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Feb 2015 · 409
I Turned
Lauren Batchelor Feb 2015
I turned today
To say-
Nothing.

He wasn't there,
And this is 'missing'.
Feb 2015 · 4.3k
Emphasis
Lauren Batchelor Feb 2015
The shallow nature of your wit
Leaves me pining for more-
But woe to me!
This well is ever dry.
Jan 2015 · 4.9k
Possession
Lauren Batchelor Jan 2015
Do you consider
                                     Me
A Victory? Ah!
My Dear.
This trophy rests too heavy on the shelf,
Weighty in the mind.
Oct 2014 · 2.8k
Your Garden
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
I sit and watch in shock
As your normally kind hands
Tear weeds from your garden,
Ungloved.

Question;
Whether eyes or hands
Know better which are weeds.
Oct 2014 · 558
The Pushback
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
You are trying to rush me
Out of the bookstore.
Ice cream is not a substitute
For paper friends, fool.
Leave me, eventually I
Will unwind my way out
Back to reality and your
Overpriced milk products.
Oct 2014 · 457
Take Two
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
Good God!
She cried,
God, I need a mountain!
So He gave her a pen,
Some paper,
And scattered words
Commanding
"Write one".
She tried.
God, she tried.
Oct 2014 · 990
Gift
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
I wanted to give it to her,
But mountains are kinda
Hard to wrap and
I don't own one,
Anyway.
Oct 2014 · 3.8k
The Losing
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
Dry comfort this,
That losing reads bitterly against
Both our tongues.
Oct 2014 · 3.5k
Untitled
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
Early morning rain,
Barely wet my car, but-
Oh, the cat.
Oct 2014 · 1.2k
Revolution to Movement
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
You who ask the hard questions
Never seem prepared for any answers.
What purpose your rebellion?
Critic in the abstract,
Cherisher of words. Only words, mere
Angry echo.
Come Revolution!
Show me your toothless rage,
Carried by amputee feet.
The tyrants lie that way,
Dear Children of Cause.
Oct 2014 · 6.8k
Diamonds, Rust, Such As
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
Devotion was  a moment
When I loved you for existing,
For breath and sleep and talk.

It exists, still.
Somewhere deep away from you,
Or it will revive and burn
Just watching you sit.
Oct 2014 · 624
Naming of Poems
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
Untitled, unsettled,
Unstable-
So many orphan children,
Written in little rows.
Still I-
Would rather lack a name
Than miscall one.
Oct 2014 · 372
Nocturne
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
A lovely night.
Perched on porch rails,
Beautiful in half-light is my man.
Come crickets: Spell and spill a symphony
As I watch him,
Living in a glow which is not mine,
No, never; Earth is not so generous
With me.
Oct 2014 · 743
If Unseen
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
If I never show this poem
To you, or anyone,
Is that a period.
Or an eraser.
Oct 2014 · 492
Bound
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
I have come
      and bound the stars into your hands.
My constellation echoes
   Because you are.
I am not just one
          Ruined,
This is devastated
           Dancing around forsaken.
Nothing willing, but consenting.
   And you are, (to me)
Sky and freedom worthwhile and I
Bind the stars to your hands
To mark you my universe.
Oct 2014 · 461
Almost
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
There is no fault here,
Instead let me catch
Your whisper,
Hold it with mine
Under the skin, almost
Like a love.
Oct 2014 · 1.6k
Necessity
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
Sneaking-
  Why?

Sometimes morning
Needs marshmallows.
Oct 2014 · 228
Untitled
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
Ring rang rung-
Speaking, those bells
Fly.
Oct 2014 · 222
Missing
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
Why is it
So
Important to tell you
I won't be home
Again?
Oct 2014 · 328
The End
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
Incidentally,
I never haunted you.
This truth brings
A full circle tightly closed.
There was a ghost here,
But it was never mine.
Oct 2014 · 471
Inferno
Lauren Batchelor Oct 2014
Virgil:
For all your troubles,
Wisdom, guidance-
Dante still left you in hell.

— The End —