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Beat #5

Posted on January 29, 2023 By adcitlali

Your eyes are so dark. You stared with that sweet quite smile. Eyes interlocked. Felt unveiled. Why? _____Adriana Citlali XXIX-I-MMXXIII

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Shades of silence

Posted on August 8, 2017 By adcitlali

It wasn’t confusion that crushed clouds into thunderstorm
It wasn’t my body disheartened by your words

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Shaken

Posted on February 9, 2017 By adcitlali

Today’s challenge is to incorporate pub and drinking terms into a poem, without a bar/drinking scene, and within 33 words max.
Name your poison.

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Beat #2

Posted on February 13, 2016 By adcitlali

I observe.
Your dreamy lips move endlessly.

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It’s time

Posted on March 13, 2015 By adcitlali

You probably forgot   that late January   or February     a year        or ten                  or a century ago   Dream-like memory                     a bad one It’s time to go   –You dressed up      (for me?       maybe)                    good-looking coat & hat                   That winter coat we bought one summer…

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The poetry of the untold

Posted on October 8, 2014 By adcitlali

        Almost forgotten   Waves hitting the corner of your eye    Words refusing to leave your muted lips    A touch you take for granted    Every day      Each morning         Thru the whole night          Ephemeral   Sounds silenced by the background noise by that noise –reminder of the relevant…

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Full stop

Posted on July 28, 2014 By adcitlali

In the absence of distractions    my own darkness fills this silence    Change is here again    Planned path / unknown outcome    A life to be –or not    Too much time    too many thoughts blinking in the dark    Arbitrary memories flash here and there   …

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Not enough confusion

Posted on June 5, 2014 By adcitlali

Stillness and silence were all I could hope for   … Ancient words kept flying around. Right behind my forehead, chaotic phonemes forcibly formed foreign words. Hubo palabras huecas en idiomas conocidos. Dissonant sounds were known incongruent words in disguise. In between my ears, there was a constant resonance:         a noisy…

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On writing a poem

Posted on November 27, 2013 By adcitlali

You: How do you write a poem without knowing what to say?           I start by attempting that impossible silence in my head     while your question bounces with varying emphasis      filling in that luxurious void so hard to come by     The bounces start changing frequency     sometimes they go into resonance    …

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The refusal

Posted on December 28, 2012 By adcitlali

A ghost-face against the silence that keeps playing that song haunts me… Is the music an effect of the vision? Or does the song draw this ethereal face note by note? I close my eyes seeking quietness, darkness. The song acts as a snake biting its own tail. I break…

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