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CMPhyllis
"Good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions"
Sparks Flecks Once existed in the sea Of blue That I saw within the bottomless space of your eyes Open with a pupils large Gone Too wide to see the gold Too awake to rest your head again On my chest Where you felt safe Eyes wide open Afraid Of the image of yourself you saw in the mirror Of the cold sore on your lips Of the disease inevitable in a city full of life Pain Harm Fear A man willing to **** another for pleasure Trauma Running Love lost, not regained but distracted With music Relationships *** No sleep On top of the world, You gaze down upon your city of tiny people Too far away to teach, to reach, to love To acknowledge that your bubble of thought Can be broken by the single ***** Of a thorn Or a kiss If you let it You gave the gold to the brown of those Who love you Who gaze at you with gold running down their faces We can’t put the gold Back in your eyes Has it left for good? The oranges hues That once lit up the bright ocean blues Of your mind?
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Feb 11, 2020
Feb 11, 2020 at 10:24 PM UTC
Orange Blues
You stare off in to what seems a million worlds So far away yet as close as the curls Of lashes, dropped delicately over eyes dancing brilliantly in the light Bright eyes, full of humor and smiles and pain Looking to love those you felt you could save From the horrors of what you had those eyes had seen Perfect eyes, looking at what you long for and desire At notes flying through the air at heights even higher Than the notes flowing from your strings Dark eyes, that I can't quite seem to understand Sometimes it feels you try to hold the whole world within your two hands Relying only on yourself for love that needs to be recieved Loving eyes, teaching others what they should love in themselves But my friend, with all the music on your shelves Have you let your friends teach you what you should love about yourself? Your eyes, eyes that deserve nothing less than the entire world If you seek after it and learn to cherish what is yours I hope some day I can even begin to understand what those eyes need And perhaps in time Come to turn them towards the delicate light Already burning brightly inside
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Aug 23, 2019
Aug 23, 2019 at 12:12 AM UTC
Poem for A Someone When I was Broken
Coffee... Oh coffee Rich in color, bitter in taste Like the sweet kiss of an unfaithful lover Or a pretty flaxen scarf upon my face The buzz of sensations Invades my foggy mind But does it clear it, to sharpen the senses? Or make useless every action I tried? My bones have lost their quiver, the buzz is wearing off I feel now only a dull shiver And the ache from the loss of Your presence My feelings have gone like a dry river But it will not stay dry forever It has watered a seed lying in the mud While the feelings are gone, the strangeness has left The love I have for you will be ever coursing through my blood.
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Mar 17, 2019
Mar 17, 2019 at 10:36 PM UTC
Coffee
Softly singing Softly crying Softly dying Softly singing, to keep herself sane Softly singing, while dancing in the rain She sang for joy and sang for tears No one knew she'd be like this for years Softly crying, while lying in beds Softly crying, while thinking of friends The ones she loved and the ones she lost She cried for what her pain had cost Softly dying, while sitting in the rain Softly dying, from all of her pain She sang in quiet and wept in silence Her solitude was the greatest violence
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Feb 28, 2019
Feb 28, 2019 at 11:58 PM UTC
Alone
Everything I have Everything I am I gave everything to you Every move I took Every word I spoke I replayed them endlessly Fearing my mistakes And hating myself For every misspoken word When will everything all end When can I leave it Thinking I love you When in truth I raised you up To the standards that I could never meet Giving myself an excuse To turn all my fears Into some purpose Did I love you then? Did I love you for yourself?   Do I love you now? Did I simply want A lovely friend I could love Who cares who they are? Because now I wish Our friendship would have lasted It's been a long time. Did I love myself? Did I love me for myself? Do I love me now? I cannot say. All I truly know is that I miss an old friend.
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Oct 19, 2018
Oct 19, 2018 at 12:10 AM UTC
Variation on Haiku
I see your fingers, delicately curved around her neck, Your face intentingly staring at shadows only you can see. Whether playing with swords or fists or feelings or words, I see you were not the one to play with me. I played myself, lost in loves intruiging realm But was it love of him? Maybe. Or love of self I saw in him what I wished to see in me, Determination and calm, eloquence through unease. I saw loving yet firm hands Unspoken care for the ones he loved. But I never saw the beauty, Never the emotion, Never the secrets or times of fear or devotion. Never who he truly was... But rather... who I imagined him to be. --- I miss you so, but more than that, Almost selfishly, I miss then idea of who you were. Who you were to me. Music, quiet, humor and intelligence Not to mention, maturity, strength, and dilligence. You just had to go add poetry. But that was simply my idea Of who you were to me. Not the real person The man you are, the man you were meant to be.
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Jan 19, 2018
Jan 19, 2018 at 8:14 PM UTC
Shame
As she sat in her small little corner Wishing and hoping for mortar Not made for bricks And mixed not by hands But made from the prints of her dreams I noticed a small little smile Spreading from her eyes to the tile She looked up from her hands And into my eyes I swear my heart leapt a mile. But quickly again I looked down to the floor Not daring to hope or to wish for more I quickly withdrew And left there with you My foolish dreams and emotions. I shut myself up, not daring to hope Leaving her wondering if it was something she wrote. No dearest girl, 'Twas not you I abandoned But simply the hope that we could have been friends. She was left there alone, and thought she was damaged But the fact was that simply no one had the courage To walk up and say "Hello, what's your name?" And so she was left there alone.
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Jan 19, 2018
Jan 19, 2018 at 8:13 PM UTC
Out of Reach