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Lola
do you think that it is a date?
is it too late to clarify?
is it too late to take?
to take back the words I always would say?
do you think that it is a date?
watch horror movies over call?
Is it too late,
to tell you that I don't like horror?
did you take that the wrong way?
not in movies, not on dates
I don't like horror
I meant it as a date
I regret it
but it is too late
It was dark in cave,
the air felt cold—inside out.

He held her
as if she were glass,
a lamb
in the arms
of a wolf midnight.

Outside
the sky wept,
but inside us
a flower bloomed—
in April.
I turned 18 today! Ahhhhhhh, happy birthday to me!! Thank you all so much for the love and support. I still can’t believe I’m 18 now. I’ve been ill for a few days, so this birthday hasn’t been the most enjoyable. On top of that, I’ve been caught up with academics too. I’m really thankful for everything I have, but I also want to keep improving and become a better version of myself. I have the best family ever, couldn’t ask for anything better, tbh.
As you guzzle this Ghazal
remember to take a radif breath

Drink poet's nectar in moderation
imbibing words with radif breath

There is conjuring in fermenting brews
aging over time's radif breath

Leisurely savor poet's infusion
relaxed and composed with a radif breath

-cec
**the same word or phrase (the radif)
challenge: write a  ghazal that takes the form of a love song – however you want to define that. Observe the conventions of the repeated word, including your own name (or a reference to yourself) and having the stanzas present independent thoughts along a single theme – a meditation, not a story.
So imperfect is us
want to puke in, outs
Us do opposite things
Is big crime normal earth
We elect "Orange Cheeto" president
chronic cronies guaranteed corrupt
lose your money six day to Sunday
market crash make sad-happy
Send wakey people to poison prison
pardon poisoned prisoners free
We hate, hate, hate, like

-cec
"The Bizarro World (also known as Htrae, which is "Earth" spelled backwards) is a fictional planet appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics." -  Bizarro Wikipedia?
While walking my inner yard this sunny
morning, what with all these weeks of rain,
the grass is lushly green, over a foot high,
still wet but smelling absolutely marvelous.
I am on a hunt, a small harvest of sorts, for
the most succulent of viridescent, tender
blades of grass.

Oh, not for me you see, but for my big lazy
rotund, inside only cat, as his diet is bland
canned, or dry foods only, he turns up his
feline nose at chicken, or bits of beef from
the table, and so once a week I do faithfully
venture out to collect a big handful of chlorophyll
rich lawn grass that he dearly loves, and with
big eyes of intense expectation he watches my
every move from his perch upon the windowsill
of my living room, knowing as he does exactly
what I'm doing.

When I return inside with his prize in hand he
excitedly reaches up his front paws and dances
about, vocally meowing for his anticipated intended
fresh salad, which he always devours right down
to the very last grass green blade. Oh, for such
simple cat pleasures.

How I wish I could get even half that excited about
anything, anymore. But those days are long past.
Well on second thought, maybe at this point just
waking up every morning, is good enough.
We will need to hookup the field mower
attachment to our tractor to cut our several
acres of grass lawns, it is too high and wet
for our John Deere riding mower to do the job.
But that is the task for my Grandsons to tackle.
One that I can watch and enjoy from my living
room window.
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