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 May 2015
Chris
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Happiness can be
As simple as a smile
A picture perfect sunrise
A long and winding mile

Certain words of kindness
A touch upon the skin
Doors held open joyfully
Inviting to come in

A sparrow on the feeder
A bee upon a rose
The laughter of a child’s voice
Contagious as it grows

Moonbeams on the ocean
Sunlight on the lake
Walking with the one you love
All the time you take

Dancing to the music
Voices heard to sing
Midnight Friday rendezvous’
Are such a lovely thing

Chipmunks on the pathway
Brand new budding leaves
Tiger lilies greet the day
The fresh air that we breathe

A quiet bench for sitting
Nature’s perfect song
Peaceful silent solitude
Whispered all day long

Every bit of tenderness
Your love brings to me
Anytime that I’m with you
Happiness can be
 Apr 2015
Amitav Radiance
Poetry shall redeem
Words will carry my feelings
Being my silent messengers
Interpreting my deepest desires
Being my mirror
Poetry shall reflect me
 Apr 2015
Mike Essig
This morning,
looking at a stand
of broken trees,
fallen and strewn
randomly about
by the storm,
I remember
battlefields and
the futility of war.
  - mce
 Mar 2015
Liz And Lilacs
I grew up believing that
I should be seen and not heard.
I always felt like a decoration,
A wall flower,
Staring out at the sea of faces.
Speak politely and give nonexistent answers,
Smile and keep your eyes down.
I represented my parents' integrity,
So I kept my head down,
With my ribbons and curls
and was always the good little girl.
A trophy of good breeding.
But it's a lonely existence,
To sit on a shelf and collect dust.
 Mar 2015
AmberLynne
.                          To seek                  out love
                       is a letdown         in the making.
                    They feed your     heart with all the
                false words, but the moment you try to  
             grasp on to that love it turns out they were
           just using an accumulation of sounds that do
          nothing but disguise their lust.  For that's all it
             is underneath. Peel back the proclamations
                of love and adoration, seek out the truth,
                      the purpose of the utterances, and
                          maybe you'll be able to peek a
                             glimpse at the truth within.
                                They say they love you,
                                     *******, they just
                                        want to ****
                                               you.
3.23.15
 Mar 2015
JWolfeB
If poetry could talk
I wonder
What it would have to say about me
Would it share my ***** secrets
Tell of my unstable emotions
Look into my ***** clothes pile
Pick out the stains from these words
I wonder
What judgement would be placed on me
Am I as broken as I write
Are these pen stroked scars on canvas
Poetry
We talk often
And I know I complain more than I should
But please see me clearly
Fresh from my filth
 Mar 2015
epictails
Write not for the grandeur that is only a fading mirage
Write not for the crowd that licks only two-faced intentions
Write not for the machines that long for manufactured deceits
Write not for a gathering of hypocrites who bite back their own minds
Write not for the faithless who douse passions with their thick-skinned cynicism
Write as you write, pin those words down into reality
And never abandon belief that it is a cosmic unity
Deep within us

Write for the truth
And truth shall reveal itself
In your behalf,
In your tongue,
In your sense,
In your hands
The power of your words
Shall then write itself in the minds
Of
  *everybody
Thoughts at 3 am in the morning!Haha I love writing so much it's almost as if there is a gap in me that I must fill whenever I do not get to write. This is for everyone who loves writing no matter what.
 Mar 2015
Jamie King
.          IF I WERE A POET

                             The
                     First stanza
                     would be a      
       magnatic attic captivating
            Elegant architects of
                     iridescence  
                        Vividly
       propelling pupils to edges
                 Of the schleras        
        Compelling pens to pages
                    of new eras
    

            IF I WERE A POET
                                
                         ­              The
                              Second
                 Stanza would
             Mirror Zues's
          spear slicing through
        tears drowning in clouds
         striking fields of pens
                        Egniting the
                    capsules of
                 Variegated
               Lands


            IF I WERE A POET

                            The
                     Last stanza
             would sail summers
           tame winters bathe in  
         springs of autumn praise  
           deeds of the monarchs
           reigning over raining
           rainbows nurturing the
         clouds planting wings on
       the ground giving free will
          to plants to seed the sky  
           with warmth and love
                of nature's heart.
Hello poets
I haven't written in a while hope I'm not rusty
 Feb 2015
Jamie King
Malignant Mindless Maternal, Maliciously Moulding murderous Motives.

The Peternal parted prior the proof of pregnancy, the tears of heaven gave
birth to emergencies.

On the highway way of pain lonely and melancholy on coming traffic was a thunder stream.
tradegy waiting impatiently like an honest thieve.

Her feet heavy, a womb of twins is what she carried.
The clouds washing sins from the tarmac her screams unheard,
she gave birth in silence.

Two healthy beautiful boys, baptised by the rain.
The pain she borne was no more, propelling the boys over the bridge.
The umbilical cords around their vocal cords.
Death was born and LIFE was lost
Not my usual write I think this is the darkest poem I've ever written
 Feb 2015
Third Mate Third
bitter month,
bitters in the mouth,
bitters all over the world
snow is Campari red

burning alive,
dying while flying
or just train-commuting home,
or even but taxiing home,
this month racks up ruin,
like keeping score at bowling,
Strike!
spare no one anywhere
this month is more cruel,
for its nearness to spring,
but offering no hope, no buds,
just random mayhem

slipped on the ice in the dessert
burning ice,
I hate this month
red, black snow
and no summer visions
only cold bitters
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