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Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

Tilly

once,
i held tight to
your words they filled
              this                  emptiness                  with love  & passion
    promises you blew
hot blasted air
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Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

I Want You in My Life. 10w

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

Ajay

I Want You in My Life. 10w

I am sick
of waiting
for something good
to happen

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

The Good Side

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

kevin garcia

The Good Side

The good side of me wants to give you a gentle handshake when we meet,
the bad side of me just wants to let you know "I'm the man!!"

The good side of me wants to know your what's on your mind,
the bad side just wants to know, are you naughty?

The good side of me is interested in every word you say,
the bad side just wants you to shut up!

The good side of me wants to tell you how nice you look,
the bad side wants to know how nice you look under those clothes.

The good side of me wants you to feel warm and cozy around me,
the bad side wants the devil to come out in you.

The good side of me wants to spend real quality time with you,
the bad side just wants to spend time with you during half-time.

The good side of me wants to make sweet love to you,
the bad just wants to bang the hell out of you!

The good side of me wants to express tender loving feelings afterwards,
The bad side just wants a cigarette, then roll over and go to sleep!
I promise to be good when I am bad.

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

Ambivalence (n) :

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

flynt

Ambivalence (n) :

The state of having simultaneous, sometimes
conflicting feelings towards something - like feeling
happy and sad at the same time.

exactly my case always.

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

One Thousand And Nine Ways To Love You

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

Catherine Ann Howatt-Dickson

One Thousand And Nine Ways To Love You

There's a storm coming and the tide is rising, I hike up my dress and wade into the water
I want to disrobe you in this wet wilderness of pounding heart and throbbing pulse
Did I tell you that to date I have discovered one thousand and nine ways to love you

And I am still counting

So make passable the impassable! Be brave and open up your Heaven to me!
Flood my soul for forty days and forty nights and let me feed you my wild honey and manna
And cradled within waves and winds, a new covenant with new stories will be born

*And lovers will still be counting

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

The Embracing

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

Jason Wright

The Embracing

I was content when the house burned down
    and melted silicon pasted the walls with portraits
    of everything I left pending.

I know fear isn't what we're taught to embrace
    but when I can place it by my bed and sing it a song
    I feel happy.

Two years ago my future was an old rope with coarse twines
protruding from every angle.
Before the scars on my hands formed,
it burned a lucid orange and left no ash.

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

Not Be Late...

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

Nestor David Armas

Not Be Late...

Of all the nightmares
That ever were,
Of all the dreams
That ever will be,
There is a time
Where the past unloads
And the future withholds
The present that is now,
And because it is a gift
You are existent; you are real
Questions will be no more
And answers will prevail,
The moments leading
And the minutes fleeting,
Shall leave not a void
But memories forever,
Imprinted not on sand
Of shores to be eroded;
But on granite and marble
Never to be washed away;
Not by the waters;
Not by the winds,
Only of our own accord,
So in our acknowledgement
This is now or never;
Not maybe and if ever,
We shall seize and
We shall conquer,
Our enemies will cease and
Our enemies will hunker,
In fear of our retaliation
In awe of our determination,
Let us hence in this proceed
We have commenced and taken heed;
Of our destinies; of our fate
Let's not care for amenities; we will not be late...
© okpoet

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

Not Easy to Forget...

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

Nestor David Armas

Not Easy to Forget...

You're not hard to love
But not easy to forget,
Moments here and there
Minutes and hours everywhere,
The dust of you will gather
When you step away,
And for once I won't clean
I'll remember everything,
Let the cobwebs gather
Let the rot eat through,
And as I fade away
I'll regret this one,
Heart of my soul
Spirit of my flesh,
The one that was simply
You and only you,
Will be the last
To occupy my life,
Run don't walk
So I don't think
Too ******* your linger
The sooner I can lie
To myself that you were
Only magic of my mind
A trick of my eyes
Deception of myself,
It cannot be broken
That which I already did,
Left the pieces for me
To follow back,
Before you ever came
So that I could,
Make believe
I don't remember,
The details of your face
As I say goodbye to your shadow,
Sweet friend of yesterday
Bitter enemy of tomorrow...
© okpoet

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

Inner Pestilence

Feb 2013 Rachael Stainthorpe

Peyton Smith

Inner Pestilence

Lately I’ve been having thoughts that left me long ago,
A once forgotten process, is back and ready to go, you know,
I hate my lack of happiness, I feel conflicted,
My self pity makes me sick, I call it sick addiction,
What exactly gives me the right to say I’m sad?
When so many people have never had it as good as I have,
I mean, I’m not mad, But i’m not glad, I’m basically existing,
Caught up in the middle, insisting I need assisting,
And wishing I wasn’t missing, the secret key to joy,
I’m the 6’3 frame of a man, but inside, i’m just a boy,