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 Jun 2015 XIII
Ignatius Hosiana
I'm planning to cross the ocean
I'm planning a swim under the sun
I'm planning to hit and follow the road
I'm planning to lift all my load
I'm planning to endure the hurt
I'm planning to fix my heart
I'm planning to tightly embrace
Water my faith and bloom in grace
I'm planning to give it another try
Even if it might as well make me cry
I'm planning to osculate again
And walk with you in the rain
I'm planning to forgive that day
Even if it still feels like yesterday
I'm planning to get up and get going
On a train, yatch or a boeing
I'm planning to lift myself from down
And instantly leave this town
Pulling my socks,tightening my laces
'Cause I'm planning on going places
There's a peace I seem not to have
I'm planning to find it, and to love
I'm planning to write another chapter
One that ends with happily ever after
 Jun 2015 XIII
Gossamer
Nicknames
 Jun 2015 XIII
Gossamer
You call all the girls you mess around with "sunshine,"
but none of them light your dark spaces,
your loneliest places.

I'm there at one in the afternoon
with you and your flat tire
and then at three in the morning
with you and your ******
"i love her's,"
your groggy, slurred words
about a girl from the bar
who you won't remember
and you thank me in the morning
when I bring you water
and all you ever call me
is a friend
can we blame God for the war?
but we're the one who pull the trigger?

can we Praise God for rising our children?
but we're the one who feed them?

can we feel sorry for questioning God?
but He is the one who give us brain?
 Jun 2015 XIII
Dan McGowan
MetaHaiku
 Jun 2015 XIII
Dan McGowan
I meta-haiku
it felt so right between us
till I met senryu
Senryu won this round
My heart shouldn’t have profusely bled
I saw her face only once
a moment’s crossing in a moment paid
not meant for a second chance!

The fire shouldn’t have leapt in me
she was a doomed emotion
trying to live in my penned poetry
meant to be only a notion!

My mind shouldn’t have imprisoned her
caged her from one mere glance
lived the phantom of an absurd affair
spilled ink in a mad trance!

I shouldn’t have sought her anymore
searched in the wild her trace
she couldn’t be my paramour
I saw from the crowd her face!
 Jun 2015 XIII
Tex Dermott
Ten word stories can be as hard as writing novels.
 Jun 2015 XIII
Doris Cayea Brown
You cannot rule me
There are no puppet strings
You possess me not
I am not a thing

I have a mind
I have a soul
You can’t  tell me go;  stay
Me… myself… I am in control

Accept me as I am
All my quirks and imperfections
You cannot change me
I do not come with directions
 Jun 2015 XIII
AK Bright
There's no secret
just stories to be told
of Love anew
or lovers of old

Not just of people
But love of things
Perhaps a flower
Or bird as it sings

Whether it be nature
Or matters of the heart
The simplest of occurrences
Has a poetic spark

Observation
marrying fantasy
experience
begetting reality

A poet's table
Is a smorgasbord
Consume all you like
There'll always be more
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