When You Leave | David Sermersheim
when you leave
I will smile
as you turn
away and go
while these words
sketch the outline
of where you were
change poems
Who Is This Man? | Scarlett R. Welty
Who is this man?
I don’t recognize him anymore.
Something is different,
changed from before.
His face, his hands, those beautiful brown eyes,
all the same I remember them well.
But this man, standing before me,
is merely a shell.
She’s changed you so much,
in so little time.
I miss the old you, the happy you,
miss when you were mine.
So this is where I leave you,
in a love I hate to say,
Is as horrible as the one you gave me,
at the end of our days.
On Ticking Wings | G. Louis Heath
Time works its ways. The island in
The river in your hometown erodes.
Jim Crow is no more and Germany
Is one. Liver spots and wrinkles
Colonize your skin. Japanese vets
Apologize for Pearl Harbor. Today
Clock hands release white doves at
Hiroshima flying on ticking wings.
America the Beautiful | Tilla Sonrise
In a land of strangers
We are all neighbors
In love
With hate
The greed of the Mind
Is a hopeless passion
For change
The Hat | JD DeHart
Are you the hat
that sits decorating upon
my head? Here
I was thinking I’m
no hat person. But
we all change.
One day, goodness knows,
I may be a cane person.
Monocle person. Top hat
person.
One day I may move
outside of introversion
to a one-man show.
All because of the fabled
hat.
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Under Cage | El Sane Ken Silencer
The moon is a wonderful creature
The stars are amazing in their culture
Twinkling, the moon and the stars keep the night alive
A story believed without being seen.
Darkness, a friend I have
And plead flees if I have luck,
For it has my heart consumed
Making me seem a follower
to no clock…
When shall I see the sky bright
What shall bring me to the light
When the sun that makes every day hot
Have I never seen shining bright.
Nature! They say it is destiny,
Is it mine to stay in always with
frowned face?
Trying to smile, I feel I might get no change
Like this, is being under a cage
going to change?