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"falls" poems

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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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An inadequate poemA poem falls short; I'd like, instead / to draw a single line from me to you / and watch it curl into a word

@marsha-singh10

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Cruelly,Lovecruelly,love / walk the autumn long; / the last flower in whose hair,

E. E. Cummings22

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Saddest PoemI can write the saddest poem of all tonight. / Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, / and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."

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Immortalthe moment a poet / falls in love with you / is the moment

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The Long Way Home#*It is out of the heart’s cavernous longing and furious search / for love, significance, acceptance, approval, identity, security, / freedom, belonging, innocence, intimacy and transcendence—

@alyssa-underwood27

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The Broken ClockA clock ticks time by tirelessly / Gears winding like twines of string / With quaint clicking quickly quieting

@ImNotWorthYourTime14

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The Retreatthis time has finished me. / I feel like the German troops / whipped by snow and the communists

Charles Bukowski28

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She's Veiled But Not TiedThe woman makes a house the home / and fills the man's horizontal spread with dreams. / Four walls can’t hold a woman inside

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fall in love with a poetwhen a poet falls in love with you / you can never die / they will notice the way

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A LifeTouch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, / This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear. / Here's yesterday, last year ---

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The Long Way Home#*It is out of the heart’s cavernous longing and furious search / for love, significance, acceptance, approval, identity, security, / freedom, belonging, innocence, intimacy and transcendence—

@alyssa-underwood27

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The waterfallThe Waterfall, / Is blue with silver highlights. / It appears clear and clean,

@Chloes-Not-An-Ange23

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True FriendshipTrue friendship is laughing when your friend falls before helping them up / True friendship is being allowed to criticize your friend for how they dress, but / as soon as someone else does, you love their outfit

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PulseAs night falls, the air thickens / her pulse races and his pulse quickens / the depths of their thoughts rise to the surface

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l(a or (A leaf falls on loneliness) by e.e. cummingsl(a / le / af

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ThresholdGreat tragedy suffered, / Impossible circumstances conquered, / The warrior walks upon the field flanked path.

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Let's DanceMy beloved, tonight it is more than perfect, the zephyr winds sing so / sweetly your name and the crystal stars shine like your earrings. / As the White Mountains glint gracefully, and the wind speaks

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A MeetingShe steps into the dark swamp / where the long wait ends. / The secret slippery package

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AbuseTears, / Shatter. / The floor,

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Thriller [Rap performed by Vincent Price]*Darkness falls across the land / The midnight hour is close at hand / Creatures crawl in search of blood

@raphael-uzor17

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The Light Wraps YouThe light wraps you in its mortal flame. / Abstracted pale mourner, standing that way / against the old propellers of the twighlight

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AlcoholicDusting off the rabbity / that squirrely tempo anxiety, / closing in with night.

@david-john-mowers44

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breakable (glass love)two fragile hearts made up of glass / everyone could see right through them both / only they themselves couldn't see the reality

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