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brooke Sep 2012
For once, maybe I could feel it
straight down into my thighs
grounding my feet to the stairs with the palm of his pupils
I will skirt around the issue because I've been here before
in front of the door waiting for someone to leave
go home
laugh and play it off like trust wasn't as big
of a deal as it was
but then there it was, living between my heart and a hard place
a rawness subdued and a sourness to be dulcified

oh wait
you were serious?

telling me to slow down in less words than there
are in a look, in two eyes
speaking calms
I've never
before
seen
(c) Brooke Otto
Sarah Kunz Feb 2017
I have fashioned myself a cosseting nest of denial to protect me from my earnest yearnings.
I sit atop my stoop in cavalier crusted pessimism lobing over stones at the passing pedestrians enraptured with the bliss of romance.
"rigamarole dimwitted ****" I huff as I examine the fluidity of their movement.
They bob along as two flocculent clouds set agog.
Such dulcified fools; they see their lovers lips brimming with nectar and skin dashed with gold.
"Such farcical magic musings, who needs such things?" ; I question  rustling in my scathing bed of delusion.
One day I awoke to see a frenzied nest stationed next to me with a peculiarly pristine fellow bellowing.
The days following my eyes were deterred from ogling at the lovebirds beneath me as they grew curiously closer to the voltaic man vexing me.
He didn't pass his hours feeding from the disdain and self deprecating disarray, instead he perched giddily reading books and pacing incessantly.  
This mans marrow doesn't reek of lovers idealism, but his eyes lift a veil to show me utter perfection.
Owning the vessel he inhabits he doesn't allow room for preposterous inhibitions.
As he unrobes to show me the mind wrinkles fueling his insanity, I began to wonder if his lips are coated in the same sugar doused divinity.
As his hands gingerly caress mine, I decide to retire my stones, It seems about time I let myself learn to float.
Carmela Fernando Jun 2019
You told me I was bold and daring and I told you it was because of my distinctive taste — fiery like the taste of red, a pungent flavor against deceit and deception.

You were the opposite of a burning taste of spices — honeyed and flavorsome. I was astound when you boldly relished my lips full of sharp-tasting fears and doubts as if it was a sugar drizzle.

You invited me to savor every delectable flavors of you by your dulcified metaphors and feats that suddenly became bittersweet promises only to be left with an aftertaste of a sugarcoated happiness.
cosmicrealm Aug 2020
Second bottle of wine,
Tonight, I'll drink it all down
To numb every feeling inside,
Until my heart completely drowns

Beneath the endless starlit sky,
I'll pen a woeful verse,
The immense silence that encompasses
Reminds me the rhythm of your awful words

Clouds of dullness pervades,
I'll weep aloud in pain,
Untwine the screeching torment inside
To unleash sorrow of tears—like rain

I'll lay and shut my eyes at rest,
Wander in dreams, the place we first met
Reminisce every second shared with you
Before my darkest nightmare had come true

I want to untie the agony wrapped in my heart
Yet, I want to cherish the dulcified memories
For the ghost of you haunts me at night
As I wake up tomorrow, another cycle of tonight

Again, the dark reveals a secret I've hidden,
Covered in tears and sweat, buried so deep
Truth is, in spite of all the pain and uncertainty,
I'd still choose you, in a heartbeat.
Have you ever imagined how powerful the night is?

First-ever collaborative poetry written with @Mayari

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