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Sir Bernard Aug 17, 2018

No Right Tine

There is nothing like "the right time"
Stop sitting and waiting for it
Of course everything is going to be fine
But it won't be until you start working towards it

I have seen many a talent wasted
Many treasures untapped
Many people frustrated
Many visions warped

It's not because they don't have dreams
It's not because life is unfair
Its not because their hope does not beam
Neither is it because things are unclear

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Eumolpus Aug 17, 2018

Elevator

1950

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Rula Aug 17, 2018

W E A L T H: Fehu [Runic Symbols]

When W e a l t h equals ethics, it lasts endlessly when everything else's lost.

R
raj Aug 17, 2018

I-You-We-Us

when I becomes We,
there's a lot to gain for Us

the way I see You and You see Me
is crucial for Us

if You and I, can give n take a Wee bit
life is more harmonioUs

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lovedly Aug 17, 2018

My Romanian! Lover

I once fell in a momentary love
with a Romanian girl,
she was so sweet
just a teen

and

her doggy was lovelier
than was she

I posted this poetry
across the Internet,
‘twas lovely
she did not know it

Likewise I compose
and post
some read me
others dispose

Z
Zeussirius Aug 16, 2018

Why Did I Love You? [August Contest]

It is a mystery
Whose answer I cannot fathom
Maybe it was because you bewitched me
With the gaze from your cold eyes
Like Medusa and transfixed me to the spot
Perhaps it was the way you made me feel
How my heart skipped beats
Upon seeing you
Or how you set free butterflies in my stomach
Or maybe it was because my heart refused to listen to my head
All I have are speculations
Second guesses to why
But I can never answer the question
Why?
Why did I Love You?

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scooby Aug 16, 2018

What You Can See, But Won't

You can only see through open eyes.
Don't let your eyelids be your disguise,
And words float around in your tongue,
But you won't spit them out cause your afraid they'll run.
But your legs stop working when you work them too hard
And your mouth won't work unless you disregard.
All those words that they throw at your head,
All the tears you cry when you’re in your bed.
You can only see with open eyes,
So keep them open and you'll find some lies.

R
raj Aug 16, 2018

Pillow Note #3

before leaving for work I want to say
about time when in our arms we lay
songs you sung were enchanting
your soft sighs too often enticing
those notes you sung in high pitch
made nerve ends tingle and twitch

tonight we shall replay that song
with all it's notes short and long
each time we touch cloud nine
we'll play our songs in rewind

when you wake up you'll find this note
with your pink lipstick just now I wrote
when i return home please stay tuned
wearing your best smile like full moon

O
OriginalRhyku Aug 16, 2018

Colonial Cur:

It lay curled at the feet of its masters
Eagerly barking or biting on cue
No sense of its past or its ancestors
Gorging tiny scraps that were its true due

With the Sun setting on its patronage
Whimpering cur was lost and left behind
It whined and wailed in its sad, lonely stage
Deserted by masters, shunned by its kind

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Sparrow Aug 15, 2018

I Walk.

I walk where the weeping willow sweeps the soil
It hides me from the world, its where we all toil.
I cry, it will hide my tears, I hurt, it hides my fears.
Yet here I am safe from all troubles and cares.

Then that beauty of rain, hides my tears once again.
It sets me free to roam the world, to seek rainbows
A scattering of sunshine lights my world anew.
Where would I have been without the support of you?