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Sep 2014 · 448
I wish for you (updated)
Sylvia Nguyen Sep 2014
How can a body bear such longing?
Borne on fulfilment,
even atoms enclosed in their vast spaces
Hide from nothing.

I wish for you here
Because the air
won't turn black
this time

The air
will be the chariot of certainty
Crushing the physical
structure of the confused
So when you leave finally
Because of
destructions of ambiguity.

Know my tears
They are nourishment,
Softening the ground.
Was it like this from the beginning?
Sep 2014 · 705
(6w)
Sylvia Nguyen Sep 2014
Civilization

moves to conquer

all
barbarians.
Aug 2014 · 778
thoughts on his palm
Sylvia Nguyen Aug 2014
I desire your well being
for the reasons that

your palms may bestow
the unknowable depth for the good.

And if I continue any longer
I'll take leave of all my
senses.
Jotting this down before I awake into my living dream, and forget.
Aug 2014 · 887
Dismantling the known
Sylvia Nguyen Aug 2014
Your world is coming apart
By design,
structure
Remember you agreed?

Did you really think you could preserve
The comfort of your outgrown shell?

How many degrees
of confusion
can you bear in your mirror world
?
Aug 2014 · 1.6k
tired of headshots.
Sylvia Nguyen Aug 2014
I am tired of series of unfinished poems that scream for my return.
I am tired of internal, trenching,
desperate calls
for pen and paper.
I am tired of empty pages,
and pens being put down.
I am tired of the fragmentary
*******-business I have with my declaration of expression.
I want to write about rough ****** efforts
and soft
aching feelings.
I want to write about Coca Cola freezies
(because they don’t even exist, why?).
I am tired of looking at everyone else’s work,
admiring it, criticising it, admiring it, criticising it, admiring it, crying, loving it.
I want to be 60 and look at what I wrote When I was 19,
And sob.
Feedback is welcome.
Aug 2014 · 5.7k
the queen
Sylvia Nguyen Aug 2014
crowned with loneliness*
standing firm
giving

and giving
Aug 2014 · 1.7k
past life
Sylvia Nguyen Aug 2014
Behind the scene of this waterfall,
I followed you again

And there
I saw you
transported into the world
bringing back field reports of a past life

Male entity,
through you,
I lived
beside
isolated
Cold War
stone walls
and waited beneath
sudden
summer rain
surrounding myself
with


too much space

complicated
by raw exposure
where rays shake
the opening heart
inducing the imagination
than the Real
(one of the first poems I wrote when I started writing)
Aug 2014 · 1.9k
healing hands
Sylvia Nguyen Aug 2014
you have them now* -
hands through which the star wine
can occasionally pour offerings

so pure
as to be invisible.
*use them, use them, use them.
Aug 2014 · 5.8k
Deep Dreaming
Sylvia Nguyen Aug 2014
Senseless beauty,

Indulge every chance you get.
In that galactic heart of yours,
Where stars are dense as wild flowers
Covering the dark ranges of space.
Where the greatest lessons are distilled
In your subtle flavours and delicate
complexities of your new sensorium.
Eat your guilt, and do not look at your tortured mate.

*The lesson is pleasure not pride.

— The End —