Poetry
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We are sailingTo the winds at our backs,To the freedom that says,“Do not turn back,For there is nothing you lack.”As the clouds part,It is the only storm to ever close,While ahead is the light. We are drifting to the sunrise,Not the sunset.Though, the west be aflameWith the fires of distress,Glimpses of power grasped by filthy…
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The faltering She’s thrown to the moon. The tears She has dropped to the Earth. The ridicule She has received from the sun. All this, and then some To remind me of what could not be won. I bleed from arms that hold only empty air Poured from my leaking throat That has been slit…
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Steps are taken, Steps are walked Down towards the heavy shores Where a maid plays her harp To the sounds of the gulf, She adores. I am in the arms of emptiness, As my form makes up The universe, eclipsed from light. The purpose in love Is to feel its warmth, To feel the wash…
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Adam and Eve Put her to sleep By a rosy flame In the nested deep. I swore I could lose her Before sunrise, For her sickness swelled, As her chest rose and fell With laboring breaths Of a winded bird. Adam and Eve saw the snake I was, Told me that they’d obey Whatever I…
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Ten wilted petals Stumbling over the other Upon her fingers, in the grave. The appendages curled, in the state of her death. She catches falling rain upon a bony cheek, Watered over in the ivory. Upon the fingers that do not point above, They yet point below To the sandy Earth Where hollow joys Were…
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I swear To hold the world up. Each tragedy shall fall at my command, Each bitter tear shall drop to never again be seen, Each angle shall turn into a beautiful curve Of your now broken flesh. I want to hold the mirror to your face For us both To notice a smile That does…
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Crawl up, As you were Submerged Deep in the ocean’s bowels, Driving the world into a flood Of rapidity, Among overlapping emotions. You’ll seek to gain What the world has long lacked Upon its very back. Setting sail to the distant sunrise Where moonlight comes crashing down For our voiceless prayers. Crawl up For breath,…
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Your eyes Find splits in the Earth, Find pain where marriage should maintain Itself, in the openness. I swallow whole Like the Earth with its crust The lakes that formed from your melting eyes, For I am always tasting your tears, As I am always feeling your fears. You consume the guilt, Feel the depression,…
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I sought gravity The weight of yourself, from Heaven’s place. I sought eternity Of you, to be welcomed safely in arms. Here, I paint a portrait of your face, Exquisite in each line for contours, Romantic in what lips I can kiss. Though, pain has draped itself, like one crude curtain Over your perspiring form.…
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Sleep Is only ever pleasant In my eyes, closed when the daylight shines. I do not wish to see Smiles that pass through the roads, For I am faded. I am the mind that has battled the heart, The fear that has battled fate, I have locked the expression that cannot be Expressed, beneath the…
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Turn around On your heel of torture. You have pressed into me, Into each hollow sleeve, The love that grows vines, For beauty that refines with time. I will see, Exquisite charm, surrounding yourself, In the dimness of a new evening. Love has made patterns, Scattered with petals, Made me smile for the world, too.…
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Somewhere, In the falling rain, I see droplets that come down Heavier than the storm presses my skin. You are within the lights Of this nighttime city. You hold the moments across The roads that are filled by the ocean. Within your lips There is memory to taste, There is pain to satiate My tongue…
Modern Romanticism 