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Remember I was beautiful. Take tissue paper roses And remember how I bled for the thorns Stare into the eye of the tittle and see me. We will dance across the lines of life and death And even when I’m gone you will feel my marble hands on your hips I will walk your hallways in paper sheets And tell you secrets in television static I will talk to you with the words of infomercials And tell you who I was in the braille of your goose bumps Remember how I wanted to be beautiful I kissed every letter goodnight with raspberry lips And dressed every cry in silk and cashmere Find beauty in the dark of my shadows And in the arms of a poem’s phantom I left my body in the dust of empty deserts and my soul in lines of free verse obituaries
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Feb 14, 2014
Feb 14, 2014 at 8:33 PM UTC
Ars Poetica (Ghosts)
Remember I was beautiful. Take tissue paper roses And remember how I bled for the thorns Stare into the eye of the tittle and see me. We will dance across the lines of life and death And even when I’m gone you will feel my marble hands on your hips I will walk your hallways in paper sheets And tell you secrets in television static I will talk to you with the words of infomercials And tell you who I was in the braille of your goose bumps Remember how I wanted to be beautiful I kissed every letter goodnight with raspberry lips And dressed every cry in silk and cashmere Find beauty in the dark of my shadows And in the arms of a poem’s phantom I left my body in the dust of empty deserts and my soul in lines of free verse obituaries
I had to write an Ars Poetica for class and kinda liked this so I thought I would share it
jessica-britton
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Feb 14, 2014
Feb 14, 2014 at 8:33 PM UTC
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