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81 · May 2020
What is love?
beauty?
true happiness?
life?

often we find them (though not all)
as the fiery catalyst for our choices
our future
and for our dreams.
78 · May 2020
Book of Hopes
I unfolded a melody
tears swam in the margins

candles of war, unrequited love, and poetry
winked at me
from the ink

H-o-p-e
spelled out
penciled in
the faded ink, deckled edges, tiny wooden flecks
marginalized, coated on paper

of the book
I hold, now close
78 · Apr 2020
Woven Music
I stitched on a poem
needled it into my mother's scarf.

As I sowed, my needle keened
joyously, out a chorus of thread!

But when that lifeline ended
and the thread was no more,
it copied itself onto a new melody.

did I really need
that        scarf?
78 · May 2020
Portal to self
why open a door
when you can open up a book?
the door, yes, can lead you somewhere
but a book can make you free
78 · May 2020
Reflecting waters
I look down at the water
fluffy clouds and solid trees
a glorious crystal sun and a silent pale moon
stars sprinkling their glitter across the heavens
a white butterfly flutters and blushes
my soul sings somber music
For what do we all have to do
to get that peace?
songs: Waymaker, So Will I, Reckless Love, Came to My Rescue,...
76 · Apr 2020
Survivor
My forehead reads,
"nothing here"
My back twists,
"kick here"
My heart sings,
"break here"

My name tag blares,
"surviving here"
Her fingers plucked
the strings-
vibrating

all over
me

She struck
against
the hollow
wood

on her knee

Her bow
danced across
the
silvery strings
She breathed

in
and

out
and started

playing double time
for me
I imagined this as a song
75 · Jul 2020
the sharp jab
of a root
squirts blood
droplets;
splattering.
the white floor stains
thin veiny twigs
pops from thin saggy skin
A **** of green unfurls
blood
its water
74 · May 2020
Bloom
-ing flowers
wrapped around me
hidden thorns
73 · May 2020
Dragon slayer
she unsheathed her weapon
her inner contents ripped loose-

Black blood hissed on her clear, sharp blade

She disciplined their ignorance and hate

Blood droplets rained, footsteps drummed on the floor
Who needs a knight, when you can slay your own dragons?  

She let no-one move her.
but she.
73 · Nov 2020
Strippin through the blue
shatters crystals against
circling curves of white
dashes a sprinkle of hurt
against the rye
whispers gloom, into
the black-blooded night
72 · May 2020
Hope, the survivor maker
a fluttering weakling
Yet immortal, unextinguishable
a gentle candle, hypnotizing you in the dark

It can heal a heart, save up a life
It is an abstract work of beauty given life

It resounds in one's hearts, beats to one's heartbeat

hope
is a fighting beam of light
72 · May 2020
Broken Hearts
the red paper heart
oozing thick black blood
drops onto the ground, thud

little creatures of shards of red form
Searching for
other hearts broken
like their own
Every romance/YA/teen romance novel ever!
71 · May 2020
the greatest sacrifice
Was on the Cross
nothing can compare
70 · May 2020
heritage
We are life's greatest mystery
'biology' 'anatomy'- just terms attempting to define who we are
One of the things that truly defines us
is just being us
My heritage, my language, the color of my skin
your heritage, your language, the color of your skin
All the more, it makes us
who we are
n no one can refuse us of what's our given right
69 · Apr 2020
missing
Korean.
Tall.
Confident.
Enthusiastic.
Sweet.
Humorous.
Intellige­nt.

Fizzy

hair bands
on each
wrist
Do you know this person?


-MISSING-
Next part is 'Discovery'!
68 · May 2020
can you trust?
Trust to spread your arms like a bird,
a trill singing from your heart
falling back back
onto
a comfort of feathers and tears
68 · May 2020
dancing with yourself
he sparred a silvery mist into melodies
danced and danced,
as roses sprinkled into the air

scattered petals rained down onto jubilant hands
As they fell, a light pattering of rain darted between them
68 · May 2020
Reckless Love
of God
Crashes over me
like an eternal
infinite
ocean of waves
68 · May 2020
we are social creatues
endless drops of time
clink
into other people's glassy mason jars
but did this predicament
help you give a little more love to yourself?
68 · May 2020
Pandemic time
I sit numb and cold
The hard chair bites me awake
Time flew- 1:30 a.m.
67 · Apr 2020
Discovery
I found her.
She's hiding.
She's in the halls
of the greats.
She's got the same spark
the same confident glint in her eye.
But where's that bright smile?
The skip in her walk?
The fizzy hair bands had shrunk
shrunk down
to two.
Two is better than one.
But she's alone,
without you.

Come back home
67 · Sep 2020
sweetner
tastes like sugar
made of the moon's shine
and the crust between its craters
The powdery flour
bursts into the air
flakes falling softly
as the footsteps of astronauts leave behind permanent indentations
sweet-ener
fake sweets swirled in a papery blinding smile
bits of teeth shavings, ***** soup of century-old snow
sliced
tiny cubic centimeters of white
particles dusting the wooden table
falls
onto the sea of churning black dots below
67 · May 2020
Unfairity
you can't help it
if you're born the way you are
if the world is being cruel to you about it
67 · May 2020
You may mock
"those tourists"
Sneer at the foreign language you think are blasting
harshly
in your ear

Would they think you

any better?
a long ramble
and jamble
Talks to self in the mirror, pep talks
You see, you're
still in the stage of finding yourself.
I don't know who this if for,
but what I know is that you
can change the world.
No, it is not a matter of 'can', but a matter of
'will'?
66 · May 2020
BLESS YOU
but I didn't sneeze?

when else are
we presented with
present one other with
a previous  
blessing?

abundance upon abundance,
let us seek
65 · May 2020
Doctors
Cold empty halls,
protective equipment
can it protect
the never ending hurt?

Besides teachers,
doctors are planters

Life is a fragile thing to toy with
but not too fragile
that it can't be fixed
65 · May 2020
weathering a conundrum
when the rain's a-pouring
and your keys ditched you for the gutter
and your heart's trodden by pig trotters
your mind soggy
your eyes drippy

let the sky's tears soak you in
65 · Apr 2020
Maker
You carved in my dreams
molded my future

sanded my fortune,
(with naught a mistake here or there!)

painted my talents
decorated my path to walk

pinpointed my identity
And I wouldn't have it any other way, God. Thank you, my Lord.
65 · Apr 2020
That Bomb
Taste the fresh air, but
Not the radiation; when
I look: shadows scream
64 · Apr 2020
Let it rain
'Thud, thud, thud' whispered
the drops of the sky's tears
drip, dripping on me
64 · May 2020
Afropunk
Creative power
punches through in
blues
funk
rock
disco
'n' hip-hop

Passion bleeds out and through chants
still, and in beat

Jazzy gospel blues filter through the heavy rain
uplifted voices, they soar above the canopy and waving arms

AFro-punK
64 · Apr 2020
Letter
In my broken hands,
I hold,

scripted dances of hopes
only for you

only
to unfold
64 · May 2020
The blue bird trilled
'oh, what a wonderful, jubilant day!'
a baby bird is hatched
A hundred scattered pieces of paper,
a mist of inky blackness,
and a lure to blast out of one's comfort zone
can launch oneself into

history
a rascal and his white picket fence,
fairy-tales,
or an AR monstrosity of reality,
a monster lurking maze,
a camp for half-bloods,
or
a school of witchcraft and wizardry.

But nothing
is like home.
62 · Apr 2020
dolphini
I see
myself in
the gentle sheen, where a pale figure stares
and beams
back at me

(cue: "i am confusion")
62 · Apr 2020
Science Experiment
Like a science experiment
I feel as if that I have to
pour in a vial

grind in a sprig of love
drip in a little beauty

cough in some hair dye.

Stir in a bit of makeup
boil until the moon
shines, "it's alright".

Shred in different cloths
pour in a bit of sass.

How much longer
how many tillings left/
till
I am now

success?
< 2nd part coming >
62 · May 2020
Anesthesia
artificial sleep
What have we dreamt?
artificial trees
artificial lights that can't compete with the Sky's glitter
artificial rivers
and homelands
and spontaneous desires

Artificial pleasures
and things of this world
Hopefully
although they weren't pleasant, they
were just "sweet dreams"
hello, Fahrenheit 451
60 · May 2020
They just wanted to be
beautiful
No, I tell them. Be your kind of beautiful.
59 · May 2020
inspiraton
shines and snags your mind
drags it into
the world of poetry
hullo, poetry!
59 · Aug 2020
taste
in the bloom of the moon,
tears of a fragile lamb,
whispers of the oak trees,
and the flickering lamp
of life-

a Snicker
of Magic
Read 'A Snicker of Magic'!
59 · Apr 2020
A Painted Picture
A dripping branch
dipping into a
swirling pond
admonishing the
blushing pond lilies
58 · May 2020
Trust in You
Even when I don't see You
Even when I can't hear You, can't physically touch You
I know that You are there
You are here
You are here
Amen
58 · Apr 2020
ghost
Laying back on the soft grass,
I whisper your song.
The clouds are fluffy and white,
the blue skies are peaceful and bright.
The picture of paradise.
You wouldn't know
that
someone is slowly dying
right there.
Where?
Under the tree.
But-
Yes,
That's me.
*Donate funds and help out hospitals, medical centers, and other health-related facilities during the pandemic.*
58 · Apr 2020
A Pup in a Sock
My name is pup
and when I sleep
inside a sock
its yarn I eat

I open my eyes
the sun is up!
I eat more string
My name is pup
Check this pic out -> https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dc/40/c0/dc40c08b1c0a39f70dfc43751f8691d2.jpg
Not mine! Credit goes to its owner.

I'm talking about the pup in the left. It looks more sneaky.
58 · May 2020
shook up like a soda can
stress filled swollen veins
worries crowd in between neurons
tight and taut- explosion
fizzes...
57 · May 2020
Dream-a-dream
Realistic apparitions float
tied in between the misty gloom
A budding trickling stream of words
erupt from sodden books
A raging pent-up fire explode
Tiny fiery sparks kiss my nose
57 · May 2020
Evoke
emotion
Moisture fills the room
Water droplets paint the humid, dripping glass
It's 99 degrees!
The broken AC screams:
corona
rejects strangers in the house
Nevermind technicians
Life
is just peachy
Heartfelt empathic poetry to the poor soul who has this situation! it is possible haha
57 · May 2020
I ran
in the beach in front of me
clear white sand shifted

The waves embraced the shoreline
was sent away, again and again
behooving the other

I smiled at the sight
a breeze ruffled my hair
the sun kissed my eyes
I tripped over
a half-buried shell
into my majestic artwork of sand

Laughter only colored the picturesque sight
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