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Hindsight (part II)
You can have haikus;
I will not waste syllables
the way I did years. -
Hindsight (a haiku)
After everything,
We never even mattered--
No poems for you. -
"The light broke in and brought me to my feet..."
"There's no falling back to sleep
Once you've wakened from the dream
Now I'm rested and I'm ready
I'm rested and I'm ready to begin..."-The Avett Brothers ( Read more... ) -
"it all makes one hell of a reminder... Keep me cryin' Carolina"
As much as you loved me then,
with your young smile and
quick charm,
I find myself now missing
the you I never knew
The one you wished to be
every night in bed
when you sang me that song
wishing you were 21;
and I, already on the cusp,
telling you,
"my sweet baby, don't rush..."
But you lived a fast life
and I can't go back to that blur
to save you from being
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"You're the finest thing that I've done... the hurricane I'll never outrun..."
As our fingers so
reluctantly broke grasp,
As I awkwardly stifled back my
tears and gnawed my lip,
you reminded me of those
words we'd traded across
computer screens so far away,
that line we'd quote
to convince ourselves
that we'd somehow have our day
And you smiled, whispered
just where you'd be
If ever I wandered into your
bright-lit dreams
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Though you're a gambling man, love is a losing hand...
RIP, Amy.
Still so sad :( -
For what it's worth...
We looked out the window and watched the cars fly by
I look at you and I start to cry
What you did was, you saved my life ...
I won't forget it. -
"someday I'll be living in a big ol' city... and all you're ever gonna be is mean..."
working on it. I love Atlanta, sincerely, more than I ever thought I would. Something incendiary is coming, darlings.
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breaking my back just to know your name...
sorry, this is just a random placeholder reminding myself to do some writing. I got books from one of my all-time favorite modern poets for Christmas, and another book from a poet I admire lyrically but also love to hate/anguish over, so I hope to spend some time in the near future gleaning some thoughts and inspiration from such opposite sides of ( Read more... )