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Waiting for Luna

Posted on 01/31/2018 by Khaya Ronkainen

Winter night dark and brutalSkywatcher tremblesfor first love is hard.What lunatic waits to be jiltedby a girl he never laid eyes on? For Poets United

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Blow Me a Kiss

Posted on 04/19/2017 by Khaya Ronkainen

And what is love? Surely not the fleeting butterflies in summer. It’s your everydayness that gets My fingers twirling absentmindedly Tracing contours of a...

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