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It took a beard
Of bees,
To bring me
On my knees

Many stings,
To hear the
Bells ring

The honey of love
To soothe
The pain.
 7d Zeno
irinia
For a year now
the cassette tape
has been played
over and over again.

We wake up
and with a swig
of loss
of death
and some tears
we swallow a pill of hope.

We follow a path
winding back and forth like a children’s swing –
long
and exhausting,
a path we know for sure
will end in a fall into
the mud of death.

Many times
we tried
to sew up the holes
that were pierced in our hearts
then we realized
our hearts have become sieves.
The pebbles of death
the tears of sadness
and the heavy memories
are too big to leak out.

by Asmaa Dwaima
 Jun 21 Zeno
1DNA
~
Hush, little one — sleep.

It’s a chapter, not the whole.

It’s time to take a breather.

Let it rest,

mind, body, and soul.

~
Its time for a rest
I woke up this morning
with a thought that said
I think I can I think I can  

I woke up with the sun
making swirlies in the sky
How high, how high ?

I woke up believing
I could change the world
and so I did !!!
 Jun 21 Zeno
aslı
nowstalgia
 Jun 21 Zeno
aslı
city rains fall soft,
old songs in new cafes play—
past smiles in present.
cracked pavement blooms weeds,
once bustling, now silent streets—
echoes mock the now.
ancient gears turn swift,
new tech blooms in old soil—
spring from seasoned roots.
in crowded rooms we stand alone,
ghosts at the feast of our own lives,
souls fed into the machine.
smiling wide but expecting low.
no comfort found in buzzing phones,
but a fleeting passion in finding an old foe.
flickering street lamps dim—
lost whispers among shadows,
for the new hymn.
nowstalgia invokes familiar emotions by reviving elements from the past, often reinterpreted with modern technology to appeal to both new and old generations.
 Jun 20 Zeno
Kalliope
I want to heal, for myself
And for you
Something keeps telling me
I'll still be the fool
You had enough of my unhealed ways,
You'll never trust in my post clarity days
And healing will feel good,
whether I get you back or not
But you lit this candle and
you're what I want
Candles burn out and
flames aren't forever
I should have proven then that
I could get better
Now I'm just a wick,
stuck burnt in dried wax,
ever talking about your scent
even though no one asked
For a moment my house was tranquil
 Jun 20 Zeno
Aphrodite
Love is a whirlwind
Creating a path I can't win
A hurricane force leaving me bleeding
From the debris, forced upon my skin
Preferring the gentle breeze
Of a tease
Please
Don't judge me by my winds
Or by my words
My predictions, in my verse
Name me after the lady in a category
The first of the year
Aphrodite is coming
Prepare
Starting to storm
 Jun 20 Zeno
Thomas W Case
The words and lines
aren't coming today.
I lie down for a nap.
I dreamt of metaphors
and similes.
I woke up.
The years swim away
like bass at spawning
time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tpMDoNXg_U
Here is a link to my you tube channel where I read my poetry from my recently published books, Sleep Always Calls, It's Just a Hop, Skip, and a Jump to the Madhouse, and Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems, all are available on Amazon.
 Jun 20 Zeno
Solaces
It was the in-between.
The moments where we rode together home with no words.
It was just the ride.
The evening beacons (streetlights) guided us home.  
Our bikes we like cars to us.
Taken us to unknown places.

It was the in-between.
The moments we drove together into the night.
Leaving the evening beacons (streetlights) behind.
Ventured into the unknown of the dark with headlights leading the way.
Music carried on conversations about fell on black days and interstate love songs.
Some sang about the crashes of lightning and being far behind.
Our car was like a spaceship to us.
Taken us further into unknown places.

It was the in-between.
The moments where you would come down and just visit.
Under the evening beacons (streetlights) we conversed about it all.
Words took us past the farthest reaches of the unknown and further inward.
It's a forever expanse.
Music was there still. Bluetooth into some speaker.
We revisit the sites of our reached destinations.
Our visits were like a time machine to us.  
Taken us to any point in time we desire.
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