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Poets can't keep secrets. We're poets.
     We must express emotion no matter
     truth or consequence. We spill tears.
     We pen silent trembles in spatters
     scratch blame upon the pages like
     ancient scribes with prayers to rain
     upon unwashed masses and baptize
     you into the church of gracious pain.
I chirp in your vicinity.
You are giant and loud.
You seem bothered by
my call to my true love.
You hover menace like
with rolled up magazine
and I hope you'll find
your own true love.
 May 2023 Exosphere
Abeer
How alike are you with the sun
She's grabbed in thunder's jaw and still haunted by winter's chill
She's not safe
Sing us a song, a song to keep us warm
Hormones off the chart
we race to broken heart
time has cruelty loaded
in the chamber exploded
face another day ghosted
as our goose is roasted.
 May 2023 Exosphere
kfaye
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 May 2023 Exosphere
kfaye
Deranged reflection in the pantheon of
Spoons
Dripping dry by the kitchen
Sink
Flashes across the unknowable
World that wraps around every tiny surface that has ever
Been.

Buzz buzz.
Come the particles ,
Like electric.sand into our
Squinting
Gaze
 May 2023 Exosphere
sjohn
Poems half written half read
fill my cupboards and fall off chairs
as an old incompleteness
stacks high around me
on this fine evening.

I have been dabbling in the art
of losing
and regaining my sanity,
exploding into
a thousand broken puzzle pieces as
I walk
into the night,
each time with the hope
of something falling back together
into something else.
Something better.
Better than
this.

A loneliness so petrifying
so absolute and whole
encompasses every breath
I have ever taken,
and all my regrets and dreams
have become
calm in its wake.

The universes on their daily commute
pass me by
on the street
and I watch them
longingly
as they fold into themselves,
infinite, unreachable fractals
suffocating me on
the evening train,

changing

changing

folding

changing.

It has been
a strange journey indeed.
 May 2023 Exosphere
Veronica
opening their petals
raising stamens to the sky
allowing leaves to dance
and pollen to fly
carried by wind,
floating past trees
to one day be cradled
by a neighboring blossom
or the cold soil beneath
When the buds come to bloom
I can't help but think of you
I've Gone Missing

I don't know where I am anymore.
I don't remember my own name now.
You're a beauty vaguely familiar
ghosts dancing among sunflowers.
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