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ART, THOU ART. I like writing poems. I did a fart.

  July 2023     1 hour ago

Submitted Poems 52 total

Life rules

MY LIFE RULES

Be cool.

Take off your shoes.

Put both seats down,
and try not to be a tool.

Always cheers after each new drink
and check to see if the convo sinks
when you repeatedly ask
“are you okay?” -
and don’t take them to...

– by H. Lock

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My sun, my son. I hope you’re well.

Prom.

Porm.

Poem.

Eon.


Whatever the form,
it’s always me,
on

a quest
to find
the perfect way
to wish you well…

to wrest
to try
to punch your arm
to squeeze you tight
to talk til moments move from day to night…

A...

– by H. Lock

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Poem 3

I started to write a poem,
and then I stopped.

I stopped,
because the use of ART
to express emotion
diminishes the truth
of how I feel.

It’s a falsehood -
a facade…
an unconvincing,
anodyne version
of what I actually want to reveal

...

– by H. Lock.

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Marine-ating

Captain.

Tell me what to do.

I’m lost.

Waiting for you.

The sub has sunk.

It’s getting dark.

The cephalopods are wrapping

themselves around the...

– by Jules Burn.

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Dinner

I am cold.

A little hungry.

It doesn’t matter.


I am tired.

Time to bung me

a fish in batter.


Chipper chips.

Mushy peas.

A can of Fanta.


An egg.

An onion.

Vinegar staining the...

– by H. Lock.

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I shall rest,
with your permission.

I shall write,
with no contrition.

A moment’s pause,
a chance to think…
that tick’ling touch -
a call to drink.

So I shall rest
at the edge of tracks,

a chance to truly
hit the max. 

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Don’t change a THING.

Beautiful.

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