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 9° 
Ivan
And darlin,
Only if i found you in hell
     The hell's gonna burn again,
This time, to the ashes.
    Make a statue of my love out of it.
Let the cracks bleed my name,
    Let the flames wisper my love.
I'd crave your face in the smoke,
    The embers scream your name.
'cause darlin,
Even pain becomes art,
   When it bleeds for you.
 9° 
Mrs Timetable
Can I
Live
In your
Moment?
I want to
Learn
Focus on my now
Learning to live in the moment
 9° 
Maria Etre
Fear
made me
F$%k
the best
thing
that my
heart
felt
 9° 
Kundai N
There was no one to hear my laments
So I told them to the wind
The wind told them to the trees
The trees fed it to nature
And nature understood.
 8° 
Khoisan
My heart
the
true artist
of your
depravity
captured
the
essence
of
trust
in
its
past and present
explicitly
stained
.
Children angrily draw places I dare to crawl,
snapping crayons and enticing dragons,
shifting my blame to a tearful shame,
huffing, puffing, she's always running...
mirror fogged to erase physical flaws

Roping brevity teases and stirs the bees,
fantasy shattered of a ring and knees,
beauty but nor telepathic fiery demon,
pages torn out of today's point-ed sermon.

Huff and puff wishes to break concrete love,
love-birds teasing frantically, annoying above,
sunsets on a beach, notย ย which crushes,
knots carefully flushed out as mother brushes.
This is an old poem I have revised too.  Its about a child trying to stay innocent despite a wolf. I kinda wrote it from the wolf's perspective. Eventually he sees the innocence and love the mother has of this child. And he backs away.
 8° 
lia
The moon left me a note last night,
Tucked in a cloud, soft and white.
It whispered, โ€œWhy rush through the sky?
Even stars take their time to shine.โ€
 8° 
Luke
What is it like to love?
Itโ€™s cliche to say
Its like an angel was sent from above,
Itโ€™s not a feeling,
Itโ€™s a knowledge.
Knowledge that,
Wherever I am,
Wherever you are,ย ย 
My heart aches for you.
If you love, love hard, donโ€™t be afraid to be heart broken because it mends.
 7° 
Heavy Hearted
Happy birthday- its what they'll say
With voices which typed words delay
Where on your behalf today, they'll wish
Simply for your happiness

A wish to me, is like the Horizon
An imaginary line of undefined potential,
Forever fading when approached.
With its endless opportunity preceding the powerless thrill of pursuit-
Forever fading,
we approach.

When Happiness is fleeting
as all emotions are,
The golden light of  this April's dawn-
Not silhouetted, scars.
After the soul's darkest night
Drifts into it's deepest blue,
nightmarish, waking dream's reveal
relentlessly, nothing new.
 7° 
gith
Y&I
i want you to knowโ€”
you were the last dream my soul
ever dared to keep.
 7° 
CS Modei
Far from the chatter of the daylight hours,
Away from where the fireflies buzz.
The street lights hum with moths aflutter,
The river froths and churns.
She sits suspended in the air;
Her  arms are slack, blank is her stare;
Oh she wishes, floating there,
For the river to take her away.
Inspired by the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Such a lovely place to visit, I highly recommend it. Enjoy!
 7° 
danie
I know you'll never be MINE...
But I'll still do my best for you. You're worth it and I'd rather not wonder how things could've been...
everything is changing.
youve changed.

you dont talk to me now.
i cry over you every night.

sometimes i wonder if you think about me
as much as i think about you.

then i remember
you left me because it hurts

i was too much like Her.

and you replaced me.

that hurt the most.
 7° 
Charles
tending to our garden
planting peonies and orchids
solemnly growing so florid

from generation to generation
our kids can frolic and play
symbolic of our love's stay
 7° 
Anailen
but
im getting better
but im scared for the downfall
Feeling manic
 6° 
Leocardo Reis
I cannot write.

I put aside the pen,
I turn off the light.
I step outside
into the falling dusk,
lowering my head
as if to console myself,
whispering tenderly,
'this is only temporary.'

It has been years,
I still cannot write.
 6° 
Ashley Alvarado
My mind races, im lost in this funk,
Bitterness lingers, rough on my tongue.
Dry mouth, dry eyes
Look as long as you want,
Youโ€™ll never see me out of my shell.
Darkness surrounds, stay trapped in my head,
Stuck with my thoughts, my demons, and my dread.
Never felt so wrong, truth hits hard,
Miscalculations leaving me scarred.
Lock them out, keep them away,
Rid yourself of me as a problem, or hellโ€™s dogs will play.
 6° 
Mica Wood
A boy frolics in a field of forget-me-nots
to the song in his heart.
Spinning, spinning, spinningโ€ฆ
until he falls in love with the music.

Rolling down hills to rolling up joints
and picking up a guitar.
The music crescendosโ€ฆ
His life has just begun.

The guitar is played daily.
Sitting on the front stoop,
amplifier plugged inโ€”
a concert for the block.

Time continues to tick.
Life is getting hard.
The guitar is forsaken
just when he needs it most.

Making music no longer,
he turns to substance.
Spinning, spinning, spinning
out of control.

He needs the pain
to go away.
Needles at night
and sleep by day.

The man is tired
and lonely
as the endless darkness
inside him.

When the veil between worlds is thinnest
the man slips away
and finally
he finds his peace.
My brother overdosed on Day of the Dead.
 6° 
preston
the forming of substance 05
Stephan W

"But I will not drive them (the 'inhabitants') out in a single year,
because the land would become desolate
and the wild animals too numerous for you.
Little by little I will drive them out before you;

Until you have increased enough to take
possession of the land."
~Exodus

.
Within the sphere- formless and void,
there was all but nothing to inhabit.
Existing within the eternity of the moment,
unable to retain--
it could only experience.

It could behold perfection,
but not hold on to it;

No need..
perfection was ever-present--
In full view of the sphere
and the precious spirit- encased within,
now, wrapped within a living, breathing skin-
this body- for the spirit,
and the spirit for the one body

each part of the heart-- a city in itself.

.ย ย .
Reaching across the chasm,
there is an almost symmetry in
the layout of the cities

ย ย ย ย  but their inhabitants are unruly

and the spaces between far too great
for any kind of order to become able to
break through the chaos--
there is no longer communication
between the cities.

There is a yearning for consolidated-Sovereignty,
but the cities have long forgotten themselves-
Strewn about.. in the pain of it all,
they no longer know each other.

.ย ย .ย ย .
But the spirit within the body-- it remembers.
There is a gathering back into wholeness-
waiting..
and so we learn how to wait also.

Parts, and pieces-- members rebuilt-
little by little
Not too fast- take it easy;
70 years, maybe more.
Which way will it go-


There is a promised land;
waiting to be taken--

ย ย ย ย one city at a time.


09/08/17
 6° 
nuggz
your soul speaks of dark and light
the sun shined but you cast me in the dark
did you know iโ€™m scared of it?
bad things happen there
between the hours of dusk and dawn
but i never wanted to tell you
i never wanted to add
to your growing list of burdens
for i was already one
maybe since birth
perhaps even before
โ€œi did my bestโ€
yes there was minimal food
a lack of love and care i didnโ€™t realize i needed
there was light and a roof over my head
you left me there
and the light burned out
i sat in the dark scared and alone
did you ever care?
you just wanted someone to take care of you
even if the cost was my innocence
i donโ€™t think you did it on purpose
and i donโ€™t think youโ€™re consciously
aware of the harm you caused
iโ€™ve been screaming for years
even in whispers
please just hear me
please just understand me
 6° 
rin
I want to open every fold in your brain
I want to intertwin
becoming one
as our souls mix like the water color in my palette
your stain like the paint on my fingers
the coffee in my mug.
 6° 
Mary Huxley
I wore his vest,
trading stained threads
for something that smelled
just like him.

Bare legs, quiet roomโ€”
his eyes found mine,
and I swear,
time leaned in to listen.

"Just forehead kisses,"
I whispered once,
twiceโ€”
trying to stay soft
when my heart wasnโ€™t.

But he looked at me
like I was still his,
like the ache between us
wasnโ€™t ready to end.

His hands at my waist,
his breath on my cheek,
the silence hummed,
sweet and weakโ€”

And then,
before goodbye could speakโ€ฆ
I kissed himโ€”
once,
long,
slow,
like we forgot what leaving meant.
 6° 
J
You said
โ€œIโ€™m not going anywhereโ€
โ€ฆ
Silly me, believing you
You loved so hard
Just to leave me like this
โ€ฆ
But why?
โ€ฆ
Guess thereโ€™s things
Iโ€™ll never know
 6° 
melon lover
Time carves out the stoneโ€”
Leaves return to soil as breath,
Then rise up again.
haiku 01
04/16/25
 6° 
nicole
we all want to love
and be loved

the right way
 6° 
Izan Almira
I never understood the sentence
"I have my heart in my mouth."
Not until I tasted it,
not until I spit it,
not until the words got stuck in my throat
because I felt a weight on my mouth that didnโ€™t let me breathe.

I didnโ€™t understand the sentence
until I felt my chest empty
and its beating on my neck.
Until I cried because I couldnโ€™t even talk.

I didn't understand what
"Having your heart in your mouth"
meant
until I found it there
and I had no one to turn to.
Hopefully 'I have my heart in my mouth' is an expression that IS actually used in english, because the original poem was about a spanish idiom ('tengo el corazรณn en la garganta') that IS quite common.
 5° 
hannah
There are bones in the wood;
cracking, groaning, shattering.
The skeleton of what could
Have
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Been

There are bones in the wood;
whistling, wailing, whispering.
The skeleton is not pureโ€”not good
It
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Still
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Has
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ­ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Flesh
 5° 
Kindinheart
When life is really tough ,true friends talk
When you cant get any lower ,a true friend picks you up
When one retreats to a place of loneliness
A true friend offers company
When one wants to cry , the other offers their shoulder
And if one ever needs to talk , the other will always listen
A true friend is always there for you .
 5° 
Max Neumann
For the last in life
Born in waiting lines
Standing in lines
Dying in lines

A song began from love
Soundtrack of the forgotten
No time to see
No time to stand still

Life is stress
The clocks called us yesterday
Today phones are screaming
Rush as a code

Their minds heavy with lead
Their eyelids weighed down
And children roam the land
Hating their fathers

So generations die
To become secrets
For the last in life
Born in waiting lines
For The Last In Life
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