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4.8k · Sep 2013
You're Her Horizon
echo Sep 2013
~
Her eye's on
you

& she can see
no further
~
10w
3.6k · Sep 2013
More or Less (10w)
echo Sep 2013
.
More than
friends
and
Less than
sure

Of the future

.
08.09.2013
2.4k · Sep 2013
Such a Good Night
echo Sep 2013
Singing every melody under the stars
We danced in moonlit valleys ~
Quiet symphonies hidden in swaying shadows
Oh! How the wind makes joyful harmony!
co-written with my best friend :) :)
2.1k · Nov 2013
reflection
echo Nov 2013
even
the
fairest
of the fair
still
asks

*her mirror
10w
2.1k · Mar 2016
that moment when
echo Mar 2016
you forget
you are a poet
and accidentally
make sense
10w truths
2.0k · Aug 2013
For My One & Only <3
echo Aug 2013
I
Can't
Wait
To
Know
You
!
...

*But I Will
~Love Can Be Our Mystery ~

whoever you are
wherever you be
i'm waiting for you
Darling
wait for me

**

(For My Future Husband)

18.08.2013
1.8k · Mar 2015
marshmallow
echo Mar 2015
should be asleep
but i'll make these words
my pillow
I'll rest my case
And sort the baggage in the morning
1.8k · Jun 2013
anymore
echo Jun 2013
maybe it was only me
being stubborn
when i refused
the second chance
you were trying
to give me

but i didn't believe
You
so i need more
grace

*please
God I'm so glad that's Your
          specialty
and that you are
Truth
even through the
lies
that i momentarily
live
1.7k · Apr 2014
Roots (haiku)
echo Apr 2014
The rain meets the roots
Watering my heart again
*A lot’s at stake here
1.7k · Nov 2013
Smoke
echo Nov 2013
.
Another
thing
I cannot grasp

.
5w
1.5k · Jun 2013
Stained Glass (14w)
echo Jun 2013
..
Tandem of light
Penchant to the rainbow
Bent through the prism
Of your eyes
..
I see you through the stained glass
of my emotion
Beautifully deceptive
Blindness
to any of your flaws
Lovely shadows
Tinted
Tainted
all that I see...
Is the man I want you to be
1.5k · Jul 2013
Dreamer
echo Jul 2013
History 
is written
by the victors

Songs
serenaded
by the lovers

Poetry
is spun
by the dreamers

and that is where you'll find me
1.5k · May 2013
Earth Metals
echo May 2013
soft fluidity
of supple mercury
Elegant Secrets
scurry past
the shadows
into warmth and light:
*Silver and gold
- Lizards in the winter sun -
1.5k · Mar 2014
Sinking?
echo Mar 2014
the iceberg
of our Friendship
is loving you
too much
actually, no -
just showing it.

10w
1.5k · Aug 2013
A Ponder and A Stroll
echo Aug 2013
what is the sun?
who is he but
a raging pool
of fire - swirling
endless triangles
of light

what is a flower?
who is she but
an undersized tree
a lost ballerina
twirling petals
like exotic candles
dancing with the light

who am i?
who am i but a breath
encapsulated by sensory
vessels, capillaries pulsing
vitality - red clay
or sculpted beauty

who are you?
who are you but
a faded echo in
a shrouded sea
of voices i will never
meet - and yet i would
send you to read...

my words.

but what are words?

and who are we?
This poem co-written thoughtfully with my gracious, strong, handsome brothers who continue to astound the world's literature with their greatness and professional humility.
(and yes they told me to write that too :)
1.4k · Jun 2014
still life
echo Jun 2014
teach me the art of listening
and i will paint your silence
on my heart
1.3k · Mar 2014
brother
echo Mar 2014
I called you brother
cos I loved you
more than I
loved
*us


~ not that you had never held my heart.
1.3k · Jul 2013
Overthinking
echo Jul 2013
//Claustrophobic.thoughts.
compound.this.crucible.
to.the.edge.of­.combustion.
...she...will...explode.//
1.2k · Aug 2013
Losing Concentration
echo Aug 2013
My mind
again
drawn back
into the vortex
vacuumed hollow echoes
of these train tunnels
this blur
this smudge
against my thoughts
stains like fatigue:

Again dilutes
my mind

just like the wind
she stirs
dunes
by restless waters
wanting
sleep
.
.
.
for those of us that know
this exhaustion that i feel...
-.-
1.2k · Jan 2014
Just Quietly
echo Jan 2014
I needed
the strength
of your
silence.

So, thank you.
For Matt
1.1k · Jan 2014
hurts
echo Jan 2014
the flowers wilted when
you closed your eyes

the clouds they wept
when you confessed

your compromise

knowing you would not forget
knowing you would not regret

*the hurts you let inside
1.1k · Feb 2021
ourselves
echo Feb 2021
my friend,
when I'm with you
I remember who I am.

what is friendship
if not finding ourselves
together,

day after unsimple day,
untangling it all.
1.0k · Jul 2014
A Stranger Danger
echo Jul 2014
what's
more
dangerous...*

talking
to
strangers

or always
to
myself

?
can we really trust either?
1.0k · Nov 2014
Reality Cheque
echo Nov 2014
It
pays
to
know
yourself

:$)
I'm saving for something big
1.0k · Aug 2013
zzzz zzz zz z ...
echo Aug 2013
night night

         sleep tight

everything's going to be alright

dream until the morning's light
              
       adieu

                my friend

         good night
... z zz zzz zzzz
993 · Oct 2016
enfold me
echo Oct 2016
It's one-oh-nine AM
the somber cold
is echoing
the conch of sleep
enfolding me
to whisper
waves of morrow
to my dreams
991 · Oct 2016
Sillybles
echo Oct 2016
You'll add a poem-sonnet-haiku
But my darling it's just-like-you
To ignore all the rules
To dance in the jewels
And take syllables by surprise.
980 · Jun 2014
wishing well
echo Jun 2014
...
a penny
for your thoughts,
my friend?

only
wishing well

...
ten word tuesday
970 · Feb 2014
Life Experience
echo Feb 2014
I would say Life's a journey
but that would imply
there's a set destination
& each step is a means to an end.

I would rather say Life's an experience
that 'means' are ends in themselves
& each day should be lived
for its own sake.
962 · Oct 2013
Epiphany
echo Oct 2013
..
     Friday's not a day.

                           Its a feeling.
                                                      .­.
yup.
:P
960 · Jan 2014
the difference
echo Jan 2014
..
the difference between
worthless and priceless
is knowing
you are
free

..
freedom comes
from Holy love
All seekers find
& every heart
is satisfied
958 · Feb 2014
Old Leaf
echo Feb 2014
You're an old leaf
  from a bygone season

     f
     a
        l
            l
           e
              n

from your place
       within my life

I tried to sew you back on
     your brown and old
  fragile, gold
   your moth-like
 and shadow-webbed
                        frailty

but the
winds and weathers
  that loosed the tethers
and let you distant
                    from me

remind me there's no place
among my branches
953 · Jul 2013
Incomplete?
echo Jul 2013
.
absence
makes
the
heart
grow
.
i only hope
you can still find
truth
in the
unfinished phrase
of
you & I
942 · Jul 2013
Both Ways
echo Jul 2013
Hardening your heart won't stop it breaking

They're hardly conversations we've been making

Blunt words still bruise

Soft words confuse -

Both ways you'll still be aching
926 · May 2014
Grace
echo May 2014
Need we dig
for water
that's falling
from the sky?
10w
923 · Aug 2013
sunshower
echo Aug 2013
yes -
i've had a sunshower
of inspiration
after the warm
and dry
the sweet sound
of my release
is singing beautifully
20.08.2013
916 · Jul 2015
Surmising
echo Jul 2015
So I guess
I found you by accident
and forgot you
on purpose
and that's about it then. Toodles.
893 · May 2013
Claustrophobic Ice
echo May 2013
These hands around my throat
are made of air
gripping, sweating ice, grasping
claustrophobic
fears

My mouth
a gaping chasm
a humid void
a lip-framed hollow
Drying, dying, tongues are lying
We cannot trust
ourselves

I feel a sudden urge to hide
I will curl up underneath this desk,
escape the harsh fluorescent lamp
to respite my eyes
to weep and cry
to bring back moisture to this life

And meaning to my words
890 · Feb 2014
Yep
echo Feb 2014
Yep
If life was a dream,
...
..
.
I'd be asleep.
thank you to my dearest brother
for this heartfelt contribution ;)
885 · Nov 2016
Narrow
echo Nov 2016
Your face, narrow
Like dawn
Young and fresh

Your faith, narrow
Like yawns
Nothing left

Your space, narrow
Like me
No room to let.
Not much room for two, I guess
883 · Aug 2015
simplify
echo Aug 2015
don't take life too seriously
don't take life too
don't take life
don't take
give.
880 · Sep 2013
Hindsight, Blindsight
echo Sep 2013
My only
regret
is
I don't regret
what I did
don't worry - i don't make sense to myself either
-.-
873 · Sep 2014
glass half-fool
echo Sep 2014
the encouragement you need I cannot give you
let's take blurred lines as warning signs
that our boundaries are breaking
this wine glass is precarious
See - I'm on the edge.
Before I spill
my mind
go &
g
a
t
h
e
r
the glass
- just don't get wet -
cryptic and whatever. sorta means something. interpret it how you will.
"you can't be a little bit wet. either you are or you aren't."
- that's what my mum always said.
869 · Sep 2013
Hierarchy (10w)
echo Sep 2013
Scissors beats paper

Light beats darkness

Love beats hate

*~ Remember?
869 · Oct 2013
All Set
echo Oct 2013
she's waiting
for the sun to drown
and her blood to pour
into the ocean

*watercolours of fire
862 · Jul 2015
Dream
echo Jul 2015
Here
in the secret
stillness
My feet in the water
Waiting to bloom
...
thought I was a songstress
weaving ribbons
into the air
but
maybe Esteem,
her whisperings
lied to me
848 · Apr 2014
Veneer
echo Apr 2014
Veneer is peeling off these walls
Glossy facades unveil with time
Old surfaces exposed to light
Here we surprise ourselves
                      *with what we find
839 · Jul 2013
sweet dreams
echo Jul 2013
...
  in the quiet of the
              evening
when my fingers feel
     the frost
my bed invites
      these tired eyes
   to tea
           with
   scones and dream

                             ...
836 · Sep 2013
Truth:
echo Sep 2013
harder to say

harder to hear

harder to live.
828 · Aug 2013
Udderly Meaningless
echo Aug 2013
i looked out the window
and saw

a cow.
true story.
and then i realised just how postmodern my world has become.
just saying.
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