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I had an idea
  Of what to write
                          say
                        recor­d
But got lost
like a rabbit who took
the wrong turn at Albuquerque—
and so I’m lost for words,
but here I am.
Notes
lisagrace Jul 21
I promise you,
Doom and gloom
Isn't all my poetry brings
I just have so much to say -
So let me sing!
I know they're long,
Mayhaps laborious
I like to use big words
Like noctilucence
But give them a read,
If you please
I'm no tease
My poems -
You just need to
Let them breathe
.....
🍒          
Pretty please?
The Truth Be told
there is No
Mystery,
in the sight of the
fact of dealing with
Misery,
It comes and
goes as it please,
Trying to become
your company,
Just tell it
to take a hike,
hit the door,
go away and just flee,
I will not be stressing,
and you can't
have of hold in me,
Why don't you go bug,
sadness, and anxiety!!!
If you so please!!!!


B.R.
DATE: 7/20/2025
silvervi Jul 21
This poem
I want it to show me the way
These days, how can I nurture my love more?

What kind of a poem would truly help me?
How can I be helpful to others, too?
I choose my words pretty carefully.

Should I write about life?
Should I be avoiding strife, and holding on and feeling off?
But it all belongs here, I can't make it disappear...

Feeling stuck and trying to move,
Listening to one's heart's groove,
Hoping for an answer in the distance...

A white boat sailing towards the sun,
Those last seconds before it disappears
In the ocean, or the sea...

Darkness comes and the red goes away,
We experience change anyway.
Nurturing my soul by giving hope to others,

Writing from the heart, late at night in bed.
Instead of healthily falling asleep,
My mind was searching for a place to take the leap,

To express concerns and worries to me,
To make me want to let go genuinely,
But I ever slow begin to understand,

What it means when I don't need to pretend.
I don't know how I would handle that...
July 2nd 2025
Joel K Jul 19
Down                                      Down
 To our feet; we wear the same clothes.
Left.
Right
We are not puppets—
Neither of us a clone.
Born with mask’s on our face—
able to communicate a story.
A Joker—the both of us.
One or the either.
Buttoned together so tell us apart.
    Up.                                 Up.
Read the lines, up to down.
This is just solely experimental so it is meant to be short and playful. The “Up” and “Down” is meant to persuade the reader into re-reading the poem again.
These twins are Jokers lol.
The Wicca Man Jul 19
No matter how hard I try
I cannot put what I really feel
down on paper.

You’d think that
something no one will ever read
(probably even me)
would allow free reign
to say what is really going on
inside my mind …

These thoughts and feelings,
my truths,
are there,
sometimes quiet, passive, dull.
Other times,
a maelstrom;
of anxiety,
of anger,
of regret,
of shame,
of loss.

And yet,
as I sit with my pen poised to write down my truths,
I am held back from writing what I need to say
and my words on the page
are empty,
meaningless,
passive,
dull.

And every day I vow to myself,
‘This will be the day I write down my truths.’

But not today -
maybe it will happen tomorrow,
or the next day,
or the next …
Zywa Jul 19
Mother can continue to see me
as a daughter, but my brother
and my husband must want
to know me as I am

I need that
even if it's not true
because my fruitless striving
keeps me alive nonetheless

Walking and writing
in notebooks and letters
explanations of who I am

Book after book to refute
and to replace what they like
to think about me, to break
it down and nuance it

Word by word weighed
and considered and rejected
now for sale to strangers -
my kind, if they dare to be so
Autobiographical books by Frida Vogels, initially written for her brother and her husband

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Jul 19
Isn't it a spoiled life:

picking flowers on the edge --


of the precipice?
Autobiography "In den vreemde - Kronieken" ("In foreign parts - Chronicles", 2024, Frida Vogels), chapter 'Brief aan Ayaan Hirsi Ali' ('Letter to Ayaan Hirsi Ali' - End of 2006, Amsterdam

Collection "Trench Walking"
Zywa Jul 19
Why write down my life

accurately when I am --


mostly just writing?
Autobiographical account "De harde kern" - 2 ("The *******" - 2, 1993, Frida Vogels) - Summer 1981, San Severo

Collection "Trench Walking"
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