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 Aug 11 Leo
girlinflames
My cat starts to meow
He sniffs my nose
then makes a nest on my chest
while I’m lying down
He rests his head right over my heart
He’s seen me cry all day
He knows I want to die
But there he is
reminding me
that my heart
is still beating
 Aug 11 Leo
girlinflames
Podium
 Aug 10 Leo
alia
1.   A bruise on my palm from holding on too tightly
2.   The sound of glass humming when the train passes
3.   A laugh I didn’t mean to escape
4.   Your name, written backwards, because I didn’t want anyone to
       read it but me
5.   A moth dying quietly against the lamp
6.   The taste of rain and metal
7.   The question I still haven’t asked
8.   That strange feeling that the streetlight is watching me
9.   A heartbeat that doesn’t know where to belong tonight
 Aug 10 Leo
Blue Sapphire
One language connects the world

Two languages create confusion

Multiple languages lead to war.
 Aug 9 Leo
Elena Rosi
That's it. It's that.
The greetings every day.
Knowing for a fact,
That you'll come my way.

Facing this version of me
is way easier with you.
I believe I can see,
But you make old seem new.

You take the form
of a smile eye to eye.
You take off the thorn.
Bleeding, but I feel alive.

You're the little things
In the people I know
And in the places I go.

You're the little things
that make my life mine.
That's it. It's that.
I've found my gold mine.

I don't always see you
But I know you're there.
And when I feel you,
little things, you make life fair.
 Aug 9 Leo
Bojana
Words
 Aug 9 Leo
Bojana
Now that they are written,
each fragment in its place,
the weight I carried for so long
has slipped away.

Words, mirrors of the soul,
linger on this page,
pressed like a seal,
marking the moment,
pouring out hope and faith.

Words,
woven like a spider’s web
in the darkness of my heart,
stir and tremble,
whisper like a restless stream,
fully alive,
waiting for their keeper to release them,
to weave a quiet longing,
like a painting on the wall—
a fleeting touch of comfort.
 Aug 9 Leo
Darla Haven
That was before you
wanted
to do anything with us.

That was before I
trusted
you.

That was before I
trusted
anyone.

That was before I
trusted
myself.

That was when I
only trusted
the glow of my laptop in an empty room.
I guess I’m doing better know? But then why doesn’t anyone that I trust talk to me? Reach out first?
 Aug 9 Leo
lorelei
unwritten
 Aug 9 Leo
lorelei
somewhere between these lines

is a place

for a name

I haven't written for

in a while
 Aug 9 Leo
Nat Lipstadt
''How wondrous it is to be read by someone
who appreciates this gift given,
A kiss, a tear, a poet's religion.
A friend made, words displayed, a song, a poem, hello, goodbye, or maybe Shalom
"
patty m
<>
look, it's not like I lack for inspiration.
138 butterscotch chips
already exist,
full poems, titles, couplets, bare naked (ladies) notions,
(men, women, children, asordid genders ageless-survivors)
all demanding rescue,
their cry of SOS, undeniable, but their
lamentations defied, asided, when miz patty m writes,
and oblivious to all else,
attention must be paid!
even when it is 2:55am
even on a Tuesday! (1)
<.>
to the meet, to the mess, to the beating heart that refuses to keep,
a doctor's orders of de minimus seven hours sleep,
when commissioned, when ordered without permission,
you drift into the sunroom, where the night outside
is holy dark, the silence raucous and overwhelming,
and utter inaudibly in his mind,
and piety and poet repeats:
"Yes Ma'am, Yes Ma'am, sir!
<.>
we write for no one in particular
for there is no one who is not particular,
all!
special, sharp edged, distinctive,


and there is no limit, yet,
to how many poems
can be created in a day,
except for the foolish delimiting, irritating
science of 24/7/365+1;
but mercy and insight is demanded,
when miz patty m
does not insist, but commands it
<.>
''A kiss, a tear, a poet's religion..."

indeed, in deed, in deep,
these the elementals of the one true religion,
perhaps the shortest excerpt that ever summarized
the humanist's
faith and the One Commandment,
that summons us & Grace to the table
where we compose and create,
not by fate tempted, but by a fate commanded,
by a faith so grounded & profound,
that every human
regardless of identity or language
each has in their possession, a heaven sent
something important to say,
which is why,

''A kiss, a tear, a poet's religion..."
is the largest tent ever constructed
after the Tower of Babel
where languages were created
(4)

a half hour has passed,
a period of absolute measured time,
that cannot be recreated, recsptured,
but like energy,
nor can it be destroyed,
for this
poem, this kiss, this tear,
marks the moment, the neuronic iconic synapse (2)
of our interactive minds believing and breathing
as one,
and even the atheist  among us
must to no one in particular
(well, maybe to the Angel Leonard)
must whisper most utterly,
hallelujah

'''''''''''''
poem dispatched
at 3:44 am EST,
from the
current latitude and longitude for where natty is,
approximately 41.05° North latitude and -72.33° West longitude.
(1)
In Judaism, Tuesday is considered a special day, often referred to as a "double blessing," due to its association with the creation story in Genesis. Specifically, on the third day of creation (which is Tuesday), the Torah states, "and God saw that it was good," twice. This double declaration is interpreted as a sign of Tuesday being a day of double blessings or auspiciousness.

the boy knows hiz bible
(2)
https://www.google.com/search?q=synapse&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS1169US1169&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
the cutest gap ever drawn of a kiss
(3)
nah, no note, just a parentheses and a Trinity
(4)
The Tower of Babel story, found in the Book of Genesis, is a biblical narrative used to explain the origin of different languages on Earth. According to the story, all humans initially spoke a single language. They decided to build a tower to reach the heavens, but God, seeing their arrogance, confused their language, causing them to speak different tongues and preventing them from completing the tower. This divine intervention is presented as the reason for the diversity of languages we see today
 Aug 9 Leo
Garima
stars
 Aug 9 Leo
Garima
and i don't want to be the moon
i want to be a star
how they all are dead
and yet they spark
and spark so big
and light so bright
and all because a tiny hydrogen
decides to collide
which one would you like to be ? stars or moon?
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