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 May 2017 Aisha Ella
Idiosyncrasy
How wonderful it is
To tell you
I love you
But how terrifying
That when you say
You do too
*I cannot make myself
Believe.
I'd really want to believe.
 May 2017 Aisha Ella
Shofi Ahmed
A night owl in the harvest moon
was awake till the crack of the dawn
but wasn’t surfing online, wasn’t rowing
the boat in the digital river.
Deep down to a dreamweaving scene
that was, in musing, painstakingly creative.

Wait till you snap up a witty aphorism.
The darling buds of May will be in bloom.
The tickled pink nightingale too will
give out its voice, singing a song.
Save a copy and tweet it to all,
but do give us a demo, tell us a bit more.
Where does it shine and sizzle?
Where did the winter tuck away the rose?
This is a poem from my book Zero and One available on Amazon.
Today
Is an ordinary
24-hr ticking clock.

The only thing
That made it different
Was when I started
To look forward
Knowing you.


But after knowing you,

Today
Is an ordinary
24-hr ticking clock.


*Again.
Late post from Jan 2016
 May 2017 Aisha Ella
Jim Davis
Seems when poets start
Writing a bit of poetry
They also write
about writing poetry
They also often write
about not writing poetry
No other artist, has it so good

©  2017 Jim Davis
Poetry poets writing
 May 2017 Aisha Ella
Jeremy Bean
I am my agony
I am my self doubt
I'm the mounting problems
When I'm down and out
I am lack of faith
I am turmoil
My love turned to hate
On this mortal coil
I am discord
I am at a loss
What I can't afford
No matter the cost
I am my confusion
I am my flaws
I am what I am
From surviving them all.
 May 2017 Aisha Ella
Mary-Eliz
I recognize
the place
that place
inside
loathsome
& suffocating
I see the lost
look in your eyes
watery red glassy
I watch the feigned
joviality and sense
the aching loneliness
it tries to disguise... I
know the self-hatred
brings a death sentence
  lingering tortuous death
with conviction that it is
all that is deserved...you
place yourself on death
row and wait inside
the bottle
...
 May 2017 Aisha Ella
Star BG
My mother,
is strong like an island.
Her stretched islet arms
merges with my waters.
She comforts me,
when my sea world is rough.
She stabilizes me with grace,
giving self a place to land.
My mom,
strong as rock loves me.
And I love her.

StarBG © 2017
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