Month: July 2023

life’ll smile (poetry reading)






father punched him lightly in
the shoulder
and said, "Hey, keep that chin up, buddy.
Just know that a time
will come when life'll smile at us."

Sure, he'd been saying that
since forever. That was the earliest
and most common memory of him

Grinning from ear to ear
and saying that a day will come when life'll
smile upon them

But until that day
they'll have to sit in the town square
and play their cheap instruments
for passersby to drop money in their box

Keep that chin up…

Oh, father. You can't play the
violin holding your chin up
And life won't smile if you keep playing
it sad songs






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clear and distorted vision by Bogdan Dragos
			

				
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earlier today
the curtains before the window
just fell

nothing touched
or pulled
or even brushed against
them. They
just fell

They're still
on the floor

He doesn't feel like
picking them up and
putting them back

why bother
anymore

Why bother with
anything

Ever

He got out of bed only
to grab the
bottle
and then went back
and watched the stars outside
through it

switching from clear vision
where the liquid
was absent
to distorted vision where
the liquid was present

The stars were smiling
back
but they couldn't speak
back. And the moon
was absent tonight

It would be
one of those nights
that leaves the whole bottle
with clear vision towards
the sky outside

Just another night
among many

among all
of them






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see through the keyhole (poetry reading)
			

				


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you can only see through the keyhole
but you’re never meant to
go through the door

She wrote the words
on a napkin
as she watched
from her lone table
the couple holding hands
and kissing
a few tables away

Then she turned the napkin
on the other side
and wrote

Maybe I should just stop searching
and start writing poetry

followed by
a smiley face
that she copied with her own

			

		
	
	

					
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spaceship (poetry reading)
			

				


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late autumn

cold enough to
turn a breath visible

he leaned against the
rail of the bridge
and watched the
river run
below him
and imagined he was in a
spaceship
hovering above the land

Smiling
he said, "Yes, I'll be there one
day, brother. I'll pick you
up with the spaceship we wanted
to build together. I'll
put it together and then–"

and just then a pair of
hands grabbed him
from behind and pulled him apart from
the rail. "All right now," said
the nurse, "let's not get
carried away again."

He startled. "I wasn't going
to jump this time. I swear."

"I believe you," said the nurse. "But
let's just leave now. Let's get
back. I'm cold and
I'm sure you're hungry too and
we could get a cup of
hot chocolate. How about it?"

"I wasn't going
to jump," he said.

She held his hand. "I know. I know, dear.
Come now. Let's get back."

"I wasn't going
to jump."

She dragged him away from the
rail and held his
hand all the way back
to what she called the friendly house. 

			

		
	
	

					
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butterfly (a good sign ♡ ´･ᴗ･ `♡ )
			

				









Went hiking recently and this little friendly creature just landed on me out of nowhere. 
I'm gonna take it as a good sign 🙂 





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I visited my girlfriend in the hospital
after her appendicitis operation.
she looked good
and her smile made me smile

"I made a friend," she told me.

There had been another girl in the room with her
and this girl,
she was in the hospital because she sprayed a whole
can of bug repellent into a cup and drank it

"Why?" I asked.

"Oh, well," said my girlfriend. "You wouldn't understand.
Let's just say she wanted to kill the butterflies
in her stomach."

"Okay." 

			

		
	
	

					
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