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 Oct 2013 HA
Sarah Savannah
breath in
breath out
another day
another dollar

breath in
breath out
continue living
in squalor

breath in*
breath out
terminate your
society scarred thoughts

breath in
breath out
take beauty
for what its not

breath in
...
and hold
...
until
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**stops.
little implications
that there may be something bigger
lies under my foundation i've build under the belief that there simply
is
something bigger

why you reveal yourself
in twinkling of babies eyes
in crinkling of maroon leaves under my feet
in the hint of bitter nostalgia sitting in my soy milk of my peppermint tea

out of all things living and lasting
                                   out of all planets and stars rising, falling, suspending
                                                      ­                                                      out of all people born, dying and living



                                                       ­          Am I a Seed or a Remnant.
the Solitude
is
sadly, a
stepping stone
along the way

we're almost there
to the destination

*keep your chin up
 Oct 2013 HA
Delaney Marie
You
 Oct 2013 HA
Delaney Marie
You
You,
such a tiny word.
A pronoun unpronounced by those who only know your first name,
those who don’t care to learn what you’ve been through,
those who haven’t felt the salty tears your beautiful brown eyes have become accustomed to,
those who don’t know things that I do.
All because I yearn for...

You,
the inspiration to my inspirations,
the reason my smile seems to never fade,
the missing piece to the puzzled mess of a life I’ve been living,
the gift that keeps on giving and it’s Christmas everyday,
the one person I’d give the planet to if God gave me the chance.
All because my world already revolves around...

You,
making the word me seem so small in comparison,
making my favorite way to look, looking into your eyes,
making my lips quiver your name in hopes that you’ll fall in love with the sound,
making sparks fly with every day of passion in view.
All because you make it impossible to love another human being the way that I love...

You.
 Oct 2013 HA
Cass
you are a storm
where you only see the aftermath
the calm following the hurricane,
filled with relief and peace;
brimming with rage and utterly destroyed,
no survivors

the news only covers your progress and hope;
visit ground zero, and everything that we had built
is smoldering on the ground
but i fell in love with your quiet unpredictability
silly me
if there are no survivors
what chance do i have?
 Oct 2013 HA
jeffrey robin
Out on empty streets

We meet and the old world dies

••
••

Tenement Joe

Marries the bag lady every morning

Growing stronger day by day

••

Fullness of heart

••

Crippled and abused

He carries Every Child

Into the Kingdom

••

Gay?

Straight?

In the closet?

Out of the closet?

I don't really  give a **** at all

••

(Her Eyes were shining with the light of love

That's all I know

All I need to know)

••

The hours pass me I smile and wave

Hello!

Good bye!

Come again when your sober

••

The Dragons are flying!

The Unicorns have stepped aside

••
••

She was in the shadows crying cause her boyfriend was gone

••

Good grief!!!

••

In the gun fire of the ugly night

Waiting for the broken dawn

••

Me and the bag lady

Seems we are the only ones left
 Oct 2013 HA
Ashley Sowerby
In every poem, I've read and yet to read,
There are the words you will always see.
Shadows and secrets, kept in quiet hearts,
Pain and emotions, and being torn apart.

In every stanza, and every verse,
Love and war, breaking down when everything hurts.
Butterflies and blades and echoing fears,
Dreams being lost and drowning in tears.

They're in all of the lyrics, sonnets, and haikus,
The existence of sorrows and what you could lose.
We escape the suffering, and all of the lies,
Death's of flowers, and glimmering eyes.

There are the words, that are always repeated,
We use them like weapons, when the battle gets heated.
They are our languages, of beginnings and ends,
This is what we scream when we've lost our friends.

Though they be overworked and overused,
They are our comfort when we're being abused.
These are the words of the abandoned races,
and the language we use to give meaning to emotionless faces.
Have you noticed how often the same words show up in completely different poems? i always thought that was interesting...and for my first poem on Hello Poetry, I think it worked out well/
 Oct 2013 HA
Anna Sophia
If dreams only come when you fall asleep,
then I am so devoid of hope and starlight that not only am I unable to sleep,
I also can't dream.

If I shut my eyes tight
and un-think the whole day, month, year...
Will it work then?
Then might I be graced with the company of slumber

The sweet kiss of a subconscious memory,
not yet performed
Perhaps
if I stare long enough, into nothing,
my ceiling will, at the exhale of my tired lungs...
dissolve.
To reveal the sky.

That sky, full of wishes-upon, might shed the silvery light I so crave over and through
my eyelids, gently guiding them to a close.
my clenched jaw, releasing tight strangulation of my worries, sorrows.
and over my hands
ankles
stomach
and lips:
the protectors of breath, of sound, parted.
As if to offer a home for a word of love or a vulnerable display for the keeper of sleep.
Rapid heartbeats and twisted spine, no peace or relaxation.
Until, after eternity,
Sleep arrives.

Quite late, unapologetic, without a word but a whisper;
"follow..."

After  patiently waiting
in eager longing, with a sore vessel full of warm blood
wanting...
I go.

One final inhalation reaches through to my bones and I...

Give myself to sleep.

At long last the last breath was breathed and I,
I drifted off into a dream.
©anna.sophia.wolner 2013
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