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 Jul 2014 Zuffy
Court
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 Jul 2014 Zuffy
Court
...
Why do I feel like a stranger in my own home?
Isn't "home" supposed to be the place where you feel free?
Instead all I get are condescending glaces and remarks that make me want to curl up into a ball.
I've been avoiding all mirrors.
How could I see myself as beautiful when the only people who were supposed to love me wouldn't care if my body went up into flames.?
This is my home...but I feel so alone.
 Jul 2014 Zuffy
Martin Prado
Dawn
 Jul 2014 Zuffy
Martin Prado
Here, In the brightening forest,
only the fleeting stars can see me

The newborn air I breathe
bathes me in safety and I

Bloom, forget, and
ebb into meditation.

oh look
a deer;

maybe if i'm quiet
 Jul 2014 Zuffy
Mckenna Lynn
His love an ocean,
and she was willing to *drown.
 Jul 2014 Zuffy
Raj Arumugam
(1)
I posted a poem
at hello poetry -
and what happened?
Somebody started following me

I received a "notification"
(I can’t say “much to my gratification”)
that someone started following me
I think it went something like:
“Naked Blueberry started following you”



(2)
Oh what did I do?
What did I dodo?
All I did was to post a poem
and not a word from you -
O cruel menacing follower -
not a comment
not an expression of your displeasure
but you started following me
What did I do?
What did I dodo?



(3)
Sure
I may tell bad jokes
and write verse
that daily gets worse
Yeah, I may look ugly like I stole
a look from my fav Mad magazine
and once in a while I say something
about organisations -
but does that warrant you
following me
and transforming me into
a near-nervous wreck?

O Naked Blueberry
what did I do?
What did I dodo -
why do you follow me, you naked stalker?
I lie in bed now afraid
and my wife worries that
I cry out often in sleep:
“Hence, You Naked Succubus -
Follow me not!”
And I dare not approach my car
but after looking under bonnet
and boot and below the carriage
I dare not write a word now
but fear that you and your agents
will follow and stalk me
with ne’er a word, ne’er a warning

At least tell me, please O follower
O Naked Blueberry, O Protean Terminator
O **** Redberry  
and all the others in various guises
(I know you guys are all one person,
namely Lily Raw and Ready)
- tell me why you follow,
show me cause of your anger
O what did I do?
What did I dodo?
What should I do?
What should I dodo?
This is one of those poems where I take a 'risk'...
1) ...just a good-natured dig on the contemporary practice of following but without a comment or clue... 2) I will be away for some time...back possibly early Oct... 3) I'm following this bull that's run into the bush...  4) You guys and gals all have a great time till then...
 Jul 2014 Zuffy
betterdays
memories of hope,
reside in the glacial
crevices of heart.

she awaits the sun,
with no expectation
that it will come.

she remembers,
the days of daisy chains
and carefree love.
eons back,
across a barren plain.

she sits, on splintered
dreams
and washes her face,
with salty tears.

she waits for her life
to change,
for her ship to come
but she has never sent,
word for one.

she sows, sorrow
in her fallow fields
and harvests,
dust and fearful longings.

she is, the muse,
of those come undone
she is, mistress to those,
unraveled and unraveling

she is, loneliness incarnate.


she sits, on the cherry red
bar stool, in the corner
nursing, a  ***** martini
and waiting for her prince
she has been waiting for
a long time..... since...
writing exercise...
 Jun 2014 Zuffy
Lana
A helicopter fashioned
from feathers and fairy dust
buzzed the rioting fuchsia,

Newton's laws upended,
outsmarted,
The ruby-throated flier darted
over and under blossoms,
taking samples
with the lightest touch--
like a visitor from another planet
intending no harm,

then he backed off, surveying,
Lingering in weightlessness,
Suspended in the moment before,
when all is possible,
Poised on the edge of
free fall,
deciding what's next.
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