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 Jul 2020 Mark Toney
ymmiJ
red skies burning fire
fanning pyres of human hate
under blood moon moods
sometimes you got to vent
 Jul 2020 Mark Toney
Carolyn Lu
I find people very interesting,
There’re just so many variables that make someone- well them,

However,
What I don’t like about people,
Is how quickly they judge each other,
Because just someone acts like a bully to you,
Doesn’t mean that they aren’t capable of being nice,
And how some people,
Don’t look more closely at others,

You don’t see how that bully struggles to get a C in any of her classes,
Not because she doesn’t try like you assume,
Or how the bully may be a bully,
But she is still loyal to her friends,
How she choose targets depending on who has wronged her friends,
How in her eyes she see it as justice,

You don’t see that she’s are aware,
She is aware of your hatred towards her,
And she feels like she’s hated,
Even the teachers tell her how rude and ungrateful she is,
So she’ll hate you,

People don’t see how the bully sits alone at lunch,
When her friends abandon her,
Because she’s now known as ‘the bully’,
And you don’t care either,
Because she’s ‘the bully’,
And she deserve that,

You see now that others make fun of her,
Because she’s the bully that’s bullied you,
So she deserves it,
You see how people sneer at her in the hall,
You sneer her at too,
You insult her now,
Because she’s the bully,
And she deserves it,

I wish people would look a bit closer,
And see how others have different dimensions,
How that person,
Isn’t a 2 dimensional card board cut out of a stereotype bully,
But she’s a person too,

Yes,
She may have hurt you really bad,
And this doesn’t excuse her actions,
But she’s just a person too,
One who makes mistakes,
One who has feelings,
And she’s someone that’s sorry,
But she’s a bully,
So she can’t possibly be,

But I really am.
Based off a classmate of mine,
She really is sweet. I just think she’s really misunderstood. So I wrote this from some things she told me about herself- and from what I’ve noticed.
 Jul 2020 Mark Toney
Anais Vionet
I want to be a writer -
and like a new poker player -
I'm starting to evaluate my cards.

I post on several poetry sites
I find syncing them kind of hard.

'Cause I'm the model of imperfection
heck, I'm the Edison of mistakes -
a teenager half-heartedly committed
to doing whatever it takes.

Does it help that I'm never happy?
That I constantly make updates?

At times I feel the proverbial cat
chasing its own tail -
but I think I'm making progress
- like a literary snail.
A poem about wanting to be a writer
torrential down pour
life giving water for plants
sad at the window
This isn't a poem,
it's a thank you to the
HP community for
all their support and love.
I'm in treatment and working
******* my addiction,
but I woke up with a
heart full of gratitude,
not to sound sappy, but
I love you all.  Carpe Diem,
and let the ink flow.
Thank you HP I love you guys.  BLT, Carlos, South City Lady, Love Storytelling, Woody, Traveler, Samantha, so many, too many to list, and I have to go to group, you've been timetabled, Mark, Cloudy Daze, Fawn, Gideon, Glass
Slipper,  Girl, Diya, M-E, Whit Howland, Mrs Time table, Sarita, Cat, Clementine, Amanda, Lori, Stephen E. Yokum, Natt, Raven...so many! to you all ap, Beautifully Broken. Guy, Mellani, Sarita...Love you all...Keep on writing.  Weeping Willow, Elizabeth.
 Jul 2020 Mark Toney
Saint kaya
I might seem a bit mystic but I’m good at heart

A small garden rakes over my eyes and a head digging in and scrapping away

She says,

My heart is like a cleft pomegranate
Bleeding crimson red,
And dripping every seed on the ground
It’s ripe and over-full,

My dissatisfied heart,
My heart it is more human than I,
More than life itself

Often
My heart cries but my eyes are dry,


And behold my friend
This is what I call my brief tragedy of flesh
Tragedy of life

My very demise
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