A Notch Above the Daily Fluff

2d

Hadiya Mahmood

There is a land called Palestine
Where treacherous oppressors are doing crimes

Children crying of hunger
Mothers mourning all day for their children
Father sacrificing for their families

"Ooo"! Muslims they're your brothers
"Ooo"! People they are humans

So spread your hands and pray for them
For they deserve freedom

2d

Jason R Michie

Instructions not Required

Strung prose
Like puzzle pieces
Broken across the page
No longer
Im too linear now
For all that
Maybe
Before long
I'll write
Instruction manuals
And think
They're poetic

If time is simply an illusion
A functional interpretation of quantum reality
Then do we not time travel
Each time we remember?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a61021621/is-time-just-an-illusion/

2d

Jason R Michie

Life Redacted

Each line edited for content
Every rhyme missing its mate
Beat time to reach the end
Only to find a blank slate

2d

Bekah Halle

The nook of her back

the nook of her back
elicits sensations in me
exhilarating;
greater than a drop of espresso
or crack,
I am alive with desire, free —

but will I step forth
and meet she?

2d

Emirhan Nakaş

love will live forever in the infinite universe

The magical moments, unexplainable - not in a terse.
The beauty of human nature, masses of written verses,
The bittersweet ache in the chest, don't fret; it's not a curse.
I may not be wise yet, but I acknowledge it's not the worst,
Thus, that's why you press that button in your mind, the reverse,
And love will live forever in the infinite universe.

#love #day #daytime #classical #hopeful

2d

Infamous one

Y10

He woke up practiced bass for the gig
Trying to stay motivated find inspiration
Learning to play with others collaborate
Hard to trust anyone sick of the lies
Writing down ideas ready to tell the story

2d

Mike Hauser

Memories Swing

Bury me
Neath an old oak tree
Where on a lower limb
You can tie a swing

And then when
You come to visit me
You can always swing
To the memories

Of the precious days
Playing in the park
I was your best friend then
Daddy‘s little girl

And when you feel a push
From the warm South breeze
You might just think the wind
But believe it’s me

2d

Grace

Shepherd Song

If I am the mountain, then you are the shepherd
if you are the shepherd then I am the flock
if I am the flock then you are the mountain

we can part without a final glance and then follow one another until we are called to face each other in the morning

"The dogs they stayed,
they stayed to bury him."

A shepherd song I read from the Pirin Mountains. The author likened the mountains to hell, or the place the shepherds self-condemn themselves to,

since they cannot bear to leave that airy wild without a parting glance,

Orpheus and Eurydice