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 Feb 2017 Jayanta
scully
not real
 Feb 2017 Jayanta
scully
where do you go when you think of me?
do you go to lying on the wood floor with my head in your lap;
do you go to driving with the windows down and the cold air running past us;
do you go to the songs i wrote down and hummed for you through hour-long car rides;
tell me what you think when someone says my name.
tell me where you go when you miss me,
where do you go?
do you try to drown out evenings where we smoke too much and stumble around grocery-store parking lots
with all the streetlights shut off behind us;
do you try to erase the way my thumb moves over your hand, like reflex, like my hand in my hair, like unconditioned and honest;
do you bite your lip when you hear terrible radio songs and your passenger seat is empty;
tell me,
where do you go when you hear my name?
where do you go when you think,
oh my god,
i lost her,
i lost her
The traffic is 'light, as usual'
according to the
In-car
telephone

nearing the coast now,
how much have I
missed thee
oh
ponderous ocean
oh
timorous sea
apart from those times
when you tried to
drown me

the sun's belting out
a symphony,
music to my ears.


This bay,
Biscay,
so they say
is a stormy one
but
looks peaceful enough
today


tracing my fingers across
lingering sights
my eyes will still sparkle
and be jewels in the nights
when Winter returns.
 Feb 2017 Jayanta
Ola Radka
Cosmic
Tornadoes
And
Meteorites
Are not scary
To me.

I reside
Among swirls
and whirls
Of cosmic energy.

I mingle with
Stars
And dine
With
Mars.

Everyday
I shine
My
Eternal
Light.
 Feb 2017 Jayanta
nivek
jumped into the ripples of time and space
hoping a World war does not start with me
or I am the beginning of a hurricane
- giving out love between a rock and hard place
caught betwixt the devil and the deep blue sea
still I give a gentle blow to help life on its way
and a tiny fly goes bumbling onward in flight
and I pray gentleness spreads across the sky.
 Feb 2017 Jayanta
Sjr1000
No time to dwell
(on what's been undone)
or that
which has become undone

We'll hold onto
each of our moments
when love's song was sung

(When) we stepped on time's ladder
climbed each rung
Each one told a story
of births and deaths
failures and success

The higher we ascended
The shakier the ladder
Encouraging each other
when our legs start to tremble,
when our balance is threatened,
My hand in yours
then
your hand in mine
Should you fall behind
I wait for you
When I falter
You wait for me

When we stumble
We hold on to each other
With a word
A look
A warm embrace

Time's ladder
over time
deteriorates
with aging and pain

I know we'll hold on to the end
though no promises can be made
I'm not perfect
Neither are you

But

I know I won't be climbing to these heights again
or stepping up on to
another time's ladder.
A nod to the Boss, "If I Should Fall Behind  "
 Feb 2017 Jayanta
Mike Hauser
I once had this old time clock
The clock and I, we always fought
Did it keep time, well I think not
As I watched it waste away

The second hand would spin and spin
As the clocks face would sit and grin
Knowing full well the state I was in
With every growing day

The minute hand from left to right
Quickly swept past my life
Who granted this, who gave it right
Who signed off the okay

Hour by hour time kept taunting me
With no time left for sympathy
Where you reach the cost, times no longer free
And you find it hard to save

Time at hand will not stand still
Never has and never will
Time works best with time to ****
As I watched it waste away
 Feb 2017 Jayanta
Seán Mac Falls
.
Sometimes the sun is not heard,
The world is silent yet, is living
Cold, the moon stirs not even
As it is rising, the birds are mute
The trees and oceans are still
All things are pointed and dull.
I hear a lonesome hound baying
At the empty skies when clouds
Are covering with a smear of smoke.
Where are the words that are never
Said?  What light burns my eyes,
Darkening most at the days zenith?
What is the language for sanity?
Why is there no math, no translation
For the heart?

Sometimes the sun is missing
Or lost by a sea of tears raining
In collusion with the shifty earth,
Sometimes the numbering stars
Are merely zeros, the die casting
On the green and desperate table
Of the turning world.  Sometimes
The sun sinks early to the west
And the moon is trailing not far
Behind.
 Feb 2017 Jayanta
Poetic T
Shallow breaths now  woven
    intervening
                        between those occasions
where lips disconnect momentarily.

Smiles greet the gazes of the others.
Palms are like gentle
                                    rain
                                           drops
on each others chest, hearing each others
rhythmed emotions blend to the others moments .
 Feb 2017 Jayanta
Poetic T
Petrified stances upon her manipulation,
to vocalize perceptive wordings but all
I secrete is reflections of her.

My affliction is the nourishment she
is sustaining upon her needing's, yet
I'm serene in my tormented state.

*"She walks upon reflections, bleeding my words forth,
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