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aly-fatal
American I have been writing poetry for awhile and I am kind of inspired by the spoken word tradition, but I have yet to master the rhythm of it. That doesn't mean that my all my poems are failed attempts at that, but some are.
I have two things to share and one thing to hide. One: That my heart tried to glide and fly back to you and discovered that all it could do was beat Another: That I tried to grow in pieces that were illegal under the statutes of what was pretty The last: That falling in love felt more like tripping over tipped toes. It was accidental as I tried to keep my feelings secret. Now, all I have to do was remember which one was which.
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Dec 6, 2010
Dec 6, 2010 at 11:35 AM UTC
Which one?
I've been here all day The day is starting to darken into night And I have been here all day How do you excuse yourself from this? I've waited for you like a faucet not turned off all the way Steadily dripping tears and waiting for you to realize how you have left me When we started I told you promises weren't accepted here They would never be an suitable replacement for cold hard action Besides my system had been broken since my last bout with a heartbreaking muse. Yet, you still thought a kiss and a promise that you would be there was enough And it was Your kiss was like lightly cool rain on hot summer's day The humidity from it made me feel ten degrees warmer And you touched my face like I was unique Painting me **** with your fingertips How can a girl resist? Feeling like she is safe in the same place she is warm When it comes down to it you always feel safer with space heater, not a refrigerator. And each lip tip and finger kiss makes me feel not alive, but worthwhile So when you said I could count on you how could I say no to a lingering cheek kiss and your promise You were willing to ("practice") making a life with me Thats what it means when you touch me It means that you might (maybe) someday love me But I have been here all day Its night now And I have a feeling that you have forgotten all about me
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Dec 6, 2010
Dec 6, 2010 at 11:22 AM UTC
Expectations
So. Yea. About that night... It was great. But now I can't look at you Without seeing how you made me Feel... intensely good. I bumped into you again so I could feel your smell Making its way down... **** Um. Was I going to ask you about the homework Or if you can still hear your lips on my... I think it was the homework.
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Sep 12, 2010
Sep 12, 2010 at 11:26 AM UTC
Awkward
Today I looked down at the dark side of my hand, saw a freckle and I thought of you. I never knew you lack the back of my hand Always a foreign country I knew you like your like your sleeves rolled up and your chest pushed out when you teach I knew you like golden forearms working and your smirk as you looked up at me I knew you like your copious black lashes and pink lips etched onto my fingertips I knew you like knowing just what to say to make you want to hit me And just what to say to make you want to kiss me I knew you like this (like you) But its been awhile since I’ve forgotten it It didn’t hurt like I expected Now I wait for someone to know me like: I eat every three hours or else I am going to be grumpy Or baby why don’t you put on some socks for me Like my affection is judged by the sonority of my kiss on your cheek And somehow still love me When I look down at the side of my hand that can’t ever know how  skinlust feels   I think of you and think of how you knew me like the winner of a spelling bee After long hours of study And maybe someone (out there) knows me like flower for a honey bee Instinctively
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Sep 12, 2010
Sep 12, 2010 at 11:24 AM UTC
Unlike the back of my hand
Its the pitter patter of our future getting ready to crawl into bed with us But waiting instead Right out the door For us to decide to let it in We never do and before its too late Passes in a heartbeat After I’ll ask you if you heard something And you will be too entrenched in the smell of my skin to say yes You heard the end But it won’t be over yet.
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Sep 12, 2010
Sep 12, 2010 at 11:22 AM UTC
What's that noise?
I want to dissect the space in between growing up and being an adult I want to see the heart as it beats its desperate beat of not enough I want to see the lungs that save their breath because the worst thing to ever happen has not happened yet I want to see the brain that has just started to question the belonging that was inherent in every held hand between friends And I want to see the vestiges of the tales told to children that made them believe that growing up was wondrous But which shrunk in the face of an evolution that explained away the magic in the world and told us that real life was good... enough. I want to dissect that space and see it before growing older starts to feel like growing colder I want to dissect that space after falling in love is only about unscarred hearts and tiny little steps of faith And then I want to keep each piece Cultivating and grafting to get the perfect hybrid of knowing that things sometimes don’t work out and believing that anything is possible Making my monster out of childish this and adultish that And I want to give it life Flinging it out the window And then maybe wondering if it has wings.
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Sep 12, 2010
Sep 12, 2010 at 11:21 AM UTC
Science Project
I want to nibble up the inside of your leg Tasting the  the scent of your skin Like a final tally leaving acceptance as the victor after too many bouts with denial Like a wish fulfilled that was kept tucked away in a box of familiarity I want wrap myself up in you Noting everywhere where I can feel your breath catch along my skin Highlighted in heat, ready for any erstwhile quiz I want to fashion your curves into vessels perfect to find my tongue in With only the sweetest hint of your sweat breaking out like dew drops on your petal skin To tempt my buds I want to run my fingers through your fountain hair drawing your neck out for its first date with my lips I know its never been like this for you before Your back an arch to cover the hands of the faithful and I want to put my hand against it and hold you close like a prayer bead Feel you tremble with the feeling that for the first time falling may not be such a bad thing For once chaos won’t attend to each flutter of your eyelids, delicate as butterfly wings And it seems every one of my nerve endings was waiting for the sound of my name falling off the edge of those dulce lips at the end of your shudder-breath of giving in It hits me with all the fire of the sun falling on the horizon in six different shades of red
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Sep 11, 2010
Sep 11, 2010 at 9:26 AM UTC
Inspiration