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  Feb 2020 Allison
Aaron Mullin
In pursuit of an elusive harmony
     summer nights rolled away from us
     reverberating into a numinous bass line
     while reconciling our dreams
     with a burgeoning truth

Flustered with desire
     and walking in a non-ordinary reality. Lost within the Source
    of all there is and ever was. We re-animated
    navigating through portals unexplained
     to retrieve this love

We plied our differences into commonality
     and re-aligned our fractured selves using the agency
     of synchronicity - having found
     an immutable archetypal truth
     and having found from where our self-portraits flow

Much more than soul mates, Plato
     offers stories of Zeus splitting souls in half
     as punishment for pride.
     In this incarnation, have we found humility?
     Will this be enough to carry us back to nobility?
    
It is challenging to find your way back
     into a lover's arms. Mistakes haunt us eternally (if we allow for that)
     but every morning if we awake
     and let go, using the suns setting and rising as a reminder that
     with experience, guidance, and repetition ... it gets easier

My half soul
     awoke as my mortality decomposed
     when half becomes one, then the real turmoil begins
     from the shores of St. Mary, Raven calls
     and I follow my destiny into an Obsidian Night
'If I cannot deflect the will of Heaven, I shall move Hell.' ~~ Virgil
  Feb 2020 Allison
Ryan O'Leary
Conservation  conversation
concerning coronavirus
caused carnivores concern.

Certain communities could
continue casual consumption.

Counties Cavan, Cork, Clare
can certainly cease culling
calves.

Chinese children cancelled
coming, citing chills causing
coughs, colds, chronic chests.
  Jan 2020 Allison
Mike Hauser
From the moment that we met
There never was a doubt
You looked to me like forever
So I followed you around

And as I got to know you
You never proved me wrong
All you do is living proof
As we move along

On this forever journey
Where the years have all lost count
But that doesn't have me worried
I'll take all that I'm allowed

If the center piece gets tattered
And the edges all but torn
All that really matters
Is we both have held on strong
  Jan 2020 Allison
Mike Hauser
Watching ants
Reminds me of man
Scurrying in a hurry
Wandering in plans

Acting like
It's all do or die
Running for their lives
Pants on fire

Finding themselves
Worn for worse
Running the course
The back and forth

Time being spent
Building this and that
Deadlines to be met
Having heart attacks

Slip sliding in the sand
Both man and ants
Pouring into this
Pouring out of that

Watching ants
Reminds me of man
In the hear and now
With no future plans
  Jan 2020 Allison
Michael Smit
You know the feeling
The sudden seeming
Soul on fire
Hearts desire

The sudden blast
No more past
Like you're the last
Don't go to fast

Souls illumination
Hearts illustration
Bloods intoxication
Minds revelation

Soul on fire
No need to hire
I'll walk the wire
I'll dance with fire

It's probably true
You see through hue
They'll turn their backs
Never looking back
You were never part of their pacts

When they degrade
Time to upgrade
Lesson received
Now the tables turned
We've all burned
Lesson learned
Page turned

Soul on fire
You walk the wire
While they all stare
Like you are rare

Soul on fire
No need for rest
Dancing in fire
I did my best
  Jan 2020 Allison
Michael Smit
There is no such thing as the perfect writer
Nor a perfect fighter
I take my lighter
and pull a all-nighter

I pulled it in tighter
and became the igniter
I have to shine brighter
I push paste on my copywriter

Add one to wiser
then decipher
look in the nerve fibre
find the survivor  
While remaining the conscious driver
You're name is Ivor

The army warrior
The last destroyer
I couldn't be sorrier
For my constructive barrier
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