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i did not fall in love
with poetry
because of textbooks.
an a plus student,
excellent in german,
lit and history,
could not bear the idea
of studying a poet’s
second-hand misunderstandings.

it was a summer
filled with cigarette smoke
and borrowed crushes —
my godmother’s nephew
with his band tees
and cheekbones
that lit the spark
against my will.

fifteen going on tragic,
the air thick with heat,
through the windows
he blasted music,
'ordinary disappointments',
screaming vulgarities,
the really bad kind
that me at thirteen
shouldn’t have known about.

during those months
those lyrics
lived in the back of my mind,
especially when the sun fell,
leaving only
the deep indigo of the night.

after summer ended
and he went back home,
i still carried a piece of him
as if he were my own shadow,
and the gateway drug
of obscene lyrics
and songs about józsef attila
intoxicated me.

i still believe
those blistering weeks
forged my taste
for poetry.
this is my poetic origin story
Aaamour 3h
Her hair’s sometimes straight,
but often they are curly too.
I don’t know if it’s natural, or a perm —
doesn’t matter,
for I’m always curled up in her mystery,
and my eyes move straight towards her.
Milo 2d
Most nights I think about killing myself
But tonight you infect my mind
I can't help but get caught up in the melody of your laughter
And imagine your chapped lips against mine
duck 3d
my head in the clouds
the clouds in the sky
what the clouds enshrouds
is the way the sun shines
on your face
your eyes
your smile
the faint shadow
of your dimples
clearing the clouds that shrouds
so I can see
you and only you
duck 6d
do you like me
or do you like me loving you
because when you're sick i'll bring you hot tea
and when you're down i'll stay with you 24/7
but would you do the same when i'm sickly?
would you stay with me and cuddle me?
there's no way you love me,
but if you like me, please,
don't like me because i love you,
and like me because i'm... me.
NK Sep 16
oh September,
my September.

it’s that time again where my world is filled with the color orange.
the times I see the world in a vibrant hue through the youthful lenses of my eyes.
I carry the warmest smiles, though at times it’s only superficial.
yet, this year, I chose my color to be grey.
for no particular reason.
I think I’m growing fond of everything in between:
of nothing too scarce or nothing too much.

then I saw you.
you, who is the color orange.
what an odd thing to say.
i don’t like orange.

well, i think you're more of a grey than any other color.
you stand out and, at the same time, you don’t.
I got curious and maybe stared for a little too long.
then I saw it, orange.

oh september,
my september.

hi.
your smile is warm.
what makes you smile?

hi.
your eyes are sweet.
like freshly picked tangerines.

will I ever get the chance to see your world?
even if it’s just a page.
how does the sunset look when it’s reflected in your eyes?
is it lovely?

oh september,
my september.

it’s autumn somewhere.
my favourite season.
it’s such a shame there’s nothing like that in here.
I always long for autumn.

here, it’s always the rainy season, if not summer.
but my heart wonders how autumn feels.
then I saw you, by the window, and ****** that sun for shining too bright.

you, my autumn.
another beginning for my yearly bittersweet melancholy.
that hint of orange in your presence is enough for me to know,
even in my world of greys, my autumn will always come.

oh september,
my september.

everything and everyone is moving.
too quick, too fast, too much.
grey.

yet, you, my orange,
where do you look in world of greys?
what color catches your eyes?
is it pink? is it blue?
what is my hue to you?

oh september,
my september.

time is running out.
will I even get a chance to hear you speak my name across the room?
or will winter come, leaving you, my autumn?

the change is too quick.
you’ll just slip past by this chapter.
still, I want you to linger for a little longer
even if we remain strangers.

oh september,
My September.

there’s something missing in everything that I wrote.
my incomplete words are no better than strangers.
only I could fill in those blanks that you left unwritten.

after all, I was the only one in this love that is unrequited.
the only one who keeps on loving in autumn.
a love that doesn’t exist in your world.
these tempting and tumultuous  times,
when the insect bite of attraction nibbles
your cheek, and first blood thickens with
intrigued,
the blood heated by, with a bewildering new sun's glow,
then bubbling boiling
over
with phantasmagorical fantasies,
and one endeavors to coax, to tease,
to preen, to adduce how best to ******,
this persona, imagined or imaginary to be,
whispers a silent "no thankee''
and first bloom curls into a deathly brown doom,
you,
chastened by amorous hastening so quick evolving,
and the hither in come here, withers to a ghostly silencing,
one wonders, reminisces, and sadly recalls then forgets
the entreaties so eagerly received, how one wants to be
deceived,
for the once lay-buried-arousals now well recalled,
and quick to appear, faster to dismiss disappear,
and disaster cones and goes with light-speed velocity,
having fling,
now flung,
having crushed,
now crushing,
you caught laughing at your self,
still evolving long past the time
for youthful deceptions and silly indiscretions,
but not unhappily, for it was an acknowledgement
that good love poetry yet within resides, alas, alas,
it reciprocity seeds need replanting, and that notion
is quite pleasing...
9/13
Ashlee Marie Sep 5
no,
I don't want to just be your friend,
I want to be your girlfriend.

I want to hold your hands,
whenever I'm cold,
or whenever I'm nervous,
I wanna kiss your lips,
whenever I want to show you,
how much I'm in love with you.
Aaamour Aug 29
golden flowers on her dress

like stars in the night sky

bringing comfort to distant eyes
Inewdip Aug 28
Fell once- maybe twice-
Maybe more than just a couple times For those gorgeous eyes,
Laying far from mine,
Beneath those glasses-
luckier than the stars-
the moon kisses every night.
For those dimpled cheeks,
Whenever you smile.
For the freckled face,
Glowing brighter every time.
For the messed up hair,
You play with when you're shy.
The tip of your nose,
That'll never brush mine.
Your thin moist lips,
That'll never touch mine.
That voice of yours,
That makes my heart fly.
For a boy who's not
Meant to be mine.
Not meant for, in this lifetime.
I fell for, a couple times.
Maybe..more than just a couple times.
I think I fall,
       every single time.
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