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 May 2018
Amy Perry
The shards of a heavy dagger
Remain in me every moment.
You reached into my wound,
Wanton and haggard.
I gazed at the jeweled weapon
Tucked out of view
And the gape in my chest
I thought I outgrew,
Covered and sutured,
Well treated and healing.
But like a cold draft entering a weak archway,
You plunged deeply, weightlessly,
Leaving me reeling.
Poking, prodding,
Pointing out my shards and my scars.
I told myself I removed all of you
And the dagger soaked with love's poison.
You showed me shards from
The poisoned blade still linger,
The truth lies deeper than
Where I can put my finger.
You touched my wound with
The force of words.
How it stings with the sharpness of pain.
Twinging inside me,
Twisting like ivy,
Welling my eyes like a curse there to find me,
Pointing out my poison and shards,
Fiddling with the sutures of my scars,
And like a haunting winter's chill,
You left as quickly as the blood was spilled.
 May 2018
Amy Perry
Caress
The butterflies
In the
Terrarium
Of my heart.
Come see
How they
Dance for you.
How they
Flap a whisper
Of nimble limbs
And draw thoughts
Of you
For my soul to sing.
How I
Want to touch you
With my
Grazing fingers
And wings.
 May 2018
liz
eyes of pitch and
tongue the same,
hair all wild, curled flame
skin cerulean, fingers clawed
skulls at the neck, open-jawed
teeth as razors, though not small
on Death's back, she rides tall.
27 april 11:13 pm
diosa in one of many forms
 May 2018
J Rodriguez
I feel alone
I feel like I’m always their for everyone
I feel like I listen to everyone
I feel like I help so much and get so little
I feel like I need someone
I feel like I’m not good enough but I do the most
I feel like I’m not loved
I feel like every time I put my all into something always end up betrayed
I feel like I have nobody but my self
I feel like I need a hey how are you doing text
I feel like I’m the only one chasing
I feel like I’m not wanted
I feel like crying sometimes
I feel like I deserve to be happy for once
I feel like I’m in a dark space and I need to see some light !
 May 2018
Johnny Noiπ
time is the famed wheels w/in wheels
spoken of by our ancestors who knew
that time spirals in self-creation turning
inside out & upside down every possible
way it can; it's like like spaghetti on a
fork or even super strings so they
keep saying but I think it's just like an
ordinary string; just in multiple dimensions
& what difference does it even make;
imagination is a straight line through
the fog of images; reality an illusion
made of overlapping sequences of time
& time simply the collective perspectives
taken together to compose that nowhere
that is everywhere; such composition
is made of tangible time effects; time
itself is a material object in relation
to other points in time; time can thus
be tuned like music into the scales;
the metronome is used in time travel
to keep the wakes of waves from moving
the center so the scale stays exact
otherwise one will be stuck in a frozen
second; so goes the theory; in fact the
science predicts that everything about
the science is true existing in separate
dimensions where each is true which
are the physical particles of time itself
 May 2018
Corbyn
Mind filled with memories I’d pay to have removed
Constantly trying to win
But I always tend to lose
Waiting for the day that I can finally be set free
From all of the memories
that have been consistently haunting me
Wishing my life away puts me at ease
I don’t believe in God
But I’m begging him please
Leave me be
But not really
Let my soul escape from me
The sun is ruined
As am I
I am a burden
But I ask why?
What have I done to make me bad?
Summertime always makes me sad
It’s not the summer or the spring
It’s the trauma voice that continues to sing  
“ you are tainted” it always says
How could I not believe what’s in my head?
 May 2018
Kyra Cain
Faces pass by, some stay ingrained while others fade away.
Some laugh and smile, while others hide the pain.
Some speak out, and give you a hand, others push you down deeper.
I was raised to be strong, both willed and strength.
Never make a mistake, or prove you are better then them.
As the faces pass, I see the past.
I see the struggle, the fight. I see the mental exhaustion, and the physical doubt.
But I also see the happy, the smiles, even some tears.
I walk more and see the present.
I see the stress, and the anxiety.
I see the fight to say the right thing with the fear of every movement.
I see the scars of the people who left.
But i also see the hope, the strength and confidence.
I see the ability to stand strong against any adversity.
I also come to the end of my stop, most of the faces are gone now, but all that is left is the future.
It’s blurry, and hard to see.
But I do see it.
I see pain, and struggle
I see heartbreak and many tears.
But there is also love, and laughter.
There is peace, and happiness. There are people dancing and living life.
The faces are gone now, I am left alone. And I see myself.
I see the scared little girl, the temperamental tween, the stressed young adult, the excited adult, and the blessed elder.
I see the happiness coincides with the pain, unable to have one without the other somewhere.
I see the faces of me, the faces of the life that is behind and ahead of me.
Some faces are fading way, only becoming distant memories, others are becoming more fixed.
For those faces make up me, the work in progress, but still a piece of art.
 May 2018
IrieSide
physical flesh
of minds electric
exhale purple images
upon galaxy screens  
silky neuron fabric
weaved with dreams
tie memories
to feeling
 May 2018
Karisa Brown
Hold yourself
Make something
Out of this
Human being

Give authorization
To you
And not them

Show this mirror
That life
Is temporary
Thoughts
Emotions
Are too

You don't have
To feel the pressure
Or conform
To their to dos

You are enlightened
Firm and true
You are a million
Stars birthing
Kalidescopes turning
You are you
 May 2018
Lucy Pettigrew
Sometimes I go into the city at night
alone.
Let the pavement trace the way without breaks,
get lost under the blue lights.
I go to the places we used to
and sometimes get a little drunk –
I don’t want to remember
but I have gravitated to these places
so maybe I should just honour
my cravings for you –
the sickly-sweet syrup
of your spit,
the saffron, sticky honey of your eyes.
We used to
do the same
together
as I am now doing alone –
let the concrete slabs
pave the way
without breaks;
going nowhere
and everywhere
all at once.
 May 2018
Heart of Silver
Close your eyes

Your world, not extending
beyond the soft quilt under
your skin, unending


Soft ripples of cloth, and picturesque seams
Nothing here but
You, me, the sky, and soft dreams

I'll reach up and take the stars from the sky
If only to lay them at your feet
to place them in your hands
to bring light into those glazed eyes
or give a glow to a world so bland

and each one would be folded
into a beautiful origami castle
I, the lord, and you, the vassal
Or perhaps me as the king
and you as a queen, whichever
My gentle playmate.. which one is better?

I'm a majestic creature of the sky
You're an empty-faced child on a quilt
Each star shall be used as a stepping stone
so I might meet you in the place I built


Let us meet, as lovers, or
at least equals
on this starry floor
And your body falls into each soft fold
It's here, right here, that I can hold
you close, keep you safe and warm
so you, from the rest of the world
I'll withhold

Consider this a "romantic poem".. but not about me! Actually, this is a story I've sort of written. :)

Hmm, let me try to describe it. A little girl living in a world all her own, a world that's nothing more than an empty quilt with an endless sky. Above her, lives a sort of "sky-creature" and he happens to be in love with her, so he builds her a castle of stars.
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