Poems
By careyssej
just a random collection of poems that reflect my thoughts and my movements and a play with words to express them.
Comments welcome.
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Daily Weekly
On a Thursday she would write poetry if she chose. It was not specific to Thursdays but you could see her on those days
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Break Me Gently (A poem inspired by song by Doves and a break up)
Breaking you gently; The more gentle I am The more you break. I have crushed you with my kindness Not understanding Cruelty As kindness. I continued to squeeze until you
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Euphoria
Rush my throat with air fresh from the lips of outside and let it whirl into my chest and lace itself around every corner before hastening past and out through my groin
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Yesterday Today.
Today she wears her pyjamas. Yesterday she was dolled in long boots & tight jeans and her hair bounced excitedly on her shoulders.
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Underground
Scarves are wrapped around faces on a nearly empty carriage Metropolitan line; a dozen empty spaces Among themselves foreigners feint retching with joy, humiliation.
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Unencounter
We meet & you greet with a joke. We walk & you talk with a smile. I’m cold & you hold me in close. We eat & you keep spilling sauce. She rings & you grin but don’t tell.
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Spring unsprung
If April is the cruelest month what title fits for March? The rains have soaked the struggling sun, the winds have blown the arch. The hopeful seeds...
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Smells like the rain
When I love you it smells like the rain hitting a hot pavement in May. It hurts not like caterpillars breaking their toes but because I can't stroke...
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