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 Nov 2015
Eudora
Would you mind if I wrote you a love poem
Would you care if I shared it with the world
Would it be okay if I filled it with cliches
As in I am the oyster and you are the pearl

Oh my, it'll be an absolute delight
Go ahead, let the earth be smitten
Let your words float in the twilight
It'll be a beauty no one has ever written


I ask would it be too much
If I compared your beauty to that of Spring flowers
Or how I could just sit here and stare
As I dreamly while away the hours

I'll be flushed with humility
As I am just one of His thankful creations
I'll allow your gaze even through infinity
Admiring beyond my imperfections


Would it be to much to say
That you put the night stars to shame
If I had my very own galaxy
On it I would place your name

You can ask the clouds and sky above
How your words touched my heart to the core
The unfeigned expression of your love
I'm truly blessed, couldn't ask for more


While all above is true enough
Against your beauty nature would lose
I think instead I'll make this poem
A simple "I love you"

Eudora
Mike Hauser
It is such an honor to be able to write with one of the brilliant poets here, Mike Hauser.
Thank you so much Mike, for inviting me to do this collaboration. It was a lovely experience. YOU made it so easy! :)
 Nov 2015
Sarah Q S
To touch
stroke
kiss
smell you,
intoxicating.
breathe on me.
hot flush rush.
tingle.
sensations rising,
open
slide
hard
pressed on me.
shake fervently.
breathless.
dive in,
flow
release
sweat
rapture
dream.
 Nov 2015
Shefali Garg
TRY
I am a bird, let me fly
The far stretched sky,
To the zenith of my sight
Uncover your heart, let it beat
Gloom, distress, sorrow and pain
Being alone and the restless wait
The detested squall will pass by
You are strong, you are destined
Just try, try and TRY!
 Nov 2015
Julie Butler
counting you down -
you are my
noun
& I'd rather be
honest with you
than to be
loud
let us be
calm
  let me
renounce
I took you home with me
into my house
I am still
in love with you
inside my mouth
& you should still
belong with me
ignoring miles
>|< Julie Butler
 Oct 2015
Anabel
there may be
millions of rain drops
but they all come
from the same storm
and the storm always says
the same thing

i’m not telling what though
you’ll have to sit
and listen
 Oct 2015
Luna Casablanca
They say I have not apologized
for following them around
during their time together.
I would have done anything
to be out and about with
them.

What I cannot remove inside
of me turned me into a little kid.
What I wanted and could not grab,
crying made me a mess.
Laughing was never at the
appropriate time.

Like shards of glass in my
eyes stabbing and puncturing
through my sockets while I watched
groups of people my age eating
and laughing together at round tables.

I'd eat but not at all laugh
in my corner all by myself with
a tray of food and plenty of space.

Though I proved to them that
no corner, no ungrateful child,
and no group that I could never
be a part of could ever stop me
from going out with my
arms wide open.

I would stand tall and shout
out loud words of gratitude
not my need dedicated to
anyone who ever noticed me,
looked in my healed eyes and
simply said Hi.

I am not apologizing,
I am just living life how
I am meant to and please.
The past is in the past,
I have blown away my grudges forever held
and my eyes are not scratched up
not one bit.

Nevertheless, adolescence proves
our adult strength.
But in seventh grade,
who would ever want to be friends
with the Bipolar girl?

I need no answer when I
ask
the friends
I have
today.
Whatever disorder or whatever one may deal with.
It will get better as life goes on.
 Oct 2015
Ellie Shelley
Don’t become infatuated
Don’t fall in love
Especially not with poets
Because they only ever exist in their words
They will write you love poems, and lengthy paragraphs
With words said in ways you have never heard before
You will fall in love, with love poems, the way they say their vowels, and the look in their eyes when they read to you  
They will lull you to sleep with sticky sweet words
And they will speak of the colour yellow, in a new light
A new meaning will come to its definition
And it will slowly become your favorite colour
You will wear yellow dresses, and put daisies in every room  
You will see the speckles of yellow in their brown eyes
But you will find them at three in the morning sitting in the bath tub, bathing in the words of metaphors
You will find them having an affair with Stanzas and Verses at the same time, sleeping with sonnets
You will see that poetry was always their mistress
At night they will no longer share blankets with you, but they will wrap themselves in ballads and couplets
You will only be able to express this new distance with eulogies
You will start seeing yellow everywhere
In the beds of your nails, and them hems of your skirts
Till you start seeing it so often that you will want to puke up every word they have ever said to you
You will realize that talk is cheap and Rhymes are easy
You will realize that poets only ever exist in their words
This is the final version
 Oct 2015
Ellie Shelley
Don’t become infatuated
Don’t fall in love
Especially not with poets
Because they only ever exist in their words
They will write you love poems, and lengthy paragraphs
With words said in ways you have never heard before
You will fall in love, with love poems, the way they say their vowels, and the look in their eyes when they read to you  
They will lull you to sleep with sticky sweet words
And they will speak of the colour yellow, in a new light
A new meaning will come to its definition
And it will slowly become your favorite colour
You will wear yellow dresses, and put daisies in every room  
You will see the speckles of yellow in their brown eyes
But you will find them at three in the morning sitting in the bath tub, bathing in the words of metaphors
You will find them having an affair with Stanzas and Verses at the same time, sleeping with sonnets
You will see that poetry was always their mistress
At night they will no longer share blankets with you, but they will wrap themselves in ballads and couplets
You will only be able to express this new distance with eulogies
You will start seeing yellow everywhere
In the beds of your nails, and them hems of your skirts
Till you start seeing it so often that you will want to puke up every word they have ever said to you
You will realize that talk is cheap and Rhymes are easy
You will realize that poets only ever exist in their words
This is the final version
 Oct 2015
Laura Haze
The sun boils over me
Hot flesh never smells sweet

There's still a God
He stares at me in streets
Burning my feet under asphalt

I don't know his name
But I'm sure he could take the swell of our star
And lick salty sweat

Your heat creates blisters in my skin
I'm feverish now;
The steam only rises higher

The sun never ceases creating craters in my layers
 Sep 2015
Johanna Magdalena
You ask me what a true poet is
Do you know what I think?
There´s more to a poet
Than their tears and their ink

There is hope on that paper
With dreams in each word
You love then you hate her
Some letters are blurred

There is passion, there´s comfort
A moment preserved in time
Piece of a heart, piece of a soul
Between every line
All of the thoughts that can´t be defined

There is confusion and tension
Happy and fearful days
Not just paper and pencil
But a whole life on that page

There´s sadness, there´s strength
You live and you die
A poet feels content
But then the ink starts to dry
Last one today, promise.
My thoughts on poets, January 2014.
Copyright @ Johanna Magdalena
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