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_Ani_
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
9th Mar 2020 1:52am

Pink Flamingos



everything looks so out of place
like it doesn't belong
dead of winter
pink flamingos on a lawn
artificial colour
on cold sheets
i can feel the freeze
burning me

~
 #FeelingLost 
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LOVE POEM
Published
16th May 2019 1:23am

Flesh



When you love
      not with your flesh
 but with your heart
    nothing can tear you apart.

~
 #love 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
15th May 2019 3:59am

among the graves



I painted rainbows in bright popsicle colours
momma always said I was different from the others
to be a child, she used to say
to be a child once again
and now I know what she meant
I lost my colours somewhere along the way
my days have become mostly grey
big dreams and plans as once were made
laid to rest now among the graves

~
 #death 
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LOVE POEM
Published
15th May 2019 3:57am

Hook



i can see the sun
      sinking, into the pool of your eyes
and i want to bring it back 
  and make it shine

~
 #love 
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LOVE POEM
Published
12th May 2019 4:20am

broken



soft as the feathers she lost
                  when her wings were stolen
she lay there, broken                    
                by the man who gave her the wind

~
 #love   #heartbroken 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
12th May 2019 2:45am

ink



ink
i’m dripping in it
black and white
day and night
i can’t work with colour
i'm colour blind
it’s like eating ice cream
and not tasting the flavour
like sex without love 
a fuck you can’t savour
it's just ink
and i'm dripping in it

~
 #love   #depression 
 #sex   #art 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Nov 2018 00:21am

autumn



you are autumn
a soothing cool to a heat that has passed
you are my past
 still beautiful
but colder each day

~
 #breakup 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
26th Nov 2018 6:33am

Heavy, these tears

~~ 

heavy, these tears 
that pool in my eyes 
each pupil as though a dark moon 
black are the clouds 
that hold back the rain 

the storm will come 'round again 
soon 

gone is the hope 
that kept you alive 
buried 
in Spring's cold earth 
broken, this heart 
that aches for you still 
taken too soon after birth 

time is the measure 
that moves me along 
each day brings a little bit more 
longing to meet you on the other side 
where you wait 
from inside heaven's door.  ...
 #grief 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
26th Nov 2018 6:31am

Gravity is optional

 

A meadow of fireflies 
On a clear summer night 
Flirting shameless with stars 
Splendid magic in sight 

Dragonflies racing 
Blazing orange comet trails 
Painting dark skies 
With their tangerine sails 

A caterpillar rests 
In a coffin cocoon 
Bids farewell to the earth 
To be born again soon 

Taking its place 
Way up in the sky 
Where gravity is optional 
And to be free is to die

~
 #birth   #death   #butterfly 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
22nd Nov 2018 4:05am

gracefully wilting



she was the last one left standing
  a lone flower, unplucked
not bright enough, nor pretty enough
whilst standing among the rest
but alone, in her bare garden home
  she was beautiful and alive

~
 #beauty   #UnrequitedLove 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th Nov 2018 3:11am

laid to rest



i wonder if my time has come
have i lingered in this life too long
where did it go wrong
 where did it not
i could never quite tell if i was getting ahead
or if i was clawing my way out
 it was always too close to call
i could chase a butterfly and run into a bee
 always blind sided by things i couldn't see
now i want to put everything away
 lay down the apples and the violets and all the rest
lay them to rest
i need to rest
everything that ever was a part of me
 must be laid to rest forever within me ...
 #grief   #conflict   #death 
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
17th Nov 2018 3:35am

Sailing Away



Floating in the in between
Each passing breath a brand new scene
I’m neither here nor am I there
I simply exist in open air
Deeply, deeply, let fill my lungs
Absorbing life as though a sponge
If I should die before you squeeze
The trigger of my silent pleas
My past will die, my future bleed
A broken promise of all decreed
And in my death let it be seen
That my life was naught but a dream
I rest in peace, accept my fate
The silent waves encapsulate
The light that once shone bright and strong
Now finds the...
 #death 
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