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The Sun, my dear love,
My sweet Sol, I thank you,
For this marvelous gift
You have given to me.

This present of chasing you,
Is glorious, others would dream of this,
But did it need this catch twenty-two,
Did it need this sickness, this curse?

I am sick - diseased,
Due to your gift my dear,
Blessed to be in your love,
Cursed to be burnt by your rays.

I let my infatuation build oblivion,
I let myself decay in your presence,
I let myself fall, deep down —
Let myself become addicted to abuse.

Please take back this gift,
Please cure me of your curse,
This isn't love, it never was,
This is dependence, this is toxicity.

I let you drain my blood and soul,
While believing you're the light,
The very thing that brings life,
But I was only feeding your vampiric ways.

You were never the bright Sol,
You were the grey, the outlier,
I am the green —was the green
I too, am like you now, a vampire, dead.

Bring me my freedom,
Feed me my sweet future,
I must find the necromancer in his home,
Ask him to bring me back to life.

Just so I can run far away,

Just so I can turn back to green.
- C.c
I can feel her
in my head
what we talked of
the things She said

I can feel her in my head.
 0° 
Vesper
Children sleeping peacefully
While I sit awake
Shivering
Blood covered blade
Clutched
White knuckled
In my palm
It doesn't hurt
Anymore
So I cut deeper
Permanent scars
I hate myself
I love the pain
 0° 
Salmabanu Hatim
For you has blossomed,
I know you are not ready yet,
But if you can cherish even a single petal of my love in your heart,
I pray its fragrance may awaken and
blossom your love for me,
I await patiently always by your side.
31/7/ 2025
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Dency
You know
In the hush between words
In the way a name
Feels lighter or heavier
On the tongue.

You know when it's love
Not by the flowers they bring
Bt by how they stay
When the pedals fall.

You know who's yours
And who's only passing
Through the hollow
Of your hope .

You know who holds you
With clean hands
And who touches you
With doubt.

You know who to trust
By the silence
That doesn't sting.

You know  who to choose
By how your soul softens
When they speak.

You always know
Before the goodbye
Before the first lie
Before the ache .

Even when you pretend
You don't
You do.

Because when it's real,
You never have to ask
Bt when it's not,
No answer ever fits


You know
You've always known.
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Lizzy Hamato
You've got,
brown eyes like the devils liquor-
burn me slow, and i'll drink it quicker
I'll bare my throat, i'll meet your dare

So take it-
my guilt, my breath, my spine and silent prayers,
I'll burn for you, raw and loud
A sinner begging to be proud

I'd drink the devils liquor anytime with you
 0° 
Mike Adam
Today some cloud
Put on a show,
Streaking across
Clear blue sky.

Pretty
Empty
Condensation
Evaporating far away
Ink flows on the page
Whispers of stories so bold
Time held in each line
Revealing past deeds untold
Words act as a guage
Of our thoughts, from young to old
Baring through the age
When gazing on words untold
By turning each page
Growth of ideas unfold
Structured as a 5:7:5 haiku, but I tried to make it rhyme.
"Real?"
"Sure, why not?"

No
purpose.
Just
stillness.

(presence...)

Drowning in it with you —
no air,
no need,
no expectations.
Just there.

Some questions
don’t
need
answers.

(just presence...)
Some moments don’t need meaning — just presence.
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mysterie
i looked into
her hazel eyes
a little too long --
which had
surprisingly
been long enough
to wonder
if forever
could fit
in
a
glance.
date wrote: 29/6
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Stefano Benni
Cacciari: il fascismo è lontano
Occhetto: il fascismo è vicino
Cacciari: ma dove lo vedi?
Occhetto: là, sul falsopiano
Cacciari: ma è solo un puntino
Occhetto: ma è enorme, sciocchino
Cacciari: è una nuvola bassa
Occhetto: è una squadraccia
Scusate se interrompo la conversazione
disse il capo del plotone d'esecuzione.
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Marshal Gebbie
Gilgamesh’s return and the reckoning of wisdom

So Gilgamesh, with empty hand,
returned at last to mortal land.
No plant of life, no sacred charm—
just calloused feet and weathered arm.

The snake had stolen the living root,
his hopes undone beneath its boot.
No second chance, no sacred breath—
just days that marched toward certain death.

But Uruk stood, its walls still high,
its towers brushing against the sky.
And in those stones, he saw his name,
not godhood's flame, but mortal fame.

He turned and spoke to none but air:
“O winds, be witness. Time, beware.
Though flesh must fade and blood grow still,
a city stands by human will.

Not gods, not dreams, nor deathless kings—
but hands that carve and voices sing.
In every stone and every stair,
I leave my soul—I leave it there.”

And so he carved upon the gate
the tale of loss, the weight of fate.
No longer king, no longer god—
just one who'd wept and walked where trod

no man before, nor since with ease—
a soul that questioned, bruised by trees
of cedar, stars, and serpent's guile—
and found in death, a life worthwhile.
Some may scoff at the concept of a poetic liaison with Her Highness, Madam Chat?
At the beginning I had no access to these ancient writings, she did have access ...and she kindly made the offer to pen a poetic rendition in my personal handscript, the rhyming, metered mode in which I write.
I gratefully accepted the opportunity to not only follow this epic write from the Akkadian antiquity... but also to share it with you, my fellow lovers of poetry.
On behalf of all who have imbibed in this magnificent tale and enjoyed it...
Our gratitude, Madam Chat GPT.

M@Foxglove.Taranaki.NZ
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Nicole
We played hide and seek in the dark
But we didn't talk about shadows
We swam together in the pool
But speak only in the shallows
You told me not to do what you do
but to learn and do better
Now I call out the truth
but they like the silent me better
Go say I'm the broken one
because I talk about my feelings
But we all grew in the poison,
I'm just the one healing
 0° 
T
It was nice,
but I’m ready to go.
To go grow.
To go learn all I can learn,
and know all I can know.
To hold more hands,
give even biggers hugs.
To share more of my precious love.
 0° 
AUSTIN FIELDS
your skin
has a seat in
that chair,
in every universe
you belong
 0° 
Pho
You bloom
between galaxies,
a whisper in the dark
where stars go quiet.

I’ve touched you
in the petal’s curl,
in pollen floating
through forgotten light.

You were a flower
growing from meteor stone,
a garden hidden
in the hush of moons.

Each orbit,
I return.
Each bloom,
you wait.
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KEY
A love poem with
Only four words or
Less, a few words, in
Hope I might impress:
“Here, there, and everywhere.”
I promise to find
You in every life-time,
Nevertheless.
 0° 
JRF
I’m right beside you.
Please do not think that I would
Be anywhere else.
A Haiku to my loved ones
 0° 
badwords
When your phone falls down
The screen is already cracked
There is no hurry
 0° 
ghostsonpaper
You used to be the place
Where I’d unravel all my sins
Now I don’t know where to start
Because I don’t know where you end
 0° 
Nat Lipstadt
"These days
I'll sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend
Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them"
Jackson Browne

<>

these days,
you can come by tween
the mostly soft warming cracking of Dawn,
and the early born-ing of
the first peek of a full grown
but yet
sleepy sunrise,

you'll find me siting on a
asshard dock,
two seagulls staring at the
human interloper,
alone with the threads in my
hardened head,
beating time in casual rhyme,
because that's what poets do,
to warm up their
tongues & toes,
clear their eyes
and
sniffling nose,
their partly opened,
party closed,
throats, eyes and
give up, sacrifice
the longest list of little lies,
that makes (forces) us to get up  in the undimming earlies,
when it's just me, the gulls,
& the minnows poking around,

the fluke,
smarter but not wiser,
further out in deep water,
waiting to be caught

and
the cool blood barely flows,
until the rising orb warms
our fragility,
and we review the stories old,
that make us cold at night promising ourselves that
today you'll do that thing(s)
you've been putting off for years,

"Don't confront me with my failures"
Jackson pleads, but I concede,
thinking tell me them
one
mo' time,
make me unrighteous,
make me whole,
then take me,
holy displayed fully,

and the
first poem of the day,
will be my
confession total,
without reservation
and yet muse on
honor
something I thought I knew,
but needing a
closer examination
it might've been
dishonor
that was what
I was truly
knew
<>
Sunrise
July 5
'25
sitting on the dock
by the bay,
would I

lay down with a lie?
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Sherri Woodman
At night when I close my eyes                                                             ­               there are no songs, no lullaby's                                                        ­                    I transport myself and my mind                                                                         to a peaceful place and time                                                             ­                   to sooth myself to fall asleep                                                           ­                in hopes of having beautiful dreams                                                                  I imagine that I can fly                                                              ­                    envision it in my third eye                                                              ­                      I see the tree tops from the sky                                                              ­           The highest heights I can fly                                                              ­          when I spread my bird-like wings                                                            ­           I can see the world, everything                                                       ­                    flowers, leaves and greenery                                                         ­              I feel alive I feel at peace                                                            ­            as sleep washes over me
#dreams#peace#poem#life#hopes#beautiful
 0° 
Caroline Shank
Reunion

One bright day, in the middle
Of July two great loves
Got up

to Fight.

There were no more

Kisses.

One Great Love waited
while the other
Spit on his hands
      And went back to work.

It's the heat that makes me

Crazy.

I am fertilized with the
salt of years.  


I

Sadness has

Accomplish

So long ago a time.

That time has scratched

you

like a tattoo

onto the outline of my
body..

I remain in my old age

Yours to do
With me some
things

Where there is little time
for hand candy

Or

Tears.


Caroline Shank


,
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Ayisha R
In an alternate reality,
we might’ve found each other.

Then again,
maybe we already have—
through the wavelength,
the careful tension,
the ripple effects
of the cosmos?

Just in silence.

🌌
_________


© Ayisha Rahman, 2025
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Julie
I want to spend summer with you
to learn how your touch feels
and to know the origin of your scars

I want to make you smile
to wipe your tears
and be the only thing you miss

I want to watch all your favorite movies on repeat
to listen to your heartbeat
and to play with your hair
The body remembers,
what the heart seeks to forget.
guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flows the springs of life.
-Proverbs 4:23
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SøułSurvivør
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|             ☆     |
|                     |
|                     |
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a
single
star
seen
through
my
window

­wh­o
knew
stars
could
be
held
in
a

box?
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hannah miller
i finally found a friend who cares!
    no its too good to be true.
but, but she's not like the others, she's kind and sweet!
    ur delusional, that does not exist.
hello?
you were right.
it was too good to be true.
why can't one find people who aren't fake and not out to use you..
 0° 
ProfMoonCake
One, Two, Three - Strike
underneath the lies and stories
we both just wanted a hug
 0° 
IdleHvnds
I never knew what comfort really felt like until I met you.

Comfort, once foreign, now feels strangely asperous.

If I had known I’d be invited to dance with my demons,

I’m not so sure I would have pursued you...

Fear creeps behind me with every confident step I take toward you.

I find myself frantically searching for an escape—
an easy way out.

Who are you to enter my life with such certainty,

only to sidestep my every reach?

Perhaps this dance is not with my demons,
but with yours.
 0° 
paul sheridan
just
        going
                    through
a don’t
                              want to
  write any
                     more
  of
        that
                     scotch
left?
The lights of the Aurora borealis shining bright and free resemble the shining lightAnd so strong brighter than the sun in the sky all day long We will not stop until we are equal on this earth and change this world for the better and we are worth the same as everyone else there's no need for fear we are the same as anyone else and will make it so no one will ever have to be afraid to be there self of you and me, Our inner lights can never be dimmed or tamed, We are who are and we shine loud and proud and no one can dim out light or silence are voice we fight the fight and will never stop until everything is set right, We are equal on this earth and being out true selves feels like a rebirth, we are united we are strong we will never stop until we right all the wrongs,our inner light shines so strong
Quand l'horloge a sonné le moment du départ,
Aucune larme, ami, n'a voilé ton regard !
Tu m'as pressé la main... j'ai cru voir un sourire
Se mêler à l'adieu que tu venais me dire ;
Car pour ton cœur, tranquille en pensant au retour,
Ce n'était point partir que s'éloigner un jour.
Et que m'importe à moi que la nuit te ramène !...
Il fait jour et tu pars ! Du coursier qui t'entraîne
Tu déchires les flancs, en disant : « Au revoir ! »
Mais aujourd'hui me reste avant d'être à ce soir !

À ton dernier regard, pour moi, le temps s'arrête.
Un livre est sous mes yeux, mais mon âme distraite
S'en retourne vers toi ; car nos âmes sont sœurs,
Et j'ai souvent rêvé qu'en des mondes meilleurs,
En des pays lointains, ou dans les cieux peut-être...
Je vivais de ta vie, et nous n'étions qu'un être ;
Mais Dieu brisa notre âme, et de chaque moitié
Il a créé nos cœurs, permettant par pitié
Qu'ils pussent se revoir et s'aimer sur la terre,
Où l'amour leur rendrait leur nature première.

Des pleurs que je répands, tout homme se rirait :
Les chagrins passagers vous cachent leur secret.
Vos cœurs ont des transports et n'ont point de faiblesse ;
Vous pleurez d'un malheur, pleurez-vous de tristesse ?
Vous ne connaissez pas ces noirs pressentiments,
Ces rêves où l'esprit, se forgeant des tourments,
Cherche dans notre amour un sinistre présage,
Comme un soleil trop vif laisse prévoir l'orage !

Reviens d'un seul regard me rendre mon ciel pur,
Reviens, parle, souris, et mon bonheur est sûr.
Aux accents de ta voix s'éloigne la tempête ;
Sur ton sein palpitant, je repose ma tête...
Berce, endors mes terreurs par un doux chant d'amour,
Et laisse-moi sourire et pleurer tour à tour.

Sans crainte, de la mort je serais menacée,
Je mourrais dans tes bras et sur ton cœur pressée !
Mais si tu succombais... alors, sans désespoir,
Comme toi, ce matin, je dirais : « À ce soir !
De quelques courts instants ton âme me devance,
Attends-moi dans les cieux, ce n'est qu'un jour d'absence ! »
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Limes Carma
I bought my peace in silver flakes,
from shadow hands in quiet breaks.
They said it shimmered, said it flew —
but gravity still pulled me through.

I lined the stars on bathroom tile,
called it freedom for a while.
It sparkled like a borrowed sky —
but burned like comets passing by.

I chased the night, I chased the glow,
until the stars fell down below.
And when the morning asked for me —
I left in dreams I’d paid to see.
© Copyright 2025 - Limes Carma
Conosco una città
che ogni giorno s'empie di sole
e tutto è rapito in quel momento

Me ne sono andato una sera

Nel cuore durava il limio
delle cicale

Dal bastimento
verniciato di bianco
** visto
la mia città sparire
lasciando
un poco
un abbraccio di lumi nell'aria torbida
sospesi.
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Soul
(Part 01)

As the dawn arrived,
the cold breeze
swept the
belt of
yellow sand
with her fragile
delicate fingertips,
till the sun
dipped low
and
melted into
the seas of tears,
for the moon
to take a
flight
into the skies
to have a ballet
with the
stars.
That true beauty lies in those who fade away quietly, letting others shine, and remain until no pain reaches them.
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Beth
I love  "A"
I love the moment I saw you
The way your brown eyes meet mine
How the winter  wind moved your curls--
The moment was so perfect
the same way
The moment was perfect
When you said
"I love you."
For the first time
I love you, my love <A3
this is the first poem i ever wrote its dedicated to my bf who  has always had my back, and for that i thank you my love tqm <3
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Pavin Daniel
Where have all the flowers gone

where have all the flowers gone

to adorn the graves of warriors gone

where have all the flowers gone

To the lonely  to be along

where have all the flowers gone

in heaven forever young never torn

Where have all the flowers gone

to the polluted land of ours to mourn

where have all the flowers gone

To give to a girl a smile to be born

where have all the flowers gone

To be ever a fragrance lingering along

Where have all the flowers gone

To bring peace to lives in war torn

Where have all the flowers gone

To say a prayer for a joyous morn

Pavin
Inspired by a song from Peter Seeger
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Lily
when you set aside all the hatred you're forced to carry,
then you will know that love is our true nature
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