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there you are by  leoferaco

 

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Enchantress.by Alex Tanner

 

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March 2024 Contest Winners!

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Mother Nature  contest  was won by Lavender with the poem To My Monarch and Her Milkweed

03/24 New Member Contest was won by lostLA with the poem insights of a orphan

03/24 I Was Bullied was won by Candlewitch with the poem Ramming Speed!

03/24: What My Best Friend Gave Me was won by  Mark with the poem What My Best Friend Gave Me

03/24 Looking At The Stars was won by Alaethia D with the poem Dear Heart, One More Time

03/24 My Favorite Pet was won by  Alex Tanner withy the poem My Pal Jet.

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Agony by  David Grigorian

 

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Going Forward

We are each
Haunted or blessed
In our waking.

We are all
On a private
Or social
Schedule,

Going forward.

Does the deer
Have trouble
Rousing itself,
Come evening --

With the frightening
Thoughts of hunters
Or mountain lions,
Or home-bound traffic
On too hard streets?

Or does waking
Come easily,
Eager to see
The red sun
In the western sky,

The long, sweet
Face of its
Brother or sister
Again?

My “friend”

I have a friend,l’ve known her all my life,
But lately she visits more often out of spite,
She’s irrational and out of her mind,
Her rhyme and reason I try to find,
She jumps to conclusions,
Creates situations and delusions,
She drives me insane!
But I still say I’m fine…,
She doubts every choice ,
Creates a quake in my voice,
Sending me on a downward spiral to my dismay,
I deal with her everyday,

Do you know her?

Scars Don't Fade Fast.

You don't tell me my arms are pretty when they are clean,
You just say they are ugly when they’re not.

He's Gone

Going…
Going…
He’s gone.

hehe

There is dust on my guitar
(not his fault).
I wipe it off,
strum a chord,
shut the door
and slide the bolt.

I’ll build a world of my own
that only friends can share.
There’ll be candlelit baths.
lots of hugs
and self-satisfied contentment there.

Sorry if I’m not broken-hearted.
I could pretend for his ego
but I am not his, ergo
I have no need
to pander
to his self greed

Poplar Leaf

Nine years the Poplar rooted above a creakbed stand,
enjoying dark rich soil, in rock sparse land,
amongst Mountain Ash and rosehip shrubbery,
reaching for the sky, a dream of destiny.

Springtimes came, winter went,
time passed, season's spent,
tree rings grew in number,
each passing summer,
bark peeling in season,
showing growth spurts as reason.

Not sure what troubles me more...

Not sure what troubles me more

-- overwhelming abundance of bloom
or the petalfall,
the thick layer of fragrant splendor
on the forest floor,
once a year chance to walk
in the upside-down world,
to dip my hands
into the pink and white lacy foam,

-- the note about a lost dog
or that the note is dated two years back, 
and people still hoping to save the pet
posting the freshly printed letters,
colored ink on a glossy paper,

The Superlative Moon

The silvery lustre in its new found aura
touched by passion softly unveiled
manages a shy smile to the warmth
of burning raptures woefully induced,

Seduced layers kissed by stars vanish
as her trembling mounds and craters
challenge gravity to cry, ooze and froth
inflame desire in misty uproars of thirst,

Invading beam of joy merges to herald
enveloped by ecstasy in skilful surrender
to thrusts and recoils in rapturous activity
reaching a new state of no return apogee;

So brief a sojourn

This life is such
brief a sojourn
One can't make resolutions for long
none know what's in store
at the next door or top floor

will you be welcome
heaven knows
Will you venture,
you need to compose
but what within the hour
Destiny may and does dispose

neither you, nor I, nor heaven knows
it's the secretest of life's dispose
I suppose

BEYOND THE VEIL

Let me tell you what I saw
the last time I went over there
beyond electrons' gaping maw
body beneath bright actinic glare.

Darkness shrank to a mere point
in the midst of formless nothingness
where space and time flowed out of joint
their directions anybody's guess.

Like light I sought the irised dark
and with a blink I passed right through
exiting Rosenstein's bridge like a spark
the cosmos in fine focused view.

One Day...

One day you will leave,
The places that dont let you breath,
One day you will ask,
Where the hell's my mask,
Don't hide your face,
Because one day you will leave this place

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