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03.07.2025.
M. L. Wren .
The air in this house is grievous,
And it gets labored and harder hourly.
Keep this poisonous air inside my battered indoors
To hold back a scream and my fury.

Your frame hatred towards you in my conscious,
And my stifled helplessness is killing me.
So I'll leave here my melodies, tears, and my thoughts,
Just like you left your marks on my body in memory.

But unlike you, I'll never forget this wound.
I will leave for a long time, when you will gone.
And when you'll find yourself on 6 feet in the ground,
I'll get used to live with indelible, made by your scars.
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New
Pumpkins Sit
Velvet Moon
Pumpkins Sit 

All lazy and long 

Quietly waiting to be the pumpkin picked 

Perhaps if they wait just long enough 

Some human will happily surround 

Then pluck the pumpkin that was once bound
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New
I’m Leaving My Mark
Velvet Moon
In this strange little world 

See, it’s these poems that I’ve kept on writing 

Ever since I felt both young and free 

But the road has not been clear, like one might assume 

Several times there’s been opposition  

And some form or other of contradiction 

However, I have determined to be sturdy and firm 

Like some great rock 

No matter what I won’t stop 

Writing the poems that give me hope 

For it’s in my control to respond 

And this writers pen will not cease 

Simply because there’s one small piece that offends another 

They can get over it and move on 

Just like I can ignore what they said that was wrong
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Classic
Sleep Song
Joyce Kilmer · Public domain
        The Lady World
Is sleeping on her white and cloudy bed.
        Like petals furled
Her eyelids close. Beside her dream-filled head
  Her lover stands in silver cloak and shoon,
  The faithful Moon.

        So Love, my Love,
Sleep on, my Love, my Life, be not afraid.
        The Moon above
Shall guard the World, and I my little maid.
  Your life, your love, your dreams are mine to keep,
  So sleep, so sleep.
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Yesterday
New
The World Can Wait
Srishti Singh
The World Can Wait
_By Srishti_

The evening sky is calm and deep,
The world around is fast asleep,
After the rain, the earth smells new,
With little drops like stars on view.

The flowers bloom without asking why,
They don't rush, they don't ask the sky,
We were just too busy to be still sometimes,
Running after endless chimes.

Just a little silence, just a little me,
Let the world wait, let my heart be free.
#calm#nature#evening thought#peace
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New
Some Sentiment
Velvet Moon
Another gives to another 

In growing hopes 

The other will see the other 

And realize just how true sweet love can be
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New
They Say It’s Terrible
Velvet Moon
That I would choose again to live such a life 

And what that life is 

I’m too ashamed to say 

Cause God forbid it that I live out this sinful future 

I once experienced on a hidden and reckless yesterday
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11.06.2025.
M. L. Wren .
Every day with you was a beautiful flower,
Unique and attractive, pleasing to eyes,
And just look at the garden beds makes me remember:
How often have I caught your shining sight.

I enjoyed all our moments, even the outlyed,
Even when you were stubborn and hopeless,
Because you've become to me more than important,
Because garden gives me air, to be alive.

My garden of moments blooms all the time
Under the glass dome, somewhere inside,
So that I could dream and be sad about you
Without ever confession that my garden is true.
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