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Seán Mac Falls Jun 2015
Without speech,
Former lovers meet,
At a party and are reintroduced
To themselves. In that mute
Moment, eyes carry words down
To hands that are unwishing,
Unmoved to join, yet touch
Haphazardly in the cacophony
Of dark party.  The former lovers
Lips are locked in air, unmoist,
Their hearts beat to the tuneless
Drone of old music and stale bread,
Their bodies fuddle in a tortuous groove,
At the reception they could not get out
Of attending.  In a split second, they pray,
It will be unquick, yet soon, just over.
Seán Mac Falls May 2016
Without speech,
Former lovers meet,
At a party and are reintroduced
To themselves. In that mute
Moment, eyes carry words down
To hands that are unwishing,
Unmoved to join, yet touch
Haphazardly in the cacophony
Of dark party.  The former lovers
Lips are locked in air, unmoist,
Their hearts beat to the tuneless
Drone of old music and stale bread,
Their bodies fuddle in a tortuous groove,
At the reception they could not get out
Of attending.  In a split second, they pray,
It will be unquick, yet soon, just over.
Seán Mac Falls Dec 2015
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Without speech,
Former lovers meet,
At a party and are reintroduced
To themselves. In that mute
Moment, eyes carry words down
To hands that are unwishing,
Unmoved to join, yet touch
Haphazardly in the cacophony
Of dark party.  The former lovers
Lips are locked in air, unmoist,
Their hearts beat to the tuneless
Drone of old music and stale bread,
Their bodies fuddle in a tortuous groove,
At the reception they could not get out
Of attending.  In a split second, they pray,
It will be unquick, yet soon, just over.
Joel Elizondo Jun 2015
Unmoist is his tongue.
          Sahara, Sahara, do you recall the things he's done?
          Thy will testitamate of all the wrong songs sung.
           Blind fun; unknowingly following the fallen one.
             Feet bare, sand underneath exposed to the heat.
                      The vultures circle, closer they creep.
                They see only what you choose to be...flesh.
                          -They will pick you like the rest-
                 Know you shrivel by choice, free is your will.
          Why must you stand still, afraid to climb the sand hill?
        Nonexistent mirages in the distance calling in persistence, offering guiltless luxuries; or so they say.
      Be blind or open your eyes, look up, where the king of kings     resides.
     The sun is at its highest, where no shadow can hide. No they  don't dare try, for his father also stands beside.
                              Shining truth on their lies.
Hiraeth Jul 2018
Door slam wakeup;
A half-sighing unmoist
Philadelphia sinus sniff
Announces a guy in a red,
White and blue seersucker
Suit who parks on our block
Every 6 a.m. to walk to work.
He likes a dumb bumper joke
— his magnet loop which says
Support Lap Dancing. New today
Is a gag half hockey puck glued
To his Ford 150 rear window
Amid a decal of spiderwork
Cracks radiating across the
Shadowy defroster strips
As if the puck's halfway
Through the glass —
But isn't.
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