Marie: Favorites

Dec 2011 Marie

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Dec 2011 Marie

Amanda Small

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Close your eyes and take a ride with me,
Lie flat on the back of a charging horse.

Get naked and weave yourself into the tall grass.

Take a walk around the block with only your daydreams for company.

Interlocking fingers with Mother Earth, let your mouth hang open.
Breathe in the night sky,

Fall in love with the winds of spring.

Touch knees with an old friend,
Palms with a stranger.

Blow on embers,
Gasp in flames.
Set fire to your thoughts and revel in the ashes;
Keep your mind in a constant conversion.

Move to the rhythm of earthquakes.
Let your Earth shake and take it all in stride.

With your arms limp
sway in the moon light
accept the things you don't know
and forget the things you wish you didn't

Be born of the earth again
Covered in dirt and pine needles
Find your long lost love of simplicity.

Dec 2011 Marie

cured

Dec 2011 Marie

Julian Dorothea

cured

I've been curing my loneliness
with solitude

talking to myself
instead of somebody else.

I've been spending days
staring at the ceiling
dreaming myself to outer space
or New York

instead of leaving my room.

I've been writing letters
whose length would make Anna Karenina blush
all tucked into the curves of my cerebral cortex

instead of sending

"hey, hw r u?"
text messages

I've been curing my loneliness
with solitude

if you call crying alone
with my own hand patting my back

curing

this is a draft bu well i'd like some feedback

Dec 2011 Marie

Friends With Benefits

Dec 2011 Marie

T R H

Friends With Benefits

You're cute
and you know it
tempting
and alluring
under my skin
but I won't give in.
You're no good
no, not for the real me
I'm really not sure
who I was trying to be
just to ease this pain.
But ***
with you-
basically a stranger,
no, that won't do.
You say "friends with benefits".
More like- "benefits"
because we're not friends.
You talk so *****
that I have to scrub myself clean
because that's just not who I am
nor will it ever be.
So, I'm changing my mind.
You'd get what you want
and I'd still be alone
tell me,
what's the benefit in that?

Forgive me for wanting to be loved,
and not just ******.

Dec 2011 Marie

Politically Correct

Dec 2011 Marie

Shane Carmichael

Politically Correct

You didn’t ground me, I’m just hitting a “social speed bump”
The room we share together isn’t messy, it just has “restrictive passage”
You weren’t late coming into my life, you just had a “rescheduled arrival time”
When I lean down to kiss you it isn’t because I’m tall, I’m simply “vertically enhanced”
You aren’t shy, you’re just “conversationally selective”
As much as I say you nag me, you don’t. You’re just “verbally repetitive”
Yeah I need directions because I don’t get lost, I just “investigate alternate directions”
Yeah I’m falling for you, I think to be politically correct it’s “I love you"

Dec 2011 Marie

i stand here, tossing pennies

Dec 2011 Marie

Bruised Orange

i stand here, tossing pennies

the poisoned well of my inspiration
no longer quenches
the thirst of my longing.

those crystal clear waters that once sustained me and were a balm
to my parched lips are now tainted
with the quick silvered spill of regret.

i stand here, peering into these waters.
i wonder, can this well be saved?
or should i take the advice of the experts, and cap it now, before it takes another life?

i beat my head
against the cold stones of my resistance.

giving up is so hard;
it runs counter to my nature.

i stand here, watching
as an acid rain falls down.

i stand here, my eyes locked on the scattered image of myself in the water below.

i stand here, my feet frozen in their place.

i stand here, tossing pennies
at a face with eyes accusing,

eyes with answers i don't want to know.

Dec 2011 Marie

Still Life

Dec 2011 Marie

Jesse Adams

Still Life

Open your eyes
Not the ones on your face
Which look to the skies,
Open your eyes

The eyes of your heart
The one in your chest
The ones blind from the start
The eyes of your heart

See what has been
Right before you
What you ended before it could begin
See what could have been

Does it **** you
To know what we had
Which you threw away too soon
Tell me, does it **** you?

Does it **** you?
Because it kills me, too.

Dec 2011 Marie

To every guy that I've fucked

Dec 2011 Marie

J

To every guy that I've ******

Thank you

I liked it
(75% of the time)
Caught up in the drug-like feelings of lust
You reminded me
That I am desirable

So **** me

And let me know that

I

AM

NOT

FAT

... even though the feeling never lasts

And be there
Every time I need my fix
Because
I need my fix

But don't love me
I can't
love you back

Years of
'You'll never be good enough'
And
'You are so ugly'
Along with unwelcome touches
From men twice my age
Has left me broken
Far beyond repair

Confused
Because he said he loved me
But proceeded to beat me until

I

couldn't

move

So don't love me
I don't know how
to love you back

And please don't hate me
For sneaking out while you're asleep
Because I wouldn't be able to handle
You sneaking out before I wake up

I'm sorry

But
If there's a slight chance
That you might actually care
about
ME

Just...
stay

I can't give you much
But
I promise

I will
*******

Every

Single

Chance

I

Get