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 May 2022 wren
William J Donovan
We're always best in our autumn watercolor
  picking apples in golds and reds with the
  weaker light a muted burnt sienna. The
  children are just suggested brush strokes,
  shadows yet real playing in the hay loft.
  We watch in awe with us and everything.
  We're always perfect in the right light.
  If only we could freeze time and love
keep it in a shadow box
safe forever stop the clocks.
 May 2022 wren
Mario Benedetti
Los detuvieron por atentado al pudor. Y nadie les creyó cuando el hombre y la mujer trataron de explicarse. En realidad, su amor no era sencillo. Él padecía claustrofobia, y ella, agorafobia. Era sólo por eso que fornicaban en los umbrales.
 May 2022 wren
Khoisan
Dreamcatcher
hold my hand
draw me close
lift her veil
offer my love
beyond the shallow
on the grail.
 May 2022 wren
Khoisan
I don't ponder
as much as I wonder
is it worth a revelation
do the mind sleep
shut-eye
in the folds of its keep,
are souls
pure beings
devoid of any
role?
half-night,
half-light
half love,
half-life
visitors of the fifth kind?
instilled within
the sinews of our mind.
 May 2022 wren
Khoisan
I spy with my life's eye
a hidden lense out of the coroner's eye
from birth to a blade
love or hate on a single-stage,
one made the cut the other died.
Life of the coroner
 May 2022 wren
nevaeh
Idolatry
 May 2022 wren
nevaeh
it was never love
it was a little kid
obsessed with the image
of sunshine and ivy vines
of summer nights and hugs so tight
that he'd lose his breath forever
and become a god himself
it was the dream
of an abused child
a dream of a love that was endless
and unerring and true
it took 2 years of therapy to realize i never loved you
 May 2022 wren
nevaeh
anger
 May 2022 wren
nevaeh
don't
go through life
hating everything yet
still expecting
love
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 May 2022 wren
nevaeh
summer rain
 May 2022 wren
nevaeh
warm drops of water drip past my eyes
like the hot sparks of insanity in my mind
so i'll keep my visions to myself
and with them i'll go to hide
 May 2022 wren
Eshwara Prasad
Because humans discovered fire before language, they prefer to play with fire rather than words.
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