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 May 2017 Chris Vans
James Court
I left the horizons
  for fear I would miss
    the evening stars set there
      so if your horizon sinks
        to the abyss
          mine are all here for us both to share.

I captured the starlight
  to jewel my eyes
    and dazzle the folks who'd see,
      but should your eyes tire
        of empty skies
          I'll glitter them fain with stars for thee.
A continuation of the poem 'Ocean', by Molly Gilmour
https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1943529/ocean/
 May 2017 Chris Vans
Stephanie
Rose
 May 2017 Chris Vans
Stephanie
One must always be careful in the presence of a rose.
For their beauty is only a mask.
Hiding beneath those elegant petals, lies an abundance of thorns,
waiting for their next victim.
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 May 2017 Chris Vans
Abe Bonnevie
I wished for every star to align
But the Night Sky meant not to create a constellation
In the shape of
You and I
 May 2017 Chris Vans
Polar
I feel we're living the last days of Versailles
As beauty fades before my eyes
Convinced as I am
The gods owe us time,
I'd destroy this world
To keep what's mine.

My universe is necrotising
As I stumble through ruins
And colour drains away.

I bargain for time...

Throughout the many lives we've lived before knowing only each time we return,
To experience full transfiguration
You have to be willing to burn.
 May 2017 Chris Vans
morgan
Kill Me
 May 2017 Chris Vans
morgan
**** me with a bullet
that smells of cigarettes
and Sundays
and bitter sweet tea
and sweet bitter goodbyes
**** me with a sword
laced in band practice
encased in a sleeve of rain water
and rose petals
and midnight cries
Night is just night,
without it being told that
it should be dark
and sunless.

It is what it is,
by its own definition.
It does not need stars to shine
In order to make darkness meaningful.

Still, the stars shine.
They do what they do
Without self-acknowledgement,
They simply do.

Be.
Like night and stars
And meaningfulness
And Self-acknowledgement.
 May 2017 Chris Vans
Jasmin
i never knew silence that much
until that very afternoon
when i tried so much
to hold my teardrops
and hide the sobs
that were exploding inside
my weary body
and my wrecked soul

i wonder,
if i was found dead that day,
would they think 'twas suicide
or would the police say,
"she was slain by the silence
that was enclasped within her solitude"?
"she didn't want to take her life, she was murdered by the messes life threw at her." the police added
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