L: Poems

10w

L Apr 2014

10w

I submerged myself in nature and felt
love
around me.

Mother Nature's Son // The Beatles

just something that popped into my head while doing homework outside...
**
Leigh

10w

L Dec 2015

10w

The timing was all wrong...
so I made it right.

Nine months later and I know it was the right decision

**
Leigh

10w

L Aug 2015

10w

Life is an exile, a journey to a nonexsistent home

EC

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2014

10w

You say that I can't help you...

*I'll die trying.

I've learned to love 10w poems. it's like there is a small box around my thoughts and I have to stray from touching the edges.

For R, with every ounce of love.
**
Leigh

10w

L Aug 2014

10w

The stars are a mirror,
reflecting the
beauty of
*you.

For my love,
who doesn't know how gorgeous she truly is...
Good thing I'm always there to remind her.

**
Leigh

10w

L Sep 2015

10w

And when these words are no longer enough, hold on.

Looking up

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

Do not turn my bleeding heart into one oozing poison.

I'm not trying to ruin anything, ******.

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

My fingertips taste like the skin across your shaking shoulders

;)

**
Leigh

10w

L Aug 2015

10w

This house is built
on suicidal thoughts
and words unsaid

**
Leigh

10w

L Nov 2014

10w

Forgive me for questioning
your muddled definition of
*honesty.

Just a thought.

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

Please don't take
this feeling
I have found at last

This Feeling // Alabama Shakes

10w

L Jul 2014

10w

Summer tastes like
sweet chocolate
on your
even sweeter lips.

Forgot how much I loved kissing you, my love.
For R <3

**
Leigh

10w

L Nov 2015

10w

Don't seek solace in me, my arms protect myself only

You may be, but I am not.

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2014

10w

My poetry is the product of a fool
in love.

**
Leigh

10w

L Oct 2014

10w

Don't you see
the name
tattooed
over this
healing heart?

Just a thought...

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

We move against each other,
dancing to inner complementary melodies

**
Leigh

10w

L Aug 2015

10w

Here, we build walls.
There, we can tear them down.

Dreaming of you and Ruston

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

We hide,
cowering in the
deepest shadows
of former ourselves.

**
Leigh

10w

L Jul 2015

10w

I've forgotten what your voice tastes like in the night

Sorry I haven't been writing much this summer
Once school starts, I'll be posting almost daily
Thanks for sticking around

**
Leigh

10w

L Sep 2015

10w

My smile reaches your ears and your words smile back

There's always you

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

What did I do
to deserve a love
this pure?

I don't deserve him at all

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

You've made a home in the space between my ribs

**
Leigh

10w

L Dec 2015

10w

Your bleeding heart can only bear so many puncture wounds

I thought you were smarter than to fall into her manipulation
Guess I was wrong

**
Leigh

10w

L Sep 2015

10w

Yours are the eyes I see when I close mine

Eh

**
Leigh

10w

L Dec 2015

10w

Broke my heart in July
Broke my body in August

But you won't break my mind.

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2014

10w

Sleeping next to you
was an
unattainable dream
come true...

Feeling loving and loved.
R, I love love love you.
And if I forgot to tell you again,
you amaze me.

**
Leigh

10w

L Sep 2014

10w

Oh,
what relief does
a blade
bring that
love
cannot?

For Ash and others.

**
Leigh

10w

L Mar 2014

10w

You look like a poem that I would read forever.

10w

L Jul 2015

10w

The daylight sings your praises
and with it,
I harmonize.

For B

**
Leigh

10w

L Dec 2015

10w

We're blind
to what
we do not
want to
believe

There were so many things I didn't want to believe about you
Now I know them all too well

**
Leigh

10w

L Jan 2016

10w

You constantly push buttons
But when will the bomb detonate?

Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

There's power behind your touch
Strength hiding in your kiss

**
Leigh

10w

L Mar 2014

10w

I believe that all the strength you possess is enough.

sorry for all the 10w poems lately.
short and not-so-sweet

** Leigh

10w

L Aug 2015

10w

This love overwhelms me; I am afraid to fall again.

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2014

10w

Your love
is a gift
I am not worthy of.

Another for R.
I miss my love.

**
Leigh

10w

L Mar 2014

10w

I am slowly (but surely)
   stumbling
      crashing
         falling
            for you...

10w

L May 2014

10w

Who do I cry for anymore?
Myself or lack thereof?

**
Leigh

10w

L Jul 2015

10w

Without your hand in mine,
I feel loneliness seep in.

**

Leigh

10w

L Aug 2015

10w

I'm glad I did not die before I met you

10w

L Feb 2014

10w

All the love poems in the world wouldn't be enough.

10w

L May 2015

10w

And you, so blinded by your lust, forget to love.

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

Baby,
be the one that I lose my mind for.

**
Leigh

10w

L Nov 2015

10w

It's beaten
It's over
It's done
I have finally *won

Now I can
and I don't expect you to understand

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

Are you absolutely sure you could love someone like me?

I can't say the words, not yet
I'm sorry

**
Leigh

10w

L Sep 2015

10w

Slice me open and let the blood run its course

indifferent

**
Leigh

10w

L May 2015

10w

I am a man of many tricks,
woman of deception.

I honestly don't know

**
Leigh

10w

L Oct 2015

10w

I am slowly (but surely)
   stumbling
      crashing
         falling
            for you...

A repost, but now for someone worthy

**
Leigh

10w

L Oct 2014

10w

I find
solace
in your lips,
peace
in your heart.

Going to attempt a 10 word poem each week :)

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

How lucky am I to know love so many times?

I'm taking a moment to appreciate the fact that I've been loved by more than one person and at such a young age.
Hopefully, there will be more to come.

**
Leigh

10w

L Apr 2015

10w

I'm not fragile,
so don't be afraid
to
break
me.

I still feel your hands on my hips and your lips on my ribs

**
Leigh