andrew-jiang - Hello Poetry

i saw you across the abandoned street flushed in tints pouring out of the moon soaked in hues dripping down the ruby neon lights smothered in summer's cool like fresh strawberries plump tomatoes a fallen rose petal a pinch of cayenne no need to turn around your beauty already pierces the dull city with the ferocity of a desperate swordfish watch in smug as it bleeds so casually through your waist to thigh these red eyes watching in awe as your move effortlessly around your curves navigating the stares into a river of desire rushing down the hills of San Francisco yet there you stood alone the awkward sore on the pale face of street greeting the thinning traffic with a broken smile painting the corner with your heavenly red light

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Oct 31, 2011

Oct 31, 2011 at 10:44 PM UTC

the girl in red skirt

i saw you across the abandoned street flushed in tints pouring out of the moon soaked in hues dripping down the ruby neon lights smothered in summer's cool like fresh strawberries plump tomatoes a fallen rose petal a pinch of cayenne no need to turn around your beauty already pierces the dull city with the ferocity of a desperate swordfish watch in smug as it bleeds so casually through your waist to thigh these red eyes watching in awe as your move effortlessly around your curves navigating the stares into a river of desire rushing down the hills of San Francisco yet there you stood alone the awkward sore on the pale face of street greeting the thinning traffic with a broken smile painting the corner with your heavenly red light

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Your heart beats like a ******* drum My heart is like a rabbit that is dumb We Touch and the World stops for no reason Our love is like the change of some random season Lost in your deep whatever colored eyes Sad because your tender heart dies I hate you for your selfish ways You hate me for my perverted gaze.

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Oct 31, 2011

Oct 31, 2011 at 9:22 PM UTC

Generic Love Poem

Your heart beats like a ******* drum My heart is like a rabbit that is dumb We Touch and the World stops for no reason Our love is like the change of some random season Lost in your deep whatever colored eyes Sad because your tender heart dies I hate you for your selfish ways You hate me for my perverted gaze.

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The life lived in a fog illuminated by different shades of gray potentiating an explosion of colors ever vividly fade into our dreams alliterating perfectly with drained, dread, and dreary bouncing off of the hard shell of reality ricocheting through this haze we call life is meant to be inhaled and exhaled with symmetrical patterns tittering on the balance of fate and faith inching ever closer to the center of mass: 21 grams light it up and watch it burn take a puff and free fall in the high that is lower than the lowest lows... failure? forces the question of whether the shattered future will reach its imaginary destination, or be forever lost in this twilight marks the beginning of another tired cycle weighted down by the burden of success caught up in the monochrome movie that parades its credits before the ending.

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Oct 24, 2011

Oct 24, 2011 at 12:03 AM UTC

Soul Sigh So

The life lived in a fog illuminated by different shades of gray potentiating an explosion of colors ever vividly fade into our dreams alliterating perfectly with drained, dread, and dreary bouncing off of the hard shell of reality ricocheting through this haze we call life is meant to be inhaled and exhaled with symmetrical patterns tittering on the balance of fate and faith inching ever closer to the center of mass: 21 grams light it up and watch it burn take a puff and free fall in the high that is lower than the lowest lows... failure? forces the question of whether the shattered future will reach its imaginary destination, or be forever lost in this twilight marks the beginning of another tired cycle weighted down by the burden of success caught up in the monochrome movie that parades its credits before the ending.

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Pose a question that requires imminent answer Repeat enough times until it has lost its meaning Flipping a coin to decide if to look for love if to stay to live, or leave to die Mutter an answer with subtle silence Repeat enough times until it has lost its meaning Pacing inside the agony to find a feeling lost to take and lose, or give and gain **Reciprocity is the gravity the equal but opposite force Holding together yet tearing apart Ending with a shiver but never start** While we are sitting in this snow-filled room Soft clouds grazing in the sky following a gentle breeze I look up and we are already dying I look down and you are no longer crying ten seconds later ten minutes later ten months later ten years later Till forever lasting the soft touch in fuzzy motion distorts true intention Repeat enough times until it has lost its meaning Repeat enough times until it has lost its meaning To love or be loved Why not both?

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Oct 24, 2011

Oct 24, 2011 at 12:02 AM UTC

Repetition

Pose a question that requires imminent answer Repeat enough times until it has lost its meaning Flipping a coin to decide if to look for love if to stay to live, or leave to die Mutter an answer with subtle silence Repeat enough times until it has lost its meaning Pacing inside the agony to find a feeling lost to take and lose, or give and gain **Reciprocity is the gravity the equal but opposite force Holding together yet tearing apart Ending with a shiver but never start** While we are sitting in this snow-filled room Soft clouds grazing in the sky following a gentle breeze I look up and we are already dying I look down and you are no longer crying ten seconds later ten minutes later ten months later ten years later Till forever lasting the soft touch in fuzzy motion distorts true intention Repeat enough times until it has lost its meaning Repeat enough times until it has lost its meaning To love or be loved Why not both?

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--For my Mother. Insert another Day in the slot machine Betting on happiness Waiting for the stars to align the wild lights flashing Toss aside the mathematical improbability You know the possibility: Quarters dancing in the metal pan Soliciting shrills of joy Such a simple game between you and the button trapped in this 11 by 11 casino All you can do is wishing Cigarette smoke making you teary-eyed Stench of alcohol making you nauseous You get up to leave But the machine is screaming: “What's one more day? When you are betting on happiness? Don't you hear the laughters? Don't you see the lights flashing? Tomorrow is the day, that I can't promise. But sit down one more time All you can do is wishing” Wishing, pushing Hoping , waiting Dreaming, waking Crying, leaving.

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Oct 24, 2011

Oct 24, 2011 at 12:00 AM UTC

The Gambler

--For my Mother. Insert another Day in the slot machine Betting on happiness Waiting for the stars to align the wild lights flashing Toss aside the mathematical improbability You know the possibility: Quarters dancing in the metal pan Soliciting shrills of joy Such a simple game between you and the button trapped in this 11 by 11 casino All you can do is wishing Cigarette smoke making you teary-eyed Stench of alcohol making you nauseous You get up to leave But the machine is screaming: “What's one more day? When you are betting on happiness? Don't you hear the laughters? Don't you see the lights flashing? Tomorrow is the day, that I can't promise. But sit down one more time All you can do is wishing” Wishing, pushing Hoping , waiting Dreaming, waking Crying, leaving.

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We are flighty creatures Always narrowly escape love Tip-toeing the tepid water of Forever or not-at-all Dancing the day-rentals of Bridesmaid and groomsman Always hastily tucks in Always casually skirts out Dig in and fly out Flying away before digging in Day dream the day dreams come true Dream the day dream I will say to you: All just I so you want I to is back to can fly fall to so time deeply life in a love take with will you that It

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Oct 23, 2011

Oct 23, 2011 at 11:47 PM UTC

Dig

We are flighty creatures Always narrowly escape love Tip-toeing the tepid water of Forever or not-at-all Dancing the day-rentals of Bridesmaid and groomsman Always hastily tucks in Always casually skirts out Dig in and fly out Flying away before digging in Day dream the day dreams come true Dream the day dream I will say to you: All just I so you want I to is back to can fly fall to so time deeply life in a love take with will you that It

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(*My heart is a stone encased in ice age glacier tucked away in the nuclear bunker surrounded by the Great Wall if the Mongolians can't get to it what chance have you? Let's say you do manage to Mission Impossible reach it Let's say you somehow Ocean's One steal it Let's say you also The Bank Job keep it How are you gonna get through that ice? It's so cold Russians call it the nuclear winter It's so cold Kobe rubs it before the game-winning shot It's so cold Lucifer uses it as a cooler It's so cold Ice Queen is now the Ice Princess*) Yet the trembling rosy lips dissolve the very bond into silly little ice crystals and snowflakes resonate so passionately with the frequency of my stoic heartbeat the dancing electrons revolted against ionic-bonds and hydrogen-bonds the frenzied molecules traded their neighbors for love, traded themselves for furor traded ice for fire traded stone for flesh and you, traded I for me hanging ever so desperately on your red trembling lips consumed mercilessly like the very last cigarette knowing the consequence of letting go: like ash the wind shall carry me away a thousand burning ambers flying into the night like the fireflies on their last journey I shall melt quietly into darkness reminiscing about a block of ice.

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Jun 13, 2010

Jun 13, 2010 at 11:57 PM UTC

How to break a stone

(*My heart is a stone encased in ice age glacier tucked away in the nuclear bunker surrounded by the Great Wall if the Mongolians can't get to it what chance have you? Let's say you do manage to Mission Impossible reach it Let's say you somehow Ocean's One steal it Let's say you also The Bank Job keep it How are you gonna get through that ice? It's so cold Russians call it the nuclear winter It's so cold Kobe rubs it before the game-winning shot It's so cold Lucifer uses it as a cooler It's so cold Ice Queen is now the Ice Princess*) Yet the trembling rosy lips dissolve the very bond into silly little ice crystals and snowflakes resonate so passionately with the frequency of my stoic heartbeat the dancing electrons revolted against ionic-bonds and hydrogen-bonds the frenzied molecules traded their neighbors for love, traded themselves for furor traded ice for fire traded stone for flesh and you, traded I for me hanging ever so desperately on your red trembling lips consumed mercilessly like the very last cigarette knowing the consequence of letting go: like ash the wind shall carry me away a thousand burning ambers flying into the night like the fireflies on their last journey I shall melt quietly into darkness reminiscing about a block of ice.

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If you were a dream let me be the eternal sleeper If you were a song let me never take off the headphones If you were darkness let there never be light If I were a boy living the dream of listening to that song in the dark Let you be you.

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Jun 12, 2010

Jun 12, 2010 at 10:52 PM UTC

Let you Be you

If you were a dream let me be the eternal sleeper If you were a song let me never take off the headphones If you were darkness let there never be light If I were a boy living the dream of listening to that song in the dark Let you be you.

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as you crash into the room, sending ripples like a stone breaking water through the atmosphere, leaves me gasping, bobbing, surfing through the peaks and valleys of the disturbance you so casually giggled one touch from you makes my heart so big it swallowed the ocean but you saved it with just a kiss dares me to wander how you fly without a cape leaving supersonic trails in the cloudless sky **close your eyes baby, let us turn around and jump forget the wings and open the umbrella like a feather i swing back and forth under your gravity and you whisper to me "I am the gentlest letdown--"**

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Jun 12, 2010

Jun 12, 2010 at 10:50 PM UTC

Untitled

as you crash into the room, sending ripples like a stone breaking water through the atmosphere, leaves me gasping, bobbing, surfing through the peaks and valleys of the disturbance you so casually giggled one touch from you makes my heart so big it swallowed the ocean but you saved it with just a kiss dares me to wander how you fly without a cape leaving supersonic trails in the cloudless sky **close your eyes baby, let us turn around and jump forget the wings and open the umbrella like a feather i swing back and forth under your gravity and you whisper to me "I am the gentlest letdown--"**

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sidestepping the eagerness you seemed voracious, i seemed anxious yet we both were capricious conscious of the choices like adding N.E.S.S. to a word doesn’t make it a noun meaninglessness is still just meaningless like adding you and me doesn’t equal love no, love it’s just you it’s just me nothing in between close like lotion and skin close like coffee and cream close like nothing in between not even love.

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Jun 12, 2010

Jun 12, 2010 at 10:47 PM UTC

Last Embrace

sidestepping the eagerness you seemed voracious, i seemed anxious yet we both were capricious conscious of the choices like adding N.E.S.S. to a word doesn’t make it a noun meaninglessness is still just meaningless like adding you and me doesn’t equal love no, love it’s just you it’s just me nothing in between close like lotion and skin close like coffee and cream close like nothing in between not even love.

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