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 Nov 2017
Imran Islam
Today love falls with my tears
This heart is broken into pieces
You're rude and selfish, sighs...
Probably you have no feelings.

Don't you remember me anymore?
You are still smiling at my shore
I'll be sad, I never thought it before
Stay in my heart, stay evermore.

I will be waiting for your love
Like I had been falling in love
I am hurt, what do you have?
Sweetie, turn back to me, don't rove!
 Nov 2017
Ashly Kocher
Don’t rush life
        Because
Life can sometimes
        Rush you...
 Nov 2017
Kathryn Heim
Flowers at my grave
placed after I am gone
a gesture sweet
that begs life's song
to play another day.
Alone and afraid
she huddles against the wall,
please don’t let him find me
not this time, I wasn’t bad at all.

Hands reach down
grab her by the hair,
she feels the first hit
there’s pain everywhere.

She cries out loud
but nobody hears,
and if they did
it fell on deaf ears.

Left bruised and bleeding
laying on the floor,
all because she forgot
to lock the front door.

She’s all alone
in pain and full of fear,
why won’t anyone help her
does no body hear?.

She’s seven years old
her life a living hell,
and not one neighbor
will pick up the phone and tell.
~

~And she flies to a place where she’s loved~
Have you ever wondered what goes through an abused child’s head?
It’s fear, confusion, pain, a longing to be loved, to feel safe.

Every 10 seconds a report of Child Abuse is made and every day 5 Children die of Child Abuse just in the United States alone. Don’t look the other way, REPORT IT over and over again if you have too. They need a voice, be that Voice, be their Hero.  If you hear, see, or feel a Child is being Abused, pick up the phone and call 911 or The National Child Abuse Hotline- 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453)

International and US Hotlines and websites can be found here…
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 Nov 2017
Joe Cottonwood
Noon, I’m next in line behind an old man.
“I want to withdraw fourteen dollars,” he says.
The teller, a young woman with a soft sweater, says
“There’s only—let me check—yes—fifty-two cents.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes.” She tilts her head. “Sorry.”
The sorrow is genuine.
He wears a pinstripe suit, frayed,
wafting an odor of smoke and earth.
A smartly folded handkerchief, breast pocket,
has a dark stain. His silver beard
is neatly trimmed.

On one wall above the safe is a giant
mural of teamsters driving a stagecoach.
The man says, “There might be—”
“No. It’s always the same.”
For a moment he closes his eyes,
a slow blink while indignities of a lifetime pass.
Without a word, the young woman slides a sandwich
over the countertop through the teller window.
“Blessings on you,” the man says with a nod,  
and he walks away with a limp.

I cash my check, a big one
from three days of messy labor
for a matron of the horsey set.
“He lives by the creek,” the teller says
without my asking. “Under a bridge.”
Outside the bank, in the parking lot of glistening cars,
I look around for the pinstripe suit, the silver beard.
I might offer the man something.
He might refuse to take it.
Anyway, no matter:
he has disappeared like the last stagecoach.
Only the blessing remains.
First published in MOON magazine July 2017
 Nov 2017
Imran Islam
I’m so tired of my short life!
What do I do for a living?
I have done several things...

I have recently worked
in a food laboratory
before my two surgeries
have left me disabled at the moment
I'm in a tough recovery right now.

I was promoted in my company
for improving a media lab
And the next day my nerve pain put me in the hospital
and discovered I needed cervical disc replacement

Then I had complications with my shoulder
and they had to perform a surgery
and install a ***** that ******* me

I couldn't pay bills in Cali
and lost my entire house with an eviction
Sold what I had and bought a trailer for me
and my family is headed here to Idaho just trying to survive

Gotta love it…
 Nov 2017
Ashly Kocher
We all have SCARS
Whether
         Physical
              or
          Mental
The difference is
If you chose to
Embrace them
Or hide them from the world
 Nov 2017
Semihten5
(We are very sorry for New York)

Why is this pains?
World is dark a place
Life is very hard
Heart can't see
horrible views

enough
hear the screams
deaf ears
 Nov 2017
The Lenora
They are all upon us lying deep underground
However their ears remain open above

Their eyes watch as we make our way through the green garden
The garden is fresh with blooming plants and flowers

It symbolizes all that they can't have
They've wasted it away to death

Our realities of dreams are agonizing reminders
For what they can't have
15 Oct. 2017

The Lenora

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Eye of newt
          toe of frog
                scale of snake
                              bark of dog.
A cauldron boiling
                         over an open blaze
its vapor makes
                        an eerie haze.
A pinch of this
        a pinch of that
              a magic broom
                    an old black cat.
Cobwebs
            Spiders
                  creaking floor
                       scary shadows
                                 on the door.
                                     Howling winds
                                  pouring rain
                              curtains lick
                        the window pane.
             Groans
          and
              moans
                      a Ghoulish scene…

TRICK OR TREAT, IT’S HALLOWEEN!!!
~
Inspired by good old Shakespeare’s three “weird sisters”, Scene I of Macbeth.

“Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison’d entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights hast thirty one
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ the charmed ***.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches’ mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg’d i’ the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse,
Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver’d by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.”
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