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 83° 
Davy
Times pass,
worlds change:
everything moving,
always,
forever
—stop never.
 83° 
Arii
Woken up from a dream,
the world the same
as it’d been left
My bed still creaks,
The sky still rains,
The birds still scream my fading name
My heart still beats,
My legs still break
I’ll burn to death in the wildfire
And wake up,
Still the same.
 82° 
Em MacKenzie
Maybe you were never ready
to carry a weight that’s so heavy.
If you can’t set the course,
you’re going to need to follow.
You can bring water to a horse
but you can’t make it swallow.

You have to put your foot down
to ever take a step forward.
From the city back to town,
from space bound to homeward.

But she’s a Medusa with a mirror,
frozen inlove with her own reflection.
You scream your lungs out but even near her,
you’re always ignored;under detection.

Maybe you were never prepared
to share a burden that should never be shared.
It’s been a few years; it’s been some time
since you lodged your last complaint.
I’d like to believe you’re now doing fine,
and you’d like to believe you’re just a saint.

You have to put your foot down
to ever take a step forward.
Follow the air bubbles to not drown
don’t turn a drama into a horror.

But she’s a Medusa with a mirror,
frozen inlove with her own reflection.
If she can’t move will you still fear her,
and her manipulation and deflection?

I sometimes forget Medusa was victim to a curse,
and I never tried to make it better but I sure as hell made it worse.
Maybe Athena could’ve been more forgiving and kind,
she didn’t have to leave her living, or she could’ve made her blind.
She could’ve plugged her ears
so she wouldn’t have to hear the screams
of the men who holds fears
of a woman who dreams.
She could’ve ripped off her nose
or just taken her voice,
sometimes that the way it goes
you just don’t get a choice.

But she’s a Medusa with a mirror,
frozen inlove with her own reflection.
Even if she could scream no one would hear her,
and long ago got used to the rejection.
Even snakes have their beauty.
 79° 
Lost Indeed
I've been Pavloved
Obsession
I've been converted
Devotion
I've been addicted
Destruction
I've been activated
Vibration
I've fallen in love
Emotion

I whisper into the night the thoughts that can’t be rhymed
I beg beneath fluorescent lights
For words that can’t be signed

I love you
love you
love you, love
love you
you
love
I
You
T
 75° 
Kaiden
Written by tge hands if pain,
Thr decaying corpse of your being,
The kind that makes you wonder
Why you weren't enough.
I guess i wasn't enough
 74° 
Sia Harms
I can’t be

Happiness

Today, but

Let me be

Kindness.
 73° 
Paul

There is a thickness to Presence
when light has fully come.

It does not press—

   it holds.

It gathers around you
like dusk after heat,
like blankets not laid over
but risen up from within.

You don’t need to speak.
You don’t need to explain.
You don’t need to hide—
because you are already
hidden
in the Light itself.

And in that hiding,
healing begins.

Here, the ache is not judged.
Here, the story is not required.

Here, breath is enough..

  Not because it was taught to grow,
  but because it remembered
  what warmth feels like..


That slow kindle of hope
becomes heat again—
flames returning
to the heart’s own hearth,
too long left cold
by darkness and despair..

A hearth that survived
on wet matchsticks—
built only
by its own need to endure.

---

It is the hearthfire
that feels the light of hope
first.

The more ash-strewn,
the more hollow,
the deeper the heat
of Light’s permeation.

---

So the soul,
once clenched around its pain,

   softens.

Not all at once.
Not forever.
But enough.

Enough to rest.

Enough to believe--

that warmth this deep
could only come
from the Giver of Light

   ..who never left.

And in that warmth—
without pressure,
without fear..

everything begins again.


"..all is quiet on New Year's Day
a world in white  gets underway"

https://youtu.be/ZJq1FS72ZQ4?si=QyhavoDBfewMj9Go

#Warmth
 73° 
Lance Remir
I refused to let you go
I know that if I did
You'd be gone forever
But you promised
Always and Forever
And I don't want a life
Where promises didn't exist
 73° 
Max Vale
forgive me for taking a chance.
because i can't forgive myself,
for believing.
still, i hope.
 71° 
shadowsoul
I am a firework
so pent up
waiting to explode
all my vibrant colors
all over you

You are
an irreplaceable
porcelain china
fragile,
yet breaks my heart
so easily
with
the softest blow

When I am sad,
When I am happy,
You are so lucky
I love you most
 69° 
Salvatore Ala
A house finch on a juneberry tree
Feeding
On the fruit
That has yet to be
 66° 
Selma
I wish nothing more
Than to be understood,
To be seen for what I am -
My truest form.
Why do you reject me?

I am not in need of anyone‘s approval.
Yet, it seems silly and meaningless
To live life without someone loving
All parts of me.
I long for commitment,
An interest to my soul
And all that comes with it.
Or is the longing itself that‘s foolish?
You are the sun,
Your soul - a galaxy,
Swerving forever
Without an end
Or the beginning,
Pursuing the darkness,
Reaching for starlight,
Just to forget.

Countless lives,
One before another
Or after, sometimes,
It is hard to tell.
In kaleidoscope
Of this trivial violence,
Images shatter
Beneath static veil.
 65° 
Shi Em
sometimes i surprise
even myself –
with the amount of pain
i'm willing to endure
just to be with you.
 63° 
Amethyste
I write - he said
Can I see your poems- I said
I wanted to see him.
I wanted to see the universe.
 62° 
Skye
I'd tell you're worth it
I'd tell you're not worthless
 58° 
EliMay
It didn't take long.
From one conversation.
From one call.
To say this three word prayer.

Please don't go.

Please don't go
When the light is out
And the sirens call.

Please don't go
As shots are fired
And the pressure to fall
Is too much

Please don't go
When your demons call
And memories flash

From friend to friend
As these terrifying words
Cross my lips
Just listen to my
Three word prayer.

Please don't go.
For my military buddies. Those who lost. Those willing to go the distance. And those who struggle with the return.

Please don't go my friends
 58° 
Jon Corelis
Mistakes were made.
Critics were stilled.
Bribes were paid.
People were killed.


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Copyr­ight 2025 by Jon Corelis

joncorelis.com
 54° 
Pierre Corneille
Madrigal.

Du palais d'émeraude où la riche nature
M'a fait naître et régner avecque majesté,
Je viens pour adorer la divine beauté
Dont le soleil n'est rien qu'une faible peinture.
Si je n'ai point l'éclat ni les vives couleurs
Qui font l'orgueil des autres fleurs,
Par mes odeurs je suis plus accomplie,
Et par ma pureté plus digne de Julie.
Je ne suis point sujette au fragile destin
De ces belles infortunées,
Qui meurent dès qu'elles sont nées,
Et de qui les appas ne durent qu'un matin ;
Mon sort est plus heureux, et le ciel favorable
Conserve ma fraîcheur et la rend plus durable.
Ainsi, charmant objet, rare présent des cieux,
Pour mériter l'honneur de plaire à vos beaux yeux,
J'ai la pompe de ma naissance,
Je suis en bonne odeur en tout temps, en tous lieux ;
Mes beautés ont de la constance,
Et ma pure blancheur marque mon innocence.
J'ose donc me vanter, en vous offrant mes vœux,
De vous faire moi seule une riche couronne,
Bien plus digne de vos cheveux
Que les plus belles fleurs que Zéphire vous donne :
Mais, si vous m'accusez de trop d'ambition,
Et d'aspirer plus haut que je ne devrais faire,
Condamnez ma présomption,
Et me traitez en téméraire ;
Punissez, j'y consens, mon superbe dessein
Par une sévère défense
De m'élever plus haut que jusqu'à votre sein ;
Et ma punition sera ma récompense.
 50° 
AndresAlejandro
Today I find myself walking
through this beautiful place,
my soul shines.

Harmonious architecture,
with springtime colors,
that elevate my gaze.

Cold weather,
in a warm society,
a smile they usually provoke.

Today I find myself walking,
and I breathe in the glamour,
I breathe in comfort.

A happiness leaps
through my chest.

Grey days,
with coffee in hand,
and reflections in mind.

Bright days,
that teach you to live
each moment of time.

Grey days,
that teach you to go out
and enjoy them.

A gentle drizzle
that caresses your face,
whispering it loves you.

Today I find myself walking,
May 28th, 2025,
I am here.
Thank you, universe.
 48° 
Orchid
Begone!
You are to be vanquished!
Can't you see my mighty, pristine blade?
Oh, how it gleams and shines
To you,
my doubts,
I speak
You have plagued me for far too long
I will stand it no more
Begone!
 48° 
Bekah Halle
Breathe

Just breathe.
Wait.
Don't act or react or double back.
Just breathe.

Living in this world of the fast and furious,
To wait seems to be too late
Because you're already behind 
Wait.

It's counter-culture
It's not the fight or flight.
It's so simple, it's powerful. 
It's so small, yet so big.

With messages like 'Just Do It',
The world just runs faster 
Because we fear missing out
But in the end, we still lose, ourselves

To what others want,
To what others need.
So we fit in,
So we just, please.

Rather than stop
And risk, for life.
And wait and be
At our Lord's mercy.

Just breathe,
Wait.
His timing is perfect,
Just breathe.

Amen
Lent is the practice of sacrifice (going without) and remembrance. This year, I am giving up chocolate and will try to write a poem in my new “Lent Collection” each day. Enjoy!
 47° 
Amulya Sharma
Some crush confessions can turn a best friend into a stranger.
 47° 
Maria
I met the Soul,
And she was empty.
She was exhausted, unattached.
She wandered charily,
Taking the back streets,
Not to be noticed.
She was unsaved.

Was she abused?
Was she just given up?
She walked so poor, not oneself.
"Why are you suffering?" -
I asked her heedfully.
And lo I realized:
It's my Soul herself.
Thank you for reading this poem!💖
 44° 
Sunamin Tamang
wanna write more 'bout you

but f~ck—

my brain already
burnt all its fireworks.

No.

This ain't fair—
this is cruelty
dress'd in a lab coat
grinning like chemistry.

Ah f~ckin dopamine
my brain is like "enough for today!"
 44° 
Maria Etre
And then
I said,
"All my poetry
is not
fictional"
putting all
these short
little bursts
of inspiration
in a different
perspective
 43° 
Alice Wilde
I was torn from my slumber
Like moss from a stump
By little kid fingers.

Forcibly ****** back into a reality
I did not want to live.

Because in that reality
My family becomes
Monsters.

And I become a slot machine.
In my dreams,
I am levitating,
light as a feather,
as I am elevating,
my body is rising,
up so very high,
as I am lifted
high up into the sky.
The feeling is
sooooo exhilarating,
just free from it all,
an amazing feeling,
as I am floating
away from the floor,
like an eagle,
spread my wings,
OH, WATCH ME SOAR!!!!, and
Then I wake up,
Thinking what
does this mean???
as I am floating within
my sweetest dreams!!!!!!


B.R.
Date: 4/9/2025
 42° 
Félix Arvers
Quel trouble inattendu semble agiter les âmes ?

Pourquoi ces cris ? pourquoi tous ces apprêts nouveaux ?

Pourquoi ces artisans, ces enfants et ces femmes

Ont-ils déserté leurs travaux ?

Un désir inquiet se peint sur leur visage ;

Est-ce un espoir ? Est-ce un présage ?

Oh voyez ! comme ils sont empressés d'accourir !

Une sourde rumeur s'élève dans la nue :

Quel est cet appareil, cette fête inconnue ?

C'est un homme qui va mourir.


Son crime fut d'un jour. D'une peine éternelle

La loi va déployer l'appareil menaçant,

Car le sang qui coula sous sa main criminelle

Doit être expié par le sang.

J'entends. Mais que lui veut cette foule empressée

Qui, sur les chemins amassée.

Va chercher des horreurs qui puissent l'émouvoir ?

- ils viennent prodiguer à sa lente agonie

De leurs transports bruyants la farouche ironie !

- Ils vont le plaindre ? - Ils vont le voir !


Marqués aussi du sceau d'un destin redoutable,

Sur leurs têtes aussi l'anathème est lancé :

Ils doivent tous subir l'arrêt inévitable

Qu'un autre Juge a prononcé.

Cet homme, son voisin, tous pourraient cesser d'être

Quand cet autre qui va paraître

Portera sous la hache un stérile remord ;

Car il faut tôt ou **** que la loi s'accomplisse ;

Mais, ignorant du moins le moment du supplice,

Comme lui condamnés à mort,


Ils cherchent sur son front quelque lueur nouvelle ;

Ils vont interroger ses gestes, ils ont faim

D'aller dans tous ses traits chercher ce que révèle

L'œil d'un homme qui voit la fin,

Qui, des profonds secrets dérobés à la terre,

Près de percer le grand mystère,

Voit le terme fatal s'approcher pas à pas,

Dans chaque son qui fuit, dans chaque instant qui passe,

Et qui peut calculer, au juste, quel espace

Le sépare encor du trépas.


Mais des gardes déjà devant le char placés

Aux rayons du soleil les sabres ont relui,

Et sur les hauts balcons les femmes entassées

Nous ont crié déjà : C'est lui !

A l'aspect de ce peuple, un moment il relève

Cette tête promise au glaive

Dont la justice humaine a brisé le fourreau ;

Puis au sort qui l'attend muet il s'abandonne,

Entre l'homme qui frappe et le Dieu qui pardonne.

Entre le prêtre et le bourreau.


Il vient - à reculons assis dans la charrette.

Pas plus ****, pas plus ****. - On dit qu'il a parlé !

- Il descend. - Puis il faut remonter. - Il s'arrête !

- Toi qui vois, a-t-il chancelé ?

Tout est là, tout est prêt ; le panier est à droite :

C'est par cette ouverture étroite...

Silence ! il est saisi par les exécuteurs !

C'est fait. Que de bravos la place retentisse ;

C'est fait : il est où ceux qu'a jugés leur justice

Ont leur tour d'être accusateurs.
 42° 
Skylar
We kissed our tears to spend forever
                                  Together
     Fell in love with through our fears ill kiss you                 through your darkest fears and make love       through our fears  I’ll kiss you through you fears
                           And darkness
                                 Because
            We. are in pain like the summer rain
                                 My love
                  We made love to our tears
                                      🖤
Patience wearing thin, our emotions akin
Exchanging hurtful words, they cut through my skin
But I remained composed, in hopes of fixing
The things that weren't meant to be broken
 41° 
Lawrence Hall
Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com
Dispatches for the Colonial Office

                               A Failure to Practice Caritas
                         for a Certain Fellow Human Being

                            "I have never wished a man dead,
           but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."

                               -attributed to Mark Twain

When God's good time puts an end to that snake
And obsequies are read over that foul mistake
And the interment prayers are reverently spake
Oh, let us not forget the wooden stake
 41° 
The Blue Bottles
when you were close
your voice would drown me
your hurtful words
the silence crowns me
i stayed quite because i knew
thats the only way i would keep you
i wept
i barely slept
i stayed awake
every stupid decision id make
i did it for you
for your praise
your time
i wish youd stayed
called us "mine"
for an old abuser
 40° 
Foogle
why does the past feel warm?

                         could it be an illusion of

my room temperature mind?
 39° 
Thomas Burge
Everything she is
A garden of rose's dancing
In the wind sways slow
Flowing unapologetically
With loves lost message
The blood runs thick
Red stamp, red stain?
She's pain!
A poison so rich so pure
An overflowing tonic that
I? distilled wrong
She's lost in a sad song
But she cries these tears
To feel and not forget
Everything that makes her
Everything she is
 39° 
Kingston Bao
Slimer? That's what they called me in high school
 39° 
Maddy
Memories are lovely but can’t live in them
There is magic around if your heart is open and your mind wide
When readers react to your work regardless of origin and they are taken by it
Dreams long forgotten come true
When I say I am a writer
The eight year old me remembers all the old notebooks she still owns
I have taken  my own breath away when I say I am a writer
Some dreams come true when you don’t expect them to happen
Later than expected but happening now
Still don’t believe it
 39° 
sierra
I am consumed
Fed, bulging
Bulbous
Splitting at the seams
Engorged with You
Satiated by your tongue
Glutted, packed
I am full
 38° 
Kabiru
Sleep softly soft sweetly sweet still sleepy
Warm with wide wild world well warmly
Close clear conscience consistent closely
Dream deep done deeds deals dealt dreamily
Feel fine fire fly full freely Fisk for Feely
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