Shanti Starks: Favorites

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

Acme

Your beautiful corpse reminds me
of the kindest lovers I abandoned.
You're still Anne from death by gas.
Hair and makeup perfect after all.
Your poetry had you rowing out to sea
to die in saltwater ugly and shriveled.
You could never sacrifice your beauty
even for commitment to fierce suicide.

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

Her Favorite Song

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

Colm

Her Favorite Song

The universe puts her headphones on
And plays her favorite track
The raindrops in the meadow burst
And soak the earth
And with her feet up on the world
She smiles from ear to ear
And plays it back

What songs does the universe listen to? Is there a more beautiful sound than the rain falling in the secluded meadow. Truthfully, I don't know. But I do love the sound of these words as they roll off the tongue. YUPP!

BIG THANKS to everyone who liked, commented, and helped make this verse the Poem of the day (on 05/18/18). I really appreciate it! You can listen to me read this poem live on SoundCloud. Just follow the link and have an awesome day!

https://soundcloud.com/user-433755196/her-favorite-song-1

#her #favorite #song #verse #rhyme #poem #poems #poet #rain #universe

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

Lost.

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

Dresden

Lost.

I'm not stable enough for love
I'm not kind enough for love
I'm not worthy enough for love
I'm not ready for love
Lord please save me
I don't feel human
I don't have strength
I don't belong
I don't want to live
I'm nothing but depressed
A lost case
A piece of work
A damaged ex
Will I ever turn my life around?
And see the world differently?
Like it's meant to be
Like I have a destiny
Like anyone wants me
To be here

#lost

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

Flavor

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

Styles

Flavor

The taste of her lips;
         brings me to my knees,
         where I melt her in my mouth,
         not my hands.

#poem #poet #poetry #sec #love #**** #hot #****

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

Goodbye kiss

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

IntoTheGale

Goodbye kiss

Her kiss goodbye,
Full of tenderness
And heartbreak,
Stung of a finality
of a pity
More profound
Than I could process,
And now in the silence
Left in her wake,
I’ve nothing but
Regrets

#goodbye #loss

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

When I die

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

Sofie

When I die

It will not hurt when I die
It will pop
Like a bubble
An explosion
Of bliss and sorrow
Like a wave or a soft touch
Of deepfelt emotion

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

For You

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

Olaleye Gift Emmanuel

For You

I feel like a star,
Painted in the colour of the moon.
Lover,
Teach me how to love,
That I may rip my heart for you.

#El_Magnifico™

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

Heartache

Oct 2020 Shanti Starks

Bunny Rubinstein-Bothwell

Heartache

I have kissed boys

Girls

People in between

But lately I have been kissing bottles

Their lips are colder than yours

But slowly I have realized that the pounding headache when I wake is less hurtful than the shattering in my chest

Yet as these toxins rush through my veins

I can't help but miss the tracing of your fingers along my skin

Miss the numbness of the world when you lie with me

But when I wake I remember that a headache is treated with an aspirin

While heartache

Well if you have a cure for Heartache let me know

#heartache #heartbreak #love #bottles #drinking #boys #girls #androgynous #nonbinary #lover