DAGINNE AIGNEND & ZACHARY DILKS - STRAYED?

Daginne Aignend is a pseudonym for the Dutch poetess Inge Wesdijk.
She likes hard rock music, photography and fantasy books. She is a vegetarian and spends a lot of time with her animals.
Daginne started to write English poetry five years ago and posted some of her poems on her Facebook page and on her fun project website www.daginne.com, she's also the co-editor of Degenerate Literature, a poetry, flash fiction, and arts E-zine
She has been published in several Poetry Review Magazines, in the bilingual anthology (English/Farsi), 'Where Are You From?' and in the Contemporary Poet's Group anthology 'Dandelion in a Vase of Roses'.

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Zachary Dilks is a poet and writer living outside of Austin, TX. He works full time to support his wife and daughter and uses his writing to combat the feelings from the loss of his first daughter. His love of nature and the contradictions of life are prevalent in his works.

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                                     Strayed ?
 
Taste of ever bittersweet
Like littered streets from celebrations
Dare I change with every season
Fare I north instead of south
Do I wander incomplete
And squander all my contemplations
Like I've massed a herd of reasons
But it's all just word of mouth
 
Ridiculous musings murmurs
A serpent's hiss
slithers across my mind
Why should I care about
indifferent discernment
Seditious rebellion
floods into my thoughts
A stimulating brainwash 
 
Have I gone and flown the nest
To only land among the beasts
Has my song been sung with vigor
But I tuned in just too late
Did I journey to the fest
To only find myself the feast
As if I had made the trigger
That, come soon, would seal my fate
 
Grabbed by claws of desperation
My quest  should be a search for freedom
Not to be devoured by hungry jaws,
torn apart by ravenous greed
In frantic agony, I flee
to  the tranquil borders of solace
Where the crossroad's signpost
designates 'Home'