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  Jun 2021 SCHEDAR
Lori Jones McCaffery
I am darkness.
I wear the mask of sunny mornings
But dark shadows seep around the edges.

I am storm clouds.
I masquerade as blue sky days
But the cows out in the fields lay down.

I am a somber dirge
Though my speakers play a happy song
It’s always in a minor key.

I am tomorrow.
While I can’t untangle from today
I waft the scent of yesterday.
                     ljm
I have oberved that when it's about to rain in farm country, most of the milk cows out in the pasture lay down. I don't know why. They won't tell me.
SCHEDAR Jun 2021
Written from your heart
as if lyrics for a song
your kindness,
has strummed
me to sleep
since the day
I was born
Wishing all the dad's, a safe and healthy Father's s Day
  Jun 2021 SCHEDAR
Ryan Monroe
The feathery touch of brush to paper
Lets me forget your nagging whispers
The colors slide down and drip
Letting go of what I miss
The inky black and blood-red paint
Remind me why I ignore your shapes
You are the puzzle I’m refusing to solve
So like paint into water, I let you dissolve
  Jun 2021 SCHEDAR
Ryan Monroe
We mourn  
We cry
Try and mend
These lies
Our love, uncertain
Unstable
We waver
Were trapped
In this cycle
Disconsolate
We lose our grip
Our stories
Once told
Now crumble
As we unfold
Our secrets
And regrets
They haunt us
We can't forget
This pain
This torment
It breaks us
Till we’re nothing
But fragments
Left to burn
There is no cure
We just have to let
The pieces fall
And watch our mistakes
Bury us all
SCHEDAR Jun 2021
I used to think
it was our
destiny,
to walk on water
together

Nothin would bring us down

But it's been years
since we sank
below
ocean-spray's
spirited mist

I often
reflect upon our
love lost, like
the buried treasures
trapped in sunken ships

My desire to dig you up,
magically, have you again

Like the crashing waves
that break over
the sharp and rocky jetty

I break
💔
over the memory
of us
this one is so special to my heart,
I had to add one
small addition
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