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 Jul 2020 Tea Bland
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Insomniac
 Jul 2020 Tea Bland
N
I cannot sleep, my dear
You see, yesterday the sound
of waves crashing inside my
mind kept me up all night

I’ve been at war with my past,
and I failed to make peace with it

Now my bed is on fire and nothing
remains of my heart but the ashes;
I beg of you don’t ask me to stay
alive for another sleepless night

Lover, I’m weary
and I long to sleep
To the girl who kept asking me why I can’t sleep.
 Jun 2020 Tea Bland
B Irwin
Our bodies are not temples,
I will not be invaded as such.
We are ecosystems.
Made of grit, blood, and change.
Packed with multitudes of intricacy,
We love like gushing streams.
Wound like thorned bush.
Hurt by humanity like hunted prey.
As we burn, as we are cut down,
As we are wounded, crippled, abused,
We still grow.
 Jan 2019 Tea Bland
Ron Conway
super blood wolf moon
almost sounds ridiculous
but it's breathtaking
                        rc
 Jan 2019 Tea Bland
Rohan P
Believe—
how skies are
folding blankets: theirs
to mock the solidity of material form.

Believe—
what skies are
gesturing to bloodless hurricanes.

Believe—
why skies are

Yours.
I structurally designed this poem so the first line of each stanza is the shortest, and each successive line gets longer. The stanza lengths also decrease by one each time.
 Dec 2018 Tea Bland
Verdant Quo
I am nothing
more than a reflection
that has animated itself over the water’s surface

But the picture is so much clearer

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