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The gardener tends to his plants with love and devotion
From the daisies to the tulips and the hydrangeas in rows
But one flower he gives the most attention,
Was the beautiful, blood red, prickly rose

Every day the gardener cared for the flower,
Savoring the sight with his eyes and the scent with the nose
Yet when he goes to touch it, however,
It's thorns would cut him and from the wound, blood rose

Sometimes to himself, he wondered
Why something he loved so much
Would oppose him so violently
And deny his touch

Even as he asked himself, he knew the flower didn't know why
But he knew he had chose
He would always love, till the day he'd die
His beautiful, blood red, prickly rose
 Jan 2018 Dave Cortel
victoria
I play both roles of us
Whilst lying back on my bed
I make believe you’re lying
within the sheets and the dreams in my head

A few moments and I am lost
In the vision of you and I
Then the ****** ends
Reality sets in
My loneliness returns to cry
 Jan 2018 Dave Cortel
little lion
I think the saddest part of growing older
is watching everyone else find happiness
in the places that you spent years searching through
and came up empty handed
every
single
time.
Galactic domes
Envelop the sky
Geometric tesselations
Mimic starry nights.

White cubes reside
Caressed by the sea
Freckled light tunnels
Flicker vivaciously.

Dawn of humanity
6500 BCE, Jordanian shores
Brought forth
Two-headed sculptures.
 Jan 2018 Dave Cortel
Slur pee
There once was a hero who was mute,
A musical hero, to boot!
His fingers did not strum
A guitar or tap a drum;
He saved the kingdom with a flute!

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A soldier clouded by strife,
To have love lost like a life.
Finds beauty in flowers,
Destroys evil powers,
While wielding an oversized knife!

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An army of soldiers well-trained,
Though, in action they seem dead-brained;
Hit with his own bomb,
That one knows your mom,
It’s a battlefield of the deranged.

-SLuR
Limericks based off videogames.

(Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy 7, and Call of Duty.)
 Jan 2018 Dave Cortel
KuyaMak
It's 4:18 AM
I'm Wide awake
and the sun is about to knock off
this darkness that confines my sight.
Just like what you did to my heart
when you happen to my life.
You broke the barriers I made to protect my self
from being in pain again.
Now here I'am
never thought
I'd be happy like this
again
And it's already 4:30 AM
And the sun is about to say
hello to the world
And give the world another chance
to be better than yesterday.
like what you did to my heart
when you happen to my life.
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