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Philosophical & Intellectual
Dhamma Vicaya f/ Jamadhi Verse
Prayers leave your feet / With every step in front of you, / A rising sun made kaleidoscope
@Awakening
38
Song of First Sunrise
Great 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
@Awakening
115
Being Yourself
You are dangerous / when you refuse / to perform
@afrota
23
Connections in Infrared
exhibitionist and ****** are linked by common need. / the people of outer, inner Los Angeles live in houses with huge windows; they cruise one another insolently, unafraid of being watched as they watch; privacy is meaningless—there is only the sexiness of endless scrutiny and quick encounter. / he feels the heat, the balance between absorbed and emitted. the camera captures the changing blood flow in her skin. she scatters and absorbs far less than him.
@Carlo-C-Gomez
4
Sunshine
navigates / through hedges, lilacs, and greens, / creates
@EvelynYiningChen
25
His Very Own Prayer (2014)
Lord: / no bequest requested. / no grant, no teach,
@nat-lipstadt
169
doors are always closing and parts of yourself are left behind them forever.
“doors are always closing and parts of yourself are left behind them forever.” / Caitlyn Flanagan* / <>
@nat-lipstadt
67
Cast No Shadow
I don’t walk toward death. / I walk toward my fellas' needs, / Toward the kids in their beds,
@Awakening
192
Why Math?
why me? / of all the subjects, / why me?
@slynepeonie
22
Building An Empire: A Poet's Process
First, I claim my land and choose my artillery for / Paper and for pen. / Before going into battle, my men are prepped with
@racquel-davis
10
Star Light, Star Bright...
First star I see tonight— / not with eyes, but with the soul's aching lid / half-lowered in the hush of dusk.
@Awakening
59
The Version of Me That Doesn't Perform
⭐THE UNPOLISHED SEASON — Poem X (final poem) / I woke up this morning / without the version of myself
@VerseBuster
49
9
Dreams
The very second / we wake from them, / they can be so very, very
@Awakening
31
The Day the Mountains Moved
One morning, / The mountains resigned. / They handed in their notice
@vimi
59
Palimpsest with Fire-Bombing Teeth
He 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,
@Awakening
114
By the Wire to the Contagious Household
It is spring. / that is to say / another season tries to begin
@Awakening
375
THE HEART LONGS
মন যায় (TITLE) / মন যায় তোমাক আকৌ এবাৰ চাবলৈ, / মন যায় তোমাক কাষত পাবলৈ,
@Blue-Sapphire
18
Eyes
Endless depths in a naked reality / Crafted from the glass of the Milky Way / So that a brush of sunlight could sweep them away
@Damjana
15
In Another Life
It was not a meeting... / not in the way the world counts meetings, / with names exchanged
@Awakening
69
When You Leave Letters For Each Other Inside The Apartment
**Dear Taliia,** / Comrades making hundreds of crazy / TikTok dance videos in the forest
@Awakening
765
passing through
in a sense i am within everything / and everything is within me / like gurgling water, fearless smoke, greetings wrapped in the sky’s words
@cemyekta
7
Empathy's dead
Last week I read / A sign that said / "Empathy's dead"
@PeterGerstenmaier
15
The Things I Am Not
I am not the things that have happened to me. / Let those words stand like a cup on the table, / plain, chipped, steadfast ...
@Awakening
73
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