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Dweller of our Heart

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12.8.25
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Mind Vs Heart

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My heart and brain, a constant fight,
A war within, day and endless night.
Emotions rage, like a stormy sea,
While logic whispers, "Think clearly."

Love and reason, in d...

The Funhouse Mirror's Truth

...The Funhouse Mirror's Truth

The air was sweet with cotton candy, bright and pink, 
a whirlwind of laughter before I could even think.
My little brother's eyes were wide with pure delight,
My tw...

The Backlight of Equality

...On the day of the Lord the human shall fear,
A terrifying god whom will Christians duly Peer,
The dead shall live again - the Christian tear,
A monopolising Christianity that cannot hear.

With,...

From Dusk Till Dawn

...An isolating darkness looms:
A numb yet tingled skin;
And residues of twilight's gloom,
As walls unseen close in.

This place feels sharp, yet vague and stale;
The clash stirs strife within.
M...

Flower Chide IV,Scentfold

...They all circled Lotus, voices steeped in fret,
Which no bloom or blade had spoken yet.
“She’s not of the ring,” they said without sway,
“And what grows apart should not be asked to stay.”

Lotu...

Sit A While

...Hours nibble at a low back strain.
Tenuous strings were tugged
lifting water bottles.

You wonder how fragile you are,
how vulnerable to those red tides
that bend your iron like plasticine,
tu...

Threads of Time

...one thread
                      unravels
              quietly
        from the cuff
           of yesterday—

   loose and golden,
         tugged gently
               by wind
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Unseasoned Shoes

...What was he thinking when he dropped
by shoelaces his unseasoned shoes?

Did they splash or plip-plop land on lake?
Did they sink like a pirate’s treasure or

was this considered treasonous, by...

TOUCH OF NOCTURNAL VELVET

...A cascade, shimmering, of rivulets that undulate,
Metaphor thalassic, richly blending at the pate.
Each silhouette of vitality, speaking with gentle weight,
On shoulders resting, an adornment, del...

The Shed

...The Shed
...was Granddad's before he died.
And now its loneliness reached out to the boy
from the shaded, shuffling shadows 
that shushed the sheltered garden.
They pulled, they tugged at his gu...

Emotional Shrapnel

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Written: May 11, 2025, for contest by: Sara Jama

Quote: “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Sorrow prepares you for joy." By Rumi

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Love Twice Tossed

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We had been up, down and sideways with lonely nights and 
solitary days.  We had seen total darkness dispensed from our 
fights.  Our heads began believing our wrongs could not discover 
our r...

cool, cruel curse

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moon …

beams that burn -
that turn my surgings to slag
my teeth to serrations,
hungering …
can those silly sentients not see the
verity in my veneration, you?
do they truly think it’s only...

A Black and White Picture

...A little girl coming out of a Woolworth store.
An eye in my mind begins to clothe its sight
with a past image.

She has pink ribbons in her hair
and a blue dress,
maybe she had just come from c...

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