Women Love Hurts Poems

I KNOW A GIRL WHO IS INNOCENT AND WHOSE HEART IS SO PURE

TRUSTWORTHY AND TRUE, A GEM OF KIND

WHOSE BEAUTY AND GRACE, ARE ALWAYS ON...

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         A Fading Ember

In shadows cast by waning light,
A love once vivid, now takes flight.
Our candle that...

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blue eyes, deep and dazzling as the sea
cheekbones sharper than a knife
golden hair, soft to run a hand through
he was a jewel
a sapphire prince
who, upon...

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You remain my fate, you killed me, but I live; your spirit
Everything that was given to you (me) in spirit will never be forgotten.
I am...

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I looked for you one last time; as the sun went down
I looked for you again; when I was about to run aground
Was that my...

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i will write haiku 
so that my big feelings don’t 
take up too much room 

i know well enough
silence wields no rejection
so i stay silent.

the...

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Too far to touch.

For thoughts not so much.

Until notions aren't enough. 

Bearing empty narratives.

And recalls of your earth tone.

And then you're not here.

But who said...

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once your touch would make me tremble
your lips on mine an ecstasy dance
I gave you my heart until you hurt me
so I turned away from...

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when I met you, I was dying. for the very first time in my life, but certainly not the last- you made sure of that
when...

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If I could but forget your touch
Your embrace, so warm and tight
The way you sang, so sweetly much
And how your words lit up the night

If...

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Broken.

Ripped and torn.

Out of ashes she was born.

A woman scorned?

Or Karma.

We all kneel.

For she’s had a bad deal.

Curses to give.

Broken dreams to follow.

Hard to get...

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She was a woman of beauty and grace
With a heart that longed for a lover's embrace
Her marriage was dull and devoid of desire
But a new...

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To Me
To me she is beautiful
A demonic angel in black and white
To me she is delusional
She sees a Zebra but on a moonless night
To me...

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I stand in the aftermath 
between the oscillations of time 
wondering idle thoughts of you

I feel my mind haunted by 
the passing moments of you
like...

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Sappho Translations I

Sappho, fragment 132 (Lobel-Page 132)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
I have a delightful daughter
fairer than the fairest flowers, Cleis,
whom I cherish more than...

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