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Zywa Sep 2024
Is a general

thirsty for blood like plants are --


thirsty for water?
Play "The Three Arrows" (1972, Iris Murdoch), Act One, scene Two

Collection "Unspoken"
JOY Aug 2024
She just wanted to lead a happy life
A nice small house and a family
But there is something that tells me
She is never gonna get her way
Maybe that's why she is getting angry
Fury increased with each passing day

With three sick kids in the hand
A cheating husband
People will soon talk
Now she minds it
But he is the man
he is always doing what he want
And the woman is just here
For them to blame her


How could you be so so clueless
So careless in your own clothes
You should have paid more
attention to your state
Maybe then he won't cheat
And the kids will be alright
One day
And the people will stop looking
at you at this way
Cause the women are just here
For them to blame her
Maybe if she paid more attention
to her state
The trees will grow
Nature will heal
The volcanos will not erupt
And this weather will be clear

Just maybe if she paid more attention
to her state
After all, this is an old wives' tale
Women are reasonable for everything
Gaurav Gurung Aug 2024
Dubert, Dubert! I call, behind a closed door,
To no response- I kick it wide open only to look at his fading self,
His silence spoke of burdens, his eyes grim as hell,
A rope tied to his neck, a stool on his floor
Long was he gone, all he left for the world was his tale,

It begins with,
“Oh, it’s a boy! A future bearer of the crown,”
Hell-bound with responsibilities,
Always happy, was met with frowns,
They warned, “If you don’t work, you’re a ghost,”
Societal shadows cast by those who judge the most.

"Men ****, they cannot be *****,"
"Men ****, they cannot be killed,"
"Men are ruthless, men are cruel,"
"Men steal, men break every rule."

"You're so fat, a bus won't fit you,"
"You're so thin, a breeze will blow you,"
"You're so short, the park's your place,"
"Look like an ape, the zoo's your grace."

Kindness finds no soil to root,
In this graveyard world where empathy is mute.
A graveyard of love, a desert of care,
To find warmth in this chill; quite rare

Dubert, Dubert I cry, the silence now profound,
His unspoken words and my sobs, the only sound,
Waning stream of his sorrow, eyes fixed on a fading reality
In his clutches, a note, perhaps his final plea:

"I was framed, I swear it wasn't me,"
I held on to the truth even though none could see
and even if they knew, they'd let it be.
If Chronos were by my side, time I'd wish to borrow,
Sadly, I breathe my last- I'm happy I won't see tomorrow.

Dubert swore it wasn't him,
Yet they blamed and killed him,
He professed truth, he retaliated with facts
In the end, he was smothered with the same hands that fed him.

With failing faith in God, he climbed the chair,
Truth in his eyes, fear in his heart, betrayed by his "Dear"
His last words-
"Oh! Cruel world, may you release me,
Oh! Merciless God, in darkness, liberate me."

Dubert was no more, a life unjustly taken,
Dubert was no more, a soul forever forsaken.
Men's Mental Health is very important and not to be neglected, I present to you my poem! To anyone reading this (even if a female), just so you know, I love you You're never less, You're loved! We all have our gloomy days but remember that after a storm, rainbows are formed! Stay happy.
Shawn M Pilgrim Aug 2024
The sacrifices of boys and men
Their own devices of joys and sin
The costly prices of ploys to win
The lonely crisis that destroys within
i witnessed it traverse across and rip the sky open
in one big swoop

like my zipper when i
**** on the curb

careless

maybe if i cared less
it wouldn’t have affected me

this meteorite of reality

crushing all i have

i am nothing
for i am to them only
what i provide and prove
nothing more

give
give
give

silently stars cry
as we all enjoy and benefit
from the glimmer and light dance
as we all look away
while they dwarf into voids

there is a man
somewhere
in some corner of some bookstore
or bar or apartment building
filling his lungs and soul
with tar
while he wishes it was
the world
which he could watch
burn

instead of himself

and as he’s practically forced to pick a side
and pick another pick me girl
another job application
a college major
a plethora of healthy habits
yet still amongst so many
and so many choices
he sits alone

what brings despair is cheered upon
what he accomplishes is
stomped
like a bug
burned to dust
at mach speeds

the same curb he ****** on

graffiti on the wall behind it

it says
“live
love
laugh”

he
definitely
laughs

has he brought this
ying and yang of life
upon himself?

why does it all seem just bad
sometimes?

why is the joy and genuineness of people
so fleeting?

why is it ninety nine percent
utter *******
and the rest just
dark matter?

only sometimes
fluctuating into a
big bang
of the real
version of us

he tries to live
he tries to love

is there really a
*******
difference?

doesn’t one just **** you
quicker than the other?

or at least feels like it?

i’d rather laugh

i’ll just face the mirror
face them all
face all of it

and just
*******

laugh

it’s all
comedy
anyways

just let
me
****
and
laugh
in

peace
and

in
  pieces

now that
is what
i call
a genuine
choice

and i call it one
as i call my own
horrible hypocrisy

it’s the only

*******

  choice

left
tell the men in your life
that you love them

and prove it
Zywa May 2024
Manly love happens

to be action, it comes down --


to fighting dangers.
Novel "Shalimar the Clown" (2005, Salman Rushdie), chapter Shalimar the Clown, § 2

Collection "Low gear"
Viktoriia May 2024
he doesn't even realise it yet,
but holding her is but a momentary bliss
and being abandoned by her is torture.
despite already being caught in it,
he doesn't see the intricately spun web
or perhaps he doesn't mind it at all,
hanging by the thread of a a fleeting kiss.
she's fire and fury, barely contained,
a hurricane, disobeying the nature's orders,
an impossibility, endlessly defying itself,
and he doesn't even realise it yet,
but he's always been hers.
Zywa Mar 2024
Behind her: a man,

his head perched on her shoulder --


like a frightful hawk.
Novel "Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights" (which is 1001 nights, 2015, Salman Rushdie), chapter 2 "Mr Geronimo"

Collection "Low gear"
the brevity of a singular breath,
one that is full of peace,
such a rare glimpse but
if you look at his face, at the right time,
you might just see him smile.

then, much like an old spruce cello,
descending in suspense,
that smile  -evaporates-, and the
quick "bliss" is no more.

oh how old and wise is this cello i play,
if only it was genuinely surprised by the
intensity of such
-hair raising horror-
it faces in its composure, daily.

"but it simply ain't",
as Bukowski would drunkenly say,
and his quivering cigarette would rightfully echo
through the halls of this unholy Cathedral.  

"put me the **** down already, Charles", it echoes.

"no,
i refuse
to let go of my
identity...

...why would i let go of all

-i feel-

is left?"

he (i) is either a man,
or on the road to understanding
what this even means really...

...maybe he's halfway there...

regardless, he now understands,
he must accept
"reasons" to smile won't come often,
and one is subject to the tug of war of life,
of society,
of women,
of his children,
of his forgetful mother,
of his vices,
his hair raising horrors,
the torment,
of his absent father.

to continue is to face those suspenseful

-crescendos-

of life, with
"a ******* smile on your face",
as Bukowski would say,

no matter
-what-
he's been through, or
-how-
-deeply-
he
-feels-

...

-melancholicreator
transferred and added on from paper on a very tough night that required lots of crying to get anywhere creatively, reflects my current struggles/state of mind.

enjoy.
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