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silly girl,
                  silly girl


       hands clench,
                                  toes curl
  

                    it's so much fun,
                                                    watching­ you unfurl.
 May 2021 2024
Day
i know not from experience
but from watching it happen
(to others)
 May 2021 2024
Mitch Prax
Dear diary;
I am constantly
finding myself being
devoured by every memory
that I
have ever had.
 May 2021 2024
Bogdan Dragos
at least the clouds are
smiling back

they have faces and
souls
and they stare back from their
blue canvas,
down on his *****, snot-smeared face

It’s a warm
sunny day
but the
bottom of the shallow, dry well
is cold and full
of critters

Well, no problem. The sky is so
pretty with all its smiling
faces that he
won’t even cry. He’ll stay there
and look up. Still waiting
for mother to return and
pick him up

Still waiting

Smiling back at the clouds

Still waiting
HEAR ME READ IT: https://soundcloud.com/user-937736610/smiling-back-at-the-clouds
 May 2021 2024
Benzene
Often  in fear we close our eyes and  we say that the darkness has surrounded us. Just open your eyes dear you have closed them , nothing dark is there .
open your eyes and come out of the darkness .
 May 2021 2024
Elizabeth Squires
the azure sky
presided over the landscape
the azure sky
blue the painter's bright colour ply
twas brilliantly splendid of drape
bringing delight to an eye's cape
the azure sky
 May 2021 2024
Norman Crane
They built a lighthouse,
to warn the ships.
The ships transported the sea.
You professed your love,
with living lips.
Your lips spoke words that buried me.

Tanker ships containing water,
run aground upon the sand.
A human being becomes a monster,
by another human's hand.

The future dies within.
The past is always evaporating.

As the tanker rusts,
so I also must,
until we are but two derelict husks,
filled with nothing but regret.

Once, here was the sea,
voluminous and wet!
Once, I was me,
until the day we met.
 Apr 2021 2024
Norman Crane
Tree
 Apr 2021 2024
Norman Crane
reach out ye white antler antennae
up to the succulent sky
tree teach me how to always be
growing, spreading finger branches high
teach me roots
teach me the hidden why
of the fruit of not every leaving
is to die, tree
reach out ye white antler antennae
and blossom me into life
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