The Petals Hurt TooEach petal cuts me in my sleep—
you call it soft,
but I bleed every time I touch it.
The mirror doesn’t cry with me anymore.
Only the fog stays.
It hums like a swallowed scream.
...
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Categories:
absence, cry, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Good enough for youI'm too quiet
I talk too much
I'm too involved
I'm way too out of touch
I'm too messy
I care too much about things being clean
I'm too kind
I'm way too f*ckin mean
I'm too close
I'm too far away
I went to bed too early
I stayed up too late
I'm too skinny...
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Categories:
love hurts, abuse, angst, confusion, love
Form: Rhyme
Wedding poem Wedding VowsMay we forever be lovers,
May we forever be friends,
And should we hurt each other,
May we quickly make amends.
May we enjoy our passion,
But never let compassion die,
Thinking in selfless terms as we,
Never emphasising I.
May we forever be soul-mates,
May our love eternally last,
May the food of love sustain us,
May we never have to fast.
May we use each...
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Categories:
love, love hurts, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Hade's CallingShe appears like a quiet flow
of gentle timeless and pure glowing
show from a waterfall of sustenance.
Smooth skin, angelic sweet of a gift
touching my demonic diary memoirs,
frozen in time as the pages flicker
and re-writes like a newly pressed hand.
Her eyes a purity of splashes
of green illustrated
mesmerizes me
with a gaze loving
silk sown teasing dress,
fiery red silky worship
of...
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Categories:
love hurts, angel, longing, love, love
Form: Free verse
IlluminationI escape to a shiny lake
where waters are calmer,
my mistakes are not raked
and the nights are warmer.
Without sting rays
and cold-ness of days,
This town is deserted
buildings flood vacancies
I dream of flirtation
and of illumination,
so much for singularity,
bringing one to peace.
Thoughts are floating
like ashes in the summer.
I begin playing,
A lost & found harmonica....
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Categories:
love hurts, dream, introspection, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Forever And Always, For All EternityInfinite love
Has come to an end
The white dove?
Its neck has a bend
What was promised forever
Did not last
Continued for never
And came in last
Eight months
To be continued
Eight months
You promised no issue
You promised forever
You promised always
You promised to never
But you did anyways
I cannot be mad
I could not do that to you
But boy am I sad
To watch what we...
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Categories:
love hurts, crush, cry, loss, love
Form: Rhyme
Blue summerBLUE SUMMER
vs 1
IT'S BEEN A SAD DAY,
I FOUND OUT THE ONE I LOVE,
HAS GONE AWAY...
IT'S HARD TO RISE ABOVE
vs 2
NOW THE DAYS ARE ALL EMPTY
NOTHING LEFT TO LOOK FORWARD TO...
FEELS LIKE THE WORLD IS ENDING...
AND NOW I'M ALL ALONE
CHORUS
GONNA BE A BLUE SUMMER
YEAH IT'S TRUE...
GONNA BE A BLUE SUMMER
IT'S HARD HERE WITHOUT YOU
I'LL DREAD...
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Categories:
love hurts, blue, i miss you,
Form: Lyric
NullspaceEvery day
I walked by the dead cockroach on
The second floor’s third stair.
I was out of breath by the sixth.
On the eighth I’d stop,
And wait until my heart slowed.
I'd step out.
How was his night?
Emesis? Pain?
Did he sleep?
Evening would roll around.
I'd walk by the clock stuck at 4:52.
The elevators were faster...
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Categories:
love hurts, cancer, dad, devotion, father,
Form: Free verse
Same spirit, different bodiesWhat were the chances?
Even if just one percent,
I would redo the calculations,
Till my body turns to ashes.
The times we spent together—
Were the ones that made me fall in love with existance, with you.
Even when we're not on good terms,
If the universe gave me another chance,
I would.
However things aren't the same,
Like seasons,
The summer left and winter...
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Categories:
love hurts, art, crush, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Truth At HeartWhom am I in the endless plot of fate?
Your perfect perfection used as bait.
Whom am I to reject perfection’s grace,
Amidst my turmoil in karma’s embrace.
I sought not, yet there you stood,
A calm in my storm, I never understood.
You were the answer to my whispers unheard,
A soft light to which my shadow was led.
An eternity I...
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Categories:
love hurts, break up, fate, i
Form: Rhyme
Inevitable truthAn eternity in your eyes I saw
Yet behind broken dreams I stand,
I blame you not, for this is my flaw,
Hoping for that which no mortal shall have.
Memories of an eternity I had made,
In the sands of time I watch them fade,
Was this ever meant to be?
Or was this but a fleeting moment of karma.
Deep in...
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Categories:
love hurts, adventure, cute love, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Nothing's All I GotShe wouldn’t let me in
So, I stand on the porch
With all the other men
Still carrying a torch
I thought I had a chance
I thought I had a shot
I thought I’d get a dance
But nothing’s all I got
She had no open door
She always kept it locked
So, like all those before
I stand out here and knock
I tried to...
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Categories:
love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
I Ruined UsI ruined what we had
With my mincing words misplaced,
Words that made you mad
With a feeling as though also disgraced.
I ruined what we were
With things in which we never concurred,
Things I was just unsure
Of whether it is my path that has occurred.
I ruined our bond
With feelings long suppressed,
Feelings as shallow as a pond,
In which I drowned...
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Categories:
love hurts, break up, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Quatrain
An Unforgettable Christmas Day
It had been so long since I’d felt loved and wanted.
Then I met John. We basked in our late-in-life romance.
Gone was the loneliness that had left me feeling haunted.
Our relationship proved I had been wise to take a chance.
Though somewhat set in our ways, we adjusted well,
each accommodating the other. He often mentioned how much
we...
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Categories:
love hurts,
Form: Quatrain
Movement without motionInspired by Bob Dylan's song
"Abandoned Love"
——————————————
Your fire burns deep in my ocean,
But where is the ash of its burn?
It's a movement without motion—
A facemask fixed on the stern.
I would rather fight a phantom,
Than see your heart be fully claimed.
I chose you—perhaps at random—
To repair a heart love had maimed.
My heart still jumps into my mouth
Whenever...
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Categories:
love hurts, anger, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
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