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Sami May 2015
Divergent as always, I'm flying a kite in an avalanche zone.
Inevitably, from your safe harbor, you will judge me.

I yell, "this, this is liberation!"

But you don't see me as a revolutionary.
You'll take me for savage.
Medicate the unprecedented out of my veins
Cover me in a quilt of your culture, label it safety.              

Repression of variation, of the noise and the bold, is optimal for this society.
Freefalling enthusiasm isn't exhilarating to you, and paint splatters aren't modern art
They are just a mess on a clean canvas
Sami Mar 2015
I thought I heard you say "I love you" but it very well could have been the wind.
I reply, in a mixture of whisper and breeze, "I love you too, please don't go."

This is a timid tragedy.
Sami Mar 2015
You are a pair of cuffed jeans, a balloon,
Christmas lights in August that make me smile more than the same old December traditionals.
You are the bermuda triangle and endurance.
You are a loose wire in the wall I can't help but touch, exhilarating.   
You are halfway hoodies, broken guitar strings,
a lot of dandelions and sometimes daisies.
Sami Jan 2015
I fall for crooked people
Crooked smile, nose, sternum
I make promises with a crooked pinky
I must have a crooked heart
Sami Jan 2015
Horizons are not the only way to view sunsets
you can watch the way they kiss every last thing good night
every thing except one accepts the temporary absence of the sunlight
the sea is the exception
the sea rages as though the sky is on fire
the waves grasp the shoreline      
the sea is inconsolable,
roaring over the suns goodbye

On a level far less grand and mad as the sea, I can relate.
even though you,
I mean the sun,
shall return in the morning,
your "good night"s will still be goodbyes, and byes are never any good.
so until morning        
I'll be restless, as the sea.
Sami Jan 2015
The Queen of England was praying
for more than twenty years
with gray eyes.
Her passion
now a pleasure
that once was sinful.
Magnificent vanities
faded gently
from passion
to steadfast devotion.

The King was overwhelmed;
he had an eye that noticed everything.
He grew rather afraid of himself.
Another blackout poem from the pages of Anne Boleyn.
Sami Jan 2015
At least I saw him:
the source of all happiness,
(phrasing it in the most modest terms)
A blackout poem from the pages of Anne Boleyn.
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