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posted by irena83

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,...

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Poems

posted by cutiegirl01

Scaired and alone,
sad and depressed,
this is what i know best,
Chilled to the bone,
Your heart cold as ice,
dust to dust,
you arent someone i trust,
Water so deep,
This pain will only end,
When I sleep.

When I smiled,
When I laughed,
It was because I thought of death.
When I cried,
When I screamed,
It was because my death was to slow.
When I smiled my final smile,
No one cried,
No one cared.
I grabbed a knife and a slip of paper,
I wrote my final words,
I sat in my room staring at the knife.
I heard a laugh,
I heard a cry,
Turned to see my family right by my side.
I ran away,
I’m scare to death,
I grab my knife but...

DESIRE

posted by juicyjossy9

D E
S I
R E

fatal velocity, comes on with a rush
overpowering, gives the final push

what never moves, is never still
who has the final word
it holds the world in a single pill
and all life rendered absurd

if you …
kill sweet desire, faith may numb the trial
but can you run all your life?
kill sweet desire, truth will make a liar
you can run but not hide!
so run for your life

a false sincerity, a liar and a thief
my pulse and memory, a comfort within grief
what never moves, is never still, who has the final word
it holds the world in a single pill, and all life rendered absurd

if you …
kill sweet desire, faith...

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SLEEP

posted by juicyjossy9

sleep

hear your heartbeat
beat a frantic pace
and it's not even seven am
you're feeling the rush of anguish settlin’
you cannot help showin’ them in
so hurry up then
or you'll fall behind and
they will take control of you
and you need to heal the hurt behind your eyes
fickle words crowdin’ your mind

so
sleep, sugar, let your dreams flood in
like waves of sweet fire, you're safe within
sleep, sweetie, let your floods come rushin’ in
and carry you over to a new mornin’

try as you might
you try to give it up
seems to be holdin’ on fast
its hand in your hand
a shadow over you
a beggar...

Request To You My Lord

posted by r260897

Ye, Lord let the fragrance of flowers
Mix in blowing breeze
Make the shade of trees even cooler
To give traveler much more peace
Let the trees go even wider and taller
To save the earth from burning heat
Make the smell of soil so sweet
That the countrymen live to die for their country
Let the sun shine even brightly
To make corn fields look like gold
Lord make the sky even wider
To save us from every harm
Let the moonlight spread around
Let the beauty make us a bit warm
Oh Lord above all, Give us a willing heart
Lord, let us be your part….. your part

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When i saw angels cry

posted by whitelion

when did i see angels cry
i saw an angel cry when
a poor man asked for help
but was denied

I saw an angel cry
when a lovers heart
was broken
and devoured by despair

i saw an angel cry
when two best friends
had a fight, said unnecessary words
and didn't talk for a couple of weeks

i saw an angel cry when
a husband and a wife kept secrets
from each other
thinking no one will know, no one will get hurt

but you see their tears
are not like the tears
that you and i
sometimes cry

their tears are much
more bitter
each tear is stained
with a grief that pierces their hearts

because they saw what
we could of been
what we...

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Thank You ( I Miss You)

posted by Lolita_Dark4

It's been too long
And I'm lost
Without you
What am I going to do
I've been sitting here

Thinking
Dreaming
Wanting
Because I miss you
I miss you

We were close friends
Did everything for one another
Now you're gone
And I'm lost without you
Here and now
But I know I have to live
And make it somehow

I miss you
It hurts me
Everyday
It's hard to accept
That you're finally gone
So I won't

It'd be like one of those days
We go without seeing each other
I can understand why
God wanted you closer to him
And in my own special way

I love you
I miss you
I just want to thank you
For everything
Thank you for your smiles

Thank you...

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I Give You These Verses So That If My Name by Charles Baudelaire

posted by Lovetreehill

I give you these verses so that if my name,
A vessel favored by a strong north wind,
Fortunately reaches the distant future's shore,
And some night sets the minds of men to dreaming,

Your memory, like fables shrouded in the past,
Will weary the reader like a dulcimer,
And by a mystical, brotherly bond
Remain suspended from my haughty verse;

Accurst being to whom, from the deep abysm
To the highest heaven, nothing responds, save me!
— O you who, like an ephemeral ghost,

Trample lightly and with a serene look
Upon the dull mortals who found you repugnant,
Jet eyed statue, tall angel with a brow of bronze!...

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The Mirabeau Bridge by Guillaume Apollinaire

posted by Lovetreehill

Under the Mirabeau Bridge there flows the Seine
Must I recall
Our loves recall how then
After each sorrow joy came back again

Let night come on bells end the day
The days go by me still I stay

Hands joined and face to face let’s stay just so
While underneath
The bridge of our arms shall go
Weary of endless looks the river’s flow

Let night come on bells end the day
The days go by me still I stay

All love goes by as water to the sea
All love goes by
How slow life seems to me
How violent the hope of love can be

Let night come on bells end the day
The days go by me still I stay

The days the weeks pass by beyond...

My favorite poem

posted by csiAthens96

The Monogram

by Odysseas Elytis

I will always mournhear me?for you, alone, in Paradise.

I

Fate, like a switchman, will turn
Elsewhere the lines of the palm
Time will concede for one moment

How else, since man loves and is loved

The heavens will perform our insides
And innocence will strike the world
With the scythe of deaths blackness.

II

I mourn the sun and I mourn the time that comes
Without us and I sing of others whove passed
If this is true

The bodies addressed and boats sweetly gliding by
The guitars that flicker under the waters
The believe me and the dont
One in the air and one in the music

The two small...

The Last Wedding Vows

posted by sawfan13

A beautiful bride awaits for her groom
Doesn't mind if he's a tad late
They did plan too early though
Made everything go faster.
Hours and hours went by
Making the bride nervous and nervous
But seeing her fiance's new beau
Made this woman go madder and madder.
The church a block away
The bride stomped and stomped as she walked
Looking through the sacred glass windows
Of seeing the devil she once loved.
She stalked them to their honeymoon
As the new couple found out to be their last
In her beautiful white wedding dress
Turned red by 1:00am that night.
The next day the neighbors of the hotel room were worried...

The Little Old Man and the Shed Window

posted by merprincess1988

Once there was a dog apricot and a cat gray and white
they witnessed the oddest sight
A little old man with gray on his head
climbed through the window of an old shed
Said the dog to the cat
Why does he do that?
The cat said I don’t know let’s watch and see
They watched as the man came back out bumping his knee
The man then took his tool new
and busted the lock on the door in two
Then the cats eye shone bright
For he now understood this odd sight
He said to the dog there is only one reason for acts like these
The little old man has lost his keys

Three weeks have come and gone
The little old man put a...

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You Will Never Break Me

posted by sawfan13

Go ahead
Hate me
I don't care anymore

Go ahead
Beat me
I don't hurt anymore

You think your stronger
You think you're more powerful
But you're not

I have confidence
I have love
I have a heart
I have something that you can never break

I am not glass
I am not plastic
I will not cover for you
You have hurt me too much

You led me towards harm
For many years now
I felt like I porcelin doll
But I am a woman now
You cannot break me

You can't change me
You can't break me
You're weak and powerless

You're words may hurt
You're words may cut me
You're hands may harm me
But never break me

I haven't quite found love yet
I know this...

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Peer in the mirror...

posted by ShiningsTar542

What would you do if you once slept then woke..?
Took a look at your mirror, and stared at the reflection of yourself, then cried?

There is the question inside you makes you scream, and say....
"Who could I be?"
"Who could I be?"

Am I still who I was or I split into two?

And then... yeah then.....?!

You the fellow in the mirror, please tell me who I am. Just explain to me how I feel, happiness? Sadness? Or soreness?

Whenever, lots of things of our life instilled within our confusions, and here we survive, we still satisfied. Back and forth.

What would you do if you slept then woke...?
And found out...

Russian Roulette

posted by shinju-chan

Russian Roulette

Russian Roulette

I wanna bet

That yours is the one

That isn't dent

I wanna see

if you will bleed

Or maybe die

another time!

But if it clicks

And it won't bang

Pass it on to

the rest of the gang!

And then we'll see

If he will bleed

Or if she'll die another time!

But it's only once,

Don't be a dunce,

You'll just die

Another time!

And then the next

Time that we play,

Be it not or if we may,

Get all for you but none for me

Because I don't want to be greedy!

And after all, I'm not a jerk

I just want to see if you will learn

How to take a gun

And hold it tight,

I swear it's fun!

Don't worry it is alright!

But you should

Know...

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"If no one ever marries me"

posted by Nalu-love

If no one ever marries me,—
And I don’t see why they should,
For nurse says I’m not pretty,
And I’m seldom very good—

If no one ever marries me
I shan’t mind very much;
I shall buy a squirrel in a cage,
And a little rabbit-hutch:

I shall have a cottage near a wood,
And a pony all my own,
And a little lamb quite clean and tame,
That I can take to town:

And when I’m getting really old,—
At twenty-eight or nine—
I shall buy a little orphan-girl
And bring her up as mine.

—Laurence Alma-Tadema

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My One Voice

posted by bookworm103

Hope you like it, that it speaks to you, invites you, whoever you are.

I may only be One Voice,

But my One Voice is important because without my One Voice we could never have one million Voices.

my one Voice stands for ME.
what I think.
what I believe in.
and who I am.

My Voice is unique
But so is every other Voice
and every Voice is important*

So let your Voice be heard, be One in a million Voices

*not part of the original poem:

Important because millions of voices can create a defaning roar.

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Until Darkness Fell

posted by partypony

The temperature was only one degree
A twelve-year old girl who’s nice and friendly
Went to Central park, skipping blissfully
Once there, she fed damp ducks and sneaky squirrels
She met the little girl, sitting on barrels
They talked while the ducks went swimming
They read while the squirrels went hoarding
Everything was as peaceful as a tree

Until darkness fell

When swiftly, the wind whispered in their ear
The little girl looked up, putting down her book
The other girl shot her a quizzical look
A hoard of monsters came out of the shadows
At last free of their prison, the Dark Meadows
They charged and...

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Another kind of Angel

posted by RiderOfTempest

These black tears are the unshed blood from the wounds you left me
Not scars that healed, but fresh wounds that still bleed
You left my very soul in tatters, never mind my heart
But that someone who had taken you from me, had to take that too, and rip it apart
I don’t know who made you leave, or why, but I do know this,
That if you could, you would relive all the happy memories with me that I now have to miss
Now just as you are, the happy times are a ghost, a whisper in the wind
It feels like no matter how things turn out for me, this sadness that came over me will never end
It’s also selfish, wanting you to be here with me
You’re healed of sickness and pain, happy now with your other family
You were and angel when you were here
Now you’re just a different kind
One that will be our guardian until we can find you again
When we find our way to the light

DYING TO LIVE

posted by juicyjossy9

Dying
To
Live

Tell me this, would you miss it,
trying on another face again to see if it's you
And wondering where you've been
and where you're gonna find yourself
before the night is through

I know the way you go
cos I've been the same for too long
Like I'm fearful that my choices are all wrong
I know the way you go
cos I've lived your life of make believe
Dying to live

Tell me this, is it lonely in the shadow of a masquerade for life you hide behind
What's the deal with your reasons to run away
and let your feelings leave you undefined

I know the way you go
cos I've been the same for too long
Like I'm fearful...