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 Feb 2018 calm
jess
i feel like time is
s
  l
    i
       p
          p
           i
               n
                    g.

i feel like there is more i could have done yesterday. 
 
i regret not kissing you enough yesterday,
because now i realize i can't tomorrow.

today i missed you,
it came in waves like water clashing against rocks.

yesterday i said "tomorrow you'll be okay."
and again i will tell myself, tomorrow.

yesterday wasn't as bad as today is or will be,

yesterday and tomorrow.
does it make a difference if i feel the same?  
-j.p.
i kinda fixed this one up a bit but it's pretty old - think i'll edit it again later to actually mean something because i really like the ending. sorry if my stuff doesn't make sense.
 Feb 2018 calm
Moonsocket
A schizophrenics ticks were sold at auction

Words collected from toilet stalls across the southwest

The proceeds steal the strut from souls warm in the luxury of existing  

A new gold trim for your gods sky strapped in boxes full of free wills final folly

Deconstructing notions of peace absent of preconceived greatness

Keeping company with ghosts...

who insist the sincerest toast..

is the one held above extending loves reminder that hate is just as exhausting

Let us all gather in this time stained hollow for a symphony strung through our malfunction system

What are these ticks...

When the time slips and I find that my life was only a series of sublime distractions

reality portrayed as an ever elusive interpretation

A fist clenched in the face of fallacy forced from mouths fat with gold tooth gumption

Pocket computer mutes the astute perception needed for sincerity

Contraptions consolidate the wonders for easy consumption

DNA inclined to a nomadic existence snuffed with fluff from talk show syndrome

A strangers blunders broadcasted into all our corners

Mourning the turning of a record full of nostalgia

Control the skulls with pill flavored filling

Like rusted hardware churning an absurd mixture

We all sway to the hum of static hilarity

I've spent some time on the lines between fine and terrified

Detached from the reactions of a stranger collision

Realigned with a crime lacking the savvy for sigh filled predators

If you find sense in the nonsensical then get ready for an existence steady with haphazard jesters rendering satire from social observation

Farewell to the freak that speaks reason inside a plastic world

A lack of gods for complicating compelled a mind to attempt liberation  

horizons painted on signs indicating fines for existing

duck and cover from a feather plucked from a sky strapped wing

I have nothing left and your frustration is not unlike a snail high on amphetamines
 Feb 2018 calm
lyka
Poetry is when I play interpreter to my heart
Fumbling to find the right words
Stumbling to convey love beyond a four letter word
A million things get lost in translation
I inscribe loneliness most times
Happiness she prefers left unwritten
And you, she'd rather kept hidden
But I know you from all the unintended traces that spill unto everything she says
I try not to write about you
Or at least eclipse you in between the lines
But it's impossible when you're the one all her words are meant for
 Feb 2018 calm
Eric Fraley
Nightmares...

are like poetry,

At least metaphorically,

The metaphors are like falsified honesty,

So unreal and yet they express how we really feel,

Maybe that’s why we cannot dream

When we feel insane,

Because are honest nightmares are now the real deal,

So we lay still,

Eyes open,

Reality broken,

Stuck hoping,

That the ceiling has the answers

But it's shy

It hates talking,

We lay there thinking

What this life is,

What it represents,

Waging wars in our heads,

It’s a crisis of identity

When all the past mistakes

Leave so many things unsaid,

When those big dreams of the past have gone and fled,

Laying in our comfortable but uncomforting bed,

We ask ourselves

Who we could have been,

Who we could be,

If only those shooting stars could grant our wishes and help us see,

If each star in the sky...

Gave each person their identity,



If only it was that easy…

I guess for now we’ll just stay stuck...

With these identity crises
 Feb 2018 calm
Mb
Shattered dreams
 Feb 2018 calm
Mb
"What will others think"
is the reason for my shattered dreams.
-mb
 Feb 2018 calm
Mb
Your bird
 Feb 2018 calm
Mb
She is the bird who fell for you,
So make sure she flies again.
-mb
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