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Pheonix

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Take Me
Markeeta-

Please take me somewhere I am heard.

Take me somewhere I'm understood.

Someone take me where there's peace.

I want to be somewhere where everyone loves each other.

Take me somewhere where there's joy and happiness.

Someone take me somewhere I know I'm appreciated.

Can I go somewhere that I feel loved?

Take me to the place where I can find rest for my soul.

~*~

a blackhole and sunshine
anthony petrevitch

hiding here in the stark void of reality

sleeping for ages to escape the books i have opened and never read

i close myself for all eternity

to lie unseen and untouched by hearts that would take me whole

and leave with nothing 'cept a smile upon my lips

but for each brief moment that i open my eyes to see the light

you are my pleasant surprise

even in the pain of love

and the inescapability of friendship

you make me happy by mere presences

out of sight, but in mind

i see things different with you, almost in color

because they all come back to you

everything... seems to come back to you

even tears that are rightfully mine

and the trust, that i had pushed so far away

~*~

Rage
Melissa Bowman

Rage

hidden inside

what to do

I try to find.

Backstabbing

talking

are some of these things

that make me feel

I should do the same.

But yet I cant

I'm not that kind

to yell

to feel

to tell a lie.

Or maybe I am

I just don't know

where to find

the hidden soul

that screams

that tells

what they feel

No I'm not

No I guess I don't feel.

~*~

Love-
Cody Adams

Love can hurt

love can destroy

love sometimes kills

but love is what makes me try.

Love can also heal

love is what binds me still

love can bring you to your knees

love is what makes me go on.

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FALLING OUT OF LOVE
Troy Edison Tiu Yaw

Bitter times make us cry

depending on your hurt, sometimes you would even want to die

You hate it when your lover's own behavior makes you cold

Your love towards him lessens without being told.

Falling out of love is not a difficult thing

You could still enjoy life: laugh, smile, and sing

Yet there are many sadful times involved

Burdens and problems you have to solve.

Why should these things still happen?

This question would be answered as time passes by

Light would be shed and tears even

It just proves that manly love can die.

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The Adjective Cellar
Archie Wilson

Nestling smugly twixt pepper and salt

The adjective cellar begins it’s assault

When carelessly picked by some epicure

Who sadly considers himself connoisseur

Once the poor dinner guest flips up the top

The words tumble out, they’re awkward to stop

They bounce on the table and under the chairs

And yelling and screaming they bound up the stairs

Normally nouns are wrapped up in chains

Tortured and bound and horribly maimed

now they’re ecstatic about to be pleasured

as picturesque words stand up to be measured!

The Vicar remarks on these halcyon days

Whilst Major Winstanley has Draconian ways

And poor Mrs Kingsley’s exordium chatter

Falls willy nilly on euphoric batter!

The twins are excited in ectopic manner

the cats caught its tail in a Hashemite planner

the Doctor is dissident, red in the face

flapping his hands with acrimonious grace

Sadly the dinner has come to a close

The adjective cellar is back in repose

The nouns are re-bound the adverbs placated

The Vicar, the Major, the Doctor berated

But wasn’t it fun to see how are language

Can blossom and bloom and happily languish

In even the narrowest pinch penny mind

When the fruits of the Adjective cellar are vined!

~*~

There are differences in me now,

an extraordinary and alluring intensity,

even from time to time a calmness,

the very truest of contradictions.

The passion offers me everything,

the serenity requires nothing else,

two conflicting segments of the scale,

both of identical importance.

Making me struggle for breath one minute,

granting a peacefulness the next,

yielding to laughter and exploration,

pleading for me to halt briefly and reflect.

Wide-eyed excitement as seen by a child,

reality through the eyes of a woman,

creating such wonderful spaces of pleasure,

additionally a remarkable tranquility.

Urging intimacy without boundaries,

evermore comfortable in the anticipation,

sharing the innermost depths of myself,

awaiting a sameness given in return.

Bernice Robinson

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Existence is painful

Painful is desire

Desire is someone

Someone is who you can't have

When you can't have that someone, you feel you can't go on

You have long thoughts

You have long tears

You have big cries

You have big fears

There are many things in life, things we can't have

When it comes to love it's more painful then anything else in the world

Love is what you share with someone

That someone is who you want to spend the rest of your days with

Together is forever

Forever is you and your lover

Your lover is equal to one thing

And that is PERFECT

Jill Gauvin

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"Another Day"
Jennifer H. Bell

Another day ends without you here to hold me, to kiss me and tell me you love me

Another day without hearing your voice, feeling your touch, breathing you in.

Even with you close by I still feel distant, like i'm losing a piece of myself.

It's times like this, when everyone is sleep that it all hits me at once.

Throughout the day i can keep myself occupied with simple tasks to help me.

What it would do for my heart, my soul, to feel you touch me with your hands,

To feel your lips pressed so tightly to mine, to hold you and never let go.

I hate this, not knowing what you're doing without me by your side, or how you feel when you go home and not have me there to hold, to say I love you to.

I hope this will all end soon, the emptiness I have within can only be filled by you and by knowing we will one day have everything and be one together.

A house, our children, and be happy.

I love you more then life itself, and I will for the rest of time!

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DOES IT EXIST?
Anna

Seconds go step by step. It is now 4 pm.

If you run or if you cry; if you dance or if you lie,

Time persistently pass by.

Gun shot! Silence. Flash of light…

Golden lamp stands in your sight.

Deeply thinking -- feel in-caged.

Head in hands…

Oh, this is strange!

Time of progress -- time of change!

(-- No time to be enraged.)

Moving slowly through the sky…

Your eyes striped in black and white

So you can't see in day or night:

All is left is drop of ink.

Time flows by with broad spread wings.

Sky in no way shadows it.

Thunderstorm can't tear it…

And the wind in its high dance

Murmurs strangely :" And this will pass…"

~*~

Unconditional
AJ Silvers

emotion,

without words:

touched.

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You Killed Me"
J. Megan

You took away my whole life

You stabbed me with your jealous knife.

You wanted everything I had

You got it and I hope your glad.

I was contempt with my life until you came

You envied my life and wanted my fame.

You took it all and left me empty handed

And now I can't stand it.

You are going to be the one to drive me to my death

I'll be thinking about you when I take my last breath.

How does that make you feel, do you even care?

This is more then I alone can bare.

Everything I had you took it and turned it against me

You spread ugly rumors and made everyone hate me.

Why would you want to be this mean and leave me with this horrible scar?

I don't think you know how powerful your words are.

You thought I had the perfect life, you thought everything was right.

You were wrong and couldn't see it how I did, through my sight.

First my family then my friends

Where will your hurtfulness end?

Now I'm the one craving for control

I want to kill you more than before.

Every night I cry myself to sleep

I don't know how much I can keep.

You know, I could do the same to you.

But I don't. Why? Because I'm true.

I'm ruined because of you...

Congratulations, you've officially killed my soul...

I'm dead,

You killed me.

~*~

A thief
D. Ford

Once I was a little girl

With a sparkle in my eyes,

Then he robbed my innocence

And my heart just died.

The warm tears turned into ice,

Emotions into stone,

The only way I could go on

Is walk this world alone.

Now anyone I meet along

I wound mercilessly,

How can I love a stranger

When I hate what’s within me?

They say time heals all wounds

But it can’t heal what’s dead,

The pain defeated me

And watched my spirit as it bled.

My happiness was cut so short,

The sparkle was so brief,

All that I ever cherished

Was taken by a thief.

~*~

Dragons Of Rose
Amy Marie

Stumbling through the murky darkness

My heart pulsating at a fast pace

As eyes of red burn into my soul

While I slowly trudge through this mystical place.

Catching the scent upon my arrival

They hide in the darkness of the night

Awaiting the mistake of their victim

To inflict an almost deathening bite.

Upon a rock there she stands

The guardian of sacred love

A blackened angel with wings of fire

Guarded by her daemons perched above.

I stand my ground and draw my sword

Only to be taken from behind

The pain was sharp, world went black

Awakening to find myself bloody and blind.

Mistaken beauty for heartless darkness

I, now a knight without my metal clothes

Destroyed for my lack of loyal trust

Disarmored by the Dragons of Rose.

~*~

Hiding
amanda L

Runaway, runaway

Hope to find me again today

Somewhere in the back of your mind

or tingling up your spine

Look for me with your heart and not your eyes

for I may be wearing a disguise

If I am, then runaway, runaway

Because you'll find the real me some other day

~*~

Fear.
Rose

Fear

nested

like a murmur

lost in our

dry parched throats.

We said nothing,

we were like

decayed tulips

little moans

in the proximity

of all these perverse

distances.

~*~

MY BED
Theresa

Sometimes when I think about my day

And there are millions of thoughts

clouding my head.

I stop for a moment

and feel the luxury of my sheets,

Their softness,

The comfort of my large bed,

Me stretched out, rolling in it.

Then I think how great it is to be alive.

Then I smile,

The corners of my mouth stretching along with me on the bed.

Ah, the simple pleasure of rolling on a bed.

~*~

Star Sweeping
Spyros Dellios

As I was sweeping

Heaven's Darkness

I gathered the stars

into a corner

so that I could look at them

later

at my leisure.

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A Breath of You
Chadd

I have taken a breath, a breath of you

I Feel your warmth and the wet of dew

You touch my heart, my trembling soul

Spinning my head, now losing control

The thoughts I have, of only you

A touch so deep, if you only knew

Your laugh so rich, a soul so pure

To share your life, you bravely endure

A little girl, you’ve try to hide

A given moment, I’ve looked inside

A woman of wonders, one so near

I’ll hold you close and erase the fear

So feel my warmth, your love a new

I have taken a breath, a breath of you.

~*~

He speaks to me in sage grass whispers

broken wings and branches

and grey sky blanket song

warming reminder of summer's youth

I walk with His Breath in my face

oblivious to the subtle language

numbing my lips

and singing

singing to my winter soul

in tongues I scarce understand

She dances seductive while He sings

seventy times seven veils revealing

secrets of Man

Stan Yow

~*~

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