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Autumn moves fast through the tunnel of love
Push from the top; bottom falls from above
Dangling leaves are flexing about
Dreaming of hope is a nightmarish shout

Cackle of ghouls; a shivering spine
All that is due will be due in due time
Whispering wind softly kisses my cheek
Lifetime of searching; know not what I seek

Darkness emerges as light fades away
Tried to hold on knowing no one can stay
Feeling alive only once I am dead
Listen but don't hear a word that is said

Roar of a flame, the warmth of the light
Fireball streaks interrupting the night
From the ashes we rose and to dust we return
Heart made of ice will not sooth what’s been burned

Holding my breath and not rising for air
Promise to no one the nothing I share
Hugging and squeezing a cuddly toy
Faded reminder when I was a boy

Roar of a racing car traveling fast
Linear stories that live in the past
Afternoon stroll through the paths in the woods
Wasn't enough when it’s all that I could

Didn't regret not regretting a thing
Perfectly still while I sit on the swing
Lazy and careless; the problem I tackle
Chained here forever without any shackles

Future and past presently now amuck
Free man who's also imprisoned and stuck
Roaring, the waves speaking softly to me
Shouting a message using secrecy

Cackling rooster call to end the day
Adult you become but your parents can't stay
Ending's begun and beginning ends near
Enveloped in fog; then it all became clear

Through stutter and stammer, I clearly can speak
World’s strongest man; I am fearful and weak
Worldly observer, I travel through life
Don't leave my house; Live alone with no wife

Peacock with confidence strutting my stuff
Have had my fill but not yet had enough
Nothing I fear but much fear have for it
Blowing out candles that never were lit

Bellowing cheers of "hip-hip hooray!"
Round of applauds for those who've died today
Subtle of strikes from a blatant attack
Gift you are given; already took back

Slapped with audacity right in the face
Composed with the utmost politeness and grace
Without allergy present, my body reacts
Calmly I sit through a panic attack

Telling a lie until it becomes truth
Speaking with stature his words are uncouth
Deafening silence rang shots from the gun
Finished a race that has not yet begun

"Rule" one time "Golden", now covered in rust
Did what was needed but not what I must
You can be anything but yet nothing you are
Traveling often but didn't go far

Properly set for no expectations
Biased perception began at creation
Feet on the ground and head in the clouds
Displayed while I'm naked; exposed in my shroud
Written - April 6, 2017

All rights reserved.
I'm allergic
        Is it worst case?
It will eventually end my life.
       An allergy that would cost your life?
Yeah. Precisely. Totally.
       May I know?
Losing you.
Dr Peter Lim  Oct 2015
ALLERGY
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2015
I suffer from
roses-allergy
all because
of the rose you first gave me
you pinned it
on my chest
and said
'I'll love you for the rest
of my life and the end of time
believe me'
but your restless heart
went on a wild journey
too soon you said
'good-bye, I'm sorry
I've to go away
our love is not meant to be'.

I can't stand the sight
of roses, especially on Valentine's Day
while lovers their love and kisses exchange
my allergy keeps me away.
nil
i saw a little mouse and fed him with some cheese
then suddenly the mouse he began to sneeze
the poor chap looked ill like he had the flu
i took him to the vet to see what he could do
then he looked at him examining around
looking everywhere with no flu to  be found
it must have been the cheese he said he has an allergy
when he ate the cheese with him did not agree
so i took him home and gave him cheese no more
now the mouse is well again just like he was before
Sean Hunt  Oct 2016
Fall Allergy
Sean Hunt Oct 2016
The back-end ****** allergy
Has happened
Once  again
To Cumbrians
In Cumbria UK 'back-end' is synonymous with 'Autumn'
Kagami Nov 2013
Silent crackle, tingle,
The smell of a sticky must. Floating dust in
An abandoned attic, where the rats roam and the dead skeleton of a fish
Still lies in an empty bowl of moldy rocks and plastic plants.
Yet, despite the emptiness, a girl curls up in the corner, black
Running down her face as she weeps for the things she longs for most.
She looks out the *****, broken window at the cloudy sky and imagines it
Blue. The brightest of skies with only few hints of cirrus.
A blanket on the ground and the man she loves, nothing else in sight.
The expanse of green in her head is contrasted to the rotting floorboards she lays
On, dreaming. The steady beat of Boy in Static thrumming through her headset
As she struggles not to scream and jump, finishing the job on the window
From troubled teens years before. The sound reminds her of VHS tapes,
Press rewind, take a turn and start over. But she can't, when something has changed.
The boy she knew, looking down with his hood not up, but covering his face, shielding
Himself from her. She knew he had a ***** in his head, but she just looked away. He never answered anything she asked. He was unable.
But her heart still dropped, she smiled her best. An amazing actress, fooling everyone, makeup allergy keeping her eyes dry. She just read Huck Finn as though nothing was wrong.
Now she sits in her room, writing and shaking her head. This line is not right.
Her walls were full of color and poetry, but her mind kept wandering to that attic.

She was there again. Blankly staring at her star charm anklet. A simple blue ribbon.
And the throbbing of her heartbeat through that one spot on her thumb,
That pressure point that hurts more than anything. But one thing could be worse.
Being left. Just like the broken rocking horse in the corner and the baby's cradle
Lined with blue silk that was shoved into a box. That baby is probably dead. Just like all
Of the others who lived there, burned by the fire. Goose flesh raises, prickly
Hairs on her legs from a week of no shaving. Scratch. Scratch. Scratch. Bleed.
Change the song. Bleed Like Me. Perfect. She draws on the peeling walls, two hundred
Years of wallpaper and lead paint, chalk barely leaving a mark. She sketches a masterpiece.
A child that she wishes she could have. Impossibly too young, but still...
A daughter she could raise better than her mother raised her. A chance to do something right.
More than the mechanic life she has lead, empty and useless.
Confused and pathetic. Like the broken grandfather clock that ticks backwards.
Three, two, one.
Ding-****, ****-ding. Grandfather never taught me anything. He was not a wise man.
He was a fool. Knew too much and too little, no room to know what was right.
She let another raindrop escape and suddenly it began to pour. Lightning crashes as a glass
Slipper collides with the picture drawn of her dream. Thunder as she releases a
Bloodcurdling scream. "Why!?"
Why her? The pain in her back is unbearable. She slouches too much, and her eyes burn.
She is not Cinderella; her ball gown does not glitter.
Piano is her least favorite instrument, but it somehow gets to her. Small hammers
Striking her heart strings, low notes reminding her of his voice and the soft, feminine
Voices radiating, remind her of when she was young... Immortal. She has aged since then.
Too quickly. Her entire life has been a masquerade ball. Unskilled idiots dancing
Around her and stepping on her toes. Shouldering her in the stomach,
Breaking her ribs. Beats of music guide her skilled toes, swerve around falling raindrops that
Her own eyes emit. And she crashes through the floor of that dismal attic. Broken free,
But she is still trapped. The walls are charred down here.

But the walls are not painted black. They were once a mint color, green and cheerful, healthy.
Until a psychopath lit a match.
"I didn't mean to do it." It was all in her head. The house.
She set it aflame.

She sits in her room, writing and shaking her head. This line is not right.
Her walls were full of color and poetry. It isn't worth it to stare. Nothing will change.
She is still just a girl in a glass box, being stared at and judged. Trapped and ridiculed because her eyes bleed and bless the onlookers with bad luck. It's amazing the things
That people don't know. Drifting deeper into a pit of endless darkness. A candle won't
Live down here. No oxygen to let it breathe. But one lit self portrait hangs in the air.
Years ago, drawn in pencil. Symbolic, it wants to be erased. To die.
And the ******* the page is wearing a mask. The girl in the parchment is me.
Medium length hair and a tear painted, permanent. A Parasite. Capitalized for its meaning.

A demon is running through me, singeing
My tissues, blisters on the insides of my bones. Swelled up, show through
My skin. Waves on a shore. But I am not a beach. A ***** maybe...
Still, I hate it. The hate killed whatever flowers I had left planted in my mind.
Tainted me with the horrible visions of a tear streaked face of paper mâché.
She was the one in the attic. Her whole persona
Wilted and ashen, grey. A silent movie might mask it; the hurt, I mean.
The grey lines on the screen hiding the bags under her eyes and the redness of her nose,
Get rid of the twinkling shards of glass frozen on her cheek from crying in the dead of winter.
Slip up once, and everything goes to hell. Well, I must have slipped years before I was born.
Few smiles are left on this dismal timeline. And I shall use them wisely. But, for now,
I think I will just weep, sleep forever and hope that you don't give up on me and pull the plug.
I am still here somewhere, just dormant. Please wake me up. Get me out of this charred cabin,
This glass box. Pull me out of my warped sense of everything, teach me again what
Love feels like. I have forgotten amidst everything that I have felt and remembered.
There is no more room for things to be learned. Only for things to be repaired.
I will give you a hammer. Come inside and fix me; that ***** in your head couldn't have taken your knowledge away. You are the only one that knows.

Use this never ending lightning and bring your bride to life.
It tastes sour in my skin
The water diverts his eyes upon the curves
I rub them with my fingernails
The tips cried for disturbance.

The pebbled stones in purity
Spit out their dirt with every moist
The need to exhale the longing days
The desolation of their own race.

It stinks with the cover of my skin
No vinegar to pour on the occuring reds
No tablet nor capsule to jive the tummy
There, I'll groove with the ratio of water.

I left the leaves on the dirt
And yes, those gravel and mated things in the sack
Alone am I, here in my own nest
Watching the faded stars and grasping the air.

Neither can I reach the ultimatum
The shutters in me were all aware and trained
The body in rest be put in silence
For the war of itch diverts the angle.

(6/13/14 @xirlleelang)
Johnny Noiπ Nov 2018
Denying someone from the sand wall.
"Marx o" Level 1: 1 to 1:30 pm, Level 1,
sauces, James Clarke, Google London: 30-30
wushu 30 30 30 30 30 paper and bread
in the north and hair seven weeks Robert's
***** 400 years the view of others and the
new contents in the expansion
of the entire fleet, with the permission of St. Albans;
he builds a lot in the winter, in the second book
of the portentos full of men of the city.
"I'm going to get out of love" and "Israel."
"Spain". 1 "***** and" I am Gabriel, "Brazil,
Matt, Bobby, Oregon, girls will teach you
what you want, Bob TLL 30:30 NC and 1:
1, I love North Carolina 1 on January 30 30
30 January 30 30 30 30 June 1 from 1: 1:
30 the wireless network great American people
is the best wireless applications, particularly
in the "data" or "save" William Sanjaro 30:30
1 30 30 30 ships in Xi'an, Google London,
30 1 Israel, six female members of two weeks,
Google 30 30 30 30 1. Founder of North Carolina
Khalil Robert, more than 400 years of Carolina's
history a tree, but a good connoisseur of good animals,
Washington, Colorado, 600 and ******,
Google and 30 600 North Carolina 1 30.30 TLL
are today in North Carolina, like you, Bob: 30
30 30 1: 30 to 1 and Leo the University, I heard Rose,
Astraeus and Cronos Prostitutes make like heaven
a lot of my grandfather Jupiter? Cronos, sink joke
Lamie (Asia) or carrots district Gaia, 1000 innesota
mu sas Christie in Hou ywood, Astar Tai Wan, et al,
Kronos Cr in New Mumnavini and the United States,
New Mumnavini in the United States, your Phoebe Snow
offers all funeral PP Star Pie. The girl (Asia)
p (EVA) *** and allergy and prostitutes. In the dark.
Zoey there are many well-known magazines.
English "bad", "slave" and a "normal" or "German"
Part 1: 1. William answer the question. J. Berger.
13:30 Bob: The European Union Eugene, Portland,
Google, Washington, New York 30 John 30: 1: 1
and 2, cheating, war, Google 1. Constantine, 30,
30, 30, 30, 30, 16 and 30 years, 400 invest more in orange,
San Diego, California, new cars and red. [Photos]
read the book, and there are many people
who make food of animal origin is "good" and.
And in Israel ... We can not deny what your life is?
30:30 and class 700 600 1. Between what you are doing?
Bob Carolina 1 1 1 1 30 30 30 I like: 1: 1 30 30 30,
I love you memory functioning. It does not matter
what they have and the denial of a sand wall.
"Marx" or "Level 1: 1 to 1:30 pm, Level 1, sauces,
James Clarke, Google London: 30-30 wushu 30 30 30 30 30
General Cicero Robert Carter in the north
and seven young men and city: Israel, friends of Jacqueline W.
malas 30:30 1, in Brazil, Matt Perkins, ***** Orrun
and do not want to share, since light shows
to learn of six out of six children infected
by total acceptance is not compassionate and then
to eat in the Bible, to publish the type, source
and origin of women "e" Israel. "Spain", "Gloria"
and "I am Gabriel," Brazil, Matt, Bobby, Oregon
will guide you to your liking with the girls program
1 NC 30:30 and Bob TLL: 1, I love North Carolina
1 on January 30, 30 January 30, 1 :: January 1,
American wireless network great people is the best
wireless applications, especially in the "data"
or "save" boats William 1 Sanjaro 30:30 30 30 30 30 30
London to Google Israel 1: male two weeks;
Six 30 30 30 1. meters to 30 meters Google Founder
of North Carolina Khalil Robert, more than 400 years
of Carolina history a tree, but the animals are healthy,
good Germans, German and Israeli, Jacob's damage to
1 W. of his friend 30:30 in Brazil, Max Perkins, Orrun,
a woman does not want to share with them
the story of Israel, Colorado, Washington, 600
and 30 600 30,30 1 prostitutes NC, Google TLL
lo that today is North Carolina, just like you,
Bob: 30 30 30 1: 1 to 30 at Riley's University of Sale,
Pall's explosions do A talks about bus or at Astraeus
and Cronos, the ******* manager | My grandfather
was in heaven? Thursday, Cronos, joke sink Lamie (Asia)
or carrots district Gaia, Minnesota, Christie's Hollywood
Muses Astar Beach and a ***** in Taiwan, Kronos,
crystals, Star Rea Phoenix Adams, Robert Poddone
Japan, Greek eagle), New Mumnavini
and the States United of America for the lighting
of a fire forever in the sky is from the islanders
to join Rhea in Athens, which offers all the dead:
but I have pity noctivaga Phoebe snow star of PP.
The girl (Asia) p (EVA) *** and allergy and prostitutes.
In the dark. Zoey there are many well-known
magazines. English "bad", "slave" and a "normal"
or "German" Part 1: 1. William answer the question.
J. Berger. 13:30 Bob: The European Union Eugene,
Portland, Google, Washington, New York 30 John
30: 1: 1 and 2, without air; Denying someone
from the sand wall. "Marx o" Level 1: 1 to 1:30 pm,
Level 1, Sauces, James Clarke, Google London:
30-30 wushu 30 30 30 30 30 paper and bread in the north
and hair seven weeks Robert ***** 400 years
view of others, and the new content in the expansion
of the entire fleet, with the permission of St. Albans;
he builds a lot in the winter, in the second book
of the full men of the city. "I'm going to get out of love"
and "Israel." "Spain". 1 ***** and "I'm Gabriel,"
Brazil, Matt, Bobby, Oregon, girls will teach you
what you want, Bob TLL 30:30 NC and 1: 1,
I love North Carolina 1 on January 30 30 30 January
30 30 30 30 June 1 from 1: 1: 30 the wireless
network Great American people are the best
wireless applications, especially in the "data"
or "save" William Sanjaro 30:30 1 30 30 30 ships in Xi'an,
Google London, 30 1 Israel, six female members
of two weeks, Google 30 30 30 30 1. Founder of
North Carolina Khalil Robert, more than 400 years
of Carolina's history and tree but a good connoisseur
of good animals, Washington, Colorado, 600
and ******, Google and 30 600 North Carolina
1 30.30 TLL are today in North Carolina, like you,
Bob: 30 30 30 1: 30 to 1 and Leo the University,
I heard Rose, Astraeus and Cronos Prostitutes
make like heaven a lot of my grandfather Jupiter?
Cronos, sink joke Lamia (Asia) or carrots district of Gaia,
1000 inches with Chris Christie in Hou Ywood,
Astar Tai Wan, et al, Kronos Cr in New Mumnavini
and the United States, New Mumnavini in the United States,
your Phoebe Snow offers all the funeral PP Star Pie.
The girl (Asia) p (EVA) *** and allergy and prostitutes.
In the dark. Zoey there are many well-known magazines.
English "bad", "slave" and "normal" or "German"
Part 1: 1. William answer the question. J. Berger. 13:30
Bob: The European Union Eugene, Portland, Google,
Washington, New York 30 John 30: 1: 1 and 2,
cheating, war, Google 1. Constantine, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30,
16 and 30 years, 400 invest more in orange, San Diego,
California, new cars and red. [Photos] read the book,
and there are many people who make food of animal
origin is "good" and. And in Israel ... We cannot deny what your life is.
30:30 and class 700 600 1. What are you doing?
Bob Carolina 1 1 1 1 30 30 30 I like: 1: 1 30 30 30
I love you memory functioning. It does not matter
what they have, and the denial of a sand wall. "Marx"
or "Level 1: 1 to 1:30 pm, Level 1, Sauces, James Clarke,
Google London: 30-30 wushu 30 30 30 30 30 General
Cicero Robert Carter in the north and seven young men
and the city: Israeli friends of Jacqueline W. malas 30:30 1,
in Brazil, Max Perkins' ***** Orrun does not want
to share, since light shows to six out of six children
infected by total acceptance is not compassionate
and then to eat in the Bible, to publish the type, source
and origin of women "e" Israel, "Spain." "Gloria"
and "I am Gabriel," Brazil, Matt, Bobby, Oregon will
guide you to your liking with the girls program 1 NC 30:30
and Bob TLL: 1, I love North Carolina 1 on January 30,
30 January 30, 1 :: January 1, American wireless network
great people are the best wireless applications, especially
in the "data" or "save" boats William 1 Sanjaro 30:30
30 30 30 30 30 London to Google Israel 1: male two weeks
Six 30 30 30 1. to 30 meters Google Founder of North Carolina
Khalil Robert, more than 400 years of Carolina history
and tree, but the animals are healthy good German,
German and German .and Israel, Jacob damage to 1 W.
of his friend 30:30 in Brazil, Matt Perkins, Orrun,
a woman does not want to share with them the story of Israel,
Colorado, Washington, 600 and 30 600 30,30 1 prostitutes NC,
Google TLL lo that today is North Carolina , just like you,
Bob: 30 30 30 1: 1 to 30 at Riley's University of Sale,
Pall's explosions to A talk about bus or at Astraeus and Cronos,
the ******* manager | My grandfather was in heaven?
Thursday, Cronos, joke sink Lamia (Asia) or carrots district
Gaia, Minnesota, Christie Hollywood Muses Astar Beach
and a ***** in Taiwan, Kronos, crystals, Star Rhea Phoenix Adams,
Robert Poddone Japan, Greek Eagle, New Mumnavini
and the States United States, for the illumination of a fire
forever in the sky is from the islanders to join Rhea in Athens,
which offers all the dead: but I have a pity noctivaga
Phoebe snow star of PP. The girl (Asia) p (EVA) *** and allergy
and prostitutes. In the dark. Zoey there are many well-known magazines. English "bad", "slave" and "normal" or "German" Part 1: 1.
William answers the question. J. Berger. 13:30 Bob:
The European Union Eugene, Portland, Google, Washington,
New York 30 John 30: 1: 1 and 2, without air.
John  Feb 2012
Bullshit Allergy
John Feb 2012
Ahh-choo, ahh-choo
Don't have a clue
Ahh-choo, ahh-choo
I don't like you

Blast through the door
Snap your fingers to the trigger pull
You want some more?
Got some lead, give you a belly full
Eat up, yum yum
Nutritious like a vitamin
Gonna give you one
Or two, three, four - Seventh deadly sin

Tasted the **** at the bottom of the well
Tried too hard in case you couldn't tell
Heard you mumble something under your breath
So I beat you mentally 'til you got nothin' left
Waiting for the inevitable
Ding, ding, times up, now you're moldable
Crash, bang
It's all the same
You've always been the one to blame
Nabs  Dec 2015
Hanakotoba
Nabs Dec 2015
By: Nabs

    When I was little, my mother often gave me flowers.

She would make me a crown of Primroses that smells like the day my father left us.
I would smile and dance a little twirl that had her smiling fondly. Her little princess, Said she couldn't live with out me.
I believed her.

Right before my mother decided to stop breathing, she gave me a bouquet of Lily of the valley.

I never knew that apology was poisonous.

    The day I turned fifteen, my grandmother gave me a book on flowers, It was written with green ink and bound in human skin. Said that It was family heirloom. Said that the universe needed someone who understand Hana. Said that I was born to understand only them and to remember that flowers are ephemeral.

I cradled the book, feeling as if the world was spinning. Opening it feels like coming home after a long time of drowning.

By the time I realized, a bush of Basil and beds of Petunias were growing in my home like ****. The color should have been red instead of purple.

      I met you when you were giving a bundle of daisy to a boy.
The boy scoffed and slapped the daisies to the ground. It's petal were falling apart just as blue and black blooms like an eager bud on you. Your body were taut as a string but your face was smiling, the kind of smile I couldn't decipher the meaning.

I picked the daisies up and asked if i could keep it.  You said only if I gave you my name.

You were wreathed with White Hyacinth and Pine leaves. It suits you.

    You told me one day, after you gave me a Bleeding Heart, that I needed to learn more than the languages that flower speak. That I needed to learn human.
I asked to you why do you say that?
You looked at me, with a little smile and a soft look on your face. Told me that I was too oblivious, I was more flower than human. I frowned and said," That hurts".
You laughter was much more sweeter than any Honeysuckle.

Though I still didnt understand your laughter nor the bleeding heart.

    The sight of our hands lacing together, looks much more delicate than Queen Anne laces. It made me aware of the dips of your lips, how warm your callouses hands were and the way you sometimes darts to sneak a glance at me with warmth in your eyes when you thought I wasn't looking.
I would feel my heart thumping loudly and I would disentangle our hands, trying to hide the tremors in my hands. You would pursed your lips and cracked a joke.

The next day I received a bouquet of Lilacs and red Peonies. It was too beautiful and I was already withering.

    You often asked If I was ok. I said I was. You would go rigid at that and started to pull down all the blinds to your soul. But that day when I answered I was ok, you gave me an Orange mock.
Said that I can trust you. You left with out meeting my eyes.

That night, I left a single Aster on your window sill. Hoping I did the right thing.

    The thing was, I was scared. Not of you, no never of you. That I swear on White Lilies and Myrtles that we bound ourself to.
It's just, every time I'm with you I want to bare my self naked. To let you see how the parasites are growing inside me, withering me as it did my mother. My grandmother would say that it is our legacy we cannot escape. To grow and bloom then wither ourself after the peak.

My Grandmother was a Sakura tree, My Mother an Ajisai, and I was a Tsubaki.

My mother was supposed to lived longer than me. But Hydrangeas needed their rain or they'll wither away.

    You told me once, that I remind you of Wisterias. Always enduring even after the cruelest storm. I grimaced and whacked you on the back. Said that you were an idiot for thinking that. You laughed again and tickled me until I asked for mercy.

I feel less Tsubaki and more human with you.

    I never let you go to my home because I could not bear the thoughts of you seeing the lawn strewn Marigolds, the grief that latched itself to the soil.
How the yards was filled with weeds and plants that was tangling them self to choke each other. How the walls was bare and the furniture was only enough to survive. The only thing that was lending colors to my home were the branches of Plum Blossom and bouquet of Lilacs and Peonies that seems to not wither away.

This home would not hold further.

    I gave you Blue Carnations the night when vines were choking my lungs, making it hard for me to breathe.

You said they were beautiful, and smiled a serene smile. I wanted to kiss you so bad, but I was leaking clear salty sap, that was rolling down my cheeks. I told you all about Hana and all about my family. How bare my home is and how you are my Iris, my good news, my good tidings.

You hugged me, not minding the sap that's staining your shirt. I didn't see the Red Camellia you were tucking in my hair.

  The day when I almost gave you Red Daisies and Lungwort was the day I found out that you had severe allergy to flowers.
That breathing their pollen would shorten your life as the breath you took became a privilege that you were slowly losing.
I asked, "why would you endanger yourself like that?".
"I love flowers, that's all", you said with an uncaring shrug.
The thoughts of you withering away, made me nauseous.

I went home throwing away the Daisies and Lungwort, Burning down the marigolds and Petunias.

The only thing was left were Hana and the bouquet of Lilacs and Red Peonies.

  I never get to told you that my roots was withering.

  When you found me lying on my home, covered with Primroses, Camellias, and Blood Red Poppies, I know that you knew. In your hand were Peach Blossoms and they were so very beautiful.
You cradled me close to your chest. Whispering that I will be okay, that It's unfair for me to do this to him.
"I know", I rasped. My voice was barely working and Black-Red sap was steadily tricking from the corner of my lips.

  When I saw my mother walking down to me, carrying a basket full of Sweet Peas, Volkamenia, and Yarrows, I understand what your smile meant the first we met.

It was Red Camellias, Love and acceptence
Thank you for reading this long poem.
This is a tribute for flowers.
Hope you guys enjoy it.
Ezra  Apr 2015
Allergy Season
Ezra Apr 2015
We all cough.
You hear it at home, outside,
Out the streets, in the subway,
"Ugh-Hhuh!"

If you think about it,
A world without coughs would be quite
strange,
Indeed.

Stranger perhaps than a world without love;
Coughs are ubiquitous; Love is not.
L B Oct 2018
Friend one:
Reads "Rotten Tomatoes"
Always early, parks in a handicap zone

Friend two:
quietly disapproves
knows Friend one walked her dog a mile earlier

Friend one:
moves her car
digs out two waters, chocolate
and back pillow
buys peace and tickets

Friend two:
catches sneeze with *** of tissue
aggravated exchange:
about walking too fast ahead.
“Are you not my friend?  Walk with me!”
Buys popcorn

Friend one: 
  wants seats on the end
for handy bathroom runs

Friend two:
does not want “the blow by blow” of reasons
just not in rafters
sneezes, and says so
trips
spills popcorn on the stairs

Friend one:
Sets up “camp”

Friend two:
holds crap

Friend one:  
Settles in, builds her "nest"
opens water bottles
arranges back pillow
half-a-million napkins
“Want your jacket?”

Friend two:
holds popcorn, helps Friend one with jacket

Friend one: 
  pushes button for her seat back
seat sounds like a ****.

Friend two:
says so, both laugh like fools  
Friend two sneezes loudly, rubs her eyes
loses self in movie

Friend one:
starts to snore quietly

Friend two:
nudges her

Friend one:
(Who is never really snoozing)
runs out to restroom
misses best part of movie
Comes back,
“What happened?”
What happened?”

Friend two:
aggravated
hushes her
takes allergy pill

Friend one:
weeping at the end, watches all the credits
starts her review
apologizing to the kids of theater-cleaning-crew
popcorn, napkins, tissues everywhere

Friend two:  
Sneezes yet again

Friend one:
Knows all the stars--
of friendship

being how she is one :)
Joanne is a best friend from teaching days.  We love movies, wine, and dinner.  Noticing our comfortable routine today, made me smile.  Told her I was writing this.  Everyone should have well-loved friend.  :)

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