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Natalie Suss May 2014
i couldn't quite
remember the last time it felt so right to be
tight in embrace until you
pulled away;
now all i do is try to forget
merrrrrrrr
Natalie Suss May 2014
Amidst the deafening silence looms a voice,
Heard not once, until - boom - a voice.

From where does it escape? I remain unsure
for it is not clear. I cannot assume the voice.

I begin to search, search for something more
yet I am still here, and only me it consumes (the voice).

Why am I the prey of this carnivorous beast?
My skin cannot camouflage! It is a lampoon, the voice.

I search and rummage and hear ticking tocks
and pay a visit to my wishes, they vacuum the voice.

I remember watching a steady steam rise,
And her dark hair would frizz and bloom... her voice.

At the end of an isle stand a man and a woman,
Their fingers intertwined, glued by the groom's voice ---

I feel a tingle on my face form Reality's swift slap;
"Natalie, I've been calling you." I swoon. His voice.
this is called a ghazal. it's a fairly limited form of poetry where there is a refrain and the word before the refrain in each couplet should rhyme. at some point you incorporate some kind of thing that gives your identity.
the award for worst definition of a ghazal ever goes to me, thank you thank you hold your applause
Natalie Suss Dec 2013
You will become a fantasy
where we never change and I can't help falling
in love with when I'm with you.

                      I was with you.
And now,
now nobody's home and I can't stop
It's too late
for goodbyes
so let me go love, don't leave me
waiting
I can wait forever because endings
are beginnings;

"Don't panic," you once said on the hill.

                    I'm on the hill.

And I panic.

Au revoir, you said.
*Au revoir.
This is my so-so attempt at writing a poem made up of song titles in my oh-so depressing December playlist. I would like to do this more often because I really like the idea. (I come up with good ideas when I'm supposed to be writing an inhumane number of papers, apparently.)
Natalie Suss Dec 2013
Another
drop of hope
runs past the bridge of my nose
but Lord knows it is destined
to drown with the rest.
Natalie Suss Jan 2013
the mild aroma
of roses tickled her nose---
*God bless you.
I learned about assonance a couple weeks ago yet the use of assonance in this was unintentional... or was it?
Natalie Suss Jan 2013
Anticipating
a friendly gaze in return,
I look up --- *You wish.
Natalie Suss Jan 2013
My mind
longs for rest
a lingering thought
a mosquito's lustful kiss
upon the scalp
permeating

It remains to me
an eternal enigma---
where does one dwell
at the open of
the close?
In the final Harry Potter book, "I open at the close" is etched into Harry's old golden snitch (it's quite a long story if you don't know the series). It stuck from the moment I read it, and so I incorporated it into this poem.
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