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"shadows" poems

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If You Could Read My MindIf you could read my mind, / You’d see a thousand papers / Filled with broken poetries

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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 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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Letting Go with GraceThere's a peculiar kind of beauty that can only be experienced / with the innate knowledge that the moment is fleeting / and the most intense beauty can only be seen in

@alyssa-underwood22

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either/orwill the sunlight lead me home or will I stumble up the stairwell? / did the moonlight cloak our hips or did the steam outline our shadows? / do you see the hopes I see or just avoid the air I breathe?

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Spirits of the NightIn swirling clouds of silver lace / The disk of Luna lies concealed / Across the Autumn skies they race

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Fall SongAnother year gone, leaving everywhere / its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves, / the uneaten fruits crumbling damply

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How I Love Youlike cellophane wraps hard candy / like ink loves to dry / like hot sauce drenches noodles

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Paint Me# / *paint me / with the wet tickle

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AdultSeriously?! / I'm a **** / Wait. No you're not. Hold on.

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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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A Summer ThingIt wasn’t supposed to be like this. / I wasn’t supposed to fall so hard / I wasn’t supposed to call out for your arms in the night

@subconscious-on-parade30

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Love LetterNot easy to state the change you made. / If I'm alive now, then I was dead, / Though, like a stone, unbothered by it,

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As Time Stands Still# / *Ebony / silhouettes

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Winter TreesThe wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve. / On their blotter of fog the trees / Seem a botanical drawing --

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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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The thrill of SpiteOf ones heart with shadows lurking to take over spite is made precious to be felt exciting while it is in fact trecious, but a sleeping terror awakens at times as well, thus a rampage is made amongst it, / A thrill wandering down your spine when you wrong someone and see them tremble through your actions a cold shiver followed by spite / Choosing a carefree life, yet unable to hide the fact that no spark would be able to illuminate whats in your dark, where angels fear to tread, only to explore this loitering abyss within you for some time,

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LaugharneOn flat bank’s where / grass runt reeds grow / waiting for rising tide,

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Yours Is The Music For No Instrumentyours is the music for no instrument / yours the preposterous colour unbeheld / —mine the unbought contemptuous intent

E. E. Cummings17

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RHYTHMMOMENTS OF MOMENTS / LONGING FOR HIS TOUCH / CLOSENESS OF OUR BODIES

@jennifer-wolfe57

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These spiritual window-shoppersThese spiritual window-shoppers, / who idly ask, 'How much is that?' Oh, I'm just looking. / They handle a hundred items and put them down,

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Black: A Color PoemBlack is the color beyond all colors. / Black is the void, / The void of my heart,

@smiling-tears19

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