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[Untitled Poetry] 10/12/23
I couldn’t speak your name
I knew it 
But I couldn’t say it
To have your name dance
 off my tongue
Would have given me away
And I can’t let that happen
Not again
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untitled : not yet dead corpses and rotting flowers from a long dead childhood
between rotting floorboards lay bloodstained flowers, above them
are weeping flowers at my bedside, Among them, rotting daisies. Dying, like everything else.
I have not yet known anything untouched by death, I have not yet known to live without the rot.
I lay wondering about the flowers that will rot with me, on my casket, or by my grave. presumably none.
why taint something so precious with the memory of me?
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brightstreetcity · 2 years
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Untitled 179
It’s funny how a split second decision
can form a path toward eternity
with the complex precision
of a surgeon with a scalpel,
etching an eternal path across skin,
scar tissue that remains, a memory of pain
we felt so long ago.
And it’s funny how those scars, though healed,
the wounds, though sealed,
have the ability to trigger those deep-seated fears,
the ghosts of our past, they can feel so real.
Haunting our waking moments as often as the shores of distant dreamlands,
living in our dreams, taking residence in the spaces of our minds,
building castles in our hearts, tearing out old seams.
The winding paths we follow, forgetting old ways,
the familiar routes of our youth.
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untitled-bumblebee · 1 year
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Untitled #16
You will probably never understand me
You will never understand the feelings
Of a chest burning and stinging
Like thousands of bee stings
Of tears that don’t fall
Because the water was wasted on you
Never understand the anger and hatred
That was thought to be impossible
Never understand the sleepless nights
The shakey legs
You.
You will never understand how I loved you
You who I thought deserved the world
You who I thought deserved me
You will never understand how beautiful we were
12/20/2022
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autoaxiology · 7 months
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Oh what is a cog without the other?
Independent?
Hardly.
Turning in perpetuity.
Its motions sending echos,
Which fall on no ears.
Whatever productivity has it inherently?
None.
A speaker in the infinites of space,
Is of no use without a conductor.
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soracities · 2 months
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Ramy al-Asheq, Four Untitled Prose Poems ("Poem #1"), trans. Levi Thompson [ID'd]
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simply-eno · 3 months
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I keep picturing a perfect moment of touch, nothing but pure intimacy and bliss in a second before it's gone. Lips pressed to cheeks wet with joy, or a hand comforting the loneliness without ploy. In an airport, or in a park, or in an apartment far away, I keep picturing a perfect moment of touch in the promise of someday.
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anxious-shapeshifter · 10 months
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I’d sooner welcome oblivion, that blissful nonexistence,
Than spend an eternity
With a god who loathes the human condition.
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cssnder · 1 month
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As promised and as per your votes on my last poll, here's an excerpt from my untitled novel.
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lifeinpoetry · 11 months
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— Brenda Hillman, from "::[untitled]::," In a Few Minutes Before Later
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plakichu · 1 month
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I don't know if you're fading,
I'm scared of the unknown,
It tears my heart to shreds,
Infinitesimal shreds of lost hope.
And to hell and back with it.
I'm not losing hope.
I'm losing a piece of me
That I should've lost a long time ago.
And I feel better about you,
About me too.
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[Untitled Poetry 11/10/23]
I brew tea each time I see you
I let you try the flavors you don’t have
And pour the cups you hate down the drain
I taught you how to let it steep
And how to sweeten it
Sugar, honey, whipping cream
I showed you in my way
And this is how I love you
And you don’t need to say it back
The way your glasses fog up with the first sip
Is more than enough
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will2will2will2 · 5 months
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raindrops tickle the rooftops and kiss the
gutters, pouring out into the
street, coursing through the
shutters and into the
sheets, below where you left the
window open in the
bedroom, last week,
and when i walk in,
despite the rain and the
snow and the sleet, i find the
picture is incomplete without the
open window, even though the
heat scampers like a rat out the
crack and runs down the
block, warming the beat,
because the window opens
into those last banner days before
you made yourself the falling water
that pools in my eyes
and stings bittersweet.
++will2 11/25/2023++
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brightstreetcity · 2 years
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Untitled 178, “for Nick, on his birthday”
and I love you
without any intention
the way flowers in the springtime lean toward the light
the way the sun can’t help but to kiss the horizon as it rises into the sky
I love you
more each time your name passes from my lips
as if each utterance is another lap around the board,
passing go,
collecting $200 worth of emotion
I love you
every time I hear your laugh inside my head
each time I think of things you’ve said
When I am lonely or
when I am alone
I love you
because you are with me
no matter where I am
or where I go
I love you
even though you’re gone.
…in memory of my best friend who passed away unexpectedly on July 1, 2018. I love you, Nicky.
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birgerbosbach · 13 days
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my hands don't belong to me they were stole from someone who you could put trust into they carry only my strings too heavy is the world around them
the spring has never been this rainy cold wind rushes through my hallway down into the kitchen, felling sorry for me and the dishes in my sink
there's no silence not a moment's refuge without you
my hands belong to you now grafted onto arms that need them more I gave them up, offered them your strings are feathers on the wind
sunlight reflects off a waterfall drawing shapes across the ceiling
there's silence in you
and rest and sleep and tomorrow
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steamboat-baby · 1 year
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oh to be loved in the way that hozier sings about loving a woman
i want to be your manic rhapsody
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