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 Oct 2019 Hawa
em
the pine, alone
 Oct 2019 Hawa
em
the death of a tree
is the saddest thing
to find the long light
in the dark of dawn
is hard work for the leaves
they do not know their fate
and continue their rustling temperament
nestled in sore branches
 Oct 2019 Hawa
TheConcretePoet
for

    once,

   i would

love

      to be

         the poem

and

     not

         the poet
 Oct 2019 Hawa
Jade
Ephemeral
 Oct 2019 Hawa
Jade
Most days,
she feels so lost,
that you would think
there was once a time
when she belonged to someone,
that she had accidentally
been misplaced somehow.

But you must first have something--
want something--
before you can lose it.

(And no one has ever wanted her.)

She is a translucent thing,
you see.

She must walk through walls,
for no one--
neither friend nor foe--
seems to notice her
when she enters a room.
(or when she leaves one.)

She’ll slip away
from a crowd so easily,
it was almost as if she was
never even there at all.
It only takes a second–
a breath,
a bat of an eyelash;
by the time you’ve turned around,
she’s gone.

(she's always been good at disappearing,
or maybe you're just bad at paying attention.)

But it’s no matter;
her presence does not faze you,
so what makes her
absence
any different?

No one would care
to love a girl like her,
anyway.
A girl so
o u t
                o f
p l a c e.
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 Oct 2019 Hawa
Marie-Lyne
:)
 Oct 2019 Hawa
Marie-Lyne
:)
I think
the world
needs
more
of us
than we
can offer
 Oct 2019 Hawa
Bansi Adroja
Belong
 Oct 2019 Hawa
Bansi Adroja
You belong to the credit card statements on your coffee table
to your bosses emails at 7pm
to plans you can't cancel
to conversations that just don't end

You belong to morning commutes
to browsing produce same time every Tuesday
to the caffeine fix it you missed
to sad days you want to escape

You belong to everything
but you
Belonging
 Sep 2019 Hawa
August
He gave me dead flowers
So I can smell them every day
The rotten petals falling
The color of decay

The washed out sunflower
The dehydrated leaves
The mold on the water
The color of debris

The richly red rose
Now drooping to the floor
The color of love
Existed no more

But still I saved the flowers
And smelled them every day
And watered them with tears
To let them grow again.
 Sep 2019 Hawa
C F
I've Been Told
 Sep 2019 Hawa
C F
I've been told I'm too
Quiet.

I've been told I don't
Speak
my mind.

I've been told I need to be
Loud
to be heard.

But I've never been told
Thank you.

I've never been told
Please
either.
 Sep 2019 Hawa
Moonbeam Dream
poets are the words that you didn’t know existed

poets are the flowers that are picked petal by petal to find out if you love me not

poets are the books that are opened and never read

poets are what the world needs, they just don’t know it yet
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