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(inspired by Malia’s poem ‘crack the code’)

the unspoken poems
are the loudest
the ones you don’t utter
the times you don’t bother
symphonies of silence
votes of no confidence
trust marbled with rust
what's become of us?
 Apr 16
Jellyfish
I have value
It comes from within,
I know it's enough
I feel it under my skin.

It vibrates from me,
The power I hold
I'm special,
I'm something to behold.

I know I'm sensitive
It's something I used to hate
But now I'm embracing it,
There's a reason I'm this way.

So I stick to my routine,
I don't want to give up
I may fall down at times,
But I will not get stuck.
If the night is half lit
and the silence is deafening loud
don't stop on the bridge upon Post Canal.

The shadows are rippling dark
and her water coiling snake
calls you to to take a dip.

It's shallow, says the phosphorent whisper
and the night too warm not to splash,
there's too much pain, the bridge creaks
leave behind, leave behind
you haven't anything to lose.

The winds buzz in your heart
disappear without a sound
nobody will know
nobody will care.

A few feet is not a great fall
and never greater than all the pain
you so silently suffered.

Once I stopped, tempted
almost inviting her to **** me in.

The coils rose and drew me in.

They said I jumped.

They could never know
I made peace with pain.
I've really enjoyed my stay
Brought tears of joy
To my day

I'd really would like to stay
But the flip of the coin
says , nay nay nay

You've all been so kind
Made it all worth
my time

But it can't be put off
a second longer
no time to scoff

Call me a supertramp
A hobo hologram
Call me anything
you'd like to stamp

Just don't call me
I'm the son of moonlight
Silent soft and free
 Mar 26
Ken Pepiton
I'm one of those guys,
I'm one of you all, the ones

to whom bread and circuses
sales and promotion
seem the dream job, be like…

Mike, right? Mikey likes it,
you should try a spoonful

of Life
from Quaker rooted mis
formed coops selling futures.

Make the connection, wireless.

Recall the Sleeping Prophet,
and make believe you believe,
become the seller of revelation,
Life,
hear, lend me an ear,
I'll take away the veil, you'll see.

Just listen to me, crossing the desert,
thinking just look at those stars,
this is all too beautiful to disbelieve.

Once done, once recognized as true,
down to the level of waves,
collapsing at a leaning ladder
with three steps,

proto Hebrew  logographic wisdom
knowledge understandable logic

Logos sophisticated sublime
revelation of the riddling
nature of all religions,
at the core connection,

deep down where soul and spirit
play one mind against the other,

to keep the exuberance down,
near the fundamental interpretation,

in a word to the wise, wagered
as enough to go all in on, one word,

thinkable top to bottom by any
with a link to thinking with science,
using, by right of knowing, new tools

for text used in laws and orderly
procedurals letting go courtly
rules regarding deference
to betters betting we lost,

while we have time in a klein bottle.

Past a certain point, life's news,
is reruns, and it never gets old,
the big reveal,
at the end.
My side won.
The effect of a flea circus, was thrilling, as a child.
 Mar 17
Safana
Let alone the owner come.
To harvest his farms all.
 Mar 17
Safana
Deeming doom has boomed.
in kano, a call girl is trending
 Mar 17
Safana
On the old train,
elders and young ones
laid to the ground.
It is neither asleep nor 
they passed away.
As the train panted up,
the passengers hearts inflating.
As the train's engine
locomote slower,
That is how passengers 
Hearts beat slower.
An old train's driver is sailing
the train, and no one
knows where to reach.
Perhaps the climate 
is favourable, but the crew
members endure to 
burn coal.
The train is still exhausting.
and no one again knows
where to reach.
So the rainy season is
approaching, even if the 
train reach somewhere,
no seeds to grow on 
farmlands
 Mar 8
deyrah
I often think of the words Ellen Everett left behind.
"If you're looking for forever
I'll take the batteries out of my clock so that we'll be stuck inside this moment, as if time really stopped!
I would tell you I love every second, except here seconds do not exist! So I'll say ' I love you ' with each breath, each smile, with each kiss! And when I die you can crank your watch, restart the clocks, begin the time and know that we were infinite in the moment that you were mine...
 Mar 8
Traveler
If they give me a bag of money,
I might be willing to participate.
Imagine..
Six digits for my soul!
I could live the life of royalty
and corrupt the kingdom more.

But instead I believe I'm
blessed to be poor...
Traveler Tim
When you're cloaked in a pall of gloom
Life seems bland with colours gone
The little flower in her humble bloom
Will say she's there you aren't alone.
The flower won't ever let you feel alone.
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