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PAR (Paulo Acácio Ramos) wrote a new post

• 1 year, 2 months ago

The Poet’s Endless Curse

Poetry

May 23, 2025

8

He wakes at dawn with ink-stained hands, a mind ablaze yet feet in sand. Each word he scrawls a fleeting spark devoured whole before it’s dark. He writes of love, he writes of death. He writes of time, he writes...

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7 Comments
- Willow
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  This is so true! It always seems to me that nobody loves poetry except poets. And we couldn’t breathe if we couldn’t write…
  - PAR (Paulo Acácio Ramos)
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    Thanks my dear.
- Damian DeadLove
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Beautifully penned, PAR. Into the book it belongs! The life of a writer my friend, you described it perfectly. Appreciate you.
  
  Damian
  - PAR (Paulo Acácio Ramos)
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    Thank you, Damian. Love to you always.
- Visions_of_Insanity
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  We live for it. We bleed words & ink. Excellent piece my friend. Always………
  - PAR (Paulo Acácio Ramos)
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    We do, my beloved friend.
- PAR (Paulo Acácio Ramos)
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  WE are… Love to you!
Fia Naturie and NAAJIR are now friends

• 1 year, 2 months ago

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M.E wrote a new post

• 1 year, 2 months ago

This Is How It Is Today

Featured, Poetry

May 23, 2025

23

In this cafe, with dirt for wallpaper. The heat is a bitch, and the fan in the ceiling is the worst— turning counter-clockwise. Sipping on my cup of coffee and milk. Too many flies, buzzing, fighting over throne, fighting over food, fighting over fly-chicks. Whatever they are fighting for— only that...

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20 Comments
- Fia Naturie
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Sounds hot and sticky. A summer day.
  - M.E
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    A hot and lonesome summer day. “)
    Thank you, Fia!
- M.E
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Chewing gum, or strawberry. My favorite flavors since childhood. 😀
  
  Thank you, Adira! Your comments make my day! “)
- Willow
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  I swear I know these moments. Drags & weighs the body down. This is a doozy
  - M.E
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    Yeah. I am sorry you can relate to this. Thanks, willlow for reading! “)
- M.E
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Thats what it was called back then. “)
- Damian DeadLove
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Cleverly penned, M.E. Relatable write my friend, we’ve all been there. Appreciate you.
  
  Damian
  - M.E
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    Thank you brother! Highly appreciated! “)
- Visions_of_Insanity
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Don’t want to be there but you forced me in this place with your detailed writing. DAMN GOOD! If you want an ice cream cone, go to Dampkitten’s poem “Poetspeak Sweet”. There you’ll find an ice cream cone and a whole lot more.
- M.E
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  I apologize. It got to be written and vented. Thank you for reading and liking it! “)
  
  Hmm..I’ll check it out rn. Thanks “)
- DampKitten
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Yeah, they have bubble gum ice cream, and it’s gross. Also, have you tried the cotton candy green seedless grapes? My God, they taste just like it. Weird.
  - M.E
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    Bubble gum flavour id gross! I disagree. But hearing of cotton candy green seedless grapes, I think you are right about the bubble gum flavour in there. Hahaha.
- DampKitten
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  LOL… I thought you were referencing my poem from the beginning. And now, I find out you like strawberry ice cream. OMG. By the way, is this ‘mosquito wing’ phrase an allusion to Smells Like Teen Spirit?
  
  You do realize that you could enter this poem in the ‘coffee’ poem contest don’t you?
  
  You will find this extremely weird, but the imagery in your piece is very reminiscent of the hotel scene early in the movie, Apocalypse Now.
  - M.E
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    Lol. I saw your poem after our fellow poet: visions_of_insanity’s recommendation for ice cream. It ended up another type of ice cream. Lol
    
    No. But I liked the reference. I had another poem that I have lost, where I referenced Nirvana’s Smells like teen spirit.
    Mosquito’s wings here symbolize inferiority. For their tiny wings comparing with flies. Idk why it came to my mind. But I used it.
    
    I didn’t know about the contest. The setting of this poem is in a cafe but the themes has nothing to do with coffee.
    
    I don’t remember this scene. I think I’ll rewatch it one day.
    
    Thank you for reading and for the comments, DK. “)
- Thomas W. Case
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Powerful work, my friend.
  - M.E
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    Thank you, Thomas! “)
- DampKitten
  1 year, 1 month ago
  
  Holy Shit, you won! Congratulations, M.E!
  Now, you see where mosquito wings can carry you!
  - M.E
    1 year, 1 month ago
    
    Mosquito wings comes with mosquito responsiblities. The limitless ability of sucking. Hahaha
    
    Thank you, DK! “)
- Jacob erin-cilberto
  10 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  Damn mosquito…no chance with all those flies, just keep them off my ice cream cone.
  This is so powerful in its imagery…and such a disgusting place…I think I will get my cone to go.
  
  j.
  - M.E
    10 months, 4 weeks ago
    
    Thank you Jacob! Appreciated. “)
S. Libellule wrote a new post

• 1 year, 2 months ago

Tell it slant

Poetry

May 23, 2025

7

Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Dickinson You must tell Verity but slant itIt dazzles if too boldMakes it far too sharp to graspEven when it's retold A flash direct blinds simple SoulsAs Mysteries revealMore depth than Spotlights...

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5 Comments
- Atticus Abbey
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Fantastic! As usual…
  - S. Libellule
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    Thanks Adagio…
- S. Libellule
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Thanks my dear… know what you mean… I am often far too blunt…
- Detritus
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  I smiled after the first reading then read it twice more
  something quite sating in those lines..
  
  much enjoyed!
- Damian DeadLove
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Beautifully penned, LDF. Liked this a lot my friend. Appreciate you.
  
  Damian
NAAJIR wrote a new post

• 1 year, 2 months ago

Universal Translator [More Jerkology]

Erotica, Humor

May 23, 2025

7

she railed and railed incessantly 'bout sumthin i did the other daybitchin about this that n the thirdit was blah blah blah mixed with a bunch of epithetsfuck you muthafucka...blah blah blaharrogant piece of shit...blah blah blahself centered bastard...blah blah blah and a blah...

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4 Comments
- NAAJIR
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Haha… thx for the affirmation hun
- Damian DeadLove
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Cleverly penned, Naaj. All they have to do is ask, I concur with this logic my friend. Appreciate you.
  
  Damian
  - NAAJIR
    1 year, 2 months ago
    
    It’s the passive-aggressive judo they get a kick out of.
    I’m game…makes the sex more intense.
    
    Always, big thx for the support
    
    Naaj
- NAAJIR
  1 year, 2 months ago
  
  I think they know but they be too much in their feelings these days….
  
  Big thx for the energy Hun…always
  
  Naaj
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