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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,
Pablo Neruda14
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Raw With Lovelittle dark girl with / kind eyes / when it comes time to
Charles Bukowski43
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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
Pablo Neruda34
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The Icecream Peoplethe lady has me temporarily off the bottle / and now the pecker stands up / better.
Charles Bukowski46
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I Compare You to Binge DrinkingThe throbbing headache and nausea / I can endure; I've had worse. / Right now I could cry,
@waywardwoes20
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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
Pablo Neruda16
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Bitter Sweet**It finally stopped raining,** / after endless hours of trying to fall / into the deep rhythms of sleep.
@xxxxx333
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It's Dark in HereI am writing these poems / From inside a lion, / And it's rather dark in here.
Shel Silverstein10
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Cheesy rhymesI want to be your sunset eyes, those blue skies, you're perfect starry night. / I want to be the shore kissed by the sea, I want to have everything causally, I want you and me. / I want to be the waves when they dance alone, the midnight tone, I want to be your back bone.
@BriannaB4mf8
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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,
@ormond39
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The Wild IrisThe Wild Iris / by Louise Gluck / At the end of my suffering
Louise Glück25
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Lord, why did you make me BlackLord, Lord, / Why did You make me Black? / Why did You make me someone
@jada-giavanna-jones79
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The Moon in the DarkA thousand and one sunrise / painted the first light time and again. / Yet it gets lost vanishes in one twilight.
@shofi-ahmed9
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Swinging in the RainI followed my dear friends to the edge of a cliff / and was greeted by a peculiar thing. / There, standing on the edge of the earth
@CweetaCwumble23
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Paint it out of the MirrorHidden within the earthy depth / only emerges with time / only dances in tangent
@shofi-ahmed17
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Dostoevskyagainst the wall, the firing squad ready. / then he got a reprieve. / suppose they had shot Dostoevsky?
Charles Bukowski32
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It Is Funny, You Will Be Dead Some Dayit is funny, you will be dead some day. / By you the mouth hair eyes,and i mean / the unique and nervously obscene
E. E. Cummings14
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cloudsDark clouds roll over, rain fall's down. Lighting strikes perfectly and hits the ground, clouds clear up rain settles down.sun comes out and wipes away the frowns.
@ladyElizabeth1
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GoodnightUntil the dark night lost its stars / and the moon fade its light / there will always be goodnight
@rajjmagat7
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LAST MONTH YOU MADE ME MARRY YOUI’m a child and not a bride, but / Last month you made me marry you. / You know it wasn’t love that made me say yes
@famousisaacs36
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And if you are to love.And if you are to love, / Love as the moon loves. / It doesn't steal the night,
@Jasleenkalra1824
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EyesI use my eyes to see / As anyone else would / I see the colors all around me and the faces of those I love
@luna-craft12
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Naked eye.Naked eye, / silent sorrounded heart. / what's that sound?
@antonio-fonseca17
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My RealityIt's my best friend, / and my nightmere- / it's all that I love
@MeanAileen28
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three a.m.It's 3am / I'm on the phone / No one's awake and I'm alone
@LManagram18
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