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Tag: love
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A Sestina for a Chocolate-Eyed Lover by Jordan Scott
I love the way you say the word βvase.βI love how it trips off of your tongue.Your voiceβ warmer than chocolate.Your Southern accent, the way you form your words, better than touch.I could drown in a pool of words that youβve spoken.Sing to me softly, Beloved. I have ordered my…
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Meet Me At Dawn by Yaminnie Chandrra
It’s been a long, cold, lonely nightI’ve been lost in the shadows of the pastI fell into abyss,of these dark-dark thoughts The guiding stars were there all alongI had shut my eyes so tight, I had!I’d missed to see them,blind as I wasβ¦ You’ve been searching for me in the…
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Six Ways of Looking at Love When the World is Ending by Ilika Tripathi
I. If the world is ending, donβt come to see meBecause that would mean that you took a busAnd you hate taking buses – the wait, the journey, the destinationAnd thatβs when Iβd realize yet again, how much I love you. II. What if when the apocalypse hits, there are…
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Natural Summer Love Lost by Shiela Denise Scott
As I push the lawn mower,Past brush and broken dreams,Of flowers growing in fields,That will never cultivate reality,Acres of promise,Buried purpose by law,Suffocated seeds awaiting,To expose the future cause,Only heat, air and summer rain,Can change amid the times,Love lost its circumstance,Bonds dropped its cost,Leaving all plans,Lost,Dare I use the summer,To…
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The Seagull’s Harmonica by D.C. Houston
On this walk, as with all days,I move,until the moon,usurps the sun.The songs of life ongoing,do their best, to fill the barren space,you once occupied.Is it hubris,to say, you are the best there ever was.Daydreams of our eleventh hour,what I could have articulated, differently.How life could change so irrevocably in…
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The Choice by Michael Cooney
βA choice, made now, today, projects itself backwards in time and changes past actions.β – Czeslaw Milosz, quoting an unknown disciple of Karl Jaspers I made excuses, rejectingwhat I knew of mortality, eitheryours or mine, and suddenlythe black leaves grew greenwhere they had fallen and you,rapturous with rings on yourfingers,…
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Vodka Vision by Mia Amore Del Bando
I slept with someone who looked like youUnder the sheetsVodka visionSwiping your face with hisPlastic toy camera, slide show Diving into the square fantasyThe reel is blurryAnything close is good enough. He had a different laughForgiving dark eyesAttention directed at my chestEdge of a cliff, falling inCharming, genuine smileHis touch…