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 Apr 23 James Ignotus
Zazu
You didn’t deserve my art
You didn’t deserve my mind
You didn’t deserve my poems
You didn’t deserve my heart

But I gave them to you anyway
Distance is an asset
Installed in the heart
Seeking to reach out to affection
Trusting a feeling instead of a value
Accepted from beards in rags
New in words but senile in sight
Committed to the legacy and not the fever
Emitting a light only love can see
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 Apr 23 James Ignotus
Gary
A silver pocket watch
sparkles in the sun.
Magpie, watches, waiting,
for its time to come.
Maybe it’s nothing
Always has been
But whatever it is
I’d do it again
I read your poem
I got my satisfaction
I gathered some humid leafs
And violets
Blossoming there in your head.
 Apr 23 James Ignotus
hannah
i sent a leaf
down the river
it was easier than
folding paper boats
and
swimming
upstream

i watched it leave
down the river
it said goodbye
father rock
mother tree
and
cascaded
downstream
 Apr 23 James Ignotus
Rain
Life feels too heavy.
Too many worries.
Too many pressures.
Too many responsibilities.
Too many hardships.
Pain.
Despair.
Hope turns to despair.
Happiness turns to numbness.
Calmness turns to pain.

Too fast.
So bleed.
Bleed.
Bleed.
Till everything is silent.
But it’s not silent.
It’s not working.
Making me panic.
Why isn’t it working?
It's not a net—
it’s the compassion
of knowing
when to let
the question
go—
like a kite
too wise
for wind.
 Apr 21 James Ignotus
Lyle
Lies
 Apr 21 James Ignotus
Lyle
Lies, deceit
truth stowed away
kept behind clenched teeth
and locked lips
all the while the lies spill
unbound, from desperate mouths
oozing out like honey dripping from
a liar's tongue
Lies, deceit
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