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Luis Liriano Sep 2017
fall,
like a ripped off flower petal
and land so very elegantly
watch my eyes sway side to side the closer you get to hitting the ground
watch my hand hesitate but reach out just before you fall to fast and I think
"will I be the one who catches you or will I be the one that let you get away"
Tansy Roake Jul 2017
I am burdened with,
And consumed by,
Visual poetry.
When the surface is scratched,
Or even just lightly bruised,
My eyelids are stretched,
Far beyond their natural capacity,
In wonderment,
At the terrifying beauty,
That exists,
In the minutia,
Of the achingly ordinary.
Journey of Days May 2017
❤️❤️
❤️❤️
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@journeyofdays
he asked me what I was thinking
❤️❤️ no words
TG Apr 2017
Grown ups don't tell you
why your father didn't come home that night
or
why he smelled of liquor
all the time.

Grown ups don't tell you
how the screams will become
marrow to your bones
and how heavy they weigh
as you walk yourself into
adulthood.
TG Apr 2017
Feel the way pain
demands to be felt,
But do not count the
blows you've been dealt.
...
Get lost in the regret that
paints the dark sky,
Burn through intensity of
the anger as you fly.
...
Dance into the whispered
wish of a shooting star,
That lands safely upon
your healing scar.
...
You must not fret, I will
never gaze with disgust,
as you gallantly rise from
the ashes of your own stardust.
Sometimes feeling the way pain demands to be felt is how we heal.
...
How do you heal your yourself?
...
*feedback is greatly appreciated*
Rae Apr 2017
i have seen the stars
through your eyes
you showed them to me, and it was something new.

i don't know what was more beautiful;

the night sky

or seeing it from your point of view
if only we could see inside each other's minds...
Gabriel burnS Dec 2016
her lips,
of blooming poppy,
hold promises of *****,
slipping past the choices,
knowing they'd be caught
too late, and not before
they've met desires
secretly
in shadows underneath
the moonlit balconies
Kayla Feb 2017
Smoke rises in the distance.
The smell of flames starts to replace the fresh air.
No creatures in sight.
None to be found.
Just the smell of fire.
Wild fire.
Burns show where it has been.
Like footprints in the snow.
The birds are silent.
The air dull.
Light is dim.
The fire has ended.
Ash lays everywhere.
On the tree tops.
On the forest ground and bushes.
Silence.
It is over.
The fire is out.
I wrote this when I was like 13 or 14 and I just found it again on a super old deviantART account and I kind of like it still so I figured I'd post it here.
Charlotte Nov 2016
But these Eyes which fall on words inevitably unwritten,
Resonates absurdity's fingertips,
A delayed abomination,
Dancing with harlequins in their ring of retribution,
sing out with a poet’s mocking:

‘Fear your mistress/fear your maiden,
Decorated in her daisy chain of souls,
And silver to her bones from stone cold matinees’,

With Carnal thirst for the cruel phantoms
Who patrol like clockwork within a cell patterned cathedral,
Chanting monologues pairing their patience with promise,
In Shadows behind the collar they hide,
With convulsive voices knotting the synapses like shoelace,

This Fruitless curiosity meets with defeat,
The divine torture of invisibility argued with nihility,
Running blood of a guardian and a watcher's ghost,

With whom do they divulge their surrender to?
An anonymous force or a non-existent one?
Maybe they refute the toxic plains of prayer,
Maybe it is their duty to be timekeepers not lovers,
Charlotte Nov 2016
Beware the sour duchess with her cobra tongue,
Come marionette, fall at her feet, the carnal cherry flower maid,
She hides in the devil's gap tooth,
In his pinstriped pockets full of rosary beads and candlewick,

She steals the heart-shaped cosmic superstition,
Demure with dulcet debauchery,
Forged in a grand dalliance of coquettish repulsion with his valiant renegades,
Vagrant of prayer and petrichor,
Buying fancy for the maudlin dolls, the ethereal actresses nursed to betray,

These childish ordeals rosy with youth,
Turn to lilac smitten executioner under the glass of a silver boulevard,
She writes me foolish want in this presence of gods and criminals,
Sell me your kisses and fingertips bruise my aura with your architecture,
Sleeping sound in your dominion the sheets are always warm.
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