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Elena M 5d
they say a poet
cannot fall in love
with their own poems
forever,
but it’s no wonder, my love,
that my heart plays
on piano keys,
without white-filtered films,
with your voice only at the end,
I pretend to be a series
without you.

I am not your lover,
you are not mine,
yet what is it with us
that makes the ground tremble
in the absence of us,
in the shattered eclipse
of your brown eyes?
Sometimes I let my poems breathe through “his” voice too, not only “hers”
Elena M 5d
Poetry isn’t something you smoke in secret.
It isn’t a drama struck on the tip of a match.
It is nothing at all
once the heart stops beating.

You don’t get to read me
as if you already know.
Not with that softened gaze,
not with lungs left hollow.

Poetry isn’t smoked—
yet somehow
you inhale it endlessly,
left with dizziness spun from metaphor,
with whirlwinds of silence
that burn,
or else
ache
quietly.
The rusty lock on each heart-petal swung unusually, as if everyone now carried several keys, digital padlocks, with them on purpose, because they can never give the vile current of unpredictable fate what it deserves. They prove unable to swallow and spit out compromising, redeemable dreams and desires. Life only passes by, almost endlessly, because perhaps we all lived and existed a little with cowardice. A discarded, neglected fragment of memory drifts by in vain, the spoken "I love you!" that led to the fatal breakup before the wedding.

No one can figure it out, perhaps they haven't wanted to for a long time, what could have gone wrong in a sacred relationship that was nicknamed lasting, spiced with everything, promising immortality?! There have always been and will always be answers, the simple excess weight of forced steps keeps pulling back its leaden limbs.

After all, it is impossible to stoop to the point of questioning the now happy wife, who gave birth to three children at once, with an open judge-prosecutor confession, as if she could have discharged her social obligation at the same time. There is no need to wait for mousetrap confessions; the stoic indifference builds a mandatory defensive wall out of compromises, with which everyone tries to keep everyone away from themselves first and foremost, so that no one can be treated with dignity even by chance. to question.

There is nothing to take back from the sluggish yield of compromises that seek to belittle, nor to repent with sincerity. Because everyone is now a coward and doubly unfaithful in one person. Even the one who once truly loved takes on the yoke of vulnerability!
What can I say?
I’ve been in love with a girl since I met her,
But it will always be, one-sided.

That’s just life I suppose,
I can’t, nor would I change her.
For I fell in love with the her, that isn’t capable of falling for me.
I get anxious,
Don't we all?
I act so unsuspicious,
I'll try and pretend its just a quick fall

Suddenly I see it right in front of me
Will it set me free?
Only one way to find out
Lets hope I don't knockout

Once is an accident
Its just an incident
Twice and the scar forms
No reforms

I feel the slice
Its like I'm rolling the dice
I see the blood drip
Lets hope I don't trip

I'll wear a sweater to hide this "mistake"
I can't let anyone see me break
Elena M 6d
I frown.
how many lives do I need
to count my poems
from a suitcase
without losing track
and giving up?
Elena M 6d
Beloved…
haven’t you learned by now?
my poems don’t know how to run—
how to heal.
they only know how to stay
in a corner of a drawer,
making noise
when I want silence,
and whispering
“why?”
irinia 6d
a woman's passion is a fiction of the sun
a radiance that forms and lingers
it's time burning like a rag in a guttering flame
it flickers, it spits a storm, a moment's certainty
a lifetime's doubt
it is the whisper of the wind in barren trees
a crucible for gravity's fervor
a silence dreaming its imploded sounds
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