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 May 2016
Denel Kessler
I have been
nothing before
and while I prefer
to be something
to you
zero
is a perfect circle
the beginning
the end
one seamless strand
made whole
 May 2016
raine cooper
i want to be the reason there is light inside your eyes again. the reason you worship the sunrise, instead of clinging red knuckled to the end of each dying day.
©rainecooper
 May 2016
Slur pee
I'm moldy and rotten,
Pulling myself apart,
Like cotton.

I press myself, against this cell
If I were skinnier, I could escape this hell.
Skin like cellophane, clinging to bones,
Slipping through the hands, I used to call home.

My stomach speaks, and my breath reeks like acid,
My thoughts like to creep, when they think
No one's watching.
In the middle of the night, you can see the demons dance.
I always thought it rude that they never asked
For my hand.

I cling to the stars, as if they're the only thing that's real,
If I collect enough, I can wish to feel.
The sky is covered in clouds that are rotting,
I pull myself apart, as if I were cotton.

-SLuR
She wrote me
and my memory
cannot write her off.
Ma ; 23 years and still counting
 May 2016
Pauline Morris
I'm not a princess, I don't need saving
It's only your love on my heart that needs engraving
I'm not a damsel in distress
Only your love can impress
There's no golden locks for you to climb
Only my heart that you must find
There's no dragon that needs slaying
Just your love is all I'm craving
There's no castle walls to scale
Only true love will prevail
I don't need your money or gold
I can't be bought or sold
I can stand on my own two feet
I'm not like most women that you meet
I'm one of a kind, I am unique
It's only your sweet love that I seek
 May 2016
Poetic T
I awoke that morning,
the leafs were descending
like so many of my thoughts,
I just wanted to be like them still.

*"Can I awaken one day in silence, and slumber in death,
 May 2016
Hadrian Veska
Don't seek knowledge, seek truth.
For only in truth can wisdom be obtained.

-Hadrian Veska
 May 2016
Fay Slimm
His Star.

I chased this evening
evening's fade in sunset clouds,
silver tin-foiled filigree
tied to grey-as-granite mountains.

Tinted skirts of hazy
daytime's late farewell lit night's
ballooning moon parade
displayed as fire on quiet shoreline.

Invasive scarlet-swathe
hued day's best forgotten noon
when darker stronghold's rain
rolled dust-cascades forming gloom.

Drifted with waning sky's
azure came memory's beams,
pain-shot their spotlighting
shadows still haunting my dreams.

Yet I chased tonight
night's demons away by love's
recall when I saw brighter
his star winking at me from above.
 May 2016
wordvango
has a certain rhythm like grass
how it grows here and there  amid hard soil
finds soft patches of fertile loam
where the right amount of water drips
off , much like gravity has that pull,
my only poem does too, for me
only one sprig one germinated
small thing bursting against
all the odds to shoot forth and gain another day
in the sun, another day holding to the soil,
and proud I am and small
at the same time or green , or futile,
the thing really is how you
look at it!
 May 2016
Valsa George
Sometime after mid night, it had rained
Putting out summer’s sultry heat
The sky had its face washed clean
And wiped the grime off Earth’s soiled feet

The dawn is quietly breaking
Night lights still glimmer here and there
The blue firmament remains cloudless
And cool is the mild blowing air

The sleeping town is slowly waking up
And at this transitional point
I look out into the street
To see a sight that shall never disappoint

Along the road moves one, ragged and withered
His discolored white hair left unkempt
With hunch back and drooping shoulders
The marks Time has left of the hard years spent

Though age has drained his life sap away
He has a firm resolve never to beg
His frail body supported on a stick
Serves as a veritable third leg

With his staff, he perseveringly stirs
Every heap of abandoned *******
Indiscriminately piled on either side of the road
Hunting for trinkets lying hidden in the trash

A rag picker with a sack on his back
Picking up today’s treasure
From yesterday’s discarded trash
Things, for him ‘priceless’ beyond measure

With complaints none
He faces life and its trials
Never losing the glitter in his eyes
Though a loner in life’s dark isles

I ask myself, why every day
I routinely look for this man who limps along
And I get a quick answer
‘He helps you turn your sobs into a song’
This was a ritual the old man religiously followed every morning..... making me reminded of the leech gatherer in Wordsworth's Resolution and Independence. He was a great inspiration for me!
 May 2016
VS aka Jason Cole
I got a wrought iron heart
You know it's been through the fire
And you can't tear it apart
It's tougher than a barbed wire

You think I loved you from the start
You think I lost my best friend
You think it hurts me we're apart
I think you better think again

I got a wrought iron heart...
Song hook.
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