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 1271Β° 
lifelover
i lie facedown on the train tracks.
the gravel presses symbols into my skin,
but none of them translate.

home is a concept with too many rooms.
i sharpened my alibi
on my mother’s brittle bones
until it fit into a quieter mouth.
she didn't flinch.

the sun unthreads me one fiber at a time.
nothing resists.
blink
blink
blink
each time, the world returns
slightly rearrangedβ€”
trees on the ceiling,
windows in my stomach.

i found a way out,
but it only leads back here.
the platform loops
in the shape of an open jaw.
i circled it three times,
then laid down between its metal teethβ€”
the world doesn’t bite anymore.
it just holds me.

small, warm,
still breathing.
regret nests in the hinge of my jaw.
i keep it clenched, and
it doesn’t protest.
it flicks the lights off
when the rail begins to sing.
it knows the schedule better than i do.

the daylight plucks at my ribs like harp strings.
each note sounds like a name i was never meant to hold.
i buried the moon weeks ago.
she made it difficult to leave.
if you’re still listeningβ€”
the train is already halfway through me.

today,
i let the mouth stay open.
maybe the scream will crawl back in.
maybe it never left.
it's taken me one grueling year to be able to write again. logging back into HP and seeing everyone's beautiful writing again has made me so happy. i really did miss you guys <3
 1083Β° 
Cassandra Livingston
I am incapable of writing
So don't try to convince me that  
I possess countless poetic ideas.

Because at the end of the day,  
I see only failures in every attempt.  
And I'm not about to lie by saying that  
each setback helps me along.

Because no matter what,  
                        I feel trapped in a cycle of mediocrity.                        
And I am in no position to believe that  
true inspiration dwells within me.

For even in my darkest musings,  
Am I as uninspired as my doubts proclaim?
Backwards poems are so fun to write! They take away my writer's block!
 1032Β° 
Dylan A
What does sadness mean?
        Are you sad?
       I think, I am.
      What’s your favorite color?
     Green, like moss on wood after a drizzle.
    Do you miss him?
       Yes.
   That’s sadness.
   Are you sad?
 795Β° 
Josie West
will you still love me
if I don't smile today?
if my tears fall like raindrops
and my world tears at the seams?
if my voice breaks when I talk
and I seek the comfort of dreams?

will you still love me
if I don't cheer up today?
if I sit rigid in silence
and spend the whole day in bed?
if I find solace in cigarettes
and don't keep myself fed?

will you still love me
if I don't laugh today?
if I keep my thoughts hidden
and don't say what I mean?
if I curl up in darkness
and stare at a screen?

will you still love me
if I don't calm down today?
if my patience wears thin
and snaps like a thread?
if my eyes no longer sparkle
and are absent instead?

will you still love me
if I don't smile today?
 675Β° 
Izan Almira
I go to my school’s
bathroom
and wash my face
with the cold water.
I splash it;
then gargle;
then spit it out.

Nothing but saliva
and tap water
comes out.
I stare at the porcelain, disappointed,
and lean over it again,
opening my mouth
in a hope I’d throw up;
spit my soul out,
drown my thoughts down the sink,
make my problems disappear.

But nothing comes out;
not puke,
not problems,
not thoughts.

My throat
is still
being pierced throughβ€” trapped
β€”by the claws
of the freedomless eagle
that my life has become.

It is silly, isn’t it?
How I tried to steep my wounds,
thinking my problems
would dissolve
along with the blood.
The original one is in Spanish, and this is genuinly one of my best translations
 515Β° 
Carlo C Gomez
South coast days on end

The ante meridiem
Married to summer

People in constant motion

To the merry-go-round we go
To the merry-go-round we go

In the center
Like the mobile over my bed

Where the heart beats
Where our eyes see in teleidoscope

Inside the lines are brighter
And wider and envelop

The journey in itself
Is the gift
 490Β° 
alison
wish I could float above the water.
instead I feel pressured. I feel like I'm being
pushed (forced) under the sea.
 477Β° 
WILLIAM WORTHLESS
a dog is always man best friend
he is with you till the end
a better friend you wont find
always gentle always kind

when your down he is always there
there beside you with loving care
always faithful always true
always there to comfort you

mans best friend he will stay
it will always be that way
 466Β° 
Roger Hurn
Haiku
An act of kindness
Like a candle in the night
Lightens our darkness
 374Β° 
CS Modei
Far from the chatter of the daylight hours,
Away from where the fireflies buzz.
The street lights hum with moths aflutter,
The river froths and churns.
She sits suspended in the air;
Her  arms are slack, blank is her stare;
Oh she wishes, floating there,
For the river to take her away.
Inspired by the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Such a lovely place to visit, I highly recommend it. Enjoy!
 335Β° 
Vianne Lior
Crow tends the cuckoo,
its heart cracked, yet still it heals
shadows nurse the thief.

 331Β° 
badwords
You arrived
like breath drawn
before the world had lungs.

Not loud.
Not sudden.
Just known.

Like hands that fit
before fingers are taught
what touching means.

We’ve been this before.
I don’t know when.
But my bones do.

My mouth
does not remember
your nameβ€”
only the taste
of syllables
I’ve missed
since the last time
we let go.

You looked at me
like you’d seen me
fall before.
I looked at you
like I knew
how you break
when no one is watching.

There’s no story here,
just a pullβ€”
not magnetic,
but cellular.

And a quiet
that builds a room
for both of us
to tremble in.

You,
telling the night
it doesn’t need
to be brave.
Me,
learning the sound
of not flinching.

Time and time again,
we find each other.

In every life
our paths crossβ€”
two souls entwined,
learning more to return.

To grow each other.
To know this feeling
and better express it.
 323Β° 
janie lay
i want to peel your skin back
and reveal your deepest sweetness.
to look at your veins
and memorize their paths.
maybe then i’d understand
why you are so rough on the outside.
it takes a lot of work,
digging your fingernails into the flesh,
pulling and pulling until you are bare.
but it is all worth it;
to visit your center,
to break past what conceals you,
and take you apart
slice by slice.
 323Β° 
Agnes de Lods
Loved or neededβ€”needed or loved?
Does it still deserve to be a question?
This doubt will never be erased
from the human language.
It burns from inside
reducing plans to ash.

Do they seek to heal their broken thoughts,
or do they want to stay in hidden safety?

It’s unclear how to love all the sketches
made by routines, invisible seconds,
trivial matters
picked out from life
like slimy red, blue, and golden fish,
slipping through cold, wet fingers.

Existence as a heap of doubts
punched by blinding moments
bringing elusive clarity
that dims and flares again and again.
Needed or loved.
Loved by need,
an unbreakable union
without a sigh,
without rhythm
as a sharp dissonance.
 291Β° 
D
Tears that I’ve shed
Are written in books you have never read
I keep the ink warm so it bleeds the words
I have never said.

Too afraid to shed my skin,
These walls weren’t to keep you out
But to keep me in,
And all of my dark sides play violins
Mixed with guitar, a metal opera to see if I sin
But you’ll never know the secrets that I keep
In the gardens out back, where I bury them deep
Hope they grow limbs to cradle you in sleep.

Tears that I’ve shed,
Warm the cooler side of an empty bed
Maybe if I lay a little closer to the edge
I can feel the remnants of your skin.

How it feels to feel so lost
When the world stops spinning at the cost
Of never knowing what it was ever worth
Devalued in the palm of my hand,
You could sell me love, but all I have are pennies.

Words I could never speak
Leak from these shakes leaves
Whisper from the ink and breeze
Carrying my heart like a desperate plea,

Don’t you look me in the eyes
I cannot return to stone,
Once you’ve broken the curse
All I have is this home,
And I know I can never face you -
Without the weight of my pen.

Riddles on my face like a bad tattoo
I’m a maze that no one seems to get through
Amazed that everywhere I look, there’s a new you
But I remain, the bonded spine adhered with the glue
So turn around, or flip the pages
I hope it hurts you, like it hurts my face with
Tears that I’ve shed.

I hope you know
I write about you in books you’ll never read
It's like you were never real,
So tell me now, alone, inside your mind
How does it feel?
this one is a combo! inspired by my teenage journal and playing the guitar.
 275Β° 
ab ja na
i want food
i want to eat and sleep and be pampered
like a brat cat that gets so much love
enough of being a dog, it is tiring
and i think i am living in dog years
wait i was about to say cat years,
i want to live in tortoise years
as a tortoise
The child in me wants to grow up to become a tree.
The adult wants to die into it.
 250Β° 
Cyrille Octaviano
-
I used to think that this storm would last forever
That the grey skies would haunt me day and night
But ever since that fateful day we met
After the incessant rain, a sprout is sure to bloom.

Β© Johnre Gabo, 2025
 224Β° 
Ivan
And darlin,
Only if i found you in hell
     The hell's gonna burn again,
This time, to the ashes.
    Make a statue of my love out of it.
Let the cracks bleed my name,
    Let the flames wisper my love.
I'd crave your face in the smoke,
    The embers scream your name.
'cause darlin,
Even pain becomes art,
   When it bleeds for you.
 213Β° 
Landon Keys
Keb
Every sorrow in existence
Woven in the tapestry of my life
Hanging on the wall of misery
But in a cold and bitter hell
With you
I feel the apricity
 198Β° 
R Spade
bitter truths
taste sweeter
than lies
dipped in honey
 194Β° 
Leya
Words, perhapsβ€”emotions mirrored,
More than letters, they areβ€”reminds the lover.
As the 5, 4, 3 takes over their vows,
Flaunting its beauty,
They embrace one another.

Beauty she isβ€”perhaps a swan,
Gentle he isβ€”perhaps the lake.
A perfect picture they draw together,
As they ring one anotherβ€”at 5.

A duel now sparks with fury,
Hearts quickly turn to ashes.
None ready to accept their mistake,
β€œSorry” hides behind their fate,
While the red thread turns vague.

"Nothing lasts forever," says the bard,
As Romeo and Juliet turn into tale.
The 5 and 4 meet their endβ€”
A mere word, says the very same mate.

β€œLover’s quarrel,” says the blonde.
β€œIt’s the ring!” says the brunette.
β€œDid love ever win the race?”
Questions the bird,
As it fails to accept their fate.

Forgetful they are of their 5, 4, 3s,
The following numbers turning pale.
Now, tell your goodbyes to the poem.
'Cause you see, my loveβ€”
Love’s sour, sorry’s burnt, and bye’s bitter.

I shall go; now, you decideβ€”
Whether you will say your 5, 4, 3s,
Or let the past collide.
Love, Sorry and Bye ..3 difficult words infact.
 182Β° 
Nat Lipstadt
when the time is best described as
"the morning muddled middle"

for it is the middle of the night,
and yet,
we have crossed over the midnight divide,
the new day is well commenced,  
but the prevailing dark sky says,
not quite yet!

this journey,
from the bed to the head,
is an abbreviated 20 steps,
you fall out of one,
unable to recall,
hours of vivid dreams,
now only scraps of script,
visions, whipped into the void
of the current blanket of a
night cosseting silence

in return for this
adventure travelogue,
you are granted free access to the top of your skull,
where apparently,
a new set, a fresh combo,
has been delivered, not by Amazon
not by messenger, not by the USPS,
but by your own,
fermenting, fermenting, formidable,
yawning
brain cells
and a poem appears,
wholly holy complete
space, typed and neat,
and falls from your lips,
filtered by your eyes
with no hesitation,
"and not a trace of farewell

and this miracle,
is no miracle at all,
for it is routinized,
a daily occurrence,
the mystery of it
long gone,
The How,
dissipated, disappeared,
and delivered unto
You

your obligation, your need,
your urgent pungent
purging,
is strifeless,
and you owe
but you have no idea
to whom or what
to thank for this
bestowing

is this poem a stowaway?
or did it pay for its passage,
in cash, by credit card,
or barter ?

if by barter,
what did I surrender?
what item or thing of great value did I trade
for this permissive missive
that was created
for the soul purpose,
of being shared?

it's birth was painless,
the cutting of the cord,
was never felt!

and within minutes,
it went from birth to babe,
child to adolescent,
young adult to middle aged,
to now,
a senior senile senatorial
presents itself fully formed,
weaned wise and wizened
and served to you
on white porcelain dishes,
with black cutlery

so fresh, so hot, so new,
that you are the first
or perhaps the last,
even the only
to ever taste it…

I ask for your forgiveness,
though invited
on this journey to this meal
and it's many courses
and its mirrored ball of
disco discourses,
it is signaling,
like a wise fool frantically waving,
enough!
telling you that you
have arrived
at an ending,
that we each name,
Our Destination


so be it
so be it
so it be

now a shared property

<>
            

  NML


April 15, 2025

labor commenced
at 2:27 AM
and the poem~baby
with all its limbs, all its senses,
was delivered to you,
its adaptive & adoptive
parents
at 3:22 AM

so good night, good day
and good luck!
 181Β° 
thepuppeteer
I'm not in control

I can't stop

I don't want to destroy myself
But my hands, they do

I yell and scream
Try as I might
I cannot stop

My hands won't listen to me
They are not mine

Please stop tearing me apart
Please stop the pain
Please stop destroying this body of mine
This poem is about a type of BFFB disorder known as Skin Picking Disorder. I feel rather uncomfortable talking about this topic other than what it's about, so I would appreciate it if you don't ask questions about my struggles with it personally.
 178Β° 
Maria Etre
Fear
made me
F$%k
the best
thing
that my
heart
felt
 176Β° 
Akriti
No love is true or false
Love is love
Same for all
Sacred and pure.

It is just that
Some people love and
some only pretend.
 164Β° 
gith
Y&I
i want you to knowβ€”
you were the last dream my soul
ever dared to keep.
 139Β° 
Heavy Hearted
Happy birthday- its what they'll say
With voices which typed words delay
Where on your behalf today they'll wish
Simply for your happiness

A wish to me, is like the Horizon
An imaginary line of undefined potential
& endless opportunity, preceding the powerless thrill of pursuit
Forever fading as we approach

When Happiness is fleeting
as all emotions are,
The golden light of April's dawn-
But a Silhouetted scar
After the soul's darkest night
Drifts into deepest blue,
nightmarily, the waking dream's reveal
relentlessly nothings new
 130Β° 
rin
I want to open every fold in your brain
I want to intertwin
becoming one
as our souls mix like the water color in my palette
your stain like the paint on my fingers
the coffee in my mug.
 128Β° 
nuggz
your soul speaks of dark and light
the sun shined but you cast me in the dark
did you know i’m scared of it?
bad things happen there
between the hours of dusk and dawn
but i never wanted to tell you
i never wanted to add
to your growing list of burdens
for i was already one
maybe since birth
perhaps even before
β€œi did my best”
yes there was minimal food
a lack of love and care i didn’t realize i needed
there was light and a roof over my head
you left me there
and the light burned out
i sat in the dark scared and alone
did you ever care?
you just wanted someone to take care of you
even if the cost was my innocence
i don’t think you did it on purpose
and i don’t think you’re consciously
aware of the harm you caused
i’ve been screaming for years
even in whispers
please just hear me
please just understand me
 128Β° 
Mica Wood
A boy frolics in a field of forget-me-nots
to the song in his heart.
Spinning, spinning, spinning…
until he falls in love with the music.

Rolling down hills to rolling up joints
and picking up a guitar.
The music crescendos…
His life has just begun.

The guitar is played daily.
Sitting on the front stoop,
amplifier plugged inβ€”
a concert for the block.

Time continues to tick.
Life is getting hard.
The guitar is forsaken
just when he needs it most.

Making music no longer,
he turns to substance.
Spinning, spinning, spinning
out of control.

He needs the pain
to go away.
Needles at night
and sleep by day.

The man is tired
and lonely
as the endless darkness
inside him.

When the veil between worlds is thinnest
the man slips away
and finally
he finds his peace.
My brother overdosed on Day of the Dead.
 105Β° 
Aubrey E Drummond
I’ve come to like it
The loneliness...

It has become
A part of me

I don’t want to
Give it up
 96Β° 
Left on Red
My gorgeous, beautiful, lovely, hot, shy, brunette, ***-naked wife without kids, is about to have a very memorable ****** in front of a totally safe, mixed audience of couples, with the HARDEST, LONGEST, MOST-PROTRUDING ******* EVER on her deliciously suckable, creamy, milk-white, B-cup *****;β€”a full-on, ****-naked, gushing, shattering, full-bodied ****** that will leave no muscles uninvolved.  She's going to feel it in her pinky toes.  It's broad daylight on a sunny day.  It couldn't be brighter.  The light couldn't be lighter.  It's hot and summery.  The room is silent except for the sounds of her breathing and heaving and moaning, and the sound of skin on skin contact, and the wet sounds of her very wet ******.  She's facing the transfixed faces.  Her legs are spread wide apart; her knees bend over my knees.  Her ***** is spread wide open; her juicy ****** glistens in the natural light.  My fingertips are all over her ****.  And then I go deep inside the glory of her womanhood.  My fingers come out soaking wet.  I firmly massage her own juices into her own ****.  They shine like high beams in the rain.  And then I pinch and twist and pull her bodacious ******* before I go back down for more basting nectar.  
     I'm fully clothed.  She's the only one who's naked, and she couldn't be more naked.  No one else has ever been so naked.  She's so naked you can almost see her ovaries.  We're in a huge, bulky recliner with plush pillows.  My hands are handling her more and more vigorously.  Her naked **** heave and bounce, and she touches herself as much as I touch her.  She's travels all over my lap, and up and down my chest.  Sometimes her ******* almost swallows my nose, sometimes it's eye to eye with an aroused spectator.  She jumps up and down on the cushion of her chubby *******.  All the eyeballs bobble up and down.  They stick to her hypnotizing ******* like brand new pasties.  She repositions and, on her knees, she straddles my hips.  I tickle her feet.  She feels the totality of all the concentrated attention in the room like 12 hands and 60 fingertips touching and squeezing and caressing and rubbing her most private intimacies all at once.  She sounds like a wildcat in heat.  Her arms come down; she arches her back; her hands grip the armrests.  Her ****, straight up, look like two Tetons with Space Needles.  She holds the pose but keeps her hips in motion, riding my right hand.  Then she folds forward and ***** my fingers with naked enthusiasm and a ******* while tuning her sweaty Space Needles.  Her ******* are like toilet plungers.  You could fly flags from them.  She's 5'2" and her ******* are 5'3".  She could joust two knights at once with her hands tied behind her back.  Later, she'll be shy and embarrassed, but now she hides nothing. She ***** my fingers like nobody's watching...and everybody's watching.  She puts her **** forward, stretches her torso, arches her back tosses, and tosses her long hair.  She searches every face, looking for deep eye contact, and finds it in almost everyone.  Her temperature is nuclear.   She sweats like a glass of iced tea on a hot, humid day.  It is a hot, humid day.  Her hot, hormonal stank thickens the atmosphere in the small room like the heavy aroma of concupiscent flowers.  The pleasure dominates her.  She comes comes comes to the ******.  She loses all control.  She moans loudly and labors, looks into the audience (her face in a free fall), leans back into me, and gushes like her water just broke.  She has the greatest, longest, strongest, wettest, craziest ******* ****** of all time in front of an audience of embarrassed couples.
     And then it's over.  The spell is broken.  She goes limp.  We wrap a towel around her nakedness, and we lay there while the watchers dissemble to go **** and fantasize about this shy, lovely woman with the naked face and dangerous ******* and assertive ******* and succulent ******.  She laughs a little and cries a little, and she thanks me over and over.  Her temperature comes down for hours, and when all is said and done, she cannot stop smiling.  
     Whenever she remembers it, she blushes a beet-red blush. But she savors the memory.  Her memory of it is excellent and accurate and very detailed.  We still see these same friends, and they're still good friends.  And they remember it just as well.  She'll never live it down, and she doesn't want to.  She takes playful teasing about it with equal parts grace and blushful embarrassment.  And she loves it.  Her ******* come up in every conversation, and if no one else mentions them, I do. She's good and true and faithful, my gorgeous, beautiful, lovely, hot-as-**** wife.  She's good and sweet and kind and shy and humble; and she had the greatest ****** of all time in front of an audience of friends who know exactly what she looks like ***-naked, back to front, hanging **** to open *******, writhing and thrusting and ******* in ecstasy, with a totally, completely, absolutely unmasked ****** face.  They know the sound of her ****** when it's soaking wet and and full of fingers.  They know the taste and smell of her body odor when she's having a very sweaty, full-throttled ****** in a small, hot, humid room.  They know the color of her sparkling ******* when it's wet with sweat.  They know the hardness of her diamond ******* when she's at the peak of a shattering ******.  They know the length and look of her perineum, and where exactly the little mole is.  She's the only friend for whom this is true.  She's not a pornstar.  She's otherwise anonymous.  She wants, needs, and loves my **** alone.  We make love a lot, and we **** a lot, and we love ******* each other...a lot.  We live happily ever after.  The end.
Do you remember, Sofie?  You remember.  How are your *******?  You're blushing, Sofie.
 93Β° 
aAr
"what will they think?"- the
thought i had the most in my
entire existence.
 92Β° 
asna
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πšƒπš›πšžπšπš‘
 86Β° 
Melanie Munoz
Me acostΓ© abajo la sombra de un Γ‘rbol
Los pΓ‘jaros hablan de ti
Como tus ojos pintaban objetos en verde e azul
Como tus labios cantaban de historias que no me importaban
Como el sol besaba tu piel
Siempre hablan de ti.
Siempre pienso en ti.
I decided to publish one of my Spanish poems!
 84Β° 
Leocardo Reis
I cannot write.

I put aside the pen,
I turn off the light.
I step outside
into the falling dusk,
lowering my head
as if to console myself,
whispering tenderly,
'this is only temporary.'

It has been years,
I still cannot write.
 79Β° 
TotΓ²
Pe nun me scurdΓ  'e te aggio piantato
dint'a nu vase argiento,na violetta
cu 'e llacreme 'e chist'uocchie l'aggio arracquata
e ll'aggio mise nomme:"Oh mia diletta!".
E songhe addeventato 'o ciardiniere
'e chesta pianta...simbolo d'ammore
"Oh dolce violetta del pensiero...
...he mise na radice int'a stu core!".
 78Β° 
nicole
we all want to love
and be loved

the right way
 75Β° 
colleen
there’s an
impostor
in the mirror
and she has
my smile.
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