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"My God, I think, how are you healing me with only a smile?"
My heart breaks in the most beautiful way because you speak a thousand kind words, with only your smile....

-Rhia Clay
This piece is more free verse, reflecting on how the kindness of others can be incredibly healing. Kindness has the power to heal years of wounds without the need for a single word.
CE Uptain Jul 16
Dark
Night
Stars
Eyes
Love
5 words can say a lot.
The start of anything new
often goes askew
in at least a way or two,
but don’t worry,
just be you,
and don’t write a lie
or try to pry
the words in the slightest.
They always know the best.
I write until something clicks. If it doesn’t click, I’m out of luck. If it feels true and just flows, that’s what I keep. It’ll come out in the shape it’s meant to be in—even it’s all over the page. Written in July 2025
neth jones Jul 11
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what devils can i get away with in words ?
like arranging mercury slinks              
to make a true thing    unbloated and blue
an honest note of mood
or  instead  floated finks of corpse              
vicious old swears                                
  with nasty rash of discrimination
hold still   it ain't pretty but              
         i can capture this picture
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[original - approx 06/25 what devils can i get away with in words /like arranging mercury slinks/to make a true thing   unbloated and blue/hold still   i capture a picture/art you a fixture ?  get out the glue]
Lostling Jul 7
Measure every word,
Every use of punctuation,
Every emoticon and emoji
Down to the smallest gram

Think twice. No--
Thirteen times,
Before opening your mouth.
And dont talk too much or you're self centred

Check every message, comment.
Nothing too harsh
Nothing insensitive
Nothing that might scare them away
Or tarnish their view of you

Write
Delete
And rewrite
Then quickly send before you chicken out
I love chatting and interacting with you guys but sometimes I overthink
Rain Jul 7
I long to write beautiful words,
That convey love and things like birds.
Poetry inspired by life,
Stories and tales of overcoming strife.

Instead, the words flow from darkness,
Metaphors oozing harshness.
Words inspired by pain and death.
Conveying my struggles through every shallow breath.

Songs and ballads about glowing angels,
Not demons and monsters portraying dangers.
Hopefully, one day flowers will start to sprout,
From the dying fire, I only knew about.

Words of life and glittering hope,
Emerging from darkness, my blindness will grow.
Music of old heartbreak transforming slowly,
Echoing through my paper and healing mellowly.
Ken Pepiton Jul 5
Life is smarter than **** Sapiens.
I bet.
All in, autotelic influency swirly moves, turmoil

shaking up the royal authorities holding title deed,

granted by God, they all swear, by law, God makes kings,
using priestly authority passed on since Peter, most assuredly.

Middle minds, ones on no one's side, unbiased, unbent, just
good for goodness sakes, granted grace
to bet right work's sake artfully
aspires to spiritually weighted
familiarity, inspiring
sleight smiles.

Attention concentration, centering
formerly completely incoherent points

right where your most valuable focus
aims assisting imaginary morality

x change from gold apples
in silver settings,
for fitly spoken
words… re, re means do over, right,
rethink re-al re-adjured

"to put (someone) to an oath,"
from ad "to" + iurare "swear,"

init run… nutec new tech old ideas
classic
kings and priest responsibilities,

NPCs at the
edge o'they Barco Loungers,
pre thinking the turns in the car chase,

believing that Mustang did that landing,
boy o boy, gotta wanna have that power,
best Ford ever, until those 68 Torinos
428 Cobra Jet V-8s, those were no ponys,

those were stallions, and I put a hole in one,
just was not looking, on a run to the hospital,

with Plastic Nancy, who came with Brian, who
lived in Flushing and knew Bill Levy with me, we

who went on to grand adventures against evil, we
defeated, laughing
to our selves, Arthur Lee wrote the score,
Love,
it was adventure,
of the highest sort,
out of conscience calmly settled,
at life's edge, Life's Stigian Phrygian shore,

south of Bullhead, east of Needles, Arizona side
of Riverbend, where it all went south, that was 1966,

unrelated to all of this,
this is b-roll… just in case,

never can tells just so happen, to be so easily told.

To have and to hold as if the one holds the other,
it could just be, we got old, and we remembered how.


It was likely all thought out,
ahead of time, before we thought, we ought to plan
on living to the end, until we think we must be dead,
to be ready
and, having planned so far ahead,
we had these extra days added on, by chance,
once, we died, near a team of trained resurrectors,

lo', imagine me, Socrates, looking Plato in the eye,
and laughing, so we classically consider, from a noble,

never slave race, as were the Pharisees, or so they said,
reportedly, we are seed of Abraham, never were we slaves,

as a whole, no doubt, the whole enterprise, the spoken vows,
the solemn oathes, the claiming of redeemer's right, mine,

my shoes are off
to the games designer, the shame is ingenius,
my greeting, Phi, del, I test, Phidelitus, first token
of our cognition,

see, high holy richer than Midas, maker
of fissionable material
actively radiating a future
with energy for every little thing you do,
Love it
and Leave it, American's, citizens born,
to mediate metamorphosis,

who's using your liberty to conserve whose fortune?
Lucky me, cashing in all the unredeemed time spent
touring the M&M stores at all Disney destination ports.

]]Album in the back ground, Love, Forever Changes [[
Music and lyrics by Arthur Lee.
A call and a raise,  one reader in seven days, that's enough...
I hide in words — tucking under their shade;
Dressing letters up with sequins and baubles.
Now showering in limelit obfuscation.
Makes it seem as if I am really there:

Dressing letters up with sequins and baubles
Blinding myself in the flashing of their colours;
Makes it seem as if I am really there
Amidst flowered touchless abstraction.

I blind myself in the flashing of their colours.
Submerged in repetition, my thumb drowns
Amidst flowered touchless abstraction,
Swirling in whirlpool ******* me underneath:

Submerged in repetition, my thumb drowns
Now showering in limelit obfuscation,
Swirling in whirlpool ******* me underneath.
I hide in words — tucking under their shade.
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