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 Mar 27 Linden Lark
Kalliope
You can't figure me out?
The picture on the box is clear
Piece me together, take your time
Frustrations rise
Pieces are bent
Impatience is high
And my pieces are lost
I thought I'd stay displayed on the coffee table forever,
I never imagined I'd be taken apart over and over again,
A temporary conquest to be shoved back in the box
Life can be tough.
That’s just how it goes.
Sometimes it’s enough
to drag you through lows.

Sometimes all you know
is pain and its sting.
Sometimes life will throw
just about anything.

It’s all for your good.
But it won’t seem that way.
It’s all understood
as a plan rotten day.

Looking back you will see
the gem hell will give.
But for now it will be
just a crap way to live.
This came to me as I was going to bed. I often get second thoughts about sharing my poetry. I get some acceptance but a ton of rejection. About half the people where I live don’t want to hear it whatever it happens to be. Over time it has a severe eroding effect on my confidence as a poet.
 Mar 26 Linden Lark
Charles
his heart is a flaming fire
only she can quench it's desire

his chest is ardent
as if it contains the sun
their love can't be undone
Dodging memories that bring me pain
I scurry through the obstacles
I set up for my foolish self
To keep me from the place I need to be.

I bruise my shins repeatedly
On dangers that I did not see
Due to the fancy mask I wear
That blocks half of my vision.

The need for haste is manifest
By ever looming banks of fog
That somehow scheme to bar my way
And keep me from salvation.
                 ljm
Been to Gilead 4es
 Mar 26 Linden Lark
Aahana
Maybe flowers were created to teach us that
Beautiful things don't last forever.
Hummingbirds are sweet
           Small and cute
Hummingbirds go
                  Tweet, tweet
           Hum, hum
Their so much fun
Free, full of energy
Fly in southern air
Bird feeders everywhere
Hummingbirds  soar high
                  In the sky
Tweet, tweet
Hum, hum
Hummingbirds are sweet
Can you hear sounds of life?
It’s everywhere
People working along the  country street
I do miss the silence
Enjoying nature at its finest
Gazing at the sun it looks hazy
It feels like a lazy afternoon
Once, you bloomed with reckless grace,
soft petals blushing in love’s embrace.
The wind would sigh your fragrant name,
as morning light adorned your frame.

Held in hands that trembled sweet,
pressed to lips where longing meets.
A whispered promise, a fleeting vow,
yet time has traced you different now.

Your crimson fades, your petals fall,
but love once touched you—that is all.
For though you wilt in golden dusk,
you lived, you loved, and that’s enough.
Salt-wept and tide-lost,
foam-laced marionette drowns
once, the sea held hands.

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