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Joy  or sorrow
    ease or pain
    in your mind's tranquillity
    be indifferent
 Sep 2 Maitsholo
Khoisan
A rainbow appeared
as an Epitome of grace
Like the Holy grail
BLT's
Merriam Webster word of the day challenge
Epitome.
 Sep 2 Maitsholo
Malcolm
A marvelous beast is the giraffe,
Whose neck seems to stretch by the half.
He nibbles the trees,
While swaying with ease,
And makes other creatures just laugh.
1 September 2025
The Giraffe 🦒
Copyright Malcolm Gladwin
 Apr 18 Maitsholo
janie lay
i want to peel your skin back
and reveal your deepest sweetness.
to look at your veins
and memorize their paths.
maybe then i’d understand
why you are so rough on the outside.
it takes a lot of work,
digging your fingernails into the flesh,
pulling and pulling until you are bare.
but it is all worth it;
to visit your center,
to break past what conceals you,
and take you apart
slice by slice.
 Nov 2024 Maitsholo
Carlo C Gomez
~
Unusual and cloudless

This slippery world

Today is still contagious

Here is heat, here is rain

Here is love, regardless

Shadows in the scaffolding

Look like a broken alphabet

The sun in its anger

Just won't set

Life and how to do it

Perfectly absent

~
 Oct 2024 Maitsholo
Ariana Bagley
In her pretty brown eyes
You could see it
Even with that dainty smile
Her happiness
Vanished
She saw
The disgust
As she looked in the mirror
The hatred
Took over
Her self-love
The pain
Changed
Her mindset
Now
She had sleepless nights full of hopes and dreams
Where
Her tear stained cheeks hit the pillow
She was troubled
Her only wish
Was
Becoming an aura that made people think of the color yellow
She remembers when
If anyone asked
She would’ve said
“I’m used to it.”

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October 29, 2019 (9:47 PM)
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