Survive

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…sound of the great waves is that of a thousand souls

Souls gasping and crying, whispering and sighing

The sun dips below the horizon and ignites a blaze that knows no bounds

The clouds burst into flames and the sea is burning

Slowly, the fire fades and a new face smiles upon the sky

Like an elegant mistress in a silver evening gown, Luna glides across the heavens

Soon the graceful lady casts her sparkling jewels about

The stars glimmer in a glow of chill as the wind is cooled by darkness

A streak of gold falls into the waters…

By Julian Aisling

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Pain

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…sun arose bright and New,

Memories untainted despite they’re Old,

Life had lost its glory and its Hue,

Secretly pining over thoughts Untold.

Countless opportunities Await,

No dearth of distractions to Evade,

Relentless in effort to shoulder this Weight,

Deceiving the world with a Masquerade.

Even in moments of blissful Exhilaration,

The heart prevailed over immortal Time,

Failing to yield to Adaptation,

Will this Pain last a Lifetime ?

The sun arose with awareness Renewed,

Acceptance was the key to Liberation,

The heart and mind no longer at Feud,

For Pain was the fuel to…

By Aditya Gandhi

Website: http://Seekingmyutopia.com

Twitter: seekingmyutopia

Facebook URL: Facebook.com/seekingmyutopia

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A Desired Want, Your Gifted Need

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…am stuck in a void between what I want and what I need.

There I see you in the want, and another in the need.

You are in a dream of desire and mystery, the unknown. The other is reality of agape love and understanding.

You are silent, unwilling to communicate, all through my attempts to connect have been thwarted aside.

The other, I have fully expressed myself leaving no subject off limits, we communicate without hesitation, even talking about you.

The common bond of you and the other is the ‘arts.’

You pretend to be other people on stage…

By Ann Tracey Goldbright

Twitter: Goldblatt1964

Facebook URL: Facebook.com/tgoldblatt

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Bliss

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...head upon his chest

Held safely in his tender arms

Completely at rest

No other place feels safer

My worries all are stilled

When I lay beside him

All I feel is thrilled

When he says "I love you"

My heart claims every word

It feels my dreams have all come true

When those three words are heard

When I gaze into his eyes

They sparkle with starlight

His smile reflecting the moon's glow

Emblazons the ardent night

To have this sweet man in my life

Having said, "I love you, too"

I cannot wait to amend that

To tell...

By Sharon Cunningham

Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/sharon.cunningham.5076

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Calligraphy of Love

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...in your embrace

Arms wrapped about my hips

Your name falls incoherently

From my parted lips

All other existence dissolved

As irrelevant and moot

As I wait in a frenzied state

For you to fervidly take root

Basked in the moon's glow

Breaching the window panes

Our bodies match in rhythm

As it waxes and wanes

There could be no more exquisite

Echo in time

Than love's calligraphy flowing

Around my every curve...

By Sharon Cunningham

Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/sharon.cunningham.5076

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Plot Twist

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…one he tried to save when our souls started to fade,

Fade so far into the unknown

Some times I wonder,

If I should have gone into the dark?

Sometimes I think of the things I would have seen and the darkness,

Oh how that silken touch still lingers on my soul,

But how should I speak of the things I dream?

When I am at the side of a man so powerful he gave his heart to hold the bond that ties our souls together,

But that taste of pure fire was all I needed to cut through years…

By Marina Vos

Website: https://www.facebook.com/Midnight-Poetry-2169938673280394/

Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/marina.vos.564

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Smoke vanishes into the ceiling

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…men children wives and the hand full of crazies,

None of whom are crazy enough to be wake at 4:30 am

Soon you will be standing over a drill, pummeling concrete, sitting on a plank of wood, eating an early lunch at 10:30

You will make small talk with the other men, men, who wiping sweat from their brow inform you of the 250 dollars they won on the Cowboys last night, or how their wife’s grandmother past away leaving only a collection of ceramic kittens,

The luck, it seems, favors chance over all else, weirdly distributed, handed…

By J. Dano Lampros

Website: http://jakelampros.bandcamp.com

Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/jacob.lampros

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Perfect Imperfections

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…love yourself before someone can love you? Well in a way that isn't necessarily true. Yes, loving yourself is important but think about it ; if a person can fall in love with you while you're a complete wreck, imagine how much more they will love you when you finally become truly happy again. If anything that person that decided to love you is putting the broken pieces of your heart back together and is slowly but surely making you regain the confidence you once had. Making you think "wow this person sees the good in me and loves me…

By Rikki Clark

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The Waiting Room

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…feeling pretty good about myself as I was shown into the waiting room. I’d been one of life’s high achievers so death just seemed like a new beginning to me. I was sure I could make a success of the afterlife in the same way I had in the land of the living.
The waiting room was empty as I entered. My escort bid me goodbye and closed the door quietly as she left.
Alone now, I reviewed my new surroundings. It was, what looked like, a perfect square shaped room. The entrance I’d come into the waiting room through…

By Phill Slater

Website: http://phillslater.blog/

Twitter: pslater1972

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Over, And Over Again

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…broken my heart
A gazillion times
With every breath I take
It starts all over...
Every day...
The moment that I wake

You are my soul...
You're in my heart...
Wherever you may be
But every morning
Again and again
It breaks that you're not here
With me

Over and over
How can I live
When it breaks repeatedly
Tell me, again
And again...and again
It's because you're in love
With …

By Sharon Cunningham

Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/sharon.cunningham.5076

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