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  Aug 2023 Vi
Tita Halaman
Growing lines, stretching limbs
The eyes, I'll endlessly bury
The hands, I'll endlessly move
Flipping pages, sniffing phrases
I'll fold the skin, I'll bend the bones
For nowhere
But up
A poem for a painting
  Aug 2023 Vi
badwords
It comes and it goes
The ebb and the flow
Words like water
Moon mother, sun father
The cycle of days
A myriad of ways
To be alone
To atone
Words are like air
No promiscuous care
Suffocating quiet
Internal riot
Speech comes like earth
A child like birth
Doomed to die
The precipice of why
Language is fire
Motivation, desire
Burning the land
For what's not in hand
The elements convene
To what does it mean
An emotional dream
An altruistic scream
  Aug 2023 Vi
John Prophet
Layers.
Epochs.
Layers
of time.
Existence.
Sedimentary.
One
on top
of the
next.
Building,
evolving.
Inhabited
layers.
Cut off.
One from
the other.
Striations
of time.
Unique.
Locked in.
Inhabitants
confined.
Behave
as such.
Layer
after
layer.
Trapped
within.
Exist
as is.
Behave
as is.
Layer
defined.
Trapped
in time
and
space.
Vi Aug 2023
Sometimes,
it’s like the wind in the swaying trees is whispering
Singing
Howling:
You are loved
You are loved
You are loved
You are forgiven
You are loved
You are a part of us
You belong
You are the beloved child of the wild
Partly inspired by She Told Me the Earth Loves Us by Anne Haven McDonnell. Mostly inspired by the woods and the wind in Barre Massachusetts.
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