Deja Reid* Untitled

DEJA REID

Malcolm Sedam Winner 2022

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90 A plate Serves a Dish With a Fish That’s LongBeen- Gone what went wrong The Water Or the Prong

Bounded across time & space we walk ALone Yet We Meet in the Night I tell you of my eternal Love The sky crumbles as I AWAken

A taste So sweet The Bees are Jealous - Yours. So much So It’s World Rectifying

66 Comforted in Another’s Gaze- A Haze Of which We Know A LAck - FLack

32 The ebbs of the ocean wave back graciously A Smirk envites u in Though not one ignites A Match Next to U

106 A Glimmer in The River A serene Bliss That you see A wish could it Be A Fish, Is what I see? A Tune Comes to we A Mystic of such A Lust, too to Hush A Beauty, oh, if only

43 Some Strangers R Strange Some quaint in a way To where we can Drift Once Apart- People Stay with you Away in Not so many- Ways

7 My heart sings a song I’ve never Heard Before But I’ve seen it- I’ve felt it It is more than I can put into words The Birds know it So Does the Wind And the glimmer of She Sun’s kiss too- Do you?

79 We walk A straight Line one that Doesn’t curve No exceptions Except for maybe one, ONE you don’t see It Breathes- just Like you & me Yet, we’ve never been formally acquainted Someone approaches There’s a Knock at The Door For Christ’s SAke it’s Four in the GD Morn’

78 The water crys with me The thunder pounds my chest The wind tauntingly circles my head I Fear the Faint Sounds of Sirens The Watch says “12 o’clock”

As the Purple Elephant walks the tightRope No one is Here to ca… SPLAT

111 I walk with you, In my Lonely Days We Sea, A Cloud Up ABove Too Which There’s- A Thunder You Sea, We BeeLOng To the Sky The Wind Wisps us- AWAy In Solstice's Solace- Together We Sea- A StrikeLIGHTning Bolt, You See? Here The Sound A Ring of The Ear BeeSeach- Once a see Now an ocean- with Sand Between my Toes

63 The Moon Is a Friend She sits n’ stands- with you As we walk, the Skycrumbles. Tears aren’t shredded For you- Are you by my side The Strings play- ACCordingly Destiny plays the Harmonica Tumbling All Around Us We wazily waltzThis life (So Called) In each others’ Arms

The Troubled tract once Tread is no Longer- to be So Tiresome I hear you.

60 At Will’s Freedom Independence is often Sought After Yet Laws created to cage those who’ve FLown Nature’s quest to gain what was one already her’s Structures constructed for those willing to ABide The Slyness of a Fly Doesn’t go without Fine

40 hold a fist to the Powerfor the hour we walk in these showers against those Bowsers what a day for Rain. once aGainThe Sun Shines

102 The Ground I walk on- I make I see this world for my own the colors so vibrant of Flowers in prime BLoom Feathered Wings walk Behind me Like you’ve never seen The wind & her light Breeze So Serene

The symphony that is the wind My friends, we sing in a ring of glee Gleammor for which we are protected by this Trees aren’t in lack of these bees, we see Can’t you Communities follow in suit Without honey in pursuit Words don’t work But these dew The clouds give a glimpse Perhaps that’s not enough To be so limpsome- Or not It’s up to you Your heart wonders Wanders to a place/unknowingly familiar For you seek a home To flourish in beds a flower- Thriving Lying- In yours Which direction shall you take, my love It is up to you A bush thrice divided, where does the bud gore?

144 An owL Hoots for me For when I cannot see Up Above- The Tree There he Bee I wonder Do You Sea the Nights I Lay Awake talking to the stars I feel my Scars As Behind Bars Cannot Escape The RestLessNess Do you Heare- of my cares worries & wares At Times- I Fear This Impending Sense- Impeding Aim at a Target--- I wonder who

I thought I Knew