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 Oct 2024 LL
Peter Gerstenmaier
Empires have fallen
For a beauty lesser
Than yours
Helen of Troy would pale by your side
 Oct 2024 LL
Stevie
Sailing
 Oct 2024 LL
Stevie
If I say
Sail away
For the day
We could lay
On a beach with the finest of sand
Hit a bar
Play guitar
Go too far
Name a star
Dance whilst singing along with the band
When we're done
We could run
To the sun
Have some fun
Take my heart  heal my soul hold my hand
Don't be shy
Let's get high
Laugh and cry
Question why
We keep trying to keep up with demand
Up the game
We're the same
Call my name
Burn the flame
Take a chance and let's see where we land
 Oct 2024 LL
Kalliope
27
 Oct 2024 LL
Kalliope
27
Another year living, another day gone,
The past isn't giving the wisdom I want.

I'm searching for answers, I lay in the rain, I stare at the moon while I'm begging for change.

My face is now creased, from years of worry, I laugh at my young wish to grow up in a hurry.

The right answers never come, I grieve over wrong choices, I'll stay in my bed berated by these voices.

And it's October, but the leaves are still green, the seasons aren't seasons and I am not me.

Twenty seven I might be, but fourteen I still feel, I look at the life I've built but none of it seems real.
Happy Birthday to you, they shout in my room, but it's just a Friday, and I'm losing my youth.
 Oct 2024 LL
Gavin
how many times
do I have to unbutton your pants
to hear the words
"I love you."
The answer is zero. I wrote this while going through some intense emotional turmoil and It's a simple one but I'm very proud of it. Moral of my story: don't waste your time on people that dont deserve you.
 Oct 2024 LL
Zywa
Go push your way through

the forest, to the fortress --


and set yourself free!
"Het woud en de citadel. Memoires van een componist" ("The forest and the citadel. Memoires of a composer", 2009, Simeon ten Holt)

Collection "Germ Substance"
 Oct 2024 LL
Carlo C Gomez
Invariably,
You prefer to come
To me in the dark.
"You're more my temperature then,"
You once said.
I'm not much of a thermometer,
But I am the eurythmy
To each syllable you give
In such settled shadow.
A play of murmurs and fingertips,
You once named this.
Always I see a wreath in your hair,
In colors of Persia,
Textures of night,
And the soft blended lines
Of you I know
Infallibly.
Vespertine - occurring in the evening.
 Oct 2024 LL
Yonah Jeong
681
 Oct 2024 LL
Yonah Jeong
681
The scariest human being is a criminal who hasn't committed a crime.
 Oct 2024 LL
Peter Gerstenmaier
Bang
 Oct 2024 LL
Peter Gerstenmaier
The only thing worse
Than pulling the trigger
Is spending your entire Life
With a barrel on your mouth
Just waiting for that 'bang'
P.s. This is not a poem about suicide. It's about expectations. About living with a heavy burden and never being able to set free of it.
 Oct 2024 LL
KV
Roses
 Oct 2024 LL
KV
there are roses growing
from my hands
My doubt the seeds
Begging them to grow

There are roses climbing
up my arms
digging in my skin
but i am numb
to their thorns and beauty

There are roses growing
in my lungs
bloodied petals
filling my throat
and falling from my lips

Tears are sliding
down my cheeks
I've had enough
I am to weak
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