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 Nov 2018 Shane Rowe
Stanley
Poems aren't written,
they're found,
Somewhere in your head the words are waiting,
They're sprawled across the floor,
You just need to pick them up,
Make a path with them,
Let your path guide observers,
And if you can't write,
Walk down somebody's else's path first,
First poem I've written, to anybody who reads this is hope you enjoyed it and it made you day a little better
 Oct 2018 Shane Rowe
Lydia
Puzzle
 Oct 2018 Shane Rowe
Lydia
"But what if we're wrong?"
It was silent
But her thoughts echoed around in my head as we laid on top of her pickup truck
I swatted at the eighteenth mosquito chewing on my leg
I don't want this to be love

We were tangled up in the acoustic music they play on the radio on Sunday mornings
She was trying to dream up something clever to write about
And I was pretending I could learn to play guitar through osmosis,
As if blending myself in with the harmonies, finding her in every lyric, and sheer willpower would give me wings or at least magic guitar hands

She set the alarm, checked it over and over
She was not going to be late for her first day
I told her I'd be asleep when she got home, she told me she knew
I told her to wake me up

I wasn't looking for perfect
Perfect really only applies in first year physics courses
After that, we learn to fall in love with "rough around the edges" or "unique" or "unfinished"
As if their life is a puzzle that we need to complete
Just so you know, it isn't

She bought me breakfast and dropped me off
She used to tell me she loved me, but I know she didn't
She does now, so she doesn't have to say it anymore
When I said, "love," before, I didn't really mean it
Not like I mean loving the garden on the balcony of her apartment or thunderstorms in May
Even if I was a puzzle that she completed (and I'm not saying that I am), we didn't need any glue to fit perfectly
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 Oct 2018 Shane Rowe
Toothache
Did you know you sound blue
That I feel yellow when you laugh
That your small hums make the air orange

Did you know your handwriting is pastel
And the way you run your hands through your hair is aqua marine
And the way you walk is every shade of neon

Did you know that when you fidget I see sparks of silver
And your smile is scarlet red
And that when you look at me
I feel violet in my finger tips

Did you know that you are the number 7
Or that I smell amber when I read your name
Or that I can't call you just one,
Because every colour comes to mind
Whenever I think of you
 Oct 2018 Shane Rowe
Stxlle
unsaid
 Oct 2018 Shane Rowe
Stxlle
Words bleed
from your eyes
because you see all the lies

Words dripped
from your nose
because you weren't careful of the words you chose

Words fly
out of your ears
to prevent all the tears

Words form
on your skin
describing all your sins

Words corrupt
your mouth
concealing all your doubt

Words float
in your head
of all the words you never said
 Oct 2018 Shane Rowe
Stxlle
Each and everyday I try to get a glimpse of you
Just one glimpse would make me happy
I don't even know why I smile when I see you

You are like a drug to me
Making me addicted

My mind tells me "No, don't. You'll get hurt"
but my heart is pushing me, encouraging me to see you again
So I do

I rest my back against the wall
and I turn around, slipping one eye off the edge of the wall
I see you and I quickly look away

My heart pumping. Goosebumps appearing My mind is lost in thoughts

You don't even know I'm here
You don't even know who I am

I take a chance and I take another peek, a longer one
And  there you are
Talking, talking to your friends
You look handsome like you do everyday
I ju-

You suddenly look in my direction

I panic then I just turn around and walk away
A smile escapes my lips. I try not to giggle

I head home still thinking about you,
excited to come back tomorrow to see you again
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