Poetry

A brush with love

Instant love is attraction like a magnet Drawing you to your beloved in a momentWith the flicker of a smileAnd the scent of the agesPulling you in at first meeting. But, real love seeps into your lifeSlowlyDripping just a drop at a time.Never drinking from a fire hose.Always leaving you thirsty for more.

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The Scent of Honor

The Scent of Honor

You like to be cleanBut you get dirty without apologyOr resentmentYou smell when you’ve been workingOf sweat and grease and trashAnd sticky icky gooAnd juice combined with brothNot in a recipe but on your skin aloneA smell that’s nowhere elseBut on youAnd on me when you touch meThe way I smell as you walk to…

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CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.

CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.

Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched.

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I Moved

Walking barefoot In the house that I loved, I cut my foot on a nail sticking out of a board. I got infected when it hurt and even though I soaked it in Epsom salts. I finally I recovered. I got a hammer, and I tried to hammer the nail in the board tries on…

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I fell

When my marriage failed  I felt like a failure But I came to realize It was innocence and ignorance  With a portion of foul play That put us together in the first place. I learned I grew I changed When our relationship failed I felt like a failure again And I came to realize  It…

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Almost to embers

Almost to embers

Almost to embers, we were minutes away.Minutes away from a flame extinguished,From lack of fuel, in the form of time,From lack of air, in the form of words,And lack of heat, in the form of cold, icy looks Cold touched my heart.And you blew me away,With your words.With your time.With your smile In the face of…

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The Foothills

The Foothills

The foothills are born in the shadow of the mountain knowing they’re smaller, knowing they’re easier They’ll have more frequent visitors,knowing someone will often reach their peak. Their sides have a slope, an easier climb but never reaching the heights of the mountain behind.  While the mountain is lonely. The temperature is colderbut they always know…

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Noun verb.

Noun verb.

Noun verb. Verb. Verb. Verb. Pronoun verb adjective noun. Pronoun verb noun. Pronoun adverb verb noun. Noun. Preposition article adjective noun.

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Warm, Sugarsweet & Wormwood Nasty

The room is warm,sugarsweet, andwormwood nasty. I've been in a warm room before with a fireplace and beautiful rug. perhaps a great pyrenees and a fuzzy man to snuggle with. My friend's mother's house is sugar sweet. It smells of candles and has collections of adorable dolls. The furniture is precious and breakable. The hovel…

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Unapologetically

Unapologetically

If you are unapologetic,Are you rude? Only if you should apologize the saying goes.  People seem to apologize too much or not enough. If I cannot be Goldilocks I supposeI should prefer to be too hot instead of too cold.

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