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 Sep 2023 ryn
Jonas
weak point
 Sep 2023 ryn
Jonas
People who hug you back tightly,
and won't let go
just because you do.
 Sep 2023 ryn
Eduardo10
Never be
 Sep 2023 ryn
Eduardo10
Yes, I may dream a million dreams
But how can they come true
If there will never be
Another you
The aspirations are gone.
 Sep 2023 ryn
Aimée
Skin Deep
 Sep 2023 ryn
Aimée

One day I hope you'll tell me
All the stories that striate your skin
Every tattoo, every bruise
Every stretch mark, every scar

 Sep 2023 ryn
Phia
A. B. (Part 20)
 Sep 2023 ryn
Phia
I want to lay with you
Late at night
And exchange loving words,
The moon and the stars
Our only witness
 Sep 2023 ryn
Unpolished Ink
Sombre
 Sep 2023 ryn
Unpolished Ink
Do not mourn for me in sombre colours
black and grey was not my way to be
do not drown me in sorrowing hymns
praise me with the tunes of larks
I always loved their spiral song in flight
celebrate the spirit that was me
forget the dark
embrace my light
 Sep 2023 ryn
Krista Delle Femine
He never actually said it to me
He just wrote it in his poetry
I suppose it’s a testament to what a great poet he is
That I took it so personally
 Sep 2023 ryn
Anais Vionet
There are clocks turning backwards
there are rights being lost,
you might think you’re unaffected
but things are worse than you thought.

For your wives and your daughters
are now property of the state;
they’ll be tracking their cycles
and they better not be late.
For your women are now watched
by the militarized state;

The old laws have been eradicated,
cause it’s freedom
the republican fundamentalists hate,
and like the Taliban, your freedoms they’re taking.
You better vote soon, before it’s too late,
cause your rights are disintegrating.

Come fathers and husbands
throughout the land
let’s give them an electoral beating
that they’ll understand
your vote is your voice
so please take a stand.

If the freedom of privacy's worth saving,
you better vote soon, before it’s too late,
cause your rights they’re eliminating.
 Sep 2023 ryn
Carlo C Gomez
~
drawn to a twinkling
crown of muted lights

a moment in the waterfront
of your eyes

in between circadian rhythm
and a place called irresistible

there we listen to sun-filled hymns
and children's laughter

not caring what comes after...

~
 Sep 2023 ryn
Sarah
Love spills out from me in the form of words and tears and laughter.

I want to touch you and hold you and kiss you and love you so tenderly and with such softness that one wrong step could crush me.

Put me in your mouth and chew me up.
Take a bite out of my ripe, tender skin.
All you’ll find in this flesh, is love love love. Sweet and soft and juicy the way a peach bleeds.
 Sep 2023 ryn
Emma Elisabeth Wood
I long
to be folded
in paragraphs
and wrapped tight
in sentences

words that are both
a balm and a blaze

for a vowel to be the spark
that sets of a fire
that reduces everything to ashes

(past, present, future…)

is all I dare hope for
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