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 Dec 9
Emma
We the nobodies, shadows cut from the cloth of smoke and scars,
a fever of sweat and darkness pooling, tears of sorrow swallowing tomorrow.
They locked us in silence, mad minds forging new words, wild and sharp,
each syllable slipping from sanity’s grip, each sound a breath clawing free.

Everything slides in time, the tick-tock mocking us, echoes like footsteps
down the hallway of closed doors, promises that never open.
See you on the other side, they said, where death waits like a lover,
the kiss of a fist, sweet baby girl, sleep—don’t listen,
we’ll wait before sharing the truth, its teeth bare and grinning.

The mania whispers in dark corners, shakes the bones from rest,
and a thousand thoughts slice through, a razor storm beneath quiet skin.
Blood seeping down thick thighs, warmth trickling like proof—
still alive, still fertile with fear, birthing only dread.

He could never hear her, she screamed into an endless void,
her voice a smear, red stains across cold walls.
And no peace wrapped her, no quiet settled in,
only the whisper of madness, and the promise—
of a darker dawn to come.
 Dec 9
David
Tiny gods mumur profanities
Docile hands, obtuse in their promise
Feed warm solace to pigeons in the park
I need heaven to smile
The sky needs to open its mouth wide
So stars come alive
I need my words to become famous
To cavort thru adolescent eyes
Paper makes a prisoner of trees
Standing alone silent in the breeze
 Dec 7
Peter Garrett
Not entirely sure
What's more toxic
You, me or cyanide
I guess I'll have a shot of cyanide, please...
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O kayraming pangarap na binuo —
Binuno sa sariling salamangka.
May ibang nagwawaging nakangiti,
Habang ang ila’y nalalagas kamamadali.

Nakamamangha nga sa umpisa
Pagkat ito ang batayan ng karamihan
Sa tinatawag nilang  “makapangyarihan.”

Silakbo ng damdami’y aking pinatatahimik
Bagamat sa mga sandaling iyo’y
Gusto ko na lamang mapaos
Sa mga himig na inaanod patungo sa aking lalamunan.

Patuloy ang pagsuntok ko sa buwan
Hanggang sa maging gula-gulanit maging aking kasuotan.
Ngunit sa patımpalak na ito’y
Wala naman pala akong ibang kalaban
Kundi ang sarılı kong anino,
Ang kumunoy ng aking nakaraan.

Madilim —
Madilim ang paligid saanman ako dumako.
May hiwaga pa nga bang taglay ang Liwanag?
Kung ang sinag Nito’y mas maaga pa sa Pasko.

Mahiwaga —
Ganyan nila ituring ang mga alitaptap
Na para bang may isang diwatang
Umaaliw sa kanila,
Naghahayag ng kung anu-anong mensaheng
Wala naman palang kabuluhan
Kaya’t sabay-sabay silang mauubos
Na parang mga paupos na kandaling
Wala nang balak na sindihan pa.

Sino nga ba?
Sino nga ba ang aking susundan?
Napapatid, napapagod, nanlulumo’t nakikiusap
Na ako’y hatulan na lamang ng kamatayan
Nang mabaon na rin sa limot
Ang mga alaalang dumi sa’king katauhan.

Tinatanong ko ang sarili
Kung bakit nga ba paulit-ulit ang daan?
Wala nga bang magtutuwid sa mga lubak nito?
Ito na nga ba ang dulo ng bahaghari?
At sinu-sino nga lang ba ang makahaharap sa Liwanag?

Ako at ang kadiliman
Ako at ang liwanag.
Sino nga ba ang pamato?
Sino nga ba ang tunay na kalaban?

Subalit kung ako ma’y isang anino na lamang,
Ako’y pipisan pa rin sa mga yakap ng Buwan.
At kahit pa ako’y mahuli sa kanilang takbuha’y
Sigurado pa rin akong
May liwanag pa rin sa aking sinusundan.

Ikaw, Anong tantya mo?
Makararating ka rin ba sa dulo?
Ikaw, anong pasya mo?
Tataya ka ba o mananatiling isang anino?
 Jan 9
irinia
we are targets for light, for the precision of its
unknown aim, yet we insist in blackening the world
as a self-described pyromaniac, I practice daily rituals with your presence. I tell your name to the wind, to the sheets, to the cup of tea,  to the orchids. then I tell to myself who I am, who you are.
outside the world is drowning in its own guts. your name is incomprehensible, but not to the rituals of the heart, they defy gravity, brevity and bribery. Diffracted on the psychic field your trajectory is eerie, the amplitude of some waves enormous, as I watch them wash the horizon away. dreams are the only shadowless creatures, and still I dream only your shadow. we still don't know why beauty is truth and truth is beauty. oh, happy rituals of the hands: inventing love, writing poetry.
 Nov 2023
JRF
I Write

I write it down.
Somewhat poetically.
Spill my guts.
Somewhat poetically.
And then I read it later and I’m promptly ashamed
to read the truth of it all
so then I delete it and
go about my day
And then night comes and I look for it but I got rid of it so I write it again.
And the cycle continues.
Emote
Delete
So I don’t have to absorb it
and live the truth
or deal with the  things
that are eating me
from the inside out.
I guess that’s just the way it is.
I guess
that’s  poetry, baby.
 Apr 2023
irinia
"The mother's heart is the child's playground."

i have one story to tell  to me again and maybe again, i caught myself dreaming the boundary between the energetic darkness and the travelling light. this vital story  when the mornings were pure the nights full of unknown beings, the rib cage the only space i knew rippled by the vital waves, by dread, incomprehensible vibrations, the beat of my heart unprotected, the horizon had not yet been invented, nor the sisterhood and brotherhood.  pain was an incessant falling into the void, the desire infinite, my body shattered into vital fragments, a misattuned orchestra of delight and terror (body-mind-reality continuum forever broken). at the crossroad of deadness and aliveness i was stamped with fire and water, i was an imaginary being without limits. even now i use a strange language and visions of the infinite haunt me, i taste life when i confuse myself with you and her and him and them, so that death is not incomprehensible. i was once a pool of vibrant nothingness, this terrible pain of life crushing itself inside the flesh, of reality and imagination, longing and despair annihilating each other.
my body carries patiently the invisible tattoos of vibrant scars, she waits for me to learn how to love the simplicity and the serene fullness of life. all i need is more words, new vessels for the infinite desire, more "i" in this i from the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete.
 Apr 2023
irinia
the walls have ears, they used to say
these walls are full of screams of declamation
of a burning stream of bodies with parfumed names
love confused diffused in this internal flight
being chased while chasing unrecognizable the face of truth for now
the warmness the softness of bodies so promising so alluring
the illusion, a fleeting connection so powerful that there is no one
to guard the depth of this edge, me and the anti-me
this disconnection sings lullabies to my zest for life
the right vision comes to those who wait
it is unbearable at first, cause you are not used to your
eyes seeing through the water, let alone the abyssal depth of blood

this could be a poem I could have written if I were you but
the most strange of it all is that I am this you and the other you
luckily the light is untraslatable and you can see it too
 Feb 2023
Maria Mitea
sometimes love is like a superficial vein full of varicose,
swollen, twisted,
stretched to unsightly, non-existent,
unbearable
sometimes love is a venous collapse that leads to the reduction of veins
cold-blooded, skilled surgeons, we'll remove it like the longest vein
without the leg being affected,
only the blood that has passed through it will slowly change its course
and the saphena, available, will patch a coronary bypass,
pointing at her with our fingers, we'll shout: look at her, she wears a crown,
she became queen too

*dear, who will turn the blood from your sole to your thigh again
when our love will be only a second-degree relative,
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