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Ruby Lord Feb 23, 2025

Cadaver

They prop me here, grotesque delight,
for fools who drink each fetid night.
They raise their mugs to toast my grin,
of shrivelled shade on withered sin.

The wenches dance, their hems askew,
to peddle flesh, the old and new.
The coins exchanged, a tarnished fate,
as ale spills thick from pewter plate.

And here I sit, a lifeless jest,
a bone-white ghost in rotting vest.
The landlord claims I bring him trade,
a spectre fixed yet on parade.

Z
ziggy Feb 22, 2025

Paranoid

I do not play with dice
don't put faith in numbers
as eventuality subtracts the
dire consequences of blunders

Majestic wonderment fades
with the calming of the waves
lapping shores hold silent as
my quiet moon drifts

Beyond my passing time predicts
the agony of our failing grip
this human condition
its onward rendition

At a loss for explanation's
the dire consequences of
destinations dwelling within
the spike of a deep well
where re-vibrations linger

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Trail Feb 22, 2025

The Star Of The West

Somewhere out in the west
My mother is singing her favorite song
The dinner fire burns bright and strong
And whatever meager meal she was able to put together
Has warmed their weary souls

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Tigger Kaz Feb 22, 2025

Turn on the light

Out of rubble and of ashes
Can come a time of hope,
New imagined ways,
A better ways to cope.

In a world without borders,
without propaganda and fear,
Society without discrimination,
How we all would cheer.

Nothing that's ever worth it,
Came without a fight.
If we're pushing out darkness,
We need to turn on the light.

JR
Jane A. Rug Feb 22, 2025

I paid no heed to the call of the siren(s)

where amble lances
hurled with the might
of off fish hull seductress dances
setting figurative stage to take a bite
from canoodling beastie boy best eaten alive
or just after freshly being killed.

oblivious to the ramifications
courtesy the deafening ear splitting sound,
nor mindful of the devastating emotional fallout
lurking within outer limits of dark shadows
ineluctably drawn into penile pacification,
yours truly surrendered
to the atavistic call of the wild.

TG
The Gogetter Feb 22, 2025

The Sounds of the Morning

The click clack
of the trams
moving
back
and forward.

Car engines
humming
gently
along the street.

A plane
flying
high in the sky.

The voices
of people
on bicycles
riding by.

My
busy
busy
neighbourhood
bustles along.

The sweet sounds
of the morning
in my neighbourhood.

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Rula Feb 22, 2025

Live the Day!

Yesterday's a verse,
You can't reverse to.
Today's a poem,
A delightful hymn.
Tomorrow's a song,
To those who belong.

So live each, live them all.

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kowque Feb 21, 2025

I'm tired

We have fleas.
I have no clue
from where (?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!).

My house is so clean.

But is life not a series of injustice?.

I'm so in love it's hard to focus on the fleas.

I'm more concerned about my outfit

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Sheddie Feb 21, 2025

TURN AWAY (1)

The world sits on its thought, naked,
And tomorrow is a festival show of shame,
I smell salt dancing on my nostrils as
Flesh and bones dangle from the tender of my strength.
The people here are not jovial,
They dance slowly, beating away hands from their heads.
Drums and cymbals are silent as there's no rain to clap their buttocks,
The universe is mad, and there's no bride to live his happiness.
There's an exit staring through the walkway, crawling for salvation,

ME

Weaverbirds in the Market

Scrambling for space with humans
The weaverbirds strive to wrestle space
Having been dislodged from their homes
(in the Forest)
They swam in the market places
On basins and baskets
Snatching grains of rice and wheats,
fearlessly....

With bamboos and brooms
Men hurry and harry
Hauling stone and curses at the plumes
While the feathers dance to and fro
ceaselessly...
On basins and baskets
For their LAST meals
Before the requiem tolls for ALL