Mattioli Poems - Poems about Mattioli

...Here are tribute poems for exceptional children and teachers who should be alive today: Emilie Parker, the horror grows starker as we see your sweet image and cringe at the carnage; but dear, ......Read the rest...

...I've lain beneath the trees as they wept Spread-eagled on beds of wild sage Surrounded by the brave soldiers of fallen leaves turned crimson and gold I've breathed in love on a sweet scented su......Read the rest...

...Row me out Captain to our secret room Steal me far from shore Let me sit tight against you Bathe with me in this gold-flecked light forevermore I’ll trail my fingers through the warm silk of the......Read the rest...

...Caught behind barbed wire Tangled in a child's shame, old regrets and fears We sometimes pierce our souls in the death grip of our love offerings Delightful wild-flowers clutched in hopeful fis......Read the rest...

...She woke up The bitter remnants of the past swirling in her mouth eating her words in a sulphuric acid brew She woke up and spat them out before they charted a course to destroy all she stil......Read the rest...

...Be the hero in her Empire Topple her throne Capture her desire Claim her crown for your own Crush her pearls And devour their dust Let your lips tell her stories, of both love and lust Wander ......Read the rest...

...Alta Luna, my gentleman caller in the night Ahhhh, yes He’s making eyes at me Sending showers of midnight winks that melt the stars into my eyes Tall and handsome perfect to lean my ladder up ......Read the rest...

...The wind leans in against my walls Tempestuous, in a melancholy fever It’s reckless moaning calls to every sinew binding me in place Howling to unleash me from this empty time this vacant ......Read the rest...

...I was the kind of girl That wore a woolen scarf Like a strand of pearls around my neck And you were the kind of guy that couldn’t resist pulling me into your chest by the dangling knitted tails......Read the rest...

...The brevity of life astounds me As I question everything with a burning need Must it all be ordinary, so dull and transient? What is missing, what am I trying to feed? And as I work through my da......Read the rest...

...Cracked crevasses miles deep Explode in thundering booms as they spread into hollow and empty rooms Replacing the chambers of a bursting heart with desolate echoing caverns Splitting what re......Read the rest...

...My bed is Kansas Endless, barren windswept plains Of empty sheets Stretching to a distant horizon It could be the flats of Nebraska On a starless night Lonely Bleak So far, I can’t reach An......Read the rest...

...Love is not one-quarter note It's a violin concerto set on fire Played to a table for two It’s not half-assed Or half-baked It’s the 3 inches thick finger licking frosting with a cherry on t......Read the rest...

...I grew up as the day disappeared into the black of night As love became a senseless fight I grew up and left my innocence behind In a pink-lined box where a tiny ballerina twirled to a little ......Read the rest...

...** This poem is in memory of James Mattioli, one of the children who died in the Sandy Hook Shooting. James loved math, sports, singing at the top of his lungs, and cuddling with his mother at night.......Read the rest...