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 Dec 2013 E
Tyler Nicholas
we wake up in sun-drenched rooms.
we sleep to faint, nocturnal tunes.
and we roll in glorious as the clouds
with a lullaby of sound -

the sound of the rain.

we wait in hope of brighter days,
as we watch the tree limbs sway,
and we're onto whatever hope we can find
that sleep under these blue-washed skies.

we fall soft like autumn leaves.
we're swept on by a tranquil breeze,
we land upon the puddles and streams,
and drift away to bigger seas

to the sound of the rain.
 Nov 2013 E
steel tulips
Te Queria
 Nov 2013 E
steel tulips
Te queria como una ventana abierta.
Con sus cortinas volando en el viento como un velo volando por el mar.
Te queria como una ventana sin barras, sin modo de protejerse.
Yo dejaba tu viento traer lo que queisiera, lo fantastico y lo malo envelto en arena y hojas de colores. Yo lo queria todo, porque eras tu.

Te quieria como un rio sin represa.
Moviendo y bailando por la tierra sin dudas y sin hinibiciones
Yo dejaba que tus hondas me llevaran a donde quisieran.

Yo te amaba sin piel.
Te deje ver y sentir cada musculo y nervio, cada memoria
y cada sueno.
Pero la piel que yo deje, tu la recojiste y te escondiste en ella,
no me dejaste conocerte sin las capas que parecian   paredes de un fuerte.

Yo te amaba con mis ojos cerrados,
Solo veia estrellas y constelaciones.
Tu con tus ojos abiertos,
Solo viste consequencias y razones.
inspired by the Great Pablo Neruda
(i swear everyday is harder than the last)
 Nov 2013 E
Holden León
Hojas de los árboles
Caen sangrados –
Con mi sangre, amor.
Pedazos de mi corazón
Caen y mueren;
Hasta que están marcado
Con las huellas
Del mundo
 Nov 2013 E
Jessie
The Forest
 Nov 2013 E
Jessie
Burning all of the pages
I've written about you
would be equivalent
to setting a forest on fire.
Except I couldn't do that.
What a waste of paper,
what a waste of trees,
that I planted and grew,
watered them with my tears,
watched them flourish
with the many colors of you
glistening on all of the leaves.
The only thing you've written about me
was my name on the back
of a scratch piece of paper
crumpled up and forgotten
and you didn't even finish the sentence.
Just a little tree sapling.
Well, you can burn that
with a flame torch
for all I care.
 Oct 2013 E
Tyler Nicholas
I smoke every cigarette in the pack
long enough that the filters melted
and my lips blacken
like the nightsky,
when you stepped down
the granite staircase
in a burgundy bouclé dress
that radiated brighter than
the chandelier overhead.

All we ever had was enough.
Now I smoke to remember
the nights when the fog
followed us home
and the music of us
slow dancing in silence.

I pack my bags
and I leave my keys at your door.
You hold me close and you whisper:

*"What the hell are you waiting for?"
 Oct 2013 E
Langston Hughes
I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sleep without dreams
Were it not for your songs.
 Oct 2013 E
Tyler Nicholas
Mania #1
 Oct 2013 E
Tyler Nicholas
It's like your first time
smoking **** as the smoke
floats across the black light
like a whispered prayer
to God
or a damnation
to Satan.

That startling paranoia,
with that tinge of euphoria.

It's what keeps your hands trembling.
 Oct 2013 E
J R
She
 Oct 2013 E
J R
She
She lights the way
On darkest morning
Gives to all
With no strings showing
The only reason
I keep going
Perhaps one day
I'll say hello
 Oct 2013 E
Abeille
Stop.
Shooting.
Cupid's arrows
From the corners
Of
Your
Eyes
 Oct 2013 E
Abeille
haiku
 Oct 2013 E
Abeille
my hands find solace
tapping out the syllables
everything is verse
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