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Zywa May 2023
One two, up we go!

Together we do pippop --


perthepop, hooray!
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (1968, Paul McCartney, The Beatles)

For Ineke's 2022 birthday

Collection "The drama"
Alio May 2023
When I close my eyes I feel the air of one warm summer night
When you and I were closer than before
When the sea met the mountains with no desert in between
And we danced in the thick ocean breeze without care.
No one was there to see us blossom and flower
And it was beautiful that way
Because the bees hummed in harmony
And the sand hugged our bare feet
And the fire’s light licked your face
Casting the most magnificent moving shadows

And you and I were basking in our prison of solitude
Like the birds that tangoed overhead
But calming clouds above can be deceiving
And floating pillows turned to billows of rain
And thunder ripped us apart
It shook our houses and roared in our ears
And its lightning charred us
till our flesh seared to bone
Fire and brimstone and the end of the world.

And I never saw you again…
Zywa Apr 2023
It's a social game:

he looks at her, insecure --


so she looks at me.
Novel "Ik ben er niet" ("I'm not there", 2020, Lize Spit), page 146

Collection "Shelter"
Zywa Mar 2023
I don't know how much

longer, but now, I'm with you --


now, I laugh with you.
Fro Maria Godschalk

Collection "Ifless"
Anais Vionet Mar 2023
The wheel of fortune has spun our way,
we’re on Spring-break for 8 more days!

The transition to leisure was as smooth as oil,
without classes, he’s just a guy and I’m his girl.

For three weeks we’ll have had the suite to ourselves,
it has all the amenities, it’s like a hotel.

We’ve never been together, alone, for so long before,
it’s so deliciously heterodox, it’s like a reward.

Peter (my BF) observed, “This will be a reality check.”
Yeah, he’s a hopeless romantic.
“Sorry sir,” I said, “It's my policy not to cash reality checks.”
BLT Marriam Webster word of the day challenge: heterodox: contrary to to the norm

Recommended song: ‘Pancakes for dinner’ by Lizzy McAlpine
Buddy T Feb 2023
i wish it was night a little longer
i want to moon to hold me a little more fonder
hop in my car and grab my keys
as we ride away from the east
running away from the rising sun
but our push back will soon be undone
a blazing fire soon forthcoming
hold me tight so i forget my ears are drumming
the world around us is set ablaze
stuck together in this sweltering maze
finally we have reached total apocalypse
but before we go, ******* a kiss
running away from... something?
snipes Jan 2023
if the sky falls
can we catch it

  if the water waves
  can we crash it
  
    if the sunrises
    can we chase it

      if the wind calls
      can we take it
the world as us
is a world of
love and lust
only two dancers
remain standing
shuffling
   and swaying
under syncopated lights
held by
an unspoken law
an apparently unavoidable
trait of human nature
that forces them
to continue despite
such terrible choices
of song
and persistence
each was merely
a "friend
   of the bride"
moving in different circles
prior to this
their dancefloor meeting
unfortunately
neither can now
abandon the other
to dance alone
to risk being seen
as the cause
for bringing this
near-sacred ritual
to an end
these residual bodies
left with no choice
but to mirror
each movement
match every sidestep
echo every clap
with rhythm
   or without
it will not matter
so long as this
transient solidarity
of misplaced confidence
and forced smiles
continues into
the next song
Amanda Kay Burke Dec 2022
We're riding bikes on this trip known as life

In midnight hours

Facing wind with a hefty amount of risk mixed with intoxication adorning my head with an imaginary crown in place of where nonexistent helmet should be

Drunk not on alcohol
Instead from the countless tears formed by self-hatred
Soul-boiling
Hot liquid bubbling over edges of my eyelids

I hope we find our way
We travel without light guiding our direction
Two insignificant nomads blindly navigating this vast existential void
Attempting to reach sort of adequate destination before time reaches us
Held together by fingers and an invisible magnetism more powerful than the unknown forces pulling and prodding around us at all angles
And led forward by our hearts
I miss my partner in crime
Zywa Nov 2022
Come and sit with us,

just take that chair over there --


standing all alone.
"Idag är hela himmelen grå" ("Today the whole sky is grey", 2009, Jila Mossaed)

Collection "Em Brace"
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