tonight

The answers pend in the sky

As floating stars

As ageless as aside

When the sleep-filled thoughts

Remain in your hands

Out of my control

Learnt  the way to adore

Treasure  and never scorn

Not afraid to talk

Touch and close

Our eyes

Meet in the moon

Tonight.

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Posted for d'verse poets.

Just before Dawn by Artmitten

old is cold

Going north

No highways

Where snow

Is colder

And mountains

Too hard  to climb

Getting lost and

Tripping over frost

A great chance

Leaving behind

What was warm

Also called home

Cannot stop

I am going north.

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First Chill of Winter by Selkie

sex instead

Let’s have sex

Or let’s not

We can play scrabble instead

What is it with all these

ecstasy, orgasm

... Penys?

So let’s have sex

Or let’s not

We can go for a walk

Hand in hand

Through the not so tall grass

In search of that place

Where the sun sets

Once there

You’ll try

And I’ll refuse to have a bug

Crawling inside my… thing

No way

Let’s do it at home

We can prepare the bath

with all those candles and bubbles around

What a lie

This is the most uncomfortable…

Let’s not

I’ll prepare dinner instead

And while I do

What! Wait!

Oh ...  yes!

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Tendresse by Philip Gaida

On Perception

It’s grey

Everyone can notice that

But you insist it’s white

I clearly spot it’s black

As simple as that

But you refuse to change your mind

I climb and crawl

And shout

You tease and bother

And vow

And we compare and confabulate

Then we argue

Then we fight

No more balls

Or somehows

You keep firm

I keep fixed

There comes the battle

And then the war

And years go by

And then there comes the day

When a wise one turns up

To say

Neither was it

Grey.

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Black and White by JodieT

Posted for d'verse poets- week 28- Opening at 8 pm GMT [ 3 pm EST]

What is it ?

What was it

About you and me

That suddenly wanted to vanish

But could not?

What did it have to do

With time

Or distance

Since we  both always knew

Those

Did not exist?

What is it

Among us humans

Trying to stop

Quit

Since we both always knew

Those are but

Different, contradictory

Ways of looking at

The same reality?
...

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Dream In Motion by Tanya Mayers

The Agreement

‘Just one cut or sliced?’

‘This is not joy or pleasure

It’s justice, revenge…

One cut will be fine.’

‘Not sure this is right.’

‘Did he ever tell us about rights?

You were seven, I was five.’

‘Do you think he’ll die?’

‘No, we’ll call them in time’

‘We’ll go to jail…’

‘Yes, and that’ll be heaven!

Ready?’

‘Let’s…’

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To all the victims of sexual abuse and violence.

Posted for d’Verse Poets LinkNight- week 27 - Opening at 8 pm GMT [ 3 pm EST]

Image: Sisters & Secrets by Tanya Mayers

Duelling Inside

Sort of long

Long time ago

A fact so cruel

As a matter of fact

So fool

A sort of

Let’s duel…

Life gave birth

To this sort of ruin

Herein

Where two became one

And could never

Be joined again

Not fun.

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On The Inside (work in progress) by Lee Wilde

dawn

standing before an orange sun

blazing and fleeing clouds

exhaling breath in vapour water

second in

second out

frozen nose

eyes not frowned

deeper in

softly out

a launching bird

distracts my misconception

of place and time.

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Posted for d’Verse  Poets  LinkNight week 26 - Opening   at 8 pm GMT  [ 3 pm EST]

Fading into oblivion by artsmitten
.

12 ideas or so

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Life has brought me to this climax
.

My dreams talk to me
and I listen

.

My attitude warns me
so I move back

.

So many new years
 full of unfulfilled resolutions

.

And again it’s now

.

The time to start it all over again

With a difference

,

The soup I’ll take and enjoy

.

And my bright consciousness

Lighting the path

.

A new old existence

Full of seeds to be watered

To be cherished and let grow.

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Images credits

The view by Catrin Welz-Stein

Construcción 2012 by Pedro Flores