War Lost Love Poems

“Give them back! Give my tears back, right now—with interest!!”
—Natsuki Takaya


 She wrote her marine a letter, hopeful, bright
loved with her kisses and perfume. In...

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I wish it would have been a war
that was the explanation for
the reason you are not around,
the reason I don’t hear the sound
of your voice...

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 

Go on and beat me
But atleast not infront of our kids
For they'll not understand
Why you doing this to their mother 

"Mum why you...

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______ The Shameless Bird, perched high with glee,
Barks at the tree, as bold as can be.
I offered food for its family's delight,
Yet it barks at...

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Fire-blown mounds of ash do swirl
About a charred pathetic doll
With one surviving dead man’s eye
Whose eyelid flickers back no more

Torn up like a tethered fox
Mail-shirt...

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Gaslight me, baby.

I don't want to hear the truth. Tell me you love me. Say you need me. Promise you'll never leave me. Convince me...

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I am taking a trip to an antique store,                ...

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I saw a dazzling rose,
Whose red petals cast blinding hues upon me.
She shot her cupid arrows from the Kabaka’s backyard,
And punctured the cocoon of my...

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Nary a word was said
    as they tumbled onto the bed

  Passions in overdrive churned
    what were the...

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I started out life as Anna Mae Bullock,                 ...

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Heart's silent scream
     lovers torn 
       from savaged arms

   Hunched over 
 ...

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Lost Love

Found no where in water
Air was also empty
Songs of love unheard again
Letters of mine lost again!...

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Just one letter from you that's all I ask  
I know our romance was way in the past
Strong promises you made before you left
A...

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Said through clenched pallet cleft

Straight right out of left field 

Came the wind a calling for a
sacrificial sacrifice

To appease the dog god's of war
straining and...

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Daily she sits by the window 
Hoping today will be the day he will return home
Leaving the window only when the sun goes down
To return...

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