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Best Poems Written by Rene Carter

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Ode To My Boat

On a sunny day
You give me shade
You carry me 
Throughout the waters
Taking me where I must go

On a winters day
You give me shelter
Keeping me warm 
In a sky
Full of wind and storm

On a good day
We sail
We laugh
We dance on the fields of ocean 
Without a care 
Or cloud in the sky

On a bad day we wait
For the storm to pass
And you keep me afloat
When I cannot swim

When the day comes 
That you cannot sail
Or cannot dance
I will lay with you 
And wait
For your wooden frames 
To come apart

And I will sing to you 
As the storm
Comes 
To pull you in

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Moonlight

Running from the snow-covered mountain
in a thin blue shirt 
that welcomes the cold 

Running to the ocean that lays years away
The neck of a large blue heron looks over in fear 
it calls out like a single note blown from a clarinet 
then it runs away.

Running to the door that sits alone in the dark
The lips of a cat open to release a curious hello
it enters the door, waiting to see if anyone will follow
then it runs away. 

Running to the aspen tree that lie ahead
Snow cakes it leaves like crystalizing sugar 
The branches sway in the current of the night

Out of breath and halted by the frozen air
I stop to find the moon 
It sits above me shining on the path that lay ahead 
I look around to ensure I am alone
and then I run away.

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Sailor

Away at sea
All she can think about
Is him

The way his eyes
Follow her
And never let her stray too far

The way his lips
Brush against her ear
And whisper promises
Of adoration

The way his fingers 
Grab her waist
Ensuring she is
Not alone

But when she returns
Knotted in his embrace  
All she can think about
Is the ocean

The way the current
Carries her past 
Where she’s ever been before

The way the waves
Strike upon her legs
Stinging her skin
Awakening her soul  

The way the horizon
Lays faultlessly ahead
Reminding her
She is distant 
From any other soul

So she leaves
His eyes
His lips
His fingers
The warmth of his grasp
For the wrath of the sea

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Forbidden

He comes to me
a moonlit silhouette.
My fingers dance along his face like spiders
ensuring I’m not asleep.  
I pull him in and feel his heart
beating slightly quicker than mine. 

Our love is not enough
to end the wars, 
to break down the walls,
to solve what cannot be solved;
We stop.

His silken lips reach for mine
and for a moment 
we are the only ones alive.
But the magnets between us 
are now at opposite poles.

I look into his eyes-
a small blue bird drowning in an ocean of pain.
The same pain that is swallowing my heart.

The magnet grows stronger 
pushing us apart.
But not before I say his name 
one last time
Romeo.

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Dangerous Wings

1/3/2019

Laying within the walls
Of a young child’s hand
A trapped moth
Longs for release 

The child plays
Dancing in the grass
And a yellow flower
Calls her close

In a moment of diversion
She frees the moth
Allowing it to dance
and explore the sky

With freedom its wings grow
Reaching for the sun
Bathing in the clouds
Feeling what it’s like 
To live outside the walls

But when it goes too high
The sun burns its chest
And it cannot breathe

Forced to come down
The moth does not know 
Where to go
Or where to land

So it falls
Longing for the hands
Of the child
Dancing in the grass

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Firsts

each novelty 
a penny in a jar 
adding up 
to who we now are

even when it’s full 
you cannot start new 
fresh experiences 
start becoming few 

again in our head 
they play and they play 
what can’t be lost 
we wish would go away 

so we settle 
to forget the riveting firsts 
doing everything we can 
to numb our hopeless thirsts

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Snakes

Snakes

They’ll lay with you
Tracing skeletons
Whispering songs 
To let them in 

You say no
Who could trust a snake?
But the more you lay together
Your heart is not so scared

It cracks open
Slightly
Just enough
For the snake to slip right in

In the moment
Before it flees
Your heart feels whole
Like the crack 
Was always meant to be

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Mind Games

Trapped in a space
Of unease 
Surrounded by isolation 
You cannot leave
It follows you 
It is you
The demons you create
The thoughts you debate
There is no escape
When the world you live in
Is the world you make

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Together

Alone together
Hearing music play 
Words I wish
I could say to you

I think you felt it too
The way our hearts touched
Through the bones
Trying to cage them in

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My Amphetamine

I see your face
In a crowd of skeletons
You don’t see me
Hiding behind them all

My heart starts to run
Sprinting in circles
Back and forth
A caged animal released
Not quite sure where to go

You see me
For a second your eyes lock with mine
Followed by a gentle grin 

Warmth and desire
Floods my body
Blood rushing through every vessel 
Veins pumping every which way

But then you’re lost amongst them all
And I’m left out of breath
Wondering
Where I’ll see you next
How to get another fix