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jonathan-howard
jonathan-howard
Poetry Major in Vermont. Lover of pizza, laughter and dogs.
I am fruit snacks and dragon tales. I am trips to the Cape and tan lines. I am country music and pearl earrings. I am black raspberry ice cream and late night drives. I am yoga at noon and apple picking in the fall. I am Loud. I am Loved. I am Alive.
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Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 9:00 PM UTC
I am
I forgot to bring paper; on set there was a broken pen. When words spill from mouth to page, magic begins to transcend.
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 5:41 PM UTC
Imagination
Leaking down the side, buildings melt inside walls. Mocking drug induced families under ceilings among red, glazed eyes. Kites fly, and green grass snaps under a stiff shoe. Sewage creeps from beneath the field where kids play. Geese, in V formation. Leaves drift to the yellow grass. Souls forsaken by time. Fenced in field Surrounded by brick rising, expanding into the past thirty years. The building is leaking and still rising.
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 5:09 PM UTC
Forgotten in Time
Why did you burn me, Fire? Constantly screaming, jagged in breath, while desperate for attention-- Where's your dignity? You've been asking for attention, reaching for our hands, snapping towards scorched palms you bubbled, inflated with infection. I flinch when you spark back to creation. You've cracked within pressure, Fire, molten at the core, insensitively lost, but you, Fire, you lost yourself within heated monetary discussions-- You seek for growth, demolishing the path you take.  I can only blame myself though, Fire. I'm the one who encouraged, blew on your embers, empowering your ideals, starting rampages that engulfed forests and plains. Leaves dared to love you, now burnt-- You've lost yourself, Fire. Will you ever let your guard down again?
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 3:15 PM UTC
Scorched
The amber bottle rested on the cozy while you tossed back ***** Crackling over ice, popping to the warm quake tumbling down your throat. Voices to the right bounced, shot ***** into pockets, towards the corner sulking after being hit. You've sipped your dignity, having an allergic reaction, your eyes cursed, blood stained glasses diced palms, attached with glass in hope of feeling numb.
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 12:38 PM UTC
Cozy
I love you. You make me become cotton, above the wind, effortlessly gliding upon rolling meadows of marigolds. Wait You're the cold snap before the morning sun, always biting and freezing loose particles of moisture in the air. No, wait You've brought my senses back, like rewiring a lamp and giving it a fresh bulb, illuminating the surrounding shadows with a smirk, smile. Actually, wait. You've made my mind out of confusion, changing the pace, lying on high tide forgetting the time we've spent out at sea. Please wait, I've just wanted to hang on, I miss feeling like I'm whole again around the puzzle piece that caught my attention. Love and wait For me.
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 1:13 AM UTC
Untitled
I found you standing there, in the corner of a big room. I could see in your eyes, you were a flower ready to bloom. You were ready to go, ready to see the world. You were all alone, just another lonely girl. Like the moon in the night sky, so far from the stars. You were in need of a friend, to help heal the scars. And so I reached out, and you took my hand, and we explored the high mountains, and put our toes in the sand. We ran through the valleys, and flew through the sky. We walked through the forest, and laughed till we cried. We looked up at the stars, so far yet so close, so big yet so small, we wanted them all. And so we became stars.
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Feb 22, 2015
Feb 22, 2015 at 11:09 PM UTC
Stars
I showered last night, wiping away What you encouraged me to do. Did you forget? I didn't want to go. Sweatpants rolled up to my knees, hair flat, cuffs rolled up to my elbows. The snow beneath my feet crunched while I texted you. Each word filled me with reject, each step wanted to pivot and escape the man down the hill. But, you said it would be good for me. On the contrary, this tore you apart, my love. I babysat the intoxicated man that offered me wine, his shrill of a voice split open my skull, quaked my brain and stabbed my frontal lobe, unaware. His height represented my will and want to walk this distance and meet him: short, and a disappointing impression. But I can't get through my mind, why, why we would think we could want this. I blame myself, the want for more, drinking intoxicating flirtation that drives us all, to jump, to want more, but that thrill poisons the mind to crave for attention, immediate love we need to find in ourselves. I can't tell you the dreams I've had, for fear you might sprint, at Olympic speed, onto another life, another man while I wait, wait for you to return to my arms, because our future is a proposal. You, down on one knee, flooding my eyes, rushing down cheeks as we say "I do!"
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Feb 22, 2015
Feb 22, 2015 at 9:28 PM UTC
Untitled
Remind me again when the funeral is. My suit needs to be dry cleaned to abolish moth ***** Also, mother gave up and drowned in tissues lined with aloe. Thats all I can smell above her coffin.
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Feb 22, 2015
Feb 22, 2015 at 5:34 PM UTC
Aloe
february and the roses have finally stopped flowering above stormy clouds the moon scatters like a ghost i dream of you, of you... and the night glides peacefully to rest while i sigh and wait.
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Feb 22, 2015
Feb 22, 2015 at 1:52 PM UTC
february