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 May 2023
Mike Hauser
There used to be enough
Dreams to go around
Now it's hard enough
To hold a single one down

No longer able
To reach the highest heights
Of all the wish I may's
All the wish I might's

Remember when we used to have
A much longer list
One at least if we tried
We could almost grasp

Now all we do is struggle
To even write it down
Outside of this bubble
In which dreams once were found

All the drams that we had
Holding us so tight
All the wish I may's
All the wish I might's

Have simply slipped away
The way dreams sometimes do
Flying out the window
Along with our youth
 May 2023
Walter W Hoelbling
mirror, mirror on the wall ...
what the hell happened?!?
 May 2023
devante moore
It’s true
Sometimes I think of you too
And then I get sad
My eyes swell with tears
And I’m on the brink
Of rushing back to the memories
But then I get chin checked
By the way you left
And instead of returning
I inhale
Take a deep breath
And remember
That I’m already gone
But sometimes I think of you too
 May 2023
Luke
I went out to find
Some value in me,
So I sold what I had
For little a fee.

My eyes for a penny
I sold to some fools,
They're blind and useless,
Mistook for jewels.

My lips for a nickel
To the sweetest sin,
So they'll know the love
That has never been.

My ears for a dime
I sold to a lover.
To hear sweet nothings,
And silence uncover.

My hands for a quarter
I sold to a ghost,
So that she might feel
What I've wanted the most.

Finally my bones for a dollar
I sold to the earth,
But as for my soul-
There was found no worth.
 May 2023
Edmund black
It was like
Yesterday
A century ago
For better or worse
lost in a dream
All sounds suddenly faded
Solitude embraced
Like the waves
from Hokusai painting
A moment of illusory feeling
Second felt like a year
A minute like a lifetime
A lifetime like eternity
Its bittersweet taste dance and sing
around my mind for a while
I guess until it does what it comes to do
I swear insanity never felt so good
separate me from the chaos in my head
Can’t scream must kept perfectly quiet
Or you might wake up the beast in the dark
The silence calls for the mystery
The mystery fed the wonder
And I always like to be fed plenty
Until sanity leads me back to myself
And filled my soul with the happiness
That It seems to craved
 May 2023
Mrs Timetable
I dreamt of you again
This time in color
Colors never seen before
The shades of you
Didn't speak
But the
Color from your lips kiss
Was Adore
Please...
Tell me more
Sequel poem to Adore
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