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 Sep 2017 Poetria
Nicole Bataclan
We take a break from work
From life; and fights
People we avoid
People we adore
One and the same
When the head has already left.

Amongst strangers
Widened horizons
On a rooftop somewhere
Playing djembe in the middle of nowhere
Far from everything
Suddenly it hits

Less or more,
Who am I
Without my focal points?

I will be richer
In memories
Come back tanned,
Stuffed and happy
The routine continued just fine
Without me.

Those I avoid
Those I adore
Sitting at work,
My life; and fights
One and the same
Once the heart is back in the apartment.

When we look forward to
Do we leave it all
Wherever we go?

Looking back
Did I not take it all
Wherever I strolled?
 Sep 2017 Poetria
Hannah
Same soul
different bones.
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 Sep 2017 Poetria
Shanath
I am counting sunsets
On my fingers,
Falling short.

The sky falls so slow here
I can almost see
My eyelids brush the bottom.

The distance between us
Stretches beyond land and oceans
Yet the same star would fall on us both.

Your voice to me is waves
From the sound of air in a sea shell,
I can't tell which is what.

The moon and my bed
Feel the same
Perhaps so are you and the images in my head.
If you knew, if you knew.
 Sep 2017 Poetria
ryn
Ungodly Hour
 Sep 2017 Poetria
ryn
It's an ungodly hour.
And I've been kept awake.

The world beckons.
And it didn't call with melodious
chirps from the birds in the trees.
It wasn't the soft, calming pitter patter
of raindrops upon the window pane.


Thoughts...


Sneaky, almost sinister thoughts.

Like fine-grain sandpaper that gently rubs
against the quiet skin.
Like a fine-toothed comb that jabs
lightly and repeatedly into the scalp.
Like a tiny paper cut that is invisible
yet you know it's there.

Slowly abrading...
Poking...
Stinging...


Eating away at the thin veil
of silence and peace
that barely blankets my being.

•••

I am now awake.
And I have been awake...
Thinking, doubting and second guessing...
At this ungodly hour.
 Sep 2017 Poetria
nivek
closed eyes wide open
I travelled an unknown path
walked in the dark
stumbling constantly
until I fell so deep I looked into the gates of hell

it was then my eyes opened
and by a faint light in the distance
I began to walk upright
began to see my way out.
 Sep 2017 Poetria
nivek
solitude
 Sep 2017 Poetria
nivek
solitude
away from prying eyes

no longer on anyone's spectrum
on anyone's mind

solitude waits like a bride
at the altar

looking over her shoulder
for you to arrive

to marry your skin, mind
and soul.
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