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September 27, 2013
honey-filled hearts by ~NonsenseQueen Suggester Writes: This poem has the inexorable infectiousness that can only come from young love.
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he asked her if she loved him
and she looked at that golden boy
with a bumblebee smile and sad veins
like good champagne leaking onto the stars
only a million words were left unsaid.
and she looked at that golden boy
with a bumblebee smile and sad veins
like good champagne leaking onto the stars
only a million words were left unsaid.
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Dreamers
She reminds me that she's a dreamer
Her right hand delicately grips a pencil
as she's working equations on a TI-89 with her left
She looks up at me and smiles,
and there are stars, meteors,
spanning across the cosmos of her expression
her countenance reminds me to look up at the chalkboard
that's attempting to teach me how
to make verses sing from pages in a plain 8 by 11 notebook
and I am only armed with
a .7 pencil and a purple pen,
stolen from my older sister's pencil pouch
My hands are inches away from hers
from the desks side by side
like cars parallel parked on a side road
her equations confuse me
until she flips the
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leap through eternity
i will sink my teeth into a supernova
to let the stardust and
cosmos
slide down my parched throat and
wash over my intestines,
like a pebble
drowning in the sound--
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Paper-Thin Promises
the first time I caught sight of your
glistening, marble eyes,
I decided you disgust me.
I hate you the way I hate perfection:
merciless, like the snap of mantis jaws.
every fact of you is pretentious,
held high like you raise a middle finger.
You, the artist, always sculpting things,
tried to squeeze my malleable heart like white clay
and stash it in your pocket to rattle with stones.
paint me an unflinching self portrait, my dear:
this skyscraper of a boy shaking with anticipation
to build and destroy, build and destroy.
you sink in tooth and talon at first mention of beauty,
love-biting Aphrodite as though you were equals.
you're a statu
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EDIT: WOW!!! A Daily Deviation?! Thank you all so much!
EDIT:I honestly have no idea what to title this. I just left it at the first line, but if you have suggestions, please share. Thank you for your suggestions! I've finally picked a title, thanks to =Sammur-amat!
I love this poem, guys. I think this is the first poem in a long while that I actually have felt about passionately when composing and when it was finished. The words to describe the picture I had in my head came easily and they fit the picture I had perfectly. I hope you love this as much as I do
EDIT:
I love this poem, guys. I think this is the first poem in a long while that I actually have felt about passionately when composing and when it was finished. The words to describe the picture I had in my head came easily and they fit the picture I had perfectly. I hope you love this as much as I do
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Oh Hannah, this is gorgeous! I wish I had written this piece, and that's the highest compliment I can give to a fellow writer!
congratulations on the well-deserved DD!
congratulations on the well-deserved DD!