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 Jan 2016 M
Nat Lipstadt
~~

First & Foremost

~~~
a friendly competition,
not of erudition,
more a contest of
speedy eruption

who will be first,
for quenching their thirst,
on not any but only
every,
day of their togetherness,
to declare, swear, affirm,
that their love for the other
is the greater


a race
where both win,
by crossing the
ever-moving forward,
the unfinished line

a never static series,
much more than merely being
a claimant of a trite first place,
more akin
to momentarily being
at the head of an unending
mathematical
progression,
(1 + 1 > 2)
solvable if and when
leap frogging
over each other,
extending their combined reach

when one is
first
to pronounce
this daily blessing
at the
beginning of the
new awakening twenty four,
of their joint custodied
imprimatur,
silently implied,
I love you
with a simple syrup summary



first and foremost

one, if by pillowed whisper
two, if by text

a succint messag to the other,
their love is coming fresh direct,
with an invading intensio,
deserving recognition
that a new edition will be
published
on this very day,
with the
same exact
freshly steaming coffee'd,
bannered headline,
that my love for you,
my darling sweetheart is


first and foremost

condensing with a
yellowing smiley face,
in these illiterate days of emoticons,
unacceptable,
yellow carded,
though summarizing acceptable as

F & F
or
1st/most


formats
that have been adjudged
to be
an A-Ok entry,
in the contest
without a foreseeable ending
and

that no one,
but only both,
can possess
the winning record


~~~
6:21am
Jan. 9, 2016
nyc
 Jan 2016 M
Corona Harris
Don't fall for me
I'm not who you think I am
I'm only here temporarily
I'm only valuable as your friend

Don't say you love me
I'm not able to love you back
I'm just here for your pleasure
We may never be more than that

Listen to me
I'm not telling you this for my health
I've been here so many times
And this is what I had to tell myself

~Corona Harris~
 Jan 2016 M
Anil Prasad
Love to Be
 Jan 2016 M
Anil Prasad
Love loves to be
Plain, simple and free
No hide and seek
No doublespeak
And word play
And no delay
In breaking
Deadly silence
That is humiliating
To sit on the fence
And sing a song
And play along
The margin
Just imagine
Love as a bee
That stings
And Sings
The pain
Simple and plain
Loves love to be
A sweet gain
Of sweet loss
Of me in we
Where love
Loves to be!
 Jan 2016 M
Vilakshan Gaur
Tyrant
 Jan 2016 M
Vilakshan Gaur
Silent but violent, the tyrant is free
like smoke in the air, the tyrant will flee
sound out the sirens; the tyrant is loose
look into my eyes, the tyrant is me
 Jan 2016 M
Seth Milliman
Pieces.
 Jan 2016 M
Seth Milliman
Pieces of the heart,
Pieces of the mind.
Pieces of what you need,
Pieces that you'll find.
It's easy to know what you have,
Yet hard to place them together.
Of things you've felt,
And all you've seen.
Would it not make it better?
To make your own,
Means more work than you want.
But the pieces are there,
Whether you see them........or not.
 Jan 2016 M
JDK
Pebbles
 Jan 2016 M
JDK
The only way to smooth the edges is to keep them tumbling constantly.
Oh, *******.
 Jan 2016 M
LETITFXRING
blue
 Jan 2016 M
LETITFXRING
I asked her to describe her mood by color
& she said "blue"
Then I asked her why she's sad
Responding
I'm not
I just love the way the ocean makes me feel
I love the water
So therefore "am blue"

Crashing waves
Washing away every color except for the mood I feel
As the sky,
Different hues of the waters
The sound is everything but still
Burning sun laying on my skin
Like the warmth of a hug,
So much elation I feel within
Stains a smile on my face,

From a far the waters aligns itself
And when
Closing my eyes
Visualizing what I seen
Sun beaming on me still
Hearing the waters going different directions
Hidden clouds up above
Moving from the wind

It's beyond what you see
Its also how it makes you feel
So therefore I love the hues
So therefore "am blue"
modified poem
 Jan 2016 M
Sjr1000
Planetarium
 Jan 2016 M
Sjr1000
Staring at the ceiling sky
Past lover's faces
Eyes
Dotting
The midnight moonless skies

Stars twinkling
Their light having been cast
Many light years ago

Each one for their time
Had in their eyes - for me -
The golden glow

Meteor showers of montage sequences
faces
scenes
times
fly by
Trailing ribbons in the ceiling skies

The dots when taken together
Tho eons passed and separated
Pieces and bits form constellations

Eros
Aphrodite
The Mother
Sancho Panza in drag disguise
A female Damocles and her sword
The Companion Star, still glowing here in the Western sky

Looking backwards in time
Their presence was once present
Now, all have vanished
Moved on to other places in space and time

Aware of all I have been given
All I've learned

Remembering I loved each one
And when the moon is right
and the ceiling is dark
and there is no sleep
for me tonight
Their light still shines
On my ceiling night sky.
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