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 Jan 2022 Elizabeth Squires
Zywa
Don't go to sleep, you

long to love, dare to do it --


and don't go to sleep!
Ghazal 171 "A great wagon" part 4: "The breeze at dawn" (13th century, Mohamed Rumi)

Collection "Love Mind and Death"
I can see a faint plume of smoke rising from your heart, accompanied by a burnt-flesh odour, which I believe is the result of your remarkable prayer to God to right a world plagued by apathy toward the impoverished.
He was a poet
She, a professor of english
When ever he’d share his heart
she’d correct his feelings
 Jan 2022 Elizabeth Squires
Aishu
I am a dreamer.
I vision things that don't yet exist.

I am a stubborn believer.
I believe my visions come true.

I am limitless.
I dream big dreams.
 Jan 2022 Elizabeth Squires
ryn
.
It was taken
away

and I’ve been
trying
to catch it
ever since.


.
I’m famous for procrastination;
I put things off til almost too late
And then I rush to get things done.

Well I’ve really done it this time.
The Church bake sale is tomorrow
I’ve promised them eleven cakes.

I’m famous for my Yum-yum cakes,
Rich with fruit and coconut.
They sell like hot dogs at a fair.

The ingredients are all lined up -
They only lack the blending
But my mixer just froze up and died.

So now I’m really in a mess
No time to go and get repairs
I’ll have to do it all by hand
And I will go stir-crazy.
ljm
An entry in BLT's word-of-the-day challenge. A dip into literalism.  I really am locally famous for my Yum-yum cake.
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