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"body" poems

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XVII (I do not love you...)I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, / or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. / I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

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I Like My Body When It Is With Youri like my body when it is with your / body. It is so quite new a thing. / Muscles better and nerves more.

E. E. Cummings14

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Love Sonnet XII crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. / Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. / Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day

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If You Forget MeI want you to know / one thing. / You know how this is:

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I Will Wade Outi will wade out / till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers / I will take the sun in my mouth

E. E. Cummings17

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Every Day You Play....Every day you play with the light of the universe. / Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water, / You are more than this white head that I hold tightly

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My Lovemy love / thy hair is one kingdom / the king whereof is darkness

E. E. Cummings33

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epithetand here i am again / at the intersection / of pedestrian language

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Tonight I Can WriteTonight I can write the saddest lines. / Write, for example, 'The night is starry / and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'

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Body of a WomanBody of a woman, white hills, white thighs, / you look like a world, lying in surrender. / My rough peasant's body digs in you

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If I Believeif i believe / in death be sure / of this

E. E. Cummings47

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SnowdropsDo you know what I was, how I lived? You know / what despair is; then / winter should have meaning for you.

Louise Glück14

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EyesSometimes a miraculous thing happens. / The body ages, / And the skin crinkles like an old plastic bag.

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AnxietyAnxiety / Controlling my everyday life / Anxiety

@rachael-judd16

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Your beauty is thunderYour beauty is thunder / Crashing down on my emotions / Electrifying my body

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air and light and time and space"--you know, I've either had a family, a job, something / has always been in the / way

Charles Bukowski33

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In Artemis’s WoodLovers entered a forbidden forest bower, / And as they stalked that range, with eyes glazed, / She offered up her hind. Now, with doe eyes,

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I am afraid to own a Body—1090 / I am afraid to own a Body— / I am afraid to own a Soul—

Emily Dickinson9

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Hungry LipsFeed me your mouth, / so I can satisfy my desires / with the taste of our destiny.

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LustHer passion burns bright / her fire catches me / igniting my soul

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Love LetterI've said it once, I've said it twice, and I'll say it another million times: It takes time to make a home out of your body. / Nobody, nobody; should ever despise their own reflection. / Your conception of 'beautiful' is corrupted but we're all here to help you reconstruct it.

@Malakswriting3

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BackspaceIf I could turn back time / I would hit Backspace all day, / Id put on Caps Lock

@AmandaKayBurke32

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Beautiful TragedyThat girl sitting there / Such a beautiful tragedy / Her body her grave

@annabelle-lee4

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FlutterI want to climb inside your body / move around in your skin / grasp and kiss your body

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The End // A short story experiment.A horror movie scene as the heroine escapes. / Everything is still besides her convalescing breath and the distant, chasing wind. / Not a noise is heard except the fall leave's rattle and the birch wood's moaning bark in the moonlight.

@EphemeralLikeGold17

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