aha - Hello Poetry

it’s been a long cold winter and only a month since I saw you last my eyes stay wet I lie and say it’s **** or the weather nothing keeps me warm like you did

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Oct 31, 2024

Oct 31, 2024 at 7:05 AM UTC

curtain call / cold season

it’s been a long cold winter and only a month since I saw you last my eyes stay wet I lie and say it’s **** or the weather nothing keeps me warm like you did

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the feeling of rot, the broken glass, the feeling of lead, it doesn’t pass. I am sinking and the air in my lungs leaves me, but all I can think is that once during a good summer we fished here. I held the bucket and you cast the line and like the fish fell off the hook you left soon I will pay to make the feelings stop

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Oct 29, 2024

Oct 29, 2024 at 5:02 AM UTC

flooded lake

the feeling of rot, the broken glass, the feeling of lead, it doesn’t pass. I am sinking and the air in my lungs leaves me, but all I can think is that once during a good summer we fished here. I held the bucket and you cast the line and like the fish fell off the hook you left soon I will pay to make the feelings stop

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she is everything godly radiance her warmth envelops me stabbing piercing through within her light I am known but I am burning desecrated, yet blessed by the flames too close, and yet too far away? amalgamated I fall melted wax feathers flesh idiocy it feels divine

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Jul 8, 2024

Jul 8, 2024 at 4:37 AM UTC

icarus I

she is everything godly radiance her warmth envelops me stabbing piercing through within her light I am known but I am burning desecrated, yet blessed by the flames too close, and yet too far away? amalgamated I fall melted wax feathers flesh idiocy it feels divine

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or was it the other way around? when I made the decision to give myself to her, I felt my soul yearn to be torn apart like cells splitting in half, simply because something within them told them to have you ever seen a mother make a sandwich for a child? she uses this kind of jam because that's the only kind they like, and she cuts it just this particular way so that it fits in their lunch box I wanted to cut my heart into shapes that she would like. coquette cookie cutters stamped into mounds of muscle and arteries and sinew for a girl that said I was special

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Mar 5, 2024

Mar 5, 2024 at 7:25 AM UTC

late morning / early night

or was it the other way around? when I made the decision to give myself to her, I felt my soul yearn to be torn apart like cells splitting in half, simply because something within them told them to have you ever seen a mother make a sandwich for a child? she uses this kind of jam because that's the only kind they like, and she cuts it just this particular way so that it fits in their lunch box I wanted to cut my heart into shapes that she would like. coquette cookie cutters stamped into mounds of muscle and arteries and sinew for a girl that said I was special

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I tell my friends on the first day she's the first person to ask me out and I tell my friends everything about her (I've always been bad at managing expectations) [we met at my job. she thought I was ten years older than I am. I thought she was three years older] and a week later when she tells me she isn't ready for a relationship, I will tell her I'm not either (I've always been a liar) "who is, really?" she asks, relieved I don't know how to answer that because (I've always been a *******

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Mar 5, 2024

Mar 5, 2024 at 6:56 AM UTC

"I met a girl"

I tell my friends on the first day she's the first person to ask me out and I tell my friends everything about her (I've always been bad at managing expectations) [we met at my job. she thought I was ten years older than I am. I thought she was three years older] and a week later when she tells me she isn't ready for a relationship, I will tell her I'm not either (I've always been a liar) "who is, really?" she asks, relieved I don't know how to answer that because (I've always been a *******

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I fell through what felt like a void as the worst four years of my life passed months felt like minutes and the clock made a game of going quicker to spite me and all the while I withered like a houseplant locked in a closet I cut myself off from everyone, even family. I wanted to hurt hell had finally caught me and I was being dragged down now that I have crawled out, I look back at the person that I was as I was falling and I don't like what I see

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Mar 5, 2024

Mar 5, 2024 at 6:30 AM UTC

of reflection

I fell through what felt like a void as the worst four years of my life passed months felt like minutes and the clock made a game of going quicker to spite me and all the while I withered like a houseplant locked in a closet I cut myself off from everyone, even family. I wanted to hurt hell had finally caught me and I was being dragged down now that I have crawled out, I look back at the person that I was as I was falling and I don't like what I see

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I think people are like cookies not in the way that they are the best thing ever created (because in way they are and are not) they are like a cookies because just walking by one you will never know what's on the inside you will only find out by taking a chunk out analyzing the insides seeing if there are any raisins in there (ew) or if they're more of an M&M kinda person maybe they look just like a chocolate chip but have a dried apricot in the middle....?? or maybe they're more of a chocolate brownie bite with fudge inside and a chip on top maybe they're a double chocolate cookie, or maybe a jam thumbprint or maybe even a store-bought, ****** Lofthouse style you know the kind with the icing that tastes like pure chemicals and pink dye with loads of soft sprinkles on top those cookies have got to be the worst

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Jun 15, 2021

Jun 15, 2021 at 1:27 PM UTC

cookies

I think people are like cookies not in the way that they are the best thing ever created (because in way they are and are not) they are like a cookies because just walking by one you will never know what's on the inside you will only find out by taking a chunk out analyzing the insides seeing if there are any raisins in there (ew) or if they're more of an M&M kinda person maybe they look just like a chocolate chip but have a dried apricot in the middle....?? or maybe they're more of a chocolate brownie bite with fudge inside and a chip on top maybe they're a double chocolate cookie, or maybe a jam thumbprint or maybe even a store-bought, ****** Lofthouse style you know the kind with the icing that tastes like pure chemicals and pink dye with loads of soft sprinkles on top those cookies have got to be the worst

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my heart is made of stone all these years you've broken through my each and every bone i have no love to give you, my heartstrings are pulled taught all the time that we have spent will soon be all for naught i have no love to give you, i'm as empty as the sky no love for you if i don't even want to stay alive

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Jun 10, 2021

Jun 10, 2021 at 1:10 AM UTC

i have no love to give you

my heart is made of stone all these years you've broken through my each and every bone i have no love to give you, my heartstrings are pulled taught all the time that we have spent will soon be all for naught i have no love to give you, i'm as empty as the sky no love for you if i don't even want to stay alive

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no, i am not a first grader incapable of knowing when to capitalize and i type in lowercase to be nonchalant i don't capitalize 'i' because i am not important my self worth is lower than the Mariana Trench it's hard for me to even address myself without feeling annoying i am not more important than the word prestigious i'm not more pretty than the word beautiful i am not as nice as the word affectionate i'm not as secure as the word trustworthy it's so hard to reprogram your brain to accept that you can be of some worth, that you can be desirable at all after years of too much thinking and being alone and trapped in my mind everyday i must try my best to remind myself that the subject of a sentence is being complemented by the beautiful words like the way a close friends complement you i have to remember that there are people there for me even if my head tries to tell me otherwise it's a struggle every time, but 'I' just have to try

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May 7, 2021

May 7, 2021 at 5:25 PM UTC

why i don't capitalize 'i'

no, i am not a first grader incapable of knowing when to capitalize and i type in lowercase to be nonchalant i don't capitalize 'i' because i am not important my self worth is lower than the Mariana Trench it's hard for me to even address myself without feeling annoying i am not more important than the word prestigious i'm not more pretty than the word beautiful i am not as nice as the word affectionate i'm not as secure as the word trustworthy it's so hard to reprogram your brain to accept that you can be of some worth, that you can be desirable at all after years of too much thinking and being alone and trapped in my mind everyday i must try my best to remind myself that the subject of a sentence is being complemented by the beautiful words like the way a close friends complement you i have to remember that there are people there for me even if my head tries to tell me otherwise it's a struggle every time, but 'I' just have to try

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the flowers that grow on the trees look like muted explosions but not malicious enough to hurt the eye the flowers are so tender and soft and all i can see is nature's true beauty as the gentle breeze animates the trees we're standing in my driveway and it's a vivid spring day pastel tones tones swaying lightly in the wind their sweet fragrance is only noticeable if you are close close enough to disregard the fact that you have allergies and asthma and should not inhale pollen... close enough that when you reach out and touch the branch the impossibly small petals break free and fall slowly to the ground. . . close enough that i watch as the petals brush your face and you are, for the minute, at peace.

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May 7, 2021

May 7, 2021 at 4:15 PM UTC

cherry blossoms in the driveway

the flowers that grow on the trees look like muted explosions but not malicious enough to hurt the eye the flowers are so tender and soft and all i can see is nature's true beauty as the gentle breeze animates the trees we're standing in my driveway and it's a vivid spring day pastel tones tones swaying lightly in the wind their sweet fragrance is only noticeable if you are close close enough to disregard the fact that you have allergies and asthma and should not inhale pollen... close enough that when you reach out and touch the branch the impossibly small petals break free and fall slowly to the ground. . . close enough that i watch as the petals brush your face and you are, for the minute, at peace.

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