Love Writing Poems

When I’m in a place of darkness and cold,
Speak to me from Love, no need to be bold.
For you’re only sharing what you’ve been told,
Allow...

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This Is a Tanka written by Eileen Manassain and reimagined by me by 
adding every other verse in order to create Lyrics we could put...

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Last night I dreamt of a roadside stop—
an ice cream truck near a rusted shop.
Its engine was spent, its music was low,
and something inside told...

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ping!
like pavlov's dog,
i glance 
quick
at my phone
new facebook follow request.
i click the account
click!
my rapist. 
it's been nearly 14 years since the first the time
he laid...

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Sorry is for people who have a conscience, who know that sometimes things happen that need a sorry. 
Sorry is a type of feeling of...

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I’m not writing poems anymore. Somewhere along the way, I feel like I lost the poet in me---- the spark, the soul, the words. I’m...

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When angels took my love in dawn's white light, 
I wallowed in the wake of fate gone wrong; 
too weak to fight my demons in...

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Lyrics By Eileen Manassian
Music provided by JT Curtis


I write of love, the kind that never dies
That gleams with beauty in a lover's eyes
I write of...

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#You
You said I was childish, never serious , took things simple but what you left out was why I carried myself as such. Truth be...

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I fill my little treasure box
With things that people say
Each one a precious tender note
To bring joy to my day

And when life turns from friend...

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Poetry can be deep,
lord knows I have
shoveled some! Or shallow,
everyone loves icing --

instructive~ insight into
truth, passing go, a 1000
erudite words equal one, honest
poetic portrait --...

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Grief has made my world darker for a time
I have lost a huge part of my family,
someone who left this world way too early
I have...

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Original lyrics by Norman Gimbel
Writing Me Softly With His Rhyme

I heard he wrote a good line
That he had flair and style
And as I read his...

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“what hurt the most?”, he asked.
Struggling to hold back the tears that were threatening to resurface I replied,
“I’m not sure but, maybe it’s the fact...

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Admiration—
The stars show the moon,
A love without desire.
The moon never understands
The longing of the stars.
Yet the sun exclaims:
To love is not to know,
But to know...

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