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  Apr 2016 Roo
Sedoo Ashivor
Love spat in my face
Stomped me under his foot
Put me in my place
Stole away my youth

Love wore an angry mask
Laughed me to scorn
Took me to task
Kept me forlorn

Love robbed my innocence
Made my fire quench
Crushed my very essence
Made me a stench

Then, I really met Love
Who was good and true
He wore no masks
And didn't look like you

Then I knew!

It wasn't Love
Who hurt me bad
It wasn't Love
Who made me sad
**It wasn't Love
It was you.
Roo Apr 2016
Softly intense
rhythmic beauty and
individuality, yet
muted bodies blurring into each
other as their
shadows cast shapes
unimaginable to the ordinary.

Simultaneously melting and
reforming whilst
maintaining their rock
hard exterior,
throwing their bodies
from large platforms onto
the shaking ground below.

This is beauty greater than
any woman I have known,
stronger than any giant
I have faced and
more powerful
than the worlds spilling
out from my guts.
This beauty is dance.
Yoooooooo not a depressing poem for once! I wrote this about a dance performance I saw about a month ago now - it was absolutely incredible. The company was called motion house hence the name of the poem.
Roo Mar 2016
Words will betray your mouth,
gather clumsily behind your lower
lip before walking away, stumbling on a flat surface.

Words will betray your mouth,
your tongue will trip as it attempts to curl around many syllables and shapes that are hard to form.

Words will betray your mouth,
teeth chattering in anxious continuum, individuality being sworn away

Words will betray your mouth,
even when your thoughts are the burning lava at the mount of the volcano come to known as your throat.

Words will betray your mouth
when you are not using it to convey them.
Mindless scatterings of useless words pushed together into a form or a silent mouth opening and closing around another.
I hate this almost as much as I hate myself
  Feb 2016 Roo
Sarah Spang
Borderline, borderlands
Of shifting, whipping, changing sands
Around the ankles, grain by grain
You're buried once, then twice again.
The grains are hot, the earth is cold
Your failing stance will never hold
The North wind blows, then South returns
The nights are freezing, Sunshine burns.

A mile forth, and rain will fall
A suffocating summer squall
Another mile, and the snow
Will freeze you solid, keep you cold.
  Feb 2016 Roo
b for short
The weather plays me
just as well as anything.
Some sun would be nice.
© Bitsy Sanders, February 2016
Roo Feb 2016
Do not
send me to sleep
alone
with my fears.

Invalidation
may be the key
to my heart,
but the journey is
made clear with
gas lights.

Let be me sad.
Do not make me feel guilty.

My face is blue.
the sky
reflects off my pain
that is
mirrored in the
ocean.


I am mistaken
for water
when the land is
safe.
I mistake you for
the fisherman who
claims to
adore me.
I wrote these little bits for some pages in my drawing journal.
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