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 Nov 2017
Ann M Johnson
There are times when words seem to flow effortlessly unto paper.
At other times it seems to be quite a struggle. The ink runs low or is in short supply.
My quill seems ill, or worn and damaged.
  The ink on the quill threatens to dry up altogether, then a simple truth occurs to me.
  I need to renew and replenish and restore my quill by taking a dip in the ink well.
  I need the ink well to fully function. I was running dry trying too ******* my own.
  My quill takes a dip in the ink well .May creativity flow from the ink well and fill the quill up to the appropriate capacity.
If an extra drop of ink should occur it should be available to share with another quill in need of refreshment.
If you find a friend who is need of encouragement don’t let their ink dry up.
Instead help them take a dip in the ink well. Where together inspiring words can have an endless supply.
 Nov 2017
Mohd Arshad
Through the glass
Behind which
Her face
Was the fountain
In the sunlight
I caught her smile
And pinned that
In my eyes
So that
Whenever
She is upset
I might show her
My mirrors
That will reflect
How good she was
When she smiled
 Oct 2017
Mohd Arshad
Be the wind
Not the sand

When you are in a desert
 Oct 2017
Melissa S
When the last person living
Takes their last breath
Stares down the darkness
and meets their hour of death
Birds will not cease singing
The trees will still grow
The tide will still pull
and the wind will still blow
The sun will still come out
As will the moon
The leaves will still sprout
and the flowers still bloom
It is only our arrogance
Which makes us think we
are at the axis of all
That we touch and see
Life will go on without us
Year after year
We will just become the people
That once lived here
 Oct 2017
aphrodite
GAD
there is a fire in my chest
that roars with every breath i take
i am suffocating,
choking on the fumes

at night, i am my own firefighter
i use the jaws of life to cut open my skin,
reach inside of myself
and extinguish whatever is burning me alive
until the flames re-ignite again in the morning.
 Oct 2017
aphrodite
grey eyes and gold buzzcut
psychopathic smile, tongue like candy
calloused palms, arms like a bomb shelter
wrapped in a bow of good intentions and charm
christmas came early that year,
you were all mine.
 Sep 2017
Ann M Johnson
We all have a story to tell.
We can stand alone or become part of a bigger picture together.
We come in different shapes and sizes.
We are all part of a kaleidoscope of various colors like individual gems.
We are each unique but we can band together and become part of a masterpiece.
Some of us maybe smoother than others.
Some of us maybe a little bit jaded.
Some of us may have more lines than others.
While some of us are shapelier than others.
We can choose to shine alone or shine together like precious gems to become a masterpiece of stained glass, if we join together and let the light shine through us.
Let your light shine.
 Sep 2017
Mohd Arshad
Falling and rising are separate roads
Falling is sure. Be courageous enough to change the road....
 Aug 2017
Mohd Arshad
Friends are heroes
Visible and invisible
Sung and unsung
And some of them
Like stars,
rise out of the blue
I find mine in
the compartment:
Long in the tooth
Undressed, untidy
And subject to stitches
Our loya guards
keep a tab
On our movements
Laughter and gossip
Our relatives
Blow our perspiration away
Our cemented roof
Streathens our shelter
Forgotten, abandoned,
Still our best companions.
 Aug 2017
Mohd Arshad
A fish,
Tha lives
In the acquarium of time.

It stirs,
Memories slosh,

And I am
Bound to it

My blanket in cold.

A leaf,
That holds to a branch,

Growing old,
And its bark getting darker.

I know
It has fallen off.

I miss it
To watch others swing

And that
Had played like them

In all seasons
Withstanding everything.

A word,
Well spelled on a particular paper.

Now I am
A complementary part of it

To make
A meaningful sentence.

But that
Has melted, and I

Longingly
Search for it.
 Aug 2017
Mohd Arshad
If thrown at
Someone
No care if
Returned
Like a coin
Flipped
With a hard
Thumb
Or melted into
Bliss
Dripping from
Eternity
And will jump to
Us
And our hard_gained
Grace
Will smoulder to
Ashes
And then though
We
Pull our teeth to
Potential
It couldn't be
Pushed
Back like a cow
Cawing
At the door or
Window

It is fettered by
Will
Not by our
Actions
And if sensible
Enough
We must get it
Submissively
Offering no
Contradiction
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