White Cloth

Dirty
Soul and body
Covered with

Washing
Rubbing
Trying to clean
Scars

And wears
Spraying
Scents
To avoid
Internal smell

a symbol and
A Bodyguard
Running between
Human and demon

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Toilet

Squatting on the commode
Straighten the past
Forgetting excretion
Time is on the loose
Creates freedom

Burden exits from down
Imaginary burden flies into head
Unsolved sentiments flow in the water
Breaks freedom

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The Door

The door for in
The door for out
The same way right
Occupied life

The position points
Before the door
In or out

Sometimes entrance
Is to the exit
Before the eyes of mirror

Go with where ever
Same key
To close and open

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Autumn light

Leaves in trees
Shading out
Green color to yellow
I did not see crouching
And become quiet
In the cold of autumn

Opened the door and
Closed again
Began to read
A new chapter

In the way of running
Touched the mind
Lighting up a candle
In a cloud of darkness

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Books On The Table

I was awaken
But it were silent
When the noises come

Sitting in side
Change the rhythm
Spitted signs
Spray the rays of wisdom

It does not matter
Loneliness bitter
Friends and guest flatter
Pages turned better

Widen and push
Into the dream
Sinking in the see
Turning pages
Live with me

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Drought in Mind

It is a lake
Dried up
By the drought
Creaked and evaporated
Poetic soul

Lights with thunder
Sky is threatened
Signs, words and metaphors
Conceiving in clouds
Darken the mind

Waken up pen
Searches for
To have a blank paper
To a poetic rain

Stirring up the mind
Ill grown cyclone
Aborts rains

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Ring Worm Seeds

Tighten up and closed bottle
Living inside protected
Seems to be in safety
Label within guaranty

Before the given time passed
Agents of ring worm seeds
Struggle inside though it is
Closed and protected

Guaranty can be and may be
But inside from bottom
Living beings pressure to open
To do or not
To live or not
Inside being rotten

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Red Light

With confidence
In time with a risk
Watching on
Sides of left
And right
Cross the road
At the signal of red light

Break the rule
But not the order
Risk sometimes helps
That the time indicates

To catch the train or the bus
To rush for office
Why it is worth
For a change of a system
That has been grabbed
Wrapping in the line
Of dictatorship

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Trap and Bird

Birds flocking together
Blaming to the snared bird
Not for the trap

In the sense of knowing
Return not again to them
Find faults and blame him
Not to trap.

He has gone to go
A journey that never has gone.

If he crossed it
Birds would fly behind him.
Would and could be able
To eat and to taste
fruits and nuts
And to enjoy the freedom
Never have had

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Dream in Jail

Be smile
Without crying
Gaze
Without thinking
I'll be there
Without inform
Be at home
Without absent

Difficult days passed
Without telling
Stealing the time and life
Suffering sighs
Unlimited
Regular dreams
Without sleeping
Four sided walls
Filming only one picture
That's you and
Sorrowful face

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