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weirdelf Apr 29, 2017

Not A Good Man

I am not a good man
but I'm not a bad man either.
I have a conscience.

Sometimes,
just walking down the street,
I remember a crime
committed thirty years ago
and walk into a telegraph pole.
Double over in pain.

Professionals say to forgive myself
and yet I still commit wilful evil.
When I think it's deserved.
But I know that's not my right.

I adore life.
I get a full on frisson
seeing a plane take off
or a rocket launch
or using my new SSD computer.

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lovedly Apr 29, 2017

Why not Appreciate Creative God revised

Praise thy woman
at length

God will be happy
as he has created
so many more women

yours is the first exception
he took time to chisel

Wonderful
beautiful
lovely woman

a life of a handsome
man

ask god
how much time he took
to make a poet
romantic one
out of you

a daring love couple
are you
god smiles
in appreciation
of both of you

why don't you two
also so do....

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Lamar Ingraham Apr 28, 2017

Happiness Begins

Happiness begins with blessings from heavens above,
Happiness begins with all that I prayed for,
Happiness begins with what every man dreams of,
My true happiness only begins with your love...

Happiness begins with sacrificing my whole life,
Happiness begins with bidding loneliness goodbye;
Happiness begins with crying all my tears away,
My true happiness only begins with withthe next day...

S
scribbler Apr 28, 2017

THE 3:05

The far whistle of the three oh five
echoes through the winter night
and coyotes' answers soon arrive.
It seems They're barely out of sight.

Does the train carry naught but freight
or perhaps just one lone passenger car
which maybe carries six or eight
folks bound to some place afar?

The whistle resounds in night's deep
then slowly takes its fares away
after waking me from sleep.
I close my eyes and drift away.

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lovedly Apr 28, 2017

Back to be me

Be yourself
Sexuality
is Genetic
Individuality
No one can direct you
to do,
so
do what you want to
as you is an
ENTITY
Solely
ENTIRELY

The day dawns
just as another normal day
but for some there's
Happy news
A child is on its ways
others dismay

this is what all life is about
any way
today we live
and
die another day
Who? can that
when?
say

So live today
as if you were to die
the following day

CW
Cristiano Williams Apr 27, 2017

ODE TO THE MOON

Here I am,
Sitting in the middle of the night.
Here I am,
Looking at her feminine might.

Yes, I love her
I wish I can go up there
No matter how and what it takes to be with her
She is the treasure I hold so dear

The treasure that worth more
Than the secret city of Paititi
The gentle damsel that absents sore
I wish I can dwell with her in no man’s city.

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vandiemenspeak Apr 27, 2017

A galley of windows

You sit in a world
of framed, glazed words

crazed by age and patinas passed
down through dust

to the livid surfaces encrusted,
windows, once filled in

by the coloured eye
of living minds

worlds blown and howling,
heaving or bent in quiet civility

buildings, old and threadbare
flag draped, darkly disposed

in forgotten corners, of older worlds
where meadows moan, paddocks slow swaying

with Autumn grass, turning cold
into the folds of mountains

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Esker Apr 27, 2017

sheets of steel

the chain mail anguish
clatters
the horse shirt comfort
'do not dry clean'

morning stereo in the languid
moist expression
sobs from stereo speaker
distorted blues
play it tiger
show me your stripes

the night mare sleeps
with dropped mane
the battle flag drapes
upon the resting princess
crescent voyage hair
spills a rouge cargo
in river rivulets

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Sparrow Apr 27, 2017

"A love of memory"

Why did my spine tingle?
Where did my balance go?
There in the glow of evening
I caught the perfume of your soul.

A shape that made my balance jelly
A face that made dreams wonderful reality
Where did you come from I screamed
The scream only felt not heard deep inside

Days floated into seconds I feared the next
That time to leave you, rushed to me
Though each second seemed years
A softness of touch, feelings spreading

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Eumolpus Apr 26, 2017

NEIGHBOR ON THE 12TH FLOOR

The mist turns the glass into black mirrors
On the building across the courtyard where I sit;
Below are fountains with a landscaped garden;
On this dreadfully dark and dismal day,
Directly across from me is one fixed window
With lowered white drapes, like a blank page,
Breaking up the monotony of the brick façade;
Out comes a fat brown cat from the curtain,
Tip toes to center stage, and poses like a Buddha.
I stare at him, he stares back; Rain begins to fall.
From the dryness of our geometric enclaves,