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 Dec 2013 RA
Jess Bull
Throwing up will make you beautiful
After all, beauty is pain
Waxing every square inch of your human body
Squeezing into those Spanx to hide your smallest flaws

Your daughter, she needs help with her eating disorder
There's no beauty in that. Strictly pain.
Or telling your 20 year old best friend everyday for 6 years a size 3 isn't anywhere neat fat
Having the same conversation with a 10 year old girl: is that any more beautiful? No.
Forget that beauty isn't painful

A mother experiencing excruciating pain yet forgetting it all when she holds her child for the first time
Death of a man with terminal illness--all the pain built up to the soul finally at ease
The battered woman seeking courage to break free and begin new life

Actual emphasis to "beauty is pain" is one who pushes through the undesired struggle-- beauty is the reward
Remember that beauty can be painful
What's beautiful in your life?
 Dec 2013 RA
babydulle
Tropes
 Dec 2013 RA
babydulle
I keep writing you into manuscripts that I'm never going to publish
as if I could ever find a way to keep you,
immortalize you into something worth loving completely
I am never 100%
anxiety puts me on the edge and depression throws my body off it
everyday
so how could I ever find a way to keep you here?
When I can't even write you down as one person
my characters are full of your traits
he has your brown eyes which I never liked until I looked into yours
she has your intelligence, your Gemini know-it-all but still love you trait
there is a piece of you in every person I write,
in every person I see,
I guess that's how I can keep you here
Because you never really leave.
 Dec 2013 RA
Redshift
if i put my hand above my cat
she reaches her head out
to have me cup it
i am the same with you
i compensate for the distance you don't feel like going
or maybe you just know that i'll always reach for it
so you don't bother...

it's alright.
i know, too
 Dec 2013 RA
Kairee F
I never really let myself look back at it,
you know, since I transformed into this person,
since my heart relearned its beat,
and my eyes regained their sight,
and my mouth relearned a speech that could stand up for
the brain that's had to muster every ounce of confusion,
every spec of pain,
every seed of anger,
and release it until the look in my tearless and fearless eyes
gained light again.
I never wanted to lose you.
I just had to if I wanted to come back from the dead,
from the grave I made in my hollow bed,
formed with baby green sheets and a pillow for my headstone.
That was your choice.
I just walked away from a world that would never care.

Sometimes... I just really hate when you're the inspiration behind
the fingertips clicking on the keyboard,
when you're the reason why I let myself bleed into a poem,
when you're the motive in a desperate attempt for me to have something for myself.
And then I remember... that's how I escape the way I'd wrap
around your conniving little finger until it turned to blade.
I always find it interesting to see how fleeting my existence can be.
It's like a game, isn't it?
The drunken texts, the awkwardly un-awkward hugs, the hellos and goodbyes
that turn into absolutely nothing.
It's funny how I'm the one who can be normal.
And honest.

The hardest thing I've ever had to do is accept that you aren't you,
that almost everything you do is a charade,
you parade about wanting pity and remorse,
you love the sadness as much as you hate it,
you hate the deception as much as you crave it,
and I simply cannot do that.

Maybe I haven't fully accepted it yet.

I wonder when I'll be invisible again.
 Dec 2013 RA
EJ Aghassi
feels
 Dec 2013 RA
EJ Aghassi
remind me why
I'm still awake
why does
sleep elude me so?

I've searched corners
under-bellies
empty bottles
for answers

but answers still elude me so

i doubt myself
and where I stand
hardly a
respectable man

but genuine
in whatever it is
that keeps me awake
until six

nothing makes
sense

and with street lights
guiding my way
flickering
fading
fulminating

I stumble
trip
through dawn cascading

the walk down every
alleyway
heavy steps upon the street

questioning until collapse
the empty beer cans at my feet
 Dec 2013 RA
Emily Hammer
He makes me write poems
Sometime sad
Sometimes happy
Because with him there are endless up and downs
Infinite possibilities
He makes me feel invisible
And as if I'm the stars in his eyes
He asks why I can not sleep
I tell him there is to much to think about
But he doesn't know I'm thinking of him
Him
I want him
All of him
His sad songs
His lonely songs
His cracking smile
And the ever eluding eyes whispering something I can not understand
I want to understand him
I want him to want this for me
I want him to realize I love him for his flaws
And his endless beauties
Loving him is like looking at the tail of a comet
Flashing hello and goodbye at the same time
Sparkling but then gone in an instant
Sometimes when he looks up at me
I believe for second the things that keep up untill 2:57 at night
Might not be real
He takes away my pain and sadness
Until I realize he will never be mine
The girl he wants is someone simple and beautiful
She does not stay up until 2:57 at night dreaming of his face
Or thinking of how lonely she is
She lives and loves
She loves him
And he loves her
*-(e.h)
 Dec 2013 RA
Elise
Voices
 Dec 2013 RA
Elise
and when I die
compose a symphony in my voice
transfer my soul into a violin string
and my heart into a timpani drum
as long as I can be heard I will never be
truly
gone
you told me once you would name a gun after me
if you stumbled across one that spoke in my voice
and if you can hear my name in a gun shot
you can find it again in a broken chord on a piano
because
I used to be a composer
but every melody was about you
people rest in sound waves
and it's time I was found again
just like I found you

and when I die
bury me in sheet music
and leave me under the concert hall
so that I will never go without
music reverberating through my bones
I've been told my eyes are gold
if you look at them in the right light
but if you gave me room to breathe again
they might become the color of the land
I am rushing over
in bass line
one that you created
with your own two hands

and when I die
and you hear what you have created for the first time
I hope you fall to your knees
in a spotlight
on the stage you stand
because you have just realized
that I am more alive now
than I was when I was breathing

and when I die
I will not really be dead

now will I?
eventually I will be dead, but never gone
never gone
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