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 Nov 2013 UHG
KP
Our bodies lie next to eachother
Juxtaposing
In such contrasting perfection
Your shoulder supplants as my pillow
Our lips touching satisfy my every urge
Each nibble on the neck acts as a reminder of why we are here
Love.
So practical and enjoyable
But you can see in my eyes, I wonder why.
My mind questions my bodies
And its desire, its yearning, in its simplest form, its want to be held.
Though- I am able to turn my back toward you, curl my legs to yours
and forget this question for one more minute.
a body in
the rotunda lay

in state for
all to see

ideals displayed
in drab repose

a nation on
its knees

we can’t
believe

what eyes
behold

mute tears
stain blighted
faces

the Capitol just
a corpse filled
tomb

democracy
a mouldering
grace

Edvard Grieg:
Aase’s Death

Oakland
11/22/13
jbm
see also
Women No Cry
for remembrance
of that day
 Nov 2013 UHG
Morgan
he sang beautifully until he began
to scream; i slept peacefully
until the nightmares set in
he had the vastness of a constellation
& i had the willpower of a telescope
i thought if i connected his veins
with the tip of my finger,
we'd learn to find each other
so i followed his voice every time
it trailed off but i always got lost
somewhere between what was
said and the reasons why
i studied the patterns in his
palms; he fell asleep in my arms
the desire to understand the
apathy in his eyes
was not the same as
the desire to love his insides
 Nov 2013 UHG
Ashley sheppard
Stay?
 Nov 2013 UHG
Ashley sheppard
I'd sell my soul just to see your face
And I'd break my bones
Just to heal your pain.
In these I need a saving grace
But time is running out and.I'm
starting to lose my faith.

But if I told you I love you
Would it make you wanna stay?
I'm sorry for the way
I hurt you and making
you walk away.
And if I wrote you a love song
And sang it to you everyday
Would it ever be enough
To make you wanna come back
Home and stay?
 Oct 2013 UHG
Emma
but I couldn't let you know what my poems are really about.
If I told you the truth, then you'd know that sometimes I ignore your words
because I'm too focused on your lips.
You'd know that every time we're together I forget we'd ever been apart.
I would have to tell you that they're all about you.

You'd know that I'm hopelessly in love with you, and
that I have been hopelessly in love with you for years.

If I had told you what my poems are honestly about,
I would have to tell you that your smell is my Amortentia
and your smile is my melting point.

When you asked me that night the topic of my poetry,
I could not bring myself to tell you that
my poems are about you because
your poems might not be about me.
 Oct 2013 UHG
Morgan
We danced through an other back yard show tonight. You disappeared a half a dozen times, as you always do. You're notorious for that but hey, at least you've got something inside you that makes us notice when you're not beside us. Sometimes I wonder if I have that too. All I know is that no one comes looking for me every month that I hide away in my room. Well I felt especially empty these past few months. I've been plugging all of these shallow holes with needles & ear phones. I'm trying to escape the chaos of this place. I wanna go somewhere that makes it easier to pretend that you're there with me because when I look into every pair of red eyes around me, I can see that they're searching for something & they know that they won't find it in this crowd of misfits throwing punches in mosh pits, still they dance on & on & on. But I've lost the sense of independence and strength that this scene requires and I want to believe in something deeper cause on the surface this looks perfect & this looks pleasantly violent & cool & I know there are kids who look at us through the corners of their eyes & wish they had friends who dressed like mine but I don't feel like a part of this anymore. I can't live as an observer. I wanna have more to my name than "wallflower". I want a brand new reason to have ink poured under my skin. I love these people so ******* much it's horrifying but I know that when I step outside of this basement I'll still be just as ****** up in the sunlight as I was under the moon & that's not how I want to live anymore. I'm queer & I guess that's why I'm here but I need something better, I need something more
 Oct 2013 UHG
Cali
A memory
 Oct 2013 UHG
Cali
You took the words
right out of my mouth
and then shoved them
down my throat.

And to you,  
it's just an afterthought,
a nod into space;
but I'm standing here
breathing oceans of static
in the small space
between us;
trying to fill the void.

You didn't hear the love
spilling out from the spaces
and cracks between my words.
You couldn't hear the apologies
in my silence.
You didn't feel the way
I held your name
on the tip of my tongue,
and really, I don't blame you.

If only to appease you,
I'd crawl back to the shore
and drift back out to sea,
dissolve into a memory.

I just hope that you might
remember me
the way I used to be.
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