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 Nov 2014 M Eastman
Ashlie Forth
Begging for the pleasure, love transferred through love bites and kisses
Wet, hot, and steamy
Look for these when you want a good time
You'll confuse love with lust
Step back and admire the physique of the skin of the look in their eyes
The demon whispering lust in the back of your head will buzz and buzz until you give in
 Nov 2014 M Eastman
curlygirl
Find a Poet Not a poser, not a "it's just a hobby" poet. Find one who mumbles lines as they scramble for a pen at breakfast; who shakes their head randomly when their thoughts aren't rhyming properly;  who has notebooks stashed around the house that you must never touch.
2. Listen Savor the spoken words, for those are harder to express. Keep in mind that they can't be edited and re-written, and be forgiving when a mistake is made.
3. Read The body speaks as loudly as words on a page do. When their eyes are closed or focused on the ceiling and the fingers are tapping out syllables, recognize the unique process. Respect the need for quiet, because if you look closely, you can read the poem on their face before they write it on the page.
4. Write Write your story together. Grab hold of the pen and hang on as you move across the page of life. Sometimes you will dance across, others you will be dragged. You may have to cross out a word, or a line, or a page, but don't give up. Discouragement is a poet's biggest enemy, inarticulateness their biggest fear. So end each day with a semi-colon, because the story will never end the way you think it will, and there must be room for more. There is always room for more, more words, more laughter, more tears, more love,
When you love a poet.
 Nov 2014 M Eastman
kRose
Love poem
 Nov 2014 M Eastman
kRose
I want to write
love poems
down your spine
and
read the goosebumps they
create like braille.
 Nov 2014 M Eastman
Shalene
Thievery
 Nov 2014 M Eastman
Shalene
He told her she was pretty
Made her feel wanted and loved
Then walked away with the innocence
Of that sweet little dove
 Nov 2014 M Eastman
Edward Coles
Bury me inside your appetite
for rough *** and bad poetry.
I want to lose my Self
to memories of your ******* father
and catholic guilt;
your fears for the Holderness coast,
and how large bodies of water
enter all your dreams.
Ever since I learned your name,
I wanted to drown within it.
C
You're the princess in the tower.
You're the minutes in my hour.

You're the question and I'm the answer.
You're the music and I'm the dancer.

You're the lie and I'm the truth
You're the evidence and I'm the proof

You're the tear beneath my eye.
You're the reason that I cry.
Another mundane poem, but I like telling a story through poetry. Even if I have never experienced said poem :)
 Nov 2014 M Eastman
Aeschylus
Hear ye my statute, men of Attica--
Ye who of bloodshed judge this primal cause;
Yea, and in future age shall Aegeus's host
Revere this court of jurors. This the hill
Of Ares, seat of Amazons, their tent,
What time 'gainst Theseus, breathing hate, they came,
Waging fierce battle, and their towers upreared,
A counter-fortress to Acropolis;--
To Ares they did sacrifice, and hence
This rock is titled Areopagus.
Here then shall sacred Awe, to Fear allied,
By day and night my lieges hold from wrong,
Save if themselves do innovate my laws,
If thou with mud, or influx base, bedim
The sparkling water, nought thou'lt find to drink.
Nor Anarchy, nor Tyrant's lawless rule
Commend I to my people's reverence;--
Nor let them banish from their city Fear;
For who '**** men, uncurbed by fear, is just?
Thus holding Awe in seemly reverence,
A bulwark for your State shall ye possess,
A safeguard to protect your city walls,
Such as no mortals otherwhere can boast,
Neither in Scythia, nor in Pelops's realm.
Behold! This Court august, untouched by bribes,
Sharp to avenge, wakeful for those who sleep,
Establish I, a bulwark to this land.
This charge, extending to all future time,
I give my lieges. Meet it as ye rise,
Assume the pebbles, and decide the cause,
Your oath revering. All hath now been said.
 Nov 2014 M Eastman
Amanda
Time is a very, very scary concept.
We can only live for how long it wishes to breathe in our veins.
xo
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