"leonids" poems - Hello Poetry

Outside in the cold darkness, neck craned toward Orion’s belt waiting for streaks across the sky. Leonids passing by, your name orbits in my mouth like planetary moons; shooting stars reflecting the past in your eyes.

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Feb 27, 2015

Feb 27, 2015 at 2:20 PM UTC

mike-jewett

Leonids

Outside in the cold darkness, neck craned toward Orion’s belt waiting for streaks across the sky. Leonids passing by, your name orbits in my mouth like planetary moons; shooting stars reflecting the past in your eyes.

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Until now, my best work yet: a boat, a love, the Leonids. Quite beautiful as heartbreaks go, a near miss on a midnight lake, with wishes dropping left and right. I laughed at that, said take me back, and until then, I thought I meant to shore. Nice story; camera fixed on Indian Point, boat exits left 'neath fireworks, sponsored by the Galaxy, brought to you by Tunnelvision. Cue piano, pretentious fin, but then you – a star: hotter than those meteors, colder than those miles of lake. I wrote you in, rough draft, known as the man who loved this woman best, but take your bow; you've been recast: the man who loved this woman last.

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Oct 24, 2011

Oct 24, 2011 at 11:50 PM UTC

marsha-singh

You were a star.

Until now, my best work yet: a boat, a love, the Leonids. Quite beautiful as heartbreaks go, a near miss on a midnight lake, with wishes dropping left and right. I laughed at that, said take me back, and until then, I thought I meant to shore. Nice story; camera fixed on Indian Point, boat exits left 'neath fireworks, sponsored by the Galaxy, brought to you by Tunnelvision. Cue piano, pretentious fin, but then you – a star: hotter than those meteors, colder than those miles of lake. I wrote you in, rough draft, known as the man who loved this woman best, but take your bow; you've been recast: the man who loved this woman last.

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with flowers for the moonlight the fright she bid goodbye stars and leonids sparkled the night like a wino in the midst with acquired dreams I audit this blinky blue eyed sunrise the two little satellites melted away musical notes insured by a common man harvested by the embraceable grim reaper in this bizarre love pentangle they arrive with their swarm of locusts the thieves of silence!!

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Apr 25, 2012

Apr 25, 2012 at 5:29 AM UTC

vivek-bhargav

Thieves of Silence

with flowers for the moonlight the fright she bid goodbye stars and leonids sparkled the night like a wino in the midst with acquired dreams I audit this blinky blue eyed sunrise the two little satellites melted away musical notes insured by a common man harvested by the embraceable grim reaper in this bizarre love pentangle they arrive with their swarm of locusts the thieves of silence!!

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My fondest memories of you Shall be spun into the finest threads, Painstakingly woven into a blanket, And worn on the coldest of nights, As I sit under the stars in solitude, Watching the Leonids burn their existence , Across an unforgiving, lonely, and cold black sky.

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Feb 4, 2017

Feb 4, 2017 at 12:22 AM UTC

dawntreader

A Warm Blanket

My fondest memories of you Shall be spun into the finest threads, Painstakingly woven into a blanket, And worn on the coldest of nights, As I sit under the stars in solitude, Watching the Leonids burn their existence , Across an unforgiving, lonely, and cold black sky.

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Nov 15, 2020

Nov 15, 2020 at 5:21 PM UTC

When I tell you, I don't know what I would do without you, I'm sorry, but I've lied to you. I know exactly what I'd do. There would be no more friend to tell anything to, Or someone always seeing the positive and cracking the joke. I would be a social butterfly metamorphosing in reverse! I would be a passing glance In the hall, A name whispered in the roar of the world. If I was without you! I would go home everyday, Lock myself away! No contact, no pain. I would workout until my muscles refuse to move, Just so my heart would do laps on my lungs like it did when I was around you. So that when I passed you in hall, I would see you steal a glance, and know you miss me too. I would do it so my brain could dance on something other than the thought of you. So that my soul could feel something other than the pain, of being without you. I would go to school everyday And work harder than anyone may. I would wrestle daily so your image wouldn't drive me crazy. I would do everything possible to make our dreams come true, Even if I was without you! I would suffer more pain the Leonids the Great. Just so I could protect thee, My princess of beauty! I would battle day in and day out! As to keep my heart safe. I would think of you more than a dessert thinks of rain, I would long for you more than the wolf yearns for the touch of the moon! I would continue to love you! Always loving you! Even if I was without you! So that one day... One day, I can say to you, "I made our dream come true!" To tell you that I live in a place, In Oregon is this place. Were for half the year it cry's, and half the year it shines! To say to you I made it. To the place we always hoped for. A flower shop on Main Street, So dainty and so cute, With the door cracked open... waiting for you! Waiting to be with you! I'll aways love you! [K.D.P]

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Jan 15, 2015

Jan 15, 2015 at 7:33 PM UTC

Meathead

-Without You-

When I tell you, I don't know what I would do without you, I'm sorry, but I've lied to you. I know exactly what I'd do. There would be no more friend to tell anything to, Or someone always seeing the positive and cracking the joke. I would be a social butterfly metamorphosing in reverse! I would be a passing glance In the hall, A name whispered in the roar of the world. If I was without you! I would go home everyday, Lock myself away! No contact, no pain. I would workout until my muscles refuse to move, Just so my heart would do laps on my lungs like it did when I was around you. So that when I passed you in hall, I would see you steal a glance, and know you miss me too. I would do it so my brain could dance on something other than the thought of you. So that my soul could feel something other than the pain, of being without you. I would go to school everyday And work harder than anyone may. I would wrestle daily so your image wouldn't drive me crazy. I would do everything possible to make our dreams come true, Even if I was without you! I would suffer more pain the Leonids the Great. Just so I could protect thee, My princess of beauty! I would battle day in and day out! As to keep my heart safe. I would think of you more than a dessert thinks of rain, I would long for you more than the wolf yearns for the touch of the moon! I would continue to love you! Always loving you! Even if I was without you! So that one day... One day, I can say to you, "I made our dream come true!" To tell you that I live in a place, In Oregon is this place. Were for half the year it cry's, and half the year it shines! To say to you I made it. To the place we always hoped for. A flower shop on Main Street, So dainty and so cute, With the door cracked open... waiting for you! Waiting to be with you! I'll aways love you! [K.D.P]

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[I stayed up all night and watched the Leonids meteor shower] We stayed up two nights watched by Orion winked at by the glittering falling tears of Leo Trembling to the bone but was not satisfied with our soup of sky Began home with jazz on the radio drifting in and out the last morsel of consciousness Our vision hesitating before jumping off Everything scrambled eggs Lost in dark endless space of mind fell asleep a thousand years

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Dec 1, 2012

Dec 1, 2012 at 8:53 PM UTC

michael-sinclaire

Leonids

[I stayed up all night and watched the Leonids meteor shower] We stayed up two nights watched by Orion winked at by the glittering falling tears of Leo Trembling to the bone but was not satisfied with our soup of sky Began home with jazz on the radio drifting in and out the last morsel of consciousness Our vision hesitating before jumping off Everything scrambled eggs Lost in dark endless space of mind fell asleep a thousand years

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*My heart pounds like the Leonids. I fail to find the voice to console her. I do not wish to be the reclining Moon, Nor the twilight that reminds her of the little things. She has the eyes of a heavenly body, I love her blindly. And as the slow lightyear of a tear Shoots down to her lips, I wonder How the stars really taste like. And so we kiss, But it did not change the universe.* © 2015 J.S.P.

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Nov 17, 2015

Nov 17, 2015 at 10:50 PM UTC

jspua

A Kiss On The Shoulder

*My heart pounds like the Leonids. I fail to find the voice to console her. I do not wish to be the reclining Moon, Nor the twilight that reminds her of the little things. She has the eyes of a heavenly body, I love her blindly. And as the slow lightyear of a tear Shoots down to her lips, I wonder How the stars really taste like. And so we kiss, But it did not change the universe.* © 2015 J.S.P.

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