jon-daniel-shierling - Hello Poetry

Early Autumn Broken brooch pins, fallen cotton Charcoal thumbprints on sunburnt shoulders Your locket forgotten in the grass I loved you then With wheat chaff and wind blown hair Ancient memories

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Jan 24, 2025

Jan 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM UTC

Forgotten

Early Autumn Broken brooch pins, fallen cotton Charcoal thumbprints on sunburnt shoulders Your locket forgotten in the grass I loved you then With wheat chaff and wind blown hair Ancient memories

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I’m so ****** tired of feeling compelled to suffer a penalty for you falling in love with me. You knew I was a Jackal when you first tasted me. I don’t owe you an apology for having survived nightmares, for loving you the best I could with what I had while horrible things were happening that I couldn’t tell you about. I’m not an imposter, or a liar or less of a man than I presented as. I fell in love with you and I didn’t want to. We tried to staunch the blood still flowing from each other’s wounds…without knowing that we liked the taste.

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Mar 6, 2022

Mar 6, 2022 at 10:37 PM UTC

Anabasis VI

I’m so ****** tired of feeling compelled to suffer a penalty for you falling in love with me. You knew I was a Jackal when you first tasted me. I don’t owe you an apology for having survived nightmares, for loving you the best I could with what I had while horrible things were happening that I couldn’t tell you about. I’m not an imposter, or a liar or less of a man than I presented as. I fell in love with you and I didn’t want to. We tried to staunch the blood still flowing from each other’s wounds…without knowing that we liked the taste.

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Enough then I don’t need your permission Or a final whisper from lips that raised all my dead The cathedral in my heart that I lifted up for you And filled with all my lonely ghosts It burns tonight And tomorrow The Beginning The Work The Empire

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Mar 6, 2022

Mar 6, 2022 at 9:28 PM UTC

Meurte de la Amour Roja

Enough then I don’t need your permission Or a final whisper from lips that raised all my dead The cathedral in my heart that I lifted up for you And filled with all my lonely ghosts It burns tonight And tomorrow The Beginning The Work The Empire

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When you caught me compulsively washing dishes at 3am When we agreed to tell each other if there was anyone else When you cried in your sleep and all I could do was hold you tight When you were still there for me after flashbacks even though you didn’t know what was happening to me When we were so shitglued that our accents came out and our friends had no idea what the hell we were saying When you shattered your Chanel bottle all over your bathroom and I smelled like you for days after When I tried to cook eggs drunk and you didn’t have butter or milk and had to save them from me When a tiny version of you found my pirate wig from Halloween When I moved heaven and earth for you at work When you took me to the fanciest Italian place I’ve ever eaten at When we entered a room together people stopped and noticed When I caught you compulsively washing dishes at 3am When you orchestrated Thanksgiving and taught me about family When I bought you boot socks and moleskin to heal your outrageous blisters When you took me along with you and your daughter to look at Christmas lights, and you didn’t know what I was fleeing from When I found you folding my laundry at midnight, and I left my heart on the couch next to you

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Mar 5, 2022

Mar 5, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

Laundry at Midnight

When you caught me compulsively washing dishes at 3am When we agreed to tell each other if there was anyone else When you cried in your sleep and all I could do was hold you tight When you were still there for me after flashbacks even though you didn’t know what was happening to me When we were so shitglued that our accents came out and our friends had no idea what the hell we were saying When you shattered your Chanel bottle all over your bathroom and I smelled like you for days after When I tried to cook eggs drunk and you didn’t have butter or milk and had to save them from me When a tiny version of you found my pirate wig from Halloween When I moved heaven and earth for you at work When you took me to the fanciest Italian place I’ve ever eaten at When we entered a room together people stopped and noticed When I caught you compulsively washing dishes at 3am When you orchestrated Thanksgiving and taught me about family When I bought you boot socks and moleskin to heal your outrageous blisters When you took me along with you and your daughter to look at Christmas lights, and you didn’t know what I was fleeing from When I found you folding my laundry at midnight, and I left my heart on the couch next to you

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I accumulate ghosts the way other men collect trophies

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Feb 18, 2022

Feb 18, 2022 at 9:44 AM UTC

Anabasis IV