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The river, muddy brown,
ran sluggish,
thuggishly,
full of menace on
the outskirts of the town.

The chemical factory was planted to be
the silent assassin,
passing,
without a sound in full sight
above the ground.

I wish like the fish, who are
no more
that the chemical plant
wore hobnailed boots.

Then we could have seen the danger.
 Feb 2015 Ren
Lisa Mendoza
Untitled
 Feb 2015 Ren
Lisa Mendoza
please.
only **** me
when i ask you to
so i wont need to ask

why
every time
you take my breath away
—L.m
 Jan 2015 Ren
thegirlwhowrites
I, a woman of letters, have been waiting for you, a man of numbers. I’ve been fantasizing of the day when you would deliver at the porch of my heart your algebraic equation. The x’s and y’s merged systematically with all the symbols, forming an indelibly inked pattern that would finally make sense. I have been waiting and hoping and praying, but all I’ve got so far are your invalid equations, the confusion, the uncertainties, the unsolvable mathematical sentence that I want so desperately unscrambled. How can you not, in your genius, find the right equation, even as I now try to draft a coherent verse?

for j.e.
*013115
 Jan 2015 Ren
Rowan Eyzaguirre
Before then I thought I had felt it all. I thought I had felt the hottest hate and the warmest love, the coldest loneliness and the smoothest sorrow. But in that moment I thought my blood would ignite. Every blood vessel in my body felt the instant pressure of rage, a burning heat of pain with the searing speed of betrayal I thought I could never handle.
Simultaneously my heart froze, my pump couldn't take getting pierced any deeper. So in the moment between a blink and the tear, ice entombed my heart. Making sure nothing would ever cut so deep again. Even the heated rage of my blood doesn't stand a chance to warm my soul in time for the spring melt.

-Rowan A. Eyzaguirre
 Jan 2015 Ren
Meenakshi Iyer
I tumbled down a hole,
and found a barren land
ridden in a mist,
so thick,
I can't see my stretched hand.

There is no sound,
but that of my wary feet
trying so hard to find steady ground
while I step over debris,
so jagged,
I can't stop my ankle from turning wrong

The sky looks pale,
almost uncaring,
like it too withstood too much,
and time lies stoic,
un-moving,
it seems to have lost its two hands.

I feel no presence
of a lingering soul
but only of doubt,
like a constant shadow,
that I'm in a demesne
of someone else's dream
that has been left
long forgotten
and I am, now,
to seek.
 Jan 2015 Ren
Devon Webb
Maybe
 Jan 2015 Ren
Devon Webb
******* for
turning out to be
nothing more than
two wasted months of
maybes.
 Jan 2015 Ren
Luna
the art of losing
 Jan 2015 Ren
Luna
they say people forget things
not because they wanted to
but because what they were supposed to remember
wasn't important to them in the first place

i guess this holds true
because it's not like you want
to forget something you have to remember

maybe one day i'll be unimportant too
just like the little things you were supposed to do for me
but forgot
because i suppose you had
more important things to attend to
i don't blame you

at first you will remember
then you will at the last moment
then you will strive hard to remember
after that, you won't even try at all
and then the next thing you know
you'll forget why you loved me
 Jan 2015 Ren
memineI
her
 Jan 2015 Ren
memineI
her
eyes written in metaphors could never
glow sparkle show a bit of her essence
you would have to see them

Her style in analogy is like trying to paint
the Mona Lisa with one brush
incomparable with any word

Yet I strive,  with every pen I have and every verb
to clarify how she is my life,
melting as I fail continuously.

Passion is all I can paint with brushes or description
limited to this earth.
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