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Controlling
the language
Controlling
the power
Defining
tomorrow
With words
of today

Converting
the juncture
Converting
the instant
Defining
the moment
With all
that you say

Blessing
your loved ones
Blessing
your enemies
Cursing
the liars
Redeeming
the lost

Asking
new questions
Asking
for answers
Loving
the value
In spite of
— the cost

(Dreamsleep: August, 2025)
Gina Mosher Aug 6
SHE
She is invisible. Yet, stands upright. Ignored, disregarded, a spirit run down.

Intelligent as she thinks, yet still forgettable in her pink slings. Not enough. Too much. “Off”.

This is the anger. This is the cry, she screams in the wind, no longer inside. The words, have vanished, the words are gone. She now is screaming without her song.

She makes herself small, a tight little ball.
Yet none are for her. She’s alone at the wall.
They move and they glide and they skip around.
The girl once a mute until silence is gone.

Her quiet, demure, reserved
kind of love, is ripe for the picking and pure as the sun.
The gentle, the sweet, or maybe the heat has made her a mist like the river’s that meet.

Her story a riddle, her spirit quite large, the people confused by the saltage she plods.  
For one maybe two have now turned their heads to look at the girl who once was well “fed”.

The moral, now told is not where you “look”. The moral is where YOU set your own hook.
Yonah Jeong Aug 6
Finally
they became friends
sat on the beach
watched the waves of the sea
and talked about poetry

Neruda
spread a white towel
while the postman
just sat there
and enjoyed the beautiful moment.
kevin Aug 6
Your crisis point is passed a defense being provided now
alia Aug 6
So they showed y’all my words,
the ones I wrote in silence.
Now your voices finds mine again,
dressed in sorrys and “didn’t mean to’s.”

I nod. I smile. I accept.
But do you remember
those lunch breaks I spent
counting tiles
instead of laughs?

Do you recall
how loud y’all sounded
when I was sitting
just steps away?

It hurt.
Not in a loud, break-things way,
but in the soft,
I’ll be fine kind of ache
that echoes for days.

Maybe I just need space.
Or maybe I need to forget
how easily
I was made invisible.

Still,
it’s sweet,
how you care
now.

(…or whatever.)
Kind of a continuation for my poem “Trio in a Quadro”
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