Imprint

I couldn't help but stare
Mesmerized
By the fluid movement
Of your fingertips
Caressing
Pressing
Dancing along the ivory
Slow and slim
Nimble and divine
I sensed an urgency
Beyond your gentle tune
Haunting me
Sending shivers
Up and down my spine
Sweet suffering
Shimmering
Lingering
Behind the soft, sad notes
Touching me in my heart
So deep, your pain became

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poem by Erika Wingo
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Headline News Highlights

is mega
disaster
horrific
once not enough?
citizens crippled
dazzled dead
suffer shock stone

short
circuit as crisis chaos
scenes replay CNN
choice BBC tailored
coverage
world dread news
edited scenarios
wounds raw fester

flicker
molested
editorial edited

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Saturn Will Shortly Rise

Was it a spiritual failure of a man
to become an animal effortlessly?
and how difficult it was
to change the street’s crowd?

In the human drama
no dialogue ends. It begins again
and the hero replays the tragedy.

The fight between one versus many
continues endlessly,
like jungle’s law
where a body is thrown to beasts.

Though I have run out my steps
I will count the miles, I have to scramble.
My hands tremble when I write the
epitaph of a dying light on mount.
It is getting dark now.
Saturn will shortly rise.

poem by Satish Verma
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Encircled GLOOM

Was it a spriritual failure of a man
to become an animal effortlessly?
and how difficult it was
to change the street’s crowd?

In the human drama
no dialogue ends. It begins again
and the hero replays the tragedy.

The fight between one versus many
continues endlessly,
like jungle’s law
where a body is thrown to beasts.

Though I have run out my steps
I will count the miles, I have to scramble.
My hands tremble when I write the
epitaph of a dying light on mount.
It is getting dark now.
Saturn will shortly rise.

poem by Satish Verma
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A Challenge (is She Out Or In?)

i remember
when you’re running
towards me
like a football instant replay
every move up
to last milisecond
your lips touch my lips;
because i have to close
my eyes

to feel you
and me alone
in confines of bubbling ions
rising from my heel
and stop to my chest.
my mind confides in me
you’re awesome beast

poem by Manonton Dalan
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To Be Abandoned (Revised)

I am a machine, replaying in French an
expression of English synonyms so bare
of feeling my mind empties, spirit dissolves,
soul absconds; my chair contains an empty
shell of dark despair

I hope my spirit returns, soul again whole
after retrieving scattered fragments from
ends of the earth, I am so lonely without
feelings - utter loneliness remains the
only sensation, a curtailed sensory
event, an appearance without
emotional investment

abandoned at the outer layer of life,
no access to warmth of feeling and
meaning inside

poem by Margaret Alice Second
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Day (part two)

This moment
This time
These sweet grapes upon
This very vine,
This world just as
It now is
Shall never repeat itself.
The soul and the sun
The spirit in the wind
Shall never sing this
Exact same song together
Ever again.
No day
Will ever repeat
Nor replay,
This day alone -in itself-
Is fully good, fully complete.

poem by Smoky Hoss
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Favourite Memory

Here I lay
Thinking of that sweet memory we share
under that willow tree
Blowing in the breeze

Our first time was magical
Like a fairy tale, except better
Nothing slowed our passion
We had for one Another

Could it happen again?
When the sun comes out again
Can that memory replay?
For it is my favourite memory ever

poem by Make A Wish
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Icy Moons.

Dark.
Nostalgic
Fireside afternoons.
Time lets us
Replay those tunes.
But
Comes back to haunt us
With icy moons.
Throwing beams
Stowing dreams.
To relive again
Love and pain.
And kisses
That we missed.
Misses
That we kissed.
Behind the dunes.
Now swept away.
Night mocks the day
As memory swoons.

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poem by Kevin East
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Brown Smoke

It’s wonderful what good fellowship
Can be evolved, a little hard but solid.
It’s a great place for dear doctors
To replay their acts and be a pleasant thrill.

Our feet stood in an enthusiasm,
Once the nurses took the rest of the world;
I lit my cigar and thanked the great place,
Watching the brown smoke curl upwards.

poem by Naveed Akram
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She is Nuttie in Her Own way

i send her
and electronic
mail (110 volt,50Hz, american standard)

i wrote:
''
please answer with yes or no
to be my nutty girl
to nigh from 6: 00pm to 6: 00AM
chicago time....'

she replayed:

'the font of your text is

ariel and not tagged or colored, not html tagged, no picture,
no chatting first
no video con-fron-cing''

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poem by Atef Ayadi
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In Cycle Spin

Winding down scene: see summer seeds, prepares,
Reeled thread which into orange autumn's haze
Inserts green flashes, golden sun ablaze,
To time out Time as Nature's rhyme repairs
Incessant outer change with range which wears
No temporal restraints, through phase to phase
Gads round mad clock to reclad life, amaze.
Delight writes round the seasons' round, all cares
Eliminated as soft zephyr spares
Longing sigh for former salad days.
In cycle spin our lives we paraphrase,
Glad, sad, bad, good, regret instant replays
Have little chance to dance imagination,
To feed seed's need to speed regeneration.

poem by Jonathan Robin
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Pride Games

we've been waiting here
for far too long
stuck at a standstill
stubborn checkmate
finally,
crumbling,
the pride chips off icy face
falls to the dust in a defeated heap
i turn
-your eyes alight
sensing final victory
meaningless in reality
yet you breathe more easily
stand taller now, importantly
but you're the one who still can't sleep
replaying battles in your dreams
obsessively repeating memories
-you wear your pride on your sleeve
while mine runs deep
mine runs deep

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poem by Tzipora Knock
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Replayed In a Staleness Saved

Those remembering yesterday who said it is never too late...
Are those today who say how fast time has passed.
With wishes they had not sat to watch it,
Leave them and their procrastinations...
Rush by them without hesitation.
To age in dated excuses,
Replayed in a staleness saved!
For purposes to conduct discussions,
About the good old days!
With applied embellishments,
And exaggerated activities...
Just to induce another round of delusions,
That heightens with brightness one's self importance.
Detailing daily fresh versions of changed facts.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Finding words

Finding words
~
My heart was talking awkward
Perhaps I did not say
That I had thought to have said
Words so often I claim to understand
Often leave me at a loss
That I could not find the right words to say
Leave me replaying our conversation
I sear I said you were beautiful
And maybe how I wanted to be with you
Could I have said that with any clarity
That you understood fully my heart
Would I now be questioning my words
I am unable to say except in truth
Those are the words I wish to say
My feelings towards you
Though my heart rambles awkward
Saying plenty without saying much
Perhaps I never actually say

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poem by Matthew Holloway
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A Dispute

A dispute controls an explosion,
They built them on the line of writing;
Just why do hundreds debate and abandon?
The living of right is worth reporting.

A dispute managed the experiment,
Hitting and replaying like silver and gold;
My replying worsened, I was diligent
And angry that life became old.

The maddening went on and on, like fire
Blazing in souls, futures did burn,
I didn’t burn or catch fire or admire
This innocent help that made me learn.

Upper class strengths conceal their all ness,
And tall ness may acquire anatomy of riches,
This contained wealth to adore with abruptness,
Your feelings are hidden in adages.

poem by Naveed Akram
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I Miss You

I miss you so much
But there's nothing I can do
I need your sweet touch
I need to be with you
You can't imagine
How crazy you're driving me
I feel like nothing
Will ever be the same
It's like being in hell for all eternity
Just replaying a horrible game
Why did you have to leave
What did you have to do
You have decieved
My every right to believe in you
Please come back to me
I love you so much
I'm begging on my knees
Just to feel your touch
I know love is a strong word
But thats how I feel

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poem by Margaret Smith Vail
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For My Lost Brother

Suicide took your pain away
But left us with questions unanswered
Mom did not know it till her dying day
But I'm sure silently she wondered.
'Suicide is painless' so says the song
For the one who left, it could be
But we have carried this grief for so long
You must know how it's eating me.
Regrets like a replaying video
Of a story that had no valid end
Is like drowning in this inferno
Of an anguish refusing to mend.
What I'd give for a brief sort of discourse
There to ask you the reasons why
Of all choices you chose that recourse
All these years... I continue to die.

---

For my beloved brother Frank Buhain (June 24,1957-May 15,2003)

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poem by Cynthia Buhain-Baello
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Pursuit Ghost Echo Events Spectral Stalk

pursuit ghost echo events
still seek prey upon lives
persistently persecuted souls

among us who hear hounds
are haunted by ghost sounds
sounds we dread heard sounds

others told us of heard
in nights that never end
dramatic event defined

memories horrific nights
replay in trapped details
haunting aging memories

violence harass stalks years
sliver glass sharp daggers
pierce fragile victim minds

poem by Terence George Craddock
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I Wanna Go Home

I want to go home
I want to be home
But I am home
They say.

I don’t want to roam,
I want to come home,
I’m here at home
Astray.

I want to find me
I want to be me,
Not feeling free
Away

I’m little girl lost
I’m bigger girl lost
I’m self-double-crossed,
Dismay.

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poem by Linda Hepner
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