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 351° 
Jake Devlin
anxiously pacing
smoking cigarettes
to just get away
alone in a crowd
crowded by memories
when alone
i beg for mercy
but like prayers
i'll never have answers
drink to sleep
pills to not dream
 163° 
David Lessard
I used to read your poems
but lately you don't write
you're silent and aloof
you know that isn't right.
You can't close a door once opened
you can't abolish all your dreams
you're a poet of the heart
mustn't fall apart at the seams.
Say what you can in words
they speak the message true
spoken from the heart
the poems will see you through.
A hermit's not your style
a recluse, you are not
never give up writing
of things that you've been taught.
I used to read your poems
I'd read them once again
if you would send them out
(this one's from a poet friend)
 143° 
IrieSide
With intricate pattern,
a darkness alive
you feel the presence
of the unknown

figure this bliss,
it is one of many
a remembrance
of touch
in this time
of plenty

devilish sensations
in a time's meaning,
you listen closer
to the pulling
force

the feminine is treasure,
the aura of angels
worshiped as one
of the few
 106° 
Jon Sawyer
Your Love,
        extends,
beyond generations.
10 April 2024 - "Ode to Mom"

My mother is a grandmother, as odd as it sounds.
 76° 
Ariana Bagley
I love him
I tell myself
I know that
We will be together forever
I don’t believe that
We could be separated
My thoughts tell me that
He’s the love of my life
Sometimes my heart lies and says
I could live an eternity
Without him
Like my friends say
“We’re perfect for each other”
And you can’t tell me
He’s not the one.

Now read from bottom to top.
 75° 
Jeremy Betts
...it's like a separate entity
One that doesn't like me
In fact, it tells me it hates me
As it berates me then blames me
I'm at a loss and lost
Can't even tally the cost
It's burned every bridge I've crossed
And left a heart encased in a permafrost

©2024
En trenes poseídos de una pasión errante
por el carbón y el hierro que los provoca y mueve,
y en tensos aeroplanos de plumaje tajante
recorro la nación del trabajo y la nieve.
De la extensión de Rusia, de sus tiernas ventanas,
sale una voz profunda de máquinas y manos,
que indica entre mujeres: Aquí están tus hermanas,
y prorrumpe entre hombres: Estos son tus hermanos.
Basta mirar: se cubre de verdad la mirada.
Basta escuchar: retumba la sangre en las orejas.
De cada aliento sale la ardiente bocanada
de tantos corazones unidos por parejas.
Ah, compañero Stalin: de un pueblo de mendigos
has hecho un pueblo de hombres que sacuden la frente,
y la cárcel ahuyentan, y prodigan los trigos,
como a un inmenso esfuerzo le cabe: inmensamente.
De unos hombres que apenas a vivir se atrevían
con la boca amarrada y el sueño esclavizado:
de unos cuerpos que andaban, vacilaban, crujían,
una masa de férreo volumen has forjado.
Has forjado una especie de mineral sencillo,
que observa la conducta del metal más valioso,
perfecciona el motor, y señala el martillo,
la hélice, la salud, con un dedo orgulloso.
Polvo para los zares, los reales bandidos:
Rusia nevada de hambre, dolor y cautiverios.
Ayer sus hijos iban a la muerte vencidos,
hoy proclaman la vida y hunden los cementerios.
Ayer iban sus ríos derritiendo los hielos,
quemados por la sangre de los trabajadores.
Hoy descubren industrias, maquinarias, anhelos,
y cantan rodeados de fábricas y flores.
Y los ancianos lentos que llevan una huella
de zar sobre sus hombros, interrumpen el paso,
por desplumar alegres su alta barba de estrella
ante el fulgor que remoza su ocaso.
Las chozas se convierten en casas de granito.
El corazón se queda desnudo entre verdades.
Y como una visión real de lo inaudito,
brotan sobre la nada bandadas de ciudades.
La juventud de Rusia se esgrime y se agiganta
como un arma afilada por los rinocerontes.
La metalurgia suena dichosa de garganta,
y vibran los martillos de pie sobre los montes.
Con las inagotables vacas de oro yacente
que ordeñan los mineros de los montes Urales,
Rusia edifica un mundo feliz y trasparente
para los hombres llenos de impulsos fraternales.
Hoy que contra mi patria clavan sus bayonetas
legiones malparidas por una torpe entraña,
los girasoles rusos, como ciegos planetas,
hacen girar su rostro de rayos hacia España.
Aquí está Rusia entera vestida de soldado,
protegiendo a los niños que anhela la trilita
de Italia y de Alemania bajo el sueño sagrado,
y que del vientre mismo de la madre los quita.
Dormitorios de niños españoles: zarpazos
de inocencia que arrojan de Madrid, de Valencia,
a Mussolini, a ******, los dos mariconazos,
la vida que destruyen manchados de inocencia.
Frágiles dormitorios al sol de la luz clara,
sangrienta de repente y erizada de astillas.
¡Si tanto dormitorio deshecho se arrojara
sobre las dos cabezas y las cuatro mejillas!
Se arrojará, me advierte desde su tumba viva
Lenin, con pie de mármol y voz de bronce quieto,
mientras contempla inmóvil el agua constructiva
que fluye en forma humana detrás de su esqueleto.
Rusia y España, unidas como fuerzas hermanas,
fuerza serán que cierre las fauces de la guerra.
Y sólo se verá tractores y manzanas,
panes y juventud sobre la tierra.
 53° 
Alex Teng
We fell in love by chance,
We stay in love by choice.
 39° 
Goddess Rue
Heaven rained on me,
I breathed in the petrichor,
Bathed in the downpour.
I have sinned,
So destroy me,
With your rain.
 32° 
Marie-Lyne
:)
I think
the world
needs
more
of us
than we
can offer
I should’ve
waited
for someone
like
her to
come
into my
life.
 22° 
Saint kaya
The sky is
A graveyard of stars

And I remark
Something so tragically beautiful

Just like fireworks of art
From here to the nearest star

And I wish
I could lay awake
In the night

With you
And our lingering hearts

And tell you all about a tragedy
Called life
 21° 
ketjil
You can’t compare yourself
With the unbroken girls
Surrounding you
You already shattered
Creating
A new form
Of beautiful

-jt
a somewhat older poem
 20° 
Me
No more lies
or games
no shame taken
on

I am
what I am
and will
with no fibre of me
adjust
just to make you feel
better.
 20° 
Ander Stone
Sheep don't know
The meaning of the word
Rules.

They know only the barking of the dog
And the howl of he wolf.
Just a note to say I'm sorry.
Please let it go don't worry.
Everything will end up well.
Kiss Kiss from eternal hell.
 17° 
Luna Pan
When the war is over, when the art saved the world; you and me, we will make love on Shakespeare's sonnets.
 17° 
Nat Lipstadt
Why Men Cry in the Bathroom

For so many reasons.
I will tell you the why.
I think you know,
Or perhaps, you think you know.

Men are always O.K.,
Even when not.

We expect the worse,
Accept the worse,
Nonetheless,
We are forever unprepared.

Wearily, we cry,
In the bathroom, in private,
Lest sighs slip by,
We be unmasked,
Early warring, strife signs warning.

Copious, tho we weep
Before the mirror confessor,
It is relief untethered,
Unbinding of the feet,
An uncounting
Of beaded rosaries,
Of freshly fallen hail stones,
Of night times terrors
By dawn's early edition's light,
and welcomed.

But look for the mute tear,
The eye-cornered drop,
*** tat, that never drops,
But never ceases formation and
Reforming, over and over again,
In a state of perpetuity of reconstitution,

The tippy tear of an iceberg revealing,
And I see you peeping, wondering,
What is beneath


Look for:
the torn worm-eaten edges of spirit,
thrift shop bought, extra worn,
grieving lines neath the eyes,
where the salt has evaporated,
discolored the skin.
worry lines,
under and above,
browed mapped, furrowed boundaries.
the laugh line saga,
where better days are stored,
recalled, as well as recanted,
publicly, privately.

Why just men?

I don't know,
Perhaps,
it is all I know.


Jan 6, 2013
your effusive and lengthy comments are each a poem in their own right.  

Tinkered with June 22, 2013
With a push from Bala,
A serial peeper, thank God!
 17° 
Nina
We hug
We kiss
We cuddle
In bed

We were just friends
We made out
To him
We were having ***
To me
We were making love
I was his friends with benefits
But he was my lover
 16° 
Eva
You took away parts of me that I will never get back
And I'm working ******* being okay with that.
 16° 
𝙰𝚗𝚗𝚎
i have every right to be a villain
yet i did not
 16° 
saige
Hey, text me when you get home safe.
Please dont drink and drive. And always let the people around you know that you love them. Who knows when they might be gone
 16° 
MsAmendable
Maiden in the ashes
Robed in silk
Robbed of milk
No mark on your tender skin
No sign of turmoil within
The coal does not yet scorch your soul
...
You walk your delicate path
Bearing the sightly, brightly beaten cut bloom of spring
Luscious petals not yet knowing
They will drop from the stem
No seeds to plant, and not her fault
the only water here tainted with salt
And the ground is hard, turned up in its roots
Do you know the path you tread does not want you?
Do you not yet feel the cut of stone or burn on coal?
Or does this black earth need your bloodstained steps as much as you need to bleed them
Is it possible for one woman's blood to nourish this dead soil back to life?
And one woman's love to seed them
I wish I could not pray for your success with this life
I wished far more for you than this trial of strife.
 15° 
Reimers
It may look like I'm silent
But don't let it fool you
I'm holding back the will
To say that I love you
 13° 
Anonymous Freak
And everything
Had happened
The way they promised
It wouldn’t.
 13° 
Sally A Bayan
(haiku x 3)

Life is a river
we swim, we drift...a cycle
of rising....falling.

equanimity
is ******* soft riverbed
we reel....sometimes drown,

we give up, they dry
we fight...we breathe....rivers flow!
ripples do follow.

Sally
Copyright March 2015
Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
(Wrote this a long time ago, and while writing, I thought of a fellow poet, our  food friend, Harlon Rivers.)
 12° 
eileen
Is poetry dead
took its last breath
eating up all it's words
I'm feeling so hurt
poetry is dead
we mourned for days
sounds of sobs heard around the world

we slept in silence
lights on

poetry is dead
hello poetry welcome back to the internet
 12° 
ghost queen
i miss you…so much…, it hurts
i can’t stop thinking about you…,dreaming about you
i need to feel you…, touch you…, smell and taste you
hear your whispers, moans, fears and secrets
feel your sweat and wetness against my skin
say it, i want to hear it, that you love me
and only me
Written for Laura V. March 16
 12° 
emnabee
The poet lives two lives.
One on the outside,
And one in their mind.

When you look in their eyes
You could see an abyss.

If you looked long enough
You could sink into it.

But most people don’t see it.

Take the time to read the words, though,
And you would know for sure.

The poet lives in two different worlds.
A little escape from the madness.
Or maybe, into.
 11° 
Nolan Willett
Patiently waiting
There, in the next world, where you
See all coming things.
 10° 
zak
Her
words moved me, and
God
i wanted my fingers to blister and my
bones to ache
but my mind withers and my heart breaks
i swallowed ink and still i couldn’t
make the words flow like they used to as if
almost as if
they refuse to
 10° 
Deeee
I dance.

My toes dig into the soft mud
My dress is drenched from the rain

I dance.
My arms are outstretched
Cutting through the air as I spin

I dance.
I smile at the moon
My heart is full
I'm in love with this moment

I dance.
 10° 
em
this world spins way too fast
my head turns a little too slow
im so lost
 10° 
misha
your name is
forbidden in
my mouth
or in my heart
because when
i think about
you;

i'll cry a little more,
hurt a little stronger
love a little softer
because you no longer
make me feel sober

i'm drunk on the
memory of you
if only i could chase you with pizza but shots don't work like that
 9° 
Stranger99
When the sunshine gets lost,
and I'm all alone
Time is forever and still.
Remnants of the sane
remain discarded and gone.
It's cold here and souls divide,
only to remain vacant and up for sale...
I still remember the day
I said it
When I was kneeling
Touching your feet
I love you dear
Being away from you
Makes me fear
You are the first
And the last
You are the world
That's my only word
Tears rolling over my cheeks
Have made of me an artist
An artist who paints with his tears
Your portrait is not for sale
Cz I am your only male.
Without you I am nothing
Your presence is like wings
Making me fly so high.
You made me someone
When all people around
Saw me no one
But something.
 8° 
Max
She said "I'm falling in love."

I said "I'm falling apart."
What's the difference?
 8° 
Bolaji Temilola
When I looked at Life,

I realized it is totally twisted.

No matter how good or bad

Your dreams and plans are,

Life will still have its own to give you

So don't fight it, Don't Force it

Just let it go and allow the Universe to

Make it come to you.

Remember life has no respect for anyone

It gives what it plans

So appreciate what you have

And allow that thing you desire comes to you.







.
I surrender all to the universe
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