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  July 2023     4 months ago

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The Brothers

As Frozen winter approaches.

A Rounded red man sits in candlelight.

Bounded leather, the lists placed with care.

The words inscribed read Naughty and Nice,

As the warmth of the room disappears into darkness,

The air so icy frozen...

– by Elizabeth Butler

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Grating Annoyances

My ears cannot stand the sound.

Bleeding out drip by bloody drip.

Within this spot I am trapped, I am bound.

My reality cannot not hold my grip.

My mind cannot stand the constant buzzing.

Thoughts they race this way and that.

...

– by Elizabeth Butler

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Merging Rusted Greenery

Barbed wire fence


 

Metal baracade


 

Rusted over ageing iron


 

Sharp points like the tip of a knife


 

Stabbing into the nature that used to grow naturally


 

Stringy wire coils twist loop de loops.


 

Like a...

– by Elizabeth Butler

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Ungifted

They told me I was one of the ones untouched.

I was uninteresting, unimportant, under average.

All I could offer folks were the hands I was born with.

My dreams of being touched were unattainable, they were un existent.

They flew...

– by Elizabeth Butler

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