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Tyler Matthew Aug 2017
It seems to me
most poetry
is nothing but
a clever title.
Most poems lack
that special knack
that readers
find so vital.

Recycling words
we all have heard
makes for a
dull affair,
so pay your dues
to the muse
and write
something rare.
Tyler Matthew Aug 2017
Some people are just
so normal they're weird.
Crisp suits and coffee
in the morning,
no gin and pajamas,
how freakish.
When they get mad,
they get productive
like insects,
rather than breaking
this or that.
Everything planned,
paid on time,
reminders posted
on the walls.
No kinks in their hoses,
no brown on their noses,
hair carefully parted
in just the right place.
They don't make art,
they buy it,
hang it on the walls
and then throw a party.
How lonely,
unfulfilled,
how strange their lives
must be.
My theory is
they've yet to find anything
worth going mad for.
Quick write
  Aug 2017 Tyler Matthew
Ryan Holden
We can both become
Predator and prey to make
Beautiful nature.
Tyler Matthew Aug 2017
I'm too young to be thinking
the good days are gone,
to feel lost in a crowd
of people my age.
I'm too young to want nothing
but a moment alone,
or to skip through the book,
not minding each page.

I'm too old to ask help
from kind souls who offer,
to crawl on all fours,
or to cry in my sleep.
I'm too old to be dreaming
of peace in my mind.
But no matter our age,
dreams are all we can keep.
Quick write - after reading it about 6 times, I have deduced that this poem is ****. But I'm going to leave it here anyway.
Tyler Matthew Aug 2017
I don't need no
chains and whips,
sparks fly from
my fingertips.
Magic, the way
you move your hips.
Magic, when you
part your lips.

I'm no sage,
but I can enlighten.
You crawl to me,
you are not frightened.
Sweat and blood,
muscles tighten.
Draw the shades,
don't let the light in.

You kneel before me,
I can't ignore.
You rake my skin,
I ask for more.
I part your legs
and kiss your core.
Falling from you,
what you wore.
Tyler Matthew Aug 2017
Ah, summer,
come dancing up the mountain,
bringing near-naked lovers
and flowers and fountains.
Good summer,
and all in good fun,
with women in the shade
watching children that run.
Short summer,
you are all but too brief,
a daze dipped in sunlight,
warm dream of relief.
Dear summer,
time to gather your things
and wait out the winter
to return after spring.
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