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Adrianna Nov 2020
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Poetry is a universe
Inside of a solar system
Inside of me
Bursting at the seams
Begging to break out
And return to the sky
To hang itself in lights
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Adrianna Oct 2020
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The love of my life
You said you have tunnel vision
Until you see me, and then there is light
The love of my life
Between the sheets and our eyes there is friction
In the corner a candle burns bright
The love of my life
An angel, you made it your mission
That I’d never fear the night
The love of my life
With faith and conviction
You fashioned me a bouquet of stars from the sky
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Adrianna Oct 2020
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I am a slave to the rhythm of my cosmic heartbeat
It is all I can do to sit here and philosophize
A puppet made of constellations, on a string,
Hanging in the ether,
Taking in light through the eyes
Being everything, that string swinging like a vine
Through space and time, revolving until the eyes grow wide
Free but always connected, back down the line
Tugged by the percussion
That beats far without and deep inside
Adrianna Nov 2020
In the middle of the night
As the world shifts towards morning
Streetlight skates across my windshield
Like smoke, glowing bluegreen and purple
A spirit chasing its own breath
Adrianna Aug 2020
That was us
There was no explanation
Just gravity
Adrianna Aug 2020
Forgotten
Like the flowers in the waterless vase
In that room of the house you never use
Beautiful, but screaming
Through glass panes
The sun can’t seem to breach
As you sit in the den
Surrounded by smoke
Asleep with your eyes open
Adrianna Aug 2020
Today I closed my eyes,
and saw the white brim of the sea
meet the sky.
As the sky fell onto the sea,
the sea fell onto me,
two stars above gleamed brighter
than all stars before.
I opened my mouth
but turned my head.
Adrianna Oct 2020
I prop up the kitchen window
Run cold water in the sink
The scent of coffee swirls
I don’t drink coffee, but you do
You cross the floor
Brush the hair off my shoulder
Your lips rush to beat the sun
To the freshly bared skin
And keep it warm
I take your head into my hands
I drink you in
French vanilla
Adrianna Sep 2020
processing tragedy
integrating pain
submerging light
dull to a hum
Adrianna Aug 2020
Flowers bloom today
The rain will fall tomorrow
Cold warmth in my soul
Adrianna Aug 2020
Every single one
Would throw fire if they could
And try to forget
Adrianna Sep 2020
The curves of your face
Are ancient mountains and valleys
Carved eons ago
By the gods of forever
A mecca designed for this odyssey
My predestined pilgrimage
On this range that is divination landscaped

Looking at you is coming home
Climbing your peaks to receive answers
To questions there are no words with which to ask
Like a cosmology revealed
Right before my eyes
Adrianna Aug 2020
Bare trees under the sun
Clean snow on freshly bloomed flowers
Rain on a cloudless day
Dark skies over the gates of heaven
Adrianna Aug 2020
I am a vessel
Sailing the open seas
Weathered by storm
Swallowed up and torn apart
in the belly of the beast
Spit back out into the night
Where from above rains stardust
I collect it in my hands
Mix it with gold
and seal my cracks shut
I am kintsugi
In the light my gold cracks shine
Under moonlight they glimmer
Immovable but always moving
Ancient, intrinsic and divine
Adrianna Aug 2020
Gently
Footsteps through the garden
Softly
Wind rustling the leaves
Lightly
Sun shining down on stone
Calmly
Cold water running
Sweetly
Your eyes smiling at me
Adrianna Oct 2020
Come to me
Come with me
I won’t ever let you go
Season through season
As the leaves die
And as the flowers grow
Walking alongside you
I’d believe anything
If you said it were so
Adrianna Aug 2020
It is always the longest time. The minutes crawl forward on raw hands and bloodied knees, digging grimed nails into tough Earth. They drag me along with them, face down, heavy chest pressed to half hard mud, cold but warm. My own breath swirls in the air around me, but to my lungs it will not come, a ghost lost. I look at the clock, a soldier ticking on, exhausted and unsure of the point. The world shrugs.
Adrianna Oct 2020
Every shape is your shape
Shifting with the wind
Tricking the light
I look over my shoulder
I watch through the curtains
I rub my eyes
But your hair is just green brush
Your eyes a pair of parked headlights
Your footsteps rain trotting the ground
Hey, what’s it like
To exist as half god, half ghost?
Adrianna Oct 2020
Under the bathroom sink
A spider spins web
Inside an open box of cleaning gloves
A small world
He is like me
Forging a home
In a place where he does not belong
Adrianna Oct 2020
Every birdsong sings your smile
Your name smells like fresh basil
Your eyes taste like gold
Adrianna Aug 2020
Slipping through cracks
I’ve slipped through before
Falling past familiar scratch marks
On the walls
Desperate gray on unforgiving black
Looking up at pathways out
I’ve already dug
Adrianna Nov 2020
It is just me
and my god
and the blue in the sky

Your eyes are black
they drink in
and spit out
Adrianna Jan 2021
Crushing headlights in between my teeth
Trying to smile a sky of stars
Drinking LED venom from the corner of a ceiling
Thinking I’m glowing like the moon
I’d take a bat to a humming streetlamp
Just to remember that things move

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