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 Apr 2020 jobeth
Scorpius
I slip
From
Now
To the nows
That pose
As laters
And I
Wonder
What’s to be.
I watch
With eager
Curiosity
Then
Anxious
Uncertainty
The loves
I’ve gathered
Along
The way
To make
My later
Matter.
And in the space
Between
Postures
Of not knowing
I find
The watcher.
 Apr 2020 jobeth
Amna Khan
The sweetness of this poison
offers its condolences.
What it doesn't known is
its strength is
what I ached
to acquire,
not its pity.
 Apr 2020 jobeth
rk
night creatures
 Apr 2020 jobeth
rk
we were creatures of the night
worshipping each other,
bathing in the starlight.
now we are strangers,
and i long to run free
around the corners
of your mind once more.
 Jun 2017 jobeth
A Thomas Hawkins
Never fall in love with a poet
for their words are sometimes lies
on occasions they're a shield
on occasions a disguise

They will take you on a journey
upon which they bare their soul
in a bid to ease your burdens
in a bid to make you whole

But in every word they choose
for the stories that they tell
lies a little piece of heaven
and a little piece of hell

Tormented souls we poets are
sometimes quite broken and despaired
in search of lost expressions
missed by others who once cared

Never fall in love with a poet
unless you're prepared to share their pain
to hold them close on the darkest nights
over and again
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 Apr 2017 jobeth
Meldon D'Souza
I look at her, she looks at me
"I should go up to her. Nah let it be"
I glance away as she's on her way
"Hopefully I'll see her the following day"

She walked towards me like Earth left no beauty aside
A smile so beautiful, and to think the sunset was wide
Finally exchanged greetings, well that was a start
She left my sight, yet stayed warm in my heart

As time strolled past we became good friends
Well not that great, but enough to bridge our ends
I'd smile at her, she'd smile at me
Beyond that will we ever be?

I think of her while I sleep
I wake up, her face draws me deep
I shower, and my mind is brimming over her
Scary movies don't change losing her as my worst fear

A few months of opportunity, and here we are
Still smiling at each other, hasn't really gone far
I wish we could click, but hope stopped waiting  
"How I wish you'd love me, and we could start dating!"

"Mate let it go, it was never meant to happen,
Don't let one girl let your cheeks dampen."
"Yo chill you're wasting your hours,
Girls like her aren't a few."
.
.
I'd still chase a million stars
if it meant searching for you.
Based on a true story as told to by a friend.
 Mar 2017 jobeth
Styles
Butterfly
 Mar 2017 jobeth
Styles
Fingers sinking deep
               below your surface;
               seeping into your *****,
               caressing your crevices.
               leaving their mark; baring pleasure.
               coursing ecstasy through your veins.
           searching for the highest of peeks beyond measure
               scorching heat, blood boiling, the pleasure pains
               soothing your aching flesh
               in relentless pursuit; of higher depths
               guilty yearnings, urges run rampant
               as your ecstasy starts to progress
               heavy breathing your hands held abreast
               pungent liquids; drenched with desire
               a seeping puddle stains the mattress
               gingerly leaking, outlining your canvas
                a mist in the air, cooling your skin;
 Mar 2017 jobeth
Lora Lee
timespill
 Mar 2017 jobeth
Lora Lee
depleted
of energy,
a weight of gold
upon my heart,
its heavy dull luster
pushes down hard
squeezing out
        the light
suffocating
    my staccato
of breath
     I crouch        
quietly
in the brush,
the next step in
my process
                 pending
a dense rock
of pendulum
swaying time
  tick ticking
in my blood
cells reaching
the boiling point
just shy
of spilling over
into froth
waiting for
this conundrum
        to unravel,
my inner tigress
about to unfurl
             her heart
    to leap
and pounce
from
   within
into the
  tight
white
          of blinding
snow, the silent
storm of  
      the unknown
forever
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 Mar 2017 jobeth
Cara May
My mind is clogged
and my hand is locked
by the thoughts of wanting to be pretty.
I can't pour anything else on the paper
but the words of misery
and bleeding heart,
pleading for beauty.
I'm sitting for weeks
and all I could write on the papers are
I wanted to be pretty.
I'm having writer's block at the moment.

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