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You know that feeling.
When you're waiting..
Waiting to get home,
Into your room,
to close the door,
fall Into bed,
And just let everything out that you've kept In all day.

That feeling of both relief and desperation.
Nothing Is wrong, but nothing Is right either.
Tired of everything, but tired of nothing.

And you just want someone to be there to tell you It's okay even when It's not.
But you know that's only wishful thinking.

And you know that you have to be strong for yourself and that no one can fix you.
But you're so tired of waiting.

Tired of having to fix yourself and be strong.

For once you just want It to be simple.
To be easy. To be helped. To be Saved.

But you don't dare to say anything because you don't want pretend sympathy.
And you don't want to seem like you're complaining.

So you stay quiet,
Still wishing,  
Still strong
And fighting with tears In your eyes.

But you're tired of waiting.
 Oct 2014 Md HUDA
Raj Arumugam
I visited your page
to read your poems
(I thought you'd like to know)
but they were so lost
in a very long list of poems
by so many other poets
and so down and down I went
digging and digging
to find you
in your page

but hey, it was too much bother
(yes, you can take me to task for it)
diving so deep to find you
so I just aborted and clicked away

Don't blame me -  I can only hold my breath
for so long when I go free-diving;
and if I dig too long, I get a bad back
I thought you might like to know
 Oct 2014 Md HUDA
TrAceY
little sister do you remember all those nights
I sat on the edge        softly folding my love            
your small body warm but heavy
my attempts at safety as I spun
apologies into lullabies
and read stories of ethereal landscapes
with orphaned children lost

I almost had you believing
we would be so much more
than our childhoods suggested
and in kings who ruled true
and queens who stayed brave

little sister can you imagine I am sorry
for all the nights I walked by your door
without stopping,  my footsteps echoing
the sacrifice I did not make
leaving you wanting
stories where nobody         needs to be saved
 Oct 2014 Md HUDA
Raj Arumugam
so I brought my writer wife
(prominently pregnant)
to the hospital
and on her bed, she screamed:
"weren't" "hasn't" "couldn't" "shan't"
"aint" "hadn't" "you're" "isn't"
"aren't" "didn't" "wasn't"
"who's?" "what's?" "he's" "she's"


The doctors were confounded
and they turned to me and they said:
"What the hell is she doing?"

And I replied with double speed
and a violent sense of urgency:
*"Don't you know?
She's having contractions -
she's a writer"
 Oct 2014 Md HUDA
K Balachandran
A sunlit narrow path cleaving  
       overgrown green hedge, both ways,
such exhilarating surprises, it too can offer,
        but would one expect, in the first place?

On my track, I stand arrested hold that flower,
                that made my heart jump, in my front,
felt being washed inside out
                 by a kind wave, transformed.

The flower, romancing the sun
         still is on it's branch,alive
didn't feel the temptation
        to pluck it like many times before.

Even the beauty's name is unknown to me,
     just another hibiscus,amidst her  cousins,
"I love the one next to her, the purple one"
    said a female voice, a wayfarer like me.

Standing by me, she adoringly looked at her favorite,
     I had no hesitation to accept it, like mine.
no ranking makes sense, each has
      own quicksilver tongue, if you 'd listen.

"Look at you! how pleased you look
    I love the folks, that adore flowers!"
she sounded like a skylark, hands of
  evening sun caressed her, we are kindred spirits.

"You have wide eyes like girls,
    eyes seeking beauty reflect it"
we held hands like childhood friends,
   long lost, looked at each other's eyes.

Isn't it the feeling one try to capture and define,
       when trying to say what poetry makes to happen?
it's there, a tangible feeling, if you know what it means,
   on our separate ways we went, gifting what to keep for ever.
 Oct 2014 Md HUDA
Lustus
ONE
 Oct 2014 Md HUDA
Lustus
ONE
Vowels
Your  eyes         Your  eyes
My   hand          My  hand
Your  heart       Your  heart
Our  **soul
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