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sleepyhead
sleepyhead
Irish i think im safer on an airplane
everybody always writes about eyes but god they haven't seen anything until they've met her she has these eyes i know they'd talk about on tv if she was a movie star, i just know it
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Jun 10, 2013
Jun 10, 2013 at 6:35 PM UTC
closecloseclose
these days i can see your face through two panes of glass and maybe even though my breath still shakes when you smile i can smile back and not be scared when im finally looking at you clear because coming round that corner and seeing the back of your head where i know it always will be, at least for a few days more, thats all i need
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Jun 10, 2013
Jun 10, 2013 at 6:30 PM UTC
hallway windows, wave to me forever
maybe it's too late but you know i wonder if you notice how when i sit next to you my knees shake the same way they did on our last night by a radiator i wasn't cold, i think you knew that
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Jun 10, 2013
Jun 10, 2013 at 6:21 PM UTC
so you won't know
i'm using your favourite number as a reference again for explaining why i fell in love well what can you expect from a boy who sleeps twelve inches under his bed with a fireplace to rest his head to be closer to the ground and the sky at the same time and some days i'm using your birthday when people ask me why i talk the way i do it's all i can think to say when it's hard to get words out that don't have some secret meaning always leading back to you
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May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 at 6:52 PM UTC
synonymous
i'll open you up and unfold you like a map of the world i can tell from the line that runs faintly from your forehead and dark down the centre of your lip you haven't been opened in a long time and i'll be careful not to tear you at the seams as i read like roads and state lines your dreams            i'll breathe in everything we are            starcrossed - anxious and waiting to start            until im tasting you from the front of my mind            to the back of my tongue
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May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 at 2:20 PM UTC
k k k kiss me e e e
let's forget about our breathing while everybody's sleeping resting their tired magic heads on bars and floors and broken beds *i'll ask you to stay just a little longer i'll ask you to speak just a little stronger* well i know i talk like i'm a ghost but god just let me get you close and show you why i need you the most *medicine hands that keep me flying with hips that scream maybe you're not lying* and i know you like me better in the dark well i think i like you better with your silhouette all stark against the curtains letting streetlight in while it dances on your starry sliver skin my breath will dance across your starry silver skin
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May 25, 2013
May 25, 2013 at 3:48 PM UTC
6am part ii
sacred and scared - *i sound so quiet when i ask you: "show me what to do, i just don't know what to do."*
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May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 at 10:25 AM UTC
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somebody softly singing oh my heart, my heart and i think about falling asleep i think about nighttime air conditioning and bottled water baltimore is lulling me to dreamland
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May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 4:23 PM UTC
shakespeare street 2007
phase 1: sit on the outside of you, peeping through cracks some days you'll catch me - and in these we lack but some days i'll catch you staring back phase 2: see you and my heart breaks i speak and my breath shakes you smile and my stomach aches phase 3: i'm drunk, so are you go upstairs with him, leave both me + a beer askew i'll drink down fast until i'm ready to hear about you two
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May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 9:15 AM UTC
save face for everybody's sake
i'm thinking about your name and everything i love i'm lying here half drunk still with you next to me    im thinking "god, how can i be here?" i'm realising that it's you that your breath pulling your chest up and down isn't a dream i'm thinking "god, this isn't something i'm wishing?" you're really here and how could this be anything else. i'm thinking, "god, this amazing girl." you're somebody i never wanted to stop figuring out even for a second and you're here i'm thinking i want to know you inside out. i'm thinking about your name and everything i love
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May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 8:49 AM UTC
waking up early and staying with you