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Mar 2017 MellowMomo

Hypocratic

Mar 2017 MellowMomo

Young Al

Doctor, please, take me out of quarantine,
I need fresh air to breathe, the sun to feel,
Seems queasy in here, this room shrinks,
It stinks, but it's not me, it's the environment,
Let me out, please, it's not my fault,
These walls, pads, and bars are not for my health

Doctor, please, have some sympathy
For a young life yearning to leave, this place it thieves
Of all healing, listen, there's nothing wrong with me,
I'm not broken, I'm fine, I'm burning inside
With a fever your medicine cannot aleve,
Yes, I'm weak,
But its your fault, not mine, open the door,
I implore,
So the world can welcome me with open arms and intimacy.

Dec 2016 MellowMomo

Who Are You?

Dec 2016 MellowMomo

Hannah Draycott

Who Are You?

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too"*

Maybe I panic because I need to
for all of those who don't panic but should.
Maybe that's why I'm haunted by spirits I don't know.

Mummy, told me not to talk to strangers,
but these figures talk to me, do they not know?
In panic of the third hour
I don't see them but I know they see me
I feel their eyes move off my body

There are no humans in this world,
only animals, hungry for their instincts.
I am cautious of every detail
I know but no one else does
Can they feel my eyes?

Or feel my heart,
maybe even my sweat
and my dry tongue
because I pant
I am you. Animal.

*"They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." -Stephen King

Dec 2016 MellowMomo

clementine

Dec 2016 MellowMomo

Macy Opsima

clementine

there is a general reason
as to why her name fits her.
whenever you look at her beauty,
all you can mutter is
*oh my darling, oh my darling

#love #poem #short #beauty #darling #freeverse #ethereal #lowercase #clementine

Dec 2016 MellowMomo

Mysterious Figure

Dec 2016 MellowMomo

Michael Blonski

Mysterious Figure

My mind was hazy
after over drinking
when I first saw the figure

crunching its way towards
me on a winter's night
holding a flashlight
and walking its poor excuse for a dog

The iced trees drooped
swaying from cold breath
as the figure trudged on

The closer it approached,
I began to hear its song

Nothing drowned out its
performance in the stillness
of a New York winter

Nothing to compete with this
derivative, pop radio, Siren
Calling out to me as flakes
melt on my exposed face

I could taste the diesel
from the exhaust
expelled from the truck
that left tracks in the snow

Lost my attention for a second
then the figure's song
regained control

The flashlight grew brighter
and brighter
When the figure was just a few
feet away
the brightness over powered
my vision
and the figure asked
"do you know your way?"

"Sorry?" I replied as my
mind was not clear

"do you know where you are going?"

I replied,
"Does anyone know where to go
when their purpose isn't clear?"

Oct 2016 MellowMomo

Part 1

Oct 2016 MellowMomo

Star Gazer

Part 1

Do I judge what my eyes can give me in a minute
Or take to heart the tenderness of your embrace?
They speak judgement between right and wrong
though they find in themselves, the lonely song.
I can't tell you, depth nor length my love may reach
But I can tell you that it settles between the folds,
the creases, the unseen pieces of my heart.
The birds flutter in codes, the clouds hold cameras
but I've seen what it is about yourself I can't deny-
you are not pretty, pretty is too simple a word;
you are beautiful and though the cloud may rain
you are the rainbow captured at the end of it all,
that merely says "smile for the cameras because-
this world, it's a dangerous place but together
we'll light this life up like we're main characters
on a stage".

[A gee gee dedication-starshine part 1]