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 May 2020 Elena
Jena T
Home
 May 2020 Elena
Jena T
Where the endless sea goes
Black sands stretch down the coast
And skies darken just right
The moons shine and the stars glow,
Where massive trees stand in time
Mountains shoot upwards, so cold
Hills lie down in gentle rolls
Forests grow in vast groves
This is home.

Where creatures fly
Buildings made of wood and stone
Streets so old clocks would die
People not bent to time,
Where my family goes
Every time we come home
With timber and marble stones
A hearth warm and embers gold
This is home.

Where my soul roams
Wandering shores and mountain sides
Never feeling lonely or out of line
Healing myself in the skies,
Where I go when tiredness has come
When I feel old
Settling back in with those of my kind
An essence shared for all of time
This is home.
 May 2020 Elena
lX0st
Motown Baby
 May 2020 Elena
lX0st
A distant dissonance
Deepens in threat
As my lips form new syllables
And fingers, new frets
It’s my grandmother’s voice—
My namesake, in fact—
That waltzes in echoes
Through bright chambered chest
Amassing new power
Revving dense to unfurl
Like peonies in bloom, or
Cherry blossom pearls
In descent.

It’s true:
That for which I’m meant—
Good time,
Good fortune,
Good riddance—
I will only know
After roared repent
Where I’ll expel
Dusk’s detriment,
And bellow soul’s
Percussive song
In long-overdue
Performance
 May 2020 Elena
lX0st
You should’ve spoken up
When you talked down to me
Instead you split my soul
Spitting endless inbetweens
And now the spool spins heavy,
Wiry untouched runaway dreams
Where the railcar always passes
Just a moment out of reach
Not knowing
What is to know

To know
What is to not know

Knowingly show
To not know

To show
What is not known

To know
Yet, never show
There is a lot that know, knows than one would want to know or knows
I know this has nothing to do with know
It is just a word  :)
 May 2020 Elena
Priyanshi Dass
Ink
 May 2020 Elena
Priyanshi Dass
Ink
Some time since ink bled
On these lazy fingertips, poet
Clean hands; a disgrace!
 May 2020 Elena
Amanda N Skaggs
Latticed deja vu.
Arbor of my mind recalled.
Garden beyond; home.
Remembered dreams and new revelations
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