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 May 2017 JL Davis
JP
True Love
 May 2017 JL Davis
JP
She left.....
am depressed for
few days
Then
I understood  
I have enough memory
of her
to live
rest of my life....
 May 2017 JL Davis
Nolan Davis
The tides have changed, they rise and fall,
Your ship is trapped inside the sea.
And although mayday is what you must call,
You hope it's answered by anyone but me.

This isn't your first time setting sail,
Holes remain in the bow from the past,
But where nature before would always fail,
The eye of the storm approaches fast.

Your crew has abandoned ship for shore,
Saving their necks as they watch you sink.
And instead of letting me help even the score,
You choose to drown holding the chain to link.

Red skies give sailors a double meaning,
A morning warning or night's delight.
But as your vessel begins careening,
Remember you chose to ignore the light.
 May 2017 JL Davis
Mark Bell
Dark dreams
Red streams
Black roses
Humans screams

Mothers fathers
Sons and daughters
Black roses
Human slaughter

Fallen seeds
Hearts bled
Black roses
Soil been fed
 May 2017 JL Davis
Ilene Bauer
Here’s to the mothers who sit there alone –
No flowers, no candy, no calls on the phone.
Here’s to the moms in a hospital bed
Who would rather be anyplace other instead.

Here’s to the soldier moms, hoping for smiles
On a screen or an I-phone, connecting the miles.
Here’s to the mamas locked up in a jail,
Convinced that their cards just got lost in the mail.

Here’s to all mothers and nanas and aunts
United today by just one circumstance –
They have shared in the life of a child in some way
And deserve recognition, somehow, on this day.
 May 2017 JL Davis
ARI
Uneven Ending
 May 2017 JL Davis
ARI
Those three little words
Like surgical wire
Sewing my heart to your shirt
As they waltzed from my lips.

When our backs turned
I was left the shredded remains
Of my once vibrant soul.
You were left a tattered shirt.

-ARI
 May 2017 JL Davis
JP
House wife
 May 2017 JL Davis
JP
Being surrounded
by
Energy saving devices
spread all over the kitchen
Now
Need of Energy wasting device
she took her mobile..
 May 2017 JL Davis
A Psalmist
It's been two weeks
He says it's felt longer
I ask how he's been
He says he didn't think it'd be this hard
I ask what's the hardest
He says putting the phone down
When he feels like calling Mom
Forgetting she's no longer around
To answer
Be thankful for your mother today, because there are so many who aren't celebrating mother's day for the first time.
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