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Ken Pepiton Jul 2021
there is a gleam, across the valley, a reflection,
I am sure,
a man made surface shiny,
I am sure,
no natural gleam of mica or diamond
blinks and flashes
as if
signaling to me, see, see me, reflect the sun,
seeming so
a sign
a significance I must grant synchronisity,
or ,
thought, what might
this shining thing be?

It is far from me and anchored, I see,
flash,
then flashy flashflash, light of sun,
fractaled -tole painted -fatal tell
light strokes on the future seen as this again,
once
more, the curiosity, was ist das?

A little mirror insisting, see, there see,
there is the sun,
topping the hill behind you, where you are
blind,
where I lack the power to signal a flash back,
for I sit watching,
in the morning shade,
yellow birds and blue, doing what birds do,
orioles and scrub jays,

magpie eyes in me, see that gleam again,
and laugh, I know,
what that is
signaling to me, see, see me, reflect the sun,
seeming so
a sign
of the times, for my report,

- Watch man, what of the morning?

I see a happy birthday balloon,
hung on a wire,

by a wind with a knot function,
naturally anchoring
webs, and threads, and strings and mylar shreds,
dancing from power lines
feeding juice to the drip system
in George's vineyard.
_ all day, all night... but --- lets take a hike, and pick up litter a little, as we make our way.
Andrew Jul 2021
They bought a house -
I hope they live there awhile,

perhaps till they're old

and someday,
when that driveway is cracked
and the door needs fixing,
they can look out and say

I know I lived a good life
Steve Page Jul 2021
Have you ever tried to tell the time?

I mean really tell it?
Tell it what you think of it –
where you wish it would stick
its incremental ticking,
its incessant tocking
its perpetual passing?

Have you ever told it to just STOP!

To get out of your face
To give you some space
or at least to try and relax and shorten its pace?

Well, I DID.

I told it to pick a side!
I told it to stand aside,
or we’d have to take this outside.

It didn’t make a nano of a difference.

I still have to sit and watch my own personal doomsday clock
I still can’t get my body clock to slow or stop.
I still have to go to my blasted birthday party
to celebrate a tick closer
to that last
tock.

(sigh)
Many Happy no-returns.
I missed heard that first line and there was no stopping me.
Raven Feels Jul 2021
DEAR PENPAL PEOPLE, to be rich is to notice the fair from the unfair:)

get well soon only
when hope not a lie lonely
hospital cell
unavailable played dead and fell
nothing in sequence
all hung on the adequacy
paper said
from future penholder skies unread
the green one too
to the land a stranger soon

what you earn is what you keep
don't count just drown in oblivious sleep
wallets light
rage blinds visible sights
the poor scream
the rich gleam
like an invisible ink flood
evaporation in the air a silenced blood
chocolate missed the ecstasy
everything shut down to reality

bones shrunk
never unnoticed to the think thunk
now things are pale
even the best bread is stale
how I remain
all calm in shameful disdain???
needs become old
whether blazing summer or winter ******* cold
and in my broken chair I be
the pathetic dreamy version of old me


                                                                                       ------ravenfeels
old willow Jul 2021
Skipping stones along spring river,
One, two, three — finally touching lone pavilion.
Beneath my feet lie petite sprinkle of flowers.
Clear willow branch brushing against my shoulder,
the clouds shriek, heaven downpour, earth sorrow,
man can no longer borrow.
Our wine-cup has long grown old,
promise has long been sold.
On my last breath,
I skip these stones, where our promise last postponed.
Mark Wanless Jul 2021
old story's replaced
by the new wisdom not lost
wisdom slowly gained
Zafirah Jun 2021
𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚙𝚊, 𝚢𝚘𝚞’𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚞𝚙 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝙱𝚎𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚜, 𝙸 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚕.
𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚜, 𝙸 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚖𝚞𝚐𝚐𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚏𝚎𝚕𝚝 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚠, 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝙸 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕?
𝚆𝚑𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚕?
𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚓𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚜, 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚗 𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝚜𝚘 𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚕!

𝙼𝚢 𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛-𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚙𝚊.
𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚎.
𝚆𝚑𝚢 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗’𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚖𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚞𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚕 a͟l͟o͟n͟e͟?
Just missing my grandpa. I wish he was with me so I could hold his hand. But I’m so far away...
Raven Feels Jun 2021
DEAR PENPAL PEOPLE, change an expensive new page:|


the supposed
dealt a past to show
regret heat like ice
proved again the mad world diced
legs pretentious
hands luxurious
change
an expensive new page
even but odd
white with a black dot
not the same
memories different taste
stairs dusted with gold
prefer the dilapidates of the old
heights skied thrown
made me short in ago
no track of trees
for their people not the kid in me
graffiti walls misshaded my colors in vain
ached to the smell of the comforting plain
lost myself in nature
miss the nature in me a wild flavor
green lawn muffled cries
laughter of strangers away lies
travel in time
but the clock not mine
night memories flood in veins and dive
painted stars up---the daylight dims and hides
wish a come back to the undone feels
awoke four years in no permission in steal
answers disconnected
fought confusion and blended
hearts alone in the dark to pay
maybe awaiting the longed stark on that Saturday
  


                                                                      ------ravenfeels
AE Jun 2021
Honey drops in to the Milky Way inside your tea cup
We sit chatting for old times sake
Friends of distance and enemies of uncertainty
I hope you’ve paved your road on those maps
That you pinned onto your walls
I hope the sun didn’t chase you away
I hope the foreign thunder stole your heart
And you found reflections of a beautiful past
I had written the night before
Inked into letters from the moon

From across the ocean, I waited for your postcards
Yet we sit here, with our thoughts
dancing in the silence between us
Your spoon makes ripples in your tea,
I dream to see the world you’ve seen,

You reminisce and I travel with your memories
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