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 Sep 2016 spartan73
David Swinden
You should never love a poet
Where complicated creatures
Forever changing personalities
With many different features

You should never love a poet
We have darkness and devotion
Sometimes difficult to read
With forever changing emotions

You should never love a poet
They can write a lovely verse
But like the wind they can change
With verses full of hurt

You should never love a poet
Just read these words from me
Everything in life is second best
Our first love is writing poetry

David Swinden © 3/9/2016
 Sep 2016 spartan73
kiko
It's been 288 hours since you last fixed your curtains
I know since the moonlight covers the very same spot on my bare skin
like it did 12 days ago
I let my eyes feast around your darkened room
by now I've already memorized
every crack and fold of your ceiling
I know the names of the ghosts
that used to spend their nights on your bed
the very same spot I would like to think is mine
mine, in the sense of give and take
where I barter my body when you feel cold and in need of a filler
and in exchange, you give me space
inside that room you call your safe haven
where I give you my breathless moans
for your sweet whispers
and where I give you my mouth
so you could love something about me

but as I find comfort in your arms
your deep kisses stroke my fear
this kind of solace never lasts
and soon
I'd be homeless again.
52 days.
Jack rolls black joints
and tells us to
sip them like tea
under the kazeebo tonight.
The sky is covered
in diet Pepsi;
clumsy moon must have spilt it
over the canvass
of the day,
but it’s okay because he says
he’ll buy a new one
when the shops open next,
we know
he always tries his best.

Taylor says it feels
as though
we’ve been transported
to a resort in
the South of Spain.

I take my jacket off.

Chris asks us if he smells
of anything sinister.
I look up from the step
and whisper,
“If they don’t know by now,
then they’re morons
with office jobs,”
we share a laugh and
in that moment,
somehow we forget
that this, and everything else
will come to an end.
 Sep 2016 spartan73
David Swinden
When you go to bed at night
And slowly fall asleep
Reflecting on the days turmoil
All the pain and grief

You sometimes wonder how
This life could do you harm
It’s the way the cards are dealt
When all you want is calm

Some days are better than others
But it always seems to rain
And you always carry on
In this life you still remain

You stay loyal to all
And you often wonder why
There are no smiles on earth
You could find peace in the sky

David Swinden © 3/9/2016

Finally after six weeks with writers block a new poem!!!! please don't leave me again poetry
little dark girl with
kind eyes
when it comes time to
use the knife
I won't flinch and
i won't blame
you,
as I drive along the shore alone
as the palms wave,
the ugly heavy palms,
as the living does not arrive
as the dead do not leave,
i won't blame you,
instead
i will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.
little dark girl with kind eyes
you have no
knife. the knife is
mine and i won't use it
yet.
 Sep 2016 spartan73
Mike Adam
I did not
Love you as I should.
That much is clear.

I could not love you
As I should then.
That much is clear.

You loved me as much
As you could.
This now I can see.

I could not love you
Then as much as I should.
This much is clear.

I love you now
More than I could have then.
I thank you more.

This much is clear.
 Sep 2016 spartan73
complexify
race
 Sep 2016 spartan73
complexify
we were so busy chasing love

we forgot to chase reality
it seems to me that today you can't really have them both.
 Sep 2016 spartan73
Jude kyrie
Lost at sea
By
Jude Kyrie

My poetry has become
a seagulls cry.
My soul is adrift
on a becalmed sea.
This sailors wife
knitted his death
into this sweater.
The sea shall swallow me
with its infinite greed.
The cloudless sky
will take my poems
and recite them
from a place on high.
The verses melt
to a single sound.
My poetry has become
a seagulls cry
 Sep 2016 spartan73
Doug Potter
In a grapefruit box bassinet a squabble
of flesh, side room a four-year-old with
forehead on her brother’s shoulder-he sleeps
an arm around a one-eyed sock monkey;
Pamper on the boy’s ***. TV sounds like
a  goose, telephone jangles, answers
a mama, she say hello Mr., not glad
you called.
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