Poems, page 2

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Erased

Quite ironic… 
how the fears of being erased
Shown through
in The midst

of desperate attempts
to prove the opposite

Intentionally scrambling 
all day long
For the right words
The right sequences 

To express 
beyond thought

And.
What I’ve noted is this;
Anything 
 That feels remotely 
like goodbye

I’ll avoid, overthink
and undoubtedly 
revive

Though an end doesn’t portray 
adequately what’s actually 
brought about an entirely new beginning 

I walk out of June as a thriving woman
I’ve soaked up every word you presented
Ive felt your hearts exposure!
What could possibly compare?

I’ve stepped out of the box
that I placed myself in.
I wrote 10 different beautiful 
sequences

To express with enough honor 
that today’s the beginning of the end

And forget every other
pointless word blurted until now:

YOU EACH HAVE SAVED ME
from myself somehow

This month.. this year almost took me away
Until I was allowed empty pages to safely convey 
the dark sides, the hope and the in betweens

God. What beautiful humans that I’ve needed to see!

 

 


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Three Haiku to Take You Home

[thanks to all the LexPoMo folks! I started to run out of time for reading and commenting the past 2 weeks, but I at least stayed faithful to the mission!] 

Counting syllables
in the Hilton Netherland
haiku convention

The air clears of smoke
while heat overtakes the place
blast furnace city

pre-teens in sequins 
descend on Paycor Stadium
blooming Swifties 


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looking for mercy

she told me she was

on the spectrum
no shit
oh boy
i thought
She meant 
Autism
but my mind went
straight to narcissistic
 
confusion reigned hell for
awhile anyway i digress
at what point would cognitive dissonance be
replaced with compassion
and Empathy to dominate
hell, why not
make it heaven 

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Love poem #1

To kill time beautifully
is to leave fingerprints on every hour
labyrinthine touch loosed
like fireflies like lightning unbottled
to lose and find and live again
to love in the process


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Horizon

The city’s growing. 
Build a bridge over water. 
The horizon’s near. 

 


Registration photo of Tania Horne for the LexPoMo 2023 Writing Challenge.
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Off kilter

I have been feeling odd-
one moment in tune, clear,
a voice like Emmy Lou’s in my head-
but trailing off to something jarring,
like Iris Dement-the words braying
but still soaring.

I am not quite in step, 
the path quavers, but rises ever forward.
I see the glory in the ashes and the flame,
in crumbled walls and smooth paths-
I am no longer certain being orderly
would solve anything.


Registration photo of Amy Figgs for the LexPoMo 2023 Writing Challenge.
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Trauma Response: freeze

I sit here
frozen in time.
Unable to move.

The elixir
The salve
The medication
to cure this
well within my reach.

Yet my arms won’t stretch
far enough.

I stay in this spot
unsure of how to
proceed.

Desperate for new scenery.
Terrified of the first step. 


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Blackberry Night Trail

Running the fox hunted night trail,
Rapid wind enveloped her foot fall,
Tripping her slippery as salamanders,
the earth coming up icebox cold on her chest.
Her white shirt stained as brown brassiere.
She labored in blackberry briars,
the ruby-like globes splashing her cheekbones.
Cicada songs buzzing inside her throbbing head.
Rising, she held close her newly swollen womb
assuring herself the embryo will still form.

KW 6/30/23


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Love poem #5

Saying thank you would be simpler, but instead I’ll just write more poems.

An American Sentence, and a promise.


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Enough

You will Live your life so
that when you 

                              Reach the
End you will
Tell the other star stuff this

Dust to welcome you home you
Say
“I meant to do more. I meant to do more.” And

We will tell you what you know. it was.