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Vamika Sinha Sep 2015
The poet looks
and delves.

She wonders if he ever stops,
him, this rushing-forward-breathlessly train,
if he did park himself in fantastical paragraphs;
the poet is dumbfounded at him
ceasing.

In construction sites of grammar,
where free ideas float in ruins,
poet wonders how,
how, how
he came to plan to live
up
to an exclamation mark.
And condensed so many dribbles and strikes
of strange and fruitful, even withered
paragraphs into one line and pointer -
a smile and a lope-stagger dance of a walk -
an exclamation mark.

The poet stares, once again
astounded by the little streaks of the universe
and longs to hold on to something.
Disarmed,
she can't quite put a finger on it,
his gaping honesty and his quiet one,
that contradiction
shouting in her face
while whispering in her eyes.

The poet laughs -
laughs of, in, out
of sleep.
Summer is here.
And she chooses to notice.
He laughs too,
but he's always been noticing
and the poet writes down how
she learnt to bite and chew into the fruit of the world
and taste

it sour runny sweet cold explosive lingering
just as him.
The poet saw all
colours rolling in one
strange song of limbs.
She did not like the music
but she made herself a blank white canvas

and listened
and laughed

clean, silly laughs
fluting out of the incongruity
of simple,
simple
moments.

Fun life, easy stretch of the mouth -
it is possible to smile down at
what a clown pain is.
He declares this boldly
without saying a word
or two.
The poet is dumbfounded at him
being.

She did not see and had not seen and now only began to picture
but she was blind.
He said he was blinder and that
was true. The poet
did not smirk but giggle at the irony -
he lived in pop-bold spectacles,
she slept in black and white films.
But both were blind.

We cannot see and
we
are blurs.

The poet likes that life scrapes away at her
because she can see chinks of white sunshine
through all the sheared-off layers.
Clean, clean,

bright, bright -
he teaches her in a beam
without a hello.

The poet writes poetry
on breathing action prose.
And she laughs -

You are everything I don't want
but I'm curious.
Something different, hey?
Q Sep 2015
I wonder if you'll find these words
If you'll know they're about you.
I wonder if you'll read my verse
And comprehend my clues.

Would you crave to know me more
With every poem you devour here?
Would you plan to search and learn me
Over the course of many years?

I wonder if you'd be intrigued
By all I manage not to say.
I wonder if you'll confront me
With words that stuck with you all day.

Would you read the lines and then between them
Until you knew the workings of my mind?
Would you ask me to explain every stanza
Until we could no longer hold open our eyes?

I wonder if you'd be insatiable
If you'd need to know more, know everything.
I wonder if you'd hunt me down
And take the secrets I've written and dearly keep.

Would you read in awe and decide
To keep me closer than you let me before?
Would you understand my words
And wait eagerly for more?

I wonder if I'd come to mean something
Akin to what you mean to me.
I wonder what you'd do
If I gave you these poems to read.
Mimi Lynn Kelly Sep 2015
Seeking the unseekable,
Falling up,
Melting into solid,
Cloning the uncloneable,
Finding the unfindable,
Doing the undoable,
Living while dead,
I have been impossible.
I remember writing this in 7th grade when I felt that I was living when I could be gone by now. I felt, well, impossible. I wrote this May 1, 2013.
Jellyfish Aug 2015
I'm going to drown myself in video games
and ignore the information I obtained.
I know you didn't really mean those things, right?
I wish those words would go away, at least at night.

I think what bothers me the most
is that you make me seem like I'm always the bad guy,
when you have also been the cause quite a few times...
But I never said things that weren't untrue to complete strangers especially not about you. Regardless I will ignore this and keep my nose in my games, curiosity kills the cat in the end.

I should've held onto this quote.
Manisha Uniyal Aug 2015
Raining clouds in sun
Celebration in heaven
Mystery for us on earth
attempted haiku for the very first time. I don't know, if this even qualifies for haiku. Suggestion and ammendments are most welcome for the better understanding of this form of writing.
Miss Clofullia Aug 2015
this thing that I do.. or, anyway, try to do,
this continuous babble gabble, with sprinkles on top,
this day-to-day quest,
this poorly timed choreography,
this #bro, #nohomo, #gay thing I do with my brain and heart,
this endless wine powered whining habit of mine,
this desire to know,
this curiosity and unceasing need to find out,
this joy of seeing your face every day in the mirror I use for shaving once in a while,
this midnight torment,
this heat and cold feet feeling,
this skanderbeg with the ****** inside my right arm,
this everlasting need of being pushed to the ground and all of the climbing that comes afterwards,
this fight club that I invented in my own apartment,
this bad scenery where all the bad quirks are lost,
this family reunion around a blue Facebook table,
this Christmas compulsion regularly displayed,
this recital of random thoughts,
this list of contacts,
this Friday evening pathetic chorus,
this fear of rejection and hope for what will come,
this weird structure of one's feelings,
this flat choice of words and bad timing,
this spurious urgency for acknowledgement,
this "me feeling" for me,
this firm handshake with a smile and maybe a hug at the end,
this thing that I do is called, in a strange way, #love.



and I can say that there are only few moments when I have my regrets for trying to show it,
like a little girl does with her skirt, lifted above her head
Meg Howell Aug 2015
I've been given more clarity
with the heavy rains of life
than I have with days of
never ending sunshine,
some days I prefer the rain,
but most,
I long for the naive sunshine
C Jul 2015
i find myself thinking of you before bed,
because if i can't see you when i'm awake,
at least i can see you while i'm asleep,
but when i wake,
i find myself wiping away tears with my *******,
because i'm so confused,
lost,
and curious.
curiosity killed the cat,
this i know,
but satisfaction brought it back.
i wish you would bring me back with satisfaction.
Sourodeep Jul 2015
At the museum
when things are
shown just for display
why do you want to touch
and make it waste away.
Adore the beauty
and move on,
to look for more
to know more
the hall is pretty big
and there so many to
be explored, but
just by eyesight.
No my friend, touching
is just not right,
for there stands a guard
with a stick in his hand,
will push you out
shout aloud,
you will just repent
what if I hadn't touched
I could have seen the **end
Sometimes more curiosity is self detrimental.
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