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 May 2023 Shofi Ahmed
Luna
you say my writing is
beautiful
but you forget that you’re
the one
inspiring it
 Sep 2022 Shofi Ahmed
Ann
keep your eyes closed love.

           e     t      
       m           i
    o                 m
s                        e  
                            s     all you have to
                                                                ­
                                                                ­ l                  to is what the sound
                                                           ­      i            n
                                                  ­                s           e
                                                               ­          t

                                                              ­                               v
                                                               ­                         a        e
                             ­                                          of the  w               s
                                                               ­                                       
                         ­                                                                 ­            tells  you
                                                                ­                                        to do.
"Keep your eyes closed, love. sometimes all you have to listen is to what the sound of the waves tells you to do."

When I was much younger, beaches were my second favorite places. I still love watching waves as they go by, crashing against each other and the whole process repeating all over again.
 Sep 2022 Shofi Ahmed
Luna
Poets
 Sep 2022 Shofi Ahmed
Luna
How to become a poet:
Let someone rip your soul apart.
And in the need of mending ,
You will replace it with words.
 Sep 2022 Shofi Ahmed
Mancy
Firefly
 Sep 2022 Shofi Ahmed
Mancy
You may not be
The moon or
A star or
The sun
Beaming vision to the world.

But to me
You are
The cute little
Firefly
Casting hope in me.
 Sep 2022 Shofi Ahmed
ryn
Dalliance
 Sep 2022 Shofi Ahmed
ryn
.

Nights don’t change…

Perhaps just the stories
they weave in infinites
from the fires of stars
and embers of hearts…

Or perhaps it’s the way
they were captured
and deciphered;
Reworded and retuned
to the song and dalliance
of the hand-wielded ink.
 Aug 2022 Shofi Ahmed
Molly
Prelude
 Aug 2022 Shofi Ahmed
Molly
It strikes, not with a gale,
but with a drizzle of cherry blossoms
and a flurry of gentle chords.
I used to read your poems
but lately you don't write
you're silent and aloof
you know that isn't right.
You can't close a door once opened
you can't abolish all your dreams
you're a poet of the heart
mustn't fall apart at the seams.
Say what you can in words
they speak the message true
spoken from the heart
the poems will see you through.
A hermit's not your style
a recluse, you are not
never give up writing
of things that you've been taught.
I used to read your poems
I'd read them once again
if you would send them out
(this one's from a poet friend)
 Jun 2022 Shofi Ahmed
Moe
Night rays
 Jun 2022 Shofi Ahmed
Moe
Night rays wants to touch deep.
It may not touch my heart,
but it burns on the skin just above the heart.  It’s only a matter of time now.

Sends a tingle down my spine
inches below the last bone.
Oh firefly. Don’t fly away.
Kiss the fire you stoked away.
 Jun 2022 Shofi Ahmed
Aishu
Dear heart,

Why is it that you
always seek the unknown?
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