on?

She started balling, I could barely make out her words
Then I heard her loud and clear
You were dead
No. No. No.
Surely I misheard
Surely this was all a big misunderstanding and the boy in that car wasn't you
Surely you'd stroll into class 10 minutes late as usual
But it was you in that car
And you never strolled into class again

I remember when I told my best friend, the girl you loved and who loved you
As I told her you were dead I watched the life drain from her face quicker than an avalanche falling,  and it has yet to return

And now her face is a reminder
And now your empty desk is a reminder
And now that bench where you used to sit all the time is a reminder
And that one less chair at our graduation is a reminder
And that picture of you in the hallway is a reminder
Everything is a reminder

No one really knows what happened to you that night
Do people really crash into brick buildings on accident?
Maybe you lost control of the car
Maybe you lost control of your life

All I know is seventeen is way too young to die
All I know is we should've been talking about prom that morning  
Who kissed who, who wore what, who's after party was the best
But instead we were mourning the death of a classmate
That morning we lost you, and along with you, we lost our innocence too
 Jul 2013 jo
Claire E
Oh Mother,
 Jul 2013 jo
Claire E
Oh mother,
I was looking at old pictures of you today
Oh how you looked so beautiful
Your olive skin so glowing
Your big brown eyes so knowing
Your pretty white smile showing

Oh mother,
What happened to you?
Your skin never glows anymore
The light in your eyes has gone out
Those pretty white teeth no longer on display
I guess the plight of life has left you gray

Oh mother,
When I was young I wanted to grow up to be just like you
You were perfect in my eyes
So gentle and so wise
But now I question
Were you ever even happy?
Was I just too oblivious to see your sadness?

My heart breaks at the thought
Because if anyone derserves to be happy
It's you
 Jul 2013 jo
Amy Denison
as I lay in the dark
I remember how it used to be
the sweet childhood
and all those innocent dreams

I think of the days
that I once enjoyed
and of how different
it all seems to be

where did I go wrong
what misery did I entice
to wreck my mind
and ruin my life

the night drags on
and I still cannot sleep
for I am stuck in the past
the place I want to be
 Jul 2013 jo
Lacus Crystalthorn
Believe me, my love,
a beautiful scene in-between the creases of those sheets

And the world wavered, and quivered and threatened to burst into flames!

You are the morning sun,
the beauty whom lights this world of mine,
as you peek over the crest of my horizon.

You are the evening moon,
the beauty whom lights the sky,
every time the sun cannot cover half the earth.


A constant dance we adhere, opposite sides of the earth…
you rise while I sleep,
only passing for a few moments.

A constant song we sing, opposite sides of the earth.
You sleep while I rise,
another step for the beginning ahead.


A delicate noise,
playing amongst our ears,
strumming the strings of our hearts.

It is our ballad, this song-
one the overflows with words of our hearts
to illuminate and give direction to that beginning.
Our beginning.

Our beginning, days anew.
Standing on the edge of the earth, hand in hand,
chasing time and defying storms.


The precipice crumbling beneath our toes, as we begin flight.
Stretching for those stars,
beyond our time,
on the outskirts of the universe we know – hand in hand.

Hand in hand we venture the cosmos,
defying gravity and reason,
but with definite purpose…
To create our composition.

*The stones of the precipice falling beneath our feet, beyond the surface,
as we soar high and above,
rearranging the constellations that time has disarrayed.
Another excerpt from our conversation
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 Jul 2013 jo
Maeve Melia
bring two cups of tea
to the eye of the storm
and let us drink them
under the cold barrage of voices

let us write a book on the soil
with a preface written by gods
and a dandelion index as boundless as time

let us write about an earth
in which tree leaves are sacred
its rain is the verdict of fluttering
and its children are the blue pellucid of life
and its people prostrate to the skies

let us speak of an earth
on which tulips don't grow*
swallows stay and plant dandelions

let us write a book
in the diameter of dreams
in the length of smile and width of tears
with the weight of seedlings
by the ink
dripping from the lips of spring

— M. Melia
*this poem was written in Persian first. in Persian, tulips are the symbol of people who've lost their lives in wars.
 Jul 2013 jo
Mikaila
To Be With You
 Jul 2013 jo
Mikaila
In the end, what's the harm in a dream that won't come true
If it keeps you warm at night?
The years will pass and you'll think
"maybe tomorrow"
Until suddenly there are no more tomorrows,
And you no longer have the breath or the mind
To realize that your dream never happened after all.

That's what my plan is, anyway.
 Jul 2013 jo
Mikaila
(Watching you hold my hand
In that old photograph
Makes me smile with tears in my eyes
The self same expression
As way back then
When I treasured your fingers
Twined with mine
Knowing that soon my hand would again be
Empty.)
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