I Love Small Boxed Faces
Soupers often engage in emotional ways.
There can be depth in what two might exchange.
When someone leaves our shared Soup domain,
their diminished light is a missed, valued sight.
Some remarks feel like word-shaped embraces
and time together often leaves valued traces.
Is is not odd, just plain strange, as well as an ache
that Soup relationships are both
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Categories:
hellos, absence, angst, change, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Cheap Hellos
. for public domain
I know her through the cheap hellos,
shared taxi cabs, subways below,
strolling in the fresh fruit aisle,
shared bench for lunch, a sidewalk smile,
but not like I knew my sisters,
their blistered toes, and bathroom woes,
heartaches from a stolen kiss,
and sorrows from our dead parents.
We old neighbors have been pleasant,
civil, helpful, ever present,
with eyes where
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Categories:
hellos, lost love, old,
Form: Free verse
Child Hellos
frequent moving hurts a child's hellos so much the pains still adult hold
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Categories:
hellos, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monoku
Of Hellos
We stood in the dark
Not a word spoke between us two.
We hardly knew each other yet,
We saw each other whole hearted.
The stars began to light up.
The moon above our heads.
Our eyes half full.
Anticipation.
A civilization coming to life in the blink of an eye.
With millions of thoughts going on.
All that separates is the simplicity of hello.
The
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Categories:
hellos, black african american, black
Form: Free verse
Hellos Than Goodbyes
In a strange sort of way.
I've always wished that we've gotten together.
Be it a dream; that we would speak in hellos than good byes.
True love by means of evolvement.
Maybe I shouldn't think of you this way.
To bootleg myself in what I truly believe.
The hope of every possibility.
Your complex occupation.
To say what really
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Categories:
hellos, black african american, black
Form: Free verse
From Goodbyes To Hellos
How many goodbyes are in a lifetime?
Saying goodbye
to go to school
to go to work
to travel separately away
to end a visit that lags until the next time.
Who knows or recognizes that last final goodbye?
Knowing
can be a gift or an obligation
allowing final preparations
to say what needs and may otherwise
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Categories:
hellos, absence, best friend, faith,
Form: Epitaph
A Confetti of Awkward Hellos and Euphoric Goodbyes
The sight of her face
inspired my belly
to swell swiftly,
and erupt
into a confetti
of awkward hellos
and euphoric goodbyes.
His voice belched
with the throes
of titillation.
He knew his dog
day in the sun
had come to be
for you and me
and she, ya see?
Her
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Categories:
hellos, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Long Time Between Hellos
Living day by day and life just flows
Before you know it your youth goes
And friends become people you used to know
It's been a long time between hellos
Time passes you by on the run time flies
Would of, could of, should of, don't even try
Some how, something always slipped by
And some way, some day never applied
By chance
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Categories:
hellos, friendshipday, people, time, day,
Form: Rhyme
Hellos
hello, my name is
Something you won't need to know
Good morning to you
Whereas you say the same to me
Hola, me llamo
Lo! It is a secret
Bonjour, je mappelle
Nothing, it is still a secret
Shalom, shalom
well, same to you
My name is a secret,
Something you won't need to know,
So hello to you too.
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Categories:
hellos, children, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Hellos From the Idd
It exists in the mind of a drifter;
That lives outside the realm of norm
It's a primary collector and curator of information,
And is designed to protect, serve and inform.
From within its posture it is elevated.
Invisible to most;
It will adapt, improvise, and inevitably overcome,
And it
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Categories:
hellos, life, parody, philosophy
Form: Rhyme
Sweet Hellos and Sorrowful Goodbyes
A sweet hello.
That's how we started.
We went through our days without a care in the world.
And it all started through our sweet hello.
A sorrowful goodbye.
That's how we ended.
Our last days together were our worst.
And that last sorrowful goodbye was worst than anything we went through together.
You tried to apologize.
And I tried to forgive.
But when we
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Categories:
hellos, love, sad, sweet, sweet,
Form: I do not know?