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You left early, before the rooster could even sing. Is it his voice or mine you wish to avoid? (I wish my voice was like fireworks.)

I felt your skin today. Forgive me if I appear like an octupus who strives in feverish desire to spread all its tentacles through eventual pores, eager to breathe the same air they exhale but sometimes I return to being that young girl who picks the reddest apples which hang on trees.
The dress you placed on our bed is the colour of aquamarines with a hint of pearl on its sleaves. Thank you. I memo

From Psyche to Eros

by =Amimone

Although I really love this poem in it's entirety, the opening stanza, the one in italics is my favourite part. It's lyrical ...

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there was this woman with
12 cats perhaps, purple walls,
mirrored rooms, too short
fridges, horned glasses sweet tones and polka-dots
in frames of mahogany or
some dead plant.

she told me about her kids
once, that she had a son and
he was something or other and
the black cat was dying and the grey
one was mad at the world
and the white one was blind along
with having a squashed wheezy nose.
the rooms were purple to make them look smaller
and the mirrors were to look at through
gold chips so one didn't have the
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consolation

by *betweenthepages

The sentiment of this very refreshing - stark, and frank and actually just a really interesting snapshot into the life of this woman. ...

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i can, i can try to replace you with sugary tea, but you were never that sweet and couldn't blister my palm.
and besides, you preferred to have a lemon slice and a kiss with your earl grey and i've run out of both.

i can abandon rational thought
and capital letters but i can't, i can't stop thinking in drawn-out vowels.

but it's okay, it's okay. i walked down a hill this morning and didn't think of you once.

it feels like winter.

by =wonderfulrachel

I think a teacher or someone told me a few years ago that the "point" of poetry was to express the inexpressible in as few words as pos...

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First of all, I have to congratulate you for writing this - I would never attempt a sestina, and I know I would never manage to produce...

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