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Jul 2013 Jaymi Swift

For New Delhi [10w]

Jul 2013 Jaymi Swift

Ghazal

For New Delhi [10w]

Untamed!*
Its landlocked audacity!
My arrogant city
Needs a sea.

Jul 2013 Jaymi Swift

Crouching [Palindrome]

Jul 2013 Jaymi Swift

Ghazal

Crouching [Palindrome]

Screeching screaming
Flat tire
Halts journey!
Menacing night-
Fangs bared,
Nastily stares
~Crouching~
Stares nastily,
Bared fangs,
Night, menacing!
Journey halts,
Tire flat,
Screaming, screeching.

Not even sure if it makes sense haha! But i just wanted to do this.

Jul 2013 Jaymi Swift

Her Words In Haiku

Jul 2013 Jaymi Swift

Ghazal

Her Words In Haiku

Her mighty pen glides
Enveloping in hot flames
Of words, this cold world.

Jul 2013 Jaymi Swift

Downsizing

Jul 2013 Jaymi Swift

Carl Joseph Roberts

Downsizing

Downsizing

Downsizing, thats what they say
All my friends say ill be okay
That I'll find a job right away
If only they could see the pain

Downsizing, thats what they say
They lock the doors at close today
Now what am I supposed to do
Am I to old to start out new

Downsizing, thats what they say
No more work means no more pay
Twenty years at this job
They say the work now must stop

Downsizing, thats what they say
All for shareholders that must be please
Do they know the pain they've caused
So many families now feel lost

Downsizing, thats what they say
We lost so many jobs today
Not just me but many friends
Today we know it all must end

Downsizing, thats what they say
Moved our jobs overseas
Chasing just the bottom line
All to make them one more dime

Downsizing

Carl Joseph Roberts

Jul 2013 Jaymi Swift

A Week With The Girl Of My Dreams

Jul 2013 Jaymi Swift

Mike Hauser

A Week With The Girl Of My Dreams

I met her Sunday in the park
Between our hearts there was a spark
We'll have to wait and see
If we are each others need

Monday rolled around and then
A bit of luck we met again
I laid on the manly charm
Her hands were soft and warm

Tuesday came and Tuesday passed
Her number I forgot to ask
What a fool I was
Did I just lose true love

Wednesday she somehow found me
Standing below my balcony
I looked down into her eyes
A very pleasant surprise

Thursday it was burning love
A girl like her more than enough
For a man like me
She's all that I can see

Friday a day like I've never known
With cloud nine far down below
I am flying high
The best day of my life

Saturday all I could see
The whole of the week was but a dream
I woke up Sunday in the park
The afternoon sky was cloudy and dark

Jul 2013 Jaymi Swift

In A Church Yard, The Sun Is Rising and I See No Salvation

Jul 2013 Jaymi Swift

Reece

In A Church Yard, The Sun Is Rising and I See No Salvation

There's a city under water and she sings to me with pride
(I sit alone and wish you profound gaiety)
The rains continue to pour across my face, I refuse to go inside
There's a man without a home, free from the ******* of love
(I wish to find within myself a sound laity)
And so I return to the church pew desolate, searching for God above

Born to an atheist household, deprived of propaganda
(I suppose learning now is enough)
I sit here, a church in drowning Uganda
The rains of a thousand brutal homicides leave me with a sigh
(The rainfall allegory, merely a bluff)
But still I sit on a bench in a church yard and the LRA pass by