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 Oct 2019 Zaza
Carlo C Gomez
I.
She waits in the shade
Of a best-loved oak,
Where he once carved their names inside a heart:
"This means forever."

II.
The heart needs tending
--she visits from year-to-year.
Her security, a vow.
His constraint, a contract.
She made to open the door but he detained her,
A perjury.
Pruning stems, branching
--cognitively speaking--
Dead or alive.

III.
The landscape has changed:
This place no longer holds water.
Listen now for love's addendum,
Measured in the signal-to-noise ratio.
(You'll hear it all the time).

IV.
Oh, painfully leafless gray meadow.
Sufferance is a viable timekeeper,
When it storms the weak run for shelter.
 Apr 2019 Zaza
Edmund black
Sometimes I just want to disappear
And live inside my head
Because in my head, the world is so much more beautiful....
But life of a poet is kinda like, the life of an alcoholic. Because
No matter how hard you try to stay away from writing  or reading .... You just can’t get enough!
 Apr 2019 Zaza
stephanie burrows
We fall in love,
Only to learn how to
Let go.

— The End —