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Zywa 1h
Urban renewal,

but the footway is the same --


as when I played there.
Novel "Onder de korenmaat" ("Under the bushel", 1991, Maarten 't Hart), chapter 20

Collection "The Note Tree"
You yelled,
You pointed fingers,
You slap boxed a computer screen.

You broke things that aren't yours,
You challenged Truth,
Now you're a memory,
Yet another 404.
If you let your anger burn hot as possible, you'll run out of candle.
Can a mailbox truly expire
or does it simply get archived?

Can a text really be deleted
or does it move to another folder?

Can I simply log off and shut down
or do I remain partially connected?

When I manage to restart
I hope I retain some memory.
I got the title from an email I received from the author John Scal;zi.  We're not friends, I just subscribe.  He was talking about a more physical mailbox I think.
Tobacco smoke
Old leather and wood
Cannabis leaves and fir trees
Forest dirt and communion wine
Wearing the perfume
Of this past of mine
If I should vanish, will you know?
Will echoes trace where I have been?
Or will the years, like melting snow,
erase the shape of what was seen?

A name dissolves upon the tongue,
a photograph turns pale with dust.
Once voices sang where silence hums,
once love was more than scattered rust.

The walls forget, the sky moves on,
the earth still spins without my name.
And though I whisper, hold me close,
I fear you’ll never do the same.
8. The Fear of Being Forgotten
raahii 5d
वो सर्द रातें , कड़कड़ाती ठण्ड,
वो धुंद का साया, और ओस मै जमे हम।
याद है अभी भी, जब तुम कसके हाथ पकड़ लेती थी
उन सुर्ख हाथों मै भी जान भर देती थी।
अब वो हाथ किसी और के हाथ मैं हैं
और ये सुर्ख हाथ, लाश सामान से हैं।
The cold winter nights once felt warm in your grasp,
But now, those hands hold someone else, leaving mine lifeless.
raahii 5d
अब सब कुछ धुंदला सा दिखता हैं मुझे ,
क्या ये मेरी आँखों पर पर्दा हैं , या उम्र का तकाज़ा हैं।
तेरा चेहरा फिर भी साफ़ दिखता हैं मुझे ,
ये मेरे मन का वहम हैं, या तेरी यादों का साया हैं।
कैसे कटता हैं मेरा दिन , ये सिर्फ मैं ही जानता हूँ ,
या खुदा ये कैसा हाल बनाया है।
Everything appears blurry, whether due to aging or destiny,
Yet your face remains vivid, lingering in my heart like an unshaken memory.
They spoke my name in tongues of dawn,
before the world was cast in hues—
before the red could kiss the rose,
before the sky first bruised to blue.

I was the shimmer ‘twixt the stars,
the breath between the night and morn,
a hush of light not seen nor mourned,
a ghost where spectrums are stillborn.

The prisms wept, but left me void—
a sigh unbent by mortal sight,
a whisper lost to time’s embrace,
unwoven from the loom of light.

Yet once, I danced on dreaming lids,
in eyes that dared to look beyond,
but now—I pale, unseen, unknown,
a phantom shade, a severed bond.

So tell me, when your colors fade,
when all grows dim, and light departs,
will you recall the one who lingers—
the color buried in your heart?
Jonathan Moya Feb 16
(after Richard Blanco)

I barely remember myself in the sway of these palms
Fifty years on I’ve lost the language of these breezes
along with almost all my childhood Spanish.
Good Morning, Buenas Dias
runs into Good Night, Buenas Noches.  
I can no longer live out the passion of my youth
without cancer intruding some melancholy lyrics.
On the good side—my poetry gets
the balance my present  can’t achieve.
The two are my loyal loves,
mournfully-joyously kissing my feet
as I stroll this shoreline and glance back
to see my footprints washed away in the tide line.
The salt air provides no salves— just stings,
forcing me to live with all my joyous regrets.  
All I’ve done right or wrong
lives with enough and not enough.
Who am I?  What should I do?
The always answer:
everything and nothing.
Nature Feb 16
Life with joy ,
Life with success,
Dreams in reality,
Dreams come true moments,
Fulfilled minds,
Fun-filled times,
Memories get replenished,
Memories that never forget,
But once pacemaker stops,
It's all done , nothing much again...
Human life: short but a lot

         One of main quality of human beings is that they create memories which are unforgettable in their as well as in others life...

Live life with happiness not hatred...
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