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- BJP123: Nine and six filed for divorce, such a tragedy. Thirteen lost her beloved ten, a sailor out at sea. It’s been a year since the cancer took four, and seven just isn’t the same....
- Provalone: From the summit of him to the valley of me, I feel the wind that connects us. Oh gentle wind, please blow harder so I can feel you: The only thing I share with him.
- rosana sam: Distant thunder from the Alpine summits Thor is in rage tonight and the skies are lit In his wake Aeolus rekindles the fire blowing down trees and roofs just to amuse himself. Portents...
- AintNoNinny: i like not knowing what the day will bring because if i knew what was coming my way i would try to control it nothing, in the end, would be any different for all of my forward-looking...
- AintNoNinny: T iptoe on the precipice, certain you’ll not slip into Hell R est your weary soul in His, certain He’ll hold it close U proot your shoots, certain they’ll flourish in foreign climes S...
- AintNoNinny: Building Love A stick, a stone, some mortar born Of love’s desire, a summer morn A beam of moon, a hungered night A moment’s bliss, a kissed delight Five thousand days, a lifetime’s...
- AintNoNinny: Yesterday’s Sundays sunday morning wake ups stretch our possibilities coffee in bed reading spiritual books made nude by our love, worshiping as one body eggs, fruit, homemade...
- AintNoNinny: WHISPER IN MY DREAMS I heard your whisper in my dreams last night. It softly beckoned me to come to you. Your breath touched mine in sultry pas de deux. My body quickened, but your...
- rosana sam: What good is it to know? Gather all this information Becoming a modern obsession What good is it to know? the difference between saffron and yellow just a question of perception What...
- rosana sam: Crystal Clear Bubbling, gurgling, churning no matter how i regard the matter There’s no turning back. Bubbling, gurgling, burning From whatever angle the issue is broached the answer...
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(for this calendar month, by number of poems)- rosana sam (7)
- Namsrof (6)
- AintNoNinny (5)
- BJP123 (1)
- Provalone (1)
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Shuffling my homework
While walking up the stairs
Distracts me quite easily
And my toe gets stuck
Behind the table leg
While the rest of my foot
moves on.
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Pain is an only mildly attractive woman–
you notice her when she’s there
but forget about her as soon as she leaves.
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It never hurts as bad
As I think it will
It’s strangely much better
If I just hold still.
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crashed my bike. tore up my face
twisting through the air
legs tangled in the gears
metal bars landing on my back
my face sliding on the track
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