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  Oct 2024 Khoisan
Jill
Ever wished for a getaway?
Silent, solo, one-way vacay?
Happy, humanity holiday?
No-folk, lone-boat hideaway?

Do you drown in a roomful?
Or sag from a spoonful?
Is a mutter a mouthful?
Or a minute a moonful?

Or possibly next door
Is too near to hope for
Just presence impending
Is chthonic, light-ending

When speaking is deafening
Conversing, head-hefting
Add talkers together,
More sound than a blender

Shrill shouting and yelling
All brain and ear-bending
Wailing and waterworks
More blasting than fireworks

Even when voice-mute
Their feelings still noise-shoot
They sing and scream
Or **** and steam

Leave you battered
Dry-tattered
All flaking and scattered
Slight sheets float dust-shattered

Disintegrating on contact
Obliterating the contract
All social rules are in retract
Safety exits are abstract

Unbeatable, unkillable  
Invincible, divisible
Not fast or irresistible,
I choose to be invisible
©2024

BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge (chthonic) date 1st October 2024. Chthonic means "of or relating to the underworld." It is used as a synonym of infernal.
Khoisan Oct 2024
We CAN talk the talk
and walk the walk
side by side
across the vastness
of water
on Earth
reaching out
holding hands
it's really
like walking on water
above supercool sand
CAN you see it now
Do you understand.
#global villagers of peace not war.
  Oct 2024 Khoisan
Heidi Franke
Disagree with me
Ever which way on a tree
Branch follows no one
Someone expressed concern about Hello Poetry and what constitutes a "poem" .
Khoisan Oct 2024
We were made to
LOVE

Lucifer, Adam and Eve

HATE
had no compass

ENVY
JEALOUSY
ANGER


PROUDLY
appraised
the falling
  Oct 2024 Khoisan
Zywa
A full moon tonight,

light pink like a peach, perfect --


and inedible.
Poem "het meesterwerk: lichtrose maan, vol" ("the masterpiece: light-pink moon, full", 1978, Gerrit Kouwenaar)

Collection "Inwardings"
Khoisan Oct 2024
In cold desert nights
Vultures devour a carcass
Hyenas had left
#Parallels
  Oct 2024 Khoisan
Scrib
Woken in darkness
I stand confused and alone
Unsure of my place
Daily Haiku, October 1st 2024
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