Tell me, if I caught you one day
and kissed the sole of your foot,
wouldn't you limp a little then,
afraid to crush my kiss?...

-Nichita Stanescu


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We had a poetry slam recently and it's made me see poetry more as a verb. So when I read this I couldn't help but read it fast and furious, room to room, article to article.

Stripped

The floor was covered
Clothes, shoes
Sheets
Layers of personality meant to impress
My makeup
Your meds
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There are weeks that take just ages to end but this week didn't even pass because it was just so quick, I think it flickered. It was one of those that happen by and then you forget except the snippets that somehow snags on to the sides of your head like how your sleeve hooks on to a fence and you're held in limbo for awhile, or like the stray ( Read more... )

The Quiet WorldIn an effort to get people to look ( Read more... )

GET DRUNK!One should always be drunk. That's all that matters ( Read more... )

Am really supposed to be studying but I got caught up reading the poetry community again and its scary how words have such an overwhelming effect sometimes.

"When I planted all those daffodils,
I didn't know I was planting them
in my own chest."

( Sources of the Delaware; Dean Young )

Another greatpoets rampage found me these ( Read more... )

The last time I finished a book was Tree of Hands, which was about a month back. The last movie I watched was The Devil Wears Prada, which was forever ago. The last time I partied was Poptart, which feels an age away. The only 'outing' I had this week was on Monday at Arab St. This is pathetically disproportionate to the donkeywork I have been put ( Read more... )

Oh my goodness, poetry can really make you feel. Really makes emo songs look terribly superfluous and trivial.

Song
by Louise Bogan

Love me because I'm lost;
Love me that I'm undone.
That is brave, - no man has wished it,
Not one.

Be strong, to look on my heart
As others look on my face.
Love me, - I tell you that is a ravaged
Terrible place.

From here.

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