The softness we never got
I'm sorry
I know you may have never been told that
But you deserve it
And so if nobody is gonna tell you that
I will
You deserve it
In a world that has told us to be strong
And has held us to impossibly high standards
I wanted you to know that you matter
And you deserved better
From the world
From your own
I'm
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Categories:
softness, color, discrimination, freedom, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Pause That Holds Me
The world does not beg to be held today
Doesn't demand my voice or my chase
It simply asks that I sit in the space between
Where breath is enough
Where time just is
There's no urgency here
No need to carve my name into the hours
Only the soft surrender of being
So I loosen the grip on the reins of time
Letting
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Categories:
softness, inspiration, perspective, solitude, war,
Form: Free verse
Morning Ghost
I woke up wanting your fingers in my hair,
your warm breath on my neck, and our bodies tangled,
caught in the soft, unruly dawn.
The memory of us lingers like mist,
fading and filling the space all at once.
I reach for you in the quiet ache,
in sheets that remember your weight, your warmth,
and in the spaces between breaths,
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Categories:
softness, break up, deep, devotion,
Form: Lyric
Poetic Diversion For Violin And No Orchestra
Poetic Diversion For Violin And No Orchestra
planet shoes tiptoeing
in cadences known to the mourning cloaks
their soft landings on spread petals
teach infinite lessons with splendid hot swishes
fan-tailing silently the unseen cricket kisses
rising and soaring like pepper tree phantoms
saying life is a slow dance in the moonlight
tall earring girl with perfume music blaring
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Categories:
softness, beautiful, music,
Form: Free verse
SOFT
A soft sound is gentle as falling snow
that rests for a moment in a tall pine
as whispers of breeze urge it on below
to begin a softly sculpted design
A summer dusk with lavender shadows
that soften and gentle a stone pathway
or, tall grass and flowers in the meadows
softly nodding in breeze at end of day
Soft music filling
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Categories:
softness, appreciation,
Form: Quatrain
softness and strength
after fifty years, he still holds her hand
gently, loving the softness
she feels his strength,
he is her hero
forever and always together
even after one goes to heaven
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Categories:
softness, love,
Form: Free verse
being a lover
lover of moon
lover of stars
lover of mirrorballs
lover of early autumn mushrooms
lover of bitter first frost
lover of sequins
lover of full moons
lover of folk
and true to the soul lyrics
lover of the quiet
and the absence of anyone
lover of ribbon bows
lover of corduroy and linen
lover of mowed grass
and the melancholy of family summer evenings
of her youth
lover of
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Categories:
softness, 12th grade, feelings, love,
Form: List
The Softness In Your Words
I hear a softness in your words.
They may be only written, but they speak to me in your voice.
Gentle, like the whispering of snowflakes to the ground as they lovingly alight upon it.
It's hard to ignore the possibilities of your meaning as they arise and tickle my eager neurons.
I'm unsure whether to believe their suggestions
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Categories:
softness, confusion, desire, feelings, friendship,
Form: Free verse
He
He deserves such softness.
Bony hips bruised on the corners of card tables and rough edges
Three different lifetimes worn through his young skin.
Skin bruised beyond its years and demanded tougher every day.
He shall be anointed with the softness of my palms and fingertips
May my lips show him his hunger and thirst is all that
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Categories:
softness, abuse, care, for him,
Form: Free verse
The Softness of True Love When Knowing the Deal
she climbed the ladder of success
i was there since the first rung
she now makes more money than me
i now surprise her with a red velvet cake
while digesting said red velvet cake, i give her an unexpected foot massage
see, the privilege is on MY end because i was the one she chose to give her heart
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Categories:
softness, appreciation, for her,
Form: Free verse
Softness
Even love when fret
its essence lost last year
though smiled
but still flirting
a dusty horizon
of course, a tale too vapid
for me to overwhelm.
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Categories:
softness, love,
Form: Free verse
Hermit Crabs Or Softness Free To See
The freedom to express one's deepest feelings, or softness, to another is a gift shown and given, to infrequently in our lifetimes. it's value taken for granted by parties tuning out. because of the familiarity of the sounds of the voices heard, one to many times, active listening, now reserved only for the new. So
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Categories:
softness, angel, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Dulcet Softness
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a wilderness ,
didn't felt as artful as you
You're intimacy of long view ;
In afternoon of soft Whispers.
In calm pauses
Beneath trees , I want to kiss you ,
as sunlight softly flowing through ;
the softest part of golden leaves.
in this endless,
sensual ,dreamy, soothing high
I want enough repose to cry,
for keeping your dulcet softness.
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Categories:
softness, anxiety, break up, death,
Form: Rhyme
Softness In the Air
R-ainy Monday evening
H-as faded into the shadow;
E-ven the haze and chill
A-re both nowhere to go.
A-llow the Tuesday to shine,
L-et the red beacon rise;
C-herish another new day
A-iming to bring sweet surprise.
N-o more mist in the event,
T-hirteenth December affair;
A-n early morning breeze
R-emains soft in the
A-ir.
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Categories:
softness, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Glorious May Softness
There was a glorious softness surrounding the pretty May day.
Animals felt it in the meadow, but could not explain it for it was unusual.
A fantastic pink sky possibly set the mood or maybe it was the violets.
Sprinkled across the verdant grasses, they peeked at the warm sun.
The sun smiled, understanding the uniqueness of the season.
Feeling
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Categories:
softness, may,
Form: Blank verse
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