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Posts for June 18, 2016 (page 2)

Philip Corley
Category
Poem
6/18/16

Slightly Not Strong

Sure as the sun is hot
Was the flame you inspired in me
In the middle of a mental warzone
Straddling nightmares and daydreams
While offering only the slightest promise of both
Tied up in budding futures
This wasn’t a place for budding romance
A damn shame because we were kindred
From the aspiration to seize our lives
To the weaknesses we cannot overcome
My enemy manifested
In the words you can’t find to say
My reflection too perfect in you
Inhibition fear and fantasy
All setting up a regretful demise.
But the point is not to succeed
Despite the bonus that brings
But to know that the failure isn’t mine
I stood to say let’s do this
But you’re slightly not strong.
I’m not strong enough
To make up the difference
One day I will be
Well beyond your fading memory
Evanescing in time
From that moment love finally became true
And you weren’t strong enough to seize it.
 
 
 
 
Patrick Maloney
Category
Poem
6/18/16

#trendsetting

a trend is something only
to be set  

to pick up
or follow
a trend

even on twitter

that shit’s
for the birds  

tweet
tweet  

say something else

shit on the wind
-shield  

fly away  

stefani heller
Category
Poem
6/18/16

david

you shared your dna
unintentionally creating me
and i loved you before i knew that truth
(that everyone else could see)

you chose the one from someone else
while someone else raised me 
and you left me poverty
while he had horses and was never hungry

and you waited til they thought i might die
to share your honesty, without responsibility
and no apology

and the midyear third sunday that should be
celebratory always finds me angry

even tho i say i wont be, i don’t want to be
i obsess over a memory 
that never was or will be
except in a little girls fantasy

of daddy and me

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