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mark May 17, 2025

Summer's Golden Glide

The sun, a forge in skies of endless blue,
Melts all the edges, sharp and hard away.
And on the lake, a vision fresh and new,
A summertime blonde begins her bright display.

Warm skin softly touched, Moon hangs heavy, breath held close, Whispers in the dark.

The tow rope taut, a lifeline to the speed,
The engine hums a rhythmic, pulsing beat.
Then with a surge, she rises, born indeed
Upon the mirrored surface, cool and sweet.

P
poetaldo May 17, 2025

Anger

Anger
Anger builds up inside of me like a volcano ready to explode
The anger inside of me grows like cancer spreading fast and destroying me
But that anger has to come out some how
Before it kills me and builds up inside of me
There are times that is not good for me to show my anger to myself And others Because it is very destructive
Sometimes it is difficult for me to control my anger

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Leslie May 17, 2025

Living with homelessness!

Shadowy figures,
creep across the dark alley’s.
Waiting to prey on the weak.
Terrifying screams,
accompany their sordid attacks.
Their uncanny cries fill the streets!
If your out on the avenues past midnight.
You’ll find yourself in the company of the homeless!
The mentally Ill make their homes here.
The shelters can’t hold all of them.
They aren’t always extraordinarily evil,
and they don’t always possess malintent.
Your best bet yet, is to ignore them
and avoid any contact with them or their kin!

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Lavender May 17, 2025

Little Girl in Gaza

You never fired a missile
nor denied a bite to eat
to starving people

You never caused
blood to flow
nor insist eyes witness

death -
smell its breath
step in its sticky mortification

You never shouldered reason
to destroy someone's

home -
dining table, bed
their shoes, a thin cloth to wipe their face

You never wanted to watch the murder of
countrymen, babies
your family and friends...

your crying mother.

TG
The Gogetter May 17, 2025

Open

I am open to everything.
Everything which benefits me.
Everything that makes me wise.
Everything that clears my mind.

Open is a small word,
but one which gives me options.
It is large.
It is ongoing.
It spreads itself outwards,,
with arms reaching out
to others.
It is warm.
It is inviting.
It inspires love.
It inspires warmth.
It inspires friendship.

Open is way out there
in a spacious zone.
It breathes.
It is life giving.

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Leslie May 16, 2025

Tragedy from the start!

When springtime comes
and clouds pass across the sky
I think of you and wonder why,
eveything just fell apart

Nothing good ever lasts too long
I guess it's meant to be that way.
I took your hand a long, long time ago
and I'm still wondering why!

The memories made,
some were good and some were bad
all in all they made me cry
In the end there was no balm to soothe the pain

TG
The Gogetter May 16, 2025

Evolution

Evolution
just happens every day.
So says Dr Karl.
But I am spinning around
in the happiest way possible.
This time I am in charge.
I am the architect drawing up the plans,
the diagrams.
I am making the decisions.
I am setting the course of this vessel.
It is on me this time.

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Mary Derringer May 16, 2025

A Gift of Nature

As a lonely flower seed
I was shot out the back
end of a blue jay
when she flew
over the meadow.
she had swallowed
me in the garden
where she spied me
laying cozy under the sun.
Briefly, I called her
mother before I passed
through her gullet like
a silent ghost.
In the blinking
of God's eye,
I was an orphan.
I trembled where I landed
alone in the soil.
That first night was a
lengthy night in early May.
The chilly rain filled
my furrow.

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crypticbard May 16, 2025

hymn of exiles

I. The Accusation

They call us mad, they call us cursed,
"Apostates!" hiss the temple throngs,
"Rebels!" the fat priests spit,
Their jowls aquiver with righteous dread.

For we will not bow to their painted gods—
Gold-leaf idols with hollow eyes,
Stale smoke clinging to rotting silk,
Their altars slick with bribes and lies.

II. The Stench of Sanctity