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Mary-Eliz Mar 2018
So, you’re up before four
For no reason it seems
Must mean that you found
A poem in your dreams

*Okay, brain, give it up
I’m not in a mood to play
Just let it flow out
Say what you have to say

You think you’re groggy?!
Got nothing, you plead?!
You think you’re tired?!
You’re the one who woke me *


So, you sit here and think
With this pain in your head
It’s quiet inside and out…
Oh bother!
You might as well go back to bed
...and I did!
  Mar 2018 Mary-Eliz
CA Guilfoyle
In the evening comes the dim light, the swooping away of day,
the blue, gray clouds, the turbulent air of wild birds
small specs, black and disappearing.
After awhile only quiet,
and then a certain silence settles in
it moves like fog, alongside the moon
it comes cold, blanketing the soul
a depth of space unknown
a well of darkness, undiscovered
the losing of this day, this light
and in the long, lingering hours
dwelling in the dark caved places
touching the soul and flooding the heart
the crashing waves will come
to break one wildly apart.
  Mar 2018 Mary-Eliz
SG Holter
Even as dying, I have no time
For bitterness.

Life was too short,
Even before.

Each step holds gratitude for the sound
Of snow beneath it.

For
Now

I carry my passenger
Unburdened.

Say no to nothing. Not
Even the cancer.

Even tomorrow's mother's tears,
Father's clenched fists upon casket;

Flowers; loss. Inevitability.
Death grows inside me.

The opposite of a
Pregnancy.
  Mar 2018 Mary-Eliz
Mary Gay Kearns
There is always a place and a time
To get back to
If only one could!
Where events, altered
One could have survived;
Chance conversations,
A casually read book,
Movements of oceans,
Chips in ones head,
A desire to be kissed,
A contemporary remake,
Lead to a disaster
At a later date.

Caught by one's Achille's heel
In a thicket full of trees
Climbing on a swan's back
In the middle of a breeze
Standing forever in that
Potential spot
Left open for a second
A dreadful plot.

Casting a fishing net into a pool
Searching for items thrown away
Too soon.
And I wonder if a bird's song
In a nearby tree
Could have brought me
Freedom and let me be.

Love Mary **
Mary-Eliz Mar 2018
Happy Pi day
have a piece for me

transcendental number
digits that go on infinitely

Celebrate 314
any way you want
make a splash
or party
just don't be nonchalant

Count some numbers
do some math
enjoy and live it up...

perhaps a bubble bath

go outside, climb a tree
any diameter will do
go ahead...I promise

I won't run circles around you
Mary-Eliz Mar 2018
I love you, I love you, I love you
I love you to death    
ooh! you take away  
all of my breath  

I love you, I love you
I love you with all my heart  
but nothing's returned  
no love on your part    

I love you
I love you so much  
but you simply will not
give in to my touch

I love you
why can you not see
will you ever come 'round
to loving me

I love ...

my, oh my,
look at that hunk
of a guy walking by

Now what was I saying
I really don't know
maybe some other time
I really must go...
Feeling silly!
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