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Premium Member Different Friends Know a Different Me

Different friends know a different me.
For I am not the same with Margaret as I am with Lee.
I cannot be the same, and neither can they.
We have history, each making our story in a different way.

If you have a forever friend, you know what I mean.
You can pick up the phone and twenty years of silence goes away.
Your reactions, shared stories, memories, and laughter together is unique.
A different relationship with each friend.

Each friendship is sacred, living on her own planet.
Resting where others cannot go, a place you cannot begin to explain.
A planet reserved for two, held together by the 
uniqueness you find in each other.

When I get my friends together we have a pleasant time,
But our hidden stories are not on the table. Our unique relationships 
Are not touched on. Our hidden planet lives are safe.  
Unique only to me and one other.
Whether it be me and Susan or me and Elise, uniquely ours.

A story all of our own. That cannot be explained.
A planet where no one else is invited.
Uniquely our own.
Different friends, different me.
Different me with different friends.


Do we truly know

I have known him for years
But have I truly known
Or do I just know
What  I think is right 
He smiles, he is a thinker 
But what about his quirks, his hates, 
His likes, his dislikes 
I know none of them
So do I know him 
Is what I wonder a lot 

The more I think 
The more I fall deeper 
Into thought of illusion and confusion of who I like 
My love or me being in love.

we selfish being 
Can never truly know other person 
Because that would mean putting ourselves away form Spotlight for once 
Can we do that 
Can we 
I don't think so 

Are we that self consumed with ourselves 
That we cannot even try to spare glance 
At the existence of the real person outside 
Our perception of that person
I ask when we say I love him 
Do I see him or
Merely the reflection of our ideal self 
And the version that could never exist 
This make me doubt 
Do we truly understand the beautiful complexity what love is 

Love is not just some ideal love 
From our movies or series
But it includes raw emotions
Ugly fights, horrible parts of each other 
We never knew existed 

So, am I mature enough 
To accept that kind of love
Or just a fickle version of love 
That requires only what I see 
Not  the person beneath that layers of masks.

Premium Member Once Upon a Time Snow White

~Once Upon A Time Snow White~
 (Narrative / Rhyme poem)


 Once upon a time
 In a far away land
 There was a very beautiful princess,called Snow White
 And she lived in a very big castle so grand

 Her father had always loved her so dear
 But her step-mother was really a very bad witch,
 Snow White's beauty she couldn't at all bear
 And from the first moment she wanted her dead quick, the witch

 Every day asked her magic mirror upon the wall
 Who's today, the fairest of us all?
 "Snow White  is," the mirror always replied to her call,
 And the wicked Queen got so mad, she started to bawl

 So the evil witch decided to get rid of Snow White,
 But the Princess luckily, escaped with her life
 And deep into the forest she ran, filled of fright,
 Trying to hide from the witch and save her own life

 She came upon a little house in the woods
 And there lived seven, seven funny, hard working Dwarfs,
 They liked her and asked her to stay and made her feel so good,
 She was so happy, and took very good care of them the Dwarfs

 Till one day again the evil Queen
 Asked the magic mirror upon the wall,
 Who's today, the fairest of us all?
 Snow White  still is, the Queen got so mad, she turned herself so ugly and mean

 And she found out where Snow White had been hiding
 And she took to her a very red, delicious, but poisonous apple to bite,
 Snow White not knowing this sank into the apple a bite,
 To the witch's greatest and excited delight

 Snow White just dropped like dead on the ground,
 The evil Queen had cast her a most powerful spell
 But no,  Snow White wasn't dead, but she was only  awaiting asleep,
 Till  her Prince came along and with a Love Kiss broke for her that evil spell.


 Dorian Petersen Potter
 aka ladydp2000
 copyright@2005



 December.08.2015
Form: Narrative

Put Away Your Screen Today

Things that make me happy
bring a smile or tears of joy
they have no monetary value
sweet gifts for every girl and boy 

So take off all those blinkers
Let the light shine in
Put away your screen today
And you’ll see what I mean

To see a spider spin a web
a bee sip nectar for his queen
a fledging taking his first flight
mother moon on the clearest night

To hear a blackbird sing his song
for he will sing it all day long
the sea her tides they come and go
relax and watch her ebb and flow

The morning sky the sun arising
with hues that take your breath away
And as she sets ~ a picture painted
Each night each day a different way

The joy I get to see the moon
her crescent exquisite 
her fullness divine
she fills up my heart
she clears out my mind

What joy to see a sky full of stars
With Jupiter ~ Venus ~ Saturn and Mars

So open your eyes 
as you gaze to the sky
You may even see
ISS passing by

Open your mind ~ let your soul soar 
In this wonderful world there is oh so much more…

Written 9th July 2020

Contest Strand Completely New (7)
Sponsor Brian Strand
FIRST PLACE

Premium Member Q and A monoku-ku

Just because you don’t understand the question
                                                     doesn’t mean you don’t have
                                                                                                     an answer


why does it seem that those with all the answers
                                                                    are intimidated by 
                                                                                                 the questions


My grandson once asked me if we were lost
                                               I told him men don’t get lost
                                                                                   We go on adventures


Someone told me they were offended by an emoji
                                             I told them to go pee on a statue


Talking to an AI customer service “person” is like taking a test where they give you all the answers but you have to guess what the questions are


The AI robot at the super market got canned
                                            She wanted to start a union
Form: Other


forever, but not always?

i can’t tell if you mean the room
or the way a word unthreads the room —
whether the air thinned by speech
or by the long slow leaving of light.

i don’t know which eyes are lost,
whose mirror you mistook for glass,
only that something keeps returning
and naming itself a home.

maybe it’s a map folded the wrong way,
maybe a door that will not shut;
i am unsure of the furnace or the fault,
but certain the house will stand.

there is mercy in not knowing:
it lets the sound keep moving,
lets the breath find room to bend.
if you must rest where you’ve made your fire,
rest with this — it is allowed.

Premium Member Blinded by the Light

Blinded by the light
Riding my bike in the middle of the night
Pity my plight
I ran over the foot of a runner in the night

I admitted my flaw, but then we both saw
a UFO with 2 diplomats
the runner he said "oy"
And in a ploy to annoy
A tractor beam pulled my bike and our hats.

They said "we come from a planet, our queen's name is Janet
and she's taken a fancy to you
It's quite an honor, we all fawn upon her
She'll add you to the national zoo!"

I said "are you crazy
My future may be hazy
But I don't want to be in a cage
Sorry to upset you and sorry that I met you
But I hope you turn the page"

They said to reconsider, not to be bitter
At the fate in store for me
On this earth life is worse, seems like it's got a curse
Any sane species would agree.

I asked to bring my sister, because I'd really miss her
And 500 video games I had found.
They said, "that's fine, just sign the dotted line."
And they lifted me off of the ground

Revved up like a disco in Woke San Francisco
A tractor beam is a thrill-seeker dream
Then I felt dread, because they said
I'd be injected in a scientist scheme.

Suddenly I came too on Willow Avenue
and realized I'd fallen off my bike
I saw stars in my head, wanted to go to bed
Must have looked quite a sight

Then there came a cop car and it gave me quite a jar
and the runner was in a bad mood
I said I didn't mean it, I just hadn't seen it
But the guy had attitude
He drew back his fist, and I thought he had missed
but I was:
Blinded by the light....
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Unconditional Love Letter To My Children

From generation to generation
Times have changed so much
By leaps and bounds
Back when technology did not exist
I grew up in a family of 13 kids
Survival was the game of life
Working hard day and night
Trying to make a better life
Nothing was easy
You just did your best
And hoped to reap some reward

Since I tried to live my life
Like an open book
I thought you’d understand
I helped raise six hungry kids
Fed them, sent them to school
And gave them their wings

Six impressionable little minds
Had I known my words would mean so much
All I knew was you needed to be tough
To be ready to face life
So I taught you what I learned
Convinced all you needed were the basics 
And you would find your way

I didn’t think I’d be doing you any favours 
By painting rosy pictures and
I wouldn’t have known how
My models were two hard working parents 
Whose fulltime job was to feed and clothe 13 kids
Barely making ends meet
No time for dreams, barely time for sleep
Too exhausted to even keep up
With the treadmill of daily living

Like baby birds I sent you off from the nest
To stretch your new wings and fly on your own
Find your way and do better than me if you could

I didn’t think I was remiss I gave it my all
Careful not to lose myself in the process
Teeter tottering to maintain balance
Keeping that all important flame alive within
So one day I could be free again to be me 

I wish I had told you more often
That I love you and I’m proud of you
I thought my actions would speak louder than words

We each have our journey to live and learn from
I am watching over you from above

Better late than never
I want to tell you today that I love you
And I hope you have a fulfilling life
Until we meet again 
Dad xx



version published in photo/poetry book ~UNCONDITIONAL LOVE LETTER TO MY CHILDREN~ 2020 / photos by TIMOTHY McGUIRE

AP: 1st place 2025, 3rd place 2021

PS featured in 2025

Premium Member And Women Will Save the Earth

1/ FOR GRACIE

your grace so sensitive 
other’s pain penetrates
so intense the hurt -you burn
there’s acid in your tears
one more pin hole in your heart

2/ how do we endure the monster 
the monster 
the monster -resides
the white house 
unwanted -uninvited 

and you gracie 

erace

a thousand hims 

he 
the blatant error 

you 
the corrective balance

and you should know 

it is you 
mends our ailing world

3/ weak men are too heavy 
for the planet to carry
covered in grime too filthy
for the oceans to cleanse
his eyes plastered he sees 

nothing

and when it comes to light
even the blind feel its touch

but you gracie 
you’re more special than that

4/ you’re the flame that lights the sun
the tender touch soothes the moon
even more -the eyes -color skies blue

and when you cry
i feel your tender tears
because that’s what you are tender
too tender for a world
paved hot with hate

5/ and gracie my heart leaks
and gracie i want to hand you
words -holds your heart steady 

you mean more to Earth 
all it holds in bouquets 
of miraculous paintings

the kind evil folk will never sense
it’s you gracie that center gem 
she holds
like me the world recognizes

6/recognizes you’re 
a natural resource 
drapes the world
in its ultimate beauty

and who you are 
is exactly that
the ultimate beauty
displays the hope 
we are better than we think
better because gracie -you’re here

The Evil Specter

“I’m sorry,” she whispered
“Didn’t mean to slap your face.”

His cheek stung, voice quivered
“How did I get to this place?”

She twisted his emotions until
he believed every word she said

and made him forget she came
from the house of the dead

Her mother was born an evil witch
 turned her father into a ghost

This girl was a phantom
serving the devil as a host 

She’d tricked many men before him
by crushing their heart and soul

Using dark magic to conform them
 until she gained control

Friend’s prayed “cast her out”
too many times to mention

He was saved from this specter
by Divine Intervention
                
             02/24/2021

Written for Ghost Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Julia Ward
Form: Rhyme

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