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Serendipity

-‘Rainsprite’, collage by me, Mirjana M., April 2025 Serendipity 1 Heart, why in blooming spring are you so wretched,why, oh why is your face a die, or do;boring its way towards the Sun’s cheek through the flowery dew,what can your non existent hands hold, or do Do you not know a book never ends, the pages turn and turnand the moon, and the travelers and the earth turn. 2 Your watch of gold…

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Ditty of the Castle Ghost (U)

-‘Moonlit’, mixed media collage by me, Mirjana M. , April 2025 Ditty of the Castle Ghost (U) Daydream, I fell asleep amid the flowersI went down, down, down and the flames went higherall of the colours learning their names daydream, I fell asleep amid the flowersin the dark beneath the towerthe moonlight was playing her games all of the colours were learning their names,cerulean, turquoise,…

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Repertoire

-‘Ready’, mixed media collage by me, Mirjana M., April 2025 Repertoire Corpo sano, mens delicti;so unfair!It is dreams of mine at summitspreading no wings and willplummet, with audienceof dust for the locketless hair,itching for the everwhere,the grievous stitch of missingand I compelled to care;corpo-broken, unfelicit,creeping in a token lair,sleep in concordance, weeping,all the hunting is…

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Righteous by TJC0

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Some closeups of the best graffiti I've ever seen

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Weightless II

Weightless II Was it not I who courted Deathwhen I would see it reaping rodents of the street,collecting golden, rotting falling leavesbetween the sheets of wet eucalyptustanning the darkness of the breath peregrine green,its long cloak of stars just a careless black robein the wind ; a hole in the universefor a head to duck in and sing of our gravityand wrath, the vision naked but tattooed in…

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Cilantro

Cilantro Green to speckled zestchewed gently,wilderness drips sleep. Confetti the flesh,stir – sizzle;death now less pointless. *for NaPoWriMo Day 6, where we were challenged to ” pick a number between 1 and 10. Got your number? Okay! Now scroll down until you come to a chart. Find the row with your number. Then, write a poem describing the taste of the item in Column A, using the words that…

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Maria Gray, from “Bad Nostalgia”

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Alcea rhyme

–‘Seer in light’, digital mixed media collage by me, Mirjana M. , April 2025 Alcea rhyme holographic helium hogging up the hemispherehollyhocks, holyrock, holy heaven’s heavy hinge,hegemonic hermits harrumphing hot hymns,hollyhocks, hollyhocks, holy hunting haunted hills.heavy honey, heavy host, hollyhocks hip holy hands,hurling hammers, hitting heavens, helm & heed – heroic harpies!halting…

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Weightless

Weightless My heart on a scale against the featherand the truth will be untold. I’ll find some words for it, call ita heavy burden against the too cold rain. a dream of a translucent sea that swalloweda giant rock. a sea that drowned in its own eye,death under a microscope the god of it with binoculars. the king of it in pale red,a tiny cottage on a painting a dark that prowls inside,the…

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Disconnect

Disconnect Listen, my dearest, I too learned to let go,I’ve hoarded the sun under my skin and you wear it, listenthat bird on the branch sings of itsloneliness, and the moon is often drunk,and sometimes it is not alright to be humanbut that is what we are.A thousand little cuts slumbers in the grassand a thousand heavy hearts await youin the wild ; walk it off like it’s good poetry,forget where…

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Arches National Park, Utah photo: Elliot McGucken

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Gustave Doré 

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The Moonbearer, digital painting by sjafril on Instagram

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Charades

* artwork by me, Mirjana M. , ‘Moonlight secrets’, March 2025 Charades We pretendand the mothering sun leakssolvent into the shadowbox,fires up the lights, shiversin the shimmer of the display,tears of the sky like charcoal,our shadow’s profile sketchedsans mathematics, empty of fearwe pretend, the raindrop emptyof sorrows, nothing left to drown,nothing – will sharpen the teeth,all is bare, the…