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 Sep 2015 Amber
Donall Dempsey
I watch the world
ripple

on his arm
ink sunk into his skin

the U.N. tattoo
flexing to each exertion

crisp curls of wood
releasing their scent

pine flooding
the moment

that will forever be
1963

a ray of sunshine
opening a trapdoor

into the summer
air

a dimension or two
away

dust motes dancing
like overweight atoms

sawdust balancing
like pollen on his hair

as he sings
to the naked wood

"I think that I will
never see

a poem as lovely as
a tree..."

Of such a moment is
love made

the plane whispering
its secrets to the wood

the spirit level
winking its bubble.
 Sep 2015 Amber
Rhet Toombs
Leave me here by the forest
Revealing measured suffering
Confusion of a knife
Denied importance
Swallowing common voids
Unspoken process
Hungering for faceless absolution
Lighthouse eyes
A funeral in full bloom
 Sep 2015 Amber
Rhet Toombs
Rib
 Sep 2015 Amber
Rhet Toombs
Rib
Make my heart stir once more

Furthering a silicon sickness

Unreachable this time

Sworn from these graces so long ago

An immense melody scarring reflections

This too will haunt our past

Speaking with bruised wrists

All roads home are now erased

Mountains yielding permanence

Emerging with gorgeous anticipation

Shed their fallen attempts

For your eyes are not green

They were born from the most ancient of moss

Wrapped in a dripping globular of starlit jade
 Sep 2015 Amber
JS
Orange shaded lamp that's lit at 1 am, in the city of the angels where the homeless seem to live.
The tents are growing plenty as the poverties commence,
there's a *** for every bottle sitting in a city full of bins.

For every sin there's a bump, for every bar a new actress,
in some conversation is a liar hidden behind a foreign thick accent.
Someone hired, someone fired, by the beach are many lost kids,
some are tired, some are wired, most don't know that they exist.

Picture perfect life instead that is wanted by the masses.
All prone to life that's close to **** cause no one likes to give up chances.-JS
Random chances for advances are held ransom to circumstances
 Sep 2015 Amber
Donall Dempsey
your glance
like water

sliding over stone

your smile
a page

about to turn &

your eyes
the book

I read & re-read

your love
my sun & moon.
 Sep 2015 Amber
NV
Time.
 Sep 2015 Amber
NV
And though I may not mention it,
I need you to remain and sit in place within my life.
I'm home, I don't mind a few renovations but you can't move out.
Change the furniture, change the setting, change the colours of this love, but don't pack up.
Don't relocate, because I can't leave with you, hence I live with you.
Continue to settle, continue to speak your plans to my walls, we'll breathe life into them.
And may the building of this love never feel the clocks run forward.

by Dvniel Jones
 Sep 2015 Amber
Rapunzoll
Mirage
 Sep 2015 Amber
Rapunzoll
Innocence is the days when
I thought that monsters
lived under the bed rather
than slept right beside me.

It was the times I feared
heights almost as much as
I now fear brooding stares.

Back when I thought
passionate love was the
only kind worth having
— that I now wish for a
lover who loves quietly.

Innocence was thinking
danger was an ill-advised
adventure, not a man.

It was admiring a tornado
heart and not realizing the
damage it would cause.
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