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Song of First SunriseGreat Spirit, we know we are again on the trails You / have laid out for us, and we extend You permission if we / go off on our own ways again to do what is needed to

Breathless HourPress the blade into my flesh, / watch me bleed, / watch me fall to my knees.

Vow Without A PromiseI couldn't think of what / To promise at this altar but / I can tell you these things:

I knew a poetess, Mariya (tribute, in my meager way)I knew her for a moment / like passages in rhyme / her heart a gentle flutter

@TemporalFugue13

Palimpsest with Fire-Bombing TeethHe finds her work the way a cut finds salt— / by accident, by hunger, by the old compass that turns toward ache. / He sits with the pixeled book open like a door blown inland by weather,

Rolling Earth & Big BarragesPlease lend me thee a borrowed psalm / Of some kind of light / Leaking through an open palm

Where the Faerie FellIn a wood where heather grows high and wide, / And the moon on the bracken makes silver tide, / A mortal walked where none dare stray—

EyesEndless depths in a naked reality / Crafted from the glass of the Milky Way / So that a brush of sunlight could sweep them away

One Month’s MindThey gathered the way people do / when there’s no right way to gather / by accident, by necessity, by love.

The Things I Am NotI am not the things that have happened to me. / Let those words stand like a cup on the table, / plain, chipped, steadfast ...

LIFE SENTENCESometimes, / you are brought back to life / only to serve

@Blue-Sapphire4

StepI am none — a desert with thoughts, / The sun has burned my eyes to ash, / My mouth's palate stung by acid dots,

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The Rock That MurmursThere are tales they tell by the Rheinland swell / Where the cliffs stand gaunt and grey, / And the river runs through a thousand suns

The Experience MachineThere is, they say, an elixir / small enough to rest on a tongue / like a secret

CharterWe sign nothing on paper. / We take oaths / the way frost takes a field—

South Dakota InterludeI have seen a country / where hunger wears clean shoes in one room / and no shoes at all in the next.

The Woman I Buried In MarbleWhen you died by your hand / I carried you into the mountains of my mind / and buried you there in marble.

THE BURNING CANDLEThe candle burns, and so does the moth. / For those who love / shall be consumed by love.

@ZainabSiddiqui8

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Life as SmokeImpermanent… / sometimes without cause, / it lets itself burn

Did I die or did I recover?I freak out, / pop my top, / and

@EtherealWoman15

The Vanishing Act (System Log)⭐ THE POLISHED SELF ™: “The Vanishing Act (System Log)” (part V) / [System Log: 00:00] / Initialization complete.

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Beauty Fades People ChangeThere are many types of Roses / A Rose is a Rose by any other name / Is it still a cherished treat?

@cj-sutherland40

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What Remains of YouSurviving / each second / that isn’t yours,

In Search of the EndIn search of the end, / I lose the beginning; / along the way,

Spat-Out VoicesWords never spent / at torment’s gate, / voices never silenced

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