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 Mar 2017 Ola Radka
Gidgette
Sun
 Mar 2017 Ola Radka
Gidgette
Sun
My paper boat is sinking
In the mile deep salt
I'll drown soon
The moon
Only watches
Lusts
for the
Sun
What a drag I am this day. I promise, I'll try to be bright.....
 Mar 2017 Ola Radka
Gidgette
I was in the cemetery again, this noon
Dandelion graves and lost stones
Dwelling atop a hidden hill
Deep within the pines
Not my cemetery
Not ancient
I laid
Upon a certain grave
It had my name
Amanda
One of only two stones with
Still visible words
Unwashed by
Time
She was only 17, passing
Married, buried
With child
Baby
A long lost to time
Child bride
Of the
1800's
For her to be in that particular cemetery
She had to be a soldiers wife
Confederate, rebel
I mourned her
The stone residing next to hers
was worn by wind and time
A dandelion grave
~A
Cemeteries are a morbid habit of mine. The particular cemetary I speak of here, is called Boot Hill. A civil war cemetery. Amanda's grave was one of very few female graves I've found in war graveyards. Her stone said,"With her child." And indeed, as early as it is in this season, that cemetery was covered with dandelions.
 Mar 2017 Ola Radka
nivek
flowers
 Mar 2017 Ola Radka
nivek
if I brought you flowers would you know
your grave all prettied up
a token of my heart
a caring for you still expressed with beauty
do you hear my prayer
know of the ache that you left behind
do you know how lovable you are.
 Mar 2017 Ola Radka
ryn
It's not about going back
to the start.

It should be about
pausing,
rewinding
and going back to a point
where things made sense.

It's about understanding
why they mattered then.

And think if they still do.

If acceptance is
securing personal victory
by conceding,

then I accept.
Cold, long, starry nights;
Sad, pretty clouds-
Shedding warm tears.
 Mar 2017 Ola Radka
MP Martinez
this glass wall
that separate us two
if only I could break it
just to be with you

but our world will never meet
like parallel lines
could not intersect
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