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 Apr 16 melon
kevin
de find
 Apr 16 melon
kevin
behavioral modification crimes
on the white national list
of.....
citizens of america
obstruction to smarter than you
poverty and neglected americans ...evolve
the have only this
and the contraptioning of the days length
loss of freedom of...movement and possession of... clerical error

clerical position crimes ^

ep anomo ep anomo the nanny is
 Apr 16 melon
Germaine
Downpour
 Apr 16 melon
Germaine
How strange
Is the Autumn rain

As it all falls down
In October
 Apr 16 melon
Germaine
you are the fire
burning in my heart

and on a lonely winter night
there is only desire

a candle bleeds wax
as you watch.

it drips, drips down
like the frost on your heated windows.

can you see my face as you look in a little closer

feel my rosy-cheeks
they are not red in heat

do you know of desire?

tell me about the fire.
 Apr 16 melon
Germaine
Growth
 Apr 16 melon
Germaine
Within my fallen body,
Roots will thrive.

And in them, I am alive.

As old as my arms reach,
They will bare the fruit of all that has come before me.

I shall feed to the next generation of disciples,
The sugars that are born from this forgotten language.

And there we will all rise,
as we flow back down the river line.
This unfortunately was brought on and inspired by a Kanye song
 Apr 16 melon
eva
She walks up to me curiously,
Head-tilted; her innocent eyes stare into me.
Constellations on her face - I count one, two, three blinks followed by a grin.
A child sees herself for the first time.

Now she’s taller, her face a little broader
she looks into me;
a smile replaced by a frown, she pulls back
inspecting every line that marks her skin

then returns with paint which she brushes over her skin.
It marks her eyes, her lips; her cheeks
full of pink as she admires her work.

The paint never washes off, you see, it stains.
She returns to me regularly, rivers of ink running down her face,
her eyes clouded; the illusion of beauty hangs in the air.

Society’s product stands before me, reflections of her.

-thelostpoetjournals
 Apr 16 melon
Ayisha R
Low
            batt,
high—
stakes.
(mi)stakes.

Moonlight.

Moon­ light.

🪫🌗
Too drained, but must. stay. awake.

_________

© Ayisha Rahman, 2025
 Apr 16 melon
Josie West
my emotions lurch
like a boat in a storm;
violent and unrelenting.
the time has come
to abandon ship
and sink to the inky depths
*calm at last
 Apr 16 melon
Kat M
I yearn for something long gone in the depths of the future;
Not able to place a finger on its familiarity.

Discovering what is already known
Can be a clarifying process of redundancy.

When a step forward feels like a tumble backward
Toward the inevitable direction of it all.

When a puzzle forms around me
I stand there, inert.

The challenge beckons me further. It calls me closer,
Etching itself deeper into my path.

Smiling at the fantasy of completion on the other side,
A field of emotional mishaps rains down before me.
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