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Tigger Kaz May 09, 2026

Mortal Divide

Melodic sweetness of golden calf,
Jagged lines, fear's not cut by half.
In Ruby fields of blood soaked bones,
Dormant souls, immutable groans.

Dust and char filled, choking air,
Stench of death, fear filled despair.
Breath gets drawn, then is held,
As sodden moisture pools meld.

Humanity's collosal rift is showing,
Betwixt calm, fear fuelled blowing.
Across billowing seas,
A duplicity of decrees.

Skulduggery edging a new saviour,
By tokenist bitter addictive flavour.
But intent that seems candied,
Twisted logic, underhanded.

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RJ Bear May 09, 2026

Dawn has Broken

The final shell has hit the floor,
the heavy debt is paid.
He walks out from the saloon door,
and the vengeance he has made.

The endless dusk begins to break,
a sliver of the sun.
The shadows flee for mercy’s sake,
for the reaper’s work is done.

The scent of cedar replaced the smoke,
the silence replaced the screams.
The heavy chains of vengeance broke,
like glass in morning dreams.

LA
leonard ancuta May 09, 2026

psycho gentle game

psy
psycho
I am psycho too
I`m psycho too
I am psycho three trees far away
never forget what you done and my way
I am psycho four streets that carry me and my blood
I`m psycho ten by ten anyway

psy
I am psycho alone or in multiverse
I`m psycho too with gratitude for madness reverse
I`m psycho for rembrand`s lesson of anatomy
I`m psycho in love for my lobotomy
never alone in me mind or my soul
forever twice in me thoughts or my ghouls

MC
Mashell Chapeyama May 09, 2026

The Fabric of Regret

Life is intricate, a delicate bunch of choices,
where one thread, pulled too tightly,
can change the pattern forever.

We move through its complexity
often making mistakes
that we cannot reach back and undo.

A path chosen in haste to do a thing
a life partner met too soon,
When we went to places
we never intended to stay,
Then made it our home.

And the weight of our words—
things we say in the heat of the moment
And a hand lifted against a mother,
the harshness directed at a child.

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cosmacpan May 09, 2026

the ruins of silence

for as long as I can remember, I have built walls of silence, of defense
but life kept passing by and breaking down a piece of the wall here and there
leaving a void that is hard to fill with a smile

now as I prepare to leave, I review the troops that accompanied me
a few smiles, a few ragged words and the great wall of silence
of which only some blackened ruins remain

a last farewell to silence
a last greeting to the missed hugs
and to all the kisses shattered by the long winters, goodbye

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crypticbard May 08, 2026

Tell me more about my mother

Tell me more about my mother,
you’d say,
as if the request itself
could open a door.

Father would urge me
to speak to him
about my grandmother,
his mother,
as though the past
were a cupboard
I could simply reach into.

You see I lived with her
for several years
and served as her companion
and clinic assistant, as well
when she had patients over
on Thursdays,
her rooms populating
the way Father said they would.

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poetaldo May 08, 2026

Hello hello hello

Hello hello hello
God is risen today
And he is now
Alive for us
Yes God is our savior
He is the one
Who had cured the sick today
With his holy hands
The sick people had been sick
For a long time
Some people he could not cured
Any more because they had a sickness
That was chronical
So my Father
Shut their bodies down
And first they shut their eyes
Than they were gasping for air
They no longer could breath
So they took the last breath
And they finally died

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RJ Bear May 08, 2026

Between the Den and the Dusk

The golden fields began to blur,
a shadow caught his heel.
For every ghost he’d made to stir,
had iron debts to seal.

He reached to touch her tattered lace,
but fingers passed like smoke.
A sudden chill fell on the place,
before a spirit spoke:

"The path to her is paved in grace,
but yours was paved in lead.
You cannot look upon her face,
with hands so stained and red."

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wisecrone2011 May 07, 2026

Carnival Night

Carnival Night

I sit in my chair,
behind the window's curtains,
Listening to
joyful voices that fill the air, as they sing of the jugglers
and acrobats to come,
As the afternoon turns to dusk.
Carnival night approaches,
with all the anxious excitement,
focused on the fair.

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William Lynn May 07, 2026

Customer Service?

I've been placed on hold,
where the music is older
than the person I'm waiting for.

A voice assures me
I am "very important,"
which feels like a polite lie
told by a machine
that should know better.

Still, I stay-because,
I'm next in the cue
and they will "be with me shortly,"
no matter how long that takes.

Then there's the music.
That damn music,
now several minutes older,
but just as obnoxious,
as it was when I first called.