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Jillian Baker Apr 2015
Tonight I realized I was very wrong
It came to me in the form of a dream
When music bleeds to water running long
Not nearly unremarkable it seems.

Tonight I realized I was unfair, dear
To think a need for more was ever there
All of my worries amplified by fear
I might be seen as too mundane to bear.

You, you see the value in the quiet
Inestimable bliss to be entwined.
Raise my pulse to reach a screaming riot
With any touch or trinket you could find.

I'll ask for no one promise to abide,
Just dance with me and fall asleep beside
Twiddles Apr 2015
I'm broken today. Alone!
The closest person to me laughs with another.
She is in love you see.
Her voice changes to another tone.
Her excitement reaches another level.
Oh she laughs in love. In love with the one whom she is in love with.
I sit drowning in water, thinking...
What about me?
When will my laughter be over one whom I love?
When will my excitement levels rise coz I'm with someone whom excites me?
As my lifeless body is the only thing that fills the volume of water.
So is my companionship.
Life is the water and I am my body.
I take full mass and volume of my life.
It is only me, there is no other! Me and the water!
If I lie still, so does the water become stagnant.
Have i reached that stage that I am so alone, so still that life has become still as well.
No longer the ripples of flowing water.
Just stagnant still water.
I play my music to drown out the love filled chatter. To disappear the laughter.
Now I'm no longer the only volume filling this stillness.
Casting Crown plays telling me to Thrive.
They are singing to me, to fill my soul with one desire.
That I need to "Just to know you and make you know me. "
I turn the volume higher.
And so I sing aloud! Isn't that what you do when you go bath?
Sing at the top of your voice and not bother what others think!
If only Lord you were my full capacity. My volume. My mass!
That it was enough to know you and you know me!
Part of a series of poems written when my best friend/ flat mate was engaged.
Maddy Van Buren Mar 2015
fill a tub with rose petals
as the faucet cries
no time to mourn anyone
now
guitar hums with a slowness
i don't seem to remember
a lonely pain underwater
emotionless motionless
water mends
neck deep
when will the violin scream
when it does
promise me
you can't hear it either
from way down here
Poetic T Mar 2015
She was like art still and silent
Beauty in the water, like a mirror
The essence of her shone from the
Halogen lights above.

She was like a picture, motionless
But still, her brushstrokes were
Grace upon skin, her moment
Was in this place, pictures taken
Of her pose of her posture frozen
in this place.

She was a beauty in the bath tub,
Her face in this lake of red, hiding
The deed, buried in temped water,
No longer pure, tainted by a final
Motion, claiming a last breath.

She was a beauty of refined allure,
But now her crimson glistened, refracted
Upon the light shining down a rainbow
Of shaded reds now greets all through
The heaven white doors.

She is the bath tub beauty now dead..
Cassidy Shoop Mar 2015
The longest drive of my life
was only four and a half dragging minutes
around two street corners
Followed by the loudest sound of an unlocking door
my oozing ears have ever witnessed
And the guiltiest hug my arms will ever bear.
His scent still lingering on my clothes
and face
and those same arms,
I proceed to tell you my secrets
(not the fun kind you whisper to your friends)
the ones I could only stand to hide under my tongue
for one whole day,
and purely for the sake of your innocence.
I reach into your chest and rip out what's rightfully mine
and I can't apologize enough
as I ring out every good memory I have ever given you
and replace it with a night I can't even fully remember.
Naturally, you curse
and leave me alone in your room as if
I've kicked you out of your own home, as if
you never want to see my face again
unless it is twisted and bruised, as if
the only thing I have ever given you
was a chip in your paper-thin skull.
After draining my lips of "I'm sorry"s and "I love you"s
you find the decency in your heart to take hold of my hand,
walk me silently to the bathroom,
and politely ask me to join you
for a bubble bath.
Nothing Much Jan 2015
There's a girl in my bathtub
I can see her dancing on the surface of the water
Her eyes glinting in the florescent bathroom lights
She and I have a lot in common
The same cropped hair and scars,
Crisscrossing our bodies like little train tracks
She shivers as the water pours into the tub
Hot rain falling from the faucet
I watch her beneath the surface
And I wonder if she is drowning
Michael Amery Jan 2015
I have loved,
I have loved,
And I have loved again
Yet every time I am astounded
At how much love there is within me
To give again.

I love you the most.
Damien Rice, beer, candles and a hot bath while you sleep.
In this river of wine
I love my love with love
Never known before

Don’t walk into this river of hope
wearing a robe
You don’t take a good bath
wearing your gown
Come naked
In this garden
Without clothes, without figs

I am glad
that you found me
How pure a flame now burns
This thirst
with which I burn
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Jackilyn Teague Nov 2014
Under a tree
In a park
A city once unknown
I buried a part of me

I wanted to leave myself there
In order to bring myself back
To feel the magic of the city
Once again I’ll find myself under that tree, I swear

I left pieces of my heart
In London, Oxford, Bath
I’m ready to move on, live my life
It’s in that city where I buried myself I’ll have my start
This was randomly inspired by my trip to England last spring and the time I spent in the little park across the street from one of the hotels I stayed in.
Elioinai Oct 2014
Bouncing bubbles, pink and green,
Sweetest sight I’ve ever seen,
Telling of a girl scrubbed clean,
Floating rainbows, see their sheen,
Dancing down upon a bath,
Little circles from a splash,
Swirling colors, gold and red,
Water’s gone, now time for bed.
One survives and wanders on,
Comes to hover o’er the lawn,
Now reflecting starry light,
Disappears into the night
Jan 17, 2011
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