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t. reflexion Jul 15, 2011

A WAKE UP CALL

The early morning bird sang
To the hearing of everybody
Wake up, ‘I passed standard six
I have just been to the queen’

Take no heed, some would say
Though eloquent, he lies a lot
Far and wide, he has flown
But can’t write on the sand

There is time for everything
Seven years are not forever
Clauses come and go, in turn
Like the two sides of a coin

Do that which had to be done
Get up and use your time wisely
Boasting, it may seem to some
But it is a wake up call for duty

K
Kailashana2 Jul 15, 2011

dervish

there is nothing
between the sky and earth,
see how they form one circle?

there are signs everywhere:
the water drop and the waterwheel
turning
on a landscape of the Maiden Moon
turning
dervish in the sun,
unrequited
the silk cocoon inside a spider's web,
the apple falling from the blossom
and the nest adorned with little speckled
brown eggs, hidden from sight, but watched
over

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Bonitaj Jul 15, 2011

THE WAITING ROOM

To have or to hold,
to unfold or to be -
live or to die in waiting
or risk the thrill of ecstacy.

sitting in this waiting room
waiting for the fall -
Life has it's own schedule
death knows its time to call

Brush past reception
bolt from the door
rush back into the world -
take uncertainty-as giving more

Mutually exclusive
yet singularly alone
my love for you
acknowledged, recognised
made known

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CCfire Jul 14, 2011

shadow puppet

it exhausts me to follow you-

dark puddle on concrete
the stain of what you are

once a day
a light gently widens
with only a sky for company
gaze of sun diligently lingering

in the evening
our bodies

skin like paper
winter and bloom

our disappearance sudden with the night

witness me now
without you

flat and lifeless

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Esker Jul 14, 2011

Karisma

dressed in holly glimmer
you move
when you shimmer

now this random moon calls
my howl love
I fill this need
and sweet wind lavishs
the poplar singer leaves

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Barbara Writes Jul 14, 2011

The Cutest Family

Cutest Family

I just saw the cutest family of six all black with a white stripe under their belly. they were crossing the road In front of traffic. To my delight there were five little puppies following mommy. Some were keeping close behind and some were wandering about running to catch up

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Geremia Jul 14, 2011

BLEEDING INTO DARK-- rewrite

From a black and unknown space
appeared a demon face
Bleeding silver gray into dark

Once Heavens favored one
Hurled into fire and ice
Far from God’s Kingdom
His Night to discover

Eve’s serpent slides salivating
Seductions of immortality
To Soul's oblivion
Fills the human heart wiith fear
In Death's stillness

M
mdehe Jul 14, 2011

Takes Time

you cant deceive me
I believe the
to be
nothing more then the human specie
when were born we cannot perceive with any ease
grow to learn grief, speech, peace, enemies
now im past twenty and ive sworn to decrease the
amount of un-friendly tendencies that help in my defeat
mind bending galleries my eyes see are telling
me different things about the universe
and the galaxies
when they receive light emitting bright from stars at night
such delight
yet a mystery
one we cant perceive, even with technology

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Geezer Jul 14, 2011

Smokeless... [Rewrite for Splash-pool]

I'm aware of all the reasons...
I can't breathe... I don't wonder why
It's not the change of seasons
My lungs are clogged, my nose is dry
After the coughing and hacking, I sit down and cry
That's my morning ritual, that's the way I do
I grab a glass of water, the dog moves to let me by
Hey kid, I'm telling you now, this is gonna be you
This is how you're gonna be, you will have this too
Wait a minute, I'll get coffee, find the matches and light up

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Candlewitch Jul 14, 2011

Devouring Shadows (a rewrite)

Devouring Shadows

Lights flick off,

Suddenly

Drowning the room

In complete,

Compelling darkness,

Devouring every shadow.

No window present

To mar the blackness

With soft shadow.

It begins...

the pounding heart

eyes wide with fear

they huddle in the gloom

some flat on their bellies

to avoid bullets going astray

Somewhere

Shrill siren screaming

Breaks the night

Into tiny

Fragmented pieces

Thin walls,

Echoing with gunshot,