It's All Because of You
By Michael Leese
The air is beautiful to breathe
And moonlight dances with the trees
There's but one thing that's clear to me
It's all because of you
The ocean hums a gentle hymn
And reaches out her arms again
To hug the sand I'm standing in
It's all because of you
The mountains glow with soulful sound
And there is beauty to be found
No matter where I look around
It's all because of you
And far beyond the clouds, there shines
A loving light that helped me find
My missing puzzle-piece of mind
It's all because of you
This life appears in front of me
In waves of serendipity
I'm always where I'm meant to be
It's all because of you
The air is beautiful to breathe
And there is love in all I see
I'm truly thankful just to be
In life, in love, with you
Ominous Hand
By Mia Salome
She is shackled down by every inch
All her freedom stripped away
Controlling her like a puppet
Always pulling the strings
She was left broken in her thoughts
Those ominous hands linger in her void
Too scared to tell
So she keeps herself locked up
With the chains she was cursed to
She was always told that time will heal
Her wounds were too deep to feel
Craters
By Mia Salome
I feel like the moon during the day
Not knowing where to stay
Is it night or is it day?
Only time can tell
But in the meantime I will still yell
To the ones who put me here
I will be crying but they won't shed a tear
another star has appeared
and they look just as feared
As I was when I was placed here
In broad day light
They held me tight
Then ran back to the correctly placed sun
While I'm left here having no fun
In a place I just don't belong
In the end I do think they know it was wrong
But it took them so long
That they couldn't get back to me
To replace me in the night sky where I should be
And that is what will set me free
Expedite Time
By Sophie Dawson
I skipped a couple years in my immaturity
Necessitated to abruptly age after an annulment
I skipped a couple years in my adolescence
Ambitious to surpass times soul schedule
I skipped a couple years in my dilating youth
Craving the key of controlled dreams toward the unknown
Expedite time
No, pause the hour
itching the clock to fly for aspired intentions rest established
Contrarily longing to interlude the hourglass for uncovered dreams
Do I desire time to urge or delay?
Do I freeze to flavor the flowers or persist the forthcoming?
Is it mistaken to dare each end?
We possess our absolute spirit beyond the eye
But does authenticity stand apocryphal
Expedite time urging satisfaction
Cease the schedule controlling mentality
Permit me to ponder as time lives expressing
Directed to serenity and existing wholly
What hour will patient attitudes face satisfaction?
Manipulative Shadow
By Sophie Dawson
Manipulate my mind until I’m marred
Oblivious to beguiled power Procrastinates realization
Deceiving talent facilely clouds the blind mind
A shadow possessed by a puppeteer Playing your perception
Pursuing the act attracts attention to the show
How do you escape the manipulative shadow?
Dark disguises light from sight to awake
Helpless to see, value consciousness for creed
Intuitive to deluded influences revive to elude
Shower the shadow with shinning attitude
Manipulate my mind until i’m mended
Perceptive to beguiled power persists improvement
Once wise opens eyes to consciousness anew
Trapped in darkness blinds eyes to tactics true
Permit the pernicious pursuit causes penumbra to control
Conscious character is cognizant to the deceitful soul
Neglect the act avoids attention to the show
Enlightened ego escapes the Manipulative shadow
Reflection
By Mia Salome
My maker is in the mirror
Tearing me down at every glance
Never rebuilding my self-esteem
Ripping off everything I've loved
"Behold" it says, "here is something new"
but that new is not what I have once loved
The new is something I don't recognize
Something I could never make true
It has been used and torn like an old rag
Thrown down to never be picked back up
My maker has morphed me into an unwanted beast of imperfection
Though it finds me flawless in every crack
It has left me with nothing to care for
Except for the cold-hearted floor I have been so carelessly forgotten upon
but the time has come to accept the so-called "new"
The old has gone into the dust of despair
Where there is no returning
Never to be fully healed
Forever bandaged and wound with the secrets and lies that my maker has so perfectly deceived
Untitled
By Hayden Robert
Mountains black as the sun falls behind
The water glistens and begins to shine
Spreading colors throughout the evening
Filling the sky Is so very pleasing
The wilderness gets colder when the lights go down,
But the warmth of our bodies take us all around
The smell of daisies in the air
As we sit around while the evening glares
Birds flying across the sun
Learning the way the world really runs
When the night comes then the sky comes,
All the bright plums are going numb,
We bring sun, rain, and decreasing pain
Scattered throughout the valley we ride in a chain
Les Doigts Brulants
By Loan Printems
D’avoir appris longtemps la courbe de tes seins
J’ai pensé te revoir
Derrière la fumée de ta cigarette
Ta fumée comme un masque a permis des étreintes
Désordonnées, sauvages
J'ai cherché souvent ton parfum sous la cendre
Et j’ai trébuché sur tes lèvres âcres
Toujours dans l’ombre nue
ou sous les étoffes arrachées d’un regard
Ton corps en éternelle question
Lavé des soucis d’être à l’autre
Je le voudrais sans cesse à mes côtés
Et découpée de nuit les yeux seuls en éclairs
à ma fenêtre
Te regarder longtemps tutoyer les nuages
Tight Rope
By Mia Salome
Crawling back into existence
These thoughts still roam my mind
They think I've been cured
But I'm still riding that fine line
My eyes have been blurred
With the idea of fantasy
But in the end that is all that will stay with me
Voices come from all around
Binding me down to the ground
As if I were some kind of wild animal
Running rabid through the streets
It may seem like defeat
But the only one who can defeat me
Waiting to clean up my debris
Are the thoughts knocking at my door
And they'll clean me up as if I were some kind of chore
the clock keeps ticking
As if it were mocking me
I sometimes think I should just let it be
But once again-
Crawling back into existence
These thoughts still roam my mind
They think I've been cured
But I'm still riding that fine line
Duet Stars
By Sophie Dawson
His luminous brilliance reflects the radiant sun
The moons darling star loves alone one
Enchanted affection greater than creation
Matures robust within interim separation
Red and blue clock in over cultured yearning
Disappearing sun displays the moon returning
Duet stars aligned along passionate romance
Digest wistful matter of distant circumstance
Golden burning star exhales a woeful weep
Until the hour his shield will embrace the moon to keep
His living fire availed novel lust affection
No variant star can fathom the dual connection
The crave for a vision, a touch, a taste
Lingers on while aged moments go to waste
The moon possesses truth and a valued burn
The sun conceives the everyday and forever upon return
Duet stars aligned along passionate romance
Digest wistful matter of distant circumstance
Golden burning star exhales a woeful weep
Until the hour his shield will embrace the moon to keep
Le Soleil Se Lève
By Loan Printems
Ce matin le ciel est plein de lueurs dorées
Mon cœur est semblable à cette nuée qui se dissipe peu à peu
Ce matin la lumière me crève les yeux
Si tu étais là
Si tu voyais toutes ces nuances de bleus
On y voit par moments
Je crois
La couleur de tes yeux
Untitled
By Hayden Robert
Back and fourth your mind is at war,
Nothing pleases your head anymore,
Creases fill, crack, and pan
Turn the page with a quicker hand,
Here the ring exploit yourself,
Take your place and dream of wealth
Farewell to the hoping of reception
I hope we both have a distilled connection
Recognize the world we have believed in
A place to vent is all that we’re seeking
A distinctive promise written to a shining dime
Letting yourself believe the sky can really shine
The mountains were so beautiful as you were sitting across the grass
And the worthless thoughts make me feel like I can not pass
Chirping in my ear I can hear the growing sound
As your eyes connect with mine as we leave upon the grounds
Scary not knowing when it’s time,
Your thoughts wonder even in your prime
Hurting, not assure of the intent,
Ignoring the sound of your life being bent
Where you going cross, come back
There’s a plain, just around the fact
Far, far, far, into the distant speech
I’ve been listening to your inner weep
Mind & Soul
By Mia Salome
The truth might not be said
But it is known
Within the mind and soul
Speak if you must
Or keep is concealed
Either way it will penetrate
And brings discomfort to the mind and soul
Carrying this baggage is no choice
It picked you out of the crowd
Weighing you down with such a burden
Screaming ever so loudly
Within the mind and soul
Chosen
By Mia Bennett
So many options of release
But not many of which
Will bring peace
The one that is chosen
Cannot be reversed
The one that is chosen
Could most definitely be for the worst
Untitled
By Hayden Robert
Triangle sky shine as long as I’m high
Here in this dimension we reach the sublime
I come here with peace and love if you please
Is it me who’s tree is over max capacities
I can feel my heart fall within every beat
Lying down hoping someone will take a seat
If this is what hell looks like
Than that’s too much of a rise
Living with sun still don’t make it shine
Blood ride Shallow night maybe you’ll come out tonight, here me now calm and splendor never ascend to something better,
Devour what takes and the faces it makes,
Revoke the ending,
Misfortunes awake
Breathing Alone
By Sophie Dawson
Yes, I feel alive
I perceive a consciousness of independent infinity
Yes, i feel simplistic
unbounded into a vivacious bohemian city girl
Yes, I feel gratified
Bestowed freedom to ascertain my inevitable existence
But here lies the aura of truth
Yes, I feel alone
Internally tasting the novel days of wisdom and trial
An ambiguous mentality assimilating turmoil and discomfort
Breathing colorful foreign obstacles in solidarity
Twinkling thoughts crave the return Along for a battle to persevere
A vital young soul searching for entity is The viability I chose
Yes, I feel alone
They question me to reappear within comfortable reality
I veto the desire to disguise myself from discomfort
Willingly, I yearn the intention to bite the bullet
If breathing solo matures the conclusion, then so be it
Yes, I am alone
But to culture and flourish prevails the cull I devise
Untitled
By Loan Printems
La lumière rayonnait sur ta forme superbe
Juste assez pour apercevoir
Ce visage que je connais tant
Juste assez pour effleurer ton corps du coin de l'oeil
De ta taille je faisais lentement le contour
Je pose ma joue doucement sur tes seins
J'écoutais chanter ton parfum
Dans cette position je voulais rester, toujours
Ton corps était doux, rouge et chaud
Immobile et sans souffrance
Déesse endormie
Voix lactée
By Loan Printems
Elle avait des bouts de cosmos dans les cheveux
Elle parlait la bouche pleine de
Soleil et sa langue dessinait
Dans ma gorge des graffitis stellaires
Elle avait des morceaux d'automne
Aux reins, des lucioles dans les cheveux
Des bourgeons de givres sur les lèvres et
Soif d'impatience
Wonder of Hostility
By Mia Salome
Always an irate manner
Where does your hostility come from?
Lending a quaver to my voice
This was not my choice
Eradicating my mind
Into a void of darkness
Where does my light survive?
Under your crippling hand
I see it flickering out
Where does your anger arise?
Years into the corrupted past
Translated to self-doubt
Find your new way of expression
So I don’t feel this depression
Insolent it may be
But that doesn’t originate from me
Fear is withheld by false guilt
Who built me this way?
The lingering shadows inching closer
Swallowing my crooked thoughts
Associating the true and tainted
Adolescence is no longer pure
Lure this pain away
Who created these scars that will never decay?
Your wangling measure
Known to augur betrayal
It’s left me frail
Will these actions blockade ecstasy?
Never to Be Home Again
By Mia Salome
Sensitive to the word
What is the right connotation
It was the last time I heard
The warmth of the walls around me
When I walked past the threshold
Not permitted to enter
Locked behind a door and key
Never to be home again
Onerous to the fact of discomfort
Didn’t hear the aspired words
The hindering recurred
Every waking hour of everyday
Lingering in the past
Imagine the throbbing thought
Never to be home again
Disconnected from desire
The glowing sensation of hallowed halls
Destined to fueling fire
Lit the match and there go the flames
Starting in my heart of glass
This may be my last
Never to be home again