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"sunbleached" poems

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What a Mechanic Knows About ForgivenessMy father is an old truck / Sunbleached red / Breathes broken bottles

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Ah, the lips, and ah, what cheeksAh, the lips, and ah, what cheeks; / Methinks though, you are not too deep. / What sunbleached tresses frame your face,

@patti-masterman-heterodynemind13

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like dirtbeing a discarded paper bag / in a sunbleached ditch roadside / moment, i rode past on the

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In Fragile HandsThrusting hands mime silent screams / Choking gasps of sorrow / Nightmares wake from falling dreams

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Forest FlowGrounded on my mat of morning-moist loam, the trees gossip with one another and the birds call out suggestions. My lungs suck down the sunbleached air as my skin engulfs the remnants of last night's rain. Somewhere, caught between a down dog and a forward fold I thought of you. The clay rich dirt kisses my forehead as my breath makes love to the wind and my soul whispers 'thank you.

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Eulogy (bat skeleton)splayed / with a deathmask as gaunt / as in life

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the twisted theory of lovemy parents once told me / to never love someone / more than he loves myself

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greenesqueit wasn't until years too late / that the oceans once painting / your skin into a weepy

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dead manI was there when you fell from heaven / the fire in the sky burns, / blazoned by the jade

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3 AM, independence day07/04/2018 / nothing compared to the unabashed, intoxicated fun we had at three in the morning on independence day when we sat on the front porch at the patterson's house and played the music our parents raised us on. we sang to every word without fail, a constant cloud of smoke lingering above our heads and the fire in the middle of the circle reflected in everyone's eyes, everyone was glowing, everyone looked fucking beautiful. i told jj to play "pour some sugar on me" and he asked me if i really wanted everyone to sing, but he didn't need an answer. he knew he had to do it. cal took a swig from a bottle of camarena and grabbed my hand - we whipped our sunbleached curls in rapid synchronicity and for four minutes and twenty seven seconds, the only thing that mattered was our music and the neon explosions in the sky.

@doniakashkooli13

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halleymy lungs are made of sunbleached storms / and unfinished poems, / stalled and trapped in a cycle

@femininedeath52

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Hairy LegsI like my hairy legs, / They make me feel like a sunbleached cowboy. / They make me feel like a long, lean man with elegant lines and a strong forehead.

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sunbleached concretewere we / sunbleached concrete / or were we

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A sound likened to truthEyes searching desperately for answers I do not have / I cannot give, / Won't give.

@sylkie-smoothie45

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oceansidepiecehe turned his ocean eyes / to bear into mine. / i could feel the waves crash around.

@courtney-hooper17

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Timeless *Of all the seasons, summer / is timeless. / The summerblown cornfield,

@paul-hansford22

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Timeless DreamOf all the seasons, summer / is timeless. / The summerblown cornfield,

@paul-hansford22

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