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Teacher! Teacher!

Poet and preacher,

guide and beguile this

belligerent creature!

Leave me a lesson;

prescribe my attendance;

slip me a syllabus

and rubric resplendent.

sequestered, unwashed,

and destined to fall-

ring the school bell

I heed only its call.

-Q%Z 10.9.21

#poetry #my poem #I dropped out of grad school last spring because pandemic #I want to go back

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Oculus orb dark and round

blue billows bodily inside

swirling swiftly in churning cosmos

teasing testament beyond grasp

I shake the round thing, agitating its triangle

“Is god real?”

holding my breath, peering into the portal

I grasp my question, holding it fast with bloodying knuckles.

the Point.

-Q%Z 6.9.21

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Superba esse Romana sum

qua nunquam Europa adveniebat.

Civis sine patria;

discipula sine magistro;

poeta sine musa sum.

Linguam mortuorum disce,

ne linguam doctrinae moratur.

-Q%Z 1.9.21

#Latin #poetry #latin poetry #my poem #written for a contest with the prompt #write in your mother tongue regarding a product of your native country #as a diligent classics student I ran with it #if you find an error please let me know!

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Meaningless musings

gathering dust

coalesce into contacts

improving revisions.

Meaningful contacts

gathering lust

coalesce into musings

improving relations.

-Q%Z 31.8.21

#my poem #poem #my poetry #poetry #people on all poetry do not give a lot of criticism #they also kinda treat it like a dating site #it’s fascinating

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Thank you for

your generous offer

however I

decline.

You may recall

upon your last proffer

I’m burdened by

your time.

-Q%Z 30.8.21

#a response to a terribly modest proposal #my poem #my poetry #poem #poetry #I wonder how things would be different

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blueberry whispers

lap at deaf ears

echoing sirens -

search chopper nears.

Blades cutting

closer:

tell tale heart -

Closure.

Ceaseless I beat

as the year dancing turned

in damned Tupperware

that You never returned.

-Q%Z 29.8.21

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“………

Hi dear,

I’m calling from

AT&T”

I hit pause -

rewind the voicemail:

play it again, Sam

“………

Hi dear”

pause

rewind

Play.

“………

Hi dear”

How I long

to be dear.

-Q%Z 29.8.21

#I’ll take this to mean you’re happy #good #that or god just loves fucking with me #two things can be true #poetry #kinda #spam #spam poetry #SPLAM #SPLAM POETRY

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My eyes aren’t blue

though they’re sopping and wet,

laden with memories

tis best to forget.

Please call me Marley;

I’m wrapped up in chains

and speak of those stories,

bringing you pains.

Ghosts of lost futures;

Ghosts of our past;

Ghosts of the memories

that happened too fast.

We shan’t reunite;

it remains to be seen.

So I’ll inform you in verse,

my eyes are colored green.

- Q%Z 27.8.21

#my poem #my poetry #poetry #inaccurate physical description #at least get it right

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I was dear to you once

before my “return”.

A friendly flirtation

delightful, fair madam.

Then refugee Trojan,

a different, stray madman.

Now reading epistles -

salutations do sting.

Dear

Dear

Dear

I was dear to you once

when I last wore a ring.

- Q%Z 27.8.21

#my poetry #please let them be happy #love letter #poem

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A thief in the night

Stalking his prey

Helpless they slumber

Heedless his way.

With tongue outstretched

Warm hooks, sand paper,

He partakes in his meal

From ear - wax caper

- Q%Z 8.26.21

#poetry #my poem #cat #boss tweed #my cat eats my ear wax #from my ear #WHILE I SLEEP #THEIF

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I couldn’t find a pen.

I do prefer ink to plumbago;

I wish to be indelible.

I

I

I

- Q%Z 26.8.21

#diary #poetry #my poem

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I wish I could write

you

out of my mind.

Gather up pieces,

(bits here and bits there)

remnants of you,

gentle and kind,

to cast them aside.

I wish to make

room for another -

any other.

But I’m full up on you

still.

I wish I could write

You

out of my mind.

- Q%Z 24.8.21

#my poetry #poetry #please #release me #unrequited affection

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Nose crinkle and twinkle

Wiggle and shine

Whiskers feel without touching

See taste or breathe fine

- Q%Z 24.8.21

#my poetry #poem #my poem #poetry #cat #joy of discovery #discovery of cat

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O! That I were another

who Love was unlikely to smother.

With wind in my sails

and bailing out pails,

my ship is in need of a rudder.

- Q%Z 23.8.21

#poetry #poem #my poetry #unrequited love #limerick #ok so the meter isn’t perfect #mostly the first line #the rest are pretty ok dactyls

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Traipsing along the boundary

Of kindling and alight -

Filling me up completely,

Sweet succor of the night.

- Q%Z 23.8.21

#poetry #poem #my poetry #sexetry #sucker // succor #i’m hilarious

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I ought to write

something today

something to say

hello! I’m here!

so if I may

in my own way

today I shall say

I love you, my dear

- Q%Z 22.8.21

#poetry #quick #poem #original content #joy of discovery #discovery of self

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My radishes are radishing.

#radish #gardener #2strong #I’m overwhelmed #help #joy of discovery #discovery of nature