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 May 2015 Andy Hunter
Devon Webb
I had all these little
perfections
hung across my life
like fairy lights
but now they're gone
and it will take my
eyes a while
to adjust
to the dark.
 Apr 2015 Andy Hunter
ASB
once upon a time in a faraway kingdom
a princess feared monsters lived under her bed.
the princess grew older, and braver, and wiser,
the queen won the battles with beasts in her head.

but monsters, once slain, never stay gone for long,
and they came back to haunt her at night.
the queen grew exhausted of wars that won't end
and weary of never not having to fight.

the palace remained well-protected by guards
and its walls were built higher and higher.
but guards couldn't keep out the fear of the dark
and walls not the dragon's great fire.

the queen stepped outside of her palace once more
and tore the great monster to shreds.
but killing a dragon was never the problem,
the problem was keeping him dead.
inspired by Ernest Bramah's novel, Kai Lung's Golden Hours.
 Apr 2015 Andy Hunter
Cristina
I broke that thought
in hundred pieces
and wait for the sun to shine above
to see beauty radiating,
it was a love thought after all.
You're a caffeine high that never ends.
An anxiety attack on its rise.
You're water on my winter sidewalk.
This all sounds bad,
It's not.
It's just you have a way of making my heart race
My hands shake and head spin
And I keep slipping deeper in love.
All the time and everywhere I look…
The search of my eyes end, when I see what you left and what you took.
I look for the signs you leave,
Back in the room where you lived.

I see the signs like your jacket lying on the couch,
I look at the ring of water percolated from your glass,
I smell a mingle of both your perfume and your scotch,
Resting my eyes on the undone bed, at last.

Bedazzled with the idea of you without you,
I visit the places which I visited with you.
I go to the temple where you took me once,
Making my peace with the fact, that you weren’t here since months.

In the same city, on the same path,
I have your signs enveloped around my heart.
Since I know it won’t be long when you return,
I stare at that coffee shop, wondering when will it be again when we start.

I am habitual to look for your signs,
On the roads which we used to take,
Your roads and mine.
When somebody talks like you,
The habitual me thinks, that your signs they make.

Make that journey of waiting shorter for me,
Let’s look for those signs together, as ‘we’.
Let’s create some more signs for me to reminisce,
And thy signs shall I always seek.
 Apr 2015 Andy Hunter
Ocean Blue
Dreaming of you throughout the day,
Meeting your smile in every rainbow,
Looking at pics of you last May,
Catching your voice in each echo,
Watching the news of where you live,
Searching for you after you leave,
Behind each word, each poem,
Was it you ? And the message you chose,
Where I read Je t'aime
Maybe you mean someone close?
Counting in years,
Before our paths meet again,
Because you know
Against time I never complain.
And of course, my heart,
Oh for you never stops to beat and hurt.
So, Darling, please
You tell me... if this is not Love,
What it is.*

<3
Definitely somewhere between longing and slavery...
You move me like a landslide,
You move me like the winds fingers through the trees you adore.
You move me like the rush of cold water when you jump into the pool
You move me like my childhood revisited,
You move me like a small animal in a California forest fire.
You move me like the rush of singing
You move me like my left leg when I skate.
You move me like a surprise spray of water from a hose.
You move me like my father
You move me like the sea breeze
You move me like the smile of unfamiliar children's smiles.
You move me like the smell of cookies in the oven.
You move me like a funeral service
You move me like the loss of a great man, woman, child, leader, pet.
You move me like a hug from you when I'm down
You move me like a body falling from a plane with no parachute
You move me.
It's you that keeps these feet moving
You move me
You move me
You.
This is for a long standing crush who wrote something for me and I'm not sure she sees how deeply in love with her I, honestly, am. I love you, much.
These days have become longer,
Subsequently the nights shorter.
It's not that the sun peaking through the cracks of the black out curtains reach my bedside or that my roommates make too much noise
but I've been waking up earlier.
I've been falling asleep
at a decent time,
Anywhere from 10:30 to one AM  
Depends on work,
who wants to talk,
on the orb resting on these shoulders.
My dreams aren't of past loves,
Like they used to be
But of things I'd like to do,
Drink beer with my friends,
Surf in the clear waters of Australia,
Run away from my responsibilities.
Waking up anywhere
from seven Am to 9:30,
has taught me,
there's a lot of time I forgot existed.
I won't let it fade.
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