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Mum... You and I by Rula

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 Loving You by  hippiemoon

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Mosquitos Suck!
  By William Lynn

 

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Ways of loving by  Terumi Sakurai

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Garden of Eden

How was Eve to know that the serpent was untrustworthy? She who had only known love and faithfulness, who had lived by trusting Adam?

And how was I to know that you were trustworthy? I who had known only deceit and betrayal, who lived trusting no one but myself?

Serpent and you, Eve and me. Perhaps I am the serpent in your story, preying on your naïveté. Or perhaps you are molding me into Eve, a girl who can trust without limits.

Your love for me is the apple for Eve. The one thing I’ll risk myself for.

My core

Do not leave your core, my friend
You know the law
That which governs you
And makes you raw

Do not dismiss your call
You are the all
The rise and you are the fall
Breathe with cause

Take the walk
With pride, do not pause

By the end of war,
The truth you sought
Becomes the fruit
You sow

a house without gossips nor gonifs with the missus

Maybe a pair of stray eyes
will alight on my post
might subsequently manifest destiny
as a positive force
to help me secure
a moderately roomy dwelling place
whereby we hang figurative hats
(the writer of these words,
and his partner in rhyme - ha),
would feel ever so grateful
carriage house, domicile,
pied-à-terre, et cetera

Jokerface82 rewrite...

Punching away shadows, shapes
Back were they came from, from the street
Lights smothering the Inky abyss and pockets
Above the silk black blanket
A sinister grin from a ghostly moon
that changed its shape
from a horn to a circular glow

Punching away shadows, shapes.
Back where they came from, from the gritty street
Lights smothering the pockets of odor with glare
Above the black, silk blanket
A sinister grin from the ghostly moon
that changed its shape
from a horn to a circular glow

Mended

Having been in love a number of times,
my past hearts live in me like wounds
that no longer need dressing.

But a very small part of me
will always be in love with the scars
of the time spent there.

When I say I love you

When I say I love you
It is more than just the word,
More than a weak definition,
More than short infatuation.

When I say I love you
It is more than just the word,
More than simply social dress,
Or choosing what suits me best.

When I say I love you
You must never let me go.
Never let me alone my love,
For I have no life without you.

You are more than my completion.
You are more!

It is not that I chose you-
Existence comes before

And if I lose you
Existence is no more

Now that you know

I'lI always adore you from afar
Like a poet adores the moon, embracing all its
scars
I know we were never meant for each other
so, I couldn't be yours
But the love I carry for you in my heart
will always be secured
I will make sure that
I never lose your memory
I'll save every look of yours
in my heart like a treasury
I am gonna say this now
and every time I miss you
That I was and I am grateful for
having you in my life,
and I' never stop loving you

I want to write a poem

I want to write a poem,
without the themes and structure,
without the syllables and imagery,
without meaning,
just because I feel like it

I would love to write this poem,
with repeating lines like I don't care,
and words that don't go with each other nor make sense

I want to write, because I feel
I don't want to write to be right
Do you understand?

Public

Public
Written by Kelly Ann Wilson

I wake up in a cold sweat
From nightmares at night.
They called you the life of the party
While I couldn't even look
Another human being in the eye.

Every nerve in my body lights up
When people I love and trust
Casually brush by me.
It plays over like a record in my mind
The sound of glass breaking.

I taught myself
How to cover bruises with makeup.
Oh, but I won’t say your name
In public.

Written May 28, 2024
© 2024 Kelly Ann Wilson

Echoes On The Wind

On a windswept reservation
Where bison use to roam,
The children sit in silence
On this land that is their home.

Their tribal elders offer wisdom
Born of years upon the earth,
Lessons learned through sacrifice
As others questioned native worth.

The atrocities are well recorded
Though history attempts to hide,
Broken promises and treaties
Designed to stifle the native pride.

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