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"suitcases" poems
No, it doesn't happen Through secret glances And shy smiles Nor does it happen When you gaze into ones Deep crystal eyes It doesn't happen In the midst of flashlights Or romantic background music It happens When you see deep within Ones soul Not just the window But the whole house of emotions It happens When he grows meadows of daisies Inside the ugliest parts of you It happens When he caresses your tear stained face In 2 in the morning And holds you like you're gold It happens When you're upset over him Not being there for your little fits It happens When the suitcases under your eyes Are packed With thoughts of him And only him It happens When you're too young To fully comprehend What the universe holds for you and him But what if At a tender age of fifteen You know he's the one? The one That holds the perfect fit To your broken soul It happens When you least want it to
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Aug 13, 2014
Aug 13, 2014 at 10:41 AM UTC
Soulmate?//at 15
We'll drive Stare out the window And sing to each other Eat terrible food and laugh with one another Gallivant around antique shops and dream of life together. We'll reach the final destination throw our suitcases on the bed of our cheap motel and kiss passionately wherever.
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Jan 6, 2013
Jan 6, 2013 at 11:15 AM UTC
Someday
I've walked the beaten path Sinned in the ways of every religion But the only salvation I'm looking for Is in the smiles I'm able to place on your face So when you read my text Listen to the way I'm telling you I like you Listen to the message in the complex smiles The kissy faces That seem to be endless You can't call this puppy love This is the way you were meant to be loved So baby let me make you happy I'm not asking for the physicality of a relationship I'm asking to put this band on your finger Look in the mirror See my complete reflection Because this mirror is your eyes Baby let me make happy There's nothing I'd rather do Honestly you're on my mind I've only talked to you on occasion I don't don't want to send coded messages In the texts that make you smile and want me I want to tell you straight up Baby I like you I'm not innocent I'm not expecting you to be I'm just asking you to be mine Let me make you happy the only way I know Let me be the sculptor Plaster smiles on your frowning face Strip the clothes from your mannequin figure Let me make you happy In and out of the bed I'm only asking for a chance Baby let me make you happy I promise you'll never be alone Even if I'm seventeen hours away My heart is in the pillow you hold tight My cologne is in the sheets you wrap yourself in You can even wear my clothes Go insane and let me walk in On you making out with a pillow dressed like me I'll smile and I promise I'll love you the way that pillow never could Let me make you happy The way the other guys failed to When they ******* up the chance you blessed them with I promise baby I'll never hurt you My shoes are in the closet They're not going anywhere My suitcases are unpacked and laying in the dump Three states away The distance you wanted in the first place Between me and my second love You know I had a tendency of packing up Leaving in the middle of the night When your slumbering hand wandered on my side of the bed Looking for the warmth of my skin But Baby I promise my walking days are over My running shoes are too old They don't fit anymore Let me make you happy the way you deserve I understand if you don't want to do it I'm not going to cliche it up I'm not going to beg I'm just going to tell you I like you Ask you for only one thing in this relationship Let me make you happy It's not much but let me make it my sole purpose in life I don't need a god or gods and goddesses All I need is the heart in your chest To be my altar To be where I tithe my sins away To give praise to the heart that saved me Let me make you happy I'm not a complete ****** like the rest of them
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Aug 1, 2013
Aug 1, 2013 at 3:12 AM UTC
Let Me Make You Happy
I've walked the beaten path Sinned in the ways of every religion But the only salvation I'm looking for Is in the smiles I'm able to place on your face So when you read my text Listen to the way I'm telling you I like you Listen to the message in the complex smiles The kissy faces That seem to be endless You can't call this puppy love This is the way you were meant to be loved So baby let me make you happy I'm not asking for the physicality of a relationship I'm asking to put this band on your finger Look in the mirror See my complete reflection Because this mirror is your eyes Baby let me make happy There's nothing I'd rather do Honestly you're on my mind I've only talked to you on occasion I don't don't want to send coded messages In the texts that make you smile and want me I want to tell you straight up Baby I like you I'm not innocent I'm not expecting you to be I'm just asking you to be mine Let me make you happy the only way I know Let me be the sculptor Plaster smiles on your frowning face Strip the clothes from your mannequin figure Let me make you happy In and out of the bed I'm only asking for a chance Baby let me make you happy I promise you'll never be alone Even if I'm seventeen hours away My heart is in the pillow you hold tight My cologne is in the sheets you wrap yourself in You can even wear my clothes Go insane and let me walk in On you making out with a pillow dressed like me I'll smile and I promise I'll love you the way that pillow never could Let me make you happy The way the other guys failed to When they ******* up the chance you blessed them with I promise baby I'll never hurt you My shoes are in the closet They're not going anywhere My suitcases are unpacked and laying in the dump Three states away The distance you wanted in the first place Between me and my second love You know I had a tendency of packing up Leaving in the middle of the night When your slumbering hand wandered on my side of the bed Looking for the warmth of my skin But Baby I promise my walking days are over My running shoes are too old They don't fit anymore Let me make you happy the way you deserve I understand if you don't want to do it I'm not going to cliche it up I'm not going to beg I'm just going to tell you I like you Ask you for only one thing in this relationship Let me make you happy It's not much but let me make it my sole purpose in life I don't need a god or gods and goddesses All I need is the heart in your chest To be my altar To be where I tithe my sins away To give praise to the heart that saved me Let me make you happy I'm not a complete ****** like the rest of them
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It's like the movie part of me* It tells me where I should go and want to be **Please note that I will say Not a dark place inside my suitcase** "Robin Red Breasted" suit Peck and nip and tuck in place The rainbow iridescent Suiting her taste wet rain tents Everyone was Green with envy **Robin/ Rainbow event lets hear it for our Army so many troops** He was sitting politely Like a salesman of suitcases on her stoop She was mesmerized Living out of a tour suitcase She wanted daisies she was ready for fantasies Of him in her suitcase Tumbling through Another time Postman Singing birds to ring twice Birds all in groups Computer laptops she wanted to be surprised so mysterious But ready for love ingenious He laughed not losing sight Robin eats like a bird so hilarious She packed her sunshine yellow ribbons she was ready to feed Those Brooklyn pigeons Packed suitcase ready for the love of God Going frenzy from her fruit loops Robin Birdie born traveler scoop Well nested flying South fully invested Rocking her flight cradle Wherever I go or whatever I do Traveling packs meet Mr. Ramen noodles Getting silly splashing puddles The Spiritual Zen traveling boots over a shower He kissed them high up (Eiffel Tower) Rome Italy wines in love cahoots The call I'm ready "Amazon" wild Let us go, child, another story But the wildcard fresh air Oh! Dear The  lightness easy does it feathering wings the clues fit Packing my suitcase Love is a drug of "Europe" Perfectly fine wine Always hope with cantaloupe
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Aug 6, 2018
Aug 6, 2018 at 9:41 AM UTC
Robin's Suitcase Ready
It's like the movie part of me* It tells me where I should go and want to be **Please note that I will say Not a dark place inside my suitcase** "Robin Red Breasted" suit Peck and nip and tuck in place The rainbow iridescent Suiting her taste wet rain tents Everyone was Green with envy **Robin/ Rainbow event lets hear it for our Army so many troops** He was sitting politely Like a salesman of suitcases on her stoop She was mesmerized Living out of a tour suitcase She wanted daisies she was ready for fantasies Of him in her suitcase Tumbling through Another time Postman Singing birds to ring twice Birds all in groups Computer laptops she wanted to be surprised so mysterious But ready for love ingenious He laughed not losing sight Robin eats like a bird so hilarious She packed her sunshine yellow ribbons she was ready to feed Those Brooklyn pigeons Packed suitcase ready for the love of God Going frenzy from her fruit loops Robin Birdie born traveler scoop Well nested flying South fully invested Rocking her flight cradle Wherever I go or whatever I do Traveling packs meet Mr. Ramen noodles Getting silly splashing puddles The Spiritual Zen traveling boots over a shower He kissed them high up (Eiffel Tower) Rome Italy wines in love cahoots The call I'm ready "Amazon" wild Let us go, child, another story But the wildcard fresh air Oh! Dear The  lightness easy does it feathering wings the clues fit Packing my suitcase Love is a drug of "Europe" Perfectly fine wine Always hope with cantaloupe
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The engine is killing the track, the track is silver, It stretches into the distance. It will be eaten nevertheless. Its running is useless. At nightfall there is the beauty of drowned fields, Dawn gilds the farmers like pigs, Swaying slightly in their thick suits, White towers of Smithfield ahead, Fat haunches and blood on their minds. There is no mercy in the glitter of cleavers, The butcher's guillotine that whispers: 'How's this, how's this?' In the bowl the hare is aborted, Its baby head out of the way, embalmed in spice, Flayed of fur and humanity. Let us eat it like Plato's afterbirth, Let us eat it like Christ. These are the people that were important ---- Their round eyes, their teeth, their grimaces On a stick that rattles and clicks, a counterfeit snake. Shall the hood of the cobra appall me ---- The loneliness of its eye, the eye of the mountains Through which the sky eternally threads itself? The world is blood-hot and personal Dawn says, with its blood-flush. There is no terminus, only suitcases Out of which the same self unfolds like a suit Bald and shiny, with pockets of wishes, Notions and tickets, short circuits and folding mirrors. I am mad, calls the spider, waving its many arms. And in truth it is terrible, Multiplied in the eyes of the flies. They buzz like blue children In nets of the infinite, Roped in at the end by the one Death with its many sticks.
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Spinning chairs, crashing Dollars bills, in a G-string Face hammering, by sweaty sticky ***** cheeks Plastic suitcases, held tightly Chug your drink it's time to leave Walk cautiously, drink powefully Ting, ting, goes the machine She winked at her, she pinched back He said let's go Their room opening Laying, the mysterious women on the bed He grabbed her hips His wife watched, caressing her **** Door goes cold Sun shining brightly Eyes being punctured into gaping holes Cheesy over done smile, stepping into the livingroom floor Perfect outstanding family Morally hidden, detrimental corrupting Their professional suits, look so clean Appearance is everything
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Apr 29, 2016
Apr 29, 2016 at 2:27 PM UTC
Corrupted is the new happy
The sun is shining and moonbeams glisten through the air. Moon, not sun. While the sun shone and incinerated the sloshing intestines of vengeful beasts; the gentle and forgiving moon projected from their eyes and caught the ****** maw of a starving deer. Suitcases of leather stacked behind us filled with spruce, pine, elm, oak, cherry. Ready for induction t o our paperless society which consumes the forests of Hippolyta and Antiope mercilessly. Burning every leaf then forgetting to feel because nothing mattered. Everything never mattered. Facts are lie, opinion is truth. “No one is nothing” they shriek to the heavens striving to be limitless and scorning morality. Embrace death and all its glory. Life, while full of happiness and gorgeous splendor, refuses to acknowledge the magnitude of the word. The thing. Falling and reading and lines and circles and explosions and whimpers and screams. Agony suffered silently, alone; never understood because how could it? What could totally encompass the raging fire that devours the veins and burns from the inside out kept in place by the impenetrable flesh that glints in the forgiving moonlight. A hostile exterior that smiles, waves, laughs on cue to disguise the raging storm fighting its way through from inside. The shell which shrinks from the moonbeam and into the harsh sunlight that filters beneath the floating clouds.
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Jun 16, 2018
Jun 16, 2018 at 10:18 AM UTC
Mother Moon
shuffling feet & carry-on suitcases walking through countries temporarily nameless, faceless, homeless in the middle of nowhere cut off from society people who, for the time being, don’t really belong anywhere a mixture of nationalities & cultures thousands of different languages, different races, different colors just passing through the terminal one country to another some with a final destination in mind others finding meaning in the journey itself a lack of permanency a lack of belonging i must admit there’s just something about airports which makes me feel very much at home
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Aug 24, 2015
Aug 24, 2015 at 8:12 AM UTC
traveller at heart
i threw rocks at time tried to shatter the face of each clock that mocked me today, but i was unable to slow the seconds that pulled me away from you feeling childish, i gave up and time paid no mind to me as the bus sped away and i walked home, my mind spinning with visions of plane tickets and suitcases and the spaces hidden around this city that we've been occupying all this time i saw sunshine smiling down upon rough, empty rocks and a hill sloping steep toward the water that we sat by and i saw the places i have yet to show you and i am so sorry, but the happier i am the worse i feel as the days slip past me and i am always one step closer to leaving
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 2:29 AM UTC
leaving (2)
This morning we jogged early I was back in my flat by six-thirty From my tenth floor view of the Charles River basin, The morning was incandescently flushed by the peach-colored sun. The transparent clouds seemed stylistically stained, artfully workshopped, which offered a softened, Tiffany glass effect wholly worthy of worship. I can’t stop to admire it. I’m jamming things into suitcases. Cramming things into boxes, giving things away. I had a second interview Monday afternoon, for Johns Hopkins med school. They put the question to me: “The semester starts in 18 days - can you do that?” “Yes,” I replied, and just like that, I'm a Blue Jay. Of course, I had to withdraw from the masters program but Harvard gave me a full (95K) refund - I think they’re more excited about my med school admission than I am. I’m not afraid of discordant notes. They change the landscape. Take us to new emotional places. Any major work is going to have them. . . A song for this: Hang on Little Tomato by Pink Martini It's Amazing by Jem
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Jul 31, 2025
Jul 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM UTC
discordant notes
There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place like home. Dorothy's Kansas never looked so comforting, her black and white world never so safe--never so flat, so barren. Didn't she learn her lessons? She caused such trouble! She gave Auntie Emm such a fright! That bump on the head must have caused her brain damage. After the "big storm" was only a memory, and the terrible twister only a town tale, Dorothy did it again. She ventured out on her own. Yet Mrs. Gulch was still a witch. And Dorothy's "nasty, little dog" still got into the garden. The sheriff was ready to track her down and clamp down on her for good! Running home frantically for help, Dorothy realized that Auntie Emm was still too busy ******** at her shiftless farmhands, henpecking tired, old Uncle Henry, and he was just too cranky to care. The farmhands were supposed to be her friends, but they just started crabbing at her again. They soon gave her what for. "Dot, didn't you learn a thing in life?" "Didn't we rescue you once from a pigpen?" "That heart of yours leads you in the wrong direction! " "Where are your brains, anyway?" Heartbroken, naive Dorothy realized something that was quite profound. Her heart was always in the right place--she just needed the courage, the courage to know she was smart enough to make it on her own. So Dorothy packed her bags, especially remembering her red ruby slippers. She would never forget her loyal friend and sidekick, her beloved pooch, Toto. If she was going, he was going with her. So there she stood, suitcases in hand, in her bleak, little, colorless world. Terrified, she stood upon the precipice. Fear or faith? And all of a sudden she was noticed again! Just what was she doing? Who did she think she was fooling? Was she crazy!? "You'll never make it!", they all warned. "You don't know the first thing about how to live in a Technicolor world!" "Sorry, I do love you", Dorothy answered back. "But I disagree and I will forward you my new address". So off she went finding the path down the yellow brick road.
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Jul 4, 2010
Jul 4, 2010 at 3:54 AM UTC
After Oz
There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place like home. Dorothy's Kansas never looked so comforting, her black and white world never so safe--never so flat, so barren. Didn't she learn her lessons? She caused such trouble! She gave Auntie Emm such a fright! That bump on the head must have caused her brain damage. After the "big storm" was only a memory, and the terrible twister only a town tale, Dorothy did it again. She ventured out on her own. Yet Mrs. Gulch was still a witch. And Dorothy's "nasty, little dog" still got into the garden. The sheriff was ready to track her down and clamp down on her for good! Running home frantically for help, Dorothy realized that Auntie Emm was still too busy ******** at her shiftless farmhands, henpecking tired, old Uncle Henry, and he was just too cranky to care. The farmhands were supposed to be her friends, but they just started crabbing at her again. They soon gave her what for. "Dot, didn't you learn a thing in life?" "Didn't we rescue you once from a pigpen?" "That heart of yours leads you in the wrong direction! " "Where are your brains, anyway?" Heartbroken, naive Dorothy realized something that was quite profound. Her heart was always in the right place--she just needed the courage, the courage to know she was smart enough to make it on her own. So Dorothy packed her bags, especially remembering her red ruby slippers. She would never forget her loyal friend and sidekick, her beloved pooch, Toto. If she was going, he was going with her. So there she stood, suitcases in hand, in her bleak, little, colorless world. Terrified, she stood upon the precipice. Fear or faith? And all of a sudden she was noticed again! Just what was she doing? Who did she think she was fooling? Was she crazy!? "You'll never make it!", they all warned. "You don't know the first thing about how to live in a Technicolor world!" "Sorry, I do love you", Dorothy answered back. "But I disagree and I will forward you my new address". So off she went finding the path down the yellow brick road.
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People moving in With their suitcases on board Standing everywhere Fumbling to their seats. "MAY I SEE YOUR BOARDING PASS?" Yes please. Plane flies on the runaway Diving into the clouds Into a puff of wind and smoke. We fly. I sat unmoved For the rest of 16 hours. I thought I had been fossilized. Hardened. But I saw it flying Us flying to mi casa Time is rolling backwards My lips tugging backwards No more jetlagging. I held on to a light of a hope with a lopsided grin. Perhaps, It's time to say hello To the land long forgotten The land with cozy saturday mornings Where we have dinner at 7pm, not 9. The land that I long to be in Where I had been long gone is 60 minutes apart.
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Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 at 4:26 PM UTC
Long Plane Rides
stubbed  knees and school yard loyalty when a cardboard box was a castle, under trees we played all day till the stars sung our names i looked  to you through the cut out doors traced in blue you said we can run away in suede suitcases filled with  tubes if you knew the game why did you push those needles through i always could of loved you more but how did you run  alone through our castle door hopped those speeding trains fled to abandoned planes and you filled those strangers beds just to feel that lift i was  your younger self i believed in nothing more leave the artists alone with their dreams all those hurtful days will become their masterpiece but I'm  a single wing a monarchs arm that rests on the peek of our castles farm you left me alone out here with big shoes to fill wearing my daisy dress bleached with our mothers tears i always thought you had it good you where the silhouette of my shadows dream but in the end of  this threaded world i sit on a bench filled with city birds and i look past  the cracks of our castle doors to see my loneliness apart from your beaten war.
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Jul 21, 2013
Jul 21, 2013 at 4:34 PM UTC
cardboard castle
You said it,how you broke my heart every time we talk I break and cry I stop as I was so crazy to love To give all there is unconditionally burnt shatters and pieces evoke Now sat here at the cross legged bench this country oak that soothed misery the one with antique aesthetic split Overlooking the misused McDonald’s where ducks prey, play and swivel   by the bus stop where people load carrying suitcases to a distant destination Yet, never had I been broken in my life with lack of direction and unknown trauma lost 10 feet under the revolting grounds no apologies, no goodbye ,no explanation not another chance,nor another beat not a fiery fire, decrepit with the low blows   Now solitude is a glove that fits me It has justly put the pieces back together Washed the foolishness and carelessness For we are not made of bricks and blocks
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Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 3:30 PM UTC
Sat at the cross legged bench
he promised he'd take her out on the town at a quarter past three and by a quarter of three she was dead in the living room with her father's linens draped around her ankles and below her skin, a purple fountain flowing he promised her father he'd mend the holes in the linen which had stained dark after her ascension after her stomach acid bore craters into the floor polish after her tongue fell from her lips to kiss the lace and then men with suitcases took her body away at a quarter past three they came without breaking or collapsing in the living room they shrouded her in clinical-white sheets and walked out the door bearing stoic expressions leaving nothing but the world behind them
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Mar 4, 2014
Mar 4, 2014 at 6:52 AM UTC
Unbeautiful
Her fingers were covered in corn. the corn after chewing, broken pierced, churned- it could spread as butter thick on stale toast, if needed "it's fine, don't you worry, we'll get you all cleaned up" she stared indifferently Strings dangled from her mouth, unswept full of necessary greens ---"mhm there there, this will give you so much energy" --- drags of breath, half inhale half choke. nothing to look forward to, not the next soaking glob, not the cursing woman in the bathroom, not the spill of light to her eyes Where are the ladles, Did you check on it? The key? Just moved, most the suitcases aren't there yet. Remember to bring the Did you check on it? pay attention. Have you seen my grand kids? who are you? Sunday's are for the active ones The games down the hall are too far. Why worry with legs, if she could just adjust to the left the world could sag into an ongoing dream- No demands, no games, no movement. The nurses hair net had more presence than the splotch of gray against her peeling itchy scalp. Drool leaked from leather lips, dampening the collar of her two month sticky blouse. Arms curled and locked,displaying under the wax skin cranberry patches- she never wiped them off. Always the soft murmer of a snore, always the smell of unbrushed teeth and hampers. "Did you touch those where don't touch me scott scott scott leave my things alone thevenin I need a stop lying I want to go scott, scott? scott. I can't remember any" I said my name four times before she heard me, knew me I fixed her pillow and my sister marked off the day on the calendar. We told her about school, the marching band, each word filled with forced enthusiasm. She bobbed her head in circles, lazily rolling her eyes, the curtain shading the empty space. We spent 30 minutes precisely. She was more than I realized. I never knew she had horseback riding, violin playing days. She traveled and hiked. We could have been close. Unraveling with the mystery, I felt the lateness of my curiosity. It was 30 minutes precisely, always. We acted as strangers, reciting routine and wishing each other a happy day and a quiet love you
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Sep 9, 2012
Sep 9, 2012 at 5:21 PM UTC
Lunch Time at Daycare
Her fingers were covered in corn. the corn after chewing, broken pierced, churned- it could spread as butter thick on stale toast, if needed "it's fine, don't you worry, we'll get you all cleaned up" she stared indifferently Strings dangled from her mouth, unswept full of necessary greens ---"mhm there there, this will give you so much energy" --- drags of breath, half inhale half choke. nothing to look forward to, not the next soaking glob, not the cursing woman in the bathroom, not the spill of light to her eyes Where are the ladles, Did you check on it? The key? Just moved, most the suitcases aren't there yet. Remember to bring the Did you check on it? pay attention. Have you seen my grand kids? who are you? Sunday's are for the active ones The games down the hall are too far. Why worry with legs, if she could just adjust to the left the world could sag into an ongoing dream- No demands, no games, no movement. The nurses hair net had more presence than the splotch of gray against her peeling itchy scalp. Drool leaked from leather lips, dampening the collar of her two month sticky blouse. Arms curled and locked,displaying under the wax skin cranberry patches- she never wiped them off. Always the soft murmer of a snore, always the smell of unbrushed teeth and hampers. "Did you touch those where don't touch me scott scott scott leave my things alone thevenin I need a stop lying I want to go scott, scott? scott. I can't remember any" I said my name four times before she heard me, knew me I fixed her pillow and my sister marked off the day on the calendar. We told her about school, the marching band, each word filled with forced enthusiasm. She bobbed her head in circles, lazily rolling her eyes, the curtain shading the empty space. We spent 30 minutes precisely. She was more than I realized. I never knew she had horseback riding, violin playing days. She traveled and hiked. We could have been close. Unraveling with the mystery, I felt the lateness of my curiosity. It was 30 minutes precisely, always. We acted as strangers, reciting routine and wishing each other a happy day and a quiet love you
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coffee tastes better in Spain a simple hello is groundbreaking comfort can be a warm bed or a “like” of a picture the cold is different in the UK (you can feel it in your bones) they will always give you a knife and fork to eat a hamburger sometimes you need to eat at a Hard Rock in Lisbon to be reminded of home if you eat the bread, they will charge you 1€ crying alone in a hotel room or at a Chinese restaurant in Italy is perfectly normal never doubt the power of distance now you can never say you didn’t try just because you don’t speak the same language, doesn’t mean **** off” isn’t universal sometimes sleeping next to someone who peeled your outermost layer off is the most intimate you need to be “I’ll never see these people ever again” have pride ask me now what it is that I want I have come to loathe all brown bags and black suitcases vulnerability does not necessarily equal intimacy remember that you pulled yourself out of the sea your feet tread castles and cathedrals where thousands walked art galleries are best enjoyed alone now you understand when mom and dad don’t answer how agonizing it is write it down if you want to forget it acknowledge buried truths eat paella and shnitzel and pizza and fish and chips and don’t think go to movies at the tallest cinema slip a little on the cobblestones lay for hours on the beach then go home be humble remember reminisce teach embrace Glasgow – 1/8/15
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Jan 26, 2016
Jan 26, 2016 at 12:36 AM UTC
3 months in Europe
The end of summer rolls around, As do their suitcases and bags Down hallways and airport security, Headed to the next destination. The end of summer comes too fast, Like the hugs you receive as someones leaves, As they walk away and drive off, Headed to the next best thing. The end of summer is melancholy; The sun fades faster than how many friends remain Because they're all ready to run away, Headed to the beginning of their new lives. The end of summer hurts my heart In the same way goodbyes sting my eyes Because my friends are all leaving, Headed off to grow and learn and achieve it all. The end of summer is more than a season to me; It's the end of the line for my friends, It's the end of seeing them whenever, Because they're headed off to make something of themselves. And for that, I'll watch my friends leave With the heaviest and proudest heart. The end of summer may take them away, But it can't take away how much I love them, With every ounce of my heart. Distant in miles, Distant is space, Though my love will withstand it all; That is something distance cannot erase.
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Apr 28, 2013
Apr 28, 2013 at 1:25 PM UTC
The End of Summer
Ingredients: suitcases photo albums quick wit a  new space that is comfortable to breathe in, raise other beings in, and nurture pets and your spirit in. Sprinklings of humor to shake on it all when it gets to be too much. Mason jars of self-appreciation and worth to open in an emergency, if these qualities are forgotten and old patterns resurrected. Preparation: First, sit quietly with yourself. Breathe deeply, as many times as you need. Fill as many soul cups as you can with confidence, and pour them on yourself, until they sink into the soapstone of your pores. If needed, tip back your head and open your mouth, in order to have a more direct inflow. After that, take just as many cups of calm and pour them in, slowly and with generosity. It is okay if you overflow; you may need extra serenity later, when you are in the midst of action. Let the two ingredients mix, slowly, until colors as yet unnamed are formed in your solar plexus, spilling throughout the entirety of your body. Take a break and blow bubbles, for lightness. Yes, you may laugh like a loon. Marinade: After the laughter has subsided, take a big dose of self- love and rub it all over yourself, drizzled like fine coconut-scented oil. Do not miss a spot, even on the parts that you have a problem with. In fact, give those extra love. And now, for the rub: This has been simmering for a while. It is time to push it all into the oven and bake it. The heat is rising, so be quick. Take all precious memories and sew them into the pockets of your coat. The ugly ones, burn, quickly and thoroughly. Scatter the ashes into the wind. Hang new pictures on the wall.  Splashes of nature you have photographed. Mandalas created by a precious daughter. A platypus wishing you goodnight by your little flower imp. A cheeky photo of your boy, to remind you of inner sauciness. All of these strengthen with love. Finally, rest your head upon the new pillow and inhale the scent of freshly laundered springtime. For now, the ordeal of your winter has ended. Time for a long, languid, luxurious dessert. A new life! Bon appetite!
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Apr 5, 2017
Apr 5, 2017 at 4:36 PM UTC
Recipe for Escape
Ingredients: suitcases photo albums quick wit a  new space that is comfortable to breathe in, raise other beings in, and nurture pets and your spirit in. Sprinklings of humor to shake on it all when it gets to be too much. Mason jars of self-appreciation and worth to open in an emergency, if these qualities are forgotten and old patterns resurrected. Preparation: First, sit quietly with yourself. Breathe deeply, as many times as you need. Fill as many soul cups as you can with confidence, and pour them on yourself, until they sink into the soapstone of your pores. If needed, tip back your head and open your mouth, in order to have a more direct inflow. After that, take just as many cups of calm and pour them in, slowly and with generosity. It is okay if you overflow; you may need extra serenity later, when you are in the midst of action. Let the two ingredients mix, slowly, until colors as yet unnamed are formed in your solar plexus, spilling throughout the entirety of your body. Take a break and blow bubbles, for lightness. Yes, you may laugh like a loon. Marinade: After the laughter has subsided, take a big dose of self- love and rub it all over yourself, drizzled like fine coconut-scented oil. Do not miss a spot, even on the parts that you have a problem with. In fact, give those extra love. And now, for the rub: This has been simmering for a while. It is time to push it all into the oven and bake it. The heat is rising, so be quick. Take all precious memories and sew them into the pockets of your coat. The ugly ones, burn, quickly and thoroughly. Scatter the ashes into the wind. Hang new pictures on the wall.  Splashes of nature you have photographed. Mandalas created by a precious daughter. A platypus wishing you goodnight by your little flower imp. A cheeky photo of your boy, to remind you of inner sauciness. All of these strengthen with love. Finally, rest your head upon the new pillow and inhale the scent of freshly laundered springtime. For now, the ordeal of your winter has ended. Time for a long, languid, luxurious dessert. A new life! Bon appetite!
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When we had left the Seamans mission lugging our suitcases, Beeston seemed the best place to go 4.6 A.B.V  felt like pushing the boat, but the fillies were feisty enough to flog off our descendants into the zeitgeist.
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Dec 19, 2012
Dec 19, 2012 at 2:11 PM UTC
Christmas glubber
Suitcases aren't made for dresses and skirts or any such thing, They are another type of box they try to trap you within.
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Feb 1, 2015
Feb 1, 2015 at 7:04 PM UTC
to be femme
I’m learning to travel light. A backpack, a mandolin case, and a water bottle. That’s enough. A black skirt, an extra pair of wool tights, and a teeshirt big enough to sleep in. Headphones. my sister asks me when and where and why I’m coming and going and leaving and staying I’m packing up I’m always packing up but my suitcases are getting smaller, more efficient, less attached. I can’t keep track myself
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Jul 10, 2014
Jul 10, 2014 at 11:01 PM UTC
The Zipper Broke on the Big One
I am from no place for I have never had one home Having packed too many suitcases and saying goodbye to just as many friends I am from cheesy Italian pizza in Melbourne to the smoke of shisha in Arabia From raw fish and coconuts in Fiji to Aunty's famous Kiwi pavlova I am from the aroma of coffee being breathed in my face as a child And from losing my breath chasing dad as he drove off to work I am from long, quiet chats with mother by the ocean To ferocious one-way conversations as she screamed from the sidelines I am from a family choir whose desire for perfection spiralled me into years of silence And the learning the guitar to compensate so I wouldn't feel like an outsider I am from laughter and I am from mischief From throwing the sister's cat out a two-story window to emulating the Mask of Zoro with steak knives in the kitchen I am from hours of swimming laps and hours sprinting on the track I am from the dewy, green grass of a rugby field upon whom I have many times laid writing in agony My body has eleven scars from the surgeon's scalpel And I am a survivor of divine heart surgery as I processed shattered dreams I am now in pursuit of change everyday Change to be more like Him who took my sins away
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Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 at 2:59 PM UTC
I am from
Hey dear lady, what are u caring in that big suitcase? Hey little child, I am caring some pain. Oh, I thought it was full of candies and toys for me to play. No little kid. There's no candies inside. Hey lady with the pain, can you tell me what pain is? Hey little kid. Pain is something that makes big people like me feel little like you. Is this what everyone is caring inside their suitcases when going to work? Mostly yes.. Oh, ok then. Thanks lady with the pain. I hope your pain is not too heavy so I can still see you around caring the suitcase. Ok child, goodbye..
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Oct 16, 2018
Oct 16, 2018 at 2:45 AM UTC
The lady with the pain
I have spent most of my twenties, living out of suitcases and shacking up with madmen. A gypsy, on an eternal search for four walls, that smell of fresh paint. And a warm body--- to press against mine, if only (and usually) temporarily. As the months pass by in my fancy, new cage--- I become restless, stifled and stagnant. I’m a like a leaf on a branch, waiting to blow aimlessly in the wind and a footprint, waiting to embed itself into the soil of places I haven’t yet walked. I am a pair of eyes waiting to penetrate their gaze, onto the symmetrical features, of foreign faces, I haven’t yet seen. I am a nomad, who cannot grasp, the conception of home. All I know how to do is pack my bags and           keep                          moving.
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 4:51 PM UTC
Vagabond