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 Jan 5 Ian
Emma
Red poppies bow low,

heads bending in whispered pact,

soldiers in still ranks,

bleeding upon the soft earth,

awaiting the wind’s command—

battlefields of fleeting bloom.
 Dec 2024 Ian
Sia Harms
stage props
 Dec 2024 Ian
Sia Harms
Did the mouths open wide,
Leaving lasting screeches
Into the bullet-swept air—
Birds singing sorrowfully
On their breaking perch?
Or were their lips pinched
Closed, knowing their loved
Ones were too far to hear
Them call? So many bodies,
Silent, as if they were set
There like stage props.
Wet with pain, you paint
Aborted passion scars your heart
Scaled like a fish, you're torn
From the sea of life, to die on foreign land
The planet breathes through you
Scars of pain are hard to relieve. Until you revisit the time of your pain and boldly attack it with recovery, you won't be free from painful past. Painful scars are best solved than hidden
On steep plains, it fades like weight
Compressed beneath crowdy privilege
Plank-wood biscuits crumble, fettered for ants
Dusty fingers bury colors, vibrant life

But the crowdy privileged glance through
The compressed, like a stolen breath of rest
Oblivious to the struggles, the weight
Of poverty's crushing, suffocating fate.

© Mikelson
For those living in the subharan part of Africa or African continent at large. Poverty is a common disease, disease of the mind and soul and sometimes, brain becomes a dead man living
 Dec 2024 Ian
Mari Chubinidze
Lorca
 Dec 2024 Ian
Mari Chubinidze
On the lemons, on those very trees Lorca wrote about,
A great genius.
I can feel the vivid image he brought to life in his words,
Hear the sound of the guitar,
Understand his state before death,
Before the execution.
Granada’s sun shines because of you.
 Dec 2024 Ian
Emma
Rough sea
 Dec 2024 Ian
Emma
Oh, if I could command the waves,

Bid them hush, their wild tongues stilled,

I would pave a tranquil path, a mirror of longing, for your return.
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