Dusted
with
ice and indigo,
deliberate art.
Mango flavor
blast,
stark pop of sunshine.
Knife straight through the heart
She twists it just a little more
Making sure the point's made
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Hey repeat
You a needer
Last night the today beeper
Called me back
Hey repeat
Ima lose her?
Night wards under rains
Ferry won’t visit my shores
Last daymare you have?
Me running out of boys
Like girls cost news
Hey miss
Did works close the deal?
Didn’t rules get you clothes?
Ima mystery from ireland
Just like tank shells
Follow my wind
Brushed off the vested
Gotta let you bake it
Take nuns home in limes
Paused enough lines to bury the sun’s syrup
Deliberate Temptation
Standing here at the crossroads
Waiting for train to come
With no one to hold my hand.
Days turned into Months
A stranger was introduced
Not sure if I should call u Star
Should I call you a Venus?
We met once through the call
But it felt like you a part of my life
You had a Great purpose to serve
You unleashed the Beast in me.
Nourished the seed you never planted
You gave me a vision
Brought meaning into life
Filled an empty heart with love
Brought future even closer
Tears wiped with Words
New Me was Born
Looking forward to a New Day
Deliberate Temptation ???
Lost in a piece of glass
as sunlight chiselled its facets
or is it the side
of something with many sides
or do i just repeat
just pause
friend to frogs and logs and dogs
sitting with your mouth agog
a word so gently placed
can cause a smile to fade
and the deepest darkness
can be saved
Want to be amazed
relive my stolen days
words left on pages
when in the future frayed
Means you've taken time
to become fully aware
without staring
forming portraits
from mere glimpses
always thinking,
I shouldn't be drawing
these kinds of conclusions
but I love materializing
illusions
Going slow means you've
taken account that her skin
is as delicate as the tissue
she used to dry her eyes
the night before.
You careful uncrumble
her reasons
placing kisses
in all of her creases
Slow means you've calibrated
her flame to where her soul burns
blue, eternally for you.
Turn it down and her yearning goes insane
Turn it up and she'll swear she shouldn't
be a participant
Dial it in just right
and desire and restraint
crosses the finish line
at the same time.
Go slow. Don't rush.
Fingertip through her mind
so she erases all her old contacts.
And looks for phone booths,
transforming into
superwoman, just for you.
Uncover her strength.
Unleash her gift.
Let it be known that
you're her kryptonite,
she willingly consumes
Slowly, now my dear.
Your hero has appeared
Grasping a vital key concept ~
The slightest decision made alters one's path
Together become life's significant milestones
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 1st place 2025
ask,question and query
suppose ...compose
at once,now..here there
everywhere
wonder,want..watch
turn and change..learn
see,sigh and describe
imagine.. then inscribe
in touch,at no distance
..blossom..white as a cloud
Sometimes, some days it gets far too much
to fight, claw, cling to the vestiges of dear life;
the light at the end of the tunnel recedes,
and all that is done scars and endlessly bleeds;
then tired, broken, the towel thrown in,
a weary shadow, a scarecrow of what we once were.
No way, no how can the far vistas be seen,
black suffocation, dropped veil of darkness
chokes the vision and snuffs the light,
drowning ambition in dense waves of night;
the voice, the inner worm, says it's all for the best
and so it ends, by default, by love in confusion.
Sometimes, some days, what we do is from guesswork,
not self-pity, nor cruel intent, or even selfishness;
the deliberate fix our handiwork exudes
is a symbol, a totem when logic eludes,
and those that we love we must pray understand
that sometimes, some days, we can see no other way.
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