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  Jun 2020 zumee
Onoma
cotton balm at the corners

of dream's eye,

chrysalis peel.

pictorial frenzy--outspread

imminent latence.

one wing too wide with color,

folded in two.

now flitting.
  Jun 2020 zumee
Jack P
Oh, my Medusa
That piercing, seductive stare
Gets me so rock hard.

"braullw nevae falls"
That's 'braille never fails',
Spelled by a blind man.

Matsuo Basho
Turns in his grave: first, five times
then seven, then five.

The dankest of ****
Floats slowly into my lungs
Oh wait...Asbestos.

hahaha ye boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
yeyeyeyeye ye boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
hehe wyd
for dbiz
zumee Jun 2020
anonymous
the instant
truth that
hits you
in the
name


  Jun 2020 zumee
Joseph Rice
Don’t look away
When the man weeps
When the woman dies
When the child wails
When the dog whines

Cruelty is the universe moving
Suffering is the feeling of life

Don’t look away
Into the happy times
Into the fearful memory
Into the conceited depression
Into the fake gods

You can’t escape your fate
You won’t evade death.
zumee Jun 2020
there was once a zealous poet
with an endless word supply
who waged an apperception war
against his very eye

the poet sought to demonstrate
to his instrument of sight
by power of articulation
the meaning of this life

trains of thought were conjured
swarms of sense made manifest
still the poems failed to capture
the essence of the mortal quest

the poet's mind was stilled in wonder
its silence cast a knowing spell
the spoken word had lost the war
the naked eye could tell
with every new poem I come blissfully closer to retiring my pen
zumee Jun 2020
screen-fed cattle
pixel-grazing;
the glass is greener
on the other side
zumee Jun 2020
seven thousand languages
in this very moment
spoken by our kind
seven thousand pillars
of meaning
hello
a little
goodbye
caterpillar
sunny skies
flowing water
giant mountain
ensorcelling eyes
where is Mommy
anyone out there
can you help us
we are hungry
pain for food
make it end
let me rest
take it all
this life
I want
death

and not a single one
to truly mean
the liquid hold
of a tear-shaped eye
technically it's more around 6500 but hey
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