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 2967° 
Shang
with every passing moment,
I find it more and more
difficult to determine
who is human &
what human is?
© Shang
 1195° 
Immortality
Your fire so bright,
it takes me in.
Your warmth so tender,
it burns me within.

Heard many warnings,
still I fall.
And I’d fall again,
no regrets.

For this is where I belong.
what the 'moth' said to the 'fire flames' when it asked not to fall.
 803° 
K J McCarthy
Ill be your landfill, your dump, your wasteland
Unload your baggage and burdens on me
Discard the blame like a sea of crushed cans and garbage
Piled as far as the eye can see
Litter me with the accountability you avoided to sleep soundly
While my pillow holds mountains of hopeless thoughts and shattered dreams
You just needed a villian for your story
A sacrificial goat for your alter of self loathing
You thought that if you made them hate me
It'd be validation to treat me like you treat yourself inside your head.
I will escape your abuse but you will always be stuck with you.
Ill see you at your bedside, when you're paralyzed with regret and remorse
These yellow eyes glow behind the closet door
My presence hangs heavy, fog curls floating over your wooden floor
I'm a haunting force, a creek in the night
An apparition in the shadowed corner
My wounds will heal but you'll live with the torture
We both know the truth
You did this to yourself
You'll be scorched in the end
By the same fire you tried to throw me in.
You're stuck with you, but I no longer am.
 557° 
Mydriasis Aletheia
I stopped running away from life, and started running towards it.
Stay in touch with your dharma,
It will carry you through the anarchy.
 548° 
Thirty Nine
You're not the kind of flower
People pluck and put into their hair
You're the kind of flower
People can’t bring themselves to pluck
And instead water it with their water bottle
A flower that deserves to bloom
And grow
 509° 
David P Carroll
She mourned her loss
Day and night and
Her love for him a burning light and
Now buried deep beneath the sod
And gone forever now
He sleeps beloved of God.
Sadness In Life
 508° 
Fatimah odunmbaku
Love.
The bittersweet thing that we all seem to crave,
The thing people swear they'd die for.
But is it worth it, for a feeling we do not understand?
The violent force that causes destruction and pain—
But yet it is so sweet, so gentle,
The force that doomed Romeo and Juliet to their death,
That made Mark Antony abandon his empire,
Chaotic, but sweet.
Do all deserve to be loved,
And can all be loved?
 497° 
Cayleigh
I think too much
it hurts too much
so I clean it all out with soap
but
       the
             soap
                       burns
and the pain hurts so comfortably
ignore how bad this probably is... im tired
 461° 
Kay Lyn
God gave me the knowledge to read his world.
Like a blueprint but not.
Every tree is a book leaf.
Every cloud is my draft.
The sun then writes what's to come.
Do you love thee ?
God is all three
Father, Son, Holy Spirit

- Kay Lyn
Spirituality
The Trinity
I haven't seen her in years.

Maybe she's still there
when the tide rises
foraging in the river
dreaming in half moon
they meet their fate
floating into her net.

With the tide ebbing
maybe she's still hugging the shore
praying for a little more
till the stars blink weary
waiting for her to go home.

Is she still there
her skin smeared with mud
stalking like a night heron
silhouetted against the skylight
her feet kissing the riverbed
her bed lonely and cold.

I wonder why for me
she's so mysterious
a predator in the river
a foresaker of life
for the life of her
brewing a love
deeper than I've ever known.

In my eye's river
she's still there.

Age cannot catch up with her.
 400° 
Dr YumnaKay
Tell me a lie I can believe.

"There is no one like you."
 355° 
mike dm
old light. there's
mold on your
information.

your me
is flipped through
photo album. i am

somewhere between
the solar spasms,
deleted and spatial,
****** off. holding

no grudge, i
just can't care
that hard anymore. all

i want is
soaring silent synths
and eyes, mine, closed,
holding vacuums on the lids.
 334° 
Shambhavi
You loved me, I loved you.
For me, it was special.
But for you, just a moment—
Forgotten with time.

For me, you were my future.
But for you, I was just a friend to play tricks.

For me, you became my everything.
But for you,
I was just… a friend.

For me, it was real.
But you told,
It was my misconception!
 281° 
Piyush Sharma
He walked out on himself,
Left his book half-finished,
Buried deep within his shelf,
His skin burnt down to thinnest.
The pen was always his escape,
Then was it the pen, the paper or the reader
That made him forsake his escape?
The creator inked through its remaining life,
The vessel consoled the words under all eyes,
The receiver breathed meaning into the words,
Then who was it that discerns?
But...
What was his story...?
Was he reciting it...?
Or was it reciting him...?
Is he returning for his glory...?
Depicting any/all writer's phase when the pen is taken away without a choice and a practical cold life wishing them to come home and pen his words to a place not judged.
my homecoming to hellopoetry <3
 272° 
Belinda S Richmond
There is a
TRAIL OF HAPPINESS, and
A PATHWAY LEADING
to
SADNESS ROAD!!!
A JOURNEY OF EMOTIONS
up AHEAD
are
UNTOLD,
on your JOURNEY,
JUST WATCH
as they UNFOLD,
when you
get to them,
just be
COURAGEOUS AND BOLD!!!
These are
JUST TRIALS,
for they
WON'T LAST LONG,
Continue your
JOURNEY and
in
THEM BE STRONG!!!
It is your time,
for a
TRANSFORMATION,
Learn from yourself,
this is your
CONFORMATION,
TIE-A-KNOT and
HANG ON,
The ROADS
WILL BE ROUGH, but
YOU ARE A
🥊 FIGHTER 🥊,
BE STEADFAST,
DETERMINED and TOUGH!!!
Don't let
🚫 NO DETOURS!!! 🚫
TURN YOU AROUND,
PUSH THROUGH
THESE EMOTIONS and
STAND YOUR GROUND!!!,
at the
END OF THIS JOURNEY,
YOU WILL
CERTAINLY KNOW,
You have
CONQUERED AND DEFEATED,
them, and
from
THIS WILL
🌴 GROW 🌴!!!!


B.R.
Date: 3/14/2025
 268° 
Eindeinne Moon
red or white of any color, the moon is still the moon
Regardless of its phase, crescent, half, full or new— it was beyond perfect, still
But beyond perfection, its beauty is breathtaking.
 263° 
Nishu Mathur
Somewhere tucked on a bookshelf is a book.
Dogeared, yellow pages with a hand written note.

In a box, lie trinkets — gifts, a pendant of Annie, a book mark.
Hand made cards, smudged with time.

An old doll almost intact,
Broken spectacles, pictures, a watch and postcards.

Some may call it clutter, junk —
And it’ll all go when I go.

But to me, they are the reason behind my smile, an odd tear.

More precious than collectibles or art —
They are pieces of my life,
My world and heart.
 234° 
Sheeba
A girl’s eyes once bright with passion now stare  weakly dull and empty.
She lies on the bed trembling fingers twisting the sheets. She pleads. She screams. The walls do not listen. The air does not carry her cries.
The earth shifts graves loosen their grip ready to swallow the unwanted.
I tear her apart. Every breath I draw is stolen from her lungs.
I was welcomed into this world when she bid farewell to her world
After all this is the circle of life
 227° 
The First Sinner
He's cursed to walk this terrible Earth,
Ever since he let loose of Sin's birth
He's been hanged and beheaded,
but his parts crawl back be-wedded

Immortality until the sun splutters
and leaves Earth roasted on a platter
Finally his grievances will be forgiven
or at least that's what he's wishing.

He's been scarred and witnessed the worse
of humanity's blood splashing the dirt
He prefers the quiet solitary darkness,
of his room free of more curses & blesses.

Happy with his bottle of Tequilla
and his sweet girl's that Latina
An expert of knives & firearms
Cross him & he'll do serious harm.
 211° 
Sunamin Tamang
I could resist
I could!
Oh surely
I swear I could.

I need no anesthesia
No Anesthesia or numbness
Darling~
Please

Come over me!
My Dr. Sweet Anggie please
I implore you!
Take your razor-edged scalpel
Only you!
Make a safe incision.
With your soft warm hand
Wrench my heart away from me!
Detach my pumper & leave me whole.
Undo my pumper with my brain
So I may cease this non-physical war!

Let the blood flow torrentially & free,
Like lunatic waters in breaking dams & rivers.
I care not!
I want it nevermore.

Take it it’s yours!

I want it nevermore.
Take it it’s yours.

~
 211° 
Arya
Was it destiny or fate
Which bought us together
Only to end it tragically,
I still think about you on these starry nights
Where i know you can't be mine
The time we spent together
The time when you were mine
Oh I can't take this anymore
I get so overwhelmed
Please stay with me;
It's annoying how you can move on so fast
While I stay stuck in the past
I remember each and every moment of you
I wish I had known this soon
That we weren't meant to be after all....
 201° 
matt r
[a one-time coin
                                in the pocket of]
the verb 'to be'

i could cycle through my zoetrope
life & grab the belly fat of fortune;

his lifepink scar
                            bleedinghardtruth.
Smile.
I bet your aching gums would want that.
Flowers.
I bet your girl would adore them.
Breathe,
because I know you are dying to again.
 187° 
BipolarBear
Another lovely morning.... I wake up drenched in sweat.
What is it that grips me? Squeezing me in my sleep?
Returned to the mercy; of some external force.
Each night takes me places, my body proves remorse.
 184° 
Africa Poems
THE BROTHER LOVES THE BROTHER

THE MOTHER LOVES THE MOTHER

THE LOVER LOVES THE LOVER

SO LOVE ONE ANOTHER

LIKE NO OTHER

BROTHER.
The Salvation Show.
 181° 
Barbara R Maxwell
Looking out onto the street
Watching people going to and fro
It’s the weekend in the big city
Sipping a cup of coffee
Checking out the news of the day

Sitting up high
Looking out onto the street
Contemplating life
Planning my day

Sitting up high
Surrounded by dark wood
Listening to quiet jazz
Sipping my coffee
Checking out the news
Contemplating my day
Enjoying the moment
 170° 
MsAmendable
Moonlight wipes her gracious hand across my faces
She names me one of her own
And in the darkest secret places
I let myselves be known
 165° 
Thomas W Case
There's a little
boy that hides in
the dark corners of
my soul.
He doesn't want to
be hurt anymore.
I spent eight years
with Beth.
For the most part,
it was hell and
constant pain.
She made nightmares
look good.
I heard the
little boy cry
late into the
silky night,
while snails got
smashed on the streets
of Ventura.

When I drank, which was often,
the little boy seemed
at peace for awhile,
while swans were
murdered in Venice,
and I tasted the ashes
of Neruda.
Years flew by
like seagulls;
up
down
and darting.
The little boy
continued to
hide in the
dark corners of my soul.

He wanted to
come out and be loved.
He was thirsty for it,
but there wasn't
any around.
It was dry, like the
deserts in hell.
It's too late for
sorries here comes
the plow.

He began to see
the pattern of life.
Some monsters walk in the light.
Vulnerability equals pain.
The little boy got mean.
And now he carries
a knife.
Here is a link to my latest poetry reading on you tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSKnZMnMlTw

I read from both of my recently published books.
It's Just a Hop, Skip, and Jump to the Madhouse and Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems, both available on Amazon.com

www.thomaswcase.com
Like the clouds
Running to be with the sun
Little did it know
That the very thing he desire will be his demise

And on his journey to the West,
On the pursuit of the light
So little he know,
That he'll be enveloped by
The eerie darkness of the night
Again

It's hard to turn the page to a new page
When our fav character is not there
Never will be a new page of love in my life without you
 158° 
Joan
Your friends acknowledge my insecurity
Late-night talks about your history
And the pretty girls before me
"You see him too much,
You take him away from us"
Why am I there?
And why would I care?
Maybe I am a phase,
Slowly I will fade.
Thoughts on last night
Man’s best friend is my baby
She loves her belly rubbed
and not just may be
She’s so content she sleeps like a baby
She’s so fussy
When it comes to food
Not a bad thing so that is good
She cuddles up close and falls asleep
Starts to dream very deep
I guess it’s squirrels running up a tree
She liked to run fast and free
She a gift from God to me
Man’s best friend, my baby!
My Moose is my baby !
 152° 
Prettyboyfloyd
THE LAST AMERICAN
CONFESSION TO OR TOO
OF FOOLS DUE THUS
ARE FRIENDS AS FEW
THE LAST AMERICAN
THE LORD TO OR TOO
WHAT GOOD A PAY
A TRUTH RIGHT TO
THEREFORE TOO AM
THE LAST AMERICAN
A CRY TO OR TOO AS
I CONFESS. I LOVE YOU.
 145° 
Shelly
I want to slip into a deep sleep just for a moment
To take a small break from all responsibilities
To be able to hear my breathing
To dream in my own fantasy
Just 5 minutes for a deep sleep
that is desperately needed
 129° 
Jamison Bell
Your dreams have no meaning.
While you were sleeping. Your brain, lacking external stimulus, did its own thing.
There's no mysticism, no foretelling, and not an ounce of deeper reflection.
Get over yourself.
The purest love is silent.
It speaks without words.

It prays.


Shell ✨🐚
 115° 
sandra wyllie
beaming down on me
with a cheesy wheel smile,
cold as ceramic tile. I'm a smoky
silhouette in a licorice sky,

tracing stars like a mad
magpie. A breezy wind is playing
hide and seek slapping pearls
of dewdrops skipping down

my cheek. Rhythmic chirping of
crickets singing leaves me
prancing in pain. Spinning my arms
around, I'm an arrow on

a weathervane. Drunk on lilac’s
flowering perfume. My head's spread
like a plume. Morning sun pops kernels
in the pan, cooking me up like a flan.
 110° 
jolly
touch me and i'll bleed your love is poison to me and so i'm poison to everything the cancer within every single foundation to ever embrace this hardened skin that when i feel an itch i dig my nails so deep down to the inch and leave this ****** mess just so i can feel it the nagging itch of your caress my aching need to feel to reciprocate it
tearing into my own flesh every time we lay in bed the only way i'm allowed to love
is through the wound i carved through my own skin ineed to leave to hide to run to flee to heal the pain is here i can't escape i can't replace i can't release i can'tbelievei can'tbeginagain
 105° 
Immortality
What’s meant stays,  
quiet and sure.  
  
True love waits,  
even when we turn away.  
  
What isn’t ours  
slips,  
like water,  
gone before we know it.
....sun will rise tomorrow
Each Luggage unfilled
Sort of sight
Loyalty on a sideline

Luxury lifestyle
Without embracing reforms?
Thus, absence of policy’s


Porched-Wallets hard to fill
Some congress are sleeping?
Uniformed men Awakes-them up!
BLIND STATE congress are sleeping?
 100° 
CJ Sutherland
Americans
              Want
                 Less
Government
More
Freedom
Here’s                 The  Rub
Official’s
Stratagem
Have Been
At the
Trough
For.        So
Long.       They
Are.                Greedy
Rapid.                         Rats





Inspired songs

1)Money 1973
By Pink Floyd

2) nowhere to run to (nowhere to hide) 1965
By Martha and the Vandellas
BLG Word of the day challenge
March 15, 2025
Stratagem
A stratagem is a trick or plan for deceiving an enemy or for achieving a goal
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